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SuSE 6.3 Released Today
Tap noted that SuSE.com notes that 6.3 of the distribution should be released sometime today. Features include NEW X-windows installation,
KDE 1.1.2,
Star Office 5.1a,
and XFree86 3.3.5. It should appear on the ftp site soon, and the Alpha release ought to follow shortly.
I think you are referring to this recent /. article. According to the press release by LinuxPR it IS supposed to be in SUSE 6.3, "...and we are pleased that with the release of SuSE 6.3 with journaling ReiserFS included we will be the first Linux vendor to ship journaling functionality" (taken from the abovementioned article).
I e-mailed SUSE about this 4 days ago but have yet to get a response.
- Wolfgang Spangler
No one forces you to use YaST for everything. I use SuSE and find myself almost exclusively using YaST for installing new packages. You still can mess with configuration files the traditional way (which I prefer too), but if you dont want that you use the GUI.
:)
There is no point in making a system intentionally hard to use. Its not a problem to have something that is hard to configure, but you also shouldnt cry "Waa, its not special anymore" if you neighbor can start using it too. Using a cool and stable OS shouldnt be a priviledge but something available to everyone.
And of course those who know what they do will always be able to get more out of their system no matter how many functions the GUI supports.
With the new _friendly_ gui install (at least we hope so), X is configured as part of the install.
This isn't so bad, as we use the VESA DDC to discover screen rates, and autodetect videocards, so usually there's nothing to 'configure'. If it manages to break, or if you don't like it, or if you don't even want to think about it, boot from CD#2 and use the familiar Yast1 install, sans-gui. The in-packaging hints suggest this is a possibility if you have trouble.
Best of luck with Linux.
-josh
We tend to build the FTP and ISO images after we do the commercial release. It's not really any sort of grand scheme.. it's just we do the version which earns money first ;-)
Thus, there are about 5 distributions to make:
Making all of these and testing all of these doesn't happen overnight. It will be there shortly.
-josh
At least all other UDMA/66 controllers are working.. the Promise one has proved a little more squirrely than most. I believe it is happy now, but I'm not making a promise.
If it doesn't work OOTB (Out Of The Box), we'll have a floppy image soon enough.
In fact, we've had UDMA floppy images for 66 for a bit now. If you'd like to try one send me a mail.
-josh
Personaly, the only two distro's I consider are Debian and Redhat, but it really doesn't matter what you use, aside from the installation process.
:)
You can set up any linux box to boot up to a simplistic (read: limited) X interface and feel like you're using windoze. But at the same time, you can take any user friendly distro and rip off the cruft, making it into a barebones system.
Personaly, between Debian and Redhat, I'm more of a Redhat man, because of how far Debian has gotten behind. Now, don't get me wrong, I have *high* respect for the Debian crew. They spend heaps of time making sure their distro has been tested and working flawlessly. Yeah, there may be a few less than perfect initscripts in RH, or this and that, but it isn't anything that 5 minutes wont fix, and it doesn't involve needing an internet connection. And it is also true that graphical installers happen to suck ass, but I'm not going to choose my distro based on something I only have to do once with it.
Because most of my installs have been on new machines, and I don't want to install Debian and then have to bring the whole system up to speed, as I think their stable distro is still glibc 2.0 (correct me if I am wrong on this). (Hehe, maybe I could find someone to make me some unstable distro cd's and find a non-critical box). I might be able to get away with a ftp/nfs install, but my internet connection (cable modem through Cox@Home) is terribly flaky.
When Debian goes stable on their latest distro, and I have another machine that needs a fresh install, it will be with Debian. If not, it will probably be a Redhat box. Doesn't really matter that much to me.
But the overall point is, no matter what distro you use, it is up to you if you want it to be windoze like, or if you want to tear it down and change it. Nothing is hidden from you when you run an open system.
This sig is false.
I would tend to think it highly questionable to include a filesystem before it has even entered the experimental kernel series.
Reiserfs may be close to being ready for that, but it's not quite ready for general deployment...
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Actually, I found that I could get individual copies from CheapBytes for about the price of a subscription copy.
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Interestingly enough, those screenshots have a KDE 2 look to them.
Are they including a pre-alpha KDE 2 with 6.3? Did they modify KDE 1 like Corel did?
Maybe this is only for the YaST 2...
There is not yet agreement as to what the upgrade path should be like.
The point is that what's available a month from now will likely not "play well" with what is available right now. That's necessary in the development of a better filesystem; it is certainly not good for the deployment of this, at least not just yet.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.