openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 Release :Linux2u.co.cc

Whats New in the New release:

Source: http://news.opensuse.org/2010/03/25/opensuse-11-3-milestone-4-release/

• OpenOffice.Org has been updated to 3.2.1 Beta1 with new features
• NetworkManager has been updated to version 0.8 with fixes to better support bluetooth and GSM.
• cups has been updated to version 1.4.2, it “adds over 67 changes and new features to CUPS 1.3.11, including improved Bonjour/DNS-SD support, supply level and status reporting for network printers via SNMP, an improved web interface, and the CUPS DDK tools.”
• The conntrack  – network filtering system has been added. These are userspace tools that allow system administrators interact with the Connection Tracking System, which is the module that provides stateful packet inspection for iptables.
• The Mono stack has been updated to the bug fix release 2.6.3 together with MonoDevelop 2.2.2.
• Python was updated to the bug fix release 2.6.5 RC 2
• samba has been updated to version 3.5.1
• The Moblin team has started with the integration of the Moblin UI into the distribution and plan to have everything ready for the next milestone.
• The LiveCDs  have virtualbox guest tools.  Now features like  screen resizing, seamless mode, and shared clipboards work fine and automatically after boot-up! Check this (~8,5MB) ogv video to see the guest addition features in action.

Gnome/GTK desktop users:

• GNOME has been updated to the GNOME 2.30 release candidate (2.29.92)
• With the next milestone, empathy will be the default IM client for GNOME. Empathy supports now sending files via drag & drop and the IRC module now includes support for common IRC commands such as /join.
• Tomboy’s startup time has been drastically improved. Syncing is now done automatically.
• Natilus’ user interface now includes a new split view mode and the default is set to browser mode.

KDE desktop users:

• KDE has been updated to version 4.4.1 the most important changes:
• A performance problem in KMail when sending emails has been fixed
• Various fixes in Plasma widgets and other addons, such as the analog clock and the picture frame
• A number of fixes in Konsole, KDE’s powerful terminal application
• Amarok is now at version 2.3, “Areas such as podcast support and saved playlists have seen huge improvements, as has the support for USB mass storage devices (including generic MP3 players)”.
• k3b is updated to 2.0 RC2

LXDE desktop users:

• Switch to pcmanfm 0.9.3 and libfm 0.1.9. Now lxde fully supports trash, automount, gvfs, “menu-browsing” and much more.
• lxsession: upgrade to 0.4.3 with d-bus support

As this is a milestone release, 11.3 milestone 4 does contain bugs that we know about, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing.
The known bugs include:

• gwibber has been updated but depends on desktopcouch and that stack is not yet integrated into openSUSE.

You can track the most annoying bugs on the wiki along with 11.3 development. If you want to make sure 11.3 final is free of annoying bugs, we’ll need your help finding, reporting, and fixing those hidden bugs.




To learn more about testing openSUSE, visit the Testing pages on the openSUSE wiki. To follow the testing and development process, we suggest that you subscribe to the openSUSE-Factory mailing list (Subscribe | Help | Archives) and join the OpenSUSE-Factory channel on Freenode to discuss openSUSE development.
The next openSUSE Milestone is scheduled to be released on Friday, April  the 9th, with additional new features and bug fixes.

Download (mirrors): openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0515-i686.iso (683MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0515-i686.iso (694MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0515-x86_64.iso (690MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0515-x86_64.iso (693MB, MD5, torrent).

 

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openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1 released : :Linux2u

The first openSUSE 11.3 Milestone is here. This is the first step toward the next openSUSE release. The most important goal of this first milestone is to test the build interactions
between newly added features in openSUSE Factory, also known as “get the snapshot to build”. It is in no way feature complete or ready for daily usage. There is no code freeze for any component yet, so many major





changes are still to come.
This 11.3 Milestone build will give you a first glimpse of the direction we are pushing the distribution. Read more to learn about the major changes that happened since the release of openSUSE 11.2.

