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| 2004-01-24 |
NEW • Two SUSE LINUX 9.0 Reviews |
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Two SUSE LINUX reviews have been published over the last few days. Although neither of them has managed to get the spelling of SUSE LINUX right, they are still worth a read. ExtremeTech: "In the great pantheon of Linux distributions, SUSE 9 Professional occupies a venerable spot. It's packed with programs, developer tools, and terrific desktops." Sumeet M Moghe's: "Overall SUSE 9.0 Professional has given me a lot more smiles than frowns and I must confess I have had a lot of fun. If there would be a serious complaint I would have against SUSE, that would just be because of the fact that SUSE, unlike other distros, doesn't allow distribution under the GPL."
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| About openSUSE
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| The openSUSE project is a community program sponsored by Novell. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, this program provides free, easy access to openSUSE, a complete Linux distribution. The openSUSE project has three main goals: make openSUSE the easiest Linux for anyone to obtain and the most widely used Linux distribution; leverage open source collaboration to make openSUSE the world's most usable Linux distribution and desktop environment for new and experienced Linux users; dramatically simplify and open the development and packaging processes to make openSUSE the platform of choice for Linux developers and software vendors.
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| 2013-05-17 |
Development Release: openSUSE 13.1 Milestone 1 |
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The development of openSUSE 13.1, the distribution's next stable release whose availability is tentatively scheduled for early November 2013, has commenced with the initial milestone build: "openSUSE is pleased to announce that the newest milestone of the upcoming version of openSUSE 13.1 is available for testing. As an early version, it is expected that this milestone is not fully functional or very stable and we welcome bug reports and fixes for the issues. This is the first in a series of upcoming updates to the distribution that will end with the final release of 13.1 projected by November of 2013. As usual with an alpha release, the most prominent changes in openSUSE 13.1 milestone 1 come from the upgrades that packages are going through, e.g. GNOME 3.8.1, Apache HTTP server 2.4.3, Linux kernel 3.9, LibreOffice 4.0.2, X.Org Server 1.14.1." Here is the full release announcement. Download (mirrors): openSUSE-Factory-KDE-Live-Build0466-x86_64.iso (951MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-Factory-GNOME-Live-Build0466-x86_64.iso (927MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2013-05-08 |
Distribution Release: openSUSE 12.3 "Edu Li-f-e" |
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Lars Vogdt has announced the release of openSUSE 12.3 "Edu Li-f-e" edition, a specialist openSUSE variant designed for deployment in educational institutions: "The openSUSE Education Team is proud to present Li-f-e (Linux for Education) 12.3-1. This first release is based on openSUSE 12.3 with all the official updates applied. Li-f-e incorporates the latest stable versions of all popular desktop environments such as KDE, GNOME and Cinnamon and it includes wide range of software catering to the needs of everyone, selection from openSUSE Education repository, multimedia from the Packman repository, development tools, KIWI-LTSP allowing normal PC or diskless thin clients to network boot from a server running Li-f-e and lot more." Here is the full release announcement with a handful of screenshots. Download the live DVD image from here: openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e-12.3-latest-i686.iso (3,323MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2013-03-13 |
Distribution Release: openSUSE 12.3 |
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openSUSE 12.3, the latest version of the popular Linux distribution for desktops and servers, has been released: "Dear contributors, friends and fans: the latest release of the openSUSE distribution, version 12.3, is ready for you. After six months of hard work, we are happy to bring you the best mix that free and open-source software has to offer with our unique green sauce - stable, friendly and fun. As this was a shorter-than-normal release cycle, much attention went into the details so we can now give you a quality packed product. This release of world's most powerful and flexible Linux distribution puts the finishing touches on our boot infrastructure and package management, a bright polish to your desktop and a touch of cloud for your server." See the release announcement and release notes for more information. Download: openSUSE-12.3-DVD-x86_64.iso (4,474MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-12.3-KDE-Live-x86_64.iso (953MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-12.3-GNOME-Live-x86_64.iso (890MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2013-02-28 |
Development Release: openSUSE 12.3 RC2 |
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Jos Poortvliet has announced the availability of the second and final release candidate for openSUSE 12.3: "The openSUSE release team has released RC2 to the mirrors a few hours ago. A large number of bugs have been fixed and a number of packages have been updated. Major changes include PulseAudio, the kernel and Firefox. This is the last opportunity to find and fix the last few bugs before the final release." Please do note that the openSUSE live images no longer fit on a 600 MB CD: "Starting with openSUSE 12.3, we have changed the structure of the live GNOME and KDE media. The live images are now designed to be written to, booted and installed from a USB disk rather than a CD; consequently, they are now about a GB each." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download (mirrors): openSUSE-12.3-KDE-Live-Build0094-x86_64.iso (941MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-12.3-GNOME-Live-Build0094-x86_64.iso (879MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2013-02-07 |
