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Announcing openSUSE 10.3 GM
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The openSUSE team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, the openSUSE project provides free, easy access to the world’s most usable Linux distribution, openSUSE. openSUSE is released regularly, is stable, secure, contains the latest free and open source software, and comes with several new technologies.
openSUSE 10.3 will be supported with security and other serious updates for a period of 2 years.
This version contains new beautiful green artwork, KDE 3.5.7 and parts of KDE 4, SUSE-polished GNOME 2.20, a GTK version of YaST, a new 1-click-install technology, MP3 support out-of-the-box, new and redesigned YaST modules, compiz and compiz fusion advances, virtualisation improvements, OpenOffice.org 2.3, Xfce 4.4.1, and much more! Read on for details of what is new and available in openSUSE 10.3, and for all the necessary download links.
On the desktop
There are many visual changes throughout this release, and they are also well-presented in the openSUSE 10.3 Screenshots on the wiki.
Beautiful Green Artwork
This release, as always, will have a full, new collection of artwork, and for openSUSE 10.3 it has gone back to the classical and much-loved green theme. It is all finished off with a polished and professional look:
To see more openSUSE 10.3 artwork, see its respective branding overview.
KDE 3.5.7
The default KDE desktop is the latest stable and SUSE-polished KDE 3.5.7, which comes complete with the usability-centric Kickoff menu, KNetworkManager and other such openSUSE creations. Kontact, the KDE Personal Information Manager, has also been upgraded to the enterprise release, providing you with some new features and many fixes.
KDE 4
While KDE 3.5.7 is the default KDE desktop environment, the first parts of KDE 4 will also be seen in the distribution. This includes, by default, some KDE 4 games as well as KDE 4 versions of KRDC and KRFB — applications for remote administration. Below you can see a couple of screenshots of these KDE 4 games, now both using SVG for a smoother graphical experience:
A full KDE 4 desktop is also available for preview purposes:
GNOME 2.20
The very latest GNOME 2.20 is also featured in this release, and it comes with its own selection of typically SUSE-polished additions. This includes the simpler and better-structured SLAB menu, a new world clock applet from the intlclock package (pictured below), as well as the comprehensive, feature-full and well-delivered F-Spot and Banshee applications, which are a photo browser and audio player respectively.
GTK YaST
The GTK version of YaST is now default for all GNOME installations. This means that YaST will still have a well-integrated and consistent feel when using the GNOME desktop environment, and all the modules are structured in the same way as openSUSE’s GNOME control panel.
The GTK version of YaST of course also contains all of the same YaST modules as the regular Qt version, so there is absolutely no loss of functionality. Sentimental users can still easily switch to the Qt-style YaST by editing /etc/sysconfig/yast2.
1-Click Install
This is a completely new and revolutionary piece of technology available to you in openSUSE, which finally removes the hassle from installing additional software from other repositories. Instead of searching for a repository, adding it to the package manager, then heading over to software management again, 1-Click-Install combines it into one simple process, all initiated by a single click.
It is already fully implemented in the openSUSE Build Service, and it is used for aiding you in acquiring multimedia codecs as is mentioned below.
Multimedia
The frequently-requested feature of MP3 support is now fully available out-of-the-box! MP3 playback is available via Fluendo (GStreamer) codecs in either Amarok or Banshee. These are available on the DVD, but if you chose to use the 1-CD Installation it is just as easy to get working — a small and friendly dialog box will inquire about whether you wish to enable MP3 support:
The codecs will then be installed using 1-Click-Install. This same technology is also used on the Community website where it recommends workarounds and methods to get other multimedia formats working. See openSUSE-Community.org/Multimedia.
New/Redesigned YaST Modules
The Network card module has also been completely re-designed from a usability perspective. The new version is more relevant to today’s typical configuration of a network card, and makes simple tasks a lot easier to accomplish.
One popular new module is the Community Repositories module, which provides you with a convenient list of the official repositories, popular repositories in the openSUSE Build Service, and external community repositories. This makes it trivial to enable the extra repositories that you require.
Another module available from the yast2-product-creator package is a YaST front-end to KIWI, a configurable and easy-to-use application to help you roll your very own system images. Though there are many additional plans for KIWI, it currently supports a huge selection of options, such as creating Live CDs, USB, QEMU/VMware, Xen and Net boot images. Unlike other typical system image creators, KIWI is fully configurable (down to the wallpaper you want to have), and has a clean and simple design.
Compiz and Compiz Fusion
Compiz, as always, is available directly on all the installation CDs/DVDs, and Compiz Fusion is also available in the official online repository. The new version comes with many new amazing plugins providing you with the latest composite effects.
To learn more see this sneak peaks article. The X11:/XGL openSUSE Build Service repository also always provides the latest Compiz and Compiz Fusion versions.
Virtualisation
There have been several Virtualisation improvements and additions, including of course an excellent delivery of the latest Xen 3.1 and QEMU. Furthermore, VirtualBox, a general-purpose full virtualizer, and KVM, the latest Linux virtualisation infrastructure, are now included. Other VMware-related kernel options such as paravirt-ops and vmi have also been enabled in the kernel now.
OpenOffice.org 2.3
OpenOffice.org, the comprehensive office suite in openSUSE, has also been updated to the latest stable version of 2.3. The release includes several new features and countless fixes.
A Whole Lot More!
openSUSE 10.3 contains a plethora of extra improvements that haven’t been mentioned here, including small applications like Giver, an easy file-sharing tool, Xfce 4.4.1, and other community developments. See Product Highlights/10.3 for more details.
Behind the Scenes
Though this release has seen a large selection of graphical changes, a lot of work has been happening all around the distribution, with several changes occuring behind the scenes.
New Package Management
The package management team have been working hard on improving the new openSUSE package management, and there is a lot to show for it now. It is reliable, more mature, and an awful lot faster. There is no more parsing during startup, greater compatibility with tools like yum and smart, and increased speed for the most common use-case: installing a package.
It contains the much-improved zypper tool for the command line, a re-designed openSUSE updater applet (a native KDE and GNOME one) as pictured below, while still providing you with the same YaST interface for graphical package management.
Greatly Improved Boot Time
A big round of improvements to the boot time are now included. There are now some incredibly impressive speed-ups, with desktops booting in around 24 seconds, or laptops booting in 27 seconds compared to a 55 second wait in openSUSE 10.2! See the link for more details.
Under the Hood
- Linux 2.6.22.5
- GCC 4.2
- libZYpp 3.26.2
Media and Download
All of the installation media can be downloaded from software.openSUSE.org via torrents or HTTP/FTP. Here’s a few quick links:
- 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!)
Live CDs will be released in the next couple of weeks. Metalinks with checksum support are also available from download.packages.ro.
Upgrade Options
As always, you can fully upgrade your previous openSUSE 10.2 to the final version of openSUSE 10.3 by simply downloading one of the media options and burning it to disk, boot to it, and then select the Upgrade option in the installer. For the smoothest possible upgrade, leave the “Add Online Repositories Before Installation” option checked.
To upgrade from openSUSE 10.3 RC1, please ensure that you have strictly only the 10.3 repositories (oss, non-oss; not the factory ones), in YaST -> Software Repositories; if you do not, remove the factory ones and then add the 10.3 ones again from the Community Repositories YaST module. Once that is done, go to Software Management, and in the menu select Package -> All Packages -> Update if Newer Version Available.
Alternatively, with Zypper you can execute the following command to upgrade all packages (again, first check that you have the 10.3 repositories and not the factory ones):
zypper update -t package
Communicate!
We want to hear from you! To get help, provide any feedback, ask questions, or get involved and help contribute to the openSUSE distribution, please communicate. There are several ways to get in touch with the openSUSE community, including:
- IRC: #opensuse on irc.freenode.net
- Discussion Forums: take a look at openSUSE.org/Communicate/Forums
- Mailing Lists: in particular, the opensuse@opensuse.org (subscribe) is available for all support questions. For additional help with subscribing, check here
- For other ways such as Jabber and Usenet, see the Communicate page.
A huge thanks to all those involved in the release, particularly all the community contributors, for making this an excellent openSUSE release!
To install all the necessary multimedia codecs and restricted formats (using 1-click-install), see http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats/10.3
Also worth noting where you can 1-click the Nvidia driver, http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA
There is only one CD to download.
Where are the other 5?
They don’t exist anymore, it’s either one of the CDs or the DVD.
Nice work, dudes. SuSE has always been one of the best and most popular distributions.
And until the strong popularity from Ubuntu it has been THE choice for German people.
I hope to enjoy this version. At the moment I favour Debian(-based) distros. But SuSE could be an alternative. Probably the best one (on a desktop-pc). (I only tested 10.1 and 10.2, but for me they were not as good as Debian(based distros!) (this should not be an introduction for a flamewar
)
Thank yo so much! openSuSe is the best Linux distributive.
I have tried many of them and I found out SuSE is the best!
This is great. I’ve been avoiding suse since 10.1. I think now is the time to come back. The one thing I am concerned with is the fonts in the screenshots don’t look so good.
would it help if I told you that you can choose which fonts to use?
Do you really believe in what you just said? Have you even ever used anything but a Linux desktop? I ask because if you had (any other really… from Win95 to Vista, or even os x), you’d never dare to stand for anything font-related regarding Linux desktops. Really…
Take any open minded linux user, have them browse the web with vista for an hour…
linux_user> Why do my eyes hurt?
any_other_os> You’re seeing nice fonts for the first time…
Yeah my friend… You’re living in a dream world…
No intention to upset the minority using vista out there, but the fonts on Linux systems are far more varied and provide better choice for all aspects of computer design, and general use. And i’m actually quite disappointed by the number of Microsoft True Type fonts pre-installed by default, and so many good fonts that you find pre-installed on Mandriva/RedHat, etc…
But apart from that, great distro, openSuSE an excellent well polished distro, as always.
The fonts that were introduced with XP (Verdana, Trebuchet MS, Georgia, Arial (MS)) were specially designed by a team north of London for easy reading on screen. They are pleasant to look at on-screen. Microsoft spent millions on those well designed fonts and their embedded hinting-scripts. They were released to the public for widespread use a few years ago. (This from /microsoft/ !) They do not render all that well on paper or other high-res devices.
Between Apple/Adobe and MS, there’s been a feud about rendering true to nature (loos like you have the printed end result before your eyes) vs. “it looks nice while I see it on screen”. Something to be said for both camps.
With the advent of Anti-aliasing in Linux the third move is “we have anti-aliasing, but be patient, it’s horrible” towards “hey, this is actually pleasing”. It is still not clear if it is either of the “true” or “nice” camps. But major progress has been made. And you can now tweak the anti-alisasing level until the fonts are rendered to your liking.
Some fonts are currently (SuSE 10.2 and 10.3) not very nicely rendered. I actually liked it the way 10.1 did. Especially Times and Arial are not up to spec. If necessary, you can physically replace the *.ttf in /usr/share/fonts/truetype for the ‘offending’ fonts to make sure they use microsofts’ if that’s your thing.
The Linux/Apple/Adobe line, makes for heavier, less rounded-off rendering, and may take some time to get used to, though. MS is mostly very crisp, which works very well on LCD’s.
Here are a few good sources about fonts.
* The new Vista fonts described:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=47&aid=78683
* The cost of font design:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/08/28/why_computer_fonts_are_so/
* Good fonts
http://www.goodfonts.org/eflp/fonts/pid73362/D285096/C0/PROVAHHAF
* Intro to anti-aliasing
http://www.isocalc.com/tutorials/antialias.htm
* Extensive comparison various anti-alias techniques (Adobe, MS, Linux)
(includes a good list of references)
http://antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.html
* Joel On Software
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html
* Gibson Research in detail
http://www.grc.com/ctwhat.htm
Great work everyone! It’s a tough job maintaining and improving the worlds greatest Linux Distribution, but you all make it look so easy.
I just started downloading this new version today and I can’t wait until it finish, in order to I start using this distro!
I followed the news during last months and I really want to test the new package management system!
Congratulations to openSUSE community! Today’s a great day for me!
Thank you, openSUSE!
openSUSE best!
