openSUSE 11.0 KDE Sneak Peek
June 17, 2008 around 10am (KDE)Worth a read is the recently published Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.0: KDE article (digg), which also features a good interview with openSUSE/KDE developer Stephan Binner. It goes over the media changes, the versions of KDE available, and the work done over the last 9 months in the upcoming openSUSE 11.0 release, coming in just a couple of days now!
I’ve been following the development version (with of course KDE 4.0) for some time now and I’m really pleased about the way it has turned out! Distrowatch and others have been giving some glowing reviews, and the general feel from testers of the release appears to be incredibly positive. The new installer, sexy artwork, super-fast package management, and new official KDE 4 live CD is really making a big change. So congratulations to everyone who made it happen!
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I’ve tested the RC1 live CD a few days ago and liked what I saw. Another distribution besides Mandriva that did a very good job packaging KDE 4. I’ve also tested Kubuntu KDE 4 Remix but that one didn’t work well. Looks like it will also take some time until all the distros get the KDE 4 packaging right. BTW, The Snak Peeks article is also diggable.
OpenSUSE 11.0 is cool, especially since the GoldMaster ist available via PirateBay
It’s a shame it’s not shipping with 4.1, though. It would be silly to expect SUSE to change their deadline for KDE, though.
4.1 will be available through online update as soon as it is released.
“super-fast package management”
I’ve used openSUSE 10.[1,2,3] for a good while now and always hated how slow the package manager was… I’ve been using openSUSE 11 in a virtual machine for several weeks now and it absolutely blows away the version in 10. Another nice new feature on the package manager (that I hadn’t seen mentioned anywhere) is the ability to skip the auto-fetch of all the repositories whenever you start the package manager, especially useful if you had just used it a couple minutes ago so you knew everything was updated.
11 is a very nice release (well, the rc I’m using is very nice :P)