openSUSE 10.3 Public Release

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Posted by Zonk on Thursday October 4, 2007 @07:01AM from the chameleons-sneak-up-on-you dept.

Shizawana writes "The latest version of openSUSE was released this week. The site has a sneak peak of all the new features and additions, including highly anticipated changes to the YaST package management. The official announcement of the release offers a few highlights as well: 'The openSUSE team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, the openSUSE project provides free, easy access to the world's most usable Linux distribution, openSUSE. openSUSE is released regularly, is stable, secure, contains the latest free and open source software, and comes with several new technologies. openSUSE 10.3 will be supported with security and other serious updates for a period of 2 years. This version contains new beautiful green artwork, KDE 3.5.7 and parts of KDE 4, SUSE-polished GNOME 2.20, a GTK version of YaST, a new 1-click-install technology, MP3 support out-of-the-box, new and redesigned YaST modules, compiz and compiz fusion advances, virtualisation improvements, OpenOffice.org 2.3, Xfce 4.4.1, and much more! Read on for details of what is new and available in openSUSE 10.3, and for all the necessary download links.'"

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Finally I can be worry free. . . by saterdaies · 2007-10-04 07:06 · Score: 3, Funny

knowing that Micro$oft won't sue me since I'm using an MS approved Linux from Novell! :)
Sneak peak by $RANDOMLUSER · 2007-10-04 07:07 · Score: 3, Funny

How do you sneak a mountain?

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Re:Im sticking with Fedora by bluelip · 2007-10-04 07:14 · Score: 2, Funny

Nah, it's just that Redhat wants to be the aforementioned devil.

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Re:ok by Anonymous Coward · 2007-10-04 07:25 · Score: 5, Funny

yes. Gentoo!
One Click Install? by GroundBounce · 2007-10-04 07:29 · Score: 5, Funny

Does this violate any Amazon patents?
Re:"Giver" by rustalot42684 · 2007-10-04 07:49 · Score: 2, Funny

Do they have a "Receiver" app too?
Re:have they fixed bugs? by und0 · 2007-10-04 09:25 · Score: 2, Funny

Only thing worse would have been if they wrote their daemon in Python or perl.
There, fixed for you.
MP3 support? Sweet! by Anonymous Coward · 2007-10-04 13:19 · Score: 1, Funny

Wow this is great. I can't believe this has got mp3 support straight out of the box! I've never seen that before. This is teh advanced operating System!!@!
Re:Im sticking with Fedora by VGPowerlord · 2007-10-04 17:57 · Score: 2, Funny

Fedora might be more quirky...but it's from a company that never made any deals with the Devil.

I haven't done any research, but are you sure Redhat has never made a deal with the BSD groups?

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