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A very early alpha version of openSUSE, 11.0 Alpha 1, was launched and it is available for download and testing. Although it is just a development release, this version starts the new year with a lot of improvements,.
Changes since openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 0
Suse 11 Aplha 1 have seen 1026 package check-ins since Alpha0 and countless bugs fixed. The main changes against Alpha0 are:
- Sat Solver integration
- Michael Schröder’s “sat solver” library is now the default package solver for libzypp, so make sure you doublecheck the selected packages - there might be suprises ahead. Please note that we need test cases for things that look funny to you (wiki link)
- Heavy changes to the appearance of the Qt installation (ported to qt4)
- KDE 4.0.0
- perl 5.10
- glibc 2.7
- NetworkManager 0.7
- CUPS 1.3.5
- Pulseaudio
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The Beautiful New Look of the Installer
Most Annoying Bugs
Due to the huge amount of changes, there are also several noticeable bugs:
- The new solver does not yet have a “ignore this requirement” choice, i.e. it’s not possible to create a broken system. Developers aere still discussing if this is a bug or a feature
- The CDs lack a huge amount of software. Many packages had to be taken out to make way for others. The CDs should still have a a completely working desktop, however.
- The Qt port and its theme are early releases and create noticeably more flickering and drawing glitches, e.g. the progress bar is only visible on some installations
- jpackage packages are broken and one package will complain during installation - just ignore
- The installation crashes at the end when creating the x11 proposal: in this case, your desktop will still have a working X config, it just might not be the perfect one. You may need to call sax2 after it happens
- PPC cannot be installed as the bootloader config can’t be written out. However, you can get a working PPC system when updating from alpha0
- Dec 6 openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 0
- Jan 17 openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 1
- Feb 07 openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2
- March 18 openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 3
- April 17 openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1
- May 2 openSUSE 11.0 Beta 2
- May 13 openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3
- May 29 openSUSE 11.0 Release Candidate 1
- June 12 openSUSE 11.0 Goldmaster (internal)
- June 19 openSUSE 11.0 Public release
Download : i386 DVD Torrent | X86/64 DVD Torrent
. Any distro which comes out with good mobile connectivity and better hardware support. Then its good bye Ubuntu