openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8

The 8th intermediate release of the openSUSE development version has been released.
This is the last Milestone in the 11.2 development cycle, then only two releases of the candidate remain. It's time to test openSUSE 11.2 on your hardware and inform the developers about problems, if any are found. Developers will just have time to fix everything and check again before release.

Under the cut changes, links and useful tips for those who want to try.

List of the most important changes from m7:

• Linux kernel 2.6.31 final
• 11.2 more themes in their place
• -lang packages are now compiled as noarch
• bluez 4.5.1, PulseAudio 0.9.17
• Samba 3.4.1, php 5.3.0, postresql 8.4.1
• improved Firefox integration in KDE

ISO images
Download iso images by following the link.
iso images LiveCD presented by reference are hybrid images - they are suitable for recording on a CD or on a USB flash drive. To write an image to a USB flash drive, just use the dd utility.
dd if=openSUSE-KDE4-LiveCD-Build0308-i686.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M
where / dev / sdc is your flash drive
Attention! all data and partitions on the flash drive will be destroyed, check twice if the device is correct

delta ISO files
For those who have already tested m7 there is deltaiso, with their help, you can not download the DVD images completely. download only small files with a set of changes and get new m8 images. Download deltaiso files here.
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To use deltaiso correctly, you need to update the deltarpm toolkit. For the repository with the new version of deltarpm for 11.1 , the repository for the Factory

Applied deltaiso command:

  applydeltaiso <oldiso> <deltaiso> <newiso> 

Report problems found
Before reporting a problem on Bagzilla, see if there are any gaps in the Most Annoying Bugs list.