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SuSE 6.3 Released Today

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the its-pronounced-sue-zuh dept.

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.

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  1. Re:reiner fs? by wolfgang_spangler · · Score: 3

    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

  2. Possibly less stable than you think... by Christopher+B.+Brown · · Score: 3
    The issues coming over the ReiserFS mailing list are that the base format ( e.g. handling of things like the superblock) are being changed, and it is reasonably likely that the FS running today on 2.2.13 will not be readable by the version of ReiserFS that will is deployed next month on 2.3.x.

    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.