openSUSE 13.1 Review:

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Install:

• Nice to have a straight to install, and an installer that gives you room to get technical, but has sane defaults.
• Live CDs for Gnome and KDE are also available.
• Had trouble getting my bootloader to install on an alternative drive.

Desktop:

• Updater integration/plasma widget is bad ass

• Display configuration now handled through KDE settings, not YaST.

• YaST once again looks at home under KDE or Gnome.

• Update alert info does not seem to be integrated into the XFCE desktop, but brilliantly integrated into KDE and supports Gnome Notifications too.

Steam Test:

• A couple games did not work. But some of my favorites did.

Overall:

• This really is an Enterprise grade release, specifically the KDE desktop. A couple-year deployment would be totally reasonable.

• I’d like the long-term use case to look more exciting. Intergration of software.opensuse.org into the YaST tools.
  • Search of software.opensuse.org from within the package manager zypper, or YaST tools, ala packer for Arch.
  • Install from the zypper CLI/YaST tools from software.opensuse.org

• Jos on openSUSE’s importance to SUSE

• Live From SUSECon: OpenSUSE’s openQA Distro Tester is the Coolest, Plus OpenSUSE 13.1

Fun fact: openSUSE has a new release every eight months, and there are only three per version: .1, .2 and .3. So a .1 release comes out every other November. openSUSE 13.1 promises greater stability

Round-Up:

• Linux 3.11
• Work done on 64bit ARM support.
• 32bit ARM support has been heavily improved and a special Raspberry Pi build for openSUSE is available.
• End users can now mount Amazon s3 buckets as local file system.
• Samba 4.1
• systemd 208
• YaST has been ported to Ruby
• This release has been selected for Evergreen support extending its life cycle to 3 years.

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• Fight the Good Fight with SmokePing

Weekly Spotlight:

• KDE Connect – YES AGAIN. IT’S AWESOME.

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