OpenSUSE 10.3 Alpha 3 Released

[Third Eye]

The third alpha of the upcoming openSUSE 10.3 was released for testing today. The most important changes in this release
are the GNOME 2.18 and the latest kernel, 2.6.21 RC5.

Highlights of this release:

• 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.

Known issues in this release are:

• Java applications are not working due to implementation errors in SUN Java. Bug 252510 Workaround here and also adding "LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=1" to the environment.
• The installation of vim-normal might fail, just ignore it Bug 262706
• Branding and translations are still at the 10.2 level Bug 240598
• The Radeon driver is broken and crashes the X server Bug 263199. Workaround: Disable the MergedFB option (see bugreport).
• Installation with several CD-ROMs might crash at some point Bug 263207
• gnome-main-menu might crash in some installations. bug 263294. Fix: Reinstall gnome-main-menu with --force (you might want to install a new control-center2 package without the duplicated libslab, it's available from the ftp server under 10.3-Alpha3/Extra-RPMs).

Read more about this alpha release here.

Please report bugs you find in openSUSE's bugzilla.

You can download openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 3 (for testing purposes only) now from Softpedia.

You can download openSUSE 10.2 now from Softpedia.

[phreak0ut]

There is always problem with ATI cards. When will the ATI guys improve on giving the right driver for linux users?