openSUSE 11 beta 1 is out….
As with the previous alpha releases with openSUSE 11, this beta release also packs a lot for the user. It packs KDE 4.0.3 it includes Gnome 2.22.1 (beta 1). YaST has been ported to Qt-4. Gnome comes with a LOT of new and exciting stuff. You can read more about gnome’s new beta in the release notes. The most interesting feature for mes seems to be the window compositing thing. I never could run Compiz on this machine 
KDE 4 has been integrated with the release of openSUSE from now on. It also has a new package manager (this is what I am looking forward to…. even lovers of SUSE like me will agree that compared to portage or synaptic…. YaST sucks in package management).
The new package management solution, PackageKit, is another interesting feature: openSUSE 11.0 will have native PackageKit support (the backend is upstream) and it works really well. The yum backend has no good reputation. The ZYpp backend in 11.0 inherits all the unbeatable speed of ZYpp 4.x and it is robust at the same time.
Screenshots :-
Apart from these notable changes a few of the changes include,
- Linux kernel 2.6.25-rc9
- updated gcc 4.3 branch
- libzypp 3.12.1
- PackageKit 0.2.0
- AppArmor 2.3
- Xen 3.2.1 RC1
- glibc 2.8 CVS
- PulseAudio 0.9.10
Further, if you would like to take part in testing this release then you could always coordinate with others and subscribe to the opensuse-testing@opensuse.org (subscribe) mailing list to help with organized testing.
openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1 for i386, x86-64 and PPC comes as different media sets, all of which can be downloaded from http://software.opensuse.org/developer
Happy testing… if only I did not have my exams going on… I would have started using and testing it full on… (Maybe I would still do that, but that is not for certain….)
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