OpenSuSE 13.1 New changes: Bring five kinds of desktops to users

After eight months of planning, packaging, function add, problem repair, testing and more problems to repair, SUSE Linux for you to bring the free open source community can provide the best products, with our green touch, stable excellence: OpenSUSE 13.1!

This evening, opensuse13.1 officially released on the official website. After eight months of planning, packaging, function add, problem repair, testing and more problems to repair, SUSE Linux for you to bring the free open source community can provide the best products, with our green touch, stable excellence: OpenSUSE 13.1! Linuxer can consider the update!

This release has benefited a lot from the improvements in our basic testing facilities and has focused much attention on troubleshooting. While the combination of more than 6,000 packages and 5 architectures is never perfect, let's be proud to say that this really represents the best product that free software can offer! The latest desktop (five species are!) , server and cloud technology, software development tools and everything in between are included! There are a series of new technology to activate the heart and so you play!

Major changes are:

The authorities have brought five of desktops to the user, allowing users to freely choose what they like:

1.KDE 4.11, improved Desktop Search and file and window management, enhanced multiple display processing capabilities, KDE PIM added a new delay to send mail and phishing message detection capabilities.

The 2.GNOME Shell 3.10.1 brings together a unified system state area, geographic features, high-resolution display support, and a range of new and improved applications, including maps, notes, music, and photos.

3.XFCE, an alternative application launcher, named Whisker Menu, was introduced. The package is named Xfce4-panel-plugin-whiskermenu and can be easily installed via the command line, YaST, or software.openSUSE.org.

4.Enlightenment, using the latest troubleshooting updates and using a OpenSUSE solution to improve openSUSE consolidation.

Although the 5.LXDE,LXDE itself has not been updated for a long time, OpenSUSE still provides support for LXDE, and LXDE fans can still use OpenSUSE happily in Lxde.

Of course, in the near future, we will also mention MATE, cinnamon, Unity of official support. In addition to providing more meta options, we are also trying to make the desktop more sophisticated and full-featured, and in this edition we provide:

1. Improved font rendering.

2.Xorg Server 1.14 brings a series of minor improvements and a feature called "Pointer Barriers"

3.Mesa 9.2.1 brings a radeonsi drive for AMD's South Island chip (Radeon HD 7000 series)

4.Freetype 2.5.0.1 brings support for colored embedded bitmap (with color of Yan text!) And a new parsing and antialiasing engine for CFF fonts, contributed by Adobe, Google

Not only for users to get better and more meta interface Terminal experience thinking, we also as before the same focus on technology, focus on more stable and powerful functions. In particular, we have put a lot of effort into the OpenSUSE 13.1 test, through our automated OPENQA test tool improvements, a global failover hacking section and more activities. Our achievements are as follows:

The 1.Linux kernel is carrying a 3.11 series of the latest patches, designed to improve the performance of the pressure system.

2.Btrfs introduces formatting improvements and new features to reduce the 30-35% of directory trees that store extent information, allowing for fast replacement of disks in Btrfs based RAID 5/6 arrays. EXT4 introduces the ability to embed very small files in an inode.

3.NFS 4.2 brings initial client support

4.zypper 1.9 and the latest version of the Snapper more stable

5. More ARM transplants, in addition to switching to a hard floating-point to support raspberry Pi, also created a new version for AARCH64 and began compiling all images from the same source Kiwi file. Of course, there are ARMv7 and ARMv6.

As always, we are an open and stable development team, or a community, or a large family. We always open the door for everyone. Especially for some contributors, we are open arms. OBS makes it easy for you to have your own software warehouse (you can easily share it with other people in your community) and SUSE Studio lets you customize your distribution. And in this version we do a lot of work to reduce the threshold of contribution:

1.ActiveDoc replaces most of the packaged documents in Doc.openSUSE.org and OpenSUSE. ActiveDoc is a new Web application that lowers the threshold for contributing OpenSUSE documents while retaining existing high quality standards and multiple formats.

2.YaST was ported to Ruby, allowing a lot of experienced developers to get involved.

There are, of course, more than that, and there are other exciting features:

1.Qt 5.1.1

2.KWin Wayland back end (experimental)

3.LIGHTDM KDE greeter, lightweight display Manager (LIGHTDM) is a substitute for display manager. The associated KDE support is added to OpenSUSE 13.1, allowing alternative KDM to be used.

4. KIO MTP is introduced so users can easily insert Android devices and copy files.

5. The latest GLIBC introduces improved C++11 support, performance-related improvements such as optimized string functions, new API functions, support for Intel TSX lock ellipsis, and also the usual troubleshooting.

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So, the new green touches! Enjoy yourselves, everyone!

Have a lot of fun!

Specific details: http://zh.opensuse.org/Features

Feature Focus: Http://zh.opensuse.org/Portal:13.1/Features

Website Download: Http://software.opensuse.org/131/zh_CN

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