Release announcement 15.1

Η κοινότητα openSUSE κυκλοφόρησε την έκδοση Leap 15.1 η οποία υποστηρίζει περισσότερο υλικό, οδηγούς, βελτιώνει την εγκατάσταση

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22/05/2019

Η σημερινή κυκλοφορία της openSUSE Leap 15.1 παρέχει ενημερωμένη υποστήριξη για σύγχρονο υλικό σε επαγγελματίες χρήστες, επιχειρηματίες και ανεξάρτητους προμηθευτές λογισμικού.

Η κυκλοφορία της Leap 15.1 βελτιώνει τη λειτουργικότητα του YaST και του εγκαταστάτη.

"Η συνέχεια και η σταθερότητα είναι αυτό που παρέχουμε στους χρήστες με την Leap 15.1", δήλωσε ο Haris Sehic, μέλος της κοινότητας του openSUSE. "Με την Leap 15, έχουμε παρουσιάσει ένα μεγάλο αριθμό νέων δυνατοτήτων και καινοτομιών στον τομέα της ασφάλειας, την απόδοση και τα εργαλεία/επιφάνειας εργασίας. Έχοντας κατά νου πόσο σταθερή, αποτελεσματική και αξιόπιστη έχει γίνει η Leap, με αυτή την έκδοση, κατορθώσαμε να διατηρήσουμε το επίπεδο ποιότητας στο σημείο που οι ιδιώτες και οι χρήστες στις μικρομεσαίες επιχειρήσεις μπορούν πραγματικά, περισσότερο από ποτέ, να επωφεληθούν από το επιχειρηματικό υπόβαθρο μιας διανομής openSUSE Linux. Ας συνεχίσουμε να το διασκεδάζουμε!"

Leap releases are scalable and both the desktop and server are equally important for professional’s workloads, which is reflected in the installation menu as well as the amount of packages Leap offers and hardware it supports. Leap is well suited and prepared for usage as a Virtual Machine (VM) or container guest, allowing professional users to efficiently run network services no matter whether it’s a single server or a data center.

Professional users, system administrators and developers can have confidence in the reliability of the Leap distribution based on its development process to deliver a modern, secure, maintained and highly tested distribution using the open-source build system unique to both SUSE and openSUSE, which is the Open Build Service, along with the automated testing of openQA.

What’s New

An entirely new graphics stack update is available for this stable community- and enterprise-based open-source GNU/Linux distribution. Graphics hardware supported by the 4.19 Linux Kernel were backported for the release of Leap 15.1, which uses the 4.12 Linux Kernel and supports additional graphics drivers for Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and improved support for AMD Vega chipset.

GPU virtualization has become quite popular among vendors like AMD, Intel and Nvidia and Leap 15.1 helps to delivers these implementation and support solutions for virtualized and cloud environments.

Leap 15.1 will now use Network Manager by default for both laptops and desktops - previously only laptops defaulted to Network Manager. Server installations will continue to default to Wicked, the openSUSE advanced network configuration system. The release adds a few popular WiFi drivers for more modern wireless chipsets. A change that applies to both Wicked and Network Manager is that /etc/resolv.conf, yp.conf and some other files are a link to a file in /run and are managed by netconfig.

The management of system services in YaST has been revamped to take advantage of many of the features offered by systemd in that area.

Improved Setup and Configuration

Some of the improvements to YaST have made for better management of services. Firewalld can be managed in text mode. There is a new User Interface to manage Firewalld, including AutoYaST support/advancements. System administrators will have better control with Salt formulas in the yast2-configuration-management module, and management of SSH keys per user will make sysadmins tasks much more pleasant.

YaST comes with an improved Partitioner, that now can automatically format full disks without partition tables, create software MD RAIDs on top of full disks, create partitions within a software-defined MD RAID and many other combinations. AutoYaST also supports all these combinations. The work the YaST team has put into the setup and configuration tool has a better default partitioning proposal in several scenarios like those with small disks or systems with several disks making solutions easier for Linux professionals. Leap 15.1 brings new YaST icons developed by the community.

The YaST team worked hard on improving the 4k display (HiDPI) experience. HiDPI displays are now autodetected and the UI is auto-scaled giving the installer a beautifully crisp interface.

