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Announcing openSUSE 11.0 RC 1
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The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the openSUSE 11.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). The good news is that we’re closing in on the final release of 11.0, but it’s not time to relax just yet. We’re getting really close, so we need all hands on deck to help test this release candidate. Since beta 3 we’ve fixed 578 bugs and resolved 1,118 bugs! Read on to see how you can help get 11.0 into top shape.
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Information and Download
The first step is to download the release candidate. Please remember that RC1 is not a stable release. As a release candidate, openSUSE 11.0 RC 1 is almost ready for day to day use, but may still have some interesting bugs that make it unsuitable for running a production system. Be sure to have backups of any important data before using openSUSE 11.0 RC 1 on a system.
Media and Download
You can download openSUSE 11.0 RC 1 for x86, x86_64, and PPC at http://software.opensuse.org/developer. Deltas from Beta 3 are also provided. Note that you will need the latest deltarpm from Factory, or for openSUSE 10.3 you can use the home:coolo repository to grab it.
Most Annoying Bugs
This is a list of the most annoying bugs, that we’re aware of, that still exist in the release candidate.
General
- GRUB config broken for other partitions. Bug #395085
- NVIDIA driver doesn’t compile. Workaround: check here for a patch
GNOME
- GNOME asks for the root password on first login. Bug 390658
- GNOME has wrong icon theme by default. Bug 391865
See the Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.0_dev page on the wiki for an up-to-date list.
Call for Testing
To help testing, take a look at opensuse.org/Testing, and the Feature Test List page. The Feature Test List page includes a definitive list of new features included in openSUSE 11.0.
We need to test these features in particular, so please look through the features on the page, pick one that has not yet had its test completed, and make sure it passes. If not, be sure to file a bug in Bugzilla and mark the test “failed.” See the full instructions on the Feature Test List page.
Comments, Feedback, and Helping
With RC1, openSUSE 11.0 is almost ready for release, but we can still use help with testing before the official release. This is a great chance to contribute to openSUSE, by filing bug reports, testing features, and giving feedback to the openSUSE developers.
Here’s a few ways to help:
- Report bugs: If you do find a bug, be sure to report it in Bugzilla using the procedure given on bugs.openSUSE.org.
- Provide feedback: We welcome feedback! Please join us on the opensuse-factory@opensuse.org (subscribe) mailing list. Or in the #opensuse-factory IRC channel.
- Let the world know! Be sure to spread the word about openSUSE 11.0! Blog about it, tell your Linux User Group, start planning a Launch Party — whatever you can do to let the world know about openSUSE 11.0!
Thanks to all the developers and contributors for all the hard work that’s gone into openSUSE 11.0 so far, we’ve come a long way and only have a little more work to do before we have a final release. Fire up openSUSE 11.0 RC 1 and have a lot of fun!
I can’t wait, Mexico is on the openSUSE way!!!^_^
I am longing for this release like a kid for his christmas present.. but am a little worried about the NVidia driver issue.. I am no expert with linux but just love OpenSUSE, so I am really hoping this nvidia driver setback is resolved by the release date so I can dive in and enjoy all the goodies that come with OpenSUSE 11
Bangkok is eagerly waiting!!!
openSUSE 11.0: Brasil is waiting for you!
UK also waiting for you – 1/2 of office using Linux and most using opensuse already,…..
Argentina is on the way.
I thought it would be nice post from another Latin American country
Chile is on the way too.
Now it’s my turn: Portugal is waiting for openSUSE 11.0! XD
I want to see the translations I made.
Thank you for the great work of you!
1-Click Install for CODECS in openSUSE 11.0: http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia
Hi, I don’t know why the CODECS from the 1-click installation link installed successfully but does not work at all, in OpenSUSE 10.3 I could see MPEG and WMV movie formats from Totem but now with OpenSUSE 11.0 RC I can not see them.
any idea?
Best Regards.
Here in the US, just finished burning both gnome and KDE, going to give them the proper run through. Very excited for this release!
I have high expectations of Suse 11. I’ve used 10.3 and found so many fantastic improvements compared to previous versions. I love Gnome!
By the way, have enjoyed using Suse 10.3 here in Australia! Looking forward to the new version! Such a fantastic OS. My hopes are to one day switch 100% to Linux and Suse would be my choice. I wish there were a more simple, straight forward easy way to install and setup wireless devices. That’s the only thing which has stopped me from keeping it on my desktop. Love it still!
Aussie here. Downloading RC1 – will try via USB live first ( http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=49726 )
Melbourne here. I’ll go to a uni where downloading from mirror is fast.
If I install the RC version now, will I be able to upgrade to final version(rather than burning another ISO and install again) later?
And, I’ve heard that KDE 4 is not quite finished yet, not quite stable, so is it good for daily production use?
It is possible to upgrade (by deleting beta sources from repository and adding stable release repository and full update).
KDE4.1 is in beta – it will be released after suse 11 releases. (July, i think)
Hi there,
Are there going to be traditional installer CDs too? And what about the add-on software CD, that had non-free stuff in it?
I hope so, becuse I can’t stand the live cd install, it loads a lot of programs, on that I then have to spend over half an hour removing because I don’t want them. This live Cd is crap, and they need to go back to giving us the traditional single cd install. But from what others have said, this crap way is here to stay
There’s always the DVD…
OpenSUSE11.0, China is waiting for you…
How is support for video cards SIS M671? Thank you!
I’m waiting for openSUSE 11.0 here in Brazil! It’s a great operating system.
Congratulations to all!!!
India here – Waiting for release of openSUSE 11.0!
downloading RC1 to test…
One more Indian here – waiting
Greece here… looking forward, for the final release
OpenSuSE 11.0: CHILE is waiting for you………
Awesome morning news! Israel is waiting for gold master )
I’m waiting openSUSE 11 in Indonesia too.Hope it’ll be another great Linux distro
Will there be an option of saving downloaded rpms via yast?
If it is, then there is no sense in seeking for a decsent linux any more.
Russia is on the way to suse!!!!
Yes you can. It is configurable in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf
Yes. All russian cities and towns. Suse, we are waiting!
California loves you OpenSuse…We can’t wait.
