openSUSE Launches 11.1

Novell has unveiled their latest release to the openSUSE line with 11.1. Offering both updates and new features, Novell continues to push for more openness and transparency. The new release includes Linux kernel 2.6.27, Python 2.6, Mono 2.0, OpenOffice 3.0, and many others. "[...] Our choice was also influenced by impressive changes that are transpiring in the openSUSE community, which is growing rapidly and is also becoming more open, inclusive, and transparent. Last month, the project announced its first community-elected board, a major milestone in its advancement towards community empowerment. This is a very good openSUSE release and it delivers some very impressive enhancements. The distro has evolved tremendously in the past two releases and is becoming a very solid and usable option for regular users."

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umm its not out yet

[asv108]

openSUSE 11.1, the next major version of the company's community-driven Linux distribution, is scheduled for release on December 17.

Re:umm its not out yet

[arizonagroovejet]

I can only assume the parent was modded to +5 informative by people who didn't read the very first line of TFA:

openSUSE 11.1, the next major version of the company's community-driven Linux distribution, is scheduled for release on December 18.

Copy/paste! How did you get 17, parent?

Re:Is This One the Microsoft Certified Linux?

[Anarke_Incarnate]

how often does this bullshit have to be trotted out, only to make the poster (In this case, AC) look like a moron?

http://news.cnet.com/Microsoft,-Novell-spar-over-Linux-agreement/2100-7344_3-6137444.html

Now stop it already

Re:Still not safe to use Suse of any sort

[ThePhilips]

+1.

A reasonable alternative is to use a distribution which keeps a clear distinction between free software and non-free.

SUSE always made clear distinction between commercial/non-free software they include and core OS. Core OS always was and is GPL'ed Linux.

All software is installed with rpm - you can always grep for license.

Re:Still not safe to use Suse of any sort

[spirit of reason]

Well, while you go on in fear, I'm going to continue using what I've found to be the most polished distribution for KDE4 users (out of Fedora, openSUSE, Kubuntu, and Debian). Fedora annoyingly included a pre-release version of xorg that didn't have driver support from nvidia or amd. I have no idea what's up with Kubuntu; the maintainers need to work a little harder at making it stable and fast. Debian is just missing some of the nicer GUI tools for system administration.

If you've got a better distribution to try, I'd love to hear it. (I'm really happy we have KVM ^_^)

Re:Still not safe to use Suse of any sort

[Anonymous Coward]

Please take your American software patent problems elsewhere.

Thank you,
rest of the world

Re:Suse is not linux

[NotBorg]

Yes Mono. Software that would have required a Windows box is now running on a Linux box.

[sarcasm]
It's terrible that organizations have another option for migrating to a non Microsoft Platform. Obviously they should rewrite their software from scratch or stay away from Linux. Linux is pure and holy!!! The power of Linus compels you!

Samba, Wine, Evolution, Pidgin, etc, etc, are all evil too.
[/sarcasm]

Yeah I know... all those packages that could be useful for migrating away from a Genuine Microsoft OS are evil. You can go away now.