A Documentation Updates

Section 11.2, “Available I/O Elevators”: Increasing individual thread throughput using CFQ on SLE 12 (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907506).

Section 13.3.2, “Writeback Parameters”: Important difference in timing of I/O writes in SLE 12 (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907504).

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syslog and syslog-ng have been replaced by rsyslog (Fate#316175).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The traditional method for setting up the network with ifconfig has been replaced by wicked.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A lot of networking commands are deprecated and have been replaced by newer commands (ip in most cases).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.

Numerous small fixes and additions to the documentation, based on technical feedback.

Updated command outputs with samples produced with SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.

Corrected the description of si, so and in in Section 2.1.1, “vmstat”.

Corrected the explanation for majflt as well as the statement about spreading I/O requests over multiple disks in Section 2.1.2.1, “Generating reports with sar”.

Replaced deprecated tools ifconfig and netstat with ip, ethtool and ss in Section 2.5, “Networking”.

Added documentation about sysctl to Section 2.6.2, “System Control Parameters: /proc/sys/”.

Added the section Section 2.7.3, “MCELog: Machine Check Exceptions (MCE)”.

Added details on /usr/bin/time to Section 2.10.1, “Time Measurement with time”.

Removed section about the outdated O1 task scheduler.

Clarified kernel variables in Section 13.1.5, “Writeback”.

Added a tip on sharing the dump directory in Section 16.6.2, “YaST Configuration” (Fate #313185).

Added a tip on identifying a Kernel crash dump with kdumpid (Fate #312855) to Section 16.7, “Analyzing the Crash Dump”.

Chapter Monitoring with Nagios has been removed from Part II, “System Monitoring” (Fate #316136), because Nagios is no longer shipped on SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.

Chapter Perfmon2—Hardware-Based Performance Monitoring has been removed from Part III, “Kernel Monitoring”, because perfmon2 is no longer shipped on SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.

Removed notes about zone_reclaim_mode in Chapter 13, Tuning the Memory Management Subsystem (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874971).