Ludwig Nussel has announced the availability of his first beta build openSUSE 42.2. The upcoming new stable release will be officially released on November 16, 2016 if all goes well with the development.
"OpenSUSE 42.2 Beta 1 is ready for λήψη. It's even called beta 1, the basic one system it is mostly in sync with SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 RC2. Hence, it is quite safe to use on most systems.
Therefore, I ask you in the context of a thorough examination, submit any bug reports.
Compared to the Alpha 3 version, we corrected too many bugs, and of course, more than one thousand binary packages were shipped from the Factory.
The biggest missing component now is Plasma 5.8 announced earlier. The amount of failures in our development went back but we thank everyone for your help with this, but we did not have time to solve the problems.
The upcoming 2 beta is only three weeks away, and packet submissions for beta 2 will be reviewed by September of 15. "
You can read more of them release notes.
Stakeholders can test the first beta by downloading the installation DVD from the following link:
oPenSUSE-Leap-42.2-DVD-x86_64-Build0164-Media.iso (4,058MB, SHA256)
and NetInstall (only 94 MB to install from CD):
oPenSUSE-Leap-42.2-NET-x86_64-Build0164-Media.iso (94.0MB, SHA256).
HS: openSUSE is one of our preferred distributions as it has a huge community that supports it and of course we should not forget the support from the developers of SUSE Linux Enterprise one of the most reliable distributions for servers and for businesses in general.
