On 07/11/15 11:52, John Andersen wrote:
On November 6, 2015 3:34:10 PM PST, "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
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On 2015-11-07 00:07, Bjoern Voigt wrote:
At first I couldn't believe it: If I upgrade my distribution from 13.2 to Leap 42.1, PHP is downgraded from 5.6.1 to 5.5.14 and Perl is downgraded from 5.20.1 to 5.18.2. Intentional.
Remember that the core of Leap is SLE, which is older than openSUSE 13.2.
I also wonder, how "zypper dup" or DVD upgrade handles the downgraded packages. Nicely, it is expected.
- -- Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
So the question is, how long before Leap catches up with 13.2?
Will 13.2 fall off of maintenance before that happens?
Will there ever be a 13.3? Or is Tumbleweed going to fill that role?
Or is Microfocus just going to shut the whole thing down?
I had similar questions in mind, John, but you beat me to expressing them. It seems to me that since MicroFocus has bought our favourite distro things have gone backwards. From the bit and pieces which I have gleaned from reading here and there, 'Leap of Faith' in now to be regarded as a "long term, stable" release with a life span of 36 or 48 months. So, there you are: you have been given the fully paid-for SUSE SLE free of charge but under the name of 'Leap' - but a 'Leap' which has been been regressed back to the needs of lesser numbered SLE users. The compensation, if you blinked and missed it, is that openSUSE has now become Tumbleweed with all of TW's "good points". I downloaded the repaired TW 20151030 last night and installed it. It has no Community Repositories to handle videos, for example, just as there is no way to view DVD in 'Leap of Faith'. OpenSUSE users have been groomed with nice words telling them that they are in the forefront of testing naughty type programs to get rid of any nasties before they are incorporated into SUSE SLE but in reality that was all BS because openSUSE got itself "done over" by having the reverse occur. OK, let's accept things as they are, but there is still the question: where does Tumbleweed stand in all of this? Will Tumbleweed now become openSUSE - read openSUSE - a "rolling release"; and also now be called openSUSE and not anything fancy like Tumbleweed or Leapfrog or Jumpahead or another monthly release of _Boys' Life_ ? BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.9 & kernel 4.2.2-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org