Vim 8.0.3 and GCC 6.2.1 are now available as well

Sep 24, 2016 05:07 GMT  ·  By

Softpedia is being informed by openSUSE Chairman Richard Brown that the GNOME 3.22 desktop environment announced officially on September 21, 2016, is now available for installation in openSUSE Tumbleweed.

As you might know, OpenSuSE Tumbleweed is a rolling release Linux-based operating system, and it usually gets latest software versions a few days after they are released upstream, but this time the openSUSE GNOME team was extremely fast and it took them only 48 hours to make the GNOME 3.22 packages available in the distro through a new snapshot.

"Less than 48 hours from when GNOME’s release team unveiled version 3.22 (Karlsruhe), openSUSE Tumbleweed users are getting the full upstream experience of the latest GNOME," says Douglas DeMaio in a recent announcement. "Snapshot 20160921 made 3.22 available to user, but there were plenty of other snapshots during the week that brought new packages to Tumbleweed users."

openSUSE Tumbleweed is now powered by Linux kernel 4.7.4, GCC 6.2.1

In some other good news, the openSUSE Tumbleweed operating system is now powered by the latest Linux 4.7.4 kernel and it is built on GCC (GNU Composite Compiler) 6.2.1. If you want GCC 5, you should know that GCC 5.4.1 is available as well in Tumbleweed, along with the newest KDE Applications 16.08.1 software suite and KDE Frameworks 5.26.0 collection of add-on libraries for Qt5.

However, there were many other snapshots released during the month of September in openSUSE Tumbleweed, and they brought updates to many other popular software projects, including Oracle VM VirtualBox and Vim, which was updated to version 8.0.3. If you haven't updated your Tumbleweed installation lately, now it's the time to do so, especially if you want to enjoy the new GNOME 3.22 desktop environment. If not, you can taste the KDE Plasma 5.8 Beta desktop on openSUSE Leap 42.2 Beta 2.

Update: We've been informed by one of our readers that Debian Unstable offered the GNOME 3.22.0 packages since September 20, 2016. However, according to Debian's Wiki, the Unstable (Sid) branch is only recommended to hardcore developers or testers. On the other hand, openSUSE Project recommends Tumbleweed to anyone, saying it is both ready and reliable for daily use.