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Announcing openSUSE 10.3 RC1
(103 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
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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.
For more screenshots, head over to openSUSE.org/Screenshots/openSUSE_10.3
Technical Changes
- libzypp 3.24
- Virtualbox 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 http://en.opensuse.org/Factory
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 opensuse-testing@opensuse.org (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.
Media and Download
openSUSE 10.3 RC1 for i386, x86-64 and ppc is available as different media sets. All can be downloaded at software.openSUSE.org/developer. Here’s the run-down:
- 1 DVD containing OSS and NonOSS software (torrents for: i386, x86_64, ppc). Languages supported: English, Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese (Simpl. & Trad.), Japanese, Russian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Dutch
- 1 CD with a default KDE installation (i386, x86_64, not for ppc, English only)
- 1 CD with a default GNOME installation (i386, x86_64, not for ppc, English only)
- 1 AddOn CD with only NonOSS packages (i386 or x86_64, ppc)
- 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for extra languages (i386, x86_64, ppc, only to be used with DVDs!)
- DVD containing the sources corresponding to the media
- 1 Live CD for both KDE and GNOME (i386)
Comments, Feedback and Helping
Please report all bugs you find on in our bugzilla as explained on http://bugs.opensuse.org; discussion is most appropriate on the opensuse-factory@opensuse.org (subscribe) mailing list. For other queries and ways to communicate with the openSUSE community — including IRC, Mailing Lists, and Forums — take a look at the Communicate wiki page.
The next planned release is the openSUSE 10.3 final release, on the Thursday, 4th October!
Could we please have the md5sums.
Which ones are you looking for? They seem to all be there (in the download directory) for me. http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3-RC1/iso/delta/ for the DVDs and the CD ones in the CD directory: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3-RC1/iso/cd/MD5SUMS
To install all the extra codecs, see openSUSE-Community.org/Restricted_Formats/10.3.
Thanks apokryphos I didn’t actually go there I’m sure it’ll help others looking
Great work, thanks for all the hard work you have put in to this.
I have to admit, waiting for the 10.3 beta’s I got slightly bored of Opensuse. So I downloaded Ubuntu, tried that, hated it, didn’t even last an hour on my computer. Downloaded Fedora, lasted about 10 minutes, Mandriva, lasted about 10 minutes. Then came home to opensuse, it really is the best distro out there. so thank you for all your hard work in bringing it to us.
I got an old desktop and I wanted to try different distros before installing Suse, because it had been a while I tested other distros. I tried Vector, Sabayon, PCLinux, Ubuntu,Fedora… Everything had issues. In the end I got tired and went back to Suse. I have to say, suse is one of the easiest to install and and at the same time very polished.
Great news! D/L now! Thanks! I’ll test an offline fresh install first.
Thanks for the announcements.
Downloading now and moving to openSUSE.
I’m impressed! Been waiting for this one, thanks for the impressive release
The dream OS finally closer and closer to to come true! Thanks for all your hard work to make it happen.
Can we have the xdelta patch file from beta3 to RC1-Gnome-i386.iso ??
That will save BW Thks
Hu? It’s already there.
Sure, it’s in the delta/ folder: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3-RC1/iso/delta/openSUSE-10.3-Beta3_RC1-GNOME-i386.delta.iso
I believe thats only for the DVD version. Applied the xdelta file there to the CD version and received a “bad magic number” error
Brilliant! Really looks brilliant. I tried these RC1 version and works “almost” great! I’m using KDE envirovment, so, for now, works probable better than gnome…and, according to these minor bugs(’cause still rc1 ver.), it is already much better than many other final “praised” distros, like ubuntu, fedora, mandriva, as Richard said, ‘casue i also tried these other distros. So, masters of suse, big compliment !!
Awesome job. It is beautiful! I love it! Just 3 suggestions:
1. The BYTECODE_BW_MAX_PIXEL setting should be 18 by default. Fonts are horrible by default.
2. Gnome icon set should NOT be Industrial by default there are better icons like Tango.
3. Style (for KDE) and Theme (for Gnome) both should be the same. Even though Plastik and QtCurve look very similar you can see the differences. I think both should be QtCurve so if you make changes on QtCurve, both KDE and Gnome will have a consistent look.
Just my 2c
David.
Please, don’t. QtCurve is fugly as hell and i sure don’t want my KDE desktop looking the same as Gnome. Gnome can rot for all I care.
Have you played with QtCurve? you can tweak it and make it look as nice as you want. The point is to have a consistent look between Qt/KDE and GTK/Gnome applications.
@davidcanar
Industrial basically is Tango, but with a few icons changed,such as the folders, so….
That is exactly what I hate about Industrial: the folder icons, they look from the 70s or 80s. There are way better options.
I can´t find the Powermanagement inside of YAST?
The yast2-power-management module has been dropped. You can find nearly all settings still within kpowersave and gnome-power-manager.
Comment by Beineri 2007-09-20
The yast2-power-management module has been dropped.
I don’t think this is a good move! Too soon, IMO, to drop a tool that puts openSUSE ahead of the pack. I dropped Fedora 7 and went to openSUSE 10.2 primarily for this extra bit of tweaking. Looks like I might have to stay with 10.2 for another year because 10.3 does NOT offer the same power management control. If this is progress, I don’t want it!
