Applies to SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12

A Documentation Updates

This chapter lists content changes for this document since the release of SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3.

This manual was updated on the following dates:

A.1 October 2014 (Initial Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12)

General
  • Removed all KDE documentation and references because KDE is no longer shipped.

  • Removed all references to SuSEconfig, which is no longer supported (Fate#100011).

  • Move from System V init to systemd (Fate#310421). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • YaST Runlevel Editor has changed to Services Manager (Fate#312568). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • Removed all references to ISDN support, as ISDN support has been removed (Fate#314594).

  • Removed all references to the YaST DSL module as it is no longer shipped (Fate#316264).

  • Removed all references to the YaST Modem module as it is no longer shipped (Fate#316264).

  • Btrfs has become the default file system for the root partition (Fate#315901). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • The dmesg now provides human-readable time stamps in ctime()-like format (Fate#316056). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • syslog and syslog-ng have been replaced by rsyslog (Fate#316175). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • MariaDB is now shipped as the relational database instead of MySQL (Fate#313595). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • SUSE-related products are no longer available from http://download.novell.com but from http://download.suse.com. Adjusted links accordingly.

  • Novell Customer Center has been replaced with SUSE Customer Center. Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • /var/run is mounted as tmpfs (Fate#303793). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • The following architectures are no longer supported: Itanium and x86. Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • The traditional method for setting up the network with ifconfig has been replaced by wicked. Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • A lot of networking commands are deprecated and have been replaced by newer commands (ip in most cases). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

    arp: ip neighbor
    ifconfig: ip addr, ip link
    iptunnel: ip tunnel
    iwconfig: iw
    nameif: ip link, ifrename
    netstat: ss, ip route, ip -s link, ip maddr
    route: ip route
  • Numerous small fixes and additions to the documentation, based on technical feedback.

Chapter 2, Authentication with PAM

The pam_pwcheck module has been replaced with pam_cracklib and pam_pwhistory. Updated chapter to reflect this change.

Chapter 9, Authorization with PolKit

Updated chapter to reflect major software updates.

Chapter 14, SSH: Secure Network Operations
Chapter 17, Managing X.509 Certification

The YaST CA module now allows to export key and certificate into different files. See Section 17.2.5, “Changing Default Values” (Fate#305490).

Chapter 21, Profile Components and Syntax
Chapter 25, Profiling Your Web Applications Using ChangeHat
Part VI, “The Linux Audit Framework

Numerous small fixes and additions, based on technical feedback.

Obsolete Content
Bugfixes
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