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After quite a few rebuilds and testing, the openSUSE team announces that 10.3 RC1 is now ready and available for download.

The team consider this release to be feature complete, stable, and suitable for testing from any user. For more information on the release schedule, take a look at the Roadmap.

For a quick overview, check the screenshot gallery.

Technical Changes

• libzypp 3.24
• Virtualbox 1.5
• OpenOffice.org 2.3
• Countless bug fixes in every component: 535 bugs RESOLVED/FIXED
• 485 packages submitted

Most Annoying Bugs

• Online update opens an annoying popup with the progress. An online update is prepared for it, so it will only affect the first update (Bug #326247)
• On some machines it has problems with the kernel and ACPI - investigating, more data would be helpful
• GNOME is not yet final - it will be updated this right after RC1 and prepare a RC2. This one will be made internally, but you can get the update through Factory
• 32bit PPC machines have a problem with dependencies that try to install 64bit RPMs.

Media and Download

openSUSE 10.3 RC1 for i386, x86-64 and ppc is available as different media sets. All can be downloaded at software.openSUSE.org/developer. Here’s the run-down:

• 1 DVD containing OSS and NonOSS software (torrents for: i386, x86_64, ppc). Languages supported: English, Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese (Simpl. & Trad.), Japanese, Russian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Dutch
• 1 CD with a default KDE installation (i386, x86_64, not for ppc, English only)
• 1 CD with a default GNOME installation (i386, x86_64, not for ppc, English only)
• 1 AddOn CD with only NonOSS packages (i386 or x86_64, ppc)
• 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for extra languages (i386, x86_64, ppc, only to be used with DVDs!)
• DVD containing the sources corresponding to the media
• 1 Live CD for both KDE and GNOME (i386)

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