Hi! After quite some rebuilds and testing, I'm happy to announce that RC1 looks brilliant and I'm hoping you're looking forward as much as I did to update all your computers to it. Important Changes Since Beta3 ============================= * libzypp 3.24 * a second DVD9 titled "all the rest" (for the retail box) * Virtualbox 1.5 * OpenOffice.org 2.3RC3 * countless bug fixes in every component * 485 packages submitted * 535 bugs RESOLVED/FIXED A more detailed list of changes is available via http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News . Most Annoying Bugs ================== * Online update opens an annoying popup with the progress. We'll prepare an online update for it, so it will only affect the first update * On some machines we have problems with the kernel and ACPI - investigating, more data would be helpful * GNOME is not yet final - we will update this right after RC1 and prepare a RC2. This one will be internally, but you can get the update through Factory * 32bit PPC machines have a problem with dependencies that try to install 64bit RPMs. * The bootloader config is not written out correctly on some updates * The sudo config on the live CD is broken We'll keep http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_10.3_dev updated as we go. Call for Testing ================ If you want to help testing our standard test cases, please coordinate with others and subscribe to opensuse-testing! (http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate/Mailinglists) There is no focus area, please use the product as if it was final and you wanted to use it for real. Please note that the live CDs will contain an installer, but that installer is still under development, so you can test it, but be more careful than with the normal install. Media and Download ================== openSUSE 10.3 RC1 for i386, x86-64 and ppc is available as different media sets: * 1 DVD containing OSS and NonOSS software languages supported: English, Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese (Simpl. & Trad.), Japanese, Russian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Dutch * 1 CD with a default KDE installation (not for ppc, English-only) * 1 CD with a default GNOME installation (not for ppc, English-only) * 1 AddOn CD with only NonOSS packages * 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for extra languages (only to be used with DVDs!) * DVD containing the sources corresponding to the media * 1 Live CD for both KDE and GNOME openSUSE 10.3 RC 1 is available for immediate download from * http://software.opensuse.org/developer and * http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version#Downloads (which also includes links to Delta ISOs) Greetings, Stephan -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help@opensuse.org