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The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 11.1. The openSUSE 11.1 release includes more than 230 new features, improvements to YaST, major updates to GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice.org, and more freedom with a brand new license, Liberation fonts, and openJDK. This is also the first release built entirely in the openSUSE Build Service.
Release announcement.
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Linux.com – openSUSE 11.1 makes Christmas come early
The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the launch of forums.opensuse.org, a merger of the openSUSE Novell support forums, suseforums.net, and suselinuxsupport.de – the three largest English-language dedicated support forums for openSUSE. The merged forums at forums.opensuse.org will provide a single forum for the openSUSE community to find support and discuss openSUSE.
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New forum address: http://forums.opensuse.org/
In order to provide a better service to the existing openSUSE Community and to our new users, we’re pleased to announce that suseforums.net, suselinuxsupport.de and the openSUSE support forums at forums.novell.com (the three largest English speaking dedicated SUSE forums) are joining forces to merge into the new official openSUSE Forums at forums.opensuse.org. Behind the scenes, a project team consisting of Novell employees, openSUSE Community members, and existing forums’ staff have been working on this project since the beginning of 2008. The new infrastructure will be hosted by Novell to ensure the highest possible quality of service.
Current plans are to migrate the existing active members of suseforums.net and suselinuxsupport.de into the official openSUSE Forums, simultaneously implementing Single Sign On for the whole openSUSE Community. We hope to make the transition as seamless as possible, and will go live Spring 2008. More information will be posted as available.
All in all, a big gain for the whole openSUSE Community!
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Good news, IMHO.
You may have seen this: http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=42066&hl=libzypp.so
Many people have had YaST and the package manager broken after installing a dodgy update. The offending update has since been removed from the update repos. There is a fix in the link above.
I wrote a how-to on setting up openSUSE 10.3 as a Home Server.
My openSUSE Home Server.
Please use that articles page for comments.
A few good articles coming out now for openSUSE 10.3:
The Perfect Desktop – OpenSUSE 10.3 (GNOME)
openSUSE 10.3: AMD/ATI Drivers Installation
Review: openSuSE 10.3
Upgrading to openSUSE 10.3
Got any good openSUSE links?
For those who read my openSUSE article, I solved my ATI driver problem the old-fashioned way. I ripped it out and put in an Nvida 7600GS!
Novell’s openSUSE 10.3 is an exciting desktop operating environment that includes or supports nearly every program you need for work and play. But there are those last few programs and issues that make openSUSE just short of perfect. Web browser plugins for some kinds of online content; Windows Media and DVD movie playback support; and drivers for Atheros wireless devices and Nvidia and ATI video cards are the chief things holding openSUSE back for some users. This guide will help you remove as many of those barriers as possible.
I’ve got a new article up. It’s the first one done in this blog:
Installing & Configuring openSUSE 10.3
Also, I revised my openSUSE / Samba article to reflect 10.3:
How To Samba With openSuse 10.3 And Windows XP
Please make comments in the articles comment section.
Although not officially released the “Gold Master” is available via torrent. Installed without a hitch. The only problem I’ve had thus far is trying to install the 3D ATI driver, it just will not work.
There is an EXCELLENT post here:
openSUSE 10.3: Important URLs for Newbies (and not)
That’s it for today. It’s my birthday, and, there will be alcohol involved…
Guess what I’ll be doing next weekend?
Early review, openSUSE 10.3 RC 1 Report at Tuxmachines