That’s great
Thank you !

Thank you for this release!!!

I cant wait until I get home in the evening to install it.
Great job guys.

Thanks for the very nice distro and very hard work ! I can’t wait for use it.

Thanks. It’s a really great distro

many thanks guys! Great release!

YEAH!!
Thanks for the very nice distro and very hard work ! I can’t wait for use it.[2]

I hope you’ll make available very soon repos for this release including nvidia

Thanks for the great distro and i have been like a kid waiting to go to the candy store waiting for this release.

yay

Спасибо! Линукс – большая альтернатива Windows

Heh, domainhacked the torrent path and been one of the first to get it
Can’t wait to install! Thank You Guys for the Good Hard Work involved!!!

Great job, nice selection of new features, congratulations!
A bit sad the documentation didn’t meet the release deadline, hence putting the question here: How does one upgrade a system running 11.2 to 11.3 SMOOTHLY (I guess this was one of the hot features foreseen for 11.3)
Thanks!

Thanks guys….
i have been waiting for this…

I don’t know if this is the new official way, but here is what I did, and it worked like a charm.

Update all your repo information by replacing all 11.2 with 11.3
Run zypper dup and accept the license
Enjoy a nice meal while you wait

This was by far the smoothest distro upgrade I have ever done. The quality level of openSUSE has really gone up in the last couple of years, and the switch to 11.3 really hit it home to me. Great work guys!

Good!

Finally! Said 1 day until release 2 days ago! I’ve been watching the clock count down!

Dissappointed to see KDE as the default desktop now, but I think I’ll live, since the option is given at installation for GNOME or XFCE (would be nice to see even more DEs on the DVD, or an option to install no DE and just X.org and use it as a CLI distro)

Hope Yum is still good for LPIC-1

Downloading now. I am hoping the multi-media support is better then in the past. The last version also stopepd running after I installed software from the repos. Looking forward to running this new version. I’ve been trying OpenSUSE since 10.1.

nice one !!!

Big thanks to the openSuse team for it’s hard work and dedication. I am in the process of downloading 11.3 x 2. The 32 bit version for my brother and the 64 bit for me. i will share my experience with you all after the installation

thaks suse team. have been waiting for long for this release. downloading right now. hope 64 bit have a better integration than the past versions, which pushed me to 32 bit.
did they mention NetBooks???)))
Thanks again!

thanks it’s the best choose for my laptop and I love it.

wooooooooow
cangratulations to all open minds

Thanks for such a great distro!

Thank you. I’m doing the upgrade right now

Hoooooorales super perron, yo uso Gnome ya estoy bajando la vercion de 64 bits para ver que tal funciona en mi lap hehehehe domo arigato gosaimasu ^_^ ajuuuua

Thanks! You guys rock… I can’t wait to install it… Really.. I mean it thanks for all the effort you put into this distribution.

A big tanks, the new release is awesome!

Simply Stellar SUSE!

Long live openSUSE.

Great, this is the best Suse since 9.3

Thanks for releasing such a great distro! I’m currently an ubuntu guy myself but after reading all these positive comments I’m just gonna have to download openSUSE and give it a go once again and see if it’ll make my mind this time. Cheers!

The image of lizard present opensuse 11.3 is cooooooool!!!! Really cooooool!!! Like the distro!

Nice one opensuse!

Yay, more OpenSuse to enjoy .

KDE is one of the more important things that make openSUSE the best distro. It is the more powerful and beautiful desktop env. for Linux, it should be the default desktop.

rgds.

I used to say in this space and I am gonna repeat it: openSUSE is unbreakable. Thanks a lot to the development team and all of you guys who contributed to make our beloved openSUSE the best Linux Distribution.

Have a lot of fun ….

Thank you for your hard work and this fine edition from an SUSE oldtimer, who made his first steps with SUSE-4.2. I am using 11.3 since rc2, and except for some trouble with nouveau and VMware it worked out of the box. The nouveau problem is solved, but VMware still waits for a fix, as I can’t compile the kernel modules because of “missing kernel sources” which are present and working when I compiled the kernel itself. So I have to stick to 11.1 for a while, because I moved all DOS and Windows stuff into virtual machines .

It would have been a good release, but the live CD leads to a dirty installation (vbox tools, vmware tools, ncsd error at boot). Additionally nvidia and ati drivers are not available as pre-packaged RPM’s, something in clear contradiction with the goal of being a usable and friendly distribution.

我是一名来自中国的程序员，我看着自己喜欢的openSUSE发布时间一天一天减少，特别激动。特别是 还有一个小时时候，非常感谢openSUSE 给我们带来这么好的Linux 发行版

[b]Oh…thank you from China…Cause I am new to Linux, I am using Ubuntu now, I will try openSUSE when I get better in Linux. Thanks for offering us such a nice system!:)[/b]

I don`t think Ubuntu is suit for programmer,openSUSE is much better!!

