The openSUSE team is proud to announce the first Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! There are many exciting enhancements and features in the new release. Among these is the incredibly fast package management (libzypp), KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.3, GNOME 2.22.1, a beautiful new installer, installable live CDs and much more. For an overview and links to additional information on the changes, see the announcement over at http://news.opensuse.org/2008/04/18/announcing-opensuse-110-beta-1/ Digg the story! http://digg.com/linux_unix/Announcing_openSUSE_11_0_Beta_1 Some updates ================ The package management stack of openSUSE, libzypp, has seen constant improvements since the last release. We introduced a new SAT solver[0] and repository metadata that means that openSUSE's package management works at a lightning-fast speed.[1] [0] http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/b/b9/Fosdem2008-solver.pdf [1] http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/296 Installation in 24 minutes: Due to changes within the installation media itself and the advances in openSUSE's package management, an openSUSE installation is now well over 60% faster, completing in roughly just 24 minutes! (Your mileage may vary, offer not valid for 486s…) Other: * Linux kernel 2.6.25-rc9 * updated gcc 4.3 branch * libzypp 3.12.1 * PackageKit 0.2.0 * AppArmor 2.3 * Xen 3.2.1 RC1 * glibc 2.8 CVS * PulseAudio 0.9.10 A more detailed list of changes is available via the Factory/News[3] page. [3] http://opensuse.org/Factory/News Most Annoying Bugs ================ Remember that this is a beta. It may not be safe to run for production systems, and should be used by users interested in testing the next release of openSUSE for bugs. * Changing something in the bootloader proposal causes broken menu.lst (Bug #380781) * Patterns or patches will never be shown as selected (Bug #380356) * x86_64 live CDs do not fit on 700MB, need to be tested with DVD-R * gtk live installer is broken (Bug #381153) * live installation freezes kernel (Bug #377565) * License text still from 10.3 (Bug #381158) * GDM does not start, missing gdm user (Bug #381227). Work-around: re-install GDM. See the Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.0_dev[4] page on the wiki for an up-to-date list. [4] http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.0_dev Call for Testing ================ If you want to help testing our standard test-cases, please coordinate with others and subscribe to the opensuse-testing@opensuse.org mailing list to help with our organized testing. Media and Download ================ openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1 for i386, x86-64 and PPC comes as different media sets, all of which can be downloaded from http://software.opensuse.org/developer Comments, Feedback and Helping ================ openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1 is a great time to start testing-out openSUSE 11.0 before it is officially released. You can directly help and contribute to the openSUSE distribution by filing bug reports and giving feedback to the developers. * Reporting bugs: Please report all bugs you find on in our Bugzilla as explained on bugs.openSUSE.org. * Discussion and feedback is very welcome as well; the most appropriate place is the opensuse-factory@opensuse.org mailing list. Or in the #opensuse-factory IRC channel. For other queries and ways to communicate with the openSUSE community take a look at the Communicate[5] wiki page. [5] http://opensuse.org/Communicate The next planned release is openSUSE 11.0 Beta 2 on May 2. Have a lot of fun! -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help@opensuse.org