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openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1 released
by Ian Dumych Apr 21st 2008 at 4:00PM
The openSUSE team has released the first beta of their popular but controversial Linux distribution, and it has some spiffy features that make it worth checking out. The most exciting improvements are in the area of speed, as this is one OS that is often ridiculed by reviewers, mainly for its historically sluggish boot times and sloth-like package system. In contrast, openSUSE now uses an improved version of "zipper", which, long story short, makes incredibly quick package installation possible, much faster than Ubuntu or PCLinuxOS. Not only that, the system installation has been trimmed to 60%, meaning that it only takes about 24 minutes on typical hardware, which is damn fast for Suse.
There are still way too many bugs for you distro-shufflers to start revving your DVD burners, but if you would like to help with testing, check out the download page.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Bogdan said 6:13PM on 4-21-2008
How's the Wi-Fi guys? Did you have a chance to test it? I mean, every linux distro I've tried so far (I'm looking at you Ubuntu) required some non-human abilities to connect to wireless networks. Is there a wi-fi manager of some sorts in this release?
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Ian Dumych said 4:43PM on 4-23-2008
Frankly, I'm not even going to try it until the next beta, there are too many major bugs right now.
Serrot said 1:22AM on 5-25-2008
Bogdan, i have installed openSUSE 10.3, and WiFi it's perfect, more simple to install than win XP.
For this version 11.0, I wanna have the Final version. Just wait a few days. =)
Peter Kirn said 6:48PM on 4-21-2008
I could care less about Novell's relationship with Microsoft. (And, for the record, the stuff they've done with Mono has had a fantastic material impact on the Linux platform and open source Windows and Mac C# development, as well -- more than OpenSUSE has one way or another.)
No, my big problem with OpenSUSE is that it's this massive, klunky distro with weak package support for a lot of interest areas. Now, maybe I'm wrong -- but that just proves the point that the quality of the distro experience outweighs the politics. And you'll cause a lot more controversy by what you put in the distro than who's wheeling and dealing elsewhere.
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