I’ve looked around on the wikis and through old mailinglists and news announcements, but keep getting mixed signals. When is openSUSE 13.3 planned to be released? Are we on a 12 month or 8 month release cycle? I’m just curious as I’m a geeko always chomping on the bit to play with something new and shiny.
There is no fixed schedule yet AFAIK.
Are we on a 12 month or 8 month release cycle?
That hasn’t been decided yet either I think.
There was some discussion on the factory mailinglist some time ago (could have been the opensuse mailinglist or some other one as well), but I haven’t read of any final decision.
IIRC, the majority preferred a 12 month cycle though.
I’m just curious as I’m a geeko always chomping on the bit to play with something new and shiny.
Then install Tumbleweed… 
That’s all I know so far. Thanks for summing up what’s set clear so far!
Factory would be better, I think Portal:Factory - openSUSE Wiki
No, you can’t really install Factory. There is no publicly accessible repo.
The rolling distribution that comes out of Factory is called Tumbleweed.
From the page you refer to:
There is a constant flow of packages going intoFactory. There is no freeze; therefore, the Factory repository is not guaranteed to be fully stable and is not intended to be used by humans. The core system packages receive automated testing viaopenQA.
When automated testing is completed and the repo is in a consistent state, the repo is synced to the download mirrors and published as openSUSE Tumbleweed. That usually happens once or twice a week.
Factory is mainly used as an internal term for openSUSE’s distribution developers, and the target project for all contributions to openSUSE’s main codebase.
Power users, developers, and openSUSE contributors are recommended to use the Tumbleweed rolling release.
Conservative users who just need a working system (“if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”) are advised to stay with the current stable release.
Argh, I missed this step… :-/
Dont worry, I’m sorry that the link is broken in my post above,
https://news.opensuse.org/2014/10/24/tumbleweed-factory-rolling-releases-to-merge/should work better.
Mea culpa.
regards
Yes!!! I’m crossing my fingers, will be dancing “the dark bootup screen-dance” to see if it’s work all the way to release… I was fooled early on pre-13.2 openSUSE versions that was using dark upstart screen for testing (as pre-SLED12 was using it to). But no… :’(. It went up whit some green strange colors. Was looking and longing at SLED12 nice upstart screen who did keep the darkness.
Tested to boot “openSUSE-Tumbleweed-KDE-Live-x86_64-Snapshot20150312-Media.iso” today. Yes there it is again :P. And it’s even says openSUSE 13.3.
http://www.jodo.nu/pic/pic2/thumbleweed3.jpeg
My post is written with some humor yes. Don’t take it to seriously.
regards
I booted up and installed: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-KDE-Live-x86_64-Snapshot20150318-Media.iso earlier today.
The start screen was as in my post above, Dark with “this” green tone. Still says openSUSE 13.3 on the boot up screen.
After installation of the image the start screen doesn’t report a version number ( i e 13.1, 13.2, 13.3) as it has been decided upon. Well I still don’t like this greene “tone”. SLED12 have a better composition. My personal opinion.
http://www.jodo.nu/pic/pic2/snapshot54.jpeg
Ps. Let me know if I should post at marketing sub-forum instead about this subject. Ds.
regards
“The Tumbleweed Factory” video from here http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/fosdem-video/2015/devroom-distributions/ mention 13.3 at about 17.00 or what is being discussed - best to rewind some minutes to get the context.
If boring there is also “Whats new in systemd, 2015 edition”
I like the whole “its ready when its ready” attitude of openSUSE.
So many distros rush in with foolhardy actions that effect the end user in harmful ways (arch is most guilty of this)
My only concern is that i am using a non evergreen release of opensuse (13.2) with only 18 months of support and it usually takes a few months before a release gets all its needed repos.
It doesn’t have a fixed 18 months support cycle.
An openSUSE release is supported until 2 months after the 2nd next release. E.g. 13.1 will be officially supported (without Evergreen) until 2 months after the 13.3 release. 13.2 will be supported until 2 months after the release of 14.1 (the release to follow 13.3).
See also: Lifetime - openSUSE Wiki
openSUSE releases have a lifetime of 2 releases + 2 months overlap. With a release cycle of 8 months this makes it 18 months.
So if the release cycle would stay at 12 months now, 13.2 will be supported for 26 months (2*12+2)…
I was just going by what I knew via the wiki entry on support cycles.
https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime
My quote is exactly from that page. It’s even the first sentence on that page.
Boy does Plasma 5 look neat and modern. Can’t wait for 13.3!
Well, you don’t have to wait for 13.3 to use Plasma 5.
Plasma5 is already included in 13.2 as well (5.2.1 at the moment, I don’t know whether further feature releases will be released as update or not), and it is available from KDE:Frameworks5 (always the latest version):
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:KDE_Plasma_5
https://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#KDE_Frameworks_5_.26_Plasma_5
That i know, that’s how i tried it out 
It looks and feels marvellous (though i had one short plasma crash :P) Hope it’s fit to be default by the time next release is out, and given the ‘pimpage’ the artwork team has put in (the splash screen put a smile to my face to begin with) it will look and feel really really nice. I’ll try to green up the breeze icons according to our branding guidelines and offer them up to the artwork team, to see what they think.
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:36:02 GMT
holden87 <holden87@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
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> Boy does Plasma 5 look neat and modern. Can’t wait for 13.3!
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“Looks” are OK but this bug is a bit of a pita and stops me using P5
or even testing it thoroughly. It’s bad enough re-sorting FF windows on
KDE4 after a reboot without doing it for all the other applications.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341930
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openSUSE Tumbleweed (64-bit); KDE 4.14.5; Kernel: 3.19.1;
Processor: AMD Phenom II X2 550; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using
nouveau driver); Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)