“The next release will be openSUSE 11.4 in March, 2011. Thank you, and have a lot of fun!”

What happened to:

November 2009: “Fichte” 11.2
July 2010: “Rousseau” 11.3
March 2011: “Voltaire” 12.0
November 2011: “Lessing” 12.1

11.3 is great but i am having one issue with the installer (in fact, this issue has existed since 11.0, i think): after the first pass of the installer when it reboots the machine, my laptop does not boot until i pull its battery out for a few seconds, plug it back in and restart the laptop. This has happened consistently on 3 of my laptops and *only* with openSUSE.

What change, if any, does the installer make to the MBR to cause this? All 3 laptops are from HP so it could be a BIOS issue. However, i have tried many other Linux distributions and none of them cause a similar issue.

Thanks.

Thanks for your great work from Persia, openSUSE’s still got it.

I never used ubuntu, why exactly is Opensuse better for programmers?

Oh yes, it is the first unfriendly release of oS. The default driver for my nVIDIA graphics card works terrible – no 3D support, no compositing support and so on.

P.S. But my Canon CanoScan 8800F works for me at last! Thanks to oS Team!

I use SuSE since ten years now. openSUSE 11.3 is the best! Thanks for all the innovations.

I use SuSE since 5 years now. openSUSE 11.3 is the best! Thanks for all the innovations.

thx

The words below are for your and my satisfaction.

”openSUSE-11.3 nVidia users (for the “Easy Way”, “Repository Way”, and “Hard Way” proprietary driver methods, should pay attention to the openSUSE-11.3 release notes to add nomodeset to the kernel boot command line prior to installing the proprietary nVidia driver. To set this permanently, add it to the kernel command line in /boot/grub/menu.lst.

In cases when there is still a problem set the NO_KMS_IN_INITRD sysconfig variable to yes via yast > System > /etc/sysconfig Editor > System > Kernel > NO_KMS_IN_INITRD. Reboot your machine and proceed with the proprietary driver install instructions for your chosen method.

The 1-click install repository links for the “Easy Way” and “Repository Way” will be populated after the mid-July-2010 release of openSUSE-11.3”.

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers#openSUSE_11.3

Em, I don’t why you say there is no 3D support with the nouveau driver, but glxgears works excellent in a freshly installed opensuse 11.3. However, I admit, I haven’t managed to start the composite effects of kwin

I installed it yesterday. It has been smooth sailing so far. Thanks!

Hint for laptop users with ATI Radeon GPUs:
1. install a 2.6.35.rc kernel from the repositories.
2. echo “low” > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile (do this as root)
3. enjoy basic power management from the radeon driver for your GPU!

Have been using suse+kde since opensuse 10.0. Congrats for the hard work of keeping up this
elegant distro!
Do bring back some of the functionality of Konqueror. Dolphin still not quite there.

for nvidia drivers:

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/multimedia/441989-nvidia-drivers-11-3-a.html

I installed 11.2 before on my hp dv7-3065dx and almost burn my video card ati radeon hd 3200 and then it burn my surge protector. I want to install 11.3 on the same machine with dual boot windows 7 and I want to know If i will encounter the same problem or a good result from 11.3 I love suse my favorite linux os. please send me a response on my email address. I check hcl or hardware compatibility list 11.1 support my video card ati radeo hd 3200, please let me know if there are improvement with this issue on 11.3. more power to suse, thank you.

Installed it today.
Works smothly…:)

I don’t know but I’m not so happy with this release. There is an nscd error, I get graphic relics sometimes, the whole system is significant slower than 11.2 (11.3 new installed). Java Software is very slow. Maybe an openJDK issue? kwallet opens sessions 4 and 5 times instead 1 time on the start (with amarok 4 times?!?!). I didn’t test everything yet but every time i test something new I get some issues. I thought because of the longer release-cycle the distribution would be more stable, but unfortunately it seems the developers got out of time to check some important issues (ncsd again). That’s the first release since I use Suse (5.x) that I’m unconvinced of.

Thank you dhruva! It works!

Doesn’t work with my radeon 4870. it freezes without “nomodeset” at boot time. it boots only without KMS support, but then it turns off all accelerations – very wise! i believe, if you can’t turn on acceleration, then there’s no driver at all: what it for then? i’m opensuse user for about 5 years, and i’m very disappointed. i’m just sitting without working environment now, because that bloody fglrx doesn’t install at all.

You may want to try this to get Catalyst 10.6 (most recent fglrx) installed on OS 11.3:
http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/07/15/ati-hd57xxx-flgrx-drivers-under-11-3/

ATI haven’t updated their drivers yet to support OS 11.3.

