Last night I was browsing around and noticed the web interface for Factory showed their non-oss had stuff like an Adobe Reader update and Sun Java 6 Update 10, and a whole lot of newer things were in oss.
So I switched the sources in my VirtualBox install of OpenSUSE 11.1 RC1 to factory and updated all with newer versions.
When I woke up this morning and rebooted to 2.6.27.8-1-default, it also had the Grub line OpenSUSE 11.2-Alpha 0!
Aren’t I an early adopter.
I suspect that I’m really closer to what oss and non-oss are going to be in a few days than to the next version of OpenSUSE. But I guess Factory calls it 11.2 Alpha because they moved all they had with RC1 to the 11.1 distribution repos and had to start out with something else than 11.1. But also that 11.1 stuff isn’t in sync yet with what’s coming on the 18th.
Just guessing. But I think I likely have all the fixes coming on the real media at least. And at least it didn’t upgrade me to KDE4. Factory still has KDE3 at this point and what I have are just slightly newer versions than what was on RC1 of, well, everything.
I think nearly every package on the system got upgraded. Everything’s working though. Interesting.
I did a mini-iso install on a low-spec machine because that was all that would work. When it finished, I too was shocked to see I was at 11.2 Alpha0. But, like you, it seems to be working fine. I’m a little afraid to update since bleeding edge stuff might come in that will stop it from working.
The good news is that it works well on an old low-spec machine.
Right now I think Factory is about the versions of software that’ll be on the media and in the repos. Those normal oss and non-oss repos for 11.1 have essentially what’s on the RC1 DVD still, with a few exceptions where the RC1 DVD has newer stuff than what’s on the 11.1 oss repo.
So you and me, and whoever else is running Factory (which may be a whole bunch of folks), are actually running OpenSUSE 11.1 sort of GM! I think.
Sure hope this is what’s coming. We have YaST Software Management slowdowns fixed, a newer Flash, AdobeReader, and Kernel, a fixed python-gtk (I think that’s the name of a package that had a bug causing problems, or close to it), heck most everything is slightly newer than RC1. Even OpenOffice.org got an upgrade.
Actually from what i see factory wasn’t moving forward and GM has newer packages than on the repos. Like kernel-default 2.6.27.7-9.1 (no sources as there are no GM repositories :))
I believe the Final version will have 2.6.27.7.10 but i can never be sure (was searching for 9.1 sources and everywhere it’s old)
Just speculating, that’s all. Not difficult to understand. That particular repo (Factory) had to start with a new slate is what I meant. So once RC1 and the normal 11.1 oss and non-oss repo hit, Factory started over with the next versions (11.2 Alpha 0).
But that doesn’t mean that what’s still in the 11.1 repo is what’s on the GM 11.1 DVD and what will be in the repo on release date. I kind of think it’ll be a mixture of what’s in 11.1 now and some that’s in Factory, along with the updates repo bringing us most of what’s in the rest of Factory.
Not so cut and dry during a repo/cd pressing transition such as this.
My speculation is that Factory is closer to what we get on release date (counting oss, non-oss, and updates) than what is in 11.1 oss, non-oss now.
It’s fun playing with it and anticipating anyway.
