AptiviInstalling openSUSE 16 Leap RC on VMware
Welcome to yet another installation article regarding a Linux distribution. This time, we’ve selected the release candidate of the openSUSE 16 that will be released later, to showcase the new installer and to put it to the test. We have downloaded the release candidate ISO of openSUSE Leap 16 RC from this page below.
Download the ISOThe virtual machine configuration is used as in below:
First, we’ve allocated 8 GB of RAM to ensure stability, since we’re going to install the fully-fledged desktop environment. Then, we’ve allocated 200 GB of hard drive space to be able to install programs, but it’s out of scope for this article. In addition to that, we’ve allocated 4 processor cores.
We’ve started the virtual machine, and we’re greeted with this awesome GRUB bootloader screen that looks like this:
After we pressed ENTER to allow the installer to start, we’re greeted with the gorgeous web-based Agama installer that replaces the older YaST installer system.
In this case, we’re promoted to choose one of the two products: Leap 16.0 Beta and openSUSE Leap Micro 6.2 Beta. Since we wanted a fully-fledged desktop, we chose the first option.
After that, we’re greeted with a loading screen that said that it’s configuring the product.
At this stage, we’re finally taken to the Overview screen, just like below.
From here, we’ll showcase some of the most common installer features. First, we set up the system hostname that will be set for our new installation.
Second, we’ve opened the localization settings, and two of the three settings appeared to be OK, so we’ve changed the time zone to make sure that it aligns with our environment.
Afterwards, we went to the Network settings. Since we are running off the wired internet connection on the guest side, there’s no need to configure anything there. Additionally, the IP address has been obtained using DHCP with the network mask of /24 for IPv4.
Next, we went to the storage part of the installation. Since this is a new installation, we’ve accepted the default partition setting that the Agama installer automatically chosen for convenience.
Next, we went to the software section. Here, no desktop environment was going to be installed, and we wanted one for completeness, so we’ve decided to press the Change selection button.
Afterwards, we’ve chosen the KDE Plasma desktop to be installed in the Graphical Environments section of the software selection screen.
Closing this screen gave us this result. Notice that both the multimedia and the office suite, as well as possibly other collections, have been automatically selected to be installed to the final installation in the hard drive.
Finally, we went to the Authentication section of the installer, and added a new user.
Afterwards, we’re taken back to the Authentication screen that told us that the root password has not been assigned.
We’ve changed this by pressing the Edit button in the Root user group box, and assigned the root password. Now, the end result is satisfactory.
We went ahead to press the Install button at the top of the screen, and we’re shown the fancy looking circular progress bar inside the stage graph. As usual, it goes through preparing the disks and creating new filesystems.
The package installation then followed, and it took no more than 10 minutes to perform the installation of 2,182 packages.
After that, we’ve rebooted the system, and got a nice bootloader screen that looks like this:
We let it boot to the login screen that was provided by SDDM.
As soon as we logged in, the KDE splash screen appeared, but with one spinning gear at the bottom and a familiar openSUSE lamp figure at the top, as shown below.
Afterwards, we’re taken to the desktop with the introductory screen that showed us the welcome window for openSUSE.
We went to th About screen in the system settings application from the KDE desktop environment, and we got this:
openSUSE Leap 16.0 RC ran with KDE Plasma 6.3.4, along with the KDE Frameworks version of 6.13.0, and it ran on the legacy X11 windowing system instead of the more modern Wayland system.
The system ran smoothly, but the graphics acceleration on VMware introduced some stuttering, with the most noticeable ones being at the KDE splash screen.
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