 Desktops

GNOME is at the development version 2.29.5. It is the first GNOME release for year 2010 and fifth development release towards 2.30. A lot of things happened. The webcam booth application cheese completely dropped its HAL dependency. The accounts dialog of the instant messenger Empathy has been reworked to reduce the number of steps to add a new account and Epiphany, the web browser, now stores all form authentication data in the GNOME Keyring. Want to know more? Check out the GNOME 2.29.5 release announcement!
KDE was updated to the first release candidate of the new 4.4 Desktop. The Nepomuk Semantic Search framework has made leaps forward. A new storage backend makes it a lot faster and a timeline view of your files makes finding files used in the past easier. The Plasma Desktop has been further polished. The new widget explorer provides a richer experience for managing desktop widgets. Plasma widgets can now be shared with other users over the network and the handling of storage devices in the desktop shell has been streamlined. Also, in 4.4 Plasma’s little sibling, the Netbook shell debuts as a technology preview. The KDE Development Platform adds the new KAuth authorization framework for easy and secure privilege escalation. The KDE project has a detailed release announcement!
LXDE – the “Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment” is a new player in the openSUSE desktop selection. It is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment. It comes with a beautiful interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard short cuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing. LXDE uses less CPU and less RAM than other environments. It is especially designed for computers with low hardware specifications.

ScreenShot:

Desktop Apps

The world’s best browser Firefox got updated to the latest version 3.6.0. It supports a new type of theme called Personas, which allow users to change Firefox’s appearance with a single click. The protection from out-of-date plugins to keep users safer as they browse got improved and the mozilla developers brought JavaScript performance, the overall browser responsiveness, and startup time up to speed. Thunderbird the award-winning email application from Mozilla was updated to version 3.0.1 which includes a lot of stability and security fixes.
OpenOffice, the free and open productivity suite, in the version 3.2-beta4 (3.1.99.4) is included. OpenOffice 3.2 will bring faster start up times, make further strides in compliance with ODF 1.2 and improve support for other common office document types.


Download:

Interested alpha testers can download (mirror list the live CD images from here: openSUSE-KDE4-LiveCD-Build0412-i686.iso (645MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0412-i686.iso (630MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-KDE4-LiveCD-Build0412-x86_64.iso (659MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0412-x86_64.iso (648MB, MD5, torrent).


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OpenSuse 11.2 Milestone

Release Road Map:

• Oct 01: openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8
• Oct 15: openSUSE 11.2 Release Candidate 1
• Oct 29: openSUSE 11.2 Release Candidate 2  
• Changes Since openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 7
  
  
  Milestone 8 includes the final version of the openSUSE 11.2 branding, fixes the most annoying bugs of Milestone 7. And, of course, it includes many updated packages:
  
  
  
• Linux kernel 2.6.31
• GNOME 2.28 RC
• OpenOffice.org 3.1.1
• openSUSE 11.2 theming is in place
• PulseAudio 0.9.17
• Samba 3.4.1
• postgresql 8.4.1

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OpenSuse 11.2 Milestone 8

About OpenSuse:

World most advanced and easy to use operating system.

My Test Machine:

AMD64 3000+ Processor
MSI Motherboard
512 DDR II Ram
ESPON C 58 Printer
Samsung Monitor.

But I couldn't install to it as every time it leads to console login skipping run level 5.

So I used my friends Lenevo Laptop and its work fine, even there is no freeze or crase. It was amazing fast due to EXT4 partition.

Multimedia:

After installing codecs from Pacman  I didn't find any problem to run my music and movie collection.

KDE 4.3 is awesome to me so I will going to give it 4.8 out 5. 

Conclusion:

I don't know why I think it is the world best operationg system leaving Ubuntu, Fedora and Mandriva far behind. It is possible it leads in innovation and work hard to bring stable desktop rather bringing unstable ,buggy version frequenlty.

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