20 June 2008, 16:22

OpenSuse 11 is here

As planned, the developers of the OpenSuse Linux distribution issued Version 11 on Thursday. This new major version contains updated software, including GNOME 2.22, KDE 3.5.9 and 4.04, X.org 7.3, and version 2.6.25.5 of the Kernel. The latter mainly offers improvements in the areas of virtualisation and hardware support. The installer has been visually freshened up and while the software is being copied, there's an option to select some program groups rather than individual packages. This speeds up installation, because the images combine all the packages of a schema into one folder.

The development team has also improved system performance. Besides a definitely slick system start, OpenSuse 11 offers faster software administration than its previous version. Miscellaneous changes and bugfixes for Zypper make both installing new packages and reading-in repositories, speedier.

OpenSuse 11 for 32 and 64-bit Intel systems, and PowerPC system, is ready to download on the project home page. Users can choose a DVD version, the Live CD, or an image for importing the distribution over the net.

(trk)

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