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OpenSUSE 11.3 Is Here

Posted by timothy on from the lovely-little-lizard dept.

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."

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  1. Top features by gmuslera · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A bit, imho, far more relevant ones, are described in Top Features. Support for Btrfs, and the visual interface of Meego for netbooks, sound to me a bit more interesting, apart of the usual incremental improvement over previous versions.

  2. Yes (in Europe) by Sits · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I was at a European conference a week ago and there were quite a few attendees with laptops running some version of openSUSE. A previous UK computer science department I was in also used openSUSE as its distro.

  3. Re:Does anyone.... by Rydia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I use openSuSE, as do most of the people I know. It doesn't have the warm fuzzies that people seem to get off Fedora and it doesn't have the nerd chic/new hotness feeling that Ubuntu has (which many, many others have had before, I might add), but it is a very well-maintained and established distro with probably the best configuration/installation (yast is very nice) of the lot, and has benefited from closeness to both the GNOME and KDE projects.

    It's a nice distro.

  4. Re:Does anyone.... by jodosh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I for one do (and it is still in the top 5 on distrowatch). YaST is a wonderful tool if you have never used it. One place to edit just about every config file and deal with system admin is very useful. Also their integration with KDE is by far the best of all the distros I have tried in a long time.

  5. Re:Does anyone.... by Enderandrew · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It isn't as bleeding edge as Ubuntu, but the releases aren't nearly as broken.

    openSUSE has give us Compiz, Moonlight, Office 2007 support in OpenOffice, Exchange support in Evolution, Samba, etc.

    It is my distro of choice. And I also really like that they focus on putting out both really solid KDE and Gnome desktops.

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