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Administration Guide
  1. About This Guide
  2. I Support and Common Tasks
    1. 1 YaST Online Update
    2. 2 Gathering System Information for Support
    3. 3 YaST in Text Mode
    4. 4 System Recovery and Snapshot Management with Snapper
    5. 5 Remote Access with VNC
    6. 6 GNOME Configuration for Administrators
    7. 7 Managing Software with Command Line Tools
    8. 8 Bash and Bash Scripts
  3. II System
    1. 9 32-Bit and 64-Bit Applications in a 64-Bit System Environment
    2. 10 Booting a Linux System
    3. 11 The systemd Daemon
    4. 12 journalctl: Query the systemd Journal
    5. 13 The Boot Loader GRUB 2
    6. 14 UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)
    7. 15 Special System Features
    8. 16 Printer Operation
    9. 17 Dynamic Kernel Device Management with udev
    10. 18 The X Window System
    11. 19 Accessing File Systems with FUSE
  4. III Services
    1. 20 Basic Networking
    2. 21 Time Synchronization with NTP
    3. 22 Using NetworkManager
    4. 23 Samba
    5. 24 Sharing File Systems with NFS
    6. 25 On-Demand Mounting with Autofs
    7. 26 File Synchronization
  5. IV Mobile Computers
    1. 27 Mobile Computing with Linux
    2. 28 Power Management
  6. V Troubleshooting
    1. 29 Help and Documentation
    2. 30 Common Problems and Their Solutions
  7. A Documentation Updates
  8. B An Example Network
  9. C GNU Licenses
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Applies to SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12

A Documentation Updates

A.1 February 2015 (Documentation Maintenance Update)
A.2 October 2014 (Initial Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12)

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 February 2015 (Documentation Maintenance Update)

Chapter 19, Accessing File Systems with FUSE
Chapter 11, The systemd Daemon

A typo in a command has been fixed (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=900219).

A.2 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 1, YaST Online Update

  • YaST provides an option to enable or disable the use of delta RPMs (Fate#314867).

  • Before installing patches that require a reboot, you are notified by YaST and can choose how to proceed.

Chapter 3, YaST in Text Mode

  • Added information on how to filter and select packages in the software installation module.

Chapter 4, System Recovery and Snapshot Management with Snapper
Chapter 5, Remote Access with VNC

  • The default VNC viewer is now tigervnc.

  • Added corrections on window manager start-up in persistent VNC sessions.

Chapter 7, Managing Software with Command Line Tools
Chapter 10, Booting a Linux System

  • Significantly shortened the chapter, because System V init has been replaced by systemd. systemd is now described in a separate chapter: Chapter 11, The systemd Daemon.

Chapter 11, The systemd Daemon
Chapter 12, journalctl: Query the systemd Journal

Added a new chapter (http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=878352).

Chapter 13, The Boot Loader GRUB 2
Chapter 14, UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)
Chapter 16, Printer Operation

Updated chapter and section according to new CUPS version and with PDF now being a common printing data format (Fate#314630).

Chapter 18, The X Window System
Chapter 20, Basic Networking
Chapter 23, Samba
Chapter 24, Sharing File Systems with NFS

  • Configuring NFSv4 shares is now mostly similar to NFSv3, especially the previously required bind mount setting is now deprecated (Fate#315589).

  • Removed section about NFS server configuration.

Chapter 25, On-Demand Mounting with Autofs

  • Added a chapter on autofs (Fate#316185).

Chapter 28, Power Management

  • Remove obsolete references to the pm-utils package.

Chapter 30, Common Problems and Their Solutions
Wi-Fi Configuration
Tablet PCs

  • Removed deprecated chapter about tablet PCs.

Bugfixes
→Appendix B An Example Network←Chapter 30 Common Problems and Their Solutions
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