I'm starting this thread for openSUSE-13.1 beta1, which was released today. There is an announcement of the release here: https://forums.opensuse.org/english/...-beta-out.html
and per that, one can download 13.1 beta1 for testing here: software.opensuse.org: Download openSUSE 13.1 Beta 1
Per the openSUSE roadmap, please note the philosophical changes when going from milestone-4 to beta-1 are:
I downloaded the 64-bit openSUSE-13.1 liveDVD (KDE) , performed the md5sum check, per the openSUSE wiki Live USB stick guide using imagewriter placed openSUSE-12.3 beta1 on a USB stick, and booted my Toshiba Z930 Ultrabook to this live USB stick.
The boot hung about 10 seconds after the grub2 menu selection.
I suspected a problem with plymouth, so I shutdown (by holding off key for ~5 seconds) and then rebooted. This time after the grub menu I pressed < escape > and the boot completed to have a KDE desktop up and running. I also tried a restart editing the grub menu and disabling plymouth with the command "plymouth.enable=0" and that also booted ok.
I tested my Toshiba Ultrabook running on battery, letting the Ultrabook suspend 4 times in sequence. With openSUSE-12.3 on this Ultrabook, after the 1st suspend the wireless stops working. In addition with 12.3 after the one suspend, a subsequent shutdown does not work (and requires a hard shutdown by pressing the 'OFF' key for 5 seconds). With openSUSE-13.1 Milestone4, the Ultrabook works fine after the 1st suspend, but after the second suspend the Ultrabook wireless and the graphics stop working (leaving one with a black not-recoverable screen). With openSUSE-13.1 beta1, I conducted 4 suspend/resumes in a row and it worked fine afterward. This improved power management behaviour with 13.1 beta1 is good, as I have a bug report on openSUSE-12.3 on this issue (where I also pointed to a kernel update that purportedly solves the problem).
I did note that the 13.1 beta1 shutdown was very slow, taking ~30 seconds as opposed to the nominal ~10 seconds (with the USB-3.0 memory stick on this Ultrabook). It appears there may be a problem there.
I then passed my USB memory stick (with openSUSE-13.1 beta1 on it) to a colleague at the office, who will be testing with their Sony Ultrabook.
Hence it will be the weekend or longer, before I can replicate the above tests, and before I can do further testing and write any bug reports (or provide input to existing bug reports).
and per that, one can download 13.1 beta1 for testing here: software.opensuse.org: Download openSUSE 13.1 Beta 1
Per the openSUSE roadmap, please note the philosophical changes when going from milestone-4 to beta-1 are:
- 2013-08-08: M4 => Base System Freeze
- All features should be in, from here on only bug fixes allowed
- All changes need to be justified, e.g. by referencing explanations in bug tracking systems
- Kernel should be close to the final Version, ie only patch level updates from here on
- The major desktops (KDE, GNOME) should be at least at RC level of the expected final version
- Installation workflow is feature frozen
- Feature and version freeze for the base system (X11 and below)
- 2013-09-19: Beta 1 => Full Feature Freeze
- only major and critical bug fixes allowed
- Text freeze for translations
- Feature and version freeze for the complete DVD (patchlevel updates of leaf packages possible until RC1+)
I downloaded the 64-bit openSUSE-13.1 liveDVD (KDE) , performed the md5sum check, per the openSUSE wiki Live USB stick guide using imagewriter placed openSUSE-12.3 beta1 on a USB stick, and booted my Toshiba Z930 Ultrabook to this live USB stick.
The boot hung about 10 seconds after the grub2 menu selection.
I suspected a problem with plymouth, so I shutdown (by holding off key for ~5 seconds) and then rebooted. This time after the grub menu I pressed < escape > and the boot completed to have a KDE desktop up and running. I also tried a restart editing the grub menu and disabling plymouth with the command "plymouth.enable=0" and that also booted ok.
I tested my Toshiba Ultrabook running on battery, letting the Ultrabook suspend 4 times in sequence. With openSUSE-12.3 on this Ultrabook, after the 1st suspend the wireless stops working. In addition with 12.3 after the one suspend, a subsequent shutdown does not work (and requires a hard shutdown by pressing the 'OFF' key for 5 seconds). With openSUSE-13.1 Milestone4, the Ultrabook works fine after the 1st suspend, but after the second suspend the Ultrabook wireless and the graphics stop working (leaving one with a black not-recoverable screen). With openSUSE-13.1 beta1, I conducted 4 suspend/resumes in a row and it worked fine afterward. This improved power management behaviour with 13.1 beta1 is good, as I have a bug report on openSUSE-12.3 on this issue (where I also pointed to a kernel update that purportedly solves the problem).
I did note that the 13.1 beta1 shutdown was very slow, taking ~30 seconds as opposed to the nominal ~10 seconds (with the USB-3.0 memory stick on this Ultrabook). It appears there may be a problem there.
I then passed my USB memory stick (with openSUSE-13.1 beta1 on it) to a colleague at the office, who will be testing with their Sony Ultrabook.
Hence it will be the weekend or longer, before I can replicate the above tests, and before I can do further testing and write any bug reports (or provide input to existing bug reports).