@angelbert parungo:

You need to install GPU power management support for Radeon cards. You have basically two choices:

a) either install fglrx (proprietary ATI Radeon driver)
b) or update your kernel to 2.6.35.rc (includes power management for the open source radeon driver coming with OS 11.3)

See my other posts on this page.

That’s awesome. Can’t hardly wait to try this at my acer 4740G.

This is a great distribution release! this makes me even more proud to let everyone know i’m a Novell partner!

Keep up the great work!

I did all that and ended up getting only the console on boot. Not even the safe mode is helping me to get a gui and the nvidia installation keeps giving me an nvidia.ko error.

Great release. Keep up the great work!!

you need to go ->Yast->/etc/sysconfig Editor
do a search for KMS
go to
chanche the setting of NO_KMS_IN_INITRD to yes
say OK
restart with init 3 option
and make a normal install of the driver as usual..
worked for me..

Grear Realease. Works fine on my HP6715s Notebook. Thanks to everyone who made this possible.

just installed new 11.3 64bit – i am the only one having problems with shutting down computer ?
neither RESTART OR MAIN RED BUTTON / SHUTDOWN COMPUTER / OFF TABS are working -
only the HIBERNATE tab on main applications launcher menu shuts down computer – why ?

previous install of 11.2 64bit successfully deleted and replaced with new 11.3 – new installation seemed to progress ok and completed successfully -
using 2 x 500gb RAID mirror setup drives – internet download of software from sue.org during install was also fine as far as i can tell -

why is it not possible to shut down computer using regular red OFF button on main menu or using icon on bottom of screen taskbar /
RESTART tab on main menu doesn’t work either – why ?

I have 64 bit version of OpenSUSE 11.3 and it works shutting down. Probably it is your own problem…

kuickshow missing in 11.3 in all repos It’s there for 11.2, it’s there for factory….

Thank for release!!!!!!

Congratulations for the new release! However, the NVIDIA drivers are missed….

انها توزيعتي المفظلة على الاطلاق مبروك عليك يا سوس و كل سنة و أنت بألف خير يــا سوس , أحـــبـك

Why don’t y’all just add the NVIDIA repo that’s in the Community section?

I just upgraded from opensuse 11.2 to 11.3 and I’m using the KDE desktop environment. Everything work well except the fonts looks thin compared to the fonts I had in 11.2.This really strains my eyes. Can some one tell me all to solve this problem. I’m using an MSI laptop with an intel chip set.

Thanks for a good release. I installed on my Dell inspiron 15R with no problems.

you did it guys. upgrade from 11.2 to 11.3 was flawless. Even issues I got had with VirtualBox 3.26 on 11.2, are gone with 11.3 Upgrade. It runs smoother, faster and cleaner then before.

you guys really did it. Good Going OpenSUSE Team!! And to All who helped make this possible!!

Thank you so much for nVIDIA repository! Now I feel better.

I’m a KDE user and used Suse for more than 5 (five) years now. Anyway, I’m disappointed by this very poor release and seriously think on moving to Kubuntu or Fedora KDE spin.

OpenSUSE 11.3 it’s a very poor release because:
1. After installing the 11.3 GM 64 bit DVD, the release notes that were automatically downloaded were about the Factory version
2. After installation, the system keeps on freezing (I thing it’s a KMS related problem). Insufficent testing for a mainstream distro like openSUSE.
3. The whole installation system is antique and less shiny compared to the one in Kubuntu. It should auto detetct and use the display’s native resolution, bu it doesn’t.
4. And not to forget that whole green theme. It is a bad joke and appropriate only for a Factory version.
5. When you type in a console “yast2 runle” and press the TAB it doesn’t autocomplete anymore (like in 11.2). This is just one example (the same applies to disk module, lan module, sw_single module, etc)
6. It doesn’t provide a live DVD from within you can start the installation.

I used to love openSUSE. Now I think that the SUSE coordinators should catch up with the times and take a look at a modern linux distro like Kubuntu, especially for the mentioned points (1,2,3,4 and 6).

are u stupid?

Just to make it clearer for people who are not experts:

$ su -
# sed -i “s#11.2#11.3#g” /etc/zypp/repos.d/*.repo
# zypper dup

1. log in as root
2. replace every occurrence of 11.2 with 11.3 in the zypper repos
3. perform a zypper distribution upgrade

sed -i “s#11.2#11.3#g” /etc/zypp/repos.d/*.repo

This may not always work, because “packman” != “Packman” :

http://mirror.geht-schon.de/packman.links2linux.de/suse/11.3/packman.repo
http://mirror.geht-schon.de/packman.links2linux.de/suse/11.2/Packman.repo

@ current date

Not sure you can call it antique. The problem I’ve found in most cases is that the correct NVIDIA drivers have never been updated correctly for openSUSE 11.x, so you don’t have CompizConfig or Desktop Effects working correctly out of the box making the system look really crap. If you manage to find the working NVIDIA drivers it will then work really well. However, any upgrade requires logging in as root to in single user mode or non-graphics mode to rebuild the drivers. So using twin TFT screens of different sizes in particular, is quite problematic. Amarok, banshee, mplayer, I’ve also had problems with constantly. Then this seems to be a common problem because of x86_64 OS installations having conflicts with firefox. Other than that, I’ve found that you have just as many repositories to choose from as Ubuntu and Debian (Lenny). I’m having the same old problem however with gnome-screensaver that I had with openSUSE 9.3 (i386) where you get lockup. Somethings don’t change!

