Christoph Thiel annouced the release of openSUSE 10.3 Beta 3. "It's my pleasure to announce the availability of openSUSE 10.3 Beta3. This is the last beta release before entering RC phase in two weeks. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release of openSUSE! Important changes since Beta2: Linux kernel 2.6.22.5, libzypp 3.22.1; improved package lists of the 1-CD GNOME and KDE editions; countless bug fixes in every component; reworked concept of language bundles."
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Member since:2005-12-28
Member since:2005-08-29
I've considered buying retail Suse distro since Novell took over, but didn't really have an opportunity, because my local dealer lates with updates for like a year or so. And buying 10.1 when 10.2 already came out isn't a nicest feeling. I guess I'll have go to Novell's on-line store.
I know there are many great distros out there, with better package management and everything, but I've just fell in love with polished KDE interface, yast, sax2, packman and stuff... you know what I mean? 
Member since:2007-04-11
Yes I totally know what you mean.
I like KDE a lot and the SUSE polish a LOT. I originally tried Redhat at 6.0 and fell in love with KDE; I am in the Linus T. school of though when it comes to DEs; I have tried Kubuntu, PCLinuxOS, Xandros, and a number of smaller KDE based distros as replacements and for the heck of it, but I just like the feel. I only hope updates were as easy as 9.3...my one worry with buying this...
Not to mention Scribus and a few other of my primary apps always have OpenSuse RPMs built and ready to rcok flawlessly almost as quickly as the new versions come out...A great user experience indeed...
Edited 2007-09-06 20:16
Member since:2005-08-12
I was on the same ship. I really WANTED to buy SLED10 because it has some amazing polish. But it's like it would take more work to get all the extras installed, than it would just using opensuse. Makes no sense to smear a buncha opensuse packages on top of SLED, when you can just run opensuse.
What I would really like to see from opensuse is some sort of server freeze/release alongside sled. At least with RHEL you have clones like CentOS, but SLES/SLED has no such clones. OpenSUSE can't be used in production for me because it's to big of a moving target. A OpenSUSE Server repackage of SLES/SLED would be awesome, and no, just running OpenSUSE 10.0 isnt the same thing lol.
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2007-04-11
I second that. That fiasco is the reason I started trying different KDE based distros...
I read (I apologize for the lack of reference) they were stepping back to the way it was before the mess that was ZMD and all that Mono Stuff that made updates painful and broken. Let the corporate people have it with 10.0;
Wow, 7.1! I think that is the furthest back by anyone else on this thread; do I here 7? I think 6.sometihing was included in the Linux version of Quake, if I am not mistaken...I have that boxed set at home in the metal can but never opened it! :-) I might hae to try that version just for the heck of it on my old desktop box...
Edited 2007-09-07 21:08
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2007-04-11
I have decided to actually buy the boxed version when 10.3 comes out. I have't actually bought one since 9.3 but I got excited when SLED 10 came out. Unfortunately, I was disappointed when it fried my laptop (Compaq NX6325 fan issues), couldn't get wireless working (without hacking it with ndiswrapper), and still had no codec support, even though it was supposed to be the corporate offering.
With the disappointment with their enterprise solution, I have decided to go back to the OpenSuSE distros and support them with my wallet. Since I've been using 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 beta downloads, I want to buy this one before they add KDE4 and show my support for the Open folks...And I just love having the big sexy manuals on my shelf at work as conversational pieces!!!
Anyone else considering doing so?
Edited 2007-09-06 19:06