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openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3 is released for testing with 700 bug fixes

Posted by admin on 16th May 2008


A couple of days ago, we saw the roadmap for openSUSE 11.0 release and so far we are on track. Yes, the openSUSE team were on time to release the openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3 as planned on the 15th of May 2008. This comes with a significant 700 + bugs fixed. Great work!!!

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How to install VMWare Tools for openSUSE guest OS

Posted by admin on 16th May 2008


VMWare-Tools in VMWare Virtualization software enhances the mouse and display performances on the guest operating system. When openSUSE linux operating systen runs as a guest os, installing the VMWare Tools isn’t straight forward as it seems. However, it isn’t diffcult.

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openSUSE 11.0 changes/features enhancements & highlights

Posted by admin on 14th May 2008


openSUSE 11.0 is a major change from openSUSE 10.3. Lot of improvements and changes have goine in from the initial Alpha release until now. Some of the highlighting features in openSUSE 11.0 includes

Linux Kernel 2.6.25 is default kernel

KDE 4.0.3 takes the centre stage from KDE 3.x as the default KDE Desktop Environment

For Gnome Desktop environment, GNOME 2.22.1 is the default

Changes to Installation workflow and themed installation is used. DVD installation uses images to speed up installation

RPM payload switch to lzma (results in smaller rpm packages)
 
libzypp uses a new much faster solver

German language support on CD media

Sax2 and YaST Qt frontend are ported to Qt4

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