Comments on: openSUSE Announces Fourth Development Milestone with Kernel Interactivity Patch

By: Will Stephenson

Will Stephenson — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:29:54 +0000

@John Smith Try opensuse-factory@opensuse.org or #opensuse-factory on FreeNode for support.

By: John Smith

John Smith — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:11:23 +0000

The problem was the physical DVD, re-burn and installed just fine.

The problems I’m seeing now are YaST related, can’t install/upgrade glibc-devel, elfutils-devel, etc, any sugestions?

thanks,
John

By: DarkMac

DarkMac — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:13:58 +0000

Wendell .. any difference after the 200 line patch?

By: John Smith

John Smith — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:49:44 +0000

Trying to install: on System Probing/Initialize package manager I’m getting an YaST2 error:
{
Unable to create repository:
from URL ‘cd:/?devices=/dev/sr0′.

Details:
[|] Valid metadata not found at specified URL(s)
History:
- Can’t hardlink/copy /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001/media.1/media to /var/cache/zypp/raw/cd-e7628009jw3PWi
- Can’t provide /media.1/media

Try again?
}
I had high hopes, any help would be appreciated,

thanks,
John

By: Will Stephenson

Will Stephenson — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:35:46 +0000

@Joseph Don’t jump to conclusions: Gnash is just included on the distro as an option. Unless the milestone stories say otherwise, version updates are just that, no change of defaults.

Regarding LibreOffice, all the OpenOffice team at SUSE are now working on LibreOffice, so it would be foolish to ship anything else. Others are free to provide it using the Build Service but given that [Libre|Open]Office are both pretty hefty I’ll stick my neck out and say there will only be space for LO on the DVD.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:11:27 +0000

I’m sorry to hear the real OpenOffice is being replaced with a fork with no financial backing or support or long-term plan or finalized structure or even reason for existing (or even any differences at this point). I trust we can rely on the configurability and freedom of OpenSuse to replace LibreOffice with the real deal after install, or hopefully right from the DVD during install which would be better.

I’m wondering if Gnash is going to be installed in lieu of pulling in Adobe Flash or again if there will be an option during install? Maybe 11.4 is being a little quick to jump on these open source spinoffs and clones without regarding the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” advice. Neither LibreOffice nor Gnash have proven themselves yet to be superior to what they’re intended to replace in terms of features and stability. I thought the mission statement that was drawn up touted openSuse as offering stability while allowing users to be cutting edge if they chose. It looks like 11.4 might be going for cutting edge by default.

By: Me

Me — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:43:26 +0000

Gnash re-introduced? Last time I have tried it I was happy to find some proprietary software replacement for it ….

By: stasik

stasik — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:39:19 +0000

cant wait for 11.4 to come out. seems to be the best just for suse so far. from there, hope every think will be as good or even better, after all this stuff with Novell…

By: Wendell MacKenzie

Wendell MacKenzie — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:53:21 +0000

thx dude. installed and running it now.

By: Alex Bars

Alex Bars — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:49:49 +0000

Thanks, openSUSE 11.4 will be awesome!!