11.3 Milestone 4 - Results

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 :slight_smile:

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 Access Denied is still not resolved.
After the initial installation fixes everything is running quite smoothly.

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 :wink:

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.

To learn more about testing openSUSE, visit the Testing pages on the openSUSE
wiki. To follow the testing and development process, we suggest that you
subscribe to the openSUSE-Factory mailing list (Subscribe | Help | Archives)
and join the #openSUSE-Factory channel on Freenode to discuss openSUSE
development.

The next openSUSE Milestone is scheduled to be released on Thursday, March the
25th, with additional new features and bug fixes.
Get Milestone 4 Today!

What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release from
software.opensuse.org/developer today!

Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org}
Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi
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They still haven’t fixed the black screen issue? Omg…>:(

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

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

  • 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.

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.

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

Didn’t pay much attention to that as I always move on to Custom partitioning to setup the mount points the way I like it. And this way I KNOW where everything is going.

Another interesting little point. It didn’t setup my Laptop with network manager, it defaulted to ifup. That’s a first on any of my laptop installs and I was running wireless too.

  • caf4926 wrote, On 03/24/2010 10:06 PM:
    > Did I cross some kind of line here? Just picked the link up as posted
    > by another user.

Me too :slight_smile:
I don’t think it is illegal in any way.

Uwe

I noticed this with Milestone 3. I used auto configuration on my machine and the network was set up with ifup. That was a first for me also.

Hi
Never had this on M3 but did on M4, was an easy fix but still a gotcha!


Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 (i586) Kernel 2.6.33-6-desktop
up 0:29, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.23, 0.29
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME

dale14846 wrote:

>
> pilotgi;2142062 Wrote:
>> Where are you guys getting this? It’s not in the factory repos
>> yet.
> ‘Index of /factory/iso’
> (http://download.opensuse.org/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.
>
I installed MS4 yesterday from the above repo. All went fairly well.
Had some problems with installing the Nvidia driver again ut after
three tries (the hardway) it works. May have been operator trouble.
Tested my scanner (Epson cx6600 MFP), Xerox Laser printer, Network,
Iscan, Amarok (latest version, from update), KDE 4.4.1. Is problem
with kmail distribution lists but I need to search formum, there was
something about conversion to groups?. MyComputer is not detecting
the Nvidia driver(Novell Bug#559010/270200) , but glxgears works
fine, nvidia X server says its working etc. This also occurs in 11.2
with KDE 4.4.1.

Did experience a hang up of Konqueror on a website using flashplayer
10. Only happened once. Will test again.

Overall MS4 looks real good in my environment. Configuration below
is my production side.Hardware is same for 11.3 MS4 except on second
disk drive and software versions.


Russ
| openSUSE 11.2 (2.6.31.12-18-desktop) x86_64 | KDE 4.4.1 release
227 | Intel Core 2 Dual E7200 | 4 GB RAM | GeForce 8400 GS | 320GB
Disc (2) |

Try this folks
Open the system monitor (I’m kde)
Now open a terminal:)

I note build 0515 is now available for the DVD and KDE liveCD. I assume those are milestone4 (I think milestone 3 was around build 0475). I may download them this weekend and try them out. Software.openSUSE.org

Further to this I see the “official” news about milestone4:
openSUSE News » openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 Release

Clean install of openSUSE 11.3 M4.

My Specs:

GA-X58-UD3R Rev 1.7
Corsair 6GB XMS9 DDR3 1600
WD 640GB SATA II
WD 1TB SATA II
Pioneer DVD/±RW
JMB362/363 SATA Controller
ICH10R Intel SATA Controller
Realtek ALC888 Audio
Realtek 8169 Gigabit Ethernet
Atheros AR2413 Wireless PCI Card
Latest BIOS

I decided because I didn’t want to waste time upgrading over the top and the end result might not be good, it was best for me to do a clean install and everything worked perfectly, no crashes yet or errors.

I like what OpenSUSE has to offer for both laptops and desktops, really well built linux distro, i’m also new to this community :slight_smile:

Same problems here, Caf…good so far…