I'm glad to announce SUSE Linux 10.1 Codename "Agama Lizard" Beta5 - this time both Delta-ISOs and full ISOs!
With Beta5 we smoothed most of the rough edges of Beta4 and I still do
not advise to not put it on any production system!
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Beta5 is still for the adventurous experts and not for anybody without
a good Linux experience:
For now let me just point out the following issues:
* The CD 1 needs to remain in the cd drive after installing from
it. Do not remove it during the reboot and wait for YaST to
request CD 2.. Otherwise the installation of packages from CD
2-5 will fail afterwards.
* Due to the integration of the new package manager which is not
complete, note the following:
o Some statistics do not work, e.g. you see "Size of
packages to install: 0" - or "Number of packages to
install: 0", or "Software: Default system (0)".
o The graphical package manager frontend has only a limited
list of "views", currently you get a list of all the
packages and can only search in them.
o After installation, if you go into the YaST packager, all
installed packages are listed twice.
o Adding a new installation source does not work.
o Language dependend packages are not handled
correctly. This results in the installation of one
package-$lang package but not necessarily the one for the
languages asked for.
o An upgrade from a previous installation might fail, even
one from 10.1 Beta3 153142
* During an update from a previous release, packages that are not
available anymore get deleted - once at the start of CD1 and
then again at the end of CD1. Pressing Ignore a couple of times
allows to continue. Bug 153135
* The partitioner is broken in some cases Bug 151947. which might result in:
o mixed up filesystem types - for example one chooses ext2
and the partition is getting formatted with reiserfs
o creates double or totally obscure entries within the fstab
of the system
o makes inproper proposals for a standard partitioning
* Download of Release Notes will fail.
* The online test with download of Updates will fail.
* The second part of the installation is done in text mode Bug
153066.
* X11 configuration during installation is totally broken in Beta5
due to a bug in package manager. Instead of the native X11
driver fbdev or even vesa driver will be configured. In order to
create a valid X11 configuration stop xdm ("rcxdm stop") and use
SaX2 for configuration ("sax2 -r"). ATI users should update the
radeon driver first before executing SaX2. Otherwise the result
will likely be a blank screen. Driver RPMs for i386/x86_64 are
attached to Bug 153367.
Summing up: The installer is in a better shape now, package
installation should be ok, system upgrade works with workarounds - and
the partitioner still has a couple of regressions. The rest of the
system should be stable. An installation from our FACTORY tree should
work again.
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Further information and updates are available from
http://www.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs
We've created on
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.1/SUSE-Linux10.1-Beta5-Extra (and
on the mirrors of it) a repository with some non-OSS software.
SUSE Linux 10.1 is offered via bittorrent and via normal download.
Please use a mirror or the download.opensuse.org URL which directs you
to a mirror.
The distribution comes with 5 CDs. You need (on x86 and x86-64, I
haven't tested PPC):
* CD1 only for a minimal text installation (English)
* CDs 1-3 for a default KDE or GNOME installation in German or English
* All CDs for other selections
Download URLs for the torrents of the DELTA-ISOs:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/SUSE-Linux-10.1-beta4_beta5-i386.torrent
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/SUSE-Linux-10.1-beta4_beta5-ppc.torrent
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/SUSE-Linux-10.1-beta4_beta5-x86_64.torrent
Download URLs for the torrents of the ISOs:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/SUSE-Linux-10.1-beta5-i386.torrent
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/SUSE-Linux-10.1-beta5-ppc.torrent
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/SUSE-Linux-10.1-beta5-x86_64.torrent
Download URLs for the full Delta ISOs:
x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4_beta5-i386-CD1.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4_beta5-i386-CD2.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4_beta5-i386-CD3.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4_beta5-i386-CD4.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4_beta5-i386-CD5.delta.iso
For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4_beta5-x86_64-CD1.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4_beta5-x86_64-CD2.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4_beta5-x86_64-CD3.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4_beta5-x86_64-CD4.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4_beta5-x86_64-CD5.delta.iso
For PowerPC architecture:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4_beta5-ppc-CD1.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4_beta5-ppc-CD2.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4_beta5-ppc-CD3.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4_beta5-ppc-CD4.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/delta-iso/SUSE-10.1-beta4_beta5-ppc-CD5.delta.iso
Download URLs for the full ISOs:
x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5-i386-CD1.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5-i386-CD2.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5-i386-CD3.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5-i386-CD4.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5-i386-CD5.iso
For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5-x86_64-CD1.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5-x86_64-CD2.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5-x86_64-CD3.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5-x86_64-CD4.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5-x86_64-CD5.iso
For PowerPC architecture:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5-ppc-CD1.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5-ppc-CD2.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5-ppc-CD3.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5-ppc-CD4.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-beta5/iso/SUSE-10.1-beta5-ppc-CD5.iso
Andreas
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SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
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