OpenSUSE 10.3 Alpha 3 has been released. "On x86-64: Firefox is now a 64-bit package and uses nspluginwrapper to handle 32bit i386 plugins if needed; AppArmor uses now a new parser; the kernel patches have been reworked completely; GNOME 2.18 mostly integrated; update to kernel 2.6.21RC5."
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Member since:2005-07-06
With 10.1 package management was indeed problematic (but they released a "Remastered" version in October last year which improved very much the situation).Besides apt4rpm was still available and that was what I used.
I don't have any problem with 10.2.
My personal problem with most linux distros has been buying an ATI X1600XT: a serious mistake that I have now corrected by buying a Geforce 7900 GT.
Member since:2005-07-07
well, I DO have problems with software management on 10.2, tough it's better than before. The KDE-based suse updater applet works pretty nice (pity it took me so long to figure out it did exist), but that GTK-based thing screws everything up. Not sure if they use the same backend (I guess not). I also don't like all the mono/beagle stuff, it's slow, even on pretty modern hardware. I'm looking forward to KDE 4 in Suse, as it won't have to rely on beagle.
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2007-02-22
Hopefully 10.3 will get this awesome distribution back on track. SUSE 10.0 was one of (if not the) most polished and complete Linux distros I have ever used, and I was thoroughly impressed with it. They dropped the ball with 10.1 and 10.2, however (mostly due to ZEN and being generally buggy--at least for me, anyway).