14 DAY TRIAL // The first alpha of the upcoming OpenSuSE 10.3 was released for testing, last night: "I'm glad to announce the first public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3. openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 is an important milestone for us since it is an installable release so that everybody doing development in the last weeks can double check that their changes not only work in their own environment but also in the complete distribution. It also shows us the state of STABLE so that everybody should be able to use STABLE as basis for their work." -says Andreas Jaeger.
Highlights of this release are:
￭ GNOME is moved to /usr. Please do test especially updates from older distributions. ￭ KDE updated to KDE 3.5.6. ￭ Linux Kernel updated to 2.6.20. There's no Xen support enabled for now. ￭ Pattern for minimal text install (see the opensuse-factory thread for details) ￭ Update of OpenOffice.org to version 2.1.3. ￭ The whole distribution is build now with -fstack-protector to better guard against some buffer overflows. ￭ Usage of LUKS by default for crypto partitions in YaST. Both GNOME and KDE handle removable LUKS media now.
This release also brings new improvements, various packages were updated and lot of bug fixes, since the 10.2 release.
Known issues in this release are:
Adding a remote repository shows "/media.1/in not found". Just press OK to continue the install; ftp installation of mounted CD/DVD images is not possible (http seems to work - and installation from online repositories works as well); On x86-64, you need CD4 for a default install since some extra-devel packages are installed; Some Systems will hang at "Cloning the system ..." when selecting "Clone This System for AutoYaST"; Registration does not work; A GNOME installation does not include OpenOffice_org and banshee.
Please report bugs you find in openSUSE's bugzilla.
You can download openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 1 (for testing purposes only) now from Softpedia.
You can download openSUSE 10.2 now from Softpedia.