SUSE 5508 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 3 has been released:

I'm glad to announce the third public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3.

Important Changes Since Alpha2
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The following are some highlights of Alpha3 compared to Alpha2:

* On x86-64: Firefox is now a 64-bit package and uses nspluginwrapper to handle 32-bit i386 plugins if needed.

* AppArmor uses now a new parser. The kernel patches have been reworked completely. Please do test AppArmor extensively (see below).

* GNOME 2.18 mostly integrated.

* Update to Kernel 2.6.21 RC5

* New opensuse-updater running natively under GNOME

* Further fixes for using libata by default for IDE devices

* New yast2-ftp-server module.

* The package manager handles more than one CD/DVD drive.

A more detailed list of changes is available via
http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News

SUSE 5508 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 2 has been released:

I'm glad to announce the second public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3.

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha2 is an important milestone for us since it is an installable release so that everybody doing development in the last weeks can double check that their changes not only work in their own environment but also in the complete distribution. It also shows us the state of STABLE so that everybody should be able to use STABLE as basis for their work.

SUSE 5508 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 has been released:

I'm glad to announce the first public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3.

Since the openSUSE 10.2 final release, the most significant changes are:

* GNOME is moved to /usr. Please do test especially updates from older distributions.
* KDE updated to KDE 3.5.6.
* Linux Kernel updated to 2.6.20. There's no Xen support enabled for now.
* Pattern for minimal text install (see the opensuse-factory thread for details)
* Update of OpenOffice.org to version 2.1.3.
* The whole distribution is build now with -fstack-protector to better guard against some buffer overflows.
* Usage of LUKS by default for crypto partitions in YaST. Both GNOME and KDE handle removable LUKS media now.