OpenSUSE Leap 42.1 Released

MasterPatricko writes: In what they're calling the first "hybrid" distribution release, the openSUSE project have announced the availability of openSUSE Leap 42.1. Built on a core of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 packages but including an up-to-date userspace (KDE Plasma 5.4.2, GNOME 3.16, and many other DEs), Leap aims to provide a stable middle ground between enterprise releases which are quickly out of date, and the sometimes unstable community distros. DVD/USB or Network Install ISOs are available for download now. For those who do prefer the bleeding edge, the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling-release distribution is also available.

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[oh_my_080980980]

You're kidding right...

Got it about a week back. Here's the scoop:

[Anonymous Coward]

Note to slashdotters: they usually push these ISOs a week or more ahead of intended release date. I have a Lenovo Y50-70.

I installed it to replace my Fedora 21 - the insallation froze up on me twice during the EFI bootloader install. I was able to use the upgrade option to come back to where it left - and it picked up. Doing this the third time, it worked.

I am using KDE, and I like the fact that most packages just work - no real annoying issues. I found it a little hard to find some software - but once I hit software.opensuse.org I was able to add the new repositories and install some third party packages, and all went well.

The only thing I bemoan is that bumblebee installation and nVIDIA installations are painful - and that I did not use btrfs for my / partition. But this not an OpenSUSE issue. It is much, much bigger than that.

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[xrobertcmx]

I just installed this on my desktop and was looking to try it on my Y410p. I have been worried about Optimus and was hoping it would be the easy setup I've seen in a few other distros now, just install the Nvidia drivers and switch when needed.

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[lister king of smeg]

Why would anyone use EFI?

Because BIOS is pretty much deprecated now as Microsoft decided that if manufacturers want to install windows on their PC then it has to have a UEFI compliant motherboard, and as that is to lucrative of a market to ignore they have all complied.

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[amalcolm]

Great ad hominem attack. now pehaps you could attack the substance of his argument!

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[amalcolm]

Have you ever seen an open source cow? I really don't want to know what that looks llike.

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[belrick]

Technically you just need to take some cell samples, say by swabbing the cow's cheek, then sequence the DNA, interpret the sequence. You might have to wait for biology to catch up to decode all the source code you've collected.

Where's the love

[Anonymous Coward]

Suse is fantastic, yet it gets so little love. If Ubuntu are the crazy liberals and Fedora the ultra-conservative then suse is the lone independent. Such a solid distro. Zypper and is so much nicer than Yum or Apt. Yast is great for those days when you really don't feel like messing up your /etc/passwd or whatnot. With suse you can often manually edit configs when you want, unlike Fedora and all the sysconfig crap. Suse doesn't force a DE on you. It supports nicely kde, gnome, and more. I really don't get w

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[Thomas Harold]

Two words - "Novell" and "Microsoft". Novell, widely hated by most at the time, bought out the company that produces SUSE back in 2003. Then they signed that patent agreement with Microsoft in 2006.

They're pretty much a distant 3rd in the enterprise Linux market.

SUSE doesn't allow 1 character user names

[bzipitidoo]

A big reason I don't use OpenSUSE is its seemingly trivial limitation that usernames have to be at least 2 characters. I like to use "u" as the main user, "g" for guest, and "p" for porn. Why did SUSE ban single character usernames? I see no good reason for that limitation. It sure doesn't enhance security! If the SUSE developers are going to dictate a trivial matter like that, what else do they force on users?

It becomes rather less trivial and more annoying if you have installed some other distro, a

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[__aaclcg7560]

A big reason I don't use OpenSUSE is its seemingly trivial limitation that usernames have to be at least 2 characters.

Guessing a two-character username is much harder than guessing a one-character username.

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[__aaclcg7560]

It's recommended to rename the default administrator and guess accounts on Windows to make it more difficult for a hacker to break in. I routinely rename the administrator accounts on web applications. I'm not too sure about Linux, as I haven't used it in a while.

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[__aaclcg7560]

The principles of account security is still applicable: rename the administrator account to something less obvious. If a hacker doesn't know the account name, he will have to guess the account name and the password to gain entry. As I haven't dealt with Linux in a while, I gave examples from Windows and web apps.

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[bzipitidoo]

That's an excellent example of security creep. User names were never intended to be secret, in fact, they were public so the users could message each other. Today with spam being a big problem, that seems quaint and naive. Nevertheless, the basic model is still correct, it is the password and only the password that must stay secret.

Why the login screen in its current form has become such a fixture is a bit if a puzzle. Why ask for user id first, why not ask for the password first? Why even ask for th

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[__aaclcg7560]

For my current IT job, I need my badge to log into my Windows laptop and a security token to access my administrator account. I still have a username associated with each account, but I never have to type in my login name.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Single-character usernames seem to work just fine in OpenSUSE 13.2

OpenSUSE-13.2:~ # useradd -m u

OpenSUSE-13.2:~ # getent passwd u
u:x:1001:100::/home/u:/bin/bash

OpenSUSE-13.2:~ # ls -ld /home/u
drwxr-xr-x 1 u users 210 Nov 5 12:35 /home/u

I recommend removing the "p" user, though. That stuff is poison to your mind/heart/soul.