Karl Lattimer wrote:
Simply put, I'd imagine there are updates daily to the makeup of the distribution, updates to GTK or Cairo which need wider testing, but to beta test the distribution seems about as useful as testing a gnome live CD rather than actually seeing and contributing to the development of the distribution during the testing phase. Daily rebuilds and package updates should be made readily available via the internet to beta users.
It is. It's called Factory, and you can set it as an installation source and get the very latest through the recently discussed System Update feature in YaST. It's so current that, much like Debian's bleeding edge, it's frequently broken due to not having all dependencies built yet "Not for users" means "don't expect things to work properly", which I'd say is pretty normal for a beta. People shouldn't install it and expect a polished distribution version. No updates means there's nothing in YaST Online Update, which is a separate distribution method for security patches.