Great work everybody! Really looking forward to downloading and using this great distro!
OpenSUSE has always been my favourite distro!
I use it since 9.0.
Please continue to work like this!
Can anyone tell me his md5-checksum?
I got
39D1A1DC7E193264F756EB67D84504A My version
39d1a1dc07e193264f756eb67d84504a This is on the website
Mine only has one 0 less (dc75 instead f dc07e)
so… is my file really corrupt or is the given sum wrong? I cant imagine why mine should be corrupt…
I got 0 in my check sum, but I also got it all small case letters (under redhat).
http://en.opensuse.org/Checksums/10.3
i meant dc7e in the first row…. so the only difference is this 0
Notice that your MD5 sum (My version) only has 31 hex digits. MD5 products 16 bytes of data (displays as 32 hex digits). Whatever application printed your checksum dropped the leading zero on the second group of eight hex digits. That’s a bug in the application. The data you ran MD5 agains is probably correct.
Or, the MD5 application may have printed out two hex digits at a time and dropped the leading zero on the 5th byte of data. If it is uses a printf in C then it may be using “%2x” instedd of “%02x” in the format string. Report or fix the bug in the MD5 program you are using.
Right. And furthermore, the MD5sum you’d get from a corrupt file would be similar to the correct one only with infinitesimally small probability. You’re always going to see either the same checksum, or a very obviously different one.
Great job everyone! SUSE has always been my favorite distribution at home and work as well. I started with 8.2 and despite the fact that I tried numerous distributions since then, SUSE always gets me back!
keep it up, opensuse!!! looks great….
Great!
It’s still downloading. I can’t wait to install!
Thanks for all your hard work.
openSUSE’s the best!
Greetings from The Netherlands
I think I need to change my boxers….
Hi there .
Great job guys/gals.But what about wifi support,one of the things what makes stay away from Open Suse 10-10.2.So could some tell if most commun wifi cards are supported on the kernel?
Thanks
i know this is not the nonplusultra solution. but try ndiswrapper with your win2k/XP drivers. simply let it run all available options, and then write “ndiswrapper” into the field below “module name” in your networkcard configuration in Yast. then configure it through knetworkmanager. if you want to use a hidden network at your place, then connect to it manually, select “show networks” from the options menu of knetworkmanager, and drag the network you’Re connected to do “fallback” (if it’s not already there)
works for ALL cards/usb sticks i tried this method on, and i never encountered any problems with the system stability!
I am a former SUSE user. I wish I could get exited about this as I used to, but I cannot support a distribution produced by a company that agrees to enter into a pact with MS that threatens all Linux developers not joining it. That may not matter to some of you, but for me it is important that the distro I support is a good free software community member that doesn’t just look out for its own selfish ambitions. Fortunately, there are excellent alternatives out there. Go to distrowatch.com and explore some of them.
Yawn
Grow up, go back to a distribution that steals rather than makes an agreement with a company to allow it to be able to use things it has a copyright on. Really, you people need to grow up. There is an article on kde-.org about trolls, a very good article that you should go read and learn from.
Please define “steals”. The intellectual property laws are unethical and unjust. The fact that some government has passed laws to enforce these idiotic rules does not alter that fact. The governments (especially the United States) involved are corrupt and it is a damn shame that the voters in that country are so mindless that they vote them in in the first place.
Still the stupid governments (i use the word loosely) are there and the nonsensical laws they pass are there – the best that reasonable and sensible people can do is ingore them as much as possible, and hope that one day they will go away (some hope!).
‘Justathought’ Why are you even no this website? Seems like you are just here to cause trouble. Obviously you don’t want to install the distro, nor do you care about the new release. So why are you here? Vis-a-vis the MS-deal: near as I can tell, the largest effect was Novell getting a buttload of money up front in exchange for some guaranteed and some sales-dependent money to MS later on — and MS getting to spread “FUD” about their patents to confuse people like you. If you could even come up with a quarter of the money MS paid to Novell, maybe you could comment. I forget the exact figures, but essentially, MS paid, say, 50M to Novell. You are saying to Novell: “Please don’t take $50million dollars, cause it makes me uncomfortable that you are dealing with MS”. Get a clue. Novell is a business, not a non-profit company.
Besides — this is “openSuSE” — which I thought was mostly community supported — if you want to vent against a distro, go vent against Novell’s business distro. Here, your comments just insult the community of developers working to put this distro out. *plegh* :^&
“So could some tell if most commun wifi cards are supported on the kernel?”
Hmm i don’t think so, it didnt work on my laptop with an atheros card after the install. But with the madwifi drivers it works perfect:
http://madwifi.org/
I think this only works with Atheros cards…
openSUSE 10.3, is just great !
Congrats everyone who contributed to openSUSE 10.3
“Congrats everyone who contributed to openSUSE 10.3″
But beware those of you who didn’t!
the download site doesn’t seem to work right now, try to get 32bit DVD version and only got 100M, far less than 4.1G!
This looks like a problem with your download program, it can not download files larger than 4 GB
. Please try another download option and report a bug against the broken download program
Use bittorrent! It’s perfect for files of this size and suse is very popular so you will always have many peers and seeds so it will download in no time.
Summarized and translated in italian language:
http://pettinix.blogspot.com/2007/10/rilasciata-opensuse-103.html
We love you Suse
“Turkey users..”
I’m sorry to hear this. Where excactly is that written? Please file a bugreport. For instructions see http://bugs.opensuse.org.
I replaced 10.2 with 10.3 on my x86 webserver yesterday and so far its very good. In less than 3hrs, everything is finished and that is impressive. I could download only 10.3 KDE CD from torrent so I used it even though I prefer using DVD.In the 3 hrs, I had different feelings about it & here is my brief review.The best thing I can say in few words is “Everything just works”. I did not use command line even once.
Now the negatives
Installation: Only minor annoyance. I couldn’t deslect both Games & Desktop Effects. When I deselct one, the other one is automatically selected.
Post Installation-Configuration: When trying to configure the printer, I couldn’t find HP4100 series printer in the database. But later after going thr’ CUPS configuration, I was able to install the printer.
Post configuration: I generally delete all the packages I don’t need. With Suse, earlier it used be that I couldn’t remove lot of packages because of dependencies. This time since the no. of packages installed are less, I had to remove only a few. In this respect I think yast can be more modularized. I could remove yast2-tv and yast2-scanner but not yast2-bluetooth and yast2-fingerprint reader. Also at this point I was able to delete KDE games and Desktop effects.
Software Management:This is the major issue for most of the openSuse users.The nice addition to this release is community repos. So one don’t have to google for extra repos. The repos I enabled are Main (OSS,non-OSS),Packman,nvidia & KDE ports in build. It would be better, if one can choose a mirror for the community repos. Now its not possible. And I added update repo. All worked without any problems. The speed of package manager improved, but not to my satisfation. All I can say is software management is STILL SLOW. It downloads package info from all the repos, whenever I open it. And that too when when it is downloading, the main window and the small window (which says whats happening), alternately flash and that is straining my eyes. When I search for something in the package manager, a small window appears saying “searching …”, which again is irritating. When I close and restart package manager, it again downloads package info from all repos. When I was configuring clock to NTP time, it spent two minutes downloading package info from repos. What the heck!
Final conclusions: Its very solid and good. Coming to software management is slightly improved, but needs LOTS of improvement for streamlined user experience. Most of the users spend first few hrs installing software. Thats is the time they decide to stick to or not. I guess with this release also, most won’t.
You didn’t have to google for repos in 10.2. I have been using packages.opensuse-community.org which is very convenient.
The package manager should not download information for all repositories everytime you open it. It should just read the locally stored cache if the repository hasn’t changed since the last time you used the package manager. If your package manager goes on downloading informations from unchanged repositories like OSS and non-OSS, it’s not what it is expected to do, so please report it.
For larger and not changing repositories (OSS, non-OSS), however, you can disable the automatic refresh in Yast -> Installation sources.
Regards,
Alberto
I use YUM for package management on OpenSuSe 10.1. I run a batch job weekly to find and install updates. Only glitches I is a rare conflict from the packman repo.
great product! OpenSuse is my main OS for daily usage, work and home. My wife event uses OpenSuse now even she did not know what Linux is.
Congrats everyone who contributed to openSuse
Hello thanks for opensuse 10.3
But very slow download link (../distribution/10.3/iso/dvd/openSUSE-10.3-GM-DVD-x86_64.iso) 13Kb/s
I am using 4096/1024 ADSL Turkey.
Which mirrors fast? Please help me. Thanks.
@Murat:Must be the connection in between the hosts!
I did the download until an hour ago in 3:20 hours with an average of 320kBytes/s. That’s really fast, thinking of that the distro was first released TODAY (ok, now yesterday). Must be a _really_ fast server connection ..
My downlink could do faster, but hey, we are not the only ones wanting that release _now_.
Thanks!
i trye dopen suse before, but i dident have the ram, it seems odd the installer wont let you install and just compinsate with a swap. am i wasting my time downloading this if i only have 256mb Ram?
I did it with 10.2, it was OK (so-so even with 128MB). You just had to have a swap partition ready before installing; it was possible to do it during, but I don’t remebere how. I guess it will be same with 10.3.
http://www.debian.org
Why is everytime a Release comes out, The freaks and well Pedos* come out of the woodwork?
You know who you are.
You know who you are.
Do you really want to know why or are you just being obtuse? I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. To find out why some people are very disappointed with Novell look here as a start:
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2006-11-29-020-26-IN-BZ-NV&tbovrmode=1#talkback_area
Weekend project: fresh 10.3 install!
openSUSE ROCKS!!! Excellent work guys. Yet Another Sweet Release.
Comment by Justathought
2007-10-04 17:36:14
Do you really want to know why or are you just being obtuse? I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. To find out why some people are very disappointed with Novell look here as a start:
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Did you know that microsoft and novell were once a team . ? I dont think you do.
It is old news about novell and microsoft like news in 95.
Listen , do you remember novell netware err microsoft nt4 and nt5 . novell used to be part of microsoft back in the day. Novell also is the one that bought out Suse back in the day. Do your history. I was actually there when it happened , obviously you were not
This is not the place to discuss the history of the computing industry, or ‘FUD’ a very good distro. Some etiquette please, Novell, OpenSuSE and everyone else involved have worked very hard on this release.
“..novell used to be part of microsoft back in the day.” Say WHAT?? Welcome to Fantasy Land. A popular phrase comes to mind…”better to stay quiet and be thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt”
I thought I would add that on my HP Pavillion (nv6228se) the ONLY distro that installs flawlessly out of the “box” is OpenSUSE! I have tried even the new 7.10 pre-release of Ubuntu. Tried FC 7 and many others. It always finds a way to hang. But Not 10.2 and now 10.3!! I am VERY VERY happy…
@Velocity
So what is your point? I am very well aware of Novell’s history. My start in the IT world was as a Netware admin. The MS Novell team is not old news my friend. It is very much on the news still:
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14695/1090/
And 99% of the criticisms are just as baseless as they were in the beginning. See http://opensuse.org/FAQ:Novell-MS
One more thing.
If you have issues for your new install. And you do not find things that work correctly, there aremany things you can do,
such as write a bug report, ask for a patch, search for upcomming patches, and of course they all gave you the tools above on how to resolve issues for even more alternatives
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We want to hear from you! To get help, provide any feedback, ask questions, or get involved and help contribute to the openSUSE distribution, please communicate. There are several ways to get in touch with the openSUSE community, including:
IRC: #opensuse on irc.freenode.net
Discussion Forums: take a look at openSUSE.org/Communicate/Forums
Mailing Lists: in particular, the opensuse@opensuse.org (subscribe) is available for all support questions. For additional help with subscribing, check here
For other ways such as Jabber and Usenet, see the Communicate page.
A huge thanks to all those involved in the release, particularly all the community contributors, for making this an excellent openSUSE release!
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This page will not get you fixes to your problems.
My two cents.
Comment by BSOST
2007-10-04 17:51:36
This is not the place to discuss the history of the computing industry, or ‘FUD’ a very good distro. Some etiquette please, Novell, OpenSuSE and everyone else involved have worked very hard on this release.