The beautiful Guatemala is eagerly awaiting for openSUSE 11.0 too…
Romania is looking forward to OpenSuse 11 release…
Yep!….Cristian is right…Romania is looking forward for the final release.
Congratulations and thx for the hard work.
Finland is awaiting openSUSE 11.0!
Why are those KDE4 panel icons on all screenshots so ugly blurred..
Because of the default panel size of 40 pixels (and some #ifdef within kdelibs which disables svg rendering), change it to 32 or 48 to fix.
Egypt is awaiting openSUSE 11.0
Can’t wait for the final release. BTW, have you guys seen this new site – http://linuxbsdos.com ?
Seems all the world is waiting for SuSE
Im waiting for it too… hope the packagae management has been fixed at last.
And also the Netherlands are waiting for this beautiful release!! Way to go openSUSE!
Ukraine here. We can’t wait.
openSUSE is the best! I’m from Ukraine too.
Poland please Opensuse 11
Poland, yay, someone from my country claims he’s waiting too
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At least
.
Sweden here..we can wait… just a little more
Fantastic work..keep the spirit
Greetings from a sunny, warm northern Europe
Great job! Czech Republic downloading …
I have very high hopes for OpenSuse 11.0!! OpenSuse is my #1 Distro. I’m always bragging it up to all my fellow Linux enthusiasts. It is a complete solution for me. Way to Go Developers!!
Serbia is also waiting on OpenSuse 11.0, as it can be seen on our linux map http://linux.dootzky.com/index.php?distro=12
Hello openSUSE 11 — Byron Bay, Australia here, we are also waiting… thank you
11 points go to… opensuse!
Of course, Germany is also waiting for openSUSE 11
!!!
New Zealand is waiting for openSuSE 11.0
Gnome all the way!!!
Representing the beautiful Island in the middle of the Caribbean Sea – Jamaica is waiting for openSuse 11
Italy here.
RC1 is still very buggy (sound, network, package management…)
Please do not release too early.
As the announcement states: “fixed 578 bugs and resolved 1,118 bugs”. So what’s the difference of fix and resolve? My English is not so good
fixing a bug is only one means of resolving it.
other means are marking it as a duplicate of another bug or marking it as invalid.
Resolved may be a compromise, ( two people have a disagreement and they resolved it.) where as to fix is to repair, make like new…( my car was broken and I got it fixed.)
This is Denmark calling – openSUSE we await thee
Andryushko hryushko wait openSUSE 11 !!!
RUSSIA!! SUSE!!!
We hope you all will burn in hell, because our crapware is tha best
I hope that you will stop putting your stupid comments
Don’t take it too personally, “Pavel”.
Thanks for awesome job, openSUSE community! Slovakia is looking forward for openSUSE 11 !!!
España también te quiere!!
(Spain loves you too!)
We are waiting eagerly…
From India, We are waiting for OpenSUSE 11 !!!
Will KDE 4.1 (Beta for the moment, but on the good way) be included in this Suse release ?
No. It will be part of openSUSE 11.1 and Build Service repositories for earlier releases.
it’s sad that it wont, and it is bad for opensuse that people’s first experience with 11 will be all the old stale kde 3.5 software in it. So 8 months until people get an opensuse 11 supported with kde 4.1. Pathetic. Obviously they don’t give a damn about what the opensuse community want.
OK, so why don’t you help them with this?
Actually, they do give a damn…so, unlike some other unnamed folks, they don’t want to release buggy software if they can help it! KDE 4.1 is almost there, but no business relies on software unless it is under “general production release”. Opensuse is probably tired of waiting for KDE. Cheers!
Well said!
Plus, one can install anything, if you want to install the beta kde, just do it.
As always, a great product is coming… thanks for all.
hi vienna calling
the rc is beta quality (many many bugs ) and why can’t u wait to release it till all of the main apps like kde 4.1 or firefox went final.
Italy here, please do your best:D
This is my favourite linux distro, and my very first one!
I am counting on you!!!
Keep it up with this great work!
Hi, openSUSE 11.0.
We’re in Jakarta, Indonesia are always patiently to waiting for your release day
Yes, that’ right.Indonesia here and everybody on opensuse-id comunity… looking forward, for the final release.
The World is here. Another 20 days to go.
Belgium gives 12 points to openSUSE 11.0 !
Macedonia loves you Novell
and can’t wait for the final release of openSUSE!! 
Hoping that KDE will rock the socks out
There is no macedonia. The only Macedonia is the GREEK (HELLENIC MAKEDONIA).
Your macedonia exists only in your mind!!
Alexander The Great is greek!
Are you serious?
In what way you say the word “Macedonia”?
When the Greeks in Macedonia were building theatres, Acropolis and Parthenon,
you were still chasing animals.
Oust Palioligouria!
The name of my country is MACEDONIA and it is not in Greece. It is pathetic and silly to think that such a great Empire can be reduced to only one area in today’s Greece. BTW, great job Novell!!!
The name of your country is NOT MACEDONIA! You are just slavs, a phylum of the 7th century!
Greece (and thus greek macedonia) exist over 5000 years!!
You cannot to characterize us as an empire, since we discover democracy and advance the
modern western culture! If you don’t see it, open your eyes!
P.S. We see a terrible comedy in your last political elections! You have problems that
we had many thousands years ago!! Culture it’s not just a name my friend!
For other people of the forum MACEDONIA is a greek word it roots from MACEDNON.
Irodotus (one of the greatest and first historians) names this a area as a greek about more than 2300 years ago!
This discussion has nothing to do with openSUSE and really isn’t appropriate here. Please take it elsewhere.
Its more than inappropriate, its CLEARLY RACIST and should be DELETED!
Apla xynoume panw sta sapia kokala mesa ston tafo ths nekrhs sou manas Goce .. eilikrina kai tapeina.
Waiting for openSUSE in Pakistan!
Keep up with this great work!
Greetings from Hungary!
Serbia waiting also! Keep up the good work, SuSE deserves to be No1. again!
Wir warten auf openSUSE 11.0
(We wait for openSUSE 11.0)
But there are too many bugs, my athereon W-lan card doesn’t connect, my nvidia grafik card don’t run and so on.
Why can’t you wait till KDE 4.1 and Firefox 3 is ready?
Gruß Thomas
Maybe 6-month development cycle stops openSUSE from waiting at Firefox and new KDE? I think so.
