We have tested and upgraded OpenSuse 13.1 to 13.2RC.
Now Opensuse 13.2 -Green light to freedom, is officially out.
The most revolutionary change is that OpenSuse has gone for the Btrfs file system for root, where most other distros use Ext4.
For the /home directory Opensuse is using XFS.
The comparisons I have seen do not indicate a big advantage for Btrfs and XFS at this point, but it is eagerly developed and may become the next default.
It looks like Opensuse has been fine tuned and optimized using different file systems on / and /home.
Ext4 is gone.
Together with Snapper Btrfs makes it possible to recover a previous status of the system by using snapshot.
These will be auto-made on each upgrade and you can easily boot into one of them if needed.
It looks good. And now let me see if I can find in what repo (that is not installed) I can find inxi....
OpenSuse 13.2 is out
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OpenSuse 13.2 is out
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Re: OpenSuse 13.2 is out
I'm wondering why distros aren't giving the choice of what file system one wants to install. I thought that was Linux - choice.
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