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I fully agree. That is why i did not go into it.
I was just getting a little pissed with justathought talking about novell. Not once but he went on about it. Opensuse and SuSe are just a platform for Novell. Simply put, people such as justathought should be focused on the new release and see how awesomew it is. I have had the Gm release over a week now. I already know it is the most awesome os on the planet. No need to tell me:)
There may be a few issues here and there, but as i know and many others here, there are proper channels for that.
Overall there is not a better Os out there at the present time.
That is my opinion and that is also my Professional review of the new release.
Have Alot Of Fun!
“netware err nt4 and nt5″???? Novell Netware was not the same thing as Windows NT. Netware was deployed with it’s own layer 3 and 4 protocols, IPX and SPX. NT3 and 4 ran off of NetBEUI and NT5 supposedly made the switch to DNS based lookups over IP as it’s layer 3. I don’t know where you were, but I know you weren’t at Novell.
Read this and do YOUR history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPX/SPX
@Francis:
“We know that Novell says there aren’t any patent issues with Linux, but then they go and pay millions to MS so that it doesn’t sue, for at least five years. Linux freedom is being hampered by the threat of litigation from MS. True, this threats don’t depend on Novell. MS could have made similar threats before, but no one would have taken them seriously. Now, because Novell was willing to pay them millions in protection money, they think they can be more convincing. Is this Novell’s fault? Well yes. Why? Because they agreed to enter into a patent agreement with MS involving Linux, in a way that is obviously against what Linux stands for as expressed in its License. If they had respected the spirit of the GPL license rather than look for a loophole this would not have happened.”
” Listen , do you remember novell netware err microsoft nt4 and nt5 . novell used to be part of microsoft back in the day. ”
I never said it was the same thing. novell netware and microsoft nt4 and nt5 do you see that , oh and “part of” yeah. I never referred as the same thing
Xorg 7.3 was released on Sep 6 07. Why does openSUSE still use Xorg 7.2? Gutsy daily-live image (Oct 4) also uses the 7.2. What’s wrong with the 7.3?
If you look at the 10.3 roadmap, 6th September was a month after feature and version freeze of 10.3.
Excelent Job!!
I have the 10.3 RC1 iso, Are you going to pubilsh delta ISOs to the GM iso?
Already available: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/iso/delta/
CONGRATS TO NOVELL AND ALL THE PEOPLE WHO CONTRIBUTED, I was waiting for this for weeks. The Gnome desktop lookS very professional, and the KDE also.
BTW I started the download of the DVD, via torrent and I’s awfully slow, it doesn’t go above 40kbps, and I’m making upload up to 150kbps.
I’ve encountered something similar strange. I’m downloading both KDE and GNOME CDs (due to lack of a DVD writer) via Bittorrent and I’m getting worse download speeds for KDE than for GNOME although the former has more seeders and more participating people in general. Well, maybe all KDE users are still using modems…
Talking about BitTorrents — some ISPs and especially cable operators are throttling BT — so your speed might go as low as 10k/s. I still prefer to use FTP and BT just in case of corrupted download.
cheers
I currently use ndiswrapper with broadcom driver for my Wifi card. I hope I can get 10.3 working without having to do the ndiswrapper dance again. I have already downloaded the 10.3 ISO, but I figured I would keep Ktorrent running for awhile so other people can benefit….as I know how busy the servers can get in the first few days. Maybe I’m delaying because I’m a little nervous…like a first date with a new girl.
What a nice birthday present
Vielen Dank!!!
Hi all. Long time suse users for years. Just upgraded from 10.3 RC1 to 10.3 GM successfully
Heres a comparison to latest release version of Ubuntu:
1. Security features is clearly better than ubuntu by default.
2. Very few command line involvement unlike ubuntu making users open their terminal window and follow the ridiculous long wiki manual.
3. Nice balanced sound quality for an audiophile like me. Ubuntu sound dynamic is just strange to listen and I even discovered distortion out of a few mp3 of mine.
4. Good chinese font quality compare to ubuntu and fedora. Freetype has to be recompiled for optimal font quality and subpixel rendering for lcd screen though(as for all linux os).
5. Good hardware detection as usual with Yast hardware tool. Ubuntu still wants me to reconfigure my dell 24″ lcd monitor just to get the right setting…
6. Browser plugins flash java. Way better than ubuntu ‘experience’.
Pros:
1. Package management finally fixed/fast. Tip to speed up yast: Choose not to refresh OSS and NON-OSS repos by default as the repos has been finalized with 10.3 release.
2. One Click Install is really impressive, even with nvidia driver!
3. Booting is finally as fast as other distros
Cons: None?
Clearly the best linux distribution yet!
I installed Ubuntu only twice in the last 2+years and it didn’t stay for more than 2hr both times. Suse provides lot of options during installation and is more stable and less buggy compared to ubuntu. Plus suse looks way better. With 11.0 I think there should be no reason for ubuntu users not to switch. 10.3 really rocks barring couple of minor issues.
In at least the KDE i386 and x86_64 CD’s the boot readme and readme.dos both say SuSE 10.3. A small point but it might be useful to look for more typo’s before Novell goes to pressing.
Probably in there for a long time since openSUSE used to be called and spelled “SuSE” with the u lowercase on purpose.
Hooray! This day was marked with special symbols in my dairy – eventually the day came and I can download final release now. Thank you! I will update my server, workstation and notebook. Thank you!
Great Work! Simply works GREAT! Right Now, Opensuse 10.3 is the best distro! And i hope the Team will continue following this line!
Waiting for this release since alpha version. Wow, this release make a great step forward for OpenSUSE quality. It’s a nice improvement from previous version.
Wow… 10.3 looks awesome. I’m regular user of Ubuntu and recently I’m getting tired of Ubuntu. Can anyone tell me minimum specs required for openSuse 10.3?
Thanks in advance
If you can run ubuntu you should have no problem with opensuse.
I’ve installed 10.3, it’s beautiful, it’s great! Thanks so much..
openSUSE 10.3
Hardware Requirements
openSUSE supports most PC hardware components. The following requirements should be met to ensure smooth operation of openSUSE 10.3:
* Processor: Intel: Pentium 1-4 or Xeon; AMD: Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP, Athlon MP, Athlon 64, Sempron or Opteron
* Main memory: At least 256 MB; 512 MB recommended
* Hard disk: At least 500 MB for minimal system; 2.5 GB recommended for standard system
* Sound and graphics cards: Supports most modern sound and graphics cards
* booting from CD/DVD drive for installation, or support for booting over network (you need to setup PXE by yourself, look also at Network install) or an existing installation of SUSE Linux, more information at Installation without CD
THANKS!
Ok, I’ve installed openSUSE 10.3 on my Laptop and tried to install fglrx for my mobility x700 …
I’ve downloaded the newest driver from the ATI Page 8.40. I’ve also installed all needed packages (like gcc, kernel-source, …)
So the RPm-Builder of the ATI-Gui supports only openSUSE 10.2 so I’ve created a 10.2 rpm.
This 10.2 rpm doesn’t work, there are a lot of warnings at the compilation.
Is the current ATI-Driver not compatible to openSUSE 10.3 ?
openSUSE 10.3 RC1 works without a problem with ATI driver 8.40.7 rpm built for openSUSE 10.2. Unfortunately ATI released a 2000+ driver only last month and their scripts are not updated in the previous one. They will be releasing another driver this month supporting all cards and even AIGLX.
Also RC1 uses the same kernel version 2.6.22.5 as the GM, so there shouldn’t be a problem with the compilation.
Well, but the package is definitly installed…
I installed the packges with
rpm -ihv fglrx*
Only Warn-Messages has been shown, no errors…
Then i used the command
aticonfig –initial
followed by
sax2 -r 0=fglrx
All this was done in runlevel 3.
After Entering runlevel 5 i opened up a kde konsole and typed “fglrxinfo”
The output showed
# fglrxinfo
Xlib: extension “XFree86-DRI” missing on display “:0.0″.
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: http://www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
So the driver is not working ./
why? ^^ has anyone an idea?
Greetz
rlf
Often a restart will be helpful if the kernel module is not loaded (and you can’t load it yourself).
Also if you’re using XGL, DRI won’t be reported working.
I really like the new OpenSuSe 10.3, but seems to have the same problem as rlf. I have a Thinkpad Z61m with an ATI x1400 video controller. I installed the 10.3 x86-64 and I tried the same with the video what rlf did (installing the 10.2 rpm package), and also tried to install the driver directly, without creating the rpm. None of them worked, so I have to use the VESA driver. The kernel module seems to be loaded:
boot.msg:
fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 1886 MBytes.
[fglrx] USWC is disabled in module parameters
ACPI: ACPI Dock Station Driver
[fglrx] PAT is disabled!
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.40.4 [Jul 31 2007] on minor 0
Any idea what might be the problem? Is the fglrx supposed to work on 10.3 x86-64?
I think that it’s great, but…
Virtualization with “S”???
Bye
I’m British!
thanks for the release, looking forward to 10.4 now, lol. Great work, on a great distro, just a shame so many trolls have to come in and make it look like they know what they are talking about when clearly they don’t. Great work, can’t wait to see the release of KDE4, which the team at opensuse must be working hard on now.
Thanks to everyone involved in bring us this release.
The next release is going to be openSUSE 11.0.
How could you release GM 10.3 without solved bugs?
Bye, bye openSUSE.
I´m really angry!!!
What bug?
293429 – still can’t write to ntfs partitions and 299882 – i can’t shuts down system.still reboots
I have pentium d 3.0ghz computer capable of x64. Should i download x86 or x64_86. Previously, i downloaded ubuntu x64 and i couldnt install many hardware drivers for which only 32 bit drivers were provided.
WHAT A SHAME!!!
Absolutely NOTHING with my new Samsung X65 laptop (has NVIDIA Geoforce 8600M and Intel ProWireless 4965 so its a bit fancy)
I had managed to get 10,2 working beautifully on this except for the wireless card but was assured that this was in the new 10.3 kernel..
so I waited with trepidation. downloaded the KDE CD.. burned it.. put it in.. and a nice green screen then NADA!
gets to “loading drivers” or something and freezes… I am getting a bit tired of all this nonsense..
Lovely, the damn thing freezes on boot. Doesn’t accept keyboard input, but proceeds to boot from hard drive. I did a checksum and everything.
Come on… stop complaining for god sake. It’s FREE, what else you want. You have two options spend a lot of money to buy Windows OS or buy new hardware and install openSuse. Works better than Windows on my hardware.
@ Dev:
I can’t resist to say loud that it is exactly the other way around!
Sorry, just because it’s so true:
If You want to install Vista on a box with recent hardware (two raids, three nics, two soundcards, ten USB 2.0, two firewire, etc.) while it is running openSUSE _perfectly_, it could indeed be needed to replace some parts for a _Windows_ install, only because of non/bad supported hardware under Vista.
I did exacly that the last days, just to test out a windows business-software package for compatibility with vista.
Dual boot on a spare disk, normally only holding Linux Swap and the rest was a free partition – “only” holding OS X/x86 (just for fun).
Well, WinVis has a lot of bad issues and needed a professional (me
just to get it working in a base install, at last.
Winhelp32 and 3Com Nics not supported, Explorer crashes and blue screens fighting all the time for who may halt the machine first, and so on. Very fine OS! Playing “Malicious Software Removal Tool” is so much fun! Stunning Game, by the way! How did the make it that realistc?
I love Vista, as long as the others are using it. So they want my help, and make my living.
Man, was I happy to boot openSUSE again after I finished the tests ..
After all .. one has to do real work again, doesn’t he/she?
Of course You knew that already.
Have a lot of fun!
Are you joking?
To buy a new hardware or windows isn´t solution!!!
So why is bugzilla?
Love SüSE since a long time… Running 10.2. But why this?
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /opensuse/distribution/10.3/iso/torrent/openSUSE-10.3-GM-DVD-x86_64.torrent on this server.
Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Server at linux.nssl.noaa.gov Port 80
Thanks to the developing team(s)
Patrick
it a browser fault it processing the link incorrectly, instead of clicking on it right mouse click and “save link as” once it is downloaded open torrent file as usually (I had the same problem)
Does someone knows if this relaes differs from 10.3 RC1? coz yestarday i’ve downloaded RC1 and do i need to download offical release version or is there any option to update later from RC1?
They differ, the internal RC3 became GM. You can either register the 10.3 repos and update like this or pull the ISO deltas, create the GM ISOs with them and choose “Upgrade” instead of “Install” when booting from them.
Congratulations!!!
I appreciate all the hard work you guys are putting behind this.
Its been a nice ride with 10.2 (with the fair share of rants & complaints) but the rate of improvement makes the journey worthwhile.
Looking forward to the 10.3 and beyond.
Again, thanks for the best OS Suite (on the making, ofcourse
)
I do not see a fix for CVE-2007-4573. It has to be kernel 2.6.22.7 or greater. Looks like users will have to bring down the kernel.org kernel and build it them selves.
gvt
I am a Arch Linux user, but I’m a big fan of openSUSE, ’cause this distro converted me from windows to the linux world. Now I am downloading openSUSE 10.3 to replace my Arch install. Arch is one of the best distros around, but openSUSE is too, and is the most polished linux distro around, the best for a desktop user.
Thanks and keep up the good work!
Bizarre. Suse is STILL the only distro known to human kind that cannot install onto a VMWare Workstation 6 virtual machine. At the last hurdle (when you nearly get to select video rsolutions) the screen goes black… and stays that way. Pathetic, really: Suse’s been doing this with VMware since at least version 7.3 and VMware 3… yet no other distro has ever behaved quite so badly. Why on Earth can’t this easily-duplicated problem be fixed after nigh-on 5 years?!
I can’t recommend a distro that I can’t even test in a known-good environment, I’m afraid. Back to Ubuntu, Fedora, Centos… or indeed practically any other distro you care to mention. At least those install correctly!
I really don’t understand you issue. I have been running opensuse in a vm on opensuse or windows for a few years now.
Fair enough that you don’t understand. It’s difficult to describe an essentially visual experience. So I’ve captured a movie of it in OGG Theora format and posted it on my website. There’s a screenshot there, too, of the very last second or so of the movie, showing exactly what I’m talking about: a three-part division of the screen as the X server stutters and stumbles its way through its job.
It’s been doing that sort of thing, almost exactly, in VMWware virtual machines since at least version 7.1, the first version of Linux I ever paid money for.
I will backtrack somewhat however: the movie was captured on my home machine… and shortly after the flashing, drop to the command line, strange three-part division of the screen and a momentary flash to yellow text on a magenta background (which the VMware movie recorder unaccountable failed to record), the installation did eventually go through to a successfuly conclusion. On an identically-configured VMware virtual machine running on my Pentium D PC at work, however, it remained stuck in the three-way-divided screen, leaving me unable to complete the installation.
The fact remains, however, that whilst all distros cause the screen to blink and flash a bit when configuring their X servers for the first time during installation, none does it quite so badly or quite so terminally in some cases as Suse, and Suse’s been doing it this way for years.
openSUSE is tested in VM-Ware by many people in the community and it works there. Why don’t you open a bugreport and give some more detail there?
Regards,
Alberto
Well, I’m sure it’s tested, but that hasn’t stopped it being a perennial problem! Instead of testing, perhaps someone needs to start fixing?
As I mentioned above, but failed to format it correctly and am unable to edit it to correct, it’s difficult to describe an essentially visual experience. So I’ve captured a movie of it in OGG Theora format and posted it on my website at dizwell.com.
I’ve been waiting for openSUSE 10.3 for quite some time…. and it’s finally here. I’m downloading it right now and can’t wait to get my hands on it. BTW, it’s a great Birthday present!!! Much thanks to the openSUSE team!!!
Freddy Conde
Fonts in Linux still suck, period.
Could you explain your statement in more details?
The only problem I have with Suse (and I have purchased two editions) is the fact that regardless of my hardware, computer manufacturer, et cetera … it never and I mean NEVER gives me sound. Not so much as a boink! The crowd at Suse websites are no where near as friendly or helpful as the Ubuntu crowd. She may look sweet but without sound I won’t een give her a look.
Hi there,
My god, i don’t know which distro i want to use. Opensuse is verry good, but i like Ubuntu too. My computer not enought space for install more Linux os. But i’ll buy one to install OpenSuse. Or maybe i’ll uninstall Windows to live with suse !
Merci.
Yummy!
Green Grass Home…
Tô aqui loquinho babando com esta novidade. Já erá usuário do 10.2 agora esta maravilha do 10.3.
Meus parabens prá tchurma aí.
Again, big thanks to the OpenSUSE folks.
“The crowd at Suse websites are no where near as friendly or helpful as the Ubuntu crowd. She may look sweet but without sound I won’t een give her a look.”
I’m probably biased (being staff on http://www.suseforums.net ), but I do find the people there very friendly and helpful.
I just have to second that. I had a problem with my Suse install, posted a thread, and got help after 15 minutes, and solved it after abotu 1 hour.
So yes, you guys are helpful! (maybe not an important comment, but just wanna give you guys at the forums some credits)
Thanks to every and sinle one of openSuse developers, testers and so on! Great work, openSuse truly is the greatest.
I just finished the download. Got an amazing speed when I downloaded from cdn.novell.com (8.15.32.9).
–Dan
openSuSE 10.3 seems to be the best release since I started with SuSE and that was 5.X !
I set up a “Linux from Scratch”. Now I know what it means to build your own Linux !
The testing of 10.3 RC1 realy “flashed” me.
We had switched a whole company from Windows 2000 to SuSE 8.2, than changed to 10.0.
But now we are going to build a new Workstation-Image for our nearly 2000 users all over Germany.
The base will be openSuSE 10.3 (what else)!
@SuSE Team:You are on the right way, go on !!
Hey all you haters, it works great on my laptop (Pentium 4, 2.00Ghz, 512mb ram).
And if you don’t like it, just buy Windows Vista, upgrade your pc, install it, and BOOM you like Linux again!
Later
10.3 is really cool. i downloaded & installed the 1 cd KDE version of 10.3. it is fast even on my celeron 1 GHZ desktop & all the repositories are available just a click away. even the installer is fast & takes far less time then it used to earlier. well downloading the DVD, so that i can check out other features.
Arun
Hy folks…
I cant run suse 10.3
…..
When the Bootscreen of the CD comes and i choose install, i get a small text based window in the upper left and then the cd falls back to boot:…..
after pressing enter it boots from HDD ???
its the same problem with PClinuxOS…..
Everything works except of suse 10.3 und PCLinuxOS
((
I’m a dyed in the wool debian fan/user. Dabbled with Suse 10.0 a while ago but couldn’t get things to work. Really loved the polish and feel. Have been following the progress leading up to this release. Downloading now. From the comments I am reading I am getting very excited. Just may be enough to sway me to the green way. Is it hard for a debian user to learn the RPM Suse way? I guess I will find out.
Don’t flame me for this but is it possible to install and use synaptic for package management?
do 10.3 opensuse got a driver support for x1650 ati radeon?
coz the previous version the 10.2 dont support x1650.
hope this one have.. excited of getting this new OS.. ope it has!
how bout on 7300GT?
Does 10.3 now have the possibility to install the smbldap-tools package? This was one of the greatest obstacles for me in 10.2
And once again it doesn’t and when you do decide to download and install it it doesn’t WORK!! I’m seriously considering RedHat!
Hi, I have problem downloading the ISO DVD image from the location given by Novell. It downloads the whole DVD image in 3 seconds showing 0 bytes in file explorer (basically, it never downloaded). I tried using Kget, FlashGot, Firefox download manager, but it’s the same case. I am not sure whether it’s temporary. I tried downloading the DVD ISO image in three different computers, with the same result.
Now I am downloading with Torrent, but it doesn’t seems to be that fast (hovering around 60KBps instead of 230KBps). I guess these problems are temporary. But as I’ve noticed with Beta 3 and RC1, though Zen Update manager has been dumped (for good) in openSUSE, still the Yast update manager and software install annoys me to extremes. Those are the slowest software managers I have seen (Ubutntu is the fastest on planet).
Apart from those issues, openSUSE always gives me the feel of working on a SOLID system unlike freespire, PCLinuxOS and whatever editions (apart from Ubuntu and Fedora). Great work from openSUSE team and the contributors. I wish I have 1 million dollar so that i can donate to the openSUSE team
Keep up the good work. Adios.
i have a new PC with a intel g33 series motherboard.
i have tried many of those distros (not redhat), opensuse is the only only one i could run setup with acpi=off. but 10.2 was a mistake to choose, because it couldnt see network.
anyway, i found opensuse 10.3 rc1 to work with my card and was waiting for this 10.3 GM for weeks. this is the newest linux with latest drivers and programs.
i work with dual boot to vista, and now opensuss10.3 has its advantage over other distros. NTFS file system write is embedded and enabled.
Where is Kino?
(…)
I love suse linux – I’ve used it since about version 8.1 I think. I’ll definitely be trying 10.3 when I get round to it. Thanks in advance. I really like the fact that it comes with real Java out of the box. Others (e.g. redhat) make it a real pain for Java developers.
All those people stressing about Novell, Microsoft etc., take a deep breath, maybe have a beer or two, and stop acting like it really matters. Your opinion will have no impact on what happens to Linux or Microsoft.
Chill out and enjoy what others have worked hard to product and please stop moaning!
Jajae
10.3, updated from 10.2, well i would like to say job well done again, but i;m afraid not, The update feature does not work, i don’t like my system uninstalling drivers and codecs, to find when its finnished crippling my system, i can’t reinstall them, so i’m left with no choice but to reformat and install from fresh, something i’m not used to as a linux user, Current issues include
NVidia drivers installed but not working
Compiz Not working
Amarok Not working
Firfox Not working
No Window Decorations,
BAsically if you have openSuSE 10.2, and it;s fully working don’t bother upgrading just yet. I’ll let you know how the fresh install goes.
And ding dang do, Fresh install, and it even kept the home directories, all looks good, and seems to be working, off to get the NVidia drivers, and fingers crossed, If you have any problems with the update feature, try the fresh install, seems to update, lol.
I have waited with much excitement for 10.3 but this is one version but sadly I have to agree with BSOST. I have used Suse since 9.2 and with each increment in version the situation with codecs and drivers has become more complex. I too have no Amarok, no Nvidia driver and having invested the best part of a day in 10.3 the best I can say is yes it looks great and when it works it is superb, but why oh why must Novell cripple the only thing that will draw Joe Public to Linux – music and video. It is particularly irksome when the “legal” excuses are so thin that for example using the Thomson Mp3 codec (see this site for details) does not it seems cause a breach of any copyright if used by private individuals and LIBDVDCSS is not illegal everywhere in the world – we are not all American and German …
Like most people here I desperately want Linux to gain wide appeal;which surely has to be the aim of Novell too else why are they in business; as long as the average fee paying user is turned off. I am not a Linux fanboy, I do not ride on the back of “free” software I am perfectly happy to pay my way and spend 50 euros for a quality product. But I do expect to get a working system for my 50 euro outlay which is why I will not be buying 10.3 I am afraid. I am just glad I still have my (yes paid for) copy of 9.3 in good shape, pretty it may not be but everything “just works”..
And let me be clear I do not diminish the hard work of the Suse Team, they have produced a stunning product, its just a shame that this is ruined by the timidity of Novell in seeking to avoid any confrontation whatsoever with vested interest in the marketplace. Lack of corporate vision has effectively undone the hard work of many good developers and countless testers and users – how very sad for all of us.
Like you, I upgraded from 10.2 to 10.3 For me, Firefox and Amarok work perfectly; I can even play MP3s watch AVIs! The NVidia driver appeared and installed itself automatically on the first online update. My TV card and videocam both work. The installation/upgrade has been effortless. I am delighted with 10.3 and find it little short of miraculous. Oh yes, and Skype, NVU and OGMrip also work perfectly. It looks as though, at last, I’ll be able to delete XP! Many thanks to the openSuse people.