PS: Deutsch ist einfach klasse
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Not 6 months but it was planned for long ago and KDE might even be late as at 4.0. There is a software everytime which is released in 1-2 months so we could wait indefinitely. But you can always download the newest version from the repos.
Greece is waitng for opensuse too… come ooooon hurry up. we can’t wait:D
Holland enyoing 11.0 to !!!
we Indians Waiting for the 19th june
Poland is looking forward to the new Suse release!
ps. See you soon in Klagenfurt
Poland is looking forward to the new openSuse release!
Brazil is looking forward to the new openSuse release!
1. Running 11.0 RC with KDE 3 – the conservative approach.
I’ll wait at least one more cycle before switching to
KDE 4. This isn’t an openSUSE issue. It’s in KDE’s
court.
2. Downloaded new NVidia (173) driver and built kernel module.
So twinview works perfect.
3. Had to move sliders on KMix to get sound level to be
audible.
4. Had to use Xine engine with Amarok to play cd’s.
5. Installed multimedia stuff using “one-click”. Mplayer
had to be installed separately. Both Kaffeine and Mplayer
work on encryped DVD’s.
As I have it configured, it’s not all that different from
OpenSUSE 10.3, but I was a big fan of the old version and
expect to like 11.0 even more.
from Quebec, going 11.0 very soon..
un gros merci
Hello, RC1 seems to have trouble to discover the right video mode. After booting it asked me manually to type in the correct video mode. Anyboby had this too?
I was wrong, sorry for this. There was a sector read error on my Installation DVD (normally I check this the first, but this time I skiped that; arrrgh!
)
Installation goes extremly smooth and everything went fine and looks good. Now it’s time to have a deeper look at the new KDE 4.
Greetings from Germany!
Installed 11.0 RC, my thinkpad’s volume control keys cannot be used under KDE 4
Bulgaria (България) here. Up and running RC1, waiting for final release.
Omtario – Canada here. We are also up and running RC1. Looking forward to the final release on June 19th. Great job guys!
What’s new ???? a not good working driver for Atheros chipsets
problems with nvidia drivers
an infant kde4
better keep using opensuse 10.3 with kernel 2.6.22.18-191-default
no kde4 shit
madwifi drivers for atheros
Nvidia 173 driver
You can use themes wallpapers icons etc from kde-look.org
you can use the kde3 programs from kde-apps.org
you can use compiz for desktop animation
Opensuse come back when kde4 is grown up that is rel 4.9 or better
the rest off this version is hardly any better then 10.3
and you use the madwifi drivers as good as you have the nvidia drivers in your repositories
So dont eat off 2 walls
And if you are realy sick off opensuse try Ubuntu Knoppix Fedora Mandrake because they listen to there users and dont push you kde4 down your throte.
openSUSE is not pushing KDE 4 down your throte. KDE 3.5.9 is also present, you can choose that if you like it more. (openSUSE is about choice. You have GNOME, KDE 3, KDE 4, XFCE and others, no default, use which you like.)
If something does not work which worked in 10.3, please report it in the bugzilla instead of complaining about it this way. Damn, this is why it’s an RC.
Older KDE series were also buggy at the beginning. KDE 4.1 is likely to fix most of the regressions and 4.2 will be likely to be superior to KDE 3.5 in almost all aspects.
My thinkpad’s volume control button works well under 10.3 but partially works under 11.0 RC, by “partially work” I mean I can actually control volume UP/DOWN/MUTE using the volume button, but it is not shown in the KMixer so I get confused about the volume – whether the volume is high, low or muted?
Yes there are other distributions out there, and they work quite nicely. That being said, I like openSUSE because it works for me… Choice is the operative word here. So if you really are not happy with all the very hard work that the openSUSE team has done, switch to another OS. There are other choices.
USA is looking forward to v11.0 and keep up the great work
Nice comment, you are the reason many people are put off linux, because you go in and slam a distro to advertise another. bugger off
Or instead of complaining about the above mentioned with KDE4 (I too agree that it is young and needs time to mature), you can install KDE 3.9 or use GNOME.
Uruguay waiting………
France loves SUSE!
(Also a drink over here, Suze
Good job only I could not easily upgrade from Beta3 (Yast disappeared from menus and command line!?)
+mount the ISO from Beta3_to_RC1_Delta not working… v11.0 Gold will do good!
Buenos Aires , Argentina is waiting too !!
19 days to go. Slovenia is waiting. Thanks!
Hi there
Finland is testing, testing, testing. I just downloaded, burnt into an already used cd rw and to my amazement> everything works properly!
Good work / maybe I switch from Debian to OpenSuse
Tom
Kenya is waiting for you, 11.0. Been waiting eagerly for weeks…
I’m not the only one in Kenya then! How do you download it? Here in Malindi the connection is too slow and very expensive!
Yeah! Now Waiting for OpenSuse 11! Hope this one is better than 10.3. Lovely Guatemala, we are waiting for OpenSuse too!
ANNNDDD… we’re on the front page of Digg. Top story
Miami FL, is waiting on OpenSuSE 11!!
Mars is waiting for OpenSuSE, and yeah we don’t use Windows on the Red Planet
manssage from Pluto
we are waiting
We are desperate
the connection tend to crash
we loos … a critical mat….
please send a…
(ERR)[interestellar network connection fault]
We are eagerly awaiting the new SuSE in Namibia. I have been tempted to jump ship to other Distros, but apart from package management, SuSE has been my most stable Linux Distro thus far.
I hope the new software installer lives up to my expectations?
One NB running SuSE since 2002, One NB running various Distros since 2006, currently Mandriva 2008.1
A currently very stormy Midwest USA waiting as well!
nice to see some Midwest USA love — started w/ openSuSE, tried others, but looks like I’m coming home
Is it going to be an update process (like ubuntu) for those who already have opensuse as their Os, or I have to install the whole thing from scratch?
I was able to update mine via the factory repository with the update tool
Denmark is waiting for OpenSUSE 11!
It might be worthwhile to note that the 173-series NVIDIA drivers are now *out of beta*… meaning, the 173-series NVIDIA drivers that compile fine with 2.6.25 kernels are the official recommended drivers. Switch over, and nix the patch.
from Philippines! eagerly waiting for openSUSE 11!
maybe u don’t know semarang….
but Semarang city waiting for OpenSuse 11 too….
keep doing great works guys..
