Alpha 7 is Out - Let’s Go Green

August 3rd, 2007


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So Alpha 7 was released yesterday and it comes shiny with all the new green artwork:

10.3 Welcome Boot Screen

Other great things include more improvements to Libzypp so YaST and Zypper package management is extremely fast in comparison. Many congratulations to the whole Libzypp team who have been continuously working on it throughout the 10.3 cycle! Below is an example search for kcall with the Factory repository which contains thousands of packages:

opensuse:/home/francis # time zypper search kcall
* Reading installed packages [100%]
* Reading repository ‘20070803-120438′ cache
* Reading repository ‘20070803-121002′ cache
S | Repository | Type | Name | Version | Arch
–+—————–+———+——-+———————-+—–
| 20070803-120438 | package | kcall | 0.5.2svn20060206-121 | i586
real 0m11.292s
user 0m8.589s
sys 0m2.184s

This Alpha release also includes the new SUSE greeter:
10.3 SUSE greeter

The forums, mailing lists and IRC channels link there takes you to http://opensuse.org/Communicate which should make new users find things like IRC, the forums, and the mailing lists even more easily. There’s also an easy way for users to learn about the Linux Philosophy and open source.

The next release coming is the big Beta 1 on Aug 9.

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