I'm glad to announce that we finally have a Beta4 available. Beta4 has a number of ROUGH edges, so read the following before you decide to download and test it. I advise to not put it on any production system! IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beta4 is really for the adventurous experts and not for anybody without a good Linux experience: * The CD 1 needs to remain in the cd drive after installing from it. Do not remove it during the reboot and wait for YaST to request CD 2. Otherwise the installation of packages from CD 2-5 will fail afterwards. * Due to the integration of the new package manager which is not complete, note the following non working pieces: o Only a fresh installation is supported. Update from a previous installation is not working! o ncurses installation is not supported right now o Some statistics do not work, e.g. you see "Size of packages to install: 0" - or "Number of packages to install: 0", or "Software: Default system (0)". o The graphical package manager frontend has only a limited list of "views", currently you get a list of all the packages and can only search in them. o Only adding of selections works. If you want to remove a selection, remove all packages in that selection and run the resolver manually with the "Check" button. o Language dependend packages are not handled correctly. This results in the installation of one package-$lang package but not necessarily the one for the languages asked for. o It is not possible to abort installation while installing packages. o Network Installations: smb/cifs does not work, http, nfs and ftp should work. o There are cases where during a ftp installation from the FACTORY tree packages for the wrong architecture get installed * The partitioner is broken in some cases which might result in: o mixed up filesystem types - for example one chooses ext2 and the partition is getting formatted with reiserfs o creates double or totally obscure entries within the fstab of the system o makes inproper proposals for a standard partitioning * There are no Release Notes shown - and the download of them fails. Summing up: The installer is in a rather bad shape, only INSTALLATION is supported - and the partitioner has some regressions as well. The rest of the system should be stable. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT Further information and updates are available from http://www.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs We renamed also the directories and filenames to remove the "OSS" from the names to make it clear that there's only one SUSE Linux. We've created on ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.1/SUSE-Linux10.1-Beta4-Extra (and on the mirrors of it) a repository with some non-OSS software. SUSE Linux 10.1 is offered via bittorrent and via normal download. Please use a mirror or the download.opensuse.org URL which directs you to a mirror. Download URLs for the torrents of the DELTA-ISOs: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/SUSE-Linux-1... http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/SUSE-Linux-1... http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/SUSE-Linux-1... Download URLs for the torrents of the full ISOs: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/SUSE-Linux-1... http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/SUSE-Linux-1... http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/SUSE-Linux-1... Download URLs for the full Delta ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-... For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-... For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-... Download URLs for the full ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4-... For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4-... For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta4/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4-... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126