OpenSUSE 13.2 Released

MasterPatricko writes The latest version of the openSUSE distribution, 13.2, has been officially released. Key features include integrated support for filesystem snapshots, enabled by a switch to btrfs as the default file system, a new network manager (Wicked), as well as the usual version updates. This release includes seven supported desktop environments (KDE 4.14, GNOME 3.14, Xfce, LXDE, Enlightenment 19, Mate and Awesome) and even preview packages of Plasma 5.1, all presented with a unified openSUSE theme. Download LiveUSB and DVD images now from software.opensuse.org/132.

Comments

Re:Don't bother trying Btrfs.

[Anonymous Coward]

The idea is to use the BTRFS for the system partition (mostly for being able to do OS snapshots), and have /home and whatever other work folders as XFS or ext4. I saw some phoronix article (can't remember where, so I cannot provide the link here), they ran some tests and concluded that BTRFS and XFS are generally slightly faster than ext4, but the difference was not significant, so you would probably not notice it unless for some special scenarios. Myself I had no issue with either of the 3 (on opensuse and xubuntu) and neither did I notice any visible performance differences

Re:Question for btrfs users...

[Vlad_the_Inhaler]

I installed it in this machine a couple of hours ago - after testing on a spare machine yesterday.
I have used SuSE and then Opensuse for years, and have had problems with pretty much every single upgrade. The only problem I had with this one was that my DVD writer ejected the dvd while there was still some data in the buffer. I used the mount/loop command to extract the .iso to a partition, booted from the dvd (that part was ok) and used the partition as the source instead of the dvd. There is now a separate "Update" option now and for the first time for years, the install went through without any problems at all. Even the multimedia stuff was fine, once I added the two repositories.

Surprising was the number of updates (around 60) to a release which came out 3 days ago.

Tomorrow I'll start testing the network options, but so far so good.

btw, if you have ext4 partitions, 13.2 is not going to start mounting them as btrfs or converting them or something. Existing partitions will keep their existing filesystems, although the content will be updated if appropriate. The default for *new* partitions is apparently btrfs but I'll be using that sparingly for a while now.