OpenSUSE Leap 42.2

This is the Linux distribution my server is based on. More information is available here. If you are looking to install openSUSE, there are more details in obtaining openSUSE Leap 42.2.

Changes to openSUSE

Starting with Leap 42.1, code will be based on SuSE Enterprise Linux as base code. This will allow stable releases built on rock solid reliability. Releases will be further apart, more in line with SuSE Enterprise Linux. 32-bit versions are no longer available, only 64-bit (x86_64) versions are now available. SuSE Enterprise Linux has not supported 32-bit for a long time and being more in line with SuSE Enterprise Linux, openSUSE shares this trait. Most modern CPU's now support 64-bit.

Installation notes/Known Issues

• Jumbo packets with Intel network cards (9000 MTU) do not work properly with the first version of the Linux kernel available with this release. Updating the kernel after the initial setup fixes this and allows the use of jumbo packets properly. We have abandoned using jumbo packets, these have made a few of our older devices lock-up when they are use, namely 100Mbps devices.
• BIND DNS server is implemented as an old SysV service running under systemd. To enable it to boot on start-up (which is still hit and miss), you must use the SysV command chkconfig named on, for other commands such as start, stop and restart, you must use systemd commands service named start/stop/restart.

Release notes

Release Notes

Information

openSUSE Leap 42.2 was released on 16th November 2016. It is an open-source distribution and is free of charge. It is developed by the community and sponsored by Micro Focus (formally Novell).

Previous supported versions (at time of release)

• openSUSE Leap 42.1
• openSUSE 13.2
• openSUSE Tumbleweed (Rolling release)