Beta3 of OpenSuSE was released yesterday and I dutifully updated overnight last night. One snag I hit was a ton of conflicts from the cairo upgrade, but thanks to darix on #opensuse, I simply changed “update all with newer versions” in yast2 to “update all unconditionally” and Bob was my Uncle. And after having upgraded, the system is still remarkably stable and fast.

One thing that bothers me…. I’ve read that people are getting incredibly fast boot times–one report said 20 seconds from boot to ready-to-use. I must be doing something wrong. I just timed it this morning and it took my little P4-1.9G laptop with 1G of RAM 1 minute and 20 seconds from boot to kdm login. Not horribly bad, mind you, especially since I don’t reboot more than once every couple of weeks, normally. But still, 20 seconds would be impressive! Wonder what I’m doing wrong. =:/

Oh–also, the PCMCIA problems I was having earlier (wireless network pcmcia card not starting on boot-up) seems to have disappeared with this latest beta. Yay, progress!! =:)