Hi everybody! I`m waiting the final release of openSUSE 11.3, and in the mean time, I want to know what will bring…
I used Milestone 2 in VirtualBox, and beside the new version of Gnome/KDE, and the last program versions… I don`t see any difference comparing it to openSUSE 11.2
By the way… I didn`t saw differences between openSUSE 11.1 and 11.2…
I saw that, for example Ubuntu brings new and new features with every new release… what about openSUSE?
It`s all about updating the desktop enviroment and the programs contained?
Please explain me, and sorry if there are any other posts about this on the forum… but I wasnt able to find any... nor answers on google about what Im asking…
At the OS level, IMHO the best changes are the ones you DON’T see but
makes the overall experience better. Changing things for change sake is
fine for some distros and environments but not so much needed in others.
There were a large number of differences between 11.1 and 11.2,
but the overall effect of the changes was very subtle. It’s just the
OpenSuSE way, it’s not ‘in your face’ most of the time with changes.
You don’t realize them, because they’re not “sold” as something new, but they’re “sold” as something improved.
Take a look at the release news ( openSUSE News » openSUSE 11.2 Released! ), perhaps you’ll find something, that could be sold as something “new”, like the ability to encrypt the hole hard disk, or the new compression on the live cds, the improved boot sequence (“UltraFastBootEnterprise”, sponsored by Novell ), WebYaST.
a computer and its operating system might be a work of art–for
about two minutes…you think someone is gonna put it on display next
to Michelangelo’s 500 year old marble statue of David in Florence? not
likely…more likely yours will be melted down to recover the gold,
silver, copper, zinc and whatever–within the next five to ten years…
it is a device for communication, recording idea, feelings,
inventions, breathtaking advancements for mankind, etc…
alone with a sparking graphical user interface it is nothing…add a
thinking human and NOW you have a working team…
forget how it looks, savor how it works…
i sure hope openSUSE 11.3 works GREAT…i could care less if it looks
SuSE 9.3…
Ok, now I see friends… now I understood how it`s the openSUSE policy about the new versions…
Thank you so much for all the replies… and one more thing that I noticed… someone could use any of the milestones on a production pc… I saw that both openSUSE 11.3 M1 & M2 were very stable, and reliable… not buggy like alphas, or betas…
I think you will find milestone-3 (and possibly milestone-4) will be more buggy than 1 and 2. They are about to change gcc version, and I think that could be “entertaining” …
You must remember that it is all done in steps. With Milestone 1, you get the base stuff. Most of that, you won’t see. It’s all down in the guts of the OS. With each Milestone comes more changes. The next one brings the new version of GCC and all the new apps and new versions of existing apps that could not be brought in until that is in place. Then they get to fix the bugs.
In other words, you are not going to see all the new stuff till it gets really close to completion.
