openSUSE 10.2 alpha 3 has been released: “I’m glad to announce the third alpha release of our 10.2 product. It’s the first time that we call our distribution ‘openSUSE’ instead of ‘SUSE Linux’.” The full release announcement can be found at LinuxCompatible.
SuSE may be well rounded and very popular Linux distribution and it is one of my favourite distros
but what’s enough it is really enough.
“openSUSE 10.2 Alpha 3 Released”. OK but it’s alpha 3.
I don’t think it is a news.
Yesterday I have submitted to OSAlert A NEWS about PCLInuxOS when that much less advertised distro jumped
up to the second place on Distrowatch.com “top 100 list” in last seven day.
That is The News, I think !
And PCLinuxOS had Distribution Release ( not alpha nor beta ) PCLinuxOS 0.93a Junior just day before and it vent unnoticed.
It should be nboted that PCLinuxOS is really beginner and user friendly Linux, really radically simple and very well crafted distribution which can compete with much bigger distros ( Fedora,SUSE,Mepis and even Ubuntu)
I’m sure OSAlert will have to pay more attention to this distro wich is “the best Linux Distribution around” –> http://tinyurl.com/hfgh2
Hey it might not be popular opinion, but he does have a point. Why does it seem that every minor package update for SUSE warrants a thread on OSN, while other operating systems go completely ignored?
someone said the dev-tree contained KDE3.9 libraries, does this mean we might see KDE4 in 10.2?
Wouldn’t that be SWEEEEEETTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
suse 10.2 alpha use kde 3.5.4
switch to another kde release need to do a lot of QA
kde 4 is suppose to go out this winter
does this mean we might see KDE4 in 10.2?
Of course you will, Suse has a long tradition in including snapshots of emerging new KDE versions in their releases. On the extra disks or as downloads from supplementary repositories. An addition to the stable Desktop, for developers and adventurous users. They did it for both pre 2.0 and pre 3.0, so it’s not farfetched to expect the same this time.
someone said the dev-tree contained KDE3.9 libraries, does this mean we might see KDE4 in 10.2?
The build service does have KDE 4.0 packages available, I believe they’re automatically built from svn snapshots, but they’re basically library files for testing etc. Nothing much to see as a user.
I doubt KDE 4.0 will make it in, version freeze for beta will likely hit around October and given the clusterfck that happened with 10.1 and zmd, they won’t be likely to make any exceptions.
KDE 3.5.5 will be more likely, they’re already working on it, I wouldn’t expect to see KDE 4.0 anywhere until early next year.
—————KDE 3.5.5 will be more likely, they’re already working on it————-
Why are they procrastinating on 4.0?
Why are they procrastinating on 4.0?
They’re not procrastinating, it’s a ground up re-working. It tooks several months just to get the core libraries ported to and compiled against Qt 4.x.
KDE 4.0 won’t simply be an incremental upgrade of 3.5.x, it’s a completely new product. And it’s encompassing more than simply new code; there have been guidelines established for useability, coding standards, documentation etc. that needs to be laid out before the product can be produced.
I’ve been following the dev blogs on planetkde, and now that much of the core porting has been done, they’re getting to the good stuff and there’s some cool stuff being worked on. The more I read about it, the more anxious I’m getting to see it live.
The drawback is that taking this approach (ie. doing it properly) takes time, and they warned about this before going into it. They could simply have just kept patching and building on the existing DE, in order to spin out faster releases, but that would ultimately have been flakey at best. Redoing the foundation and initiating projects like Solid and Plasma are a better approach that will lead to a stronger, faster, stabler new DE to use, and to further build on.
Patience…
————-They’re not procrastinating, it’s a ground up re-working.———–
I admit that my use of the word procrastinating wasn’t proper.
But it seems, at least to me, that time would’ve been better spent focusing in on 4, as opposed to developing 4 along side 3.5.3, 3.5.4, and now 3.5.5. Will we also see a 3.5.6?
———–It tooks several months just to get the core libraries ported to and compiled against Qt 4.x.———-
Yeah, I remember reading about that somewhere……. I know it all takes time. Not only is 4 just a porting project, but it’s also going to have new features.
————–The drawback is that taking this approach (ie. doing it properly) takes time, and they warned about this before going into it.————-
Obviously it was going to take time.
All my point really was, was that the process is seemingly being made longer because resources are divided.
KDE 3.x is a fairly good codebase, don’t get me wrong. But the .3, .4, and now .5 releases don’t seem like they are simply “legacy” releases to fix up bugs. They’re still adding new features and performance tuneups.
seems like they have jumped straight from 2.12 gnome in SUSE 10.1 and will release 2.16 with 10.2
After such a great release of OpenSuse 10 , 10.1 sucked.YAST refused to work and sent me packing back to 10.
http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=717&slide=2…
It was looking pretty sweet right up until the shot of konqueror browsing “My Computer” and “My Documents”.