On 30/07/2021 16.34, Chuck Payne wrote:
Good morning,
So, question. We use to have Evergreen which was going to be our LTS version, so that when a distro reached the magical .3 in the release, we could switch to Evergreen.
I haven't seen anything on it in while, has Evergreen stopped? Do we not have any LTS version?
In theory at least, Leap is an LTS of shorts, so Evergreen did indeed stop. There is a major version: 42, or 15, and then minor versions: .1, .2,... In theory at least, the jump from 15.1 to 15.2 should be minor and uneventful, easy upgrades. (previously, versions like 14.1 and 14.2 were all major versions despite the numbering) This is mostly true for the core packages inherited from the SLES of the same number. Kernel, libraries, gnome... but not for community packages that SLES doesn't have, like KDE.
I am switching a lot of systems from openSUSE 42.3 to 15.3, and I am saddened by the number of software packages that seem to have been removed. One of the reasons I started using SuSE back in the day was, it had the most packages, which was awesome.
Here is an example, Nginx has a log of module packages that are no longer there. Oh, please don't tell me to go too software.opensuse.org <http://software.opensuse.org>, is great only if people keep their software up-to-date. I don't know how many packages I have found only to get that it going to do break major things.
There is a problem with 15.3 that search doesn't seem to be working properly. You will have to ask about specific packages that you miss. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))