14 DAY TRIAL // The OpenSuSE development team, through James Mason, announced last evening (April 14th) the immediate availability for testing of the openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5 operating system. In this new development version, we can find lots and lots of overall improvements, bug fixes and updates to various applications, such as X.Org 7.5 and XOrg Server 1.8.0, RPM 4.8.0, Perl 5.12.0, and many others. As usual, Live CDs with KDE Software Compilation 4.4 and GNOME 2.30 are available for everyone who wants to test the openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5 development release (see download link at the end of the article).
"M5 was marked by significant contributions from both the openSUSE Community, and the larger Linux community. We’ve added some interesting new packages, made some updates to core processes, and participated in a coordinated multi-distribution upgrade of a major multimedia component. Over 50 bugs were fixed and 8 new features were implemented." - James Mason said in the official release announcement.
Highlights of openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5:
· GNOME 2.30.0; · X.Org 7.5; · XOrg Server 1.8.0; · Added Nouveau video driver for Nvidia graphics cards; · Perl 5.12.0; · Parted 2.2; · KMS integration for Nouveau and Intel video drivers; · PackageKit 0.6.2; · Added librcc and librcd for on-the-fly language translation and detection; · Added xdiskusage, a disk space analyzer tool; · RPM 4.8.0; · Zypper 1.4.1; · NetBeans 6.8; · JACK Audio Connection Kit 1.9.5; · Gutenprint 5.2.4; · GNUPlot 4.4; · SeaMonkey 2.0.4; · pm-utils 1.3.0; · Added Dungeon Crawl, a nethack game; · Fixed gnome-keyring to work under LXDE; · Fixed mouse drivers in VMWare; · Fixed a bug in OpenOffice.org; · Generic Token Card (PEAP-GTC) is now supported by NetworkManager; · Fixed Uacklight controls for MacBooks with Intel video cards; · ...and many more!
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 14th - 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 5 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.