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Favorite 11.0 features?
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One of the things I’ve been working on today is a reviewer’s guide for openSUSE 11.0 — something to send out to those who are reviewing openSUSE 11.0 for the press (as well as anyone else who might want to read it…)
So, I’ve been compiling a list of features we need to cover, from large (KDE4, GNOME 2.22, new installer) to small (RPM payload switched to lzma). Of course, two heads are better than one, so I thought it’d be worth polling the openSUSE community to see what new features or improvements in openSUSE 11.0 are making life better for users.
Zypper performance improvements. This can’t be easily overstated. I went from avoiding the install program (as it would take “forever” — minutes on a decent machine — before it would be usable) to regularly using it.
KIWI is one of the most awesome technologies that could always do with more attention. Likewise for LTSP. Other smaller things like Firefox 3.0, Kepas, etc. I was going to cover in Sneak Peeks though my exams end quite late… :-/
New upstream GNOME is always my favorite feature
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the artwork!!!
OpenSUSE is a beautiful polished distro. This is one feature that easily stands out and should be mentioned.
I agree, but also going for more specific features to mention as well.
Added support for starting of multiple mysql databases during boot.
See feature request:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=353120
This is quite nice now so many applications come with a need for a mysql database,
with this feature it is easy to create and maintain multiple mysql databases.
Zypper and installation speed.
Has anybody a list of updated packages?
Means a major update like squid from 2.x to 3.x or nagios from 2.x to 3.x? Would be glad to get such a list for interesting tech-people containing a small “subset” of changes (like “the 10 most important changes for squid 3.0″).
Packagename | Summary | Version on 10.3 | Version on 11.0 | Most important changes | Upstream Link
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anjuta | GNOME IDE for C and C++ | 1.4.2 | 2.4.0 | - better UTF8 support | http://anjuta.org/
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would be glad if I can see such a list somewhere when the final openSUSE 11.0 is out.
Without “most important changes”: http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News resp. http://en.opensuse.org/Product_Highlights/11.0
How about getting OpenAFS in openSuse 11.
Encryption support for root.
Although - now hibernation/suspend on encrypted partitions yet. bummer.