| OpenSUSE 10.1 arrives |
May 11, 2006
Get your ftp and BitTorrent clients ready -- OpenSUSE 10.1 has arrived! In a recent OpenSUSE mailing list note, Andreas Jaeger, Novell/SUSE's project manager for SUSE Linux and OpenSUSE, announced that "SUSE Linux 10.1 is Done."
A tired Jaeger wrote: "We mastered Wednesday RC4, fixed bugs, and then mastered RC5, and declared that last night (May 4) as goldmaster (= final version). We only did a limited set of media for now and will do the final sets, all the delta ISOs (both from RC1 and RC3), and a proper frozen ftp tree on Monday and distribute it to the mirrors so that we can announce and release this version next Thursday (11th of May)."
In his blog, Jaeger continued: "We've finished last Thursday SUSE Linux 10.1 and those last two days were -- as usual -- quite hectic with testing and fixing of shipment blockers."
This release came, to Jaeger's dismay, later than he had hoped.
Still, while it "took a lot longer than needed to get package management and Xen in a good shape -- and we also managed to get the rest of the product in a great shape during that time!"
Jaeger also wrote: "I've received a lot of friendly words of encouragement from various members of the OpenSUSE community that tested 10.1 -- and we got lots of bug reports and suggestions for SUSE Linux. At Novell/SUSE, I'm glad to be really part of a team that worked together to get a good 10.1 out -- especially my project manager colleagues took over responsibility for some parts and developers worked and tested parts of the product they are normally not involved with. I'm really glad for all this."
And, so are the OpenSUSE users.
However, there is one caveat. Based on how slow servers were for the launch of OpenSUSE 10.0, would-be 10.1 users should be ready for long waits as they download the next version of this popular community Linux.
Indeed, as I report this, the OpenSUSE site itself isn't responding. Unfortunately, the demand for OpenSUSE seems to have overwhelmed the servers. Adding insult to injury, other Linux mirror sites, such as Kernel Mirrors and Softpedia don't have up-to-date copies of the release yet, either.
Like it or lump it, SUSE Linux users will have to be patient today.
-- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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