On Wednesday 06 October 2010 18:23:18 Will Stephenson wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 October 2010 20:19:11 Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > As discussed in today's marketing IRC meeting: We're a week late with the
> > M2 announcement.
> >
> > Coolo gave me the following package update info, will somebody write this
> > week an announcement for Milestone 2?
>
> I'll add links when I put into into news.o.o
>
> BEGINS
> openSUSE Announces Second 11.4 Development Milestone With
The sentenced is not complete.
> This week, the openSUSE project announces Milestone 2 of openSUSE 11.4.
Write somewhere that this is milestone 2 out of 6.
> Milestones are periodic development snapshots of the next release of
> openSUSE. Milestone 2 (M2) includes updates to major components across the
> breadth of the distribution.
>
> Starting at the bottom of the stack, Linux Kernel 2.6.36rc4 made it into
> M2. This is accompanied by the OpenGL implementation Mesa 7.9, which
> provides a new shader compiler and support for newer Radeon chips. The
> cronie crontab manager replaces the Vixie cron used until now and adds the
> flexible anacron, which allows cronjobs to happen even if the machine was
> powered down at the scheduled time. D-Bus 1.4 adds support for systemd
> and fixes the threading issues which gave KDE 4.5 problems.
>
> Productivity users can get a taste of the future with OpenOffice 3.3alpha,
> including the user interface redesign resulting from Project Renaissance.
> Developers will enjoy Python 2.7, the latest, and last in the Python 2
> line, as well as the new D language support in gdb 7.2, and the newly
> released Qt 4.7 and boost 1.44 libraries.
>
> Rounding out the milestone are point release updates galore to GNOME
> 2.31.92, KDE 4.5.1, Inkscape 0.48, KOffice 2.2.2, and Firefox 3.6.10.
>
> We look forward to your bug reports and test experiences. As usual,
> automated testing and the openSUSE Factory team have been taking hits for
> you to ensure that M2 will be at least minimally functional.
> The next milestone is scheduled to for November 5.
> ENDS
thanks,
Andreas
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