Hi… I’m back again :s and wanted to ask when Milestone 7 is ready for testing? The roadmap claims 21st of May, but I have found nothing on the download server yet.
Long story here: after some really annoying “beginner”-bugs on Ubuntu 10.04 (incl. Linux Mint 9) and checking out other distributions like PCLinuxOS, Mepis, Vector Linux I have come to the conclusion that I give openSuse a new try. Also in my opinion openSuse or Ubuntu are the most advanced and mature distributions of all available. What I have experienced in the previously mentioned minor distributions was really scary however… it remembered me of Linux 5 years ago…
Ps: although I am impatient most of the time, I like the patience people have in this forum (it’s weird… maybe also the relaxed looking avatar of *oldcpu *has a calming effect), which I appreciate very much. Just wanted to say that. This makes it more professional than many others.
Ah this 2nd ftp server was unknown to me, though there is no iso listed yet. I got one additional question: I am confused by the filenames:
In the “factory” section a CD is listed as
*openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-i686-BuildXXXX-Media.iso *
but in the “milestone” section a CD is listed as openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-BuildXXXX-i686.iso
What confuses me is the “-Media” on the first name. Why has it “Media” appended? Is this a real Live CD/latest daily built or is it only an “Upgrade CD” or something like that?
I have downloaded the latest Gnome build which was 0625 I guess. While on the live session most worked, after installation I experienced 2 problems where I am sure you can help me with:
The NetworkManager applet was gone. I have no idea how to enable it, but when typing “NetworkManager” in the terminal it gives me a message that it is already active. How can I make it visible again?
The Ati fglrx installer (catalyst 10.4) gives me a weird message about “cannot find type of encoding” and displaying a dropdown menu list of UTF8, ASCII etc. When starting via Terminal, the installer extracts the installer, but then stops with a message of “need to use --iscurrentdistro” or something like that. What is that supposed to mean?
I believe that error 1 was maybe caused by a computer shutoff (because of overheating) which occurred before the 2nd stage of installation (after reboot). After cooling down I startet the PC again and the 2nd stage of installation finished. So maybe a reinstall could help. But for issue 2 I really need a hint.
These ISO files are published automatically once a new snapshot finished.
They haven’t seen any kind of testing before publishing, so download on your
own risk and cost.
Most of the time they work, but there are times when they are broken - we try
to
update Factory/Status - openSUSE as soon as we know about that.
Actually the issue with NetworkManager is solved, because it was just an option within Yast to use “Networkmanager” and - here we go - NM startet and worked
Considering that I was not able to finish 2nd stage of installation in Milestones 3,4,5,6 - I was happy being able to finish it with factory build 0625 without any issues. This build can’t be much different from Milestone7. I tried out install from the Live CD Installer and direct Install right after boot menu - both ways successfully finished including Grubloader.