I'm glad to announce the second beta of openSUSE 10.2 codename Basilisk Lizard. It contains a large number of enhancements and updates done by the open source community and Novell's development teams. See http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News - and the ChangeLog file on the first media of each set for a detailed overview of changes. We have fixed most of the annoying bugs of Beta1. I'm gratefull for a localized product and like to thanks especially the many volunteers that did the translations. Some of them came in too late to add them to Beta2. We have created again Delta ISOs from the DVD and CDs of Beta. Please use them for download and use bittorrent. Call for Testing ================ For openSUSE Beta 2 we updated to OpenSync 0.20 and would ask for some testing by the community. We have prepared some testcases for specific mobile devices, like mobile phones which synchronize with SyncML, IrMC and other protocols. The testcases also include simple connection tests for Palm Devices. We would really appreciate any help and hopefully many success reports :) For further information visit http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSync I also like to ask you to test especially the following areas and report - as usual - bugs against them: - bluetooth: openSUSE 10.2 contains a new bluetooth stack - xen: - powermanagement: Powermanagement has been completly rewritten for 10.2, with Beta2 kpowersave is working again. - Firefox: We're using Firefox 2.0 now - OpenOffice.org: Version 2.0.4 is the current version and is available natively in 64-bit for x86-64. Please test it on all systems. Most Annoying Bugs found ======================== * suseplugger crashes directly Bug #219356 * After installation, grub stops at the menu screen and does not use the graphical menu Bug #219409 * registration may incorrectly require to run a browser (but misses package for that) Bug #219354 * syslog-ng is not starting if AppArmor is running Bug #219583 * suspend to disk does not resume but boot directly. Bug #219629. We're testing our update stack with an update of the suspend package to fix this problem. Please report all bugs you find on in our bugzilla as explained in http://bugs.opensuse.org, discussion is most appropriate on the opensuse-factory@opensuse.org mailing list. openSUSE 10.2 Beta2 comes in different medias: * 5 CDs, you need CDs 1-3 for a normal installation with just GNOME or KDE (any language) * 1 AddOn CD with only binary packages on it * 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for our tier 2 languages (tier 1 languages are english, french, italian, spanish, brasilian portugese, german, chinese, japanese and czech - and support for those is on the standard 5 CDs) (the 5 CDs have support for installation in all translated languages, just extra packages are only on this extra media) * 1 DVD containing the contents of the above 7 media * a FTP tree with open source packages (only for the final version, for now use the factory tree) * a FTP tree with binary packages (only for the final version, for now use the factory-extra tree) Thanks to everybody making this release happen - and thanks to all testing it! Andreas P.S. Here're the usual handy URLs for download: Download URLs for the torrents of the DELTA-ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/openSUSE-10.2-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/openSUSE-10.2-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/openSUSE-10.2-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/openSUSE-10.2-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/openSUSE-10.2-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/openSUSE-10.2-... Download URLs for the torrents of the ISOs: CD Media: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/openSUSE-10.2-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/openSUSE-10.2-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/openSUSE-10.2-... DVD media - ISO images are only available via bittorrent: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/openSUSE-10.2-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/openSUSE-10.2-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/openSUSE-10.2-... Download URLs for the Binary Add-On Media torrent: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/openSUSE-10.2-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/openSUSE-10.2-... Download URLs for the Language Add-On Media torrent: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/openSUSE-10.2-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/openSUSE-10.2-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/openSUSE-10.2-... Download URLs for the full Delta ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/delta-iso/open... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/delta-iso/open... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/delta-iso/open... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/delta-iso/open... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/delta-iso/open... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/delta-iso/open... For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/delta-iso/open... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/delta-iso/open... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/delta-iso/open... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/delta-iso/open... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/delta-iso/open... For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/delta-iso/open... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/delta-iso/open... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/delta-iso/open... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/delta-iso/open... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/delta-iso/open... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/delta-iso/open... Download URLs for the full ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/iso/openSUSE-1... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/iso/openSUSE-1... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/iso/openSUSE-1... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/iso/openSUSE-1... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/iso/openSUSE-1... For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/iso/openSUSE-1... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/iso/openSUSE-1... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/iso/openSUSE-1... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/iso/openSUSE-1... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/iso/openSUSE-1... For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/iso/openSUSE-1... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/iso/openSUSE-1... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/iso/openSUSE-1... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/iso/openSUSE-1... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/iso/openSUSE-1... Download URLs for the Binary Add-On Media ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/non-oss/openSU... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/non-oss/openSU... Download URLs for the Language Add-On Media ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/non-oss/openSU... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/non-oss/openSU... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/non-oss/openSU... -- 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