openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 2

The themes thing actually works... It's just that I need to find a GTK+ theme to mod, since the window itself and the contents are separated into two (window border and content). But it makes me happy that I am that much closer to upgrading into a version that hasn't reached end-of-life. ☹ Poor 11.3, I will love you as long as I can. (LOL)

Haven't been able to test the GRUB2 trick (need the DVD or net install disk... preferably the DVD, since I've never been successful with net installs)

Otherwise, the only other differences is all under the hood, so I can't really say a whole lot about them I'll have to do some further testing and see how it is, but not at the moment. I was mainly just curious about the theme thing more than anything.

openSUSE 12.2 News

Holy crap it's already at Milestone 2! I just happened to be going through my G+ Feeds and,bam, 12.2 Milestone 2 news right in my face! (Well, maybe after a bit of scrolling down, but I still wasn't expecting that)

So they finally integrated GRUB2 as the default bootloader (assuming you install from DVD) But in my case, I would need a test-bed hard drive to test it out on. I think I have one... I don't remember, it's been a long, long while since I've done anything (which is probably from all the way back of 12.1).

I am definitely interested in the release and may read more about it tomorrow. I'm hoping the themes get fixed, since I like (not lake; LOL, I'm a bit tired) dark themes (it's not as brutal on the eyes to stare at unlike the default theme). That's one of the reasons I haven't switched yet, despite 11.3 already reaching it's end of life this past January (the other is just migration issues such as getting fstab written up, aesthetics, and other miscellany in the settings and such).

I'll write more when I know more.