The first alpha of OpenSUSE 11.0 has been released. “With the new year beginning we kick start major development into the next version of openSUSE: openSUSE 11.0. A very early alpha version, Alpha 1, is now available for download and testing. Despite many other products being developed in parallel to Factory, we have seen a heavy stream of development on it, so it is really worth a try if you have time for testing. Note, however, that it is not suitable for production systems.”
but I still have a soft spot for OPENSUSE. 10.2 is still running my file server. It happens to be rock solid so I didn’t even bother upgrading to 10.3. 10.3 on the other hand (on my main machine) was a pig in terms of speed and reliability so I wiped it and went with bog-standard Debian Etch. Never tried Debian before, I love it, it’s fast, reliable and apt is way more user friendly than yast IMO. It’s unlikely that I’ll have another look at SUSE until 11 has been gold for a month or two. Still, way to go SUSE team!
this looks like the only improvement Novel has done to Suse
I want to try OpenSuSE, once work settles down a little bit with the new production environment I am most likely looking for a new distro.
better off to go with Mint or PCLinuxOS if you want a New Distro, but i’d be waiting for the final of 11.0 to try this out, you gotta love Yast to use Suse
KDE 4.1 please.
Before the “roadmap” came out…there were “goals” published for 11.0 and KDE 4.1 was one of them…as it will be about 6 months out…and that is the projected date (sort of) of KDE 4.1. So I think that they will include 4.1 with the Gold Release. I hope so too as 4.0 is still rough around the edges…but looks nice.
I am using openSUSE 10.3 on all of my equipment without problems….SUSE IS a bit slower than some of the lighter-weight distro’s but it has worked so well for me in just about all respects…so I have been sticking with it. 10.3 runs faster than 10.2 for me, so don’t know what the issue is with the guy above….anyway….11.0 should be a nice leap forward.
i am not aware that there is such a thing as a gold version of opensuse.
the closest i imagine is the inclusion of KDE 4.1 in SLED 11.0.
but that doesn’t stop me thinking that opensuse 11.0 should have KDE 4.1 as a baseline come hell or high weather.
I still think Novell should put more effort into pushing updates on a version of OS for a couple of years BEFORE pushing out a new version of the OS, period.
I was still using 9.3 for a while and a lot of the problems they ‘fixed’ in 10.2 could have been applied as an update when it got released.
http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/screenshots/index.p…