Equipped with a lot of improvements!

Jan 18, 2008 16:13 GMT  ·  By

A very early alpha version of OpenSuSE, 11.0 Alpha 1, was launched and it is available for download and testing. Although it is just a development release, this version starts the new year with a lot of improvements,.

Here are the most important changes since the Alpha 0 of openSUSE 11.0: ■ Sat Solver integration. Michael Schr?der's "sat solver" library is now the default package solver for libzypp, so make sure you doublecheck the selected packages - there might be surprises ahead. ■ Major changes to the appearance of the Qt installation ■ KDE 4.0.0 ■ perl 5.10 ■ glibc 2.7 ■ NetworkManager 0.7 ■ CUPS 1.3.5 ■ Pulseaudio

The developers have found some bugs, which are not yet fixed. Here is a short list with the most important ones:

■ The new solver does not yet have a "ignore this requirement" choice, i.e. it's not possible to create a broken system. ■ the CDs lack a huge amount of software. Many packages had to be taken out to make way for others. The CDs should still have a a completely working desktop, however. ■ the Qt port and its theme are early releases and create noticeably more flickering and drawing glitches, e.g. the progress bar is only visible on some installations ■ jpackage packages are broken and one package will complain during installation - just ignore the installation crashes at the end when creating the x11 proposal: in this case, your desktop will still have a working X config, it just might not be the perfect one. You may need to call sax2 after it happens. ■ PPC cannot be installed as the bootloader config can't be written out. However, you can get a working PPC system when updating from alpha0.

If you want to get openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 1, you can download it right now from Softpedia. Please note that this is an unstable version, used for testing purposes only.