{"id":1216,"date":"2013-03-01T10:34:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T15:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2013-03-01T10:34:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T15:34:45","slug":"five-new-features-coming-in-opensuse-linux-12-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2013\/03\/01\/five-new-features-coming-in-opensuse-linux-12-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Five new features coming in openSUSE Linux 12.3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It took almost a year for openSUSE Linux 12.2 to arrive after the launch of its predecessor, but version 12.3 of the popular Linux distribution is apparently coming along more quickly.
\nOn Thursday, in fact\u2014less than six months after 12.2 arrived\u2014the openSUSE project announced the release of the second and last release candidate of openSUSE 12.3, which is due to appear in final form next month.
\n\u201cThe openSUSE Release Team has released RC2 to the mirrors a few hours ago,\u201d wrote openSUSE community manager Jos Poortvliet in a blog post today. \u201cThis is the last opportunity to find and fix the last few bugs before the final release, so help us by downloading RC2, testing, and reporting bugs!\u201d
\nRelease candidates are always a nice way to get a glimpse at what’s to come, and this one makes it clear that there are a number of notable new features heading our way in the upcoming new version of this free and open source operating system.
\nThough it’s not intended for production use, of course, you can get a taste of this one yourself by downloading it from the project site. In the meantime, here are five key highlights.
\n1. ‘Secure Boot’ support
\n\u201cIt should be possible to install openSUSE 12.3 on a UEFI machine without problems,\u201d Poortvliet wrote, noting that the project team has been working hard on accommodating the Secure Boot technology enabled in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) on Windows 8 hardware, which requires an appropriate digital signature before an operating system is allowed to boot.
\n\u201cThe good news is that openSUSE 12.3 RC2 can boot perfectly with Secure Boot enabled in our UEFI firmware,\u201d he added.
\nCurrently, in this second release candidate, doing so requires an extra manual action by the user, but that will be fixed before the final version arrives, Poortvliet said.
\n2. The E17 desktop
\nAnyone who has ever checked out Bodhi Linux has already seen the beautiful E17, or \u201cEnglightenment,\u201d desktop, and that’s now offered in openSUSE 12.3 as well. Also now
\nincluded are the Sawfish and Awesome window managers.
\nhttp:\/\/art.bodhilinux.com\/
\n3. New database options
\nhttp:\/\/art.bodhilinux.com\/The ‘1890’ Enlightenment theme available for Bodhi Linux (Click image to enlarge.)
\nAnother new addition in openSUSE 12.3 is open source database software PostgreSQL 9.2, which comes with Native JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) support. Meanwhile, MariaDB has replaced MySQL as the operating system’s default database package.
\n4. In the cloud
\nFor cloud users, meanwhile, openSUSE 12.3 is the first openSUSE version to offer a complete OpenStack “Folsom” release.
\n5. A raft of updates
\nLast but not least, openSUSE 12.3 includes numerous key updates, including Linux kernel 3.7.9, GNOME Shell 3.6.3, Firefox 19, Thunderbird 17.0.3, Wine 1.5.23, PulseAudio 3.0, and DigiKam 3.0.
\nvia Five new features coming in openSUSE Linux 12.3 | PCWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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