Download openSuse 10.3 RC1

The developers of openSuse have released the first release candidate of openSuse 10.3. OpenSuse has been the new ones name of Suse Linux to avoid confusion with Suse Linux Enterprise products. As usual, there are several releases to pick up, a full DVD with open source and non-open source components, a CD for a bare-bones install of KDE or Gnome, and several CDs with additional software and add-ons. The announcement of this first release candidate looks like this:

Announcing openSUSE 10.3 RC1

After quite a few rebuilds and testing, the openSUSE team is happy to announce that RC1 looks brilliant and is now available for download. We consider this release to be feature complete, stable, and suitable for testing from any user. For more information on the release schedule, take a look at the roadmap

Technical Changes:

• libzypp 3.24
• Virtual box 1.5
• OpenOffice.org 2.3
• Countless bug fixes in every component: 535 bugs RESOLVED/FIXED
• 485 packages submitted

A more detailed list of changes is available via the Factory/News wiki page.

Most Annoying Bugs:

• 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 (Bug #326247)
• 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 made internally, but you can get the update through Factory
• 32bit PPC machines have a problem with dependencies that try to install 64bit RPMs.

we’ll keep Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_10.3_dev updated as we go..

Call for Testing

If you want to help testing our standard test cases, please coordinate with others and subscribe to [email protected] (subscribe)! There is no focus area, so please use the product and file bug reports 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.[break]