Is it possible to download that from some place or maybe I don’t understand what they mean by internal like they say here:
Thanks
‘Internal’ is an in-house release prior to going to the public mirrors.
just 7 days
it can’t be downloaded?
Sure, if you know of an in-house (non-public) mirror.
oh well ok, so the RC1 is most I can get right now huh?
A bit of ignorance on my part, but what exactly constitutes “internal”? Clearly, not me. I get that. But does it mean Novell employees?
Since it’s open source, I’d imagine anyone who really wanted to could compile everything themselves and get the internal release, more-or-less, right?
Trauts wrote:
> Since it’s open source, I’d imagine anyone who really wanted to could
> compile everything themselves and get the internal release,
> more-or-less, right?
That is called ‘Factory’. The reason they do not publish all ISO’s they
make is bandwith and diskspace on both their servers and the mirrors.
houghi
You tried, and you failed, so the lesson is, never try. - Homer J. Simpson.
how do u get factory?
If you have installed openSUSE 11.0 Beta2 or later the factory repros should already be listed.
open a terminal console, ’ su - ’ to get root rights and run these commands (to state the obvious: you will need a connection to Internet)
zypper ref (this refreshes your cached repository info)
zypper dup (this runs a distribution update - e.g. Beta 2 to Beta3 to RC)
zypper up (this should update individual packages for the current release)
- or -
Running YaST > Software Management should also update the listings and present all updates in the update tab (manner of presentation varies when using GNOME or KDE). Select all update packages and install them.
Kernel updates have given issues but the last two updates have gone fine as far as I can see/hear/read.
Hope it helps,
Wj
Bottom line: Opensuse 11 RC1 + all the updates on the factory repo should get you 99% to where they currently are. The only thing missing would be security related bug fixes they are still working on that might not be ready for posting to factory yet.
Trauts wrote:
> Cryovac;1816778 Wrote:
>> ‘Internal’ is an in-house release prior to going to the public mirrors.
>
> A bit of ignorance on my part, but what exactly constitutes “internal”?
> Clearly, not me. I get that. But does it mean Novell employees?
>
> Since it’s open source, I’d imagine anyone who really wanted to could
> compile everything themselves and get the internal release,
> more-or-less, right?
>
>
Internal are basically the devs on the openSUSE project. I’m not 100%
sure that’s correct but that is my belief.
Cryovac wrote:
> Trauts;1816796 Wrote:
>> A bit of ignorance on my part, but what exactly constitutes “internal”?
>> Clearly, not me. I get that. But does it mean Novell employees?
>
> Ask ‘Kastorff’ (http://forums.opensuse.org/members/kastorff.html)…he
> probably has it. 
>
>
He wishes he has it but alas, none of the staff here has it.
GM means it’s finished, everything is done and it’s ready to be sent out. It’s related to game development and windows development. So I’ll use those. In game development a GM release would be sent to pressing (to create disc’s), packaged and sent to stores for the sell date. The same applies to a windows release, BUT they still do testing, and windows can ship with bugs, as long as they are not show stoppers. (not counting Vista )
Same concept applies here, but instead of going to get pressed (even though it will) they right now are preparing documents, getting the repos ready and contacting people so they can host the image. I imagine 10-15 people are getting the torrent file so they can have that ready, and the Opensuse website is getting configured to support 11, instead of 10.3. Bugs are still being worked, but since they aren’t system stoppers these will most likely just be patches released close to the release date of 11. So all in all if you installed RC1 (or updated to RC1) and installed all the package updates you should be good to go, in fact my repo’s switched over on my PC a couple days ago to use the 11.0 repos. Thats how it normally works. Remember it’s going to take 2-3 days to sync all the servers and mirrors with the 11.0 release.
Looks like the ISOs have hit thepiratebay and linuxtracker. A search for OpenSUSE will tell more.
Unfortunately the x86_64 image is not available there yet…
Some Guessing: Last time I preordered the boxed set, it arrived maybe two weeks after it was available as a download. Maybe this week-long delay gives them a chance to press the DVDs, etc., and hopefully get the boxes out in a more timely fashion?