I installed beta 3 a few days ago, and have really been enjoying it — the only thing that’s bugged me so far is that patterns are missing right now, which was already a known bug  by the time I noticed it, and I think it’s already been fixed… so it looks like things are really shaping up well for the 11.0 release.

We’ve already had some good press coverage of 11.0 betas — such as this article on Ars.  I think that’s just the tip of the iceberg, though — I got an email over the weekend from Kristin Shoemaker, one of the bloggers over on Download Squad, and she’s really psyched about the 11.0 release already:

“Still doing some tweaking on my silly nvidia card, but I have got to say… Damn! about the whole install process now! (And yes, it’s a good Damn!)

It’s a nice plus to be able to install from a LiveCD, but the time it took to install the base system… What a huge improvement. I mean, night and day. I am so impressed. Partitioning was easy (actually, I never found it horribly *difficult* in the old version, either, but for some reason, finding the right “mode” to do my partitioning previously always led to my clicking the wrong option the first time…)

Also really had a nice chuckle at the point X was configured… The little “Don’t Panic!” message that comes up on the terminal is cute. My first run with SuSE (and Linux) I had purty graphics all through the installation, and then I was dumped to a command line when the disk restarted. So I had to laugh.

Anyway, tell everyone there they’re doing an awesome job.”

So, yeah — to all the folks working on openSUSE 11.0, you’re doing an awesome job. Not that it wasn’t obvious before, of course.

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