You can find nearly all settings still within kpowersave and gnome-power-manager.
No you won’t, they are the basic settings KPowersave offers and nothing more, as far as I can see in RC1-Live Cd editions. The CPU Frequency Scaling Applet in Fedora 7 (Gnome) at least offers a choice of configuration options (for my hardware – intel 760 m cpu), dynamic or a choice to lock in 1 of 4 frequency steps. When on AC power on my Acer Notebook, if I open multiple tabs (more than 6) in Firefox using 10.3 (or Fedora 7 and any other distro I tried), the cpu cooling fan goes off and makes annoying noise. In 10.2, I can open 20+ tabs in firefox and the cpu fan still does not go off, thanks to the yast power-management tools.
Thats my 2 cents worth!
Cheers
But I believe that all the settings previously available in Yast powersaving module can be set with the sysconfig module, am I not right?
Thanks all.
The java applet still won’t work in Konqueror or Firefox?
Hrm, they work fine here. Check if classpath-webplugin is installed. If it is, then: su -c “rpm -e classpath-webplugin”
…if it’s still not working in Firefox (for Konqueror you need to refresh the plugins), then Sun Java must not be installed afaik.
Thanks….now it’s working
classpath-webplugin were the problem……
It was not installed
Dont get me wrong I love openSuSE I’ve been using it from it startet, after using SuSE and I still do love it.
But this is exactly why many “ordinary” users wont touch Linux and this is exactly what I think that Linux distro’s should fix.
Stuff like Java plugins should not be something that you CHOOSE to install. It should be selected by default.
Same goes with media plugins like win32-codecs. I dont understand why they dont automatically add the i.e. Packman repository, hidden behind dialogs like for adobe and such.
I know for sure that if these things where automatically selected and installed a lot of peoeple I know would not be so “afraid” to try Linux
Jarl,
I think you are right about this point.
I hope the do that in the future!!!!
Jarl,
That was an old bug (regression). Java, Flash and MP3 support are all the “default” option on any install (CD, DVD). Packman of course isn’t included because of the legal issues. Still, MP3 is a big step forward.
nice work guys
keep on improving.
you novell people are great. Now with SCO dying, and Microsh.t paying,
we have the road clear for unix / linux / bsd
this 10.3 looks great.
congratulations!!
Can someone please give me directions on how to easily enable desktop effects in KDE?
HW: Thinkpad with ATI X300.
As far as I can see it does not work at all. The only desktop effect I managed to get working was beryl. But it is very buggy. Install beryl and use the beryl-manager.
I tried using compiz –replace and start the kde-window-manager but no windowmanager was started at all
can i do delta iso from beta 1 into rc 1?
thanx
Nope, deltas only work from the immediately previous release. You could try upgrading with:
zypper update -t package
…but there have been an awful lot of package changes.
In theory you can apply the beta1 to beta2 delta and then the beta2 to beta 3 delta. In practice the first one disappeared already from the download servers.
Hi, nice work! I’m running 10.3 from beta 1 and it just works! Boot speed is really impressive too. I had problems with booting to RC1 kernel but it’s on list of most annoying bugs now. So please let old running kernel in Grub list!!! Another problem is that 10.3 is really too loud on my laptop even in run level 3. Wich service works with HW too often to heat it so lot? In ‘top’ there is nothing running over 1%. It’s really annoying more than not-booting bug
Could you post about this issue on the factory mailing list? Details+links are above.
What about Incollector package (http://www.incollector.devnull.pl) ?
http://software.opensuse.org/search shows that someone has already made a package of it for openSUSE 10.2, just ask him to build also for 10.3?
Any chance of posting the entire DVD.iso instead of via torrent??
Not for the Release Candidate, for final release the DVDs will be also on FTP.
Can somebody please post instructions on dual booting Solaris and opensuse 10.3 (preferably for XFS filesystem)?
I’ve an urgent question which i need a quick answer please
i’m at work, faster download then home so..i’m going to download rc1, but,
If i install RC1, do i need to re-install everything when FINAL is out?
or can i online update it to final..or can i use rc1 like the Final ?
If so, i’ll wait to download it or i’ll download it right now..
Can anyone recommend a new laptop that runs 10.3 perfectly?
I’m going to buy a new laptop, too many to choose from. Would like to hear if anyone here is doing it.
New Intel Centrino Duo vs AMD Turion Duo vs AMD Athlon Duo vs ?. Pros/Cons
Thanks
drokmed,
I’m using an IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T61p – and everything seems to work pretty good on beta 3. I’m downloading rc1 now and will keep you posted.
Installed rc1 (x64) on an external USB disk attached to the T61p, and it works like a charm. Compiz-fusion took some fiddling in order to make the nVidia adapter work properly, but now I have a school of fish swimming inside a rotating cube, floating inside a nebula (made the wife nauseous). Only the fingerprint reader doesn’t work for logins with KDE (a KDE issue, from what I understand) and the wireless activity light doesn’t show when there’s activity on the wlan card.