Kazakhstan waiting openSuse 11.0….
one more ukraine wait
mykolayiv region
i have some troubles with alpha and beta 1 release, and then roll back to 10.3
after that i only try livecd version to look on…
I don’t like kde it looks like a nice toy… I have some troubles with pulse audio… And also wine have troubles with pulse audio
I like opensuse, I like one click install… I like opensuse package search
thank you guys for great work…
PS:
In repository I found comercial german product arcad by linuxoffice it seems. It looks also that i can user it for my work. but I did not found any tutorial how can i work with it(it complecate for me) And one more hardness that in repo it only in german. And i didn’t understand it. thank in adwise
To the devs,
You’re almost there! Congrats on this amazing release! Opensuse 11 has come a VERY long way since the early alpha stages and things are looking nicely polished. Everything also feels much faster in this release and the new Zypper platform is wonderfully speedy. I’m still experiencing a few update issues that I hope are ironed out in the final release, but I’m sure you all will catch those.
The new GNOME and KDE artwork/branding also very clean and professional.
You all have done a lot of work on KDE 4 and I’m confident in saying that it’s absolutely the most polished KDE 4 release of any distro I’ve tested, period. Even over Kubuntu.
Your hard work is appreciated. I look forward to the final release!
No offense but I can’t believe u compared suse with something like kubuntu. Everybody knows kubuntu is an insult to kde or linux, its that bad.
OpenSUSE 11 is going amazing, I just tried 11 rc1 yesterday and its awesome.
keep the good work ppl Mexico waiting for Suse 11!!!!
austria here – surprised by the speed of opensuse 11rc1… thats not the suse i know from 10.2 and 10.3… great improvement!
running on a Lenovo R61 with a former preinstalled SuSe 10.1 Enterprise Edition via update install and it’s GREAT!
Many Thanksm from Vienna,Austria
openSUSE 11.0: Brasil is waiting for you! [2]
openSuSE – Serbia is waiting for 11!!!
Kuching, Malaysia is waiting for OpenSUSE 11
can’t wait for the final release
Kuala Lumpur here!! Another Malaysian is waiting!
Downloaded the RC1 live cd (x86_64), booted up to a command line prompt, have no idea which login and password to use (and spent 20 minutes on the opensuse.org site and reading release notes trying to find them). I give up.
This is not as the live cd is expected to work. It is supposed to boot directly into a desktop environment without any need to log in manually. At least that’s how it works with the KDE4 32 bit live cd. Anyway, the live session user is called ‘linux’ and has no password set. I’d also suggest to file a bug report on bugzilla.
18 days how long it will be for us, nice Indians.$$ INDIA IS WAITING FOR YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! $$
I am very worried. I have spent a lot of energies advertising the upcoming openSUSE 11.0
I found that loads of changes were introduced in RC1. But tons of bugs as well. In fact many more than Beta 3 had.
Can the devs move directly to the GM in 18 days and make it a reasonably bugs-free release? I doubt it.
Suggestions:
1)Release [b]at least[/b] another RC
2)Announce the world that openSUSE 11.0 is going to be delayed for the sake of QA and stability.
You have done really well. Great support for laptops.
NVIDIA driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.05-pkg2.run compiles with kernel-source with openSUSE 11.0 RC1. No bugs.
Yes, I’ve also installed it OK (after installing all the required packages!) – Hooray!
Toronto – Canada calling. Looking forward to openSUSE 11.0. Great improvement!
dramatically need full support for apple wifi and webcam by default
Macedonia is waiting for openSUSE 11!
hell yes Romania can’t wait for my dear openSUSE 11!!
Croatia here,
Also waiting for 11.0
Using openSUSE since 10.2
Hi,
i ran the iso of kde live cd for i386, just for the sake to try the new Yast.
I added the default repos (oss, non-oss, suse updates) and then added some softwares (approx. 600 mb) , well it took me 7 minutes only to be installed
That’s something, isn’t it ?
I wanted to thank all the team behind the Suse effort and would like to let you know that you’re just GREAT people. Thanks a lot for the amount of work being done !
Will be there an 1 CD KDE installation? As the DVD installer says, KDE 4 is not as stable yet as KDE 3 or GNOME so those who want KDE 3.5 but do not want to download the DVD need it.
I just checked out kde 4 and it is was VERY stable for me.
OpenSUSE rox!
However:
1) The layout brazil (ABNT2) this basic with a bug in accents.
2) After the install, system detects only 800×600 (itautec n8618)
3) Konqueror crash when opening a text file.
4) Yast> Repositorios Software does not have the option of “repositories of the community” (yast> management software> repository manager, yes)
5) After installing grub appears in “pae – kernel … etc” instead of “OpenSUSE 11″ in boot options.
In any case, I love this distribution!
Albania is also waiting for openSuse 11. Awsome works guys and don’t forget KDE4 forever.
Russia is also using openSUSE and love it, this is great OS!
Just installed RC1 into VirtualBox and it’s running great. Congratulations OpenSUSE!
Great OpenSUSE
But may I ask why the logo on the Menu in KDE 4 is not transparent?
hope this will be fixed
Another thing is, the welcome message in KDE 4 (the first screenshot) has a rather strange background)
I am so glad to see OpenSUSE 11 Release
WITH THE TWO THINGS MODifieD WITH THE ARTWORK AS A WHOLE
Is instlux going to be included in the 11.0 distribution disks? For me it is the easiest way to install.
Jordan is awaiting openSUSE 11.0
Could somebody of openSUSE team answer to my talk at:
http://en.opensuse.org/Talk:OpenSUSE_11.0?
Thank you
Could you please try Gnome and tell us if you are having similar problems?
Thanks
Canada calling …I’ve been with Suse/openSuse since v7, and I’m very concerned that the developers might have bit off too much this time. In 11b3 I couldn’t even run the live CD past the initial selection screen. That got resolved.
But 11RC1 (32 and 64 bit) crashes, locks, hangs just too much to be, in my estimation, ready for Final at the next version. Konquerer file manager, Dolphin, Kwrite, Firefox all blow up early on in use. I could not get other than 1600×1200 resolution, even though xorg.conf looked OK (only had 1024 defined, nothing else) and I tried to edit some files in ~/.kde4 which still had 1600×1200 in them, after the KDE Personal Settings thingy had “Apply” greyed out!
