Even though it’s the holidays season and most developers take a break from all the heavy work they do all year, the OpenSuSE Tumbleweed operating system continues to receive some of the freshest updates, and this week it received a major kernel bump with the latest Linux 4.18 kernel series, which brings lots of new features. Apart from the Linux 4.18 kernel, which is a major milestone for openSUSE Tumbleweed as only a few GNU/Linux distributions out there managed to adopt it at the moment of writing, the operating system also received support for the groundbreaking and super efficient AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) video codec via the FFMpeg 4.0.2 update.
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