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Hi!
After quite some rebuilds and testing, I’m happy to announce that RC1 looks
brilliant and I’m hoping you’re looking forward as much as I did to update
all your computers to it.
Important Changes Since Beta3
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* libzypp 3.24
* a second DVD9 titled "all the rest" (for the retail box)
* Virtualbox 1.5
* OpenOffice.org 2.3RC3
* countless bug fixes in every component
* 485 packages submitted
* 535 bugs RESOLVED/FIXED
A more detailed list of changes is available via
http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News .
Most Annoying Bugs
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* Online update opens an annoying popup with the progress. We’ll prepare
an online update for it, so it will only affect the first update
* On some machines we have problems with the kernel and ACPI – investigating,
more data would be helpful
* GNOME is not yet final – we will update this right after RC1 and prepare
a RC2. This one will be internally, but you can get the update through
Factory
* 32bit PPC machines have a problem with dependencies that try to install
64bit RPMs.
* The bootloader config is not written out correctly on some updates
* The sudo config on the live CD is broken
We’ll keep http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_10.3_dev updated
as we go.
Call for Testing
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If you want to help testing our standard test cases, please coordinate with
others and subscribe to opensuse-testing!
(http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate/Mailinglists)
There is no focus area, please use the product as if it was final and you
wanted to use it for real.
Please note that the live CDs will contain an installer, but that installer is
still under development, so you can test it, but be more careful than with
the normal install.
Media and Download
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openSUSE 10.3 RC1 for i386, x86-64 and ppc is available as different media
sets:
* 1 DVD containing OSS and NonOSS software
languages supported: English, Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish,
German, Chinese (Simpl. & Trad.), Japanese, Russian, Czech, Hungarian,
Polish, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Dutch
* 1 CD with a default KDE installation (not for ppc, English-only)
* 1 CD with a default GNOME installation (not for ppc, English-only)
* 1 AddOn CD with only NonOSS packages
* 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for extra languages (only
to be used with DVDs!)
* DVD containing the sources corresponding to the media
* 1 Live CD for both KDE and GNOME
openSUSE 10.3 RC 1 is available for immediate download from
* http://software.opensuse.org/developer and
* http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version#Downloads (which also includes
links to Delta ISOs)
Greetings, Stephan
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September 21st, 2007 at 9:36 am
Here are my random thoughts and notes:
Pros:
* Live CDs for KDE and GNOME. Great!
* Really nice branding, wallpaper, splash screens. Please keep this common style over the next releases.
* Installing additional software apparently works out-of-the-box even on the Live CD (whithout having to deal with additional repos). Great!
* 1-click software install removes the need to mess around with 3rd-party repositories (which usually never worked for me).
Cons:
* No easy way to make a Live USB stick out of the Live CD ISO.
* 1-click software install does changes that “could damage your system”.
* Do we really need Mono on a KDE disto?
* The “SUSE start menu”. I can’t seem to quickly glance through my applications as I can with the standard KDE start menu.
Bugs:
* OpenOffice.org crashes silently during launch
* /etc/sudoers is mode 0644, should be 0440
* Right-hand side progress indicator “remaining” in YaST does not work when installing software from the net
Superficial but annoying glitch:
* Why are the icons on the SUSE KDE desktop not all in one colum, but apper “randomly” placed on the left and top edge of the screen?