openSuse 10.3 beta 2

De ontwikkelaars van openSuse hebben de tweede bètaversie uitgebracht van openSuse 10.3. OpenSuse is sinds ongeveer een jaar de nieuwe naam van Suse Linux om verwarring met Suse Linux Enterprise-producten te voorkomen. Zoals gewoonlijk zijn er verschillende uitgaves binnen te halen, een volledige dvd met opensource- en niet-opensourceonderdelen, een cd voor een kale installatie met KDE of Gnome en verschillende cd's met extra software en add-ons. De aankondiging van deze tweede bètaversie ziet er als volgt uit:

The openSUSE Team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3 Beta 2. Though this release should not be used on any production machines, everyone can help shape this release by testing out installations and much more. For more information on the release schedule, take a look at the Roadmap.

Technical Changes:

• Linux 2.6.22.3
• glibc 2.6.1
• YaST infrastructure improved to allow writing complete YaST modules without using YCP (e.g. exclusively in Perl, Python or Ruby)
• Bootloader-related improvements: openSUSE 10.3 will use “chainloader” if it detects additional installations’ bootloader code in other partitions, otherwise “configfile” sections will be used (see Call for Testing below!)
• Improved package lists of 1-CD GNOME and KDE
• Countless bug fixes, all over the place

A more detailed list of the changes is available on the Factory/News wiki page.

Most Annoying Bugs:

• Sax2: Configuration issues on Intel-based GFX-cards (Bug #270846) (A fixed sax2 package will be released via the 10.3 update repository. Watch out for details on openSUSE-factory@openSUSE.org)
• Patterns of remote repositories won’t show up in UI (Bug #302385)
• libzypp: rpm signature verification broken (Bug #302379)
• Signature verification of Release Notes fails
• libzypp: Broken calculation of installing RPM size (Bug #293039)
• libzypp: can’t skip broken packages (skip => abort) (Bug #297001)
• ConsoleKit fails on update (Bug #302148)
• Registration / Adding of Update Repositories fails (Bug #302152)
• Flash/nspluginviewer blocks Konqueror and takes 100% CPU (Bug #294385)
• Win keys are hard binded to GNOME menu (Bug 217044)
• Intel wifi card support: iwl3945-ucode and iwl4965-ucode packages aren’t being installed automatically. Make sure to install them manually, in order to enable your Intel wireless cards.

Call for Testing:

If you want to help testing our standard test cases, please coordinate with others and subscribe to opensuse-testing@opensuse.org!

Hal
• compare lshal output with lshal output from <= Beta1
• check if you get an info on the desktop when you insert a USB-disk/stick, DVD/CDs etc. and if the volumes get mounted correctly
• test if you’re able to umount/eject the media from the desktop
• try to mount LUKS (encrypted filesystem) media
• check if suspend is working correctly (via KPowersave or g-p-m)
• test if you can change the brightness of your laptop panel on <= Beta1, are you able to do the same with the new HAL version?
Package Management (libzypp) and Updates from 10.2
before you report a bug, make sure to check for duplicates
perl-Bootloader/Yast-Bootloader
As we switched to using chainloader or configfile sections for other installations, instead of just using the default entry as image section, please check if all other installed operation systems are still bootable.

Comments, Feedback and Helping:

Please report all bugs you find on in our bugzilla as explained on http://bugs.opensuse.org; discussion is most appropriate on the opensuse-factory@opensuse.org (subscribe) mailing list. For other queries and ways to communicate with the openSUSE community take a look at the Communicate wiki page.

The next planned release is openSUSE 10.3 Beta 3 on Thursday, Sep 6.