(i hope i found the right place to post my question)
I use 13.1 since more than 2 years and i am still very happy about it. It runs on 5 latops, tablet, desktops in my house and allows to have a good and reliable information technology platform for a small company.
But…
But, 13.1 support ends next month.
So which opensuse distro shall i choose to relace 13.1 ?
42.1 or 42.2 ?
I had tested 42.1 a few months ago but it did not work flawlessly at the beginning.
Will 42.2 be also unstable at the beginning, like 42.1 ?
Will 42.2 support be longer than 42.1 ?
Is it possible to use 42.1 and upgrade to 42.2 easily , without a new fresh install ?
Leap is tied to SLES12 service packs and has the same official lifetime. So unless someone steps in to maintain any of Leap version longer, neither are equivalent of Evergreen. Now SUSE offers LTS for service packs, but they also charge extra for it. I have no idea if those LTS will flow into Leap …
The Evergreen page says “until at least November 2016”: <https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen>.
[HR][/HR]The planned support for 13.2 is “until 2 months after release of Leap 42.2 (EXPECTED First Quarter of 2017)”: <https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime>.
My personal experience with 13.2 is that I may keep it running until after the planned end of life date.
My Beta-Testing experience with Leap 42.2 is indicating that, from a KDE point-of-view, Leap 42.2 may be, possibly, quite usable, compared to the usability of Leap 42.1 . . .
I run Leap 42.1 on a Lenovo AMD Laptop for LibreOffice things, KDevelop things and Photography things (digiKam).
It is usable but, the KDE Plasma 5 version of Kontact used by Leap 42.1 missing a few “nice to have” integration into the Plasma desktop things.
My current-working-view is that, the issues I have with the KDE Plasma 5 version used by Leap 42.1, seem to be resolved with Leap 42.2.
> But, 13.1 support ends next month.
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> So which opensuse distro shall i choose to relace 13.1 ?
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> 42.1 or 42.2 ?
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Same issue here. 42.1 was not really usable on my main machine - HP ENVOY
I7 with Nividia graphics. Between the EFI install hassle, networking issues
and KDE’s failure to carry PIM data forward I finally quit messing with it.
42.2 seems to have covered my primary issues pretty well after the beta 3
update. The system is stable for most operations but I still have issues
with networking as I run both ethernet and wifi ports for testing various
setups and it’s still pretty easy to really confuse NetworkManager.
Accepting that the issue here is likely due to operator error my only
reservations with 42.2 concern the KDE side. No KDE nntp reader, the
interface appearance too stark and unconfigurable - looks like a work-in-
progress with a lng way to go.
All-in-all, I would be quite happy to see 13.1 stay around for a while but
42.2 betas have been a major improvement over 42.1 on my setups. Hopefully,
42.2 will make it for release but I fear KDE/PLASMA has just too steep a
hill to climb.
Well, Evergreen was a community project. Need to get a group that can maintain and back port fixes together. Maybe you can donate some resources to make it interesting for a group to do that. Remember Linux is free as in speech not as in beer. The cost is in support of the community not in the cost of a license.
Would it be possible, without too much effort, for you to attend the 2017 openSUSE Conference May 26th through 28th in the Z-Bau in Nürnberg, to discuss this issue face-to-face with the SUSE employees and the openSUSE volunteers who manage the openSUSE distribution?
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