Development Release: openSUSE 12.3 RC1 |
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Jos Poortvliet has announced that the first release candidate for openSUSE 12.3, scheduled for final release on 13 March, is out and ready for testing: "The openSUSE project would like to announce the first release candidate of version 12.3 of its popular Linux distribution. Major updates include the KDE desktop environment 4.10, GNOME 3.6 and Linux kernel 3.7.6. This preview includes a large number of fixes made to Factory since the beta, as well as the last major set of version updates. RC1 needs a real workout to ensure we fix any remaining issues in time, so don't wait for RC2, put it on your spare disk and give it a try now. Major changes include: PackageKit 0.8.7, Apper 0.8, fcitx 4.2.7, MariaDB replaces MySQL...." Here is the complete release announcement. Download (mirrors): openSUSE-12.3-KDE-LiveCD-Build0024-x86_64.iso (682MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-12.3-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0024-x86_64.iso (680MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2013-01-17 |
Development Release: openSUSE 12.3 Beta 1 |
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The first beta of the upcoming openSUSE 12.3, scheduled for final release on 13 March, is out and ready for testing: "According to plan, today openSUSE 12.3 beta sees the light. The beta comes with mostly smallish changes as we're in serious testing waters now – we hope you're out there to help us clear the way to the final release. The beta comes with 4.10 RC2 of KDE's workspaces and applications. KDE has announced a third RC due to some late changes and this version is part of a testing sprint organized by the KDE Quality team. openSUSE KDE packagers have build a special live image to test this release but we urge you to get the beta packages from software.opensuse.org as they are of course newer." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information and useful links. Download (mirrors): openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0348-x86_64.iso (645MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0348-x86_64.iso (642MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2012-12-18 |
Development Release: openSUSE 12.3 Milestone 2 |
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Milestone 2 of openSUSE 12.3 is out and ready for testing: "A month's work since milestone 1 shows that the new release team is hitting its stride, as they it reviewed and checked in more than 470 updated packages. The biggest update is in LibreOffice, which jumps from 3.5.4 to 3.6.3. This new version of the office suite fixes a lot of annoying bugs and improves DOCX compatibility. Also this release includes a lot of new functionality, like adding the Lanczos image algorithm for resizing, which reduces aliasing in resized images. In Calc, there are several new functions, like support for color scales and data bars in XLSX and ODS document formats. In a change to policy, KDE 4.10 Beta 2 has been added to Factory already." Here is the full release announcement. Download (mirrors): openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0260-i686.iso (641MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0260-i686.iso (629MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0260-x86_64.iso (645MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0260-x86_64.iso (636MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2012-11-08 |
Development Release: openSUSE 12.3 Milestone 1 |
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Will Stephenson has announced the availability of Milestone 1, which is the second official test build on the way to the stable openSUSE 12.3: "News fresh from the Factory - the openSUSE release team has made the openSUSE 12.3 Milestone 1 available for testing and feedback. There has been lots of plumbing in the infrastructure, with most prominently the removal of SuSEconfig - the capitalization of its name should give a hint about its age. If you want to get a taste of the upcoming release or want to help test and develop this awesome, green Linux distribution - come and get it! With Milestone 1, things start getting interesting. For starters, the init system continues to evolve rapidly. SysVinit has now been removed, following some discussion." Read the rest of the release announcement to learn more. Download (mirrors): openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0166-i686.iso (628MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0166-i686.iso (619MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0166-x86_64.iso (632MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0166-x86_64.iso (625MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2012-11-06 |
Distribution Release: openSUSE 12.2 "ARM" |
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Jos Poortvliet has announced the release of openSUSE 12.2 "ARM" edition, an openSUSE build designed for BeagleBoard, Panda Board and other ARM-based boards devices: "As was promised last week, the openSUSE ARM team has released openSUSE 12.2 for the ARM architecture. Almost all of the usual openSUSE distribution (more than 5000 packages) builds and runs on all the ARM hardware it has been tested on. Initiated at the openSUSE Conference in 2011 in Nürnberg, the openSUSE ARM team has managed to bring one of the most important Linux distributions to the ARM architecture in a little over a year. At this point, the team is confident openSUSE 12.2 can be installed and used on the following devices: BeagleBoard (xM), Panda Board, Versatile Express (QEMU), chroot. Four more devices are supported as a 'best effort'." Here is the brief release announcement. For download links and installation instructions please read the openSUSE on your ARM board page on the project's Wiki. |
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