Looks pretty good from what I’ve seen.

Just one question, any idea of when or if xrdp/nomad will be available for 11.3 (64bit)?

okay I take it all back from my comment at 13:24:31 today. Amarok now working fine out of the box with 11.3 whereas never worked with 11.2 or 11.1. Nvidia-setting not required any more. Just remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf and remove many . files from home directory, otherwise screens turn upside down and its really difficult to fix. Might be .nautilus that is required to be removed and .gconf and anything else that doesn’t look like its needed. Then reboot and perfectly working system. Just as good as Ubuntu now, at last! I won’t be moving away from openSUSE 11 now if this is whats available for the future. Two screen option works for me with 1280×960 and 1680×1050 screens side by side which never worked before.

I got a first shok from 11.3 – there is no rp-pppoe-xxx.rpm in this distro. You did not find a place for 386 KB. Why?
I can’t get an access to internet after installation and so I can’t download this software for an access to internet.

توزيعة رائعـــــــــة

Installed 11.2 at time of release. Was a little worried about warning of only 564KB RAM. Two PC’s in use, a Compaq and am HP, both 32 bit. Am wondering if support will continue as I see so much of 64 bit applications.Can I safely install 11.3? My financial resources allow me only refurbs and I expect these to carry on until death do us part. Can I upgrade without having to write my files to CDROM?

Comment on my own entry. Where the 564 came from I do not know! Please deduct 52.

Thank you all!
And how can I upgrade my 11.2 to 11.3 online,not install from DVD again.

I upraded via zypper dup last night,It shown about 3.7G to be download. This morning , I found that it has some files cann’t installed. I tried zypper dup for more times,still not. Then I reboot ,The things,which I don’t want to see,happened, it cann’t start . 555…

I cann’t but to download a DVD iso now. -.-

Full ACK. Missing Kuickshow very hardly too. None of all the other Pic-viewers has such a good workflow like Kuckshow.

that is something great I have ever used. all I am not satisfied of is its look, as I think light weight OS is always faster for slow computers too,
I am trying to use it with gnome or kde3 lets see if it works, By the way great work, Its almost my favorite OS,

It’s the worst suse distribution so far. I have been using suse since 1999 and this is untesteted code.

Just upgraded to KDE SC 4.5 a few minutes ago on 11.3. There is one bug persistent since Beta1 of 4.5: if the desktop effects are on and you change any theme/style configuration, kwin hangs. I have to switch to a vt and restart kwin as “kwin –replace &”. Also, the machine freezes ad-hoc … sometimes just on a mouse click somewhere.

My laptop is an HP 6530b with an intel graphics chip.

For the record, I have Kubuntu and Fedora+KDE 4.5 on the same machine. Neither of them seem to have this “bug”.

Has this been reported already? Right now, I am working with desktop effects off under openSUSE as both the above issues crop up when effects are on.

Very bad release. Really disappointed.
>> Issues in using wireless network. Very unreliable software.
>> My Laptop hanged few times. Was able to move only mouse pointer. Everything else inactive. Very sad about that.

1Q3

I have a hp pavilion dv 8028ea. AMD processor ML-32 + broadcom bcm 4312. NETWORK MANAGER don’t go! I see that in hardware section you have the possibility of choice of network manager wicd or fake network but WICD that (function in my laptop) can’t be used! The icon is showed with a “?”. The idea can be select the network manager or wicd when start the machine in first screen…. PLEASE OPENSUSE make me use out of the ox my laptop! Please! good work guys.

Hi, I’ve download openSuse 11.3 and install in my Compaq CQ41-226LA everything is fine during the installation, but when reestart to the first use and try to load the drivers my computer restart automatically and again and again, which could be the problem.

I donno how I spent these many days without upgrading to Suse 11.3 as I don’t have net connection at home. Nevertheless I am going to install on my lap this evening.

open SuSE 11.3 is stable or not ?

Buen aporte gracias

This version freezes every time I try to use it. I’ve posted on the OpenSuse Forum (http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/applications/443843-opensuse-11-3-mozilla-firefox-freezes-upon-moving-mouse.html#post2202856), but have not received a helpful or complete reply. Can anyone help me with this problem? Everything works fine in Failsafe mode, but I can’t use drivers, print, etc. in failsafe.