openSUSE 11.1 status [LWN.net]

It is now possible to pre-order the openSUSE 11.1 release, currently scheduled for December 18. But interested parties may also want to look at this status report posted to the mailing list. "The status of 11.1 is pretty short: it's cursed." It seems that the release managers have been running into some difficulties and will be scrambling to make that release date.

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openSUSE 11.1 status

Posted Dec 10, 2008 19:04 UTC (Wed) by mmcgrath (guest, #44906) [Link]

heh:

"It seems that the release managers have been running into some difficulties and will be scrambling to make that release date."

Isn't that what release managers/engineers do though? Fix problems while trying to make a release date? If making a distribution was easy we wouldn't need release workers :)

openSUSE 11.1 status

Posted Dec 10, 2008 21:53 UTC (Wed) by roblucid (subscriber, #48964) [Link]

From a Tester/End User point of view on OS11.1 - it's actually looking very good. Funny how the Release managers perspective can differ.

The release 11.1 seems far from cursed. 11.1-RC1 is in my experience far more solid and releasable already than 10.3 was, which took about a month after shipping to become 'quality'; mainly I think due to many kernel driver problems.

KDE-4.1.3 is quite nice to use for basic usage now, even if I suspect I'd stick with KDE-3.5 for day to day serious stuff for now, as I still feel lost when trying to re-configure the desktop. The graphical configuration and software update and install is now a dream, even on an old dual 450Mhz Celeron box with 512MB RAM, with Firefox-3.0.4 browsing simultaneously.

There's however not been much time between RC1's release and Koolo's GM freeze for retail, so a lot of fixes are getting shaken down now, and it seems already too late despite the "7 days to go" currently shown on http://www.opensuse.org/en/ . That does not bode well for quality and a quiet life for the installation support teams; I guess LWN readers will pass on the retail DVDs!

May be it'd make more sense for me to test Linus kernel candidates, with my 'exotic' hardware, when they make the -rc series. But the distro bug reports do at least seem to get to the attention of the Pro kernel teams, so contributing back, by taking part in this process has not been futile, the bug reports do get consideration.