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openSUSE 11.0 Now Available

Written by Planet Lowyat on June 19, 2008 – 4:33 pm -

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Finally OpenSUSE 11.0

Sneak Peeks of openSUSE 11.0

The new installer

openSUSE 11.0 includes a brand-new installer. The Sneak Peek series on openSUSE News shows off some new features, plus an interview with Stephan Kulow!

Software Management

There have been many improvements and changes to ZYpp, openSUSE’s package management system, including the major improvement: it’s lightning fast! Features an interview with Duncan Mac-Vicar.

Desktop Effects

openSUSE’s Desktop Effects (Compiz) have been improved, and include many new effects and new features which make running and managing them better! Also includes an interview with Dennis Kasprzyk!

KDE

In openSUSE 11.0, you get two KDEs for the price of one. Take a look at the new KDE!

GNOME in openSUSE 11.0

There are many improvements in the new version of GNOME. Vincent Untz talks about the GNOME desktop environment in openSUSE 11.0.

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Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1

Written by Planet Lowyat on April 20, 2008 – 9:31 am -

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the first Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! There are many exciting enhancements and features in the new release. Among these is the incredibly fast package management (libzypp), KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.3, GNOME 2.22.1, a beautiful new installer, installable live CDs and much more.

KDE 4 and KDE 3.5: The openSUSE 11.0 beta 1 includes KDE 4.0.3, which includes a number of new features, fixes, and optimizations. See the KDE4 page for more info on the KDE4 branch. To help test, see the wiki for info on reporting bugs in KDE. Not quite ready to move to KDE4? No worries, the beta includes an installation option for KDE 3.5 in addition to KDE4.

GNOME 2.22: Beta 1 includes GNOME 2.22.1 with plenty of new features and packages. Interested in helping with testing for GNOME in openSUSE 11.0? See the wiki for all the info you need.

YaST ported to Qt4: openSUSE’s administration and installation tool, YaST, has been ported to Qt4, providing beautiful styling for the installer, and an improved look for areas such as package management.