14 DAY TRIAL // Just a few minutes ago, openSUSE Project, through Douglas DeMaio, proudly announced the availability of the first Release Candidate (RC) version of the upcoming openSUSE Leap 42.2 operating system.
Powered by Linux kernel 4.4.24 LTS, the Release Candidate of OpenSuSE Leap 42.2 comes two weeks after the third and last Beta development snapshot to add even more bug fixes and improvements to the GNU/Linux distribution, which is based on the source code from its bigger brother, SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) Service Pack (SP) 2.
"Since mid-May, the project has been guiding the development of the next openSUSE community release Leap 42.2, which will be released in 29 days. The release of RC1 completes the development process for openSUSE Leap 42.2 based on source code from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) Service Pack (SP) 2," says Douglas DeMaio.
openSUSE Leap 42.2 lands on November 16, 2016
New additions in openSUSE Leap 42.2 RC1 include the OpenStack client software, along with other useful software stacks for sysadmins and devs, the KDE Plasma 5.8.1 LTS desktop environment, which is coming soon to openSUSE Tumbleweed users too, the LightDM 1.19.5 display manager, and an updated GNOME Stack to version 3.20.2.
The development cycle of the openSUSE Leap 42.2 operating system will continue with the second and last Release Candidate (RC) version, which should see the light of day in two weeks from the moment of writing this article, on November 1. After that, the final release of openSUSE 42.2 is hitting the streets on November 16, 2016.
Until then, you can help the openSUSE Leap team polish the final version of the OS by downloading the ISO images of today's openSUSE Leap 42.2 Release Candidate, installing it on your computer and taking it for a test drive. Don't forget, though, that this is a pre-release version, not suitable as your daily operating system. Please report bugs as you find them!