As for the KDE4 destop, I agree with another commenter: This new desktop is a toy, a severe distraction, and seems oriented to the early adopters and fanboys/girls. Not for serious daily use. Many times I have lost the Kmenu icon abruptly from the taskbar. Many times. Don’t know why … it just happens. And what the heck are the new 4 symbols when you mouse over a desktop icon? Do the majority of users act on one or more of those symbols daily? If not, put the options on a left-click of the icon, and stop distracting me and using up valuable real estate with toys.
No, this isn’t designed for 99.99999% of users, it’s constructed from a wish list of rabid experimenters. I’ve 40 years in IT management, and I certainly wouldn’t have any of my enterprises or clients subjected to a KDE destop of the type I’m seeing now.
If v11 is stable (I’ll definitely wait to see if this is the case, before downloading), I’ll use KDE 3.5.x for sure until the screams of anguish of KDE4 users forces the KDE developers to come to their senses. Or switch to TexStar’s disto … now there’s a fully sane person with good instincts and a sense of reality.
The four symbols when you mouse over a desktop icon in KDE$ are for:
1. Resizing icon
2. Rotating icon
3. Configuring permissions
4. Delete
I wish every one would cool down about KDE4. Ofcourse, you are not going to put it on a commercial client machine at this time. And the comment about TextStar – surely you jest??
Personally I have had no problem with KDE 4. I have not lost the menu icon or any other icon. I guess you should watch what you are doing instead of stuffing something up then blaming everyone else but you.
KDE developers to come to their senses? Or people like yourself to grow up, because in whole I see very few KDE users complaining, just a few people who every now and then get their backs up because they haen’t bothered to understand the changes in KDE
Well, I understand changes in KDE but I think, same as burpnrun, that KDE 4.0 is not for production and I have no time to play, rotate desktop icons or resize them. KDE developers are, IMNSHO, addressing adolescents that like moving pictures like cartoons. Maybe this is the good strategy for adopting Linux and KDE, I don’t know. Nevertheless, professionals are often opinion leaders and if they say do not upgrade users won’t.
I’m also one of pro’s and opinion leader in my area and this time I will say: No do not upgrade. Wait until it is completed. Not only KDE 4.0 but also openSUSE 11.0 (uses Firefox 3.0 beta with no option to install stable version, Skype refuses to instal, etc).
So go ahead if you have nothing better to do but to play with beta version in guise of a stable one.
BTW, can anybody, preferably from openSUSE team, answer my question asked here: http://en.opensuse.org/Talk:OpenSUSE_11.0
Please make sure that your video/graphics card supports resolutions greater than 1600×1200. I thought I had a similar problem too until I found out that my Sun Java workstation could not support a new 24-inch Sumsang monitor I bought recently. The nvidia gforce4 nvs 280 sd card in the Sun box does not support the optimal resolution for that monitor at 1920×1200. Luckily I have a windows box with a high-end nvidia card which supports the resolution.
I plan to upgrade the graphics card.
Slovakia is waiting for u 11.0 release ,used 10.3 and 10.0 great OS
a+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I’m gonna try version 11 – I gave up on version 10.2 (the last one I used) because of endless dependency conflicts and updates which always seemed to break something up. I loved it, but I hated not bet
Congratulations from Argentina!!!!!
I Think It’s a good work what you’ve done.
And by the way, Kde 4 is MUCH faster than kde3, so it’s a step forward. The complaints are just about cosmetics that can be changed.
I can’t wait for the final release . . .
GREAT WORK, CONGRATULATIONS OPEN SUSE TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GRACIAS!!!!!!!!!!!
Oklahoma is also waiting!
Great Relase!!
El Salvador, is waiting too for OpenSuSE 11 final!
can one just manually edit menu.lst as a solution to this GRUB bug problem?
Well, that’s what I did,copying & pasting my menu.lst from Suse 10.3 (with about 6 other distros on it. Seems to work OK
Can you put it somewhere or point out a good text on writing a loader manually? I can’t get to my Windows
Hi SI,um, well I don’t use Windows at all & I’m certainly not an expert on Grub, but I *think* that if you go into Suse 11’s menu.lst ( /boot/grub/menu.lst ) in SuperUser mode, edit the messed-up entry for Windows so that it looks something like:
title Windows ….. (whatever your flavour)
rootnoverify (hdx,y) (where x & y are the hard disc number & partition, starting from 0, that Windows is on)
chainloader +1
with a lot of luck you should be on your way! Hopefully somebody with more knowledge than me (not difficult) will correct that as necessary
Norway awaits and welcomes openSuSE 11 with anticipation and open arms!
I am using 10.3 today and are VERY happy with it – and the v11 looks to be fantastic in form and function!
17 days – 17 loooong days – to wait….
Thanks to the openSuSE team!!!
Republic of Indonesia waiting openSuse 11.0, thanks to the openSuSE Team!
Guernsey also looking forward to 11.
SUSE imo is the best distro, tried many and always come back to good old SUSE
That being said, KDE4 last time I tried it was craptastic, I really don’t know why they (KDE) released it in such a poor state.
10.3 was super
now waiting for 11 to rock the boat!! Writing in from India!!
I thimk openSUSE is the best distro!
I’m using it from 10.1 and waiting for 11.0
PS. From Russia with love.
I agree. Been using it for the same amount of time and I love it.
The USA is grateful and waiting patiently.
I here a lot of people complaining about what doesn’t work in v11.0 yet. I’ve observed over the years that all operating system new releases are buggy. I think the reason is that it’s damn near impossible to find all the bugs in an operating system. The ONLY way you are going to improve the operating system is to keep on testing it. What better way to do this then to release it after most of the major bugs are fixed and let the team keep working on the tweaks and let the people find the rest of the smaller bugs (remember you, the user are part of the team also). It seems to me that the openSUSE team has worked very hard to get to where they are today in a relatively short time, and I for one am very grateful for this. It has provided me with a choice. For the first time I now have an alternative to other costly and very proprietary operating systems. It has also spawned others to start making their own Linux distributions as well, and that’s a good thing. So, with all that being said. If you are really not happy with openSUSE, just don’t go there. However if you have found that you now have an operating system that works, and you are getting your work done, or you are having fun on your computer, well that would seem to me that openSUSE is a success. Keep up the great work. The USA is looking forward to this new release and the others to follow.
