SUSE: GCC and GSoC in OpenSUSE/SLES
SLES 12 Toolchain Update Brings new Developer ToolsSUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Updates Its Developer Toolchain to GCC 7SUSE's Andreas Jaeger writes in a blog post about the updated toolchain of the...
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SUSE Dropping Mainline Work On Their In-Kernel Bootsplash System For those that were excited over the months of ongoing work by SUSE to bring up an in-kernel boot splash system that could be better...
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Tumbleweed Rolls Forward with New versions of Mesa, Squid, XenThis week provided a pretty healthy amount of package updates for openSUSE’s rolling distribution Tumbleweed.There were three snapshots...
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openSUSE Tumbleweed Users Receive Important Mesa Linux Graphics Stack Update
Four snapshots were released this week for OpenSuSE Tumbleweed, which is a rolling release GNU/Linux distribution where users install once and receive updates forever. Probably the most important...
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openSUSE Leap 42.2 Linux Distribution Reaches End of Life on January 26, 2018
Announced two years ago on November 16, OpenSuSE Leap 42.2 is a minor release of openSUSE Leap 42 operating system series, which brought the long-term supported Linux 4.4 kernel and KDE Plasma 5.8...
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Mirantis CEO Adrian Ionel Comes Back, Champions Open Source for Multi-CloudMirantis brought back its original CEO and Co-founder Adrian Ionel (pictured), to move the company beyond private cloud and...
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openSUSE Leap 42.2 Linux Operating System Reached End of Life, Upgrade Now
The openSUSE Leap 42.2 Linux-based operating system has reached end of life on January 26, 2018, and it is no longer supported by the openSUSE Project with software and security updates.A minor release...
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OpenSUSE Rolling Out Retpoline Support, Xen Spectre/Meltdown Mitigation SUSE's Richard Brown has issued a status update around openSUSE's ongoing mitigation of the Meltdown and Spectre...
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openSUSE Education Project Is Going Bye-Bye After Release of openSUSE Leap 15.0
A public announcement was made last week by OpenSuSE Project's Lars Vogdt to inform the community about the future of the openSUSE Education project, which tried to support schools in the past several...
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openSUSE Tumbleweed Users Can Now Try Out the KDE Plasma 5.12 LTS Desktop
Eight new snapshots have been released for OpenSuSE Tumbleweed since our last report, bringing users the beta version for the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.12 LTS desktop environment, which is coming in early...
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openSUSE Leap 15 Reaches Beta Phase Snapshots
Exactly like the rolling development model used to make openSUSE Leap 42.3, Leap 15.0 will use the same model until its final build. No concrete milestones will be used building up to the final...
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openSUSE Leap 15 Operating System Enters Beta, Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise 15OpenSUSE Leap 15 Beta Snapshots Begin, Powered By Linux 4.14 + Plasma 5.12 The first public beta snapshots have begun for...
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SUSE releases live patching for big iron, real-time OS update
Germany-based Linux vendor SUSE Linux has launched live patching for its enterprise Linux distribution that runs on IBM Power Systems and also a service pack for its real-tine enterprise distribution...
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SUSE serves up Linux kernel patching, live & hotIf there’s one thing that Linux needs to aid its march onwards it is (arguably) more enterprise robustness.Actually, if there’s one thing that Linux...
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Official KDE Plasma 5.12 Release Now in Tumbleweed
KDE Plasma 5.12 transitioned from it beta version of 5.11.95 to the official release in an openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot earlier this week.On the same day of the upstream release, Tumbleweed snapshot...
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GNOME Shell vs. KDE Plasma Graphics Tests On Wayland vs. X.Org Server
A premium member this week had requested some benchmarks of openSUSE Tumbleweed when looking at the performance of KDE Plasma vs. GNOME Shell in some open-source graphics/gaming tests while also...
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openSUSE Tumbleweed Gets Latest Linux 4.15.7 Kernel and LibreOffice 6.0.2
On the first day of the month, OpenSuSE Tumbleweed received the KDE Plasma 5.12.2 LTS desktop environment, Gawk 4.2.1, GNU C Library (Glibc) 2.27, and GnuPG 2.2.5. The second day of March brought the...
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GCC 8 Aims For Release Candidate In April, But Regressions Remain
Richard Biener of SUSE issued a status report today on GCC 8.0.1 ahead of the GCC 8.1 stable release expected in the weeks ahead.The GCC 8 code-base remains open for regression and documentation fixes....
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SUSE bakes a Raspberry Pi-powered GNU/Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 (SLES) has been released for the diminutive Raspberry Pi computer.SLES is aimed at enterprise users of the open-source operating system, restricting itself to a...
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Tumbleweed Now Has Ratings for Snapshots
openSUSE’s rolling distribution Tumbleweed produces high-quality snapshots and a new rating tool for the snapshots has labeled two out of the last four snapshots as stable.The past two snapshots are...
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