openSUSE ARM RC2 Needs Testing!

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October 29, 2012

ARMopenSUSE Logo Hot on the heels of the news that the Google Chromebook runs openSUSE (even made slashdot) and following the closing of the openSUSE Conference in Prague, Dirk Müller let the ARM team know that RC2 is about ready to go and this will be the final before the release of openSUSE for ARM! Read on to find out some details of this exciting release.

The plan

Quoting Dirk:

Alex and I have worked yesterday a few hours to finish up the last remaining bugs for a 12.2 RC2 release.we plan that this is the last RC before final 12.2 for ARM, which is scheduled for November 6th.

So, there you have it: less than two week from now, openSUSE ARM will be ready for the masses. But, as with any ARM release, the diversity of the ecosystem warrants extensive testing: the developers themselves have not yet tested all variations and they’d like more feedback.

Surface is ‘a Quirky Cat,’ Teardown Shows

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October 29, 2012

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October 29, 2012

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October 29, 2012

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Ubuntu 11.04 Reaches its End of Life

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October 29, 2012

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Consequences of the ext4 Bug

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October 29, 2012

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Debian Project News – Oct. 29, 2012

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October 29, 2012

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October 29th, 2012            http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/21/
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Welcome to this year's twenty-first issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:
  * Debian Installer 7.0 Beta3 released
  * Reports from the latest BSPs
  * Other news
  * Upcoming events
  * New Debian Contributors
  * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release
  * Important Debian Security Advisories
  * New and noteworthy packages
  * Work-needing packages
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Debian Installer 7.0 Beta3 released
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Cyril Brulebois announced the third beta release of the Debian Installer
7.0 [1]. One of the major improvements in this

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