Security and Maintenance

Maintenance updates from both Leap 15 and updates from SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 are inherited into Leap 15.1 and are part of the release. The security team issues fast updates for Leap 15.1. With maintenance updates, about 10 to 20 percent are contributed from the community.

There is a YaST testing option for users to test maintenance updates before being released. The testing repository allows users to test the updates seven days before being pushed to the maintenance update repository.

Minor versions of the Leap 15 series have about an 18-month life cycle of maintenance and security as minor releases come roughly once a year. Users of openSUSE Leap, 15.0, which was released on May 25, 2018, should upgrade to Leap 15.1 within the next 6 months. The 15 series of Leap is expected to achieve an estimated 36 months of maintenance and security updates.

Images, Deployment and Hardware with Linode, Slimbooks and Tuxedo

Leap 15.1 continues to add more hardware providers as Slimbook and TUXEDO Computers will both offer the option of purchasing hardware with Leap 15.1 preinstalled. Linode cloud images of Leap are available today and ready for all infrastructure needs.

TUXEDO Computers devices were an important part of the openSUSE reference tests of Leap 15.1.

"We share the fundamental belief that the user should have the best user experience we can offer," said Herbert Feiler, CEO of TUXEDO Computers. "openSUSE Leap 15.1 is the consistent continuation and further development of stable Linux for end users. Therefore we of course continue to offer openSUSE pre-installed on all TUXEDO notebooks and PCs," adds Feiler.

Cloud hosting services will offer images of Leap 15.1 in the coming weeks like Amazon Web Services, Azure and OpenStack. Leap 15 is continually optimized for cloud usage scenarios as a host and virtualization guest.

Desktop Environment

Leap offers a great variety of Linux desktops, including traditional KDE, GNOME as well as efficient Xfce. Users can select their preferred desktop environment, configuration and workflow. GNOME 3.26 and the Long-Term-Support version of KDE Plasma 5.12 are in both Leap 15.0 and Leap 15.1. SLE 15 enterprise users can also get the KDE version and other community tools and packages available through PackageHub. Live images of KDE and GNOME are available for simple test-driving through the live tab under the Leap distribution on software.opensuse.org; a Rescue Live image is also available on the Live Images page for those mentioned above.

Containers

Leap 15.1 is filled with several containerization technologies like Singularity, which bring containers and reproducibility to scientific computing and the high-performance computing (HPC) world. Singularity first appeared in the Leap distribution in Leap 42.3 and provides functionality to build smallest minimal containers and runs the containers as single application environments. This is also the first Leap release containing the Podman container runtime and Buildah build tool; the used by default in openSUSE Kubic. Collectively they provide a more lightweight and resilient alternative to the alternative Docker container runtime, while also adding a number of unique features.

Gamers and Designers

Web designers and digital marketers can make use of the newer graphics stack with the minor version update of the Mesa 3d Graphic Library and use open source tools like the 3D Creation Software Blender to create intriguing and captivating animations.

Gamers, music lovers and podcaster can enjoy the enhancements of the High Definition HD-audio, backported USB-audio drivers and software updates that were made for MultiMedia Card (MMC) and embedded MMC (eMMC).

Migration to Enterprise made easy

openSUSE Leap 15.1 brings plenty of community packages built on top of a core sources of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 15 SP1. The shared common core and alignment with SLE makes migrations to SUSE’s enterprise product easy for professional who want to extend the life cycle of their maintenance and security past the lifecycle of Leap. Migrating from the community version of Leap to SUSE Linux Enterprise is an available option for those who desire to migrate. The migration from openSUSE Leap server installations to SUSE Linux Enterprise is easy for system integrators developing on Leap code who may decide to move to an enterprise version for SLAs, certification, mass deployment, or extended Long Term Support. The instructions on how to do this using the SUSEConnect package and SUSE documentation can be found here.

All Standard and Some Existing Services for Networks

Like prior versions, System Administrators and small businesses can use Leap for hosting web and mail servers or for network management with DHCP, DNS, NTP, Samba, NFS, LDAP, and hundreds of other services.

File sharing and cloud services include software such as NextCloud and even the groupware application suite Kopano (formerly known as Zarafa) is part of the official Leap 15.1 repositories.

