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Announcing openSUSE 10.3 RC1
(103 votes, average: 4.5 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 http://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).