openSUSE 12.2 review

Michael Chang

mchang@suse.com

Who am I

Software engineer on SUSE SLE team

Booting & Installation (x86_64)Bootloader

BIOS

ACPI

irc.freenode.netopensuse-factory, opensuse-tw

id :_mchang

Roadmap

Thursday, 2 August 2012: openSUSE 12.2 RC 2 release

Thursday, 30 August 2012: openSUSE 12.2 GM (preliminary)

Wednesday, 5 September 2012: openSUSE 12.2 Public release (preliminary)

Grub2 2.00 final

Default bootloader

Support most scenarios

Intelligent proposed settings

Automatic configuration

Support legacy and efi boot

openSUSE themed graphical console

Serial console

Failsafe kernel parameters

Multiboot with other distro & Windows

Kernel 3.4.6

Big Btrfs improvement (3.3|3.4)

GPU drivers (3.4)noveau: Nvidia GeForce 600 'Kepler' (Early support)

radeon: AMD Radeon 7xxx and Trinity APU series

gma500_gfx: Intel GMA500 Medfield

New X32 ABI: 64-bit mode with 32-bit pointers (3.4)

x86 CPU driver autoprobing (3.4)

Verifiable boot path with the device mapper "verity" target (3.4)

Open vSwitch (3.3)

Teaming (3.3)

EFI boot stub (3.3)

Plymouth

Smooth animated booting

Better transition from bootloader

DRM native mode setting

Flicker-free

Fully openSUSE themed

Integration with the Display Managers (KDM/GDM/LightDM)

Passphrase input for encrypted partition

Systemd units (service)

systemd v.44

A lot of fixes comes in 12.2systemd-analyze crash

pkexec crash

systemd-jornal random crash & memleak fix

systemwide ulimit support

systemwide numlock status support

More unit (service) integration from other packages

udev 182

USB auto-suspend enabled for some USB HID

Support much more model specific hotkey keycodes

Security fix (VUL-0: libudev using getenv() in suids)

Some regression fix by missing links in by-path, by-id

Xorg 1.12.3

Xinput 2.2 (multitouch)

Smooth scrolling

NVIDIA binary blob compatible

Intel driver 2.20.0enabling new SNA and GLAMOR backend

new UXA bug fixing

GCC 4.7.1

Fix crash caused by C++ ABI change

Fix a bunch of broken package build

Rebuild the entire distribution to catch everything

DE

Gnome 3.4

KDE 4.8.2 (default)

XFCE 4.10

LXDE

(Cinnamon)

(Razor-qt)

Interesting topics on ML

Secure vs usability

/usr merge

CJK default Input method framework

Call for new development model

UEFI secure boot

About the Live CDs

Q & A

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