Comments on: Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5 Now Available

By: Dich

Dich — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:49:14 +0000

hey folks, go ahead, announce the RC1 ! It’s already on the download, why keep it silent? :) gonna try this out now!

By: Jim O.

Jim O. — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:49:55 +0000

Your list of “Most Annoying Bugs” disturbs me. I would say that the most annoying bug in Beta 5 is the “touchpad” bug (aka the “gsynaptics” bug) that has been in OpenSuSE 10.3 (64-bit), OpenSuSE 11.0 (both 32-bit and 64-bit) and is still in 11.1 Beta 5 (I have confirmed it in 32-bit and expect that it is still in 64-bit). The only reason I have not opened a new Bug Report is because we are not supposed to do so. It would be labeled a “duplicate” and closed. So are you now saying that you are going to ignore pre-existing bugs and we have to open new bugs to get them corrected? If that is the way you want to wor I can do that, but you should make up your minds about these procedures.

By: Dich

Dich — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:57:20 +0000

I’ve tried the latest beta (5.2 from factory liveCDs), and I must admit it’s very impressive. A lot of major and minor improvements make it a very usable distro. KDE4 still lacks some of the functionality of old-good kde3, but that’s being actively worked upon, obviously.
I was wondering if we users can somehow support Novell/openSuSE by providing CPU power for the final builds. Like if there’s a virtual environment which one can download and run, which would then connect to the central server (like all these S.E.T.I. or einstein software was doing), get the next package to build, compile it and send back to server. I think most of the necessary components are available for such a trick. That will make openSuSE a really COMMUNITY distro ;-)

By: gustavodiazjaimes

gustavodiazjaimes — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:11:53 +0000

Estoy realmente contento con OpenSuse 11.1 beta5, Muchas Gracias!!
agrege el paquete phone-backport-xine para el soporte de mp3 de Amarok2 e instale el repositorio de VirtualBox ya que existia un conflicto de permisos, de resto todo es como queria (bueno, faltaba Wesnoth). Mesa reconocio lo suficiente para agregar los efectos de escritorio de kde 4.1 con mi ati-radeon200 (:D) sin el problema de el doble proceso xorg que ponia tan lento mi pc!!!.
En pocas palabras, ESPECTACULAR!!.

By: Chuck Taylor

Chuck Taylor — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:37:04 +0000

You could try ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/opensuse/distribution/11.1-Beta5/iso/openSUSE-11.1-Beta5-DVD-i586.iso It only took three hours for a download from them for me.

By: jprohner

jprohner — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:44:49 +0000

Small question.
Why does no one put this on the news net under Alt.Binaries
That way everyone would have a fast path to it.
The Bit thing stinks spent 2 days getting 60%. Hell I can download fron news (UUCP) at 900KB.
Can someone please put the 64 bit version up there. At this rate I’ll be here waiting when the RC is released.
Giganews or any of them can do this.
Ubuntu works with one of them..

Have some mercy. Post this broken into rars with some pars on the news net.

Thank You.

By: krushna

krushna — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:43:12 +0000

All video player with codecs (like codeine,xine) should be present inside the media as givern by mandriva 2009.So that it can be used as a best desktop operating system with out using internet.If codecs are present in media, suse linux will be the best operating system in the world as far as stability is concerned

By: WarpKat

WarpKat — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:52:46 +0000

FreeTDS with support compiled into PHP, please? It’s not a big package!

By: Granier

Granier — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:46:19 +0000

Hi,
i have a problem of keyboard with beta 5
the installation seems to be ok and i can use the keyboard during the installation but when i log my keyboard doesn’t work any m

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:46:23 +0000

Actually when I install suse, after the installation process i cannot see anything, so i cannot use it… i have a toshiba m300, mobility readeon 254mb and 2.4ghz of cpu…
what it could be the problem?

thanks