Leap 15.1 also introduces automatically configured SSH for both it’s “Server” and “Transactional Server” system roles by default, helping make things a little easier to work on your server immediately after installation.

Υγεία και επιστήμη

Η διανομή Leap υποστηρίζει τις κοινότητες της υγείας, της επιστήμης, της έρευνας και της ανάπτυξης. Το GNU Health, το βραβευμένο σύστημα διαχείρισης υγείας και νοσοκομειακής περίθαλψης, κυκλοφορεί στην έκδοση 3.4.x, η οποία εισάγει τον διακομιστή Federation, το gnuhealth-thalamus. Υπάρχει ένα πρόσθετο script εγκατάστασης του GNU Health που ονομάζεται openSUSE-gnuhealth-setup για να διευκολυνθεί η εγκατάσταση ενός νέου συστήματος για λιγότερο έμπειρους χρήστες. Λύστε αριθμητικά γραμμικά και μη γραμμικά προβλήματα και εκτελέστε άλλα αριθμητικά πειράματα χρησιμοποιώντας μια γλώσσα που είναι ως επί το πλείστον συμβατή με το MATLAB μέσω του GNU Octave ή χρησιμοποιήστε το σύστημα γεωγραφικών πληροφοριών ελεύθερου και ανοιχτού κώδικα QGIS για να δημιουργήσετε, να επεξεργαστείτε, να απεικονίσετε, να αναλύσετε και δημοσιεύσετε γεωχωρικές πληροφορίες. Η Leap έχει πολλά περισσότερα πακέτα όπως το σύστημα υπολογιστικής άλγεβρας (CAS) για προβλήματα στη θεωρία πεδίων που ονομάζεται Cadabra, το διαδραστικό φυσικό προσομοιωτή Step και το πακέτο περιοδικού πίνακα Kalzium.

Πλατφόρμες

Η έκδοση Leap κυκλοφορεί σε αρχιτεκτονική X86_64 ενώ μπορούν να εκτελεστούν σενάρια ανάπτυξης για φυσικούς, εικονικούς, κεντρικούς υπολογιστές και επισκέπτες καθώς και cloud. Οι άλλες αρχιτεκτονικές όπως η ARM64 και η POWER βασίζονται στην κοινότητα.

The installation of openSUSE for the Raspberry Pi for ARM64 has been simplified to one image and is customizable. openSUSE Leap 15.1 is the first multi-purpose operating systems to support a full standard Linux experience in Raspberry Pi. There is no need for a custom specific ISO or precooked image to install on the Raspberry PI. The standard unmodified openSUSE image can be installed just like on any other computer. The installer detects and proposes the set of default configurations. Raspberry Pi needs a very specific partition containing the system firmware. This is important for the installer to detect the specific partition, preserve it and mount it in /boot/vc to allow the operating system to perform updates of the firmware

Λήψη Leap 15.1

Για λήψη του αρχείου ISO, επισκεφθείτε την διεύθυνση https://software.opensuse.org/distributions/leap

Ερωτήσεις

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Εμπλακείτε

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Το έργο openSUSE είναι μια παγκόσμια κοινότητα που προωθεί τη χρήση του Linux παντού. Δημιουργεί δύο από τις καλύτερες διανομές Linux στον κόσμο, την κυλιόμενη έκδοση Tumbleweed και την Leap, τη υβριδική διανομή, μίξη εμπορικής-κοινοτικής διανομής. Το openSUSE συνεργάζεται συνεχώς με ανοιχτό, διαφανή και φιλικό τρόπο ως μέρος της παγκόσμιας κοινότητας ελεύθερου λογισμικού και λογισμικού ανοιχτού κώδικα. Το έργο ελέγχεται από την κοινότητά του και βασίζεται στη συνεισφορά των ατόμων, που εργάζονται ως δοκιμαστές, συγγραφείς, μεταφραστές, ειδικοί στην ευχριστία, καλλιτέχνες και προγραμματιστές. Το έργο περιλαμβάνει μια μεγάλη ποικιλία τεχνολογίας, άτομα με διαφορετικά επίπεδα εξειδίκευσης, άτομα που μιλάνε διαφορετικές γλώσσες και με διαφορετικό πολιτισμικό υπόβαθρο. Μάθετε περισσότερα σχετικά με αυτό στο opensuse.org