Conclusion: I lost OS/2 to Windoze years ago, but now I can’t wait for Oct 4, when I can get rid of this crappy Vista. Billy Goats, eat your heart out
hi, I have HP Compaq nx7400, everything works just fine.
I’ve installed RC1 KDE i386 under VMware, can’t install VMware tools correctly. Tools installer cannot find gcc or make. Ay ideas?
Hi
1) before installing vmware-tools, first install the packages (via YAST is the easiest way):
kernel-source
make
gcc
(You always at least need these packages to be able to compile/install software that has not specific lay been made for your distro)
2) Then install the vmwaretools rpm or do it via the tar method
3) and as last step run the vmware configure script via a terminal console… it should run as expected
• if you still run into problems it can help to get the last vmware-any-any-update patch (mostly only needed when using the newest kernel).
I’m completly new to Linux and I’m having difficulty in following W. Meens help. Did you manage to get VMware tools installed?
It is beautiful!
Is there a single CD server version? (no Gnome or KDE)
This is not Ubuntu. openSUSE gives you a choice which packages to install during the installation procedure. Just uncheck everything you deem unnecessary (or use a minimal install, an option which comes up during the installation as well). Either of the CDs will do for that purpose I guess.
Neither of the single CD installs include things like gcc or apache (which are things that the Ubuntu server cd includes).
I just installed RC1 on my Thinkpad T41. Everything works perfect! That is the best system I ever saw. Great! Thanks a lot! Great performance.
how do i run plasma on RC1?
Actually, I’m not sure if it works outside a KDE4 environment.
Somehow my “Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)” didn’t connect to dhcp server during installation.
pcspkr is built into the kernel and not as a module. I know it’s not considered a bug by the developers but blacklisting is the only way to garantie it not to appear when you least expects it, i.e. in a vmware session.
I need to enable-disable network in nm-applet before “Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)” is able to connect to wireless after hibernate. But then again Dell makes buggy ACPI implementions, judging from by my D520. Suspend made everything wonky. Trackpad need some tweaking, too jumpy.
Other than that, this seems like a strong rc candidate so far. Good work!!! Will probably see if I can use it as a main system when I receive a Novell certificated hp nc6400 in the next few days. Question remains: go for 32 or 64 bits?
Will X.org 7.3 make it into this release? Having a dual-monitor setup, I have found it difficult to un-dock/dock with X.
I upgraded from suse 10.2 to 10.3 for no particular reason and am now considering going back. In 10.2 I could plug an external flat panel display into my laptop and use the “personal settings” applet to adjust the display to the other monitor. Suse 10.3 says it hasn’t got “scripts” for the new xrandr 1.2 so this won’t work.
I’ve tried all morning to get the dual head monitor working with no luck. sax2 is absolutely useless for configuring a second monitor! All I can get the second monitor to do is display a portion of the laptop monitor (which has more resolution).
Why is such a common thing so hard? Windoze has been able to do this for years!
wcn
Same problem here. Had 10.2 working ok and got 10.3 in hopes maybe a little speed increase. Maybe after I get xorg to work with dual heads again. Sax2 does not seem to make any changes for Monitor2 (Hansol 720E). It does configure for Monitor1 (Samsung SyncMaster 900p), but Monitor2 says out of range 96kHZ 89mHZ. These numbers would be in the range of the Hansol, but these are the numbers for Monitor1. xorg.conf has nothing in it for Monitor2. Seems Sax2 is forcing the use of Monitor1 settings on Monitor2? That would give an out of range… trying to drive a 17in monitor with 19in settings.
Not able to boot live CD
Loading KIWI CD Boot-system…
Failed to detect CD drive !
rebootException reboot in 60 sec…
with openSUSE-10.3-RC1-KDE-Live-i386 on notebook Acer Aspire 5650
I also get this same error on my Acer Aspire 5672 laptop. Hopefully the install will work, but I haven’t tried that yet.
I too have the same problem on my Dell Inspiron. I am a windows user trying out alternatives, as I would seriously like to switch. I do hope this is not the usual greeting for every one who wants to try out linux.
In any case, best wishes for your attempts to make a viable and easy to use (actually use not just keep on configuring
) alternative to windows. I am keeping my fingers crossed, and hoping for SLED’s success.
Is opensuse 10.3 planning to include tickless kernel. I read Kernel 2.6.23 version is including the tickless pacth.
Hi all, I downloading Suse and I want to know if instead of burning the ISO on a cd, if I can use a USB pen and boot from there? Thanks in advance!
Hi spookyid,
I just installed opensuse 10.3 rc1 from a usb stick. Just follow the instructions from the opensuse howtos!
But there was a typo: I had to enter /name_of_isofile.iso WITH the slash “/”…
At the end I had some probs with grub, because the installer installed grub into the mbr of the stick and NOT into the mbr of my harddisk. So I had to reinstall grub via YasT and configure the menu.lst manually. There were same errors with the order of the disks (hd0,x hd1,x).
But now it works!!
Is there a repository I should add in order to update to this release? Is that possible? I currently have beta 3 installed, and I am not reading any updates. I am mainly interested in updating the GNOME desktop components.
Only the OSS, Non-OSS and “Update” repositories (see “Community Repositories” YaST module to check that you have them). If you’re talking about the openSUSE updater then by default you won’t see any package upgrades, only updates (patches).
