These two weeks that have passed this month of July have represented a hard work on the part of the openSUSE Tumbleweed development team, since With the passage of these days the Linux distribution has received various updates.
Between these updates this July, as has been happening for several months, usually included as in any system, updates and security patches in order to offer a good system to its users.
Remember that the Tumbleweed version of openSUSE is a Rolling Release version, so this model is basically consists of a single installation and the rest is through pure updates, there are no new installations.
With This model avoids the task of having to update or install a new system every time that a new version is released.
But also openSUSE version exists with the other update model is that we usually know which is open SUSE LEAP, which from time to time a new version of the system is released which we can download and install again or update from the same system, leaving past versions without support from time to time.
About the new openSUSE Tumbleweed updates
Through a statement, the developer of openSUSE, Dominique Leuenberger, made the announcement in which he announced the availability of a total of nine new updates which were launched so far this month of July 2018.
The message he shared was the following:
Over the past two weeks there has been a steady stream of snapshots of Tumbleweed despite the openSUSE staff being busy with the week off. to cut the case: weeks 27 and 28 gave a total of 9 updates (0628, 0629, 0701, 0702, 0703, 0704, 0707, 0709 AND 0710) ».
New updates in openSUSE Tumbleweed
Between the most important changes that came to the openSUSE Tumbleweed software stores this month, some of the new updates the system received are worth mentioning.
Of which We can highlight this the Linux kernel 4.17.4, the KDE Plasma 5.13.2 desktop environment, the web browser Mozilla Firefox 61.0, the FFMpeg 4.0.1 multimedia framework, the LibreOffice 6.1 Beta 2 office suite, as well as the Mesa 18.1.3 graphics drivers.
El GNU Emacs 26.1, GNU coreutils 8.30 and Squid 4.1 are also available, and there have also been many changes in YaST configuration tool and the system configuration, which caused the translated keywords.
On the other hand, it seems that bcm43xx package received support for PCI and BCM 4356 devices fwupdate 11, and this, support for Lenovo devices added.
This new package for the bcm43xx chipsets is a great help and that more than one user will find it quite good and attractive to use the distribution.
Well, personally I have at least two computers with this chipset which has represented a real problem to be able to have a Wi-Fi connection.
Since the problem is that the intensity of the Wifi is really low even if you are 10cm from the modem.
What's coming for openSUSE Tumbleweed shortly
During the second part of this month, openSUSE Tumbleweed users they will continue to receive some of the latest Linux technologies and open source software applications.
Starting with the recently released Linux kernel 4.17.5 and the KDE Plasma 5.13.3 desktop environment as well as the X.Org 1.20 and Poppler 0.66 display server.
Dominique Leuenberger informs openSUSE Tumbleweed users that the next update of File 5.33 correctly detects PI-executables, as they are not only identified as shared objects.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed it is also preparing for migration to Java 11 as the default Java compiler and the final version of the LibreOffice 6.1.0 office suite, which will be released early next month.
All these new updates can already be installed with the help of Yast and regarding packages and security patches we can obtain them with the following command which we must execute from a terminal:
zypper up zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change