I know I misspelled the word hear (here) This is how bugs work too. Something little can be overlooked and mess up something in the operating system. If you missed that little mistake, don’t worry, someone else found it as soon as they started to read the comment…
The American Midwest here, and RC1’s encrypted WLAN laptop support worked RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX!!!
Wow; how fast and far things have come.
Just tried installing 11.0 RC1 on a Thinkpad T42p. The installation went fine. Unfortunately on booting for the first time there are two options: 1 pae and 2 pae OpenSUSE 11.0 … with a long version number afterward. Neither of these will actually work on a T42 laptop. When selecting one to boot, option 1 was selected as default by the installer, I get an error message saying that the Kernel requires pae to be available and it is not.
Since I didn’t select the kernel, it was selected by the installer, why would it select a PAE version when my processor apparently doesn’t support it?
So unfortunately I am not able to help test RC1.
I’ve been using OpenSuse 10.3 for a while and it’s awesome, I can’t wait to see the 11rc 1! Cheers from Colombia ;D
A few other things I noticed during the install:
Early during the installation I was asked to supply a username and password to create a user account and was given the option to make the root password the same. Later in the installation I was again asked for a username and password to set up my account. I provided the same details and was told there was a conflict with an existing user. The only way to get past this screen was to delete all the data, select NEXT and then tell the installer that you really don’t want to fill in information at this point (it’s already there). This is really buggy.
Many times during the installation I could not click NEXT if my mouse was already over the button. I had to navigate away from the NEXT button, then navigate back for it to be accepted.
Setting up my time zone was a bit strange. Rather than have standard time zone names, bizarre and random cities are listed. I’m pretty sure there is no Boise time zone. Why is Boise even listed? Also strange is that states aren’t listed after city names. Also a bit odd is that Novell has a large site in Utah, and yet Utah isn’t listed at all. Wouldn’t it be more common to list time zone names? There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to what cities are listed.
I’d love to test further but since it somehow wants to boot a pae kernel (see above), I can’t get past the installation.
openSUSE is sponsored by Novell, I believe openSUSE still work out of Germany, as well as being an international project. So where Novell has offices is not connected.
Remember to check the bugs database and if these are not listed in it, then file a bug report
I’d like openSuse works perfect on Asus EEE PC. preferable installation method is by using USB pendrive. Will it?
Esperando al dia 19 de Junio para instalar SuSE 11.0 en mi Portatil.
Saludos desde España.
Romania here, waiting for openSUSE 11. Using 11beta3 now, congratulations guys, it rocks!
OpenSuse v11 – Québec is waiting for you!
Merci beaucoup!
I thought it would be nice to say that Costa Rica is also eagerly awaiting the release of OpenSuSE 11.0, I can hardly wait for the release date. My heartfelt congratulations and thanks go out to all those who are involved in the development of my distro of choice since 1998.
Are the Ralink wifi drivers includet in the OpenSuSE 11.0? If not – wy?
openSUSE 11.0 – Markgröningen needs you!!!
Hello from Utah, USA, the home of Novell.
Waiting for 11 too. Since Utah doesn’t have its own language, let me just say “Oh my heck!”
>let me just say “Oh my heck!”
Hey, I understood that! Oh wait….I live in Utah too.
I am from Bangladesh. Waiting for opensuse 11.0 with a nice cool desktop. Currently using 10.3
And then there’s me. I’m in England and I’ve been a SuSE user since V6 or thereabouts when I switched from Red Hat. I currently have 10.3 as a server sitting downwind of RISC OS 4 (no problems interfacing via NFS and/or Samba) and the usual crapware (cried fits when I tried to use NFS, which is why I started using Samba… hey GATES! YO MAMA WEARS ARMY BOOTS!), plus one laptop happily on 10.3 (and another that has 10.2 but won’t go 10.3 no matter what! That’s old hardware for ya!)
OK, so I have always preferred KDE, though I’m going to give KDE 4 a bit of a miss until it has had a chance to settle down.
I’ve just got Sunfish/RISC OS 5 to work with SuSE 11rc – took a while to sort it out though, might be because my router decided to choose 192.168.1.51 for the linux box’s address instead of the usual …50! One awkward thing about SuSe,both 10.3 and 11 so far, is that I have to tell (guess) Sunfish (our RISC OS nfs client program) what server address to look for, whereas a number, most in fact, of the other distros reveal it as soon as the server window is opened – any thoughts how to overcome this?
KDE4 seems to be running pretty stable so far although a lot less configurable than 3.5x ATM but I’m sure that will change.
Normally, I’ll fire up Sunfish, then right-click on the main icon which should then show you whatever is available on the network. As long as you have configured the NFS server on the linux box, you should be able to at least see it there. If you need any more help, try Usenet (comp.sys.acorn.misc would be a start). (And yes, I’m the same Chika as there!)
I’m Indonesian and am waiting for 11.0
I don’t know why, but Fedora has a higher userbase in India than OpenSuSE. I love OpenSuSE because Fedora is nothing more than RedHat’s playground for testing alpha-quality software. OpenSuSE 10.3 especially rocks! Looking forward to 11.0. Hoping that KDE3 in 11.0 gets as much attention as KDE4.
Don’t know whether somebody stated, but Ukraine is looking forward for OpenSuse too!!!
Gimme, gimme, gimme more… SUSE!!!!
Finland is eagerly waiting for this major release. I personally will switch from Debian to SUSE in 14 days…
Malaysia’s in the long line of openSuSE 11.0 fans too! can’t wait!!!
uruguay waiting for you!
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openSUSE: just not an oerating system, ITS A WAY OF THINK
KDE4 is truly deeply horrible – the really good things in Konqueror (move to, copy to, compress…) are gone and instead it seems to have tried to become a really bad browser – and instead we have the useless Dolphin. Also the toolbar crashes and is then unusable. Don’t know what to do really… used KDE for years, never a Gnome man but have have no choice…!