Great Distro, just awasome, maybe this year will not be the home desktop for linux, but at work, it does it just fine, administration and performance on the office desktops is awaseome, stability just great.
Lets hope that SuSE keep the path of productivity.
10.3 is working great on my system, congrats to the developers and the rest of the community!
I’ve used SUSE from version 5.3 to version 7.3, skipped over version 8 completely, and picked back up at version 9. I’ve seen a lot of changes over the years, and with the long awaited release of 10.3, there are some nice improvements. The one-click install is a really nice addition.
My system is an AMD Athlon 64 x2 5200+ on a Gigabyte motherboard. I have a BFG nVidia GF8600 GTS (256MB) graphics card, and a Samsung 226BW 22″ monitor. The default installation recognized most everything, but I did have to specify which monitor I had and configure the screen resolution manually. Other than that, the install seemed to go fairly smooth. I did have a few issues at first, but I was able to figure out what I was doing wrong.
I chose the gnome installation over KDE, because I’ve been using it for the past six months or so. I’m still considering switching back to KDE, but for now, I’m going to stick with gnome.
The only issue I’m having so far is that for some reason, every time I try to configure SaX2, I get an error message telling me that my graphics card is not capable of running 3D graphics when I know good and well that it is. That’s what it was designed for. And because I get the error message from SaX2, I am unable to turn on the desktop effects for running Compbiz. I get a bug report instead.
Anyway, I just installed 10.3 last night and won’t have time to play around until the weekend. Other than the problem with enabling any of the eye-candy effects, everything else appears to be working fine. I will post a more in-depth review after I’ve had more time to really pry into it.
Keep up the excellent work.
Phil
It might be nice if I could ever get it to install
I’ve barfed two machines now trying to set up
a dual boot – the install falls over saying it
can’t mount the windows partition and leaves
the machine unbootable
Is the best SuSE ever released!
Many many Compliments to the Dev-team!
Hello !
My OpenSuSE 10.3 is now up and running.
What you see here is the result of intalling OpenSuSE Linux.
But i wish it will crash soon
I want to congratulate The OpenSUSE development team with this release!
I’m downloading it right now, from what I can see is this release the best ever.
I hope the one click install will work ok, and help other users with the installation.
I’m going to write a review as soon as possible and post it on my website. (Dutch)
Good work… can’t wait to install this new version.
Congratulations.Nice to see openSUSE in nostalgic green. We all have to change and adopt. Gnome (and GTK) tilt is one such move, we may have to live with. Let the Chameleon simply change our lives, and that of rest of the world.
Baixando para testar mas parece estar muito boa essa versão.
3 times I get wrong sum. too dvd too св. I use reget, download from http and ftp
Try to download it with bittorrent.
Good work, Congratulations to openSUSE Team.
I had tried many distro from 1997. Until last year I couldn’t install and configure any Linux for my day to day usage (At least any one hardware or software like wireless, audio, display, or multimedia plugins, etc may not be working). few month back when I was setting up a samba file server (basic server), I had tried Ubuntu 7, Fedora 6, CentOS5.0, openSUSE 10.2, I found openSUSE consume more memory and less responsive compared to Ubuntu and finally settled with Ubuntu.
Later last month I tried PCLinux2007 a great distro which worked out of the box. I could fully convert my development system from Windows to Linux.
As always openSUSE Team is trying to making Linux reach every common people to use in there day to day life, we should appreciate there good work. I like screen shots above and the list of features mentioned, I am sure to give it a try.
Hope openSUSE will replace my current environment
Thanks!
Congratulations dev team, this is a almost a perfect product. I wish to have the same automatic video drivers installation as SLED. Btw, it’s fixable.
Great O.S., just love it
Thanks openSUSE team for the joy of using it.
Portugal
Well, I hope it’s better than 10.2! I have had nothing but trouble with 10.0 up to 10.2 so far. Troubles range from slow operations (a 2GHz dual core AMD 64bit system should not run slower than an AMD 1.2GHz single core Athlon!), inability to install tarballs (long story on that…) inability to get PostgreSQL to function properly (as in work consistently!).
Bottom line is I got fed up with fighting my computer to get simple things set up. So I moved to PCLinuxOS and it just worked and very fast at that! But in order for me to have Linux at work it has to be either Red Hat or OpenSuSE. I don’t like Red Hat very well and until version 9.3, I thought SuSE was the best out there.
I guess I am just frustrated with my recent experiences with OpenSuSE 10.2. I am hoping for better results with 10.3. If not, then I will have to scrap Linux at work… again.
Thanks Novell for releasing another excellent linux distro!
I installed 10.1 first time with opensuse to have compiz, pretty stable. 10.2 was not that happy. 10.3 installed from RC1 and amazing product, my 5 year old kid is quite comfortable with this. Noticed that citrix client (was there with 10.1/10.2) is not there, need to search for it. Wireless on my this toshiba laptop worked straight, compiz fusion is the great, i tried to convert RC1 to final 10.3, but since then, when i try to launch “Open terminal”, it says a bug and desktop is not clickable, but menu/everything works fine. Need to see why. Overall very impressed. But did i tell you how i installed this?
On my office desk PC, i have vmware, installed suse10.2, setup PXE server, and booted my toshiba on network and installed from factory, took about 2+ hours on the install, but it was great. Now downloading 10.3 DVD image (from a mirror in australia, yah, my country), once it is done, will setup that with PXE server and many guys at my work want to abandon their windows/other distros to install 10.3 using my PXE setup. Thank you OpenSuse guys, this product is the great, boots in a minute, works good (same as 10.1) on exchange via the owa, stunning compiz (fusion), better battery life then my XP (missing my trillian though), same old firefox with google sync, can play dvd-s straightforward with the 1-click install provided by Magnus (thank you).
Thing to get work :
Java development, citrix, finger scan reader, support for my laptop’s inbuild memory card reader – thats all.
Can we have any updates on Novell’s petition to port Adobe suite into Linux?
As a designer, I hate to use Windows, many of us in the design world love open source, but stick with Windows because we have to use Adobe and Corel’s products. And I will not use the alleged superior OSx.
Anyway, this is a great distro, and I am once using 10.2.
I would love to know if Compiz/Beryl will work fine with OpenGL apps..
Congratulations to all for this new OpenSuse release.
-allan
Is bcm4318 wireless will work on this?tried with vmplayer but i cant find any wireless configuration (kde)?
thanks to any reply.
Hi ronan,
Best place for a question like this are the forums but whilst I’m here…
As you may know, your card in manufactured by Broadcom. Now, Broadcom seem to have no interest whatsoever in writing linux drivers for their wireless cards, either as open or closed source drivers. Therefore your options are two-fold:
1) Install ndiswrapper, it is there in the repositories. Now get hold of the Windows drivers for this card and configure ndiswrapper. This lets linux use the card by ndiswrapper building a small windows environment around the card then translating back and forth between linux and the windows driver (comments invited on factual accuracy please).
2) Replace your wireless card with one that is fully supported in linux, such as an Intel wireless card, or a card that uses a chipset supported in linux, such as “atheros”, “ralink” and “prism” chipsets. Warning, manufacturers sometimes do change the chipset they base their cards on from version to version, sometimes from a linux friendly one to the Broadcom.
I’ve been using SuSE linux 10.2 for nearly a year and only got the Broadcom card to work once on linux with ndiswrapper in my HP Compaq nx6110 and after much faffing around, too. So I bought myself a replacement Intel wifi card as this model is sold with Intel and Broadcom cards as an option. Hey presto, trouble free wifi in linux and windows. However, someone more knowledgeable than me may be able to help you get the Broadcom card working via ndiswrapper.
Can I take it that you are using the wifi card in a laptop? If so be careful if you decide to go down the route of buying a replacement card. I read on the internet that some laptops lock out any other wifi card you install via code in the laptop BIOS, as the manufacturer certifies the limits electro-magnetic emissions of the complete package of the laptop with a wifi card and some manufacturers feel the need lock out after market modifications. Solution: Find a vendor who will supply a card preconfigured for your brand of laptop. I found one on Ebay, a seller of new cards that were preconfigured for HP laptops (others available too). Sent from USA to UK for under 17 GBP.
Hope this helps. Try http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl and http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/forums for more details.
All the best,
Bruno
Hello,
I am trying to download throubh http/ftp and get a file download of only 105.7 MB!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have tried around 6 to 8 times since yesterday and also tried with around 5/6 mirrors and the results are identical.
Is it problem only with me or is anybody else facing a similar problem.
Regards
N. Sridhar
That’s with the DVD? Seems that your client does not support files bigger than 4GB, use another one.
It is possible that some attempts to download the DVD version of 10.3 may definitely Fail if the user attempting the download is downloading into a windows FAT32 partition before attempting to burn the best distro anywhere. I did so and failed before realising FAT32 Partition limitation is MAX 4GB. you will spend many hours before you download to NTFS partition or ont another Linux Partition
try the torrent download method
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-stable/iso/torrent/
For all HP desktop or laptop users planning to install openSuSE 10.3:
If your system freezes at the first boot time during the installation, please try boot options as follows:
noacpi nolacpi acpi=off pci=conf1
My machine is HP dc5700 and I encountered the annoying system freeze at the boot time. Adding the above boot options can work around, especially for those latest HP machine. I suspect there is some conflicts between the kernel and the bios.
Package management looks really impressive in openSUSE 10.3 and those Community Repositories make a really nice addition. I’m not sure why some people complain about multimedia support because it’s now easier than ever to get everything to work using 1-Click-Install (http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia) or using those 3rd party repositories with Yast.
One thing that seems not to be working perfectly is new TeX Live replacement for teTeX. I often use LaTeX to make presentation slides and for some reason powerdot package is not working properly (ps2pdf cannot make a final pdf file for some of the powerdot styles) so I had to remove TeX Live and go back to teTeX.
Anyway, thanks to openSUSE Team for this great release!
Damnit
I’ve just installed openSUSE 10.2. Do i need to DOWNLOAD WHOLE DVD to upgrade? In ubuntu i can say “apt-get dist-upgrade”. Is there a way to upgrade to 10.3 via YaST?
Thanks for a great release SuSE.
10.3 not see my HDs (Toshiba Qosmio G20)/ but 10.2, sled 10 works with HDs without problems. what can I do?
Deal-breakers
Well it looks like I’m heading back to 10.2 for a while. Not really the fault of 10.3. Overall, a day’s playing with it has left me saying neither: “Wow I have to find a way to get this to satisfy my needs – I want it” nor “I can’t see what all the fuss is about”, which is about what you’d expect from an incremental upgrade.
When I first started looking to a permanent move to Linux, I soon realised there were a few ‘deal-breakers’ that would decide on which distro I chose, or, for that matter, whether I’d have to stay with M$. They were (in no particular order – they’re deal-breakers after all!): KDE, Opera, a full-featured video editor, decent virtualisation, decent audio editing, all running on a 64-bit OS.
And that’s how I ended up, and stayed with openSuse. Of course there is other software that I rely on (Office, Gimp etc) but all distros seem to support them fairly well. However, everything else I’ve tried (Kubuntu, Fedora etc) failed on at least one of my deal-breakers. Now I find that there is no Cinelerra for 10.3 yet, and the 10.2 version has unresolvable dependencies if you try to install that. I did have a look at Kdenlive by the way. It’s going to be great software some day, but is feature-limited and crashprone just yet.
Now it would be silly, if tempting, to blame the openSuse team 10.3 for being cinerellaless of course, but it got me thinking that it would be nice to have a regularly updated combined list of software that is available from all the major repos (say, the ones that make the ‘Community’ list), so that idiots like myself could check to see if our deal-breakers are on it before we waste time upgrading, then more time downgrading again.
Anyway, it’s back to 10.2 for, hopefully, just a little while until cinelerra is repackaged. Everything else seems to work reasonably well – a few glitches, but nothing else that looks like a dead-end. Yast software management has certainly improved; though, where I am, I still need Smart for its multiple mirror capability. Opera just worked out of the box on my 64-bit OS (note that please, Ubuntu-loving slaggers of Suse), and the 10.2 version of Virtualbox installed on 10.3 easily though I haven’t got around to recompiling the core yet.
