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OpenSuse 11.0 has been released!

As of 4:23 AM in Kansas, it doesn't look like they've actually announced it or updated their web pages yet, but the iso's are available for download from http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/

Congrats to the OpenSuse team!

 

Thanks for sharing. When I was testing distributions OpenSuse was one of the most I liked. I might give it another try.

Writing this from a shiny new oS 11 installation on my not-quite-so new & shiny laptop.

Installation only took about 20 minutes, including partitioning, configuration, and actually installing the files.  Not too bad for a full-blown install with KDE4, openoffice, and whatever else was installed.  Haven't got around to customizing the install yet, except for installing vlc.  Goes a good deal faster than in 10.3, so that's another plus.

All my hardware was detected and configured properly, with the possible exception of the Broadcom wireless card.  Detected correctly, but I haven't tried to use it yet.

The desktop itself is alot more polished than in 10.3, or even 11.0 beta3.  Hasn't crashed yet, so I guess that's a good sign as well.

 I'll have to take a bit more time to really play around with the distro, maybe experiment with Compiz for the first time, probably install KDE4.1 beta, and get some music and wallpapers on here.

I'm glad to know installs fast. One of the reason I didn't keep it was the slow install and the big download. Specially in my case, which is mainly for customers who can't afford Vista. I did try the DVD one. Does it comes with a CD version?

Yeah, the DVD is a pretty big download.  Weighs in at 4.3 GB.  There are also 4 different live cds.  2 each for Gnome and KDE4, 32 bit or 64 bit arch.  The live cds are installable, but there isn't a normal install-only cd.  Also, if you want KDE3 on the disk, you have to use the DVD, as there is no live cd for it.

Thanks, then I will get one live CD for basic installation and the new DVD version to have it completed.

I have just discovered that community repositories can be dangerous.

I added the Packman community repo (a really big repo with everything under the sun) to get a useful version of xine.  That part went fine, no problems at all.  Later I went to install gwenview and okular using zypper, the cli package management tool.  It decided to grab the ones from Packman, and through dependency resolution decided to replace my glibc.  Now, since I mostly build my own Linux setups from source, I know that's a dangerous thing to do, but I didn't notice that was going to happen when I ran the installer.  So, anyway, the installation of the new glibc failed, leaving the system without a standard C library.  This is very, very bad, as it renders any system completely unusable.  The install was borked so badly it could not even be repaired with the DVD.

Lessons learned: 1) Always review the summaries your package manager outputs, never put complete trust in it.   2) Always be sure that such fundamental components as glibc come from official repos, not community repos regardless of size or popularity.

 

I feel your pain! In a different way it happened to me, playing with the different versions of PCLOS. I'm not good at Linux , so I depend on the Synaptic Software Manager. When I was testing different programs for my TV card, it did messed my installation a couple of times. The great news it is this install so fast. I usually keep a /home directory on another partition, where I copy important files, in case I have to reinstall, something I do over and over when learning new things.