Comments on: Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3

By: Velocity

Velocity — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:34:24 +0000

Linux is not known to have virus’s, however there is a different name for that. Its called exploits, which occur in different programs created, leaving security holes. ANother is called root kit, or backdoors, again a security issue with the coding of the operating system its self or in a program leaving vunerability within that program. All a serious problem as they arise, however using google you can search for those i just said. “Linux exploits” “root kits” and of course which is extremely rare now a days is a buffer overun. which will use up all recourses in computer and crash it. Very rare now adays. those you can search to but most will be old. search “buffer overrun” in google. the old programs such as cracker jack, bait jack, and the other password crackers do not work in linux now, and mostly do not work in any *nix. Hopefully no password carckers will ever be developed for current distros and other *nix’s or we would have a nitemare on our hands. Security now is generally excellent in todays *nix’s but at times there can be an opening in security. If you want a totally virus free os it would be mac osx at current no virus have ever been detected. however it is still vunerable to the same issues as linus to what i described because it uses a bsd like background running it. (FreeBsd) hope this helps .
Velocity

By: amdturion

amdturion — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:06:52 +0000

I noticed same lack of style settings by running KDE4 desktop on my opensuse 10.3:

Internationalization is not completely supported when logged in as root.
The Desktop holds English localization, also by setting a different language.

When login as root the Italian localization for Desktop is working only partially.

This feature is working correctly only for normal user.

By: killerbot

killerbot — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:59:47 +0000

The longer I use the beta, the more I unfortunately start to dislike it. I have the feeling really a lot of things are broken. I have installed for KDE4, maybe a lot of the issues are due to the latter.

Some more issues :
– ark is unable to unzip zip files (sometimes dolphin can step into them)
– setting access for special user accounts seems well hidden now [use case : I copy website from another pc with konqueror as file manager super user mode to /srv/www/htdocs and then I gave the wwwrun user permission, but now I am no longer able to specify other users , in OpenSuse 10.x this was available through : properties of file/directory -> Permissions -> Advanced permissions (they used to have an add entry button)]
– as mentioned earlier : terminal without session memory, update total crap == not working at all, …

By: Benjamin Weber

Benjamin Weber — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:15:52 +0000

KDE apps do use the oxygen style. YaST (when run as root) does not at the moment take the kde4 style settings from the user properly.

By: dexter

dexter — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:18:43 +0000

for opennsuse’s developers.
Why don’t you use the oxygen style ? your kde4’s style looks same with plastik style. Plastik style looks more gnomish, and i don’t like that.

By: AFT

AFT — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:02:34 +0000

Thanks for your help Beineri but there doesn’t seem to be any relevant files in the Suse 11 directory

By: Beineri

Beineri — Sun, 25 May 2008 06:23:32 +0000

http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories#suser-j.engelh

By: AFT

AFT — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:36:22 +0000

this sounds great cjk, but- um – where is suser-jengelh?

By: Cooler

Cooler — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:59:41 +0000

Could I install drivers for Nvidia (GeForce 7900GS) without problems with OpenSuse 11???
It was a wery big problem in 10.3 (((

By: burpnrun

burpnrun — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:43:08 +0000

Andrey: Many folks seem to have hit the bug where the live CD hangs very shortly after selecting the live option. It’s a reported bug:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390934

Unfortunately, for these people (and for you), openSuse 11b3 can’t be tested. It’s a show-stopper. Pity. Hopefully 11rc1 will give us an opportunity to see 11 and KDE4 in action.