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openSUSE Leap 42.3 Officially Released

OpenSUSE announced yesterday the official availability of the most awaited update of the openSUSE Leap operating system series version 42.3. The build is based off SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3.

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 has a hardware enablement release that also includes hundreds of updated packages compared to the previous update. After eight months being in development. openSUSE Leap 42.3 is finally here along with long term support for Linux 4.4 kernel.

" The rock-solid Leap distribution also offers great packages for streaming media, playing games, editing graphics and creating animation, 3D printing projects, worldwide healthcare projects, data extraction, tools for high-performance computing, network monitoring and much more," said openSUSE.

Some of the new features in openSUSE are KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS as default desktop environment, Open-Channel solid state drives through LightNVM full stack, improvements in 64-bit ARM architectures, improvements in Trusted Platform Module 2.0, support in both PHP 5 and PHP 7, and lots more.

openSUSE is right now available to both 64-bit and 32-bit installation images as well as Raspberry Pi and Cloud images. Users are advised to upgrade to openSUSE Leap 42.3 using the built-in upgrade system.

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