> What's wrong with http://en.opensuse.org/Factory_Distribution ? > It should fulfill all your requirements. The Betas are simply snapshots > of the Factory Distribution. You can install a Beta (unchanging, fixed > source), then change your installation source to Factory. This will > give you daily updates to the Beta relase in an incremental way and > you can stay up-to-date regardless of when the next Beta is released. >
This seems fine. However difficult to locate, google returns no results when trying to locate yum repos or yast sources for factory. There seems to have been quite some confusion to this, but as a tester of various things I'd like to see either yum/smart/yast preconfigured on beta install disks to include repos for continued update, and possibly instead of setting the default home page in firefox to a novell page you could try setting a beta testing howto page located within the distribution as the default home page enabling beta testers to get started using/testing the distribution. I am a very experienced linux user, being loyal to redhat since version 5.1 and along the way testing debian, gentoo, ubuntu and suse when things appear in each I'd like in fedora. Although I know what to do when using linux, configuring and maintaining a desktop/server. With different distributions it is helpful to have a guide to what a user should do to help during the testing process. In fedora, you start firefox, click participate and you get going from there. I think novell have done some great things for suse but they also seem to have broken the community somewhat, there is growing disrespect for the way novell are doing things they seem to have lost connectivity with the community and concentrated on what linux can do for them, rather than what they can do for linux, the two aren't mutually exclusive. This evening I may spend some time learning more about suse, trawling the net as best I can and getting as much done as I can to enjoy this distribution and all of the wonderful things offered by it (beagle integration/Xgl) ;) Thanks for your comments, they have been very helpful. Karl, --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