Thanks got they haven’t removed KDE 3.5, so you can use that until KDE 4.x becomes usable
Argentina is waiting for SuSe too!
Hola a todos! Desde Argentina tambien esperamos anciosamente por Suse 11 y KDE 4.1
Saludos!
openSUSE 11, Trinidad and Tobago is waiting for you!! suse Linux is one of the best and I have no doubt it will set standards. It’s Already looking more attractive and useable than microsoft windows vista
openSUSE 11.0: Sri Lankan Sinhalese are waiting for you!
A formidable number of countries!
Is there a country Suse comes from or its a NetworkTeam ?
regs wally
used to be a german distro in the old days
VietNam is waiting for you also
Seattle, WA is also waiting (fortunately there is a big lake between us and Redmond)
Has anyone read the End User License Agreement for 11.0b3? I have looked and looked for the EULA for this release but have not found it anywhere.
My concern is that Novell might be changing the license to limit our previous rights? This is according to an article at
http://lwn.net/Articles/283566/
Will the next release have even fewer rights? Why?
Why bother about a Beta 3 pre-release license when RC1 is current and has another license?
Can anybody tell me what I’ll be able to actually do with this version, that I can’t already do with Suse 10.0?
I don’t want to know about new versions of old software – or more options or applications to do the same old things. What NEW things will I be able to do that I couln’t do before?
If no new feature/version can convince then you should consider that 10.0 security update support ended last year – and you’re obviously with that connected to the Internet!
I have installed the RC1 on a computer i have next to me. I used install icon on the desktop of the live cd for Kde and i386.
i began at 3.12pm and was on the installed desktop in brand new kde 4 at kde 3.32pm.
This amazed me !!
i thank the team for the great job done : the install process is a jewel and joy !
All worked properly and was recognized normally
Things i noticed after a while :
-Something strange is that Amarok does not recognise my external HDD, even though i thicked the media box in the collection parameters and the HDD looks normally mounted and available in the bottom right applet on the desktop.
-the 1-click install codec pack for kde does not install for it depends of an amarok version it can’t provide. You 1st need to add this new amarok, or to skip the amarok install in the 1-click codec pack to be able to continue. Kind of disturbing for a 1-click item …
Belarus steel waiting openSuse 11 too …
Great thanks for your work …
my birthday is on 9th of june, but I shall move it to 19th
greetings from Serbia
We are anxiously waiting for the final release of the product.Hope it will be of real help to the users and will satisfy the end users as per their expectations.
Waiting for openSUSE 11 + KDE 3.5.9
YEAH (H)
Go OpenSuse! Please help me get rid of winzoz and give me a linux-based that support my video drive!
In OpenSuse we trust… (P.s. it was my first linux distribution!)
Italy is waiting
Finland is waiting!!!
Uruguay waiting!
India is eagerly Waiting
It would me really glad if OpenSUSE 110 final release can have a modification of the pager at this very moment, cause I think the yellow colour of it and the black border is not so pleasant. ( if possible, can the square shape be modified? The sharp angles are a bit too weird compared to the taskbar
Hi!
Will my SB X-fi work properly on OpenSuse 11??
great release, but i’ve same strange problem…
the gnome calc doesn’t work: i start it and my cpu go to 100% but nothing appens…
my touchpad doesn’t work after login (buttons and the two scroll area works, but no movement of mouse pointer): worked in the setup process, works at login screen but after that stop responding.
i’ve a dell xps1530, btw.
and pulseaudio seems having problem too.
hope everything will be fixed soon!
Lukasz, My SB X-Fi Xtreme gamer works fine in Opensuse 10.3
Check out http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?act=ST&f=4&t=49004 for more information and hope Creative make more and better opensource drivers!
Ireland is waiting for OpenSuSe 11.0! Bring it on!
Another greet from The Netherlands, we’re waiting for you!
Puerto Rico is on the way!!!
Latin America is ready for OpenSuse 11.0!
yeah algeria is waiting, you rock guys
I’ve tried KDE 4.03 in Ubuntu 0804, Fedora 9 and Opensuse 11.0 Beta3.
KDE 4 not ready yet for daily use. Many apps that run fine in KDE 3.53
either don’t run at all or crash very fun.
Wait for first fix of KDE 4.1 (4.1.1 ?!)before trying to install and
use daily. Gnome works fine in all 3 distros mentioned.
Argentina is waiting for 11.0!!!!
Nvidia easy solutions ,please!!!!
Tatarstan (Russia) is waiting for 11.0!!!!
I installed Beta 3. Autoupdate always updates. Will my system automatically becomes to FINAL?
Norway is waiting!
beta 3 has decided to crap out on me, and I’m too impatient to wait 10 days for the final release of 11.0, so I’m downloading the RC. Looks really good!
The United States is waiting!
China is waiting!
Hey…..China, Cordoba se la re-banca con OpenSuse 11,…..aqui tomando ginebra te estamos esperando
Yes! The USA! Why is it that there are so many more people from Europe waiting than Americans? openSUSE looks GREAT!
My real question is: WHY IS EVERYBODY NAMING THEIR COUNTRY?!
china is not europe
Dude, that’s not the only commentator. Don’t worry about my precise wording, it’s the same question: There are about as many people talking about Chile (I know that’s not Europe), for example, as America, and there are lots of European countries. I’d just expect a little more comments from Americans than there are, but maybe Linux just isn’t as big here as it should be.
redhat (and derivatives) rules in US
Is there a way to upgrade RC1 to final version without having to re-install?
In Konqueror, after I click a jpg file, the Konqueror crash.
Technically, yes. But it’s easier just to wait a few more days.
From Mani (above):
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It is possible to upgrade (by deleting beta sources from repository and adding stable release repository and full update).
KDE4.1 is in beta – it will be released after suse 11 releases. (July, i think)
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hey guys.. Italy is here too
Venus is waiting…
Uruguay is waiting for 11.0 !!!!
come on guys, let the party start!
Russia is ready to get a new release! We are waiting for 11.0!
