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   intertubes@gmx.net to conr...@gmail.com   
   Re: Leap 42 End of life?   
   23 Jul 19 11:58:23   
   
   On Tuesday, July 23, 2019 at 1:41:18 PM UTC+2, conr...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > On Sunday, June 23, 2019 at 8:11:43 PM UTC+8, inter...@gmx.net wrote:   
   > >   
   > > This posting went out on the last day of May:   
   > > Hi folks,   
   > > This is the advance discontinuation notice for openSUSE Leap 42.3.   
   > > On June 30th 2019 the openSUSE Leap 42 release series will reach its   
   > > end of life, after 4 years of lifetime (42.1 was released in fall 2015).   
   > > openSUSE Leap 42.3 will receive no further maintenance or security   
   > > updates after that date.   
   >   
   > I updated 3 PCs on June 30. Today I just tried zypper update on one of them,   
   > and got 16 updates (binutils, dhcp, plasma, ImageMagick). So some ember is   
   > still glowing in the fireplace?   
   > Although there was a message about repomd.xml not found for editors.   
   > Also it removed 22 items including   
   > Audio Volume, Device Notifier, Network Monitor, System Tray   
   > so I am not going to try update on another Leap 42 PC.   
      
   The last update was on July 2, I moved to Leap 15.1 a few days later and the   
   process was amazingly painless.  Other upgrades in the past have broken all   
   kinds of things but this one just worked.   
   As always, ymmv.   
      
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