14 DAY TRIAL // SUSE Linux 10.1 Codename "Agama Lizard" Beta2 is ready for testing.
Just days after Novell's OpenSuSE project released Beta 1, a bugfix version came out. Beta 1 was plagued with bugs in KDE, GNOME, the package installer and X. Unfortunately, since its release, the known bugs list of Beta2 already sports six entries, ranging from missing translations to fontconfig (part of X), YaST and KDE's media handling not working. It's also impossible to install the root fs on LVM.
The distribution comes with the Linux 2.6.15 kernel and development (read: unstable) versions of glibc 2.4 and GCC 4.1, X.org 6.9, KDE 3.5 and GNOME 2.12.2 . It's available via download or on five CDs. There is no mention of a downloadable DVD image yet. Supported architectures are x86, x86-64 bit and PowerPC.
Please report new bugs here. A list of known bugs is here.
Update: As Silviu Marin-Caea points out, the release time for Beta 2, so close to the first is not surprising, and part of a known schedule. In addition, Bugs are not at all uncommon in betas of SUSE Linux. Given the accelerated development of the consummer product, it's not out-of-the-ordinary if features are added and tested during the beta phase. So bugs in beta1 are not exactly a plague.