14 DAY TRIAL // Good news for users of the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling operating system, as openSUSE Project's Douglas DeMaio informed the community about the latest updates that landed in the repositories in the last week of February 2017.
It would appear that only four snapshots were released for OpenSuSE Tumbleweed users last week, but they brought a bunch of goodies that many will adore, starting with the recently released Linux 4.10.1 kernel. openSUSE Tumbleweed is also proudly powered by the newest Mesa 17.0 3D Graphics Library, for a better gaming experience.
The list of updates continues with the KDE Plasma 5.9.2 desktop environment, LibreOffice 5.3.0.3 office suite, Python 3.6, GStreamer 1.10.4, Flatpak 0.8.3, LightDM 1.21.5, Unbound 1.6.1, Speex 1.2, python-setuptools 34.2.0, mtd-utils 2.0, zypper 1.13.19, as well as libzypp 16.4.3.
"Since the last news article on Tumbleweed two weeks ago, there have been eight snapshots featuring new software packages," said Douglas DeMaio in the announcement. "The most recent snapshot to land in the repositories was snapshot 20170228, which provided less than a handful of packages."
Tumbleweed users need to update their systems immediately
If you're using openSUSE Tumbleweed and you want to get all the goodies mentioned above, you need to update your installation as soon as possible. Please note that snapshot 20170227 delivers the new Linux 4.10.1 kernel, so you need to also reboot your machines if you want to use this powerful kernel.
With Linux kernel 4.10 and Mesa 17, openSUSE Tumbleweed now proves to be one of the best GNU/Linux distributions for Linux gamers, at least at the moment of writing this article. Try it and let us know if your gaming experience was improved or not. In the meantime, the openSUSE devs will prepare even more snapshots with the latest software updates, so make sure that you always keep your PC up to date.