14 DAY TRIAL // The openSUSE Project has just released openSUSE 13.2 RC1, and the developers are preparing to close the development cycle and get the final version out the door.
The devs in charge of the OpenSuSE project are making important progress with the latest 13.2 branch. The previous release was made available in September, but now they have a Release Candidate ready and it's full of new packages and many fixes.
A lot of people have downloaded the Beta and the devs got their fair share of bug reports. Most of them have been fixed, but the testing of the distribution has to continue. If the community wants a bug-free release (as much as it can be done), then they need to report everything that they find out of place.
openSUSE gets the latest GNOME
Traditionally, the default openSUSE desktop used is KDE, but there is also a GNOME edition. As it stands right now, it's one of the few that have GNOME 3.14 by default. The new version of the GNOME desktop environment was released only a few weeks ago, but it's good to see that users of openSUSE will be able to enjoy the 3.14 branch.
"openSUSE 13.2 RC1 is baked and ready to serve!. This previous Beta release was a blast with almost 10.000 downloads. The community responded to the call and we had lot of eyes looking for bugs in openSUSE 13.2 Beta 1. Many of them have been already squashed and openSUSE 13.2 Release Candidate 1 is here to prove it."
"But don't fear the boredness, there are more things to test and enjoy than just bugfixes, the release candidate also brings an important updates to the desktop experience. This release includes GNOME 3.14, which brings new animations, better handling of WiFi hotspots, improvements in some applications like Weather and Photos and much more," note the devs in the announcement.
openSUSE 13.2 RC1 also comes with the latest Firefox package, KDE has been updated from version 4.14.0 to 4.14.1, and the Plymouth package has been upgraded as well. If you have the previous Beta already installed, just perform the regular update process and all the packages will fall into place.
You can download openSUSE 13.2 RC1, openSUSE 13.2 RC1 GNOME Edition, and openSUSE 13.2 RC1 KDE Edition right now from Softpedia.
This is a Beta release, which means that bugs are still present. It's recommended that you don't try this distribution on a production machine.
