Versions of stuff available in 11.3?

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I’m trying to find out what versions of various things will be (are likely to be) available in 11.3. If the best indication is what is currently available in some milestone release, telling me where to find that information is a perfectly acceptable answer…

Primarily I’m interested in the likely kernel version, and which filesystems are likely to be available. I guess I’d also like to know what is claimed to still be marked as experimental, but, as I don’t know what I’d do with that information, that is probably a luxury.

I’m also interested in the status of trim, but I don’t yet have an SSD, so that’s more a matter of long term planning.

And what about KDE? Which version of KDE will be included at release? I thought that I had seen a thread on that subject, but I can’t now find it.

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Have you tried Distrowatch? The openSUSE page here contains key package details for 11.3 (factory column) and is frequently updated.

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I hadn’t actually; I must have looked at that page a half a dozen times without ever really noticing the ‘factory’ column.

Mysql has been eliminated (I suspect that this is wrong, but that would be how I would read that dash), which would be rather problematic for some. Koffice, still doesn’t creep up to the latest version…not a biggie for me, but I’d have liked to have checked out he latest version, even if its only to establish that its not for me (still).

kde 4.4.3 was probably inevitable, I suppose; I don’t think I’m going to like it in the longer term, unless the SuSE team can work wonders, but its probably good enough to make me dissatisfied with kde 3, without really replacing it, in terms of stability. Ho, hum.

So we get BtrFS, ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS (adding BTRFS and JFS) in the list of journalling filesystems, but its unclear whether DW would list Nillfs, for example. OK, I’d have liked to have added Reiser4 to my compare list, but I suppose not having that is quite understandable.

Now, one of the places that this was going was to wonder, if BTRFS is stable enough and performant enough (both open questions, at this stage, as far as I am concerned), what do you actually have to do in order to be able to roll back updates? Do you need, for example, something like ‘/usr’ an a separate BTRFS filesystem? or ‘/opt’? or ‘/boot’? or is one big ‘/’ the thing to have?

‘trim’ is still unclear, though.

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I think we’ll get KDE 4.4.4.

Factory kde4 shifts to 4.4.4 - openSUSE Forums

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^^^^^ Thanks for that. It is more positive to be going forwards rather than backwards, even though I suspect that I am deceiving myself by even entertaining the hope that it will be a big step forwards.