OpenSUSE 13.1 Released
news.opensuse.org
news.opensuse.org
When 11.4 came out, I complained to my co-worker. "Man, another upgrade. Things always seem to go a little wonky after updating."
He said "wait, what do you mean?"
Turns out he was an Arch Linux user, and Arch uses a rolling release system. The idea of upgrading to a new version doesn't make sense; every system update gives you the newest tested version of everything.
(So now instead of things going wonky every few months, they go wonky constantly :)
OpenSUSE is a fine distro, especially if you're a KDE user. But if you're tired of a big bomb upgrade once every so often, consider a rolling release distro as well.
On the other hand, if you want to run the same code and not worry about upgrading for years, 13.1 is a good choice because it's a longterm support release and will continue to receive bugfixes until 2016.
Factory is manly for developers to test on and isn't rely for day to day use.
Tumbleweed can be used for day to day use, you just have to be aware that things can break.
Great release and nice to see the progress Linux is making!
After hitting ALT-F2, you will see a little spanner on the left of the dialogue that opens. Click on that and you get additional options where to search for your term, including devices, bookmarks, applications, the calculator etc.
$ sudo zypper update findutils-locate (wait a couple of hours for the locatedb to build)
$ locate fullOrPartialFileName
(for case-insensitive search) $ locate -i fullOrPartialFileName
Reading what's new was interesting and, in some ways, exciting. In contrast, I live in fear whenever I read about what's new in the next iteration of Mac OS X.
Btw: OpenSuse 13.1 is an Evergreen release, which is like a Ubuntu LTS release, and will receive maintenance for the next 3 years.
(Incidentally, do X series thinkpads still have the plug at the back? It switched from the side somewhere between X60 and X220, and if it's at the back it gets bent every time you pick the laptop up from the front - mine failed last week...)
Prob got a patent of some sort on it.
Looking forward to trying to get this running on my mid 2011 MBA, its currently running Ubuntu and works very well.
There you go.
http://laptoping.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Lenovo-Think...
You need to add Pacman repo to install the goodies.
You can choose to remain with FLOSS software or install proprietary packages if you want.
Besides, a distro doesn't matter much, what matters is what you do on that.
I am not sure Kubuntu will survive 14.04. Perhaps there will be replacement based on Debian. Perhaps it will be time to move to OpenSUSE.
i'm pretty sure (no numbers) package selection isn't less on opensuse, it's just distributed over more repos. use http://software.opensuse.org/search
you have more encryption options with opensuse - the yast installer (partition manager) is more flexible than the ubuntu one (i couldn't duplicate my opensuse install with ubuntu and had to go with something simpler). and home directory encryption is an option in yast under "details" for add new user.
i have used both. ubuntu is the nicer "out of the box" (it feels more apple-ish). but opensuse allows you to fiddle more - as a developer i prefer opensuse because it's easier to poke around and change things. yast is a huge help when you want it and stays out of the way when you don't - for me it makes opensuse the sweet spot between ubuntu and distros like debian.
Not just config, but patents! There are patents which covers font rendering (thanks a lot apple), so freetype in most distributions is crippled. Ubuntu ships with those patches.
I think on OpenSuse I could install patched freetype (or Infinality which think uses different algorithm).
> but opensuse allows you to fiddle more
I mostly do Debian, so creating a few symlinks is simple. I used Suse a lot 10 years ago.
My config is bit unusual, VRGB with inverse colors. I just installed Suse 13.1 alongside my Kubuntu 13.10 and rendering looks good on both.
I also tried Infinality on 13.1, but fonts did not improved. It also does not seems to have VRGB settings.
Also Firefox in Suse is using KDE file dialogs. Kubuntu gave-up on this long time ago.
So I think I found new home, after my current installation expires.
Linux is just config
>> ubuntu is the nicer "out of the box"
Very true - I used to stick with Fedora and then tweak it to make it more Ubuntu-ish but then I just gave up and gave in to Ubuntu.
It's actually fixed by default now.
Apt provides no option, and if you attempt it, it will not allow you to do anything else to the system unless you remove the package with the missing dependency, requiring you to then re-install the same file every time you make a change to the system.
Zypper shows you a large warning about the consequence of installing packages without their dependencies. It then asks you if you would like to cancel the transaction, try and find the dependencies, or proceed at your own risk. It then honors that choice.
The latter is perfect!
edit: I'll agree that this is bad practice, but this happens a lot with projects that were built back when Oracle JDK was legal to distribute that way, and they require that package. I can install the correct version of Java in all the ways the package expects - but then I need to create an empty package with the name it wants. I think that's a worse work-around than explicitly overriding the dependencies.
You can get all those changes by fetching the source package from which the .deb is built by running "apt-get source <package>". Then just edit the dependencies in debian/control and rebuild the package using "debuild".
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