| Third OpenSUSE 10.3 public alpha available |
Apr. 12, 2007
 OpenSUSE announced today the release of the third public alpha of OpenSUSE 10.3, which boasts a 2.6.21-RC5 kernel, a choice of GNOME or KDE desktops, and its usual complete roster of application packages.
Chief maintainer Andreas Jaeger listed the most important changes since Alpha 2 on March 15 as follows:- On x86-64, Firefox is now a 64-bit package and uses nspluginwrapper to handle 32-bit i386 plug-ins if needed
- AppArmor uses now a new parser; the kernel patches have been reworked completely ("Please do test AppArmor extensively," Jaeger said)
- GNOME 2.18 "mostly" integrated
- New OpenSUSE-updater running natively under GNOME
- Further fixes for using libata by default for IDE devices
- New yast2-ftp-server module
- The package manager now handles more than one CD/DVD drive
A more detailed list of changes can be found here.
Jaeger said the following critical bugs have been fixed or are being worked on now:- A workaround has been found for Java applications that are not working due to implementation errors in Sun Java
- The installation of vim-normal might fail (just ignore it, Jaeger said)
- The Radeon driver is broken and crashes the X server (workaround: disable the MergedFB option)
- gnome-main-menu might crash in some installations (fix: reinstall gnome-main-menu with force
Standard features in OpenSUSE 10.3 Alpha 3 include:- Evolution 2.10 information manager
- OpenOffice.org 2.1
- SeaMonkey 1.0.99 web application suite
- GIMP 2.2.13 graphics editor
- abiword 2.4.5 text editor
- Pidgin (formerly GAIM) 1.5 messenger
OpenSUSE is a community project sponsored by Novell. The openSUSE project's main goals are to make openSUSE the most widely used Linux distribution in the world; leverage open source collaboration to make openSUSE the world's most usable Linux distribution and desktop environment for new and experienced Linux users; and make its commercial big-brother SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) the Linux desktop of choice for businesses.
You can download the 3.7GB live DVD ISO image from the main project site, here. Alternatively, you can obtain the live DVD ISO images via BitTorrent, here (for i386 machines) or here (for x86_64 machines).
Be reminded that this is a test version, and Jaeger encourages users to report bugs at the project's bugzilla here. The final 10.3 version is expected by the end of September, Jaeger said.
Screen shots are available for viewing here, thanks to LinuxQuestions.org.
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