OpenSUSE Team Reworking Dev Model, Delays 12.2 Release

LinuxScribe writes "The upcoming 12.2 RC1 release of openSUSE has been delayed, and the final 12.2 release 'won't see the light of day on July 11th,' as developers within the openSUSE community struggles to fix their release efforts, Community Manager Jos Poortvliet said today." Says the article: "Among [openSUSE Release Manager Stephan] Kulow's suggestions? Dumping the current release cycle schedule for openSUSE and moving to an annual or even unscheduled release system."

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Re:It's harder than it looks

[ThePhilips]

Linux folks don't have nearly the trouble as they're a tier 1 platform for most software these days.

On the positive side, if you know Linux, you have better chances of finding why the piece of software refuses to compile/link.

I'm no distro maintainer, but I do a share of platform porting. In my experience it is actually reliance on GCC (and prehistoric crap inside /usr/include/) which is more of a problem. Only after experiencing all that fun trying to compile open source software using non-GCC compilers (aCC, SunStudio, xlc), I have fully realized what kind of hurdle CLang developers and users have ahead of them.