[sles-beta] [ANNOUNCE] SLES 12 Beta1 is available

[Stefan Behlert]

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Dear Beta participants,

we are happy to announce the first Beta of

	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.

ISO images are now available for download now. Please go to
http://www.novell.com/beta and select "View my beta page".
Here you should see all Beta's you are part of.

Note that the directory contains the images for the SDK as well as for SLED.

We offer 3 DVD ISOs: DVD1 contains the binaries, the second
DVD the sources and the third DVD the debuginfo packages. 
The final product will not contain the debuginfo packages on the media.

For installation purposes you just need Media 1 for your architecture.

Please verify the md5sum of the ISO using the MD5SUMS file, which can
be found in the same directory on the download servers.


Known issues:
  * Registration is not working yet, please "skip" it.
  * Bug 862391 - Incorrect kernel-xen entries in grub.cfg
  * Bug 864087 - build0062: empty package lists when displaying patterns
  * Bug 864361 - [SLES 12 Build 0086] Release notes can't be read: White on white
  * Installation on s390z requires some manual interactions, see README_s390z.txt 
    at download location
  * Update from previous versions is not expected to work


With this Beta1 snapshot we have reached several milestones:
    o Milestone: Kernel and installation works on all targeted machines.
    o Continue install and functional tests.
    o Start tests of new/updated device drivers.
    o Start legal review of SLE12 contents.
    o First version of Release notes available


For the next Beta-Release we are targetting these actions and milestones:

    o Continue install and functional tests.
    o Continue tests of new/updated device drivers.


Thanks in advance for all your testing

	Your SUSE Linux Enterprise Team


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Stefan Behlert, SUSE LINUX
Project Manager Enterprise Server
 
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