Comments on: Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 2 Now Available

By: ForeverNoob

ForeverNoob — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:16:58 +0000

I’ve just tried to install Beta2 on the third partition of my second disk. GRUB install to the same partition failed with an error message saying that the partition not found or something similar. I installed GRUB manually from the live CD, but when trying to boot from HD it refused and again claimed that a partition wasn’t found.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:01:43 +0000

I have an intel i810 or greater display. However, I cannot enable desktop effects. I get a message that says: “Failed to activate desktop effects blah blah blah … Check your X configuration …. compositing type …”

I have compositing enabled and have reconfigured my display with Sax2 and enabled 3D acceleration etc.

Is this a known bug??

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:50:21 +0000

You know, you can burn a live CD image on a DVD+/-RW… By the way, is anyone addressing the trouble with firefox? It has become very unstable with some flash. Flock seems to handle it better.

By: Beineri

Beineri — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:10:00 +0000

Also many people test the live media within virtual machines only.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:31:59 +0000

Didn’t know you could burn the iso to DVD, that worked great… Thanx!

By: Richard (MQ)

Richard (MQ) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:39:48 +0000

Beta 2 bug at top “Bug 431880 – nfs broken on beta2″ is now fixed, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431542#c22

By: R. J.

R. J. — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:07:25 +0000

i keep hearing this that they dont fit on a cd, they fitted on a cd with me. but yeah their is an error with them that wont allow them to be installed. Many people who had the problem that they wouldnt fit on a cd burnt them to a dvd to try. hey, it is a beta, these problems happen, no need to get agro over it.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:29:01 +0000

Why even release livecd’s if they can’t fit on a cd?? Arghhh…

By: Chuck Taylor

Chuck Taylor — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:38:41 +0000

The i386 instruction set, programming model, and binary encodings is still the common denominator for all 32-bit x86 processors. For your “older” machines I would presume this would be the case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386

x86-64 is a superset of the x86 instruction set architecture. x86-64 processors can run existing 32-bit or 16-bit x86 programs at full speed, but also support new programs written with a 64-bit address space and other additional capabilities. If you have a 64-bit PC then this would be the one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64

ppc – PowerPC is a RISC instruction set architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. I don’t believe that you have an Apple PC so this one won’t apply. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC

By: Chuck Taylor

Chuck Taylor — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:21:03 +0000

But if you stay away then you don’t learn anything. People download the early releases to help in finding the errors or “Oooopes”. Even a newbie can do that. Now, on the other hand, your warning is warranted IF the newbie only has one system and can not dual boot. It will not destroy his/her machine but it will be uncomfortable. These latest versions are using KDE4 which is in heavy development mode and can be a problem for a new person. For a brand new person to get the proper feel for the wonder of a SuSE system, I would suggest version 10.3 and maybe version 11.0 then upgrading to 11.1 later.