In the meantime, I’ll be checking the Packman repo regularly and eagerly.
Looks like I maybe headed back to 10.2 as well. Both Firefox and Thunderbird are crashing on me. Firefox when the Download dialog appears and Thunderbird when I try to compose an email. Making both pretty useless. Both errors are coming out of glibc, both errors have to do with bad pointer references. I’m also having problems with video: Mplayer and totem and xine not working correctly. All of this was fine in 10.2
Are installation Online Repositories adjustable?
I took the time to mirror the full oss and non-oss branches to my network so I don’t have to waste Internet bandwidth and my time when upgrading 6 different servers. When I run the install, I have a check-button to use Online Repositories. I can see the details (location, etc.) of the repositories, but I see no opportunity for me to change the URLs. Anybody know?
VLC is not installing on new openSUSE 10.3 – 65 errors!!!!
ftp://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/10.3
WHY???? Anybody know????
Use http://opensuse.org/Communicate to communicate with the community and ask questions/problems — much better than posting a comment here no-one might see. The VideoLan repositories are working fine for me though…
Hi,
I am not able to run vlc on suse 10.3 as well. I will buy Windows and delete the whole linux thing. It has no meaning to be working around many of hours to get things working under this operating system. I suggest anyone to buy Windows, since there works all out of the box.
The creators of yast are either over-burdened or they simply cannot think or they simply cant admit, that smart package manager is MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH better than the whole yast or I do not know.
I installed suse 10.3, installed smart (under suse 10.2 everything went smoothly, after installation, I installed smart and with this program I got suse usable), smart cannot install anything because some unimportable keys are required…
if you install vlc using yast, vlc does not work, if you want to delete packages installed during installation of vlc, then yast suggest you to delete virtually all packages (includin Xwindow!!!!!!!)
sorry, calling it 10.3 final is …
This SUSE Linux 10.3 Release is the best yet!
Out of the box support for MP3 and Windows Media Files: AVI, MPG, DIVX, WMV, etc You’ll be prompted to install the appropriate codecs i.e. win32 codecs will be suggested as well as advanced options for further packages if required.
The package management system has been completely renewed making it much easier now to install the files your looking for.
The installation of the KDE version takes over an hour (default install) and depending on your package selection.
Don’t expect a 10 minute installation, but once installed & running, it’s absolutely worth the wait!
As always with SUSE, The KDE desktop has a nice polished look & feel to it.
Thank you very much to all contributers and developers, testers. Excellent release and the best SUSE Linux release yet to date!
I love the look and feel of 10.3 – it is so much quicker to boot and close.
The only problem that I have hit is that I use a floppy disc to boot – but the option in yast to boot from fd0 disappeared after 10.0 and the c/l option of grub-install /dev/fd0 does not seem to work with 10.3
anybody know toshiba raid drivers for 10.3
Are there any packages for Amarok 2.0 (preview/alpha/beta/whatever)? I can see an instance running in the screens above but I couldn’t find anything in the DVD or the repositories….
It’s usually in the extragear-multimedia package of the KDE:KDE4 build service project but seems the last snapshot doesn’t build.
EverGreen
)
Where is the LiveCD? I really would like to try OpenSuse 10.3 before I install it.
Did you read the story? Quote: “Live CDs will be released in the next couple of weeks.”
on 10.2 these “weeks” actually lasted months and the SuSE live CDs have never been as compatible with any type of hardware as knoppix.
i would recommend you install SuSE in a VM, they are all free nowadays.
Aren’t you a bit pessimistic now?
The 10.3 RC2 Live-CDs show that not much is missing this time.
one more week and still no live cd T_T
and more…
Just a little off-topic, I realised that under IE 6, the main content column is slightly displaced lower, as compared to the sidebar. Perhaps, you might want to check it out.
That is a piece of good news, pertaining to the release of openSUSE 10.3 GM. Hopefully I might be using it for VM.
Looked good at the installation, everything went fine until final boot, I got a ‘distorted screen,unusable, didn’t have this on 10.2 (ATI Radeon 9250 seen as RV280 5960, same as in 10.2). Tried to change settings with SAX (from runlevel 3 -> Yast) but everytime I did a ‘Test’, screen didn’t refresh correctly, mouse movements were not accurate… Anyone had the same experience ?
hi!
I am having the exact same problem. I have the same g card as you. Monitor is LG flatron 20 inches wide. I am misiing half of my screen. Have you figured out anything ?
Download faster!! Unfortuantely the maximum line speeds in South Africa is 100kb so it will be some time :/
installation error
have hp ze8500 laptop winXPsp2
wanting dualboot
installation goes as far as beginning to resize harddisk, halts with error : 1008 can’t format SDA 5
MDSUM is ok, in beginning of installation procedure accepted check of DVD integrity, was OK
tried to install again and now can’t read SDA
reinstalled XP and tried installation of 10.3 again
same misfortune
niels
Exactly the same problem for me…
Someone can help?
Well I have a 3 SATA 3Gb/s Raid 0 and a JMicron SATA/IDE controller (problematic for other distros). I will be putting another IDE drive on the native Intel IDE controller just to get this distro up and running. Should be interesting to see if it ’sees’ the Raid (Knoppix did when booted in debug mode to the GUI desktop) and the JMicron controller, much less the only IDE drive connected to it. Is there PCIe (16x) support for an nVidia 7600GS in the driver, we shall see? Oh, lets see if twinview will work also (one widescreen and one ‘normal’ dimension LCD monitors, different resolutions and refresh). And how about power management, I have power saving hardware (C2D E6700 all BIOS savings enabled, 2GB DDR2-800 @ 4-4-4-15, etc), what about openSUSE? 9.1 was great on my now gone old computer, since then, I have had nothing but bugs and trouble with later versions. I am hoping this one will work finally, I am very sick of Windhose. Sorry guys, but the days of loading distros on old garbage are over, the hardware is getting more exotic by the day. >:-/
Oh, forgot to mention, just for information sake, chipset is Intel 975X/ICH7R.
Great !
I upgraded it the (very) unrecommended way, namely by changing the repo’s and trying to update the packages. Which didn’t work of course, because the old Yast culdn’t read the new repo.
Anyway, with some help from Smart i could make it work, and i’m suprised that, besides some dependency complaints, it fairly worked well.
I’m also very suprised of the speed of the online repo’s. Guess that’s because of the the new repo system.
Great job !
I am currently trying to install openSUSE 10.3 however after making changes to the partitions or the package selection the procedure hangs at “Evaluating package selection”.
I have an AMD Athlon XP on an Asus A7V880 (VIA chipset) and 2 hdds (one SATA and one PATA) both of them healthy.
I have the identical problem. I thought it might have been due to the extra repositories I added, so I tried the install without the online repositories or extra add-on CD, but received the same problem. Have you figured out what the issue is? I am installing on a new HP a1700n desktop (AMD 64-bit, 1 1/2GB RAM, 2-250GB SATA drives). — Thanks.
where can i find the full download on dvd?
Hi shane,
Navigate to http://en.opensuse.org/Mirrors_Released_Version and select a your continent/country. In fact all choices are on the same page, a link to an anchor takes you to the mirror site you select. Click on the word DVD with a superscript 3 after it and you will be asked to save the iso.
For me, I live in the UK, so chose mirrorservice.org at the University of Kent. The http seems reluctant to work but clicking on DVD from the ftp panel below prompted me to save the iso.
ATB,
Bruno
Heya!
Is there a chance to install it flawlessly on to a Lenovo ThinkPad T61 laptop?
I heard the latter is certified for SLED, so what about openSUSE 10.3?
Many thanks in advance!
opensuse is ROCK !!!..
keep up the good work
openSUSE is nice, but it doesn’t include proprietary drivers by default.
Just finished downloading OpenSuse 10.3, I have to use BitTorrent, not sure what is going with the http link, but after getting about half of the ISO file, it quits. The installation went smooth, not problem whatsoever on my Sony Vaio FZ180E/B, Nvidia 8400M GT, and the Intel/Pro wireless 4965. The only change I have made so far is the video driver, Suse by default install the NV driver which is an open source driver, so I download the Nvidia driver from nvidia.com, it seems to me that this driver is much faster.
Very nice work, it’s worth an upgrade, I am from Brazil and the only comment is that the installation process with online repositories enabled makes my installation show too much errors, saying that the rpm was not found.
Solution: I turn off and on the modem (DSL) 10 or 12 times and click to “try again”. works greatly. Great job. and excuse my English.
YEAH – I posted before, but have to update. My HP nv6000 in all it’s glory LOVES 10.3!!! I no longer need “noapic” for power management issues, and now full suspend and shutdowns work. Also, previously the DVD’s from EVERY distro would hang on install – not nut the full 10.3 DVD. And sounds works beautiful (10.2 was not so good) and so much more… EVERYTHING works – and although my Broadcom still needs to be updated with fwcutter, at least the kernel detected the 4311 based hardware..
Kudos to all the contributors – I love you all!
And of course, after adding Crossover Office to my install, I even have the few windoze apps I need for work (lotus and a few others.)
FWIW, I tried Ubuntu 7.10 and FC 7 and they still hung on DVD installs and could not handle the kernel without noapic..
thanks again!
This is one of the best Linux distro I have used so far. I knew SUSE 10.3 was going to be fantastic. The ease of use, the awsome hardware detection, and the new applications will have more PC user looking at an alterative to MICROSOFT. I have been in the IT business for a long time and have been through the growing pains of LINUX and the open source community. Thank YOU from the bottom of my heart for making LINUX what it is today. SUSE 10.3 is way better than MICROSOFT VISTA and best of all its free!!!!!. I think 2008 will be the year for LINUX:) Please keep up the excellent work on SUSE and give a heartful thanks to all those who dedicated their time, passion, and effort to make Novell Open SUSE what it is today…..
A passionate LINUX fan!!!!!
Thank YOU
All sounds very good, great work Opensuse team!
Good afternoon,
I am more than happy of this new release and I would like to update my 10.2. I downloaded the image CD with KDE and try to update. I was unable to do the job because the system tells me : “Unable to download list of repositories or no repositories defined”. This message surprieses me because I set up my network connection with the correct proxy parameters.
Any idea about that ?
Thank you in advance for your help,
Best regards,
You can install from the CD also without any online repository and figure out your network problem later in the full installation (with full command line power).
What can I say, you boys have listened and delivered
MIke C
Great work! openSUSE forever!
Hi, I am trying to install openSUSE 10.3 on a system with an AMD64 processor, but the installation process fails ( could not find openSUSE repositories..).
Meanwhile i have already installed openSUSE 10.3 on a system with an Intel 32bit processor and i must say that i am impressed of the new version. (I have already done a quick search on comments posted above.. I apologize if this kind of problems have already been discussed). Has anyone faced similar problems? Any advices?
Thank you in advance
Can onyone tell me the difference between de primary download DVD (4.1Gb) and the DVD found on the mirror sites (68Mb)?
Thanks!
Gr. Johan Barelds
Can I upgrade directly from 10.0, or must I wipe and reload?
Congratulation 4 new version
What doew GM stand for?
GM stands for gold master. It represents the final release of the most recent suse version after development in the alpha stage, beta testing and one or two release candidates (known as RC) of each medium suse is supplied on.
nice work!
I hate debian, but the only thing I like of it, is that you can find anything on those 3 DVDs. Why can’t be the same with opensuse? Why I need other non oficial sources to make it full operational, why I need fast internet to fully customize it to any computer at my home. I like opensuse, but I don’t like your management of the project, please keep me liking it, like in the old days.
Another thing do NOT focus in gnome and let KDE behind. Give both of them importance, because some people, some, like gnome,but must of us like KDE.
The distributions are not working. There is no place where you can get DVD.iso version, at least from those mirrors I have checked.
Testing, new fonts, new features, and so on….
All Linux distributions now are working working great, due to the hard work of devoted people, however what can one do if can not install specialized application for daily working, not to mention lack of hardware driver, printers and scanners mostly .
