30 Mar
2023
30 Mar
'23
07:00
On 3/30/23 05:23, Knurpht-openSUSE wrote: > Op woensdag 29 maart 2023 20:36:26 CEST schreef Larry Len Rainey: >> Btrfs is a loser for me too - ext4 forever - btrfs is nothing but trouble. I >> will be leaving as well if btrfs is required. Looks like Mint MATE will be >> my replacement. >> >> I wonder if Walmart will go btrfs - they like LVM. and ext4 and raw >> filesystems. >> >> >> On 3/29/23 13:18, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> >> On 2023-03-29 17:25, Fritz Hudnut wrote: >> >> >> Leap 16.0 Putting high level requirements for Alpha. I think I could >> have something usable by end of this week. >> https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:16.0 So far everything shows that base >> system will have traditional 12 months + overlap support. >> >> >> [QUOTE] >> Migration path from the previous releases >> >> Users will be officially able to upgrade to Leap 16 only from the >> openSUSE Leap 15.5 transactional update server and from Leap Micro >> 5.X. There are experimental tools that can be used to migrate a >> non-transactional-update system, but we highly recommend doing a clean >> installation instead. The migrated system would have to be btrfs >> based. >> >> [/QUOTE] >> >> This is good news . . . will this migration path from 15.5 be >> available sometime soon? Or, the repos will have to be edited to "16" >> to make it to Alpha stage materials?? >> >> >> I don't see the good news anywhere. >> >> Only 15.5 transactional update server and Leap Micro 5.X can upgrade, not >> the rest. >> >> And it has to be btrfs. >> >> Thus none of my systems can upgrade. What then, Ubuntu, Debian, what? > To be clear: > - There is going to be a Leap 16 > - Leap 16 is not going to be just another Leap > - It is going to be ALP based > - Anyone following news.o.o can read about that > So please stop basing your assumptions on your guesses. > Meetings have been going on for ~1 year, everything was done in public. > It is still possible to make something very much like Leap 15 from the ALP sources if there is enough community interest in helping to support packages. It in many cases may even be migratable from Leap 15, A couple of us worked on a proof of concept during SUSE's last hackweek look forward to a talk on it at this years conference. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B