A Documentation Updates

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

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

This manual was updated on the following dates:

A.1 February 2015 (Documentation Maintenance Update) #

Bugfixes

SLES hardening documentation wrong/incomplete - Password strength (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907754).

A.2 October 2014 (Initial Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 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syslog and syslog-ng have been replaced by rsyslog (Fate#316175).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The traditional method for setting up the network with ifconfig has been replaced by wicked.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A lot of networking commands are deprecated and have been replaced by newer commands (ip in most cases).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,