I'm glad to announce the first public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3.
Since the openSUSE 10.2 final release, the most significant changes
are:
* GNOME is moved to /usr. Please do test especially updates from
older distributions.
* KDE updated to KDE 3.5.6.
* Linux Kernel updated to 2.6.20. There's no Xen support enabled for
now.
* Pattern for minimal text install (see the opensuse-factory thread
for details)
* Update of OpenOffice.org to version 2.1.3.
* The whole distribution is build now with -fstack-protector to better
guard against some buffer overflows.
* Usage of LUKS by default for crypto partitions in YaST. Both GNOME
and KDE handle removable LUKS media now.
Besides this a lot of bugs have been fixed and various packages
updated.
openSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 is an important milestone for us since it is an
installable release so that everybody doing development in the last
weeks can double check that their changes not only work in their own
environment but also in the complete distribution. It also shows us
the state of STABLE so that everybody should be able to use STABLE as
basis for their work.
