It's powered by the long-term supported Linux 4.4 kernel

Nov 16, 2016 12:01 GMT  ·  By

The openSUSE Project had the pleasure of informing Softpedia today, November 16, 2016, about the general availability of the openSUSE Leap 42.2 operating system for personal computers.

Designed to offer users only well-established Open Source and GNU/Linux technologies, and built using the source code from the recently released SUSE Enterprise Linux (SLE) 12 Service Pack 2 (SP2) operating system, the second major update to the OpenSuSE Leap 42 open-source and free distribution is here after being in development for the past six months. There are numerous new features and updated components in openSUSE Leap 42.2, some of which Tumbleweed users are already enjoying.

For this release, openSUSE Project chooses to ship the openSUSE Leap operating system with a kernel from the long-term supported Linux 4.4 series, providing users with a more secure, reliable, and stable platform that they can easily deploy in a wide range of production environments, including but not limited to cloud infrastructures, virtual machines, and organizations. openSUSE Leap is the perfect Linux-based OS for small and medium-sized businesses. openSUSE Leap offers a new balance filter for Btrfs.

"openSUSE Leap 42.2 represents the combined effort of thousands of developers who participate in our distributions and projects shipped with it. The contributors, inside and outside the openSUSE Project, should be proud of this release, and they deserve a major 'thank you' for all of the hard work and care that have gone into it. We believe Leap is the ideal Linux distribution for developers, sysadmins and users. We hope you have a lot of fun using it," reads the press announcement.

Here's what's new in openSUSE Leap 42.2

Among the new package versions and technologies included in openSUSE Leap 42.2, we can mention Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) functionality, mixing Data Plane Development Kit with Open vSwitch for faster packets processing, a large number of improvements to YaST (Yet another Setup Tool), Prelude Security Information & Event Management (SIEM), new Btrfs-based concept for quota to the Snapper utility, as well as NVDIMM (Non-Volatile Dual In-line Memory Module) and OmniPATH support.

On the desktop side of things, users will enjoy the rock-solid stability of the GNOME 3.20 and KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS desktop environment, which are accompanied by the less popular LXQt 0.11.0. However, you'll also be able to try out the Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon or Enlightenment desktops. Furthermore, we can notice that openSUSE Leap 42.2 ships with Qt 5.6, GTK+ 3.20, Python 2.7, Ruby 2.1, Perl 5.18, GCC 6.1.1, 5.3.1, and 4.8.5, LLVM/Clang 3.8.0, CMake 3.5, OpenSSL 1.0.2h, OpenSSH 7.2p2, libvirt 2.0, and Glibc 2.22.

Applications like QEMU 2.6.1 and VirtualBox 5.0.24 virtualization solutions, Samba 4.4.2 file sharing software, MySQL 5.1.35 database engine, LibreOffice 5.2 office suite, as well as the KDE Frameworks 5.26.0 collection of add-on libraries for Qt 5 are included in today's openSUSE Leap 42.2 release, which supports LXC and Docker-based Linux containers, mature support for ARMv7 and AArch64 (ARM64) platforms, and support for nested virtualization through KVM. Download openSUSE Leap 42.2.

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