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SuSE 8.2 Announced
Venotar writes "It looks like SuSE's once more setting the bar pretty high. According to their recent announcement, SuSE 8.2's release date is set for April 12th. Amongst other nifty features, KDE 3.1 apparently includes tabbed browsing, the ability to sync with Exchange servers, a new administration tool called "Desktop sharing" that allows remote control of other desktops, and several interesting new crypto/security features. Gnome 2.2 is also included, as well as a profile manager for mobile users, and gcc 3.3. Have a lot of fun!"
Speaking of which, Mandrake 9.1 final is due out next week, also with KDE 3.1 and other goodies. Free to download, 650MB ISOs so even the most antique CD drives and burners should be happy.
Looking forward to Kolab maturing (due I think with KDE 3.2), will be an excellent tool for chasing the Borg-remnants out of many enterprises.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
From the writeup:
Amongst other nifty features, KDE 3.1 apparently includes tabbed browsing, the ability to sync with Exchange servers, a new administration tool called "Desktop sharing" that allows remote control of other desktops,
From the parent:
If i'm not mistaken... the "Desktop Sharing" feature is part of KDE 3.1, so any one who upgrades to that version gets that particular functionality - not just those on SuSE 8.2.
SuSE is a great distro, but credit where credit is due, please.
I've heard of not reading the article, but not reading the /. writeup? Come on!
As an aside, I swear I'm going to install KDE 3.1 one of these days when I have time, it looks nice (shiny!)
-- Bill "Houdini" Weiss
UnitedLinux is only in SuSE's highend server offerings. UnitedLinux is based on SuSE Enterprise Server. I don't think that many other Linux vendors other than Red Hat have the influence, money, and talent that SuSE does, and their distro is pretty nice. The availability of SuSE packages, however, is pretty limited. I gave up with it because I couldn't find any packages for anything I wanted, and I couldn't find any SuSE docs that described how to make an RPM, and I like my packages to fit in with standards of the distro. RPMFind was pretty useless for finding SuSE packages...
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Interesting choice - apparently GCC 3.3 includes a lot of work SuSE have contributed. Will this be as controversial as Redhat's compiler choice of 2.96 a while back?
Probably not. GCC 3.3 will be an actual official FSF release. By the time 12 April comes around I doubt SuSE's gcc lags behind the official FSF release much. Remember, 2.96 and 2.97 were basically continuations of the 2.9x branch, after the FSF had basically stopped working on it and started working on GCC 3.x.
Thing is, gcc 3.x broke things. Also, Red Hat had a collection of IA-64 improvements for gcc that may not have made it into mainline yet. So, they made the unofficial releases because they felt that's what served their customers best. 2.96 was, I understand, the best gcc for IA-64 for a while. It just happened to have problems in other areas, unfortunately ...
Well you can get it via FTP about a month after release for free.
Personnally I don't miss ISO's.
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Amongst other nifty features, KDE 3.1 apparently includes tabbed browsing, the ability to sync with Exchange servers, a new administration tool called "Desktop sharing" that allows remote control of other desktops, and several interesting new crypto/security features.
Wake up and smell the coffee! All these nifty new features are standard in KDE 3.1. Nothing apparent about it. You might have just as well said "SuSE will include KDE" and be done with it.
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DISCLAIMER: I am a SUSE (8.1) user, but I've never tried this.
What you do is to download their Live Evaluation CD. You then use that to download the rest via ftp. The link is to version 8.1.
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Just to add to this. Mandrake the distribution has been highly profitable for years. Mandrake corporation is in trouble because of E-education contracts. If they did nothing but sell a distribution they'd be fine.
"The KDE scanning application Kooka and the commercial OCR tool Kadmos enable users to scan both printed and hand-written texts into the word processing application."
"With the comfortable and enhanced SuSE configuration profile manager, notebook users, who commute between different locations, can switch to the network and hardware configurations of every office site and therefore, can use scanners and printers of the respective location with a simple mouse click."
"[...] and the possibility to store folders in the running system in a crypto file system without the need for a new partitioning." That sounds really cool.
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Read the full announcement at http://www.suse.com/us/company/press/press_releas
The smallest configuration with X gives you a nice desktop with all the GUI configuration tools. Then all you have to do is start up YAST and install KDE to have the default configuration. While the download goes on, you can already configure the rest of your OS. I did this with Suse 8.1, should work with this version as well.
To be fair, RedHat does make freely available the actual update packages and are mirrored to all the other redhat mirrors.
What you're really paying for (or if you're not paying for it and you're using one 'demo' account and floating a whole lot of systems between it) is the email notification, web based remote managment of the updating, and the automatic RPM depenedency resolution, which for a huge update (say after you install a machine) save a *lot* of time.