14 DAY TRIAL // Dominique Leuenberger reports this weekend on the latest updates that landed in the software repositories of the openSUSE Tumbleweed operating system, which were brought by a total of six snapshots released in the last two weeks.
These new Tumbleweed snapshots contained a lot of the latest GNU/Linux technologies and software updates, including the KDE Plasma 5.9.5 and GNOME 3.24.1 desktop environment, KDE Applications 17.04.0 software suite, KDE Frameworks 5.33.0 collection of add-ons for Qt 5, and GRUB 2.02 bootloader.
The Mozilla Thunderbird 52.1.0 email and news client, and Mozilla Firefox 52.1.0 web browser also landed in the software repositories of OpenSuSE Tumbleweed, which is now powered by the Linux 4.10.13 kernel. Several Python packages have been ported to singlespec, and it looks like patterns-openSUSE will be replaced by new names.
"It’s always impressive to go through the various release messages a week later and be stunned how much this community manages to achieve in such a short time," said Dominique Leuenberger in the mailing list announcement. "Thanks go out to all contributors for making openSUSE Tumbleweed the awesome distro it is."
Linux kernel 4.11 and GNOME 3.24.2 are coming soon
In the weeks ahead, upcoming Tumbleweed snapshots will bring more goodies to the table, including the recently released Linux 4.11 kernel, the second point release to the GNOME 3.24 desktop environment, GCC 7 as the default compiler, as well as the International Components for Unicode (ICU) 5.9 package.
With this being said, we recommend all openSUSE Tumbleweed users to update their rolling operating systems to the latest snapshots available at the moment of writing this article and continue to update their computers on a regular basis if they want to receive the newest technologies and software releases.