Official release on thursday.

http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/op...-May/0001.html
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We mastered wednesday RC4, fixed bugs and then mastered RC5 and
declared that last night as goldmaster (= final version). We only did
a limited set of media for now and will do the final sets, all the
delta ISOs (both from RC1 and RC3), and a proper frozen ftp tree on
monday and distribute it to the mirrors so that we can announce and
release this version next thursday (11th of May).

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Finally!

yes yes yes!!! goldmaster is coming, i have a convertee from windows that said he will switch as soon as 10.1 is final, he has been a windows user for some time, and messed around with a few distro's like ubuntu and the variants but he got sick of the sudo thing, he also tried SuSE 10.0 for a while, now he has seen my factory install and seen Xgl in action and he is hooked!!

come on GoldMaster!!

I just found these screenshots of the standard GNOME on SUSE 10.1. I realize they are very, very old (these are from the very first alpha release) but I can't find anything newer than these to go upon. If you look, there is no longer a top toolbar and it is now joined with the bottom toolbar (so it looks more like KDE now). It almost looks like they are trying to make Windows convertees more comfortable. Does anybody know if they kept the toolbar the way it is in these older screenshots? Will it be like this in the final release? Or was it just a mistake in their first alpha?
http://www.tuxmachines.org/gallery/susealpha1/gnome
http://www.tuxmachines.org/gallery/susealpha1/gnome1
http://www.tuxmachines.org/gallery/susealpha1/gnome3

Those pics I've seen from RC3 it looks like this is definetly a strategic decision. It really does sit there in the bottom of the screen. Ive got the final one running, but haven't tried gnome yet, so I will have logout to see it in action...

That's a shame. I always liked GNOME's closer to Mac OS X look and feel more. It's a little more cluttered now. It might be easy enough to change, but still, I think they might get some complaints from big GNOME fans. I wonder if they recieved any complaints about this during testing? Or maybe they changed it because they were getting complaints to get rid of the top toolbar?

I have no idea why they did this change, but it can be dragged to the top of screen if one wants to do so...

SUSE Linux 10.1 Final will be released on thursday, 11th of May.

For me I never liked Mac layout, the top bar, single click, etc and moved to windows so for me this will be a nice change and maybe I will make an effort to learn gnome now as it is more pleasing to my computing style. But yea I think the votes of the world speak loud when 90% of the world is MS and here in linux a huge part of the user base is KDE, even XFCE and blackbox are all on bottom for menu bars. And now with Mac's running windows....I think GNOME was the only guy on the block left doing top menu's. But i hope they do allow you to go top for those who want it. Even windows does that.

That's not what I'm worried about. There's a chance that they may be letting the popularity of Windows effect their descision-making.

why many ftp and http sites do not have Suse 10.1 final release?
any idea i can get it?

You need to wait a while before most places have it. Remember, it wasn't released that long ago, and it even took the OpenSUSE web site three days to completely update themselves. The Evaluation edition just came out yesterday. I'd bet, but June 15th, the wide majority of places will have it. As far as I know, not even OSDisc.com has copies of 10.1 ready yet. If you really want it now, though, the best bet would be the OpenSUSE site.

I have got the 5CD ISO, but not DVD.

Of course this had to happen. I just finished burning both DVDs to disc when DHL shows up with my boxed set

where can i get DVD Eval iso image file?