OpenSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2

Only three weeks after Alpha 1, OpenSUSE community announces the release of openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2. There are a lot of changes in these three weeks.

Changes since openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 1

• KDE 4.0.1 replaced KDE 3.5.8 as default KDE
• GNOME 2.21.90 was integrated
• Continued work on the Installation workflow
• Live CDs for both GNOME and KDE
• CDs support German as an additional language
• DVDs have only OSS software
• Linux 2.6.24
• OpenOffice.org 2.4 Beta
• Alsa 1.0.16rc2
• D-Bus 1.2rc2

For a more detailed list with links to backported packages, see the Factory/News wiki page.

Most Annoying Bugs

• Progress dialog Loading the Package Manager… blocks the installation-update proposal (Bug #359235). Although you can accept the proposal by clicking on [Accept] you can’t see the proposed data/values.
• KDE3 autostart applications may crash on KDE4 Startup (Bug #359800)
• Mono apps do not work on the GNOME LiveCD (Bug #359768)
• Missing graphical menu on Live-CD (Bug #359486)
• Popups during the installation behave sporadically

Media and Download

Please refer to software.openSUSE.org/developer for direct links to all the available media.