I personally would like to install an accounting software and some other specialized software for my bussines, but is impossible, does not exist. The answer I’ve got from some software developers was ” is very hard to do this kind of softwares , Linux use both Gnome and KDE, we only develop software for Windows, most users use Windows and is not profitable for us to spend time with it”.
As you can see a small bussines does not have too many options and can not use Linux.
Is true, at home I have a Linus distribution on one PC, but is only for fun.
Any way congratulation for this new release and perhaps someone will think that in real world we need applications, OpenOffice.org is one.
very great work!
i want to install opensuse 10.3 on my dell inspiron 1420 laptop… i have one c drive(60gb).. want to partition it as 45 gb vista and the rest linux… but during the installation, the partition is not happening or it’s not able to recognize the partition… i don’t exactly know.. the laptop has come with vista preinstalled… opensuse will install if i’m ready to delete vista permanently… but i;m not ready to do that
Did someone remove my post? And if yes, why?????
For the last few years I’ve been looking for a Linux that I can use in my day to day and dump Windows for good.
This looks like the one. Installed the 64 bit with no problems, even though I have a 3d card t says it can’t do 3d but that will work it self out in driver updates I’m sure.
You guys did a great job with this.
I figure release 11 will be the one I can start my mom on. That will
be 2 households that dump Windows. Hope is on the horizon!
Wooo hooo!
Been a SuSE fan since old days. I find it is the best-in-class mixture between the raw power of linux and the user-fliendly approach of Windows. Of course, with its own personality.
I have 2 web server and 1 file servers working with SuSE, and also 3 Windows 2003 Servers doing as application servers in our company. I can say I am delighted with the linux ones. On the other side, every 2 weeks when the Windows servers download new patches from the MSFT website, I’m never sure if everything is going to continue working.
I have another PC at home with OpenSuSE that is used as a test machine. I’ve tried other distros like Ubuntu and Debian. They are OK, but I always come back to SuSE because it makes my life easier and it is rock solid.
Next step is to install it in my kids PC, so they can learn and experience linux, and not only Windows.
I don’t hate Windows. I think it is reponsible of the consolidation of computers in every home, and that has brough many benefits to this industry. But the fact is that now
Microsoft has taken a dire way with Vista, messing with the media protection, and treating end users as if they were guilty of media piracy (some of them could be). The result is that Vista needs huge amounts of RAM and processor to barely start up. I think that we are going to see a lot of new people coming to here and to other places like Ubuntu.
Anyway. My Choice is SuSE. Many thanks for your efforts in this new release.
¡Que viva la comunidad de OpenSuSE!
Hi there!
Just installed 10.3 using KDE CD version on of my machines.
I installed additional packages. I want to know where can I find the rpms downloaded when installing packages using YaST’s Software Manager? Are they deleted after installations are completed?
The reason for this question is that I want to save the rpms to a CD/DVD so they can be installed on a machine with no internet access.
Is it possible?
Thanks!
The Best SUSE distro, did not had any problem during installation. Cool with new looks. Feel far superior than FC
hello,
automatic web address did not seem to work after file share type installation and connection had to be done manually (ie 10.3) but eventually ok.Not sure if this is to do with nature of installation or a more widespread problem. Look forward to using upgraded Yast and exploring other features. The only thing that maybe missing is an active partioning tool like Ubantu sports.
Roy.
I was a bit disappointed, Installed it a first time (P4 HT 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM ATI Radeon 9250. First time (see tread above) Graphics problem (I Updated Online directly).
Reinstalled w/o updating directly, updated late, and that worked fine. Seemed to work fine at first sight, except that the KDE Start Menu (Chameleon) was sticky. Anyway, tried to enable 3D Acceleration with OpenSource drivers (which worked fine on ver. 10.2), it didn’t work (distorted screen); well tried with ATI proprietary drivers… but the latest to support the 9250 is the 8.28.8, which doesen’t support Xorg 7.2; the more recent drivers don’t support that card. 10.3 It’s really a step back for me without support for the card. Anyone had the same experience or found a way to make it work ? Overall I think 10.3 is good but needs some patches; I also see the limits of these proprietary drivers (can’t force ATI to support specific card for a specific version of Xorg).
I am currently using both Vista and SuSE 10.2 on my Acer laptop (dualbooting with GRUB) and both seem to work okay. SuSE 10.2 is the best all around working linux distro of about 5 or 6 that I downloaded and tried. It seems strange as an APU (Average Public User) that I have to run lots of anti-virus software on Vista but not on Linux. At this time I am still more comfortable using Vista than SuSE because of the dreaded LLC (Linux Learning Curve) for average users like myself. I am now going to attempt to take one more small step forward on the LLC (Linux Learning Curve) by upgrading from 10.2 to 10.3. Wish me luck.
I aborted my attempt to upgrade from 10.2 to 10.3 on a dual booting Acer laptop after receiving a lot of unresolvable dependency conflicts during upgrade install. It seems that Open SUSE does not officially support this type of upgrade. I guess I will stick with 10.2 for now.
Amazing distro … amazing release !!
have trouble with DVD action. My AMD slot processor board does not want to load Suse on DVD
10.3 sure looked promising and I’m glad lots of people are finding it beneficial. I too was looking forward to having it fix all my woes that I was going through with 10.2, but unfortunately 10.3 is turning out to be a real nightmare for me. Curerntly I’ve just finished intsalling it for the 4th time, 3rd day in a row. This time I’ve tried to keep it as simple as possible, so a CD-only installation with no online repositories. The process took several hours and to my horrow the system is running… very… slowly… and what’s worse KDE won’t come up at all now, even on a completely clean, virgin install. I log in on the green welcome screen, it acknowledges me, I get the little progress circle, and then it just sits there on the welcome screen with no desktop. Whatever the system is doing it’s very busy, generating uptime loads of anywhere from 2.5 to 3.79
AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
Lucky you
Me… I’ve lost the count. It seems that 10.3 dislikes my amd sempron or maybe my ati. The only way I managed to perform a complete installation it was after I set acpi to no. Then other problems came up… What a betrayal, what a pity so much wasted hours but… no compromise at the end my friend!
i have to install opensuse 10.3 in 24 pc at school in dual boot with win 2K.
i made the first and after a problem with the bootloader (solved) and the floppy (NOT solved), i got a goog working pc
now comes the problems.
i made a image of the partition whit opensuse using partimage (thanks to guy) to replicate to the others pc (after partitioning the disk like the first naturalmente!!!
i made a copy of the MBR and copied to all pc’s
it worked…..untill half boot
then it stop waiting for the hard diskSata_MAXTOR_xxxxxx_xxxxxx to appear
but hard disk id are differents.
so how can i solve the problems
thanks a lot
germano
Hello all! My english is bad…but i have a question for u linux boys…why don’t you make the linux more secured .. in the sens of the configuration .. if you make something wrong… the only way to restore it ..is by command line…and for newbies… it is imposible to know the commands.. why is not a protection of something… to not let you do bad thing… like in microsoft distributions…i’ve tested almost all os that exist… but windows ..is more well made at this thing..and vista comes with a lot of things that prevent the user from destroing the sistem…for me there are no viruses..i’m a virus myself… i love linux..is a great chalenge.. and very very good looking… i like it more than windows…but is verry hard for a newbie to understand the sistem.. for more times ..i had to read a hole forum ..for resolving my problems.. If linux had this preventing sistem it would have much many users!
Did just download the 10.3 CD (not the DVD) via http with 6000 kilobit/s (thats A-DSL in Germany) – and thats over thr daytime in Germany – that was really good. thanks, reason for download : the open suse 10.3 DVD, added to the c´t computer magazin does not work, too many errors.
Just wanted to mention that the new X server has reduced main memory requirements dramaticaly.
Opening KDE, OO, Kontact konqueror and many other services does not consume more than 256 MB. With 512 MB memory no more swap acticity (except sometimes using yast with many repositories) compared to 10.2 on the same box.
Performance scripts.
OK, lets get this bit out f the way, I am a Window user, and want to get out of it, however, I am trying to determine what Linux flavour to go for.
As I understand it, majority of the latest distros all use the same kernel and a lot of apps are the same, e.g. Mplayer, OpenOffice etc., so apart from the font end which has to be an individuals preference, I am trying to find out the differences between Fedora 8, Ubuntu 7.10 and Suse 10.3 both in KDE and Gnome setup’s etc. in definable measurable facts.
So my question is: does anyone have or know about some performance utils/scripts that I can run across the various flavours of Linux e.g. something like LoadRunner in Linux (preferably more scripts than utils as this is a personal thing and I can’t afford to buy expensive tools), or has this already been done and published ?
Thanks
I had 10.3 installed on an AMD-64 system that, unfortunately, had a flakey motherboard. Motherboard was replaced (ASUS, VIA chipset), and all the other hardware (memory, hard drive, CPU, NIC, etc.) transplanted. Not only will 10.3 not boot anymore, when I try to reinstall, the installer can’t find the SATA hard drive. No luck Googling several different ways. Bummer, because I was impressed with OpenSuse’s friendliness and not having to fight tooth and nail to get a JDK up and running. I really don’t want to go back to Ubuntu or Mandriva because I don’t want to fight those battles all over again. But right now I have a doorstop instead of a development machine, so unless there are any blinding flashes of insight from those most in the know here.
I’ve been a fan of SuSE for many years now having started with 4X versions, but after “upgrading” my Dell laptop with 10.3, I’m dismayed at the idiotic way of handling video drivers. Yes I have an ATI, but come on, surely you could handle problem by installing a generic driver rather than ensuring that those of us with ATI or nVidia cards have many additional steps to get a system working. Nice to see a distro that guarantees that it will drive many potential adopters away for lack of a functional display after installation. Sorry, Novell, but this is stupid and amateurish work here.
Hi All,
I was a long time user of SuSE from 9.0 to 10.0, plus tried SLED. I was also once very active in the old” SuSE Forums.
I’ve drifted over to the .deb Distros rather than those using .rpm.
The one thing that made me leave was the lack of WiFI support. I never could get NDISWRAPPER to work, and ended up buying the Linuxant Driver. All good, but I didn’t need to do that with either Ubuntu or Linux Mint. I simply bought a USB or PCMCIA card.
I’m now running Ubuntu Gutsy, on a H-P Compaq V6000Z laptop, that was shipped with Vi$ta. I’m not using the built in WiFi card, but a USB MyEssentials 802.11g-54Mbps one.
Before I do the down load, and install is there any hope, especially with 64-bit? I’d like to come back to SuSE.
Comments welcome.
By the looks of things, you would bebetter off with 10.2 until 10.3 matures a little. At least that’s what I am doing.
It’s already two months after release, imo it has already matured: the most annoying bugs have been fixed with online updates meanwhile.
I have downloaded suse 10.3 live 3 or 4 times, and each time there was nothing in the iso file and of course would not burn to cd. The file was 600+ mb, but with no files. All other iso files I’ve downloaded have files in them for burning (such as other linux live distros). Anyone with thoughts on this? Thanks.
Did you verify the checksum of the ISO file?
Thanks for your reply. Checking ‘checksum’ is new to me. I ran a checksum calculator and it gave me “numbers” for CRC32, MD5 and SHA-1. I don’t know what to do from that point. Any further thoughts? Thanks.
Compare the MD5 sum with http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/10.3/iso/cd/MD5SUMS
Thanks again for your help. I ran the checksum calculator for MD5 and it agreed with the web site value. But, now what? As I said, the download and burn procedure looked normal. All other iso downloads had many files in them – not this one (SuSe 10.3-live). I even tried two more downloads and burns. If its something I’m doing wrong I can’t imagine what!
Good old SUSE, how I’ve missed you.
I began with SUSE 5.3, about a decade or so ago. I’ve tried many distro’s and *BSD’s and I have always found SSUE to give me the perfect blend of setup simplicity, power user tools and a large and varied software repository.
Having just tried 10.3 I can say ‘thank you and congratulations’. It is a fine distro and runs beautifully on my AMD64 based PC.
YAST is still as user-friendly, IMO. I love the quality KDE desktop (always one of SUSE’s strong points).
