Brand new sleek openSuse 11.0 for you
Hi guys,
6 more days to go for June 19- The official release date of the much awaited OpenSuse 11.0, And the excitement has been growing like never before. The new release features all the latest packages as well as the much hyped and awaited KDE 4. Check out some cool screenshots and a review of OpenSuse 11.0 beta 2, here.
I recently found this at the Opensuse Forum, while trying to comprehend the meaning of the word GoldMaster edition as mentioned in the roadmap.
Re: Has opensuse 11 Goldmaster come out yet?After I reading, I felt very excited thinking about the great job done by 1000's of people around the world setting up servers, configuring websites and working round the clock to make sure that when we got to their site to get a distro(For FREE), its always a smooth ride, be it Slackware,Suse or Debian or any other great distro for that matter.GM means it's finished, everything is done and it's ready to be sent out. It's related to game development and windows development. So I'll use those. In game development a GM release would be sent to pressing (to create disc's), packaged and sent to stores for the sell date. The same applies to a windows release, BUT they still do testing, and windows can ship with bugs, as long as they are not show stoppers. (not counting Vista)
Same concept applies here, but instead of going to get pressed (even though it will) they right now are preparing documents, getting the repos ready and contacting people so they can host the image. I imagine 10-15 people are getting the torrent file so they can have that ready, and the Opensuse website is getting configured to support 11, instead of 10.3. Bugs are still being worked, but since they aren't system stoppers these will most likely just be patches released close to the release date of 11. So all in all if you installed RC1 (or updated to RC1) and installed all the package updates you should be good to go, in fact my repo's switched over on my PC a couple days ago to use the 11.0 repos. Thats how it normally works. Remember it's going to take 2-3 days to sync all the servers and mirrors with the 11.0 release.
(source: OpenSuse forum)
And guys, Also do check out the list of some great OpenSuse 11.0 Launch Party Locations.
Bye and do comment about your OpenSuse 11.0/KDE-4 experience after June 19th
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Brand new Suse 11.0 beta 3 for all
(Screenshot of KDE 4 in action :I hope to post some of my own desktop screenshots of KDE 4 soon, as soon I finish my Suse 11 download OR my friend Swaroop finishes the Fedora 9 with kde 4 download)
Hi guys,
The much awaited beta 3 release of Suse 11.0 was released today. You can read the release notes here. I immediately clicked download link in the download page to get my hands on the brand new kde 4. Check out some screenshots of kde 4 here.
If you want to try out Suse 11.0 with kde4 yourself, just head on to http://software.opensuse.org/developer and choose whether you want 32 bit / 64 bit(read the instructions ,just below the radio buttons, to understand which category you want to choose)
As a side note, i want to add some thing here; Nowadays people are crazy over the core 2 CPUs from Intel and X2 from AMD. So although these processors support 64 bit, I would suggest to go for 32 bit Suse distro, because, still a lot of softwares are written nativley for 32 bit(I am quite aware of the site www.64xsoft.com), the conversion to 64 bit memory address space, could result in a slight(very very small) time overhead.This is simple becuase, 64 bit processor show thier optimum power while running native 64 bit apps on a 64 bit platform( and i bet a lot of apps are going to be written(compiled) just for the 64 bit platform in the very near future)
This problem(?) doesn't come up, if you happen to use a 32bit apps on a 32 bit OS. So my humble suggestion is to go for a 32 bit distro, unless you want to google later on for "view flash videos in 64bit firefox+linux" !!
Hope to hear from you soon.
If you want to try out Suse 11.0 with kde4 yourself, just head on to http://software.opensuse.org/developer and choose whether you want 32 bit / 64 bit(read the instructions ,just below the radio buttons, to understand which category you want to choose)
As a side note, i want to add some thing here; Nowadays people are crazy over the core 2 CPUs from Intel and X2 from AMD. So although these processors support 64 bit, I would suggest to go for 32 bit Suse distro, because, still a lot of softwares are written nativley for 32 bit(I am quite aware of the site www.64xsoft.com), the conversion to 64 bit memory address space, could result in a slight(very very small) time overhead.This is simple becuase, 64 bit processor show thier optimum power while running native 64 bit apps on a 64 bit platform( and i bet a lot of apps are going to be written(compiled) just for the 64 bit platform in the very near future)
This problem(?) doesn't come up, if you happen to use a 32bit apps on a 32 bit OS. So my humble suggestion is to go for a 32 bit distro, unless you want to google later on for "view flash videos in 64bit firefox+linux" !!
Hope to hear from you soon.
Flock rocks
(Screenshot of me using the latest flock browser)Yesterday I downloaded the latest version of Flock web browser from here. The new browser just looks awesome and it has some really cool features that will keep you glued to it from some moths to come!. It has instant blog option - that is, You can create you blog posts off line and save it in your pc- if you want to , and finally upload it to blogger with one single click.
It displayes the latest images from flickr and videos from youtube and also update you on the latest news from various domains from several website. Adding your own content to these sites is also very easy -with just one click!. All these are available from the "My world" button(see the pic)
It has so much features, that you need some time to get used to all its features. Even for beginners, the browser offers a lot than just surfing the sites. Anyway, I consider it as a "Must-download" for any tech enthusiast :)
