On 05/08/2021 13.39, Mathias Homann wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 5. August 2021, 13:12:58 CEST schrieb Carlos E. R.:
On 05/08/2021 07.04, Mathias Homann wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 5. August 2021, 02:33:36 CEST schrieb Carlos E. R.:
On 05/08/2021 01.51, cagsm wrote:
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 5:43 PM Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
what i didnt understand is why shipping a distro in 2021 would bring in software that has seen at least two releases beyond that from 2015 of the upstream vendor.
But you have to understand that Leap is defined that way. That's a key characteristic of Leap, like it or not.
so WHY is it "defined that way"? What is the benefit?
Go back in the mail lists for explanations at the time Leap was created (specially the Project mail list) :-)
Also, read the explanations at the main opensuse web page.
Leap is based in SLE, the commercial SUSE distribution, mostly for servers. SLE is how it is. They create a version, and over the years change the minimum, because that is what the enterprise customers want. STABILITY, NO BIG CHANGES. For several years, minimum 3, maybe up to 7.
Or to sum it up in a slightly different manner: Leap is for SERVERS, and possibly for desktop systems with older (outdated, legacy) Hardware.
I've switched to Tumbleweed already, after trying to install Leap on a new laptop resulted in a system that wouldn't run in graphics mode - Intel Iris XE onboard graphics card, needs a moderately recent kernel.
You could report the problem in Bugzilla, and the support for that graphic card will probably be added. Something I forgot to say is that the Leap/SLE kernel is heavily patched, adding support for a lot of hardware that the vanilla kernel doesn't have. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))