“Alpha 5 in the OpenSUSE 10.3 developmental cycle was released
several days ago and with it came a few surprises. As opposed to
big changes in the installed system itself, the big news this
release was the 1 CD install offerings.“In KDE and GNOME flavors, this release brought the single
~700MB install cdrom. I found them to be complete enough to get a
stable desktop system. Not much development will be possible
without further package installation, but downloading and
installing the required and other desired packages through yast
might be preferrable to downloading the usual 5 or 6 cds or the
huge dvd…”
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