Although openSUSE 11.2 is still two months away updated openSUSE 11.1 KDE4 Reloaded images previewing some changes are available now. They are respins of openSUSE 11.1 including KDE 4.3.1, Firefox 3.5 and all the online updates which have been released for openSUSE 11.1.
These installable Live-CDs are useful for people who want to test out KDE 4.3 and users who are doing new installs and want the most recent openSUSE updates straight out of the box, saving a lot of installation time. New in this version is that the images can be also dumped to a USB stick and booted from there.
See the KDE 4.3 announcement for more information on the improvements and new features in KDE 4.3.
Compared to openSUSE 11.1 KDE4 desktop, the images include the latest KDE4 version of applications like Amarok, Digikam, KNetworkManager and the new Qt4-based YaST Control Center. Some additional applications like Choqok, Kompare, Marble and Okteta could be added thanks to a more efficient compression algorithm.
A Note of Caution
Please note that this is not an “official” openSUSE release, and has not undergone the same kind of testing that stable releases receive.
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Can I apply this changes to my existing openSUSE 11.1 installation?
Sure – run online update, add Mozilla OBS repository and follow http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Upgrade :-)
@ Beineri
Are you sure one can use the KDE 4.3 or KDE 4.3.1 Live CD’s to update an _existing_ openSUSE 11.1 install (which is what I think Dmitri wants to do). Could you pl explain in bit more detail, because as per this thread on openSUSE Forums, it is not possible to upgrade an _existing_ openSUSE 11.1 install (that could have GNOME & KDE3 also in addition to KDE4) from the live CD.
http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/421347-installing-kde-4-3-a.html
Neither the question nor the answer was about using the Live-CD for upgrading, read the link.
Can it be used to “upgrade” and UTD 10.0 install ?
Thanks.
No.
Does worldwide very popular ZTE MF636+ 3G mobile data modem work easily with this version of openSUSE?
Previously it hasn’t worked withouT extra work, like Huawei 3G modems do.
Is that 11.1 + KDE 4.3.1 -version somehow “better” than most recent 11.2 factory version from here
http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/
So if this version has not either undergone the same kind of testing that stable releases receive and is partial mix of older and new packets and apps.
The 11.1 respin is probably “better”. Factory contains ever-moving snapshots, and nearly always at any given point in time there will be something broken just as is true with the “milestone” beta’s. The 11.1 respin is essentially the same as updating with the repository at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.1/ (and the Community and Playground counterparts if you are using those) plus any updates in the standard update repository.
Well, just great work!, thanks to the creator/team involved in this release.
I have over a Week using it and works flawlessly, fast and stable.
And kde 4.3.1 its just like fresh, clean, sunrise air … I Love It!
Thanks again! :D
Well done. At the moment I’m downloading KDE 4 Reloaded. (By the way that’s also a cool name.)
I think it’s a pitty, that on the german opensuse.org-site (http://de.opensuse.org) not a hint about that news is. The last news stopped to release at end of july this year.
Greetings from Germany
Daniel
P.S.: One more question. I guess it wouldn’t be difficult to update to 11.2 from this KDE 4-Reloaded release, too.
> I think it’s a pitty, that on the german opensuse.org-site (http://de.opensuse.org) not a hint about that news is.
I’m sure that the German wiki team would welcome any help with translations. :-)
> I guess it wouldn’t be difficult to update to 11.2 from this KDE 4-Reloaded release, too.
Not more easy than an update from stock 11.1 will be.
>> I guess it wouldn’t be difficult to update to 11.2 from this KDE 4-Reloaded release, too.
> Not more easy than an update from stock 11.1 will be.
It may be unwise to assume that an update from stock 11.1 to 11.2 will be easy. With a dual boot machine, both clean instal of 11.1 and an upgrade from 11.0 to 11.1 turned out to be a nightmare, owing to bugs in grub. (see for example Thinkpad won’t boot with 11.1 and weird effects of updating from 11 to 11.1 )
I hope that 11.2 will have resolved these installation/upgrade problems on dual-boot machines, because regrettably we can’t all use Linux-only boxes.
I’ve been running this release for several days now and it is just great. Smooth, fast and predictable. Here’s my latest blog entry:
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
openSUSE 11.2 milestone 7 has been replaced with a community release called openSUSE 11.1 KDE Reloaded. It uses the latest release of KDE, 4.3.1 and it’s a humdinger!!! Everything just works…sound, flash, Java, music, etc. So far it is very fast, stable and thoroughly updated with all the latest security and maintenance releases. You can’t ask for much more…that is until 11.2 is final. jepsr
Needless to say I’m very glad to get my hands on this latest community effort, excellent work team.