14 DAY TRIAL // Today, November 2, 2016, Douglas DeMaio from the openSUSE project announced the release and immediate availability for download of the second Release Candidate of the upcoming openSUSE Leap 42.2 operating system.
openSUSE Leap 42.2 has been in development for the past six months, during which it received three Alphas and three Betas, as well as two Release Candidate (RC) builds. OpenSuSE Leap 42.2 RC2 is the last step before the GNU/Linux distribution hits the streets in approximately two weeks from today, on November 16, 2016.
Based on some packages from the SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 12 Service Pack (SP) 2 operating system, openSUSE Leap 42.2 Release Candidate 2 is here to polish the upcoming OS by splitting the Mesa 3D Nouveau driver into a separate package to address nasty crashes with various Nvidia GPUs on the KDE Plasma 5 desktop.
"A big change is that the Mesa Nouveau 3D driver was split out to a separate package as KDE crashes with it on some newer NVidia cards," wrote release manager Ludwig Nussel to the openSUSE Factory Mailing List. "RC2, which will be followed by the stable release of openSUSE Leap 42.2 on Nov. 16."
Btrfs-based snapper snapshots got improved capabilities
Among other exciting changes users will find in this second and last Release Candidate version of the openSUSE Leap 42.2 distro, we can mention improved capabilities with the snapshots created by the snapper tool on a Btrfs partition, thanks to the implementation of a brand-new Btrfs quota solution.
Now that the RC2 milestone is out for public testing, the development cycle of openSUSE Leap 42.2 has come to an end, which means that the system is now in Final Freeze and no major changes will be applied to it before it's official launch on the 16th of November 2016. Download openSUSE Leap 42.2 Release Candidate 2 right now, and check out the overview video below courtesy of W00den D3sk.