You can enable it showing package upgrades though by changing a setting in openSUSE updater (right-click on it).
Hi all,
I’ve been using SUSE for quite a while now and I can easily say that it’s one of the best linux distros around. Couple of months ago, I bought a new Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop and installed SUSE 10.2 right away. There are several driver problems (Broadcom 59xx ethernet card, Intel wireless 4965AGN, Sound Card (Sigmatel High Definition) etc…) with this version and I was wondering if those were addressed in the new version.
Have anyone tried to install 10.3 on a Dell Inspiron 1420 ? or have people with similar components managed to get them work properly ?
Thank you
I installed 10.3RC1 on my HP laptop with the 4965AGN card – it worked fine after it was configured.
Just a suggestion, but would it be possible for the Novell KDE team to do some work on Kmail/Kontact.
I look at the direction that Windows Live Desktop Mail is going, the direction of Apple Mail, and Evolution, and Kmail just seems to be stuck in the 90’s. The Kmail team seem bent on not bringing html or anything into Kmail because of anal security beliefs, but it is more about what the people want, and a look at the changing direction of email clients show people want Rich e-mail. So please can you people tackle Kmail or port evolution to KDE so we don’t need to use the gnome library’s to run it. That is really the only problem I have ever had with KDE the prehistoric email client.
> Just a suggestion, but would it be possible for the Novell KDE team to do some work on Kmail/Kontact.
You might be pleased to know that this version will contain KDEPIM enterprise version (which has a few enhancements).
still is rather dated compared to what has been around for years, it’s like using an email client from the 90’s. It’s unfortunately the downfall of KDE
Been using SuSE since 7.3, i believe the box came with 7CDs + 1DVD…. *wonders*
Where it is now is truly incredible. Loving every moment of SuSEing!
Great work guys, keep it up!
Love and Respect! – ^G^
I’m on notebook nx7400 with integrated Intel 945 GM graphic card…and I have a problem.
I set my res. to 1280×800 but it can’t recognize, everything is very very big..
What should I do…?? This is a problem on RC1, or ??
Run YaST -> Monitor and Graphics card, and try to configure the resolution there. If it’s still not working, please file a bug about this! Thanks
It it to big…how can I change using command line ??
…..and can’t you change it from that yast module?
I can’t…mouse pointer is ok, but everything other is so big…4 letters on display
And I forgot to say…when i check my resolution it is still 1280×800…with opensuse 10.2 this is not a problem.
Misko, did you ever get this problem resolved? I am having the same Issue with a Dell Optiplex 745…?
Everything better than beta4. Installed amarok (Gnome CD) but amarok won’t launch.
Can you please file a bug report about this? Would be great to track down this issue.
Hi there.This are great news, testing. OpenSuSE in my favorite distro since 10.1
One question, can i upgrade from a 10.2 install ? Can i use a live version, or should use the other (install) ?
Thanks,
and keep the great work
(new layout is great)
> One question, can i upgrade from a 10.2 install ? Can i use a live version, or should use the other (install) ?
Of course you can — but you will need to use one of the normal installation CDs (not the Live ones).
or switching 10.2 repos to 10.3 repos in yast software manager or smart..
YES !!! Works Great and Look Beautiful
This is the best OS EVER!!!
Some Bugs Fixed and if You have a Intel Graphic Card like MY you must install OpenSuse 10.3
VERY FAST
I MUST HAVE THIS POWER
Wszystkim gorąco polecam ten system. Mam grafikę Intel-a i miałem z nią pewne problemy a to Kdm i Gdm się wieszał a To X11 nie startował, ale teraz już wszystko jest poprawione i działa naprawdę super – system szybszy okolo 6 razy od wcześniejszej wersji…
Polecam Gorąco
I am trying out the live cd and I like what I see, but I have one question what is the root password?
Same question here, I though it was “linux” but I’m wrong. Need that info to test it out!!
There is not root password, just hit Enter when being asked for it.
Hi
Anyone installed using NFS?
Have tried installing on both physical and in VM and keep getting the following using the 32 bit version.
nfs: mount ok
Loading image “/var/adm/mount/boot/i386/root”
/download/image0: unknown fs type
mount: /download/image0: No such file or directory
Thanks
I installed the kernel source and headers through YAST but when i run the nvidia installer in “innit 3″ it stills says it cannot find the source files, will there be a driver repository like there was for 10.2
Did you make sure that you installed kernel-source, make, gcc? That should be enough for the script..
There will be a repository for NVIDIA and ATI for the final release, and you will be able to easily enable it in the “Community Repositories” YaST module.
Anyone having problems with the torrent? I have tried to download the DVD twice and both times the MD5 sum was incorrect.
I have a Broadcom WiFi Adapter on my Compaq Presario. the driver is/are bcmwl5a.inf and bcmwl5.inf . I have tried several methods to enable it. At best, it works temporarily, but stops doing so as soon as I reboot the PC, and have to go trough the entire process again. Can someone tell me if this issue will be addressed in future versions? Is there a new method to enable it, perhaps other than using NDISWrapper?
