Codename Rousseau

Feb 18, 2010 10:07 GMT  ·  By

The OpenSuSE development team, through Henne Vogelsang, announced last evening (February 17th) the immediate availability for testing of the openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2 operating system. In the new release, we can find bleeding-edge components, such as Linux kernel 2.6.33, KDE Software Compilation 4.4.0, GNOME 2.30 Beta 1, OpenOffice.org 3.2.0, lots of improvements over the first milestone release, and many bugs squashed! As usual, Live CDs with KDE SC 4.4 and GNOME 2.30 Beta are available for everyone who wants to test the new development release of the upcoming openSUSE 11.3 (see download link at the end of the article).

"Late last month we released the first milestone of openSUSE 11.3, now we follow up with the second. Milestone 2 is part of the milestones where we track new releases in the open source universe and test the building of our various distribution images with them. [...] We are also preparing everything to switch to GCC 4.5.0 as the default compiler. Currently our staging version of Factory already builds with it and our compiler people document/fix the most serious issues, they aim at milestone 3 for the switch." - was stated in the official release announcement.

Highlights of openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2:

· Linux kernel 2.6.33; · GNOME 2.29.90; · KDE SC 4.4.0; · OpenOffice.org 3.2.0.5; · Digikam 1.1.0; · VirtualBox OSE 3.1.4; · Ghostscript 8.70; · HWinfo 16.12; · GnuTLS 2.8.5; · Libgphoto2 2.4.8; · NetworkManager 0.7.999; · ModemManager 0.3; · aria2 1.8.1; · fetchmail 6.3.14; · Mono 2.6; · MonoDevelop 2.2; · bootchart 2.0.0.9; · kiwi 4.16; · GCC 4.5.0.

Testers should be aware of some known major bugs in openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2, for example: libjpeg7 is not available as a 32-bit package, which will probably crash some third-party applications; it is impossible to save date in GNOME Keyring; the autologin function is broken in the KDE Live CD.

The openSUSE 11.3 Release Schedule:

February 1st - openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1 February 18th - openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2 March 4th - openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 3 March 25th - openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 April 9th - openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5 April 22nd - openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 6 May 21st - openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 7 June 17th - openSUSE 11.3 RC1 July 1st - openSUSE 11.3 RC2 July 15th - openSUSE 11.3 Final release

As you can notice from the release schedule above, the public release of openSUSE 11.3 should be available sometime in mid-July, and the Gold Master should be ready one week earlier.

Download openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only. Please report bugs to the official openSUSE Bug Tracker.