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The development of openSUSE 11.4, which is expected to ship in March next year, launches today with the first milestone build: "openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 is available today for developers, testers and community members to test and participate in the development of openSUSE 11.4. Milestone 1 starts off....
Linux.com: "Recently I had the pleasure of chatting with newly minted openSUSE community manager, and former KDE marketing lead, Jos Poortvliet about user-visible changes brought in the KDE 4.5 release."
Linux Journal: "The distribution is always of the highest quality with a professional feel and polish. Novell employs full-time developers to work on openSUSE and community projects, because many of the innovations first seen in openSUSE will end up in Novell's commercial SUSE Enterprise edition"
HowtoForge: "This guide shows how you can upgrade your OpenSUSE 11.2 desktop and server installations to OpenSUSE 11.3. The upgrade can be done on the command line or via the YaST module Wagon (if you are on an OpenSUSE desktop)."
TuxRadar: "The recent series of OpenSUSE releases seems to have been oscillating between trying to deliver the finest up-to-date apps and providing the easiest, most intuitive experience for users. History tells us that it's hard to do both simultaneously, but this release might just have managed to pull it off. We reckon it's worth 9 out of 10 - but why?"
Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris: "The procedure driven by virt-install (libvirt 0.8.2) has been managed via keyboard due to mouse pointer stayed frozen at center of VNC window all the time of installation and finally at Gnome Desktop came up at the end"
Tech Broiler: "openSUSE 11.3, the latest version of Novell's community Linux OS was released on July 15th. I've put the OS through its paces for the last several days and I have to say that while I continue to be impressed with the functionality of openSUSE, I'm not seeing a huge amount of sexy in the latest release."
Following the recent release of openSUSE 11.3, the project's education team has now released its "Edu Li-f-e" edition, a specialist distribution for schools and other educational environments: "The openSUSE Education team is thrilled to announce the availability of openSUSE Edu: Linux for Education (Li-f-e). The aim of this....
Serverwatch: "After eight milestone releases and two release candidates, Novell's OpenSUSE 11.3 Linux distribution has now become generally available. The new version provides numerous improvements over the openSUSE 11.2 release, which debuted in November 2009."
Linux Planet: "How is a Linux distribution put together? For Novell's openSUSE, it starts with its newly improved Build Service 2.0."
Cyber Cynic: "I've been using SUSE Linux since its start in 1994 and then, as now, I like this strong desktop Linux distribution. Of course, openSUSE 11.3, the latest version, doesn't look a lot like that vintage Slackware variant, but one thing has remained the same. Today's OpenSUSE is a Linux for users, not developers or Linux technicians."
Linux Reviews: "You can download OpenSUSE 11.3 in several different versions. Because the default DVD is 4.7GB, you may consider purchasing OpenSUSE 11.3 for a few bucks, although smaller live CD versions are also available."
lukehashj writes "The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the latest incarnation of openSUSE, with support for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. OpenSUSE 11.3 is packed with new features and updates including SpiderOak to sync your files across the Internet for free, Rosegarden for free editing of your audio files, improved indexing with Tracker, and updates to Mozilla Firefox, and Thunderbird." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
The long wait is over; some eight months after the release of the previous stable version, openSUSE 11.3 is now officially available: "The openSUSE project is pleased to announce the release of the latest incarnation of openSUSE, with support for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. openSUSE 11.3 is packed....
The second and final release candidate for openSUSE 11.3 is now ready for download and testing: "Following up on Michael Loeffler's previous RC1 announcement, openSUSE is now doing a final check of instrumentation before landing. The weather continues to be clear and all conditions continue to be smooth,....
ars Technica: "The developers behind openSUSE are drafting a new "community statement" as part of a broader effort to define a technical strategy for their project."
Ghacks: "OpenSuSE 11.2 has a number of nice features and update, although you may find some of the included applications a bit behind. For example, the included GNOME in 11.2 is 2.28, whereas Ubuntu 10.04 released with GNOME 2.3. Of course OpenSuSE is due for an update itself."
Netstat -vat: "Novell's openSUSE developers have been a busy bunch this week. Today openSUSE 11.3 milestone 7 is out which is the last stop ahead of a Release Candidate in June and a final release in July"
Andreas Jaeger has announced the availability of the seventh (and last) milestone release of openSUSE 11.3: "Milestone 7 (M7), a snapshot of the openSUSE Factory 'work in progress' build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M7 is the last milestone release,....
HowtoForge: "This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on an OpenSUSE 11.2 system."
Phoronix: "The RadeonHD Linux driver that came about in 2007 following the announcement of AMD's open-source driver strategy has had an interesting history. This driver was developed by Novell's developers, but now they are even dropping it from their openSUSE distribution."
Andreas Jaeger has announced that the sixth milestone release of openSUSE 11.3 is ready for testing: "Milestone 6 (M6), a snapshot of the Factory 'work in progress' build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M6 is the first release during the....
James Mason has announced the availability of the fifth milestone release of openSUSE 11.3: "Milestone 5 (M5), a snapshot of the Factory 'work in progress' build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M5 was marked by significant contributions from both the....
ZDNet: "As I noted in my post over on Between the Lines (”Why doesn’t IBM just buy Novell already?”), I’ve been testing OpenSUSE’s Linux for Education Project and Ubuntu 10.04 server beta 1."
Netstat -vat: "Novell's openSUSE community Linux distribution is moving steadily and surely towards its 11.3 release which is scheduled for July 15th."
The H Open: "The most important development in this release is the shift from booting with the traditional System V init scheme to the newer Upstart system."
Andreas Jaeger has announced the availability of the fourth milestone release of openSUSE 11.3: "The fourth of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 4 focuses on switching to upstart as init daemon. Here's what you may find interesting in the new....
Tech Source: "First came the tech bubble, whose quasi-utopian promises drew in billions of investment dollars, only to pop its cork in 2000, dragging the United States into a recession."
Phoronix: "Last week we delivered benchmarks of Fedora 13 Alpha and Ubuntu 10.04 (along with testing the Fedora 11 and 12 too), but today we have a new set of comparative benchmarks that are covering the latest development versions of Ubuntu 10.04, Mandriva 2010.1, PCLinuxOS 2010, and openSUSE 11.3. Here they are."