Thanks
Hugh
install the win2k/XP driver via ndiswrapper (write all the configs ndiswrapper can write), then open YaST, go to the config page for your wireless card and enter “ndiswrapper” as module name instead of “bcm43xx” or whatever it says there. now it at least boots at system startup. the only problem is, that if you try to connect to a hidden WLAN that doesn’t send beacons, then you’ll have to connect manually via KNetworkmanager everytime you boot.
No thai language in list for add keyboard layout and font. Could it add in final version?
Hi all,
I need some help or feedback on the installation process:
Here I go throwing away my previous openSUSE 10.2 installation, which I loved but took me centuries to “master”, and compelled by the trend, the comments, the rate and all on this page, I downloaded and installed openSESE 10.3. Everything were more or less smoothly, except for the update on the installation, but I thought “what the f&*k, I’ll update later”…
And on my first attempt to use it… everything is so big, it looks like the font size is not adjusted, the windows are enormous and basically I can’t do anything because of that. It even is so f%^%^ng hard to find the shut down button.
Any ideas? I really need some help, coz I love SUSE and this is killing me again. It was supposed to be an “easier” distro and I was just so disappointed to find this little problem… BTW, my machine is a Toshiba Satellite A105 S361, 32bits, which ran suse 10.2 just perfectly…
Regards.
Dude
Right click on the task bar and select “Switch to KDE menu style” that should help you shut down quicker or you could have always right clicked anywhere on the desktop and selected Logout which will give you all the shutdown options.
Again right click anywhere on the desktop and select “configure desktop” Select display from the right hand column adjust from there if that wont help you will need to run Yast and set the display through Hardware
Ok see, the problem is that I have enormous windows, that’s the main problem, not the unbootable situation.
So, I can’t do anything coz the windows are of sizes literally of meters! So, it’s completely inoperable. Of course I thought changing the settings, but again the sax2 windows is just too big that it is impossible to work on it. Of course I thought right clicking the desktop top shut down the computer, but the dialog box is enormous and completely inoperable.
I don’t know if you actually understand what I said and still am saying.
Regards
I have the same problem. Are you using integrated Intel graphic card ??
I had the same problem with the RC for openSuse 10.2 (a long time ago) but I had to admit I upgraded suse enterprise 10 to opensuse 10.2 and other wrong things.
since I couldn’t figure out the problem I ‘hard’ reinstalled the distro and everything worked fine.
It’s indeed the font-size, I think the size was somehow lost and the fonts were displayed at 100% of there size which makes them huge (indeed 2-3 letters on a 1024×768 screen …) since everything, as well as sax2 (which is ment to be for resque) as gnome/kde, say X in general was depended on that setting nothing but commandline works.
A nice ‘bugfix’ for the future could be that sax2 uses his own setting (of even xserver?) for everything which has to deal with X
Yes, I’m using Intel integrated graphic card.
So, what do you think I should do? Will I have the same problem with the final version?
Luis
I was a windows user for 10+ years, I tried Linux distros like red hat, ubuntu, vector Linux soho etc. recently moved to opensuse. I admit I am really addicted to it. it’s an amazing product, congratulation and many thanks to all the people who work behind this marvelous product
HI!
I am an ardent SuSe linux user.
I love the 10.2 version
on my dell optiplex 320 it had several errors including the InFamous error of Grub which makes the system unbootable and the sata hard disk undetecable.
has anyone installed 10.3 on a SATA hard disk with GRUB on it
If so can you just let me know if it works fine
Thanks
Nischal
I have a Dell workstation Presicion 390 with 3 SATA harddisk and dualboot with XP.
I have the same problem when I like to use RAID 1 (installed in the bios).Without the raid configuration SUSE10.2 and Grub works very well.
Hi there, please, what is expecting to upgrade from 10.2 to 10.3? Is it neccessary to delete all and make a complete reinstall all will be possible to upgrade via updater?
Thanks a lot,
Martin
Nope, but you can download the ISO, boot it up, and then select the “Upgrade” instead of “Install” option.
Ok. it is not a problem. Can I expect any problems with dependencies? I am not an linux expert but newbie and it seems me that in 10.3 will be a lot modifications so how smart will be the upgrading? Can you recommande to do it? I suppose always is better to start with blank page but as I wrote I am newbie and happy all is working so I prefer to upgrade and get new features and advantages. Thank you!
It should be ok. I tried an upgrade a few days ago and it was the smoothest openSUSE upgrade I’ve ever done. This is because it can adds online repositories before installation, which takes longer, but will upgrade __all__ your packages.
It will also ask you if you want to enable the current repositories that you have in order to use those during the upgrade. I recommend leaving them all disabled except Packman, whose URL you should change from “10.2″ to “10.3″.
It’s all pretty easy to do though, so I think you should be fine. If you require extra help then, by all means, join #opensuse and ask there; you should get help pretty quickly.
It is exactly what I love on openSuse project – very kind people, perfect community. Thank you for it and of course for your answer! M.
Is it possible to install a completely encrypted system with openSUSE 10.3?
So that /root, /swap and /home are encrypted, using the same password? I know that the partition manager has some options, but 10.2 couldn’t encrypt root….
Thanx guys!!!
