openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1 Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1 Released

While Red Hat is busy at work on Fedora 13 and Canonical is busy working on their Long-Term Support release of Ubuntu 10.04, Novell is working on openSUSE 11.3. This next upgrade to openSUSE is due out in mid-July, but the first milestone release is now available.Milestone 1 of openSUSE 11.3 pulls in the latest GNOME 2.30 development packages and the release candidate of KDE 4.4 Software Compilation...

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[Peterson Spaceport]

openSUSE releases are so unexciting. Nothing else happens besides package updates and a bunch of Yast bug-fixes ¬¬

[Hoodlum]

Being a KDE 4 guy I want to like OpenSuse, I really do. I just can't stand Yast and yes I tried 11.2. It is just far too bloated and difficult. Too much "crap" all over the GUI package manager for example; hugely overcomplicated. I'm not a great fan of zypper either though I admit it's pretty feature-full

[d2kx]

Being a KDE 4 guy I want to like OpenSuse, I really do. I just can't stand Yast and yes I tried 11.2. It is just far too bloated and difficult. Too much "crap" all over the GUI package manager for example; hugely overcomplicated. I'm not a great fan of zypper either though I admit it's pretty feature-full

I completely agree with everything you said.

[lolren]

i agree too.I dont like ubuntu for the popularity but it is as simple as sudo apt-get install ... Fedora is to "vanilla" in the look and feel way and Mint is too feature full.OpenSUSE is just eyecandy and updated packages, but in terms of use..

[KAMiKAZOW]

Being a KDE 4 guy I want to like OpenSuse, I really do. I just can't stand Yast and yes I tried 11.2. It is just far too bloated and difficult. Too much "crap" all over the GUI package manager for example; hugely overcomplicated.

Then install KPackageKit. It's not like anybody is forced to use YaST...

i agree too.I dont like ubuntu for the popularity but it is as simple as sudo apt-get install

So "sudo apt-get install" is OK, but SUSE's "sudo zypper install" is not? WTF?

[deanjo]

openSUSE releases are so unexciting. Nothing else happens besides package updates and a bunch of Yast bug-fixes ¬¬

What would you consider "exciting"?

[jakster]

Good news. I like OpenSuSE for their stable KDE platform (kubuntu really sucks) and their build service (OBS). Yast is something you have to get used to (is very powerful after that to setup about everything), and zypper install packagename always works.