11.3 Milestone 4 - Results

[caf4926]

Here I am now using M4
Installed from the live kde4 image that was dd' to a flash drive

It will only install for me if I boot to the live desktop first
Reboots to a dead graphics
Boot in failsafe and the post install config finished but didn't bring me to a prompt or login
So reboot and get to X login

Grub installed as instructed to MBR and picked up other OS's OK.

So far so good. More to follow

[dale14846]

Here I am now using M4
Installed from the live kde4 image that was dd' to a flash drive

It will only install for me if I boot to the live desktop first
Reboots to a dead graphics
Boot in failsafe and the post install config finished but didn't bring me to a prompt or login
So reboot and get to X login

Grub installed as instructed to MBR and picked up other OS's OK.

So far so good. More to follow

I migrated from milestone 3 to milestone 4 successfully with a factory update. But did a fresh install on an external hd to see what would happen. It looks like https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585432 is still not resolved.
After the initial installation fixes everything is running quite smoothly.

[dale14846]

And this just came over the factory mailing list so be prepared

I'd like to see Milestone 4 announced tomorrow and have drafted the following
announcement. Please review it and send me suggestions on improving the text.
If you want to rewrite it completely, I'm fine as well

I'd like to see from packagers a few more details on the major packaging
changes, enhancements are welcome.

Thanks,
Andreas

[Graphic: Geeko at work from MIlestone3]

The fourth of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and
released on schedule. Milestone 4 focuses on switching to upstart as init
daemon.

Here's what you may find interesting in the new release:

* OpenOffice.Org has been updated to 3.2.1 Beta1
* NetworkManager was updated to version 0.8
* cups has been updated to version 1.4.2
* The conntrack - network filtering system has been added
* The mono stack has been updated to version 2.6.3
* Python was updated to version 2.6.5 RC 2
* samba was updated to version 3.5.1
* The Moblin team has started with the integration of the Moblin UI into
the distribution and plan to have everything ready for the next milestone

Gnome/GTK desktop users:

* GNOME has been updated to the GNOME 2.30 release candidate (2.39.92)

KDE desktop users:

* KDE has been updated to version 4.4.1.
* Amarok is now at version 2.3.
* k3b is updated to version 1.91.

Testing! Testing! Testing!

As this is a milestone release, 11.3 milestone 4 does contain bugs that we
know about, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release
testing.

You can track the most annoying bugs on the wiki along with 11.3 development.
If you want to make sure 11.3 final is free of annoying bugs, we�ll need your
help finding, reporting, and fixing those hidden bugs.

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The next openSUSE Milestone is scheduled to be released on Thursday, March the
25th, with additional new features and bug fixes.
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[marctro]

It will only install for me if I boot to the live desktop first Reboots to a dead graphics

They still haven't fixed the black screen issue? Omg...

[pilotgi]

Where are you guys getting this? It's not in the factory repos yet.

[caf4926]

Where are you guys getting this? It's not in the factory repos yet.

openSUSE 11.3 M4 -Download from gwdg.de- - openSUSE Forums

[buckesfeld]

* caf4926,

the mirrors are supposed to block access until the official release, but gwdg often doesn't care. You'll see either nothing or get an access error when you check the other mirrors.

Uwe

[caf4926]

* caf4926,

the mirrors are supposed to block access until the official release, but gwdg often doesn't care. You'll see either nothing or get an access error when you check the other mirrors.

Uwe

Did I cross some kind of line here? Just picked the link up as posted by another user. Anyway this thread was about my experience, which I have more to add.


The install from the kde live image was incredibly quick. Less than 10 mins. Interesting though the installer was a little confused. It ended up creating my user account and a live user account. I also have another distro in a different partition and it put that in the bootloader but used the usb I was installing from as the point of origin. I never checked the detail under 'Booting' because it's just a sandbox and what the heck I can fix it whatever it does.

So far though, it's running really well.

[dale14846]

Where are you guys getting this? It's not in the factory repos yet.

Index of /factory/iso choose the latest build
afaik the official release is imminent possibly tomorrow.
also if you are updating from factory not 11.3 you should be updated to ms 4. run a zypper up or use yast.

[dale14846]

Did I cross some kind of line here? Just picked the link up as posted by another user. Anyway this thread was about my experience, which I have more to add.


The install from the kde live image was incredibly quick. Less than 10 mins. Interesting though the installer was a little confused. It ended up creating my user account and a live user account. I also have another distro in a different partition and it put that in the bootloader but used the usb I was installing from as the point of origin. I never checked the detail under 'Booting' because it's just a sandbox and what the heck I can fix it whatever it does.

So far though, it's running really well.

let me add that the installer picked the correct partition this time
not over writing the first partition it came to. first time since I have been using SuSe openSUSE since 2002