Perfect work, also with Gnome! As old KDE user who disliked Gnome I’ve installed Gnome RC1 just for fun and now I seriously starting to think that I stay on Gnome forever!!! Finally Hibernate is working for me but still not working sleep to ram on Gigabyte P965-DS3 Motherboard.
Also I like perfect working one click install! But new yast package manager is a less intelligible for me then before.
hi there
I really liked the OpenSuse 10.3 and i am looking forward to install it on my laptop,but i have used Suse 10.2 before and my wifi card(pcmcia) didn’t work,so i would to know if someone knows if the drivers for 3COM 3CRWE154G72 .Could someone confirm that to me.I really appreciate it
Thank you all and the developers team
I use Opensuse 10.2 and tried to update to 10.3 RC1. The installation failed with the message it could not read my hard disk. 10.2 reads it just fine. I tried safe,and every other option but none worked.
Please advice
Larry
Just updated my openSuse 10.2 but the screen went black before presenting the log in screen, I can seleect to boot, but no video with ATI RADEON XPRESS 200, I want to try the live CD and also got the same issue, so how can we fix this?
As always keep the good work. I have tried many Ditros and this is definitely the best.
Thanks all, you are the guys….
just cuz i just noticed: in case you are from the US, don’t try getting more trackers/peers for the torrent via isohunt, they disabled access to all the trackers they _own_, what – for some very strange reason, makes any torrents you donwload via them much slower than when you get them from the original sites, including these!!
Absolutely unstable on my system (AMD Turion 64x TL-56), HP Pavilion dv9000 series notebook. 10.3RC1 64 Bit DVD
System freezes randomly, even in safemode.
Although I use the 64Bit installation DVD, when alowing the online sources connected in the beginning 99% of the installation is done online, which is kind of useless and slows you extremely down.
When reviewing the partitions the installer is ignoring the old root partition, but trying to re-partition the old home partiotion (suse 10.2) for the whole system.
There seems to be a bug in the timezone setup, does not react to manual input (aber accepting changes the time is not changed).
I also tried to install 10.3 RC1 in a VM ware but no joy… system does never boot up.
Good work, but my usb adapters to Memory Stick dont work anymore.
They worked on my firts boots, but now, dont work…
What happens?
Try adding
options pcmcia_core unreset_limit=50
to /etc/modprobe.conf.local
On some machines we have problems with the kernel and ACPI – investigating, more data would be helpful
My,my, they finally woke up ,I had this problem with 10.1 & 10.2 ,when I posted a very angry comment on the English forums ,I was the one who didn’t know what he was doing and even got a comment about ” Suse not handling SATA’s” . Ofcourse Suse doesn’ handle the Satadrives ;the KERNEl does!
But the SATAs are not the problem ( as far as I know SATA is in the kernel for at least 2 years!)
So what’s causing it? I know ( in my case that is ) ,but I’m not willing to share this after the treatment I got on the forums ,when I was actually right in my conclusions ( as if a industrial technician doesn’t know how to troubleshoot toys like a PC ;-p)Here ’s a hint , trouble already starts during installation ,Graph. installer freaks and pops up an error console ,passing any boot options was impossible (there was simply nothing there to pass!)In other words :no install.
Text based installer distro’s don’t hick up , not even the the graphical installer from e.g. LinuxMint or PCLinuxOS .
How come ? Mystery to you ,knowledge to me,
Happy hunting Susecrowd
wow, looks like you are a bit of a snob. If you don’t want to inform opensuse of what you know of the problem why even post except to show your ignorance and arrogance. opensuse, how about deleting this post, since the person is just posting to be a bit of a dick. Oh and posting on the forums, the forums aren’t run by novell or opensuse, unless you post in the novell support forum. I guess you just don’t understand the linux way of helping people out.
So, will Reiser4 ever be included?
I would like to try it, but I don’t fell like dealing with the manual installation.
Only it it goes into upstream Kernel and is supported there.
Hi,
I’ve encountered an annoying problem while downloading the ISO file (more than once) and then burning/transferring to another media.
1. I was not able to burn the ISO media with K3b on my existing openSUSE 10.2 system since I get an error saying the media not found while I was able to install anything else other than this specific ISO in the same drive and same media.
2. I tried adding my current user to ‘cd-rom’ group and tried burning the ISO (suggested in some forum), but I has the same problem.
3. I tried copying the ISO to my USB drive so that I can burn in my Ubuntu system or Windows XP system, but it stopped at 98% giving error that the protocol died unexpectedly.
4. The only way I was able to copy the file into USB drive was; login as root.
5. Then I took the USB into my Ubuntu and burned it with K3b, it burned.
6. The problem now was; when I tried booting from DVD and install, it failed to add the DVD in repository.
7. I ran ‘verify installation media’ and got error that the media is corrupt.
8. I tried burning the ISO as root in my openSUSE 10.2 system and got the same error that it’s invalid media.
What shall I do?
Convert to Vista
“Absolutely unstable on my system (AMD Turion 64x TL-56), HP Pavilion dv9000 series notebook. 10.3RC1 64 Bit DVD”
I have Acer 5102, 10.2 was very stable, but not supported webcam (ALI M560) and cardreader (ENE CB712/4). Guys, 10.3 will support that devices?
