14 DAY TRIAL // The first snapshots for the month of September have been released for the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling operating system, and Douglas DeMaio is here again to report on the freshly added software versions.
While the upcoming GNOME 3.22 desktop environment is yet to be integrated into the September snapshots for OpenSuSE Tumbleweed, which appear to be four at the moment of writing this article, there are numerous other goodies to keep you entertained, such as enhancements to the PulseAudio sound system.
"Snapshots this week added new sensations for Tumbleweed users, but there were plenty of other updates in the repositories to get people excited," says Douglas DeMaio in today's announcement. "GNOME 3.22 has yet to make it into a Tumbleweed snapshot. It has some new testing issues and is still working its way through staged testing."
openSUSE Tumbleweed now powered by Glibc (GNU C Library) 2.24
Among the new software versions included in these new openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots, we can mention GStreamer 1.8.3, Wine 1.9.18, Mesa 3D Graphics Library 12.0.2, telepathy-qt5 0.9.7, python-keyring 9.3.1, Doxygen 1.8.12, Open MPI 1.10.3, wayland-protocols 1.7, Gawk 4.1.4, and the long-anticipated Glibc (GNU C Library) 2.24.
Many other core components and applications received improvements in these first four snapshots for openSUSE Tumbleweed in September 2016, among which we can mention HexChat, yast2-network, yast2-kdump, yast2-user, libstorage, and several GNU-specific extensions as being the most important.
Therefore, we recommend that you update your openSUSE Tumbleweed installation as soon as possible if you want to receive all the goodies mentioned above, and always keep an eye on the main software repositories for incoming snapshots that bring even more updated components and new technologies.
As for the GNOME 3.22 desktop environment, which will be officially unveiled next week on September 21, 2016, the openSUSE Tumbleweed developers are hard at work to integrate them and be among the first to offer the highly anticipated Linux desktop to their users. More details soon!