SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha 2 has been released:

SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha 2 is ready for testing.

New significant changes in 10.1 Alpha 2 since Alpha 1:

* New experimental libfontconfig
It contains bug which is causing segmentation faults in all KDE and Gnome applications after update/installation. You need to workaround this by calling "fc-cache -f" as root. (#128080)

* APT successor SMART is provided in the smart rpm package. It can be used like apt-get using apt or YUM package repositories (all inst-source directories contain YUM meta data)

* Update to KDE 3.5 Beta 2

* Update to Gnome 2.11.1

* Update to OpenOffice.org 2.0 RC 3



Note: Alpha 2 will be followed by Alpha 3 in four weeks, Alpha 2 is not supported and we advice to not use it on production systems. It has only gone through minimal testing on our side.

Please report all bugs according to

http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Submit_a_bug

This time we have made a tri-arch (i386, x86_64, ppc) ftp tree. We will release next week 10.0 Final with a tri-arch ftp tree as well if no issues are found with this 10.1 Alpha2 tri-arch tree.

A list of important known issues appears on:
http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Bugs:most_annoying_bugs

Download URLS:
BitTorrent already works:

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-i386-Alpha2.torrent
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-ppc-Alpha2.torrent
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-x86_64-Alpha2.torrent

Mirrors are still syncing and might not yet be available. However, existing mirrors near to you can be found behind the new http://download.opensuse.org/

URL:

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/MD5SUMS

x86 architecture (Intel 32bit) architecture:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-i386-Alpha2-CD1.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-i386-Alpha2-CD2.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-i386-Alpha2-CD3.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-i386-Alpha2-CD4.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-i386-Alpha2-CD5.iso
(Delta isos are also available, please read the README inside the directory)

For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64bit architecture:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-x86_64-Alpha2-CD1.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-x86_64-Alpha2-CD2.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-x86_64-Alpha2-CD3.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-x86_64-Alpha2-CD4.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-x86_64-Alpha2-CD5.iso

For PowerPC architecture:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-ppc-Alpha2-CD1.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-ppc-Alpha2-CD2.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-ppc-Alpha2-CD3.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-ppc-Alpha2-CD4.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha2/iso/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-ppc-Alpha2-CD5.iso