Suse's lovers and fans, proudly to announce that the latest 11.4 already out for download from their mirrors. Just choose your method, be it direct download or torrent. DVD version with full of application at 4.7GB is not a small size and it might take hours or days to complete it all depending on what speed you have now.

For more infos, opensuse 11.4 portal can be read here.

Download page for opensuse 11.4 can be find here.

Currently downloading at full speed and the expected completion would be another 7 hours! omai mai...

Those already downloaded and installed your 11.4, do share your experienced here I doubt, because it just been released few minutes ago.

This post has been edited by powerwoot: Mar 10 2011, 10:55 PM

any big difference bro???

lol, I am not yet to reach there until installed it on my pc. As usual kernel, DE, apps... newer in numbers. At the forum, the testers said that this release is far more stable compared to 11.3. Hoping that will be true.

Keyword = Tumbleweed.Rolling release repo bebeh.That's the biggest shocker to me because I thought it was only gonna be ready for release 11.5.

Not sure if I'm gonna whirl this coz I'm not big on GNOME or KDE.The lighter XFCE or LXDE derivatives out the same?I don't think so at this time of writing.

This post has been edited by eq8all: Mar 11 2011, 12:30 AM

actually tumbleweed already started on 11.3, but mostly for trial purpose. They had some problems of conflicting repos between suse itself and packman, in other word if we wanted the bleeding edge repos tumbleweed is not the best option. Maybe they already solved it in this 11.4, we'll see how it goes.

Here is download page with a choice. Opensuse download page give DVD version 4.3gb.

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/iso/

Just completed the download after overnight downloading, but yet to burn it anywhere. Maybe tonite or this weekend I am going to install in my new rig.

sorry nuub question.. can Core 2 Duo use x86_64 live image?

never use live before, but for sure it can.

Yes.

ok thanks.. will try it out later

it's stable ?

This is a stable release after 9 month of few milestones and RC

My report for opensuse kde live cd 32bit. Install with modem off.
Fail to boot using mepis 11 boot loader
Install again this time grub to MBR. Opensuse 11.4 grub fail to detect mepis 11 partition.
No idea what eating cpu load. LED hard disk always busy.
Reboot & repair mepis boot loader.
Bye bye opensuse.

downloading now..
this release should be stable as it has no major change like previous one.

i just hope that xen hypervisor is stable in this version... have very bad experience installing it on a hp rack server....

I have try 11.4 milestone and its stable. But I don't have much experience to do a thorough test. Best KDE Distro so far.

ooo...11.4 is here, little confuse on the release cycle, sometimes it's like close to a year, sometimes 8 - 10 months...

The standard release cycle should be every 8 months, however the time would drag more than the schedule if any new bug fixes to be inserted before the RC and golden release. But I couldn't remember if there were any previous releases took longer than 9 months

11.4 delay bexause of waiting for Gnome 3 release.
http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap

still gnome 3 not officially implemented.

Not so fast as intended, the reviews from some fans saying that gnome 3 not really user friendly or in other word still buggy and need to be fix. In fact the current gnome shipped with this 11.4 is 2.32. Gnome 3 is still the preview version.

We'll see if tumbleweed would offer any option to upgrade to gnome 3 when the stable version released into the repo.

hmm.. seems to have issue with my onboard hd4250. graphics and windows movement feels rough and edges were jaggy. hope change to proprietary driver will solve it.

..and have issue with SB audigy card.
it work fine on linux but when i boot into windows the card wont work anymore.
sound only came back when i replace it to other pci slot and reinstall driver. i dun really understand what happened btw.

I don't have much complaint about this release, but the font renders not so good as before. FF4b need to be downgrade to 3.x as some flash contents not displaying correctly.

during my experimentation with linux i went from redhat --> mandriva --> opensuse --> ubuntu

I have been using ubuntu for a good 2+ years now. However, looking at it as of late, I have become disheartened by how the development is going. They seem to just pile features into Ubuntu without fixing bugs. Unity looks a mess.

I am thinking of switching to either opensuse or fedora. However the most missing key feature of ubuntu is their software repository. I know how to compile, but it is a pain in the ass. I know fedora and opensuse have rpm and yum respectively. but how common and widely used are these packages compared to deb.

For many years, now I am giving this KDE 4.x a try and want to see how long it would survive without giving me the 'ladybug' icon.

http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:11.4_Launch_party_Malaysia

openSUSE:11.4 Launch party Malaysia

The launch party in Malaysia and will held April 9 2011 at McDonalds Ampang Park, KL and We'll will have glorious party there

This events are open to everyone and it public events

Far from my place, if not sure I am in and have few of double Mc haha

want to install proprietary driver, but at amd site they say


does that mean i need to install 32-bit drivers as well?

...ah, i cant use repo/1 click install. got problem on router, so i need to download the driver from another computer.

This post has been edited by failed.hashcheck: Mar 24 2011, 04:16 PM

Why don't you give the hardway a try.
The same goes to nvidia proprietary driver, we are requested to install 32bit compatibility driver to make everything working.

This post has been edited by powerwoot: Mar 24 2011, 06:24 PM

yeah im using the hard way. seems working fine with just x64 driver. still have yet tried x32 wine apps though (well i dont really need wine anyways).
the graphic issue solved, but the sound card still problem.
this is new rig, i dont know wether it was my rig, or opensuse specific or linux problem.

haiya.. every time boot linux then need to re socket my audio card plus reinstall driver when entering windows. this is madness!!

This post has been edited by failed.hashcheck: Mar 25 2011, 02:20 PM

seems like u kinda have quite some exp ... i would recommend Arch Linux for u and ( gentoo later on )

http://archbang.org/ <-- if u want GUI installer

Just enabled the gnome 3's repo for opensuse 11.4 by adding this http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/.../openSUSE_11.4/ into the add repo. Downloading and upgrading took about 15-20 minutes depending on how fast of you connection are.

1st impression, buggy and ugly especially the fonts, not recommended at this earlier stage of integration. I am returning to KDE .

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Added on May 8, 2011, 9:43 pmBump for the news, suse's lovers your 11.4 font renders must be ugly especially in foxy. Now the repo is going to be too good to be resist http://opensuse-community.org/SubpixelHinting

This post has been edited by powerwoot: May 8 2011, 09:43 PM