On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 01:05:23AM +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 06/11/15 00:02, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 03:36:39PM +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 05/11/15 03:29, Richard Brown wrote:
The wait is over and a new era begins for openSUSE releases. Contributors, friends and fans can now download the first Linux hybrid distro openSUSE Leap 42.1. Since the last release, exactly one year ago, openSUSE transformed its development process to create an entirely new type of hybrid Linux distribution called openSUSE Leap.
Version 42.1 is the first version of openSUSE Leap that uses source from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) providing a level of stability that will prove to be unmatched by other Linux distributions. [rest pruned]
Right, so it has now been released into the wilds of the IT jungle.
But I do note that the announcement wasn't even sent to the 'main' openSUSE list called opensuse@opensuse.org where every man and his dog go to find information.
There is also mention of Tumbleweed - which raises another good question: will Tumbelweed ever come out of the closet and be given the proper respect it deserves or will it be still only be whispered about in the mystic land called FACTORY and the only time 'we' will hear about TW is when an announcement is made that a new "snapshot" - worth 4.4GB of data - has been released? (Mention Tumbleweed in HELP and you will get a clip behind the ear from Patrick - or will this now change? :-) .) Tumbleweed is a rolling release and so ... there will not be huge leaps for Tumbleweed, just continuous rolling ;)
And it is not 4GB of data every snapshot, its way less.
Ciao, Marcus
Oh, whatever made me think that - how silly of me.
Let's see, latest snapshot of 20151030 is .. yes ... only 4.4GB big.
http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/iso/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-C....
And so was the previous one, and the one before that.....
The idea is not to download every full ISO, but to use "zypper dup" from the repositories. zypper dup will download less than 4.4GB.
But that was not the real question in my post: is Tumbleweed now permanently allocated to the Factory or is it finally gets its place in the sun as a proper openSUSE distro?
Factory is Tumbleweed ... what is wrong with this? It is a rolling release distribution, it has no fixed point of releases like e.g. openSUSE Leap or so. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org