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[opensuse-announce] Two months Advance discontinuation notice for openSUSE 13.1
by Marcus Meissner 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

Hi folks, With the release of openSUSE Leap 42.1 last week the SUSE contributed support for openSUSE 13.1 is coming to an end in 2 months, around January 5th 2016. However ... the Evergreen community team is planning to pick up maintenance of 13.1 after this date, so openSUSE 13.1 will be maintained for a longer time! Also for future planning: openSUSE 13.2 will be supported until 2 months after the release of Leap 42.2, which is probably in around one year. The Leap team has so far not fixed the date of this release. For openSUSE Leap we are still planning the lifetimes currently, but it will be at least 2 years (2 yearly releases + 2 months), or potentially longer. Ciao, Marcus for the openSUSE Maintenance team

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Re: [opensuse-announce] Re: [opensuse-factory] openSUSE Leap 42.1 is RELEASED
by Ken Schneider - openSUSE 08 Nov '15

08 Nov '15

On 11/08/2015 07:12 AM, Basil Chupin wrote: > On 06/11/15 00:02, Marcus Meissner wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 03:36:39PM +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: >>> On 05/11/15 03:29, Richard Brown wrote: >>>> The wait is over and a new era begins for openSUSE releases. >>>> Contributors, friends and fans can now download the first Linux hybrid >>>> distro openSUSE Leap 42.1. Since the last release, exactly one year >>>> ago, openSUSE transformed its development process to create an >>>> entirely new type of hybrid Linux distribution called openSUSE Leap. >>>> >>>> Version 42.1 is the first version of openSUSE Leap that uses source >>> >from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) providing a level of stability that >>>> will prove to be unmatched by other Linux distributions. >>> [rest pruned] >>> >>> >>> Right, so it has now been released into the wilds of the IT jungle. >>> >>> But I do note that the announcement wasn't even sent to the 'main' >>> openSUSE list called opensuse(a)opensuse.org where every man and his >>> dog go to find information. >>> >>> There is also mention of Tumbleweed - which raises another good >>> question: will Tumbelweed ever come out of the closet and be given >>> the proper respect it deserves or will it be still only be whispered >>> about in the mystic land called FACTORY and the only time 'we' will >>> hear about TW is when an announcement is made that a new "snapshot" >>> - worth 4.4GB of data - has been released? (Mention Tumbleweed in >>> HELP and you will get a clip behind the ear from Patrick - or will >>> this now change? :-) .) >> Tumbleweed is a rolling release and so ... there will not be >> huge leaps for Tumbleweed, just continuous rolling ;) > > Just like that great song, "Ol' Man River, He just keeps on rollin' > alon' .....". Only a fool would continue to download the entire DVD for every release, are you the fool BC? That's what zypper dup is for! > > >> And it is not 4GB of data every snapshot, its way less. Exactly. Just this morning I upgraded TW and only needed to download 142 packages included a couple dozen from packman. Far, far less then the 4.4G you suggest. >> >> Ciao, Marcus >> > > BC > > Please Basil, stop all of the negativity you are spouting on the lists, I believe many on the lists are getting very tired of it. With all of the problems you are reporting the main problem is starting to look like it lies somewhere between the chair and the keyboard. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Leap 42.1 is RELEASED
by Richard Brown 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

The wait is over and a new era begins for openSUSE releases. Contributors, friends and fans can now download the first Linux hybrid distro openSUSE Leap 42.1. Since the last release, exactly one year ago, openSUSE transformed its development process to create an entirely new type of hybrid Linux distribution called openSUSE Leap. Version 42.1 is the first version of openSUSE Leap that uses source from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) providing a level of stability that will prove to be unmatched by other Linux distributions. Bonding community development and enterprise reliability provides more cohesion for the project and its contributor’s maintenance updates. openSUSE Leap will benefit from the enterprise maintenance effort and will have some of the same packages and updates as SLE, which is different from previous openSUSE versions that created separate maintenance streams. Community developers provide an equal level of contribution to Leap and upstream projects to the release, which bridges a gap between matured packages and newer packages found in openSUSE’s other distribution Tumbleweed. Since the move was such a shift from previous versions, a new version number and version naming strategy was adapted to reflect the change. The SLE sources come from SUSE’s soon to be released SLE 12 Service Pack 1 (SP1). The naming strategy is SLE 12 SP1 or 12.1 + 30 = openSUSE Leap 42.1. Many have asked why 42, but SUSE and openSUSE have a tradition of starting big ideas with a four and two, a reference to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Every minor version of openSUSE Leap users can expect a new KDE and GNOME, but today is all about openSUSE Leap 42.1, so if you are tired of a brown desktop, try a green one. Thank You to everyone who helped make this big Leap a success Have a lot of fun, and get thinking about how we can make Leap 42.2 even better :) Regards, Richard Brown openSUSE Board Chairman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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