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“We are proud to announce the release of 11.4 in the openSUSE tradition of delivering the latest in technology while maintaining stability. Version 11.4 brings significant improvements along with the latest in Free Software applications. Combined with the emergence of new tools, projects and services around the launch, 11.4 marks growth and vitality for the openSUSE project. ”- says the openSUSE team in the official announcement. |
More news:
- Kernel 2.6.37 that improves the scalability of virtual memory management and the separation of tasks executed by terminal users.
- Drivers for Wireless Broadcom
- Improved support for Wacom
- Latest version of Xorg and Mesa for better 2D and 3D acceleration
- New tools for a better boot process.
- Faster software installation and update process;
- gfxboot 4.3.5 supports VirtualBox and qemu-kvn while Vixie
- Cron has been replaced by Cronie 1.4.6 supporting PAM and the "SELinuxsecurity frameworks ”.
- The more experimental software options include GRUB2 and systemd.
- KDE SC 4.6 among others and GNOME 2.32.
- Firefox 4 (not the final version yet).
- Libre Office 3.3.1.
I've been reading wonders of opensuse these days on the net, I think I'm going to give it a space on my disk. I hope it doesn't disappoint, although I don't get along with rpm packages, but we'll see.
tomorrow after burning my head giving the end of analysis 2 I'm going to install opensuse 😀 (capable of having a nap in between :-P)
I have installed it on my laptop to give my desktop a change of scenery, after almost a year using GNOME between Ubuntu and Linux Mint, and the truth is that I am delighted. Fast, efficient, robust and effective. The YaST (and Zypper) installer is better than ever, and adding repositories has never been easier.
The only downside is the KPackageKit applet, which is temporarily used as an updater, and this mission, updating, does well, but it has a bug when installing individual RPM packages, and that is that it installs the RPM package that you have requested, but at the same time it re-installs all those packages that you had manually removed from the initial installation. It is as if KPackageKit had a database with all the packages from the initial installation and took advantage when you tried to install a loose RPM to restore those that had been removed.
But hey, the «Add / Remove programs» of YaST works very well, and to install individual RPMs downloaded from anywhere other than the repositories (for example, the Flash plugin from Adobe, or VirtualBox from Oracle ...) just run as console root: rpm -i RPM_package
In short, OUTSTANDING for OpenSUSE and its KDE integration! 😀
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A hug! Paul.