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 February 2015 (Documentation Maintenance Update)

Section 3.9, “Clock and Time Zone”

With NTP disabled it is recommended to avoid writing system time to the hardware clock. Thus set SYSTOHC=no.

Bugfixes

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  • syslog and syslog-ng have been replaced by rsyslog (Fate#316175).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  • The traditional method for setting up the network with ifconfig has been replaced by wicked.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  • A lot of networking commands are deprecated and have been replaced by newer commands (ip in most cases).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 3, Installation with YaST
Chapter 4, Updating SUSE Linux Enterprise
Chapter 5, Setting Up Hardware Components with YaST
  • Removed the following sections as the respective YaST modules are no longer included: Hardware Information, Setting Up Graphics Card and Monitor, Mouse Model, and Setting Up a Scanner.

  • Removed content about mouse setup and adjusted Section 5.1, “Setting Up Your System Keyboard Layout”.

Chapter 6, Installing or Removing Software
Chapter 7, Installing Add-On Products
Chapter 13, Subscription Management
  • For registering clients against an SMT server, suse_register has been replaced with SUSEConnect (Fate#316585).

Bugfixes
Chapter 8, Installing Multiple Kernel Versions
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