Alpha 7 is Out - Let’s Go Green
August 03, 2007 around 8pm (openSUSE)So Alpha 7 was released yesterday and it comes shiny with all the new green artwork:
Other great things include more improvements to Libzypp so YaST and Zypper package management is extremely fast in comparison. Many congratulations to the whole Libzypp team who have been continuously working on it throughout the 10.3 cycle! Below is an example search for kcall with the Factory repository which contains thousands of packages:
opensuse:/home/francis # time zypper search kcall
* Reading installed packages [100%]
* Reading repository ‘20070803-120438′ cache
* Reading repository ‘20070803-121002′ cache
S | Repository | Type | Name | Version | Arch
–+—————–+———+——-+———————-+—–
| 20070803-120438 | package | kcall | 0.5.2svn20060206-121 | i586
real 0m11.292s
user 0m8.589s
sys 0m2.184s
This Alpha release also includes the new SUSE greeter:
The forums, mailing lists and IRC channels link there takes you to http://opensuse.org/Communicate which should make new users find things like IRC, the forums, and the mailing lists even more easily. There’s also an easy way for users to learn about the Linux Philosophy and open source.
The next release coming is the big Beta 1 on Aug 9.
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The new green artwork is beautiful. The greeter is not bad, but fonts are not that great. A better smoothing or maybe some different fonts would make it sticker. The font has the “KDE” style rough edges.
If you have suggestions/comments for any of the artwork then you should consider posting them on the opensuse-artwork@opensuse.org list (subscribe), which is very low traffic as well. Thanks!