I have loved SuSE linux for 10+ years.
I installed RC1 on my HP Pavilion dv9000 64-bit notebook with bcm wifi. The install goes well until the first reboot and the system locks up. if you turn off acpi then the system will boot normally but then in the boot log states that IRQ0 is timing out so unable to configure wifi card. Any assistance will be appreciated.
Pavilion dv9057ea… same problem with the system freeze, but when I boot up the system in safe mode, installattion continious to the user set-up (best case) and then freezes again and again and again… I never managed to finish installation, whatever I tried…
Quiet often after the first freeze the installer comes up in text mode.
think there is a severe propblem with the kernel involved at least for our hardware.
downloaded the 10.3 rc1 live cd to try on my dell laptop 620 which is running XP pro. I’ve run SuSe on various
machines for many years but never tried any of the “live” versions. after I burned the iso, and checked
the md5sum, it booted into the welcom screen, tried loading a few modules, and then failed to recognize
the cd player. is there some option I should have tried in the boot options?
I have a similar problem. When I boot the RC1 live-CD on my Fujitsu-Siemens P1510 laptop with an external USB CDROM drive, it loads the kernel successfully. Then it loads a couple of kernel drivers, after which it just reports that it doesn’t find any CDROM drives.
Just when I thought the live-CD would be a good way to check whether 10.3 supports the hardware on my P1510 better than 10.2 (the touchscreen, for example).
Matti
I have ABSOLUTELY SAME PROBLEM!
AMD64 Distro RC1, HP Pavillion dv9000 Laptop
1. Timezone – Not working properly, does not work manual input also. (Maybe thats the reason)
2. Freezes randomly. But Failsafe works
3. Please FIX This!
If you need more info please write to ukrmaks@gmail.com
same problem with timezone and random crashes on my hp pavilion dv9043ea laptop (10.3rc1 64bit)
solving problem with crashes: add noapic nolapic as kernel options
no idea why, but this helps. same problem was with 10.2 release 64bit
Have any of you filed a bug report? Come on guys, that’s the way to tell the developers that there’s a problem…
yes you’re right, i’ll do it now
sadly, the bug database seams currently to be down
a buggy bug database
Seems to be working fine… what error are you getting?
I have filed a bug report… sicne on my system even nolapic noacpi helps to even finish the bloody installation…
Together with the fact, that the system (if online sources are enable) to use those instead of the dvd first you might spend half a day for each attempt to install the system.
I would be utterly disappointed bying the 10.3 just to relaise that I can’t even install it.
made it work now with: safemode kernel + nolapic + noapic nolapic alone did not do the job
Will 10.2 be able to upgrade to 10.3?
Do you mean if 10.3 will be able to upgrade your 10.2 system? Sure.
Yes, that’s what I mean. There will be documentaion on how to, right?
Thanks.
Documentation? Boot and select “Update” instead of “Installation”.
I am a Linux user for ~1 year. I use Ubuntu primarily at my home. But after using Opensuse 10.3 RC1, I am really interested into using it as primary OS. 1-click install is really amazing. Thanks everybody in the development. I just fell in love with this distro.
Can’t wait for the final release.
By the way, I have 8600GT and does opensuse has default driver for it? So that I can use 1280×1024 resolution? Or do I have to install nvidia driver? I’m not bothered about 3D-acceleration, just proper resolution.
In RC1, I couldn’t get more than 1024×768 in default driver. I tried 1280×1024, but it couldn’t work in full screen mode.
Just download Suse 10.3, looking great. I like the fact that it finds my nvidia and Wifi cars and install the driver on the fly. However, my Wifi is using hiding SSID, and Suse cannot find it. I have to make visible, then I have not problem, Suse finds it right away. I have setup my WiFi this way because I don’t want to use any encryption, of course I filter my Wifi by MAC addresses, and set the SSID to hiding, any idea?
Well, if you’re hiding your SSID, no operating system will automatically find it. Even tools like Kismet can’t find it unless others are actively using it.
You’ll have to type in the SSID to be able to join it.
If you want a secure network that you can browse to, you’ll have to enable encryption.
I consider myself to be a linux user with enough knowledge (self educated) to configure all required and desired options myself either graphically or console based, to get my hardware to work the way I want it to. Nevertheless I have to admit that Microsoft has put an impressive piece of work on the market with their Vista release (I use the x64 ultimate version). The ease of use is yet unsurpassed to my opinion. I work with Opensuse 10.2 as well by the way. Especially the hardware support is something linux should improve on before the real average personal computer user would decide switching to whatever linux distro. For the computer enthusiasts Linux offers way more than any windows version yet, but to really penetrate the market and grab a significant part away from Microsoft,the linux community still has a lot of work to be done.
Seems that you don’t know that the easiest OS to use is Mac OS X. Try it (Intel and AMD x86 versions are disponible) and you’ll see. Vista is only copy-and-paste work. All its features are taken from other operating systems. Its performance is weak. Only open-source OSes can give you every thing you ever needed. So don’t pay fot S..T!
