-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- *****SNIP****** What is the difference between openSUSE Leap 42.1 and openSUSE 13.2. Which one is preferable? ****SNAP***** Regards, Wolfgang
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So, Hello Wolfgang and, forgive me the ritual, welcome to opensuse! All below is my personal opinion and does not want to be anything else. One note to start: it appears that this is the first time you approach this distribution, in order to have more pertinent answers you may be helpful in these cases to tell us a little bit more about yourself and your skills eg. are you proficient in using Linux, do you come instead from the "Windows-World" or are you a "Mac'er". And of course what are you main usages of your PC (do you code, just work office, just want to get an impression etc.) I will try to give you use cases and I suppose in the following chapter that you do not have a great amount of Linux experience, it is the absolute first time that you use linux or you do have used KDE4 up to now: In this case currently opensuse 13.2 is for you one of the best solutions, especially if you will choose to have the KDE graphical desktop environment Why? With 13.2 the KDE environment has become to a greater stability, it is "end-of-life" but very stable. Although you will be told "it does not receive attention" any more, it will get security fixes and will receive no new features. This is a greater advantage for a beginner as it also makes KDE in this edition very stable and calm. You just use it, that's it. With leap you will get a new kernel and a change of KDE version Plasma 5 and software collection kde5 (where the respective applications are already migrated). This will give you a greater chance of using very recent hardware without quirks, it will also give you all the advantages of the progression of systemd and btrfs (if you choose to use it). I will be also useful if you start from the scratch and do not wish to have to do a lot of migration in one year or so. As a lot of applications of KDE have already be migrated you will go on with your stable system and you will receive upgrades of the applications every minor version number (that is 42.2 ecc). Every greater version number you will receive an "engine change", that is greater modifications (Kernel ecc). If you choose the gnome environment, IMO it will probably be a better to use leap. Gnome will be the same in both cases but you get the newer kernel. Next case: if you have experience with Linux, can repair from time to time minor issues and want the "latest and greatest" with all related risks and reasonable guaranties you will choose Tumbleweed instead. To go boldly where "no penguin has gone before" is of course always a minor risk. There is a great effort to give you a perfect system but a rolling release by definition is "bleeding edge", very delightful if you want to see the future coming in but also a risk that - for your special personal use case and hardware - you *may* run into a incompatibility. That is where your skills come to kick in. In the (not so common) case that you encounter a problem after an update of tumbleweed you will be easy going if you have skills in debuging the situation and to do minor tasks like to create a yast2log or to edit a fstab or similar. You will be of course assisted in case by the members of the community but it is expected that if you use tumbleweed you know already what you are doing in Linux and especially with opensuse. The advantages: you will get the fast-forward of development of KDE. Thus, if you want to use KDE5 it will probably the most indicated experience until Leap 42.2 is out, where probably the shortcomings of the still very new KDE5 desktop will be minor. You may ask yourself why the split. Well first it may be a try to see which community will gather more people. But more importantly I think it is a stabilization model with probably the aim to propose a SUSE SLES/SLE with the KDE desktop. Very similar as a drinking water filter that is using troubled water and let it filer through rocks becoming ever more fine grained. as this desktop environment would give SUSE a way of being nearly alone in the market (where in the European market of OSS, in public administration, the KDE environment may have a greater acceptance especially in the important market of Germany). But the latter is my very personal conclusion, not anything you find written anywhere. So, long story short, to "just have a look", to work smoothly and enter in the stable line, coming from KDE4: stay currently with KDE4 and wait for Leap 42.2. Instead if you step in and want a stable solution: take leap. Last: if you have experience and want to get the full kick of accelerated development especially with probably one of the the most if not "the" most advanced KDE distribution on the market, you take tumbleweed. Hope that helped you in any way. YMMV. Cheers and have a lot of fun. --- Alle Postfächer an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! http://email.freenet.de/basic/Informationen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org