My only minor criticisms are the lengthy (when compared to, eg debian) install time and the slowness of YAST when adding software (it must be all the repo checking).
Getting the required nvidia drivers really was a 1-click deal. Very nice indeed. This is how Linux should be (except for those who *want* to go looking under the hood).
Excellent software indeed.
Thanks OpenSUSE. This is the first time I ever use Linux. You have made installation very easy.
Setting up my laptop on the company LAN and network printer is as easy as MS Windows. Thanks to Samba and OpenOffice, I’ve no problem opening up MS Excel files on the file server and save the new edition back on it.
Wine works pretty well with some of my company’s software that runs only on MS Windows.
I really hope you can improve on the KNetworkManager. Connection to any wireless LAN is slow and occasionally failed. Sometimes I have to reboot my laptop to get it to work.
Hi!
Does any one know, If opensuse 10.2 or 10.3 work without problem in Hp-dv6000 (AMD Turion 64 X2, Windows vista)?????
I started to play around with Linux last year, started with Ubuntu but ended up formating, moved to PCLinuxOS again formated. Then installed Opensuse 10.2 and just fell in love. Moved on to the 10.3 and one-clicking away to formating the M$ partition.
Thanks so much Opensuse, one-click is the way linux should be heading, more user friendly to install new software. NVIDIA drivers istalled with no problems even my grandma could install it. The more this feature is developed and refined the more people will move to Linux.
Cant wait to test drive the 11.0 Alpha soon. THANKS AGAIN!!!!!!
Kudos and thanks to all responsible for the continued development of the best Linux distro. And thank yous to Novell for the openSuse project support, I do so luv getting my Suse fix free and timely, I don’t need SLED but will be happy to recommend your product in consideration for your efforts here. I have tried scores of distros and but have kept Suse as my main squeeze for a long time now. I have not had a chance to polish 10.3 yet, still using 10.2 daily, but I am sure I will like the new features, especially the package management changes.
The only thing I encountered that was an issue on the install was a bug in xorg that misidentified my mouse and refused to let X start. However I also encountered this on several other distros so it is of course an xorg issue not a openSuse specific one. A simple cut & paste of my 10.2 X configs hardware description into 10.3’s solved it.
Another issue I had been dealing with for while among several distros was confusion over my cd/dvd drive assignment. I had a lot of problems with distro installs and application errors where they had problems locating my drive. I solved this by installing my optical drives on the secondary IDE channel, the issue seems to be that many of the install scripts and apps and tools like dvdcss insist on the optical media either being on a master channel or as /dev/hdc only. So these days I have a read only ASUS cd/dvd as my secondary master (/dev/hdc)and mt burner as the slave(/dev/hdd). Cured all my distro install, media ripping and other application issues for optical drives. I seem to remember this same type of behavior in Linux from years ago, then it seemed to disappear, now it is back it seems.
The only other little disappointment I see with 10.3 so far is also not an openSuse issue. While I generaly have found Compiz Fusion to be nice and solid, it does lack the performance I found in the last Beryl SVN version. Though since I am also dealing with diffs in Xorg as well the problem could well be in it instead. Also the Beryl manager in the last few SVN releases is to my tastes a much nicer app for KDE than the GTK thing in Fusion. Still many thanks to the Fusion dev’s for all their hard work.
I just do not care for the new GTK/Gnome menu system at all, it seems like a backward step to me. But again I just prefer the QT/KDE GUI generally, and especially like the new kicker menu design. Again thanks to all involved in creating this wonderful thing called GNU/Linux especially those involved in the best distro so far, openSuse!!!!
Matthew
Suse 10.3 can support persian language for iranian user ?
Kewl!
I installed the opensuse 10.3 on my notebook MSI S425W (celeron M, GPU Nvidia 6200 go) and I hadn’t problems with the installation (I use the KDE desktop enviromental on the Live CD). The opensuse 10.3 recognized all the drivers, and I hadn’t problems with the wi-fi configuration, the GPU and the key buttons. The notebook is fastest: start in 63 sec. vs. the 120 sec. of win XP, launch OpenOffice in 5 sec. vs. 19 sec. of win XP and switch off in 23 sec. vs. 78 sec. of win XP. And so I’m very happy to use opensuse 10.3 and now I can enjoy the notebook finally fast and usefull.
On my notebook I don’t see any benefit by a faster boot time of openSuse 10.3 because the KDE login is not really ready when the login window appears. I get access failures when I try to login at once. After a little while of about two minutes, when the hard disk purring have diminished, the login succeeds.
Best release since the acquisition! Pluses are innumerable and well documented above. In fact my only two gripes have to do with 1) availability of repo’s and 2) Corporate attitude leaking into open product support.
The Repo site(s?) are borderline unusable due to either high demand or outage. Perhaps increasing the number of mirrors or additional pipes for the downloads would be a positive gesture.
Test case support questions have been treated dismissively by _senior technical resources_. This was never, never the case when SuSE was Gmbh. RH and MS treat their Developers and Users that way. Novell/SuSE might want to try not to.
Personal note? I live the green. I’m so sick and tired of BLUE!
Thanks, Vielen Dank’, Muchos Gracias, Merci, Gratziah Tutti!
bman
Why does linux 10.3 overwrite the mbr in windóws and how do i get the manger back for my windows under linux?
thomas.
@thomas carr
Try: http://www.google.com/search?q=Linux+Windows+dual+boot+MBR
Result:
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html
and:
http://highlandsun.com/hyc/linuxboot.html
That should help !
Bueno, gracias a OpenSuse entré al mundo de Linux, Felicitaciones!!!
Hicieron un gran trabajo – Saludos de Chile
openSUSE really rocks. I’ve tried many distributions, but really there is nothing as superb and as powerful then openSUSE. I really love YaST. Its simplly rocking. The only wish I’ve is that it should be more capable of detecting ATI onboard graphics and LCD Monitors. I also recommended it to my many friends who were just fed-up of the viruses on Windows. Now they’er using openSUSE and broadband and they’ve not even seen a single system crash. Waiting for KDE4!
All hail openSUSE
Just DLing Suse 11.0 Alpha… for my HP 530…. Was a previous MS user but the virus threats and the constant upgrade req.s is not for me… i like to be free from the chains of money and spread some spiritual enlightenment before i die….
Cool OS ! Just upgraded my TOSHIBA from Vista to openSUSE 10.3 GNOME.
Just 1 problem. this has a screen resolution bug as discussed on other forums. There has to be a fix for it !
Excellent Operating System. It was easy to install and configure for my needs. I even got the Wireless Card from my HP ZV6000 Laptop working without that much trouble since the installation DVD already installed the required packages I needed. This was the first Linux Distro I used that I was able to get the Wireless card working without pulling my hair out!!
KDE 3.5 is beautiful and I am looking forward to v4.
very good
بسیار عالی !
I was a “distro junkie” for the past two or three years, trying them on old (AMD K6-III) and new (Core2-Duo and AMD Sempron) systems that I use for different things. Burned through LOTS of CD’s & DVD’s.
The first OpenSUSE I tried was 10.0. I’ve been running openSUSE 10.3 for the past 4 months. OpenSUSE 10.3 pretty much just works on everything I’ve tried it on, with the best HW compatibility yet. The one-click nVidia installer is icing on the cake; makes my GT-7300 card very easy to set up compared to the hoops I had to jump through before to enable 3D, if it would work at all.
I keep an XP Pro machine around as sort of a security blanket and to run a couple of proprietary apps for work, and I’ve got a Vista Ultimate box running for training purposes , but for my day-to-day use I always reach for one of my openSUSE boxes. Looks to me like 10.3 is ready for the masses. If people only knew….
My best regards to the whole development team. Thanks for a fine release.
hola! soy de El Salvador y tengo en mi pc suse10.3 y esta mas q grandiosa me encanta el diseño y las nuevas caracteristicas. Es para mi una opcion para migrar de windows al software libre. Solo un detalle aplcacion como java en firefox no funciona desde la instalacion original y los drivers de video solo son los de vessa osea los genericos q instala. Pero a pesar de todo esto es SUSE10.3 para mi mi primera opcion para migrar a Linux
Hi! I am downloading openSUSE GNOME! I am able to virtulize it in Virtual PC 2007 in safe graphics mode (Failsafe). I can’t wait for it to do its magic! Thanks openSUSE! Thanks KDE! Thanks GNOME! And most of all, Thanks LINUX distrubitors!
Loved 10.3 for a while, but it seems to not like my Atheros Wireless card, installed Madwifi to solve it, and it was working well, now will not talk to the card in any form, although sysinfo recognises the presence of the card. Seems that it cant use the driver. Ok under Windows XP.
Will reinstall 10.3 or will wait for 11.0, not decided yet. Still love the SuSE product.
Thanks so much Opensuse, one-click is the way linux should be heading, more user friendly to install new software. I love it.
Been a SuSE user since 5.2 – mid-90’s. Tried others but keep coming back to it. Not 100% happy with it, but it’s miles better than anything Microsoft has to offer. Had issues getting Compiz to work properly though and ended up having to re-install the whole thing. Installinng into VMWare at present.
Novell and the SuSE development people have done excellent work with the 10.3 distribution. I don’t pretend to be a PC expert, but the stability alone is unbelievably better than Windows, and as a bonus, it runs substantially faster.All the hardware I own is supported; in fact, supported better by SuSE than by Windows XP or VISTA. I don’t have the most expensive toy computer; my motto is, if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it. I have been plodding away with 1800+ AMD Duron and 1.5 GB PC3200 for quote some time now. SuSE makes it run like a brand new PC; the newest VISTA-equipped PC can do no better.As with all Linux distributions, when migrating from Windows, there is a bit of a learning curve; but the SuSE curve is very, very shallow. This OS is so easy, a child could use it.
In fact, a child does use it. My 6-year old loves it, but he isn’t as picky as many of the posters on this board. He only really cares about Sesame Street, a few games (which SuSE came with), and a couple of educational applications. Perhaps it is the failure of my imagination, but I can’t imagine SuSE getting any better than it is right now. Considering that the main competitor is a huge international monopoly, Novell has done a remarkable job. I’ve tried three other distributions – Mandriva, Ubuntu, and Fedora – but none of these had the polish or feel of a “finished product” quite the way of SuSE. If those previous three versions were cars, Ubuntu would be a base-model Chevrolet economy car, Fedora would be an upper line Chrysler, but SuSE is a BMW. It doesn’t really have an equal. Like a good BMW, there are others that cost more, and there may be others with higher luxury features, but there are none that work better.
It is just my two cents, but I think you folks have done a superb job and deserve all the kudos you get.
I have SuSE Linux 8.0 installed in my AMD 500. I have downloaded the OpemSUSE-10.3. For some reason I cannot isntall it right from the DVD (I downloaded the ISO imaged and burned it to a DVD. I tried to copy all the files to a hard disk partition (as I did with 8.0), but for some good and not-evident-to-me reason it fails when is trying to create the repository.
So, I tried to start right from my Suse Linux 8.0 and using Yast tried to update from 8.9 to 10.3. That did not work at all.
Can you tell me what would be the best way to upgrade from 8.0 to 10-3.
Thanks in advance
I am a Arch Linux user, but I’m a big fan of openSUSE, ’cause this distro converted me from windows to the linux world. Now I am downloading openSUSE 10.3 to replace my Arch install. Arch is one of the best distros around, but openSUSE is too, and is the most polished linux distro around, the best for a desktop user.
I have used Suse 10.3 since launch. I can safely and confidently say IT IS BEST OS.
I started with Suse 9. something after becoming down heartened with XP. I have since tried everything that resembled a half decent distro and here I am back with suse 10.3.
I’ve had issues but nothing major. the occasional desktop crash, didn’t boot after update. I struggled like hell to get 3d support from NVIDIA on a 64bit machine so im back on a 32bit install on my athlon64 machine, but it looks great.
Overall I think suse comes with all the right software, mainly firefox, amarok, k3b and open office. Its amazing the distros that dont include these core open source gems.
I cant wait for v.11 but am resisting installing a beta over my current awesome setup.
Dont mess it up guys 16 days to go says my site counter.
cheers. Ive had a lot of fun