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!
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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 :D
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 :) .
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 :D
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
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