Mozilla Firefox 39.0 and Linux kernel 4.1.2 land in openSUSE

Jul 24, 2015 00:10 GMT  ·  By

We reported a while ago that the openSUSE Project was producing a brand new version of their RPM-based Linux distribution, called Leap, version 42, which would completely change the openSUSE operating system as we know it.

Therefore, the OpenSuSE developers are hard at work these days to deliver the first milestone in the anticipated openSUSE Leap 42 operating system, which we know will be powered by the long-term supported Linux 4.1 kernel branch and will include some of the latest and greatest Linux technologies available.

The first openSUSE Leap 42 milestone should have been released today, July 23, but because of some unfinished issues, it was delayed for a few days. However, when it is released, users are urged to help test some of its components, including the Xfce and LXDE desktop environments, the rescue system, sysauth, as well as zdup 13.2.

"The timeline for the development of these milestones is never concrete, and while the first milestone was looking close to being released today, there was a decision to jump from a 3-series Linux kernel that was planned for developing the first milestone to a 4.1 kernel that is planned for the official Leap release," says Douglas DeMaio in a new blog post.

openSUSE Tumbleweed gets Linux kernel 4.1.2, GNOME 3.16.3, and Firefox 39

On the other hand, the Tumbleweed branch of the openSUSE Linux distribution, which follows a rolling-release model, has received a new snapshot today, version 20150722, which brings Linux kernel 4.1.2 LTS, the Mozilla Firefox 39.0 web browser, and the GNOME 3.16.3 desktop environment.

Additionally, openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot 20150722 patches the Apache2 web server package, and adds a Bash patch for an issue with the Perl 5.22 package. Therefore, all users of the Tumbleweed branch of openSUSE Linux are urged to update their installations as soon as possible.