Latest development snapshots of the upcoming openSUSE release can be found at software.openSUSE.org/developer or here (11.3, MS2). Delta isos can be found here (11.3, MS2).
If you wanna give the LiveCD or Installation Images offered there a try you may want to have a look at the most annoying bugs 11.2 and most annoying bugs 11.3.
In order to install additional software normally available for released distros at download.openSUSE.org/repositories you will now have to use factory packages. Search for them at openSUSE.org/search target="_top"> software.openSUSE.org/search.
Those who prefer to look for additional software by categories may directly browse download.openSUSE.org/repositories. All of download.opensuse.org is currently only indexed via the Buildservice. Some third party repositories are already available for 11.2: Packman and VLC. Search for them at software.opensuse-community.org and at packages.opensuse-community.org
The general recommendation is to reinstall the system for every new release candidate to re-test the installer workflow and to be absolutely sure in getting clean test results. Nonetheless a simple ’zypper up’ should automatically perform an upgrade to the newest release candidate.
RoadMap: Zeitplan für OS 11.3
summaries of the first two meetings.
If you have an ATI-card and experience problems booting into the graphical surface of Xorg or if you simply wanna test the new Plug and Play capability of the radeonhd driver look at this page; ATI-fglrx proprietary dirver.
If a bug can not be resolved upstreams quickly it will generally be a good idea to post it again at bugzilla.novell.com mentioning the upstream bug (or multiple related upstream bugs). We should at least assert that all features will show up in the final release of openSUSE 11.2. Core areas of openSUSE bug reporting include: package management, YaST, hardware and configuration issues.
The general recommendation for Kernel-bugs is to re-test on a -vanilla kernel. If the bug also shows up in the vanilla-kernel (no openSUSE specific extensions) then report it at bugzilla.kernel.org. Latest kernels (vanilla & openSUSE) can be drawn from here. If you wanna install multiple kernels simultaneously usage of the ’multiversion’ key in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf may be useful; state there all packages of which multiple versions may be installed; f.i.:
multiversion = kernel-default, kernel-default-base, kernel-desktop-base, kernel-syms, kernel-default-devel, kernel-source
Anything missing on this page? Any idea to improve? ; write me a letter: elws@elstel.org.
