openSUSE 12.3 in the Final Stretches

by Ostatic Staff - Feb. 28, 2013

Jos Poortvliet, openSUSE head cheerleader, announced the second release candidate for openSUSE 12.3. He said, "A large number of bugs has been fixed and a number of packages has been updated. Major changes include PulseAudio, the kernel and Firefox."

Some of the important package updates are:

* GNOME 3.6.3
* Linux 3.7.9
* Firefox 19.0
* KDE 4.10
* LibreOffice 3.6.3
* GIMP 2.8.2
* DigiKam 3.0
* GCC 4.7.2
* Xorg X Server 1.13.2

The openSUSE 12.3 RC2 GNOME Desktop

Some of the other important changes to this release and for the upcoming final include:

* UEFI and Secure Boot support - "It should be possible to install openSUSE 12.3 on a UEFI machine without problems."

* Changes in openSUSE Live images: The Live images have increased in size to shed the shackles of the CD format for DVD and USB disks.

* "openSUSE 12.3 final will ship with a XFCE based Rescue LiveCD"

* Newly released Enlightenment E17

* Completion of the systemd migration

* New gorgeous look

* Replaced MySQL with MariaDB

Read the full announcement for more UEFI details and get your copy here. openSUSE 12.3 is due March 13, 2013.

openSUSE 12.3 in the Final Stretches

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