I’ve just installed 10.3 RC1 on my Dell XPS 1330 today. Everything works fine except my wireless card (Broadcom 1390 WLAN Mini-pci card) and my sound card (SigmaTel). The system can recognize my wireless card, but it can’t detect any wireless networks. I reboot to Windows, and Windows can detect my wireless network just fine. The thing happens with my sound card is very strange. I have no sound from speakers but I can hear sound using my headphones. I’ve checked my sound card with Windows, it works fine.
Also the suspend to Ram doesn’t work on my laptop.
I hope these issues will be fixed soon in the final release.
I have the same problem with sigmatel sound card on 10.2 and it seems like the problem still persists with 10.3
I’ve just replaced 10.3 with Slackware 12 and found out that Slackware 12 has the same soundcard problem. Maybe it’s the driver in the kernel which causes the problem.
I’ve installed openSuSE 10.2 on my IBM xSeries server. It works great! It’s very stable and easy to use (configurable). I have all I needed: samba, soft RAID and remote administration. Good work boys! You’re the best!
Well I have to agree with you, MAC is far superior, but the hardware is just too expensive for me, so I had to make a choice, such is life isn’t it?
This is simply the best. I particularly like the easy method now of enabling the restricted formats. One step closer the gaining mainstream !
I’m sorry if this is posted anywhere but which desktop environment is preferred when using opensuse? I mean, I know I can choose whatever but which one gets better support from opensuse?
I’ve been testing RC1 in a minimal installation for use as a light-duty server. I used the gnome CD to install but didn’t install a GUI, and have been using the text-based YaST to configure the box.
I notice that some parts of YaST that were in SuSE 10.0 don’t seem to be there in 10.3. Specifically, I see a place to configure automatic updates, but no way to simply “do an update now.” I also can’t find the runlevel editor that was present in 10.0. Maybe both of these features are there but I’m simply missing them.
The same modules should still be there. The base installation is much more basic now though, if you’re missing something try yast -> software management , search for yast2, and install the required modules.
“Convert to Vista
”
Oh, dear god…..I think I might die……Vista…being promoted on a Linux website….
It too much to deal with….STOP. NO VISTA.
sheesh.
Assuming the fact that OS preference for the desktop power user is, for the most part, utterly subjective, Opensuse has given me the most fulfilling experience in an OS that I could as for. I’ve tried Vista, and it’s… confused… two clocks? I also run Mac OS X Tiger (or ran) on an iBook, and while, granted, the OS was too much for the hardware, the user experience wasn’t exactly the easiest for me either. For me, Windows XP Pro is a fairly solid OS, and Mac OS X is rock solid with great interoperability, but compared to Opensuse, they’re just not as much fun. True, I’m coming from a fairly strong pc/ppc admin background, and Opensuse wouldn’t pass the grandmother test (i.e. “Here grandma, just check your email!”) but it does pass the tell-the-other-IT-guys test (i.e. “Man, have you seen this configuration tool! And check out this redesigned start menu! And look what they have installed by default!”) I’m a pretty powerful user, and Opensuse is a powerful system.
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Okay, now release 10.3 Final already!
It’s 12.25 pm Oct 4 here….still can’t find the download link….
Can’t wait…
10:35 am here, October 4′th, still no 10.3 link. When is it going to be up???
Sorry for the post, Ive just been checking you time.
Are we working to Eastern Seaboard Time or something, been sat here in Yorp all morning waiting for the download link.
Is this a no show ?
Please, please don’t do an MS on us !!!
Where is 10.3 ?~~~~!
Well, it’s 4:30AM here in Los Angeles, CA, USA, and still waiting for the link to download Suse 10.3. In some parts of the world the end of the day is very near. Where is the link to download 10.3?
15:06 )3:06PM) here.. No link…for 10.3 of course
Hey!
its 4th October …i am waiting for the release so that i can dowload it….but i m unable to see the update
has it been released or still pending
wow man looks like am not alone
its the evening of 4th Oct here
its almost night hmm was so excited DUDE WHERES THE ISO
hahah
DESPO Here
Hope this will be resolved tommorow
Thanks
Nischal
yeah!!! finally it’s downloadable ! Thanks for all all your efforts.
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/iso/torrent/openSUSE-10.3-GM-DVD-i386.torrent
I installed Opensuse 10.3 yesterday on my old laptop (Compaq Presario XL111)… everything was fine until it started to download the online reposirories…
the bar showed the time to finish the instalation was (3.42… hrs)
when i went back to check the progress on the instalation the computer was freeze , no mouse , or any key responding… even the power button didn’t work !
my laptop is dead now!
Hey guys I am hoping someone can help me out. I am attempting to install OpenSuse 10.3 to a Dell Optiplex 745. When I boot off of the cd I see the kernel loading and get to the welcome screen and then nothing! I have tried swapping out the ram, hdd and cd drives to no effect. Hopefully someone can help. I really want to use this OS!!
I have been working with OpenSUSE 10.3 for a couple of months now and the experience has been great! It was easy to install and everything went fine. I consider this one the best OS I have worked with. Thanks for the good work. I just hope version 11 can top it off.
Looking for interesting site ?
I’m currently using 64bit windows vista. I want to use vmware to run openSuse, the question here is can i load openSuse i386 in this condition?