I may be in the wrong forum, but here goes.
As of a day or two ago, one of the repositories I have installed is no longer on the web:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Printing/openSUSE_12.3/
It appears that the 12.3 subdirectory is gone.
Anybody know where it went or might be ‘parked’?
Thanks,
TonyT
12.3 is out of support, many repos for it have been removed in the last days.
Please upgrade your system.
You might ask the repo maintainers to re-add the repo for 12.3, or you might find it on this server (they keep repos for already unsupported distributions, for some time at least):
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/
The Printing repo is indeed still there for 12.3 (and 12.1 even):
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/Printing/openSUSE_12.3/The packages won’t get updated any more though.
Thanks.
I do wonder why just 2 years and they start deleting things. It makes it hard for us that want to use Linux in a corporate environment that wants us to use Windows. I get a new laptop every 3 years and they ‘allow’ me to use linux but only after I install it and then let them review it. The process is only allowed when I get a new laptop, so I have to stick with any release for 3 years. This install was a real pain since I have to leave Windows on the box and set up grub to allow a dual-boot environment. And, it took a lot of work because this HP laptop had all the primary partitions used up and I had to work around the (then) new boot rules in Windows.
tonyt
There are longer lived distributions. The commercial versions are often 5 to 7 year support. Also in openSUSE land there is evergreen. the new Evergreen cycle starts again with 13.1. and lasts about 3 years
On 2015-01-10 18:26, thito01 wrote:
>
> Thanks.
>
> I do wonder why just 2 years and they start deleting things. It makes it
> hard for us that want to use Linux in a corporate environment that wants
> us to use Windows. I get a new laptop every 3 years and they ‘allow’ me
> to use linux but only after I install it and then let them review it.
> The process is only allowed when I get a new laptop, so I have to stick
> with any release for 3 years.
It is documented.
You should have verified the lifetime of the distribution you selected.
Normal openSUSE releases live 18 months, defined as “lifetime of 2
releases + 2 months overlap”.
As 13.2 took too long to develop, the 13.1 release will live longer than
normal; but 12.3 is a normal one (18 months).
There is discussion of increasing the release cycle from the current 8
months to perhaps 12, but that would make the total life cycle 2 years
and 2 months, not three — except for Evergreen releases, which is
unclear how long would then last.
You should have selected either the commercial SLED, or an Evergreen
version, which means 11.4 or 13.1 - certainly not 12.3.
The expected life of 13.1 is still “to be determined”, but counting the
evergreen phase, certainly longer than 3 years. Probably till November 2016
It is of course unfortunate that the verification process in your
company is done only when you purchase a machine, and that the event is
not synced with openSUSE releases - but there is nothing that can be
done about that, I’m afraid.
I recommend you upgrade to 13.1.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)