PHILIPPINES IS WAITING FOR THE NEW RELEASE! MABUHAY open SUSE
Felicidades excelente distribución, esperando el día final para la descarga.
the last update is broken:
zypper up
Reading installed packages…
The following packages are going to be upgraded:
gspcav-kmp-default uvcvideo-kmp-default ndiswrapper-kmp-default
wlan-ng-kmp-default kernel-source kernel-default libgnomeui
The following NEW patches are going to be installed:
kmps libgnomeui kernel
Overall download size: 75.4 M. After the operation, additional 60.0 K will be used.
Continue? [YES/no]:
Downloading package kernel-source-2.6.25.5-1.1.i586 (1/10), 53.1 M (263.0 M unpacked)
Downloading: kernel-source-2.6.25.5-1.1.i586.rpm [error (60 B/s)]
File ‘./rpm/i586/kernel-source-2.6.25.5-1.1.i586.rpm’ not found on medium ‘http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.0/’
Abort, retry, ignore? [A/r/i]: a
Downloading: repomd.xml [done (187 B/s)]
Problem downloading the package file from the repository:
Can’t provide ./rpm/i586/kernel-source-2.6.25.5-1.1.i586.rpm : Media Exception
Repository ‘http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.0/’ is out of date. Running ‘zypper refresh’ might help.
the new KDE4 konsole doesn’t seem to support tranparency anymore
colombia !! is waiting
hi, i have found some bugs or “suspicious feature” then where to post it?
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to make OpenSuse even more bugs free than it is.
Bugs should be filed in Bugzilla, of course.
Croatia is waiting for openSuse 11.0 to, and how it say “@Nelson R V” im like “a kid for his christmas present..”, but just 8 more days to go
I await suse 11 but, give real FF3.0 (forget beta or RC) or give FF 2.0.0.14. Eventually add to CD both and give an option of choice.
Firefox 3.0 Final will be distributed via online update.
You guys really rock! And – I konow that it is going to be thr best release ever. Just love openSUSE.
Greetings from Estonia!
openSUSE 11.0: Brasil is waiting for you!
openSUSE 11.0: Russia is waiting for you!
Samara is waiting for OpenSUSE 11!
openSUSE 11.0: Malaysian people is waiting for you! horrayyy!!!!!
great!! Italy is waiting as well!! we are looking forward this new release!!
Chile is waiting..!!!
i’ve been using suse since 9.3. nothing makes me chanche this fantastic SO.!!!
Tehran here, can’t wait to see final release!
And so is Nicaragua, waiting for the latest and greatest Linux distro: Suse!
No one from Singapore yet? We are waiting for the final release!
Poland is waiting too! only few more days …
Lots of respect to all openSUSE crew !
From spain, suse 11.0 , I am waiting for final release.
In spanish,
“…. desde España, Suse 11.0, te estamos esperando, te queremos YA!!!!…”
Russia waits it like no other
Respect to openSUSE crew!
Respekt to the #suse crew and the peeps that make this distro happen. NYC looking for some 11.0 love too.
Holla!
This is coming together nicely. The installer has been cleaned up and other oddities are getting resolved. I can’t wait for the final release. Way to go everyone.
openSUSE 11.0, Lithuania is waiting you. Big Thank YOU to SuSE team, boys well done. SuSE is the best distro
Lietuva laukia nesulaukia openSUSE 11.0, Didelis Aciu SUSE komandai, vaikinai nepaprastai geras darbas. SuSE geriausia Linux distro.
I realy can’t wait. Only logical choice…
Serbia is waiting
SuSE/Team: Thank for a great distrinbution.
Dominican Republic waiting for 11.0…
Been using SuSE since 6.4, have a production machine in 7.3 (well i will upgrade it…at last), 9.3 and 10.3. Personally use 10.3 in my laptop and 10.2 on pc. I cannot wait for 11.0. Thanks guys for the good work. (open)SuSE is always my favourite.
OpenSUSE 11.0 Russia is waiting 4 U!
OpenSUSE India is waiting tooo……
OpenSUSE Canada is eagerly waiting
Serbia is waiting for for you
the albanian undergr0und is waiting 4 y0u sw3ety
Rostov-on-Don (Russia) is waiting v.11 with great interest! Preved!
Waiting in Guatemala.
Los Chetos de Cordoba ” capital ” ……………. waiting for 11.0…
Only one problem in rc1, well two really. 1. Updater keeps asking to check
online for updates even though repositories are installed. This happened
with days before main Suse 11 public release. 2. desktop effects causes
blank screen after restarting and logging in to user account.
Other than that the new version is better than any other Suse version I
have used. Wireless works well, some programs like firefox 3b5 close
after start but in all it is great.
I’m using KDE 4.
Cant wait for the final release only two days to go.
Sara Donald.
Oh by the way, I am using a Dell Inspiron 6400 with Intel wireless mini card and all runs well. I also have it running on a Dell 530s and an Acer T135.
Sara.
Russia is waiting for 11 release!!! Hello from Kazan`!!!
kleorn,
Preved medved!:))
Lithuania is not waiting for Suse 11. Just use Debian Gnu/Linux!
… y en Tacuarembó, Uruguay, también esperamos por openSUSE 11 !
i cant wait no more. aaaaaaaaaaaa! give it to me!!
Ulyanovsk (Russia) is waiting SUSE v.11 with great interest!
Preved vcem Rossiyaninam! =)
Tenerife (Spain) is waiting for OpenSUSE v11!
Russia can`t wait more!!!! GIve it for us! I want OPENSUSE 11 NOW!!!!
Chile can’t wait anymore!! opensuse is the best distro!
that’s good.
In RC1 I didn’t need to use 915resolution for my Intel graphic card
Installation process was really fast! that’s too good
Now going to check mobile internet with HUAWEI E226 3.5G. Hope it works!
South Africa standing by to plunder the FTP site
Using 10.3 atm, and is very happy with it
I feel a fascinating smell of one of the best distroes of all ages…
Cann’t wait to touch it…
City of Krasnodar (Russia) is waiting impatiently for openSUSE v.11.0…
18 hours to go!!! OMG!!!!
waiting, waiting and waiting……What a painful job
Ukraine is wait for suse 11!!!
14 hours last…
Philippines here, heheh…i know, “waiting is the hardest part” but were almost there bro.! down to 12!
so im from the us, and also new to liux but excited for the release. when will i be able to download this? its now 2 min before midnight here in Michigan.
openSUSE 11.0: Poland is waiting for you!
Peru is waiting for you !!!!