On October 2, 2015 12:32:32 AM PDT, michael norman
On 02/10/15 13:57, David C. Rankin wrote:
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On 9/28/2015 9:35 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
Perhaps visit opensuse-factory where Leap is discussed. Better yet, visit opensuse-factory archives as there was quite extensive ?debate? about arch which surely does not need to be revisited. Glad 13.1 is esr ;p
Re Leap.
Methinks that it would be best renamed at this point in time to 'Leap of Faith' if it still has the current form of Plasma 5 with its Settings (and ?Utilities) listing(s) containing everything but the kitchen sink and the itemised contents of the dishwasher -- not to mention the absence (still!) of the ability to give different desktops each a different wallpaper, like it is now possible in oS 13.2 using KDE 4.14.9.
If 'Leap of Faith' is released in its current form I then most sincerely hope that openSUSE 13.2 will become the bestest release of openSUSE and it, too, will be maintained and become the ESR which you say 13.1 is.
(I cannot help but have this vision that 'Leap of Faith' will become
On 02/10/15 07:38, Basil Chupin wrote: the
Windows Vista and Windows 8 of oS, and if it is allowed to be done and people are willing to spend time maintaining it that openSUSE 13.2 would then become the Windows XP (around and loved for ~13 years) of the Linux world.
Having stated this, I just LOVE the big green light bulb when you boot up 'Leap of Faith' Beta #1 :-) .)
BC
I have not tried Leap, especially as its a Beta, but is it not a bit too soon to start writing it off ?
M
If history is any indication, NO, it is not too soon. The sooner the better. I'm going to fire up a virtual machine and give it a try tomorrow. If anything, too many of us have been remiss about helping out with testing, allowing the developers and packagers to think something is feature complete and ready for prime time, like KDE4 back in the day, and BTRFS just a year ago. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org