Happy New Year !
We are pleased to announce:
Issue 52 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0]
In this week’s issue:
* openSUSE Education available SLE10 and 11.1
* Zimbra Mail Server Training in Indonesia
* Q&A with Joe Brockmeier
* Forums: Getting VMware to [...]

Last week, the Novell-sponsored OpenSUSE project achieved version 11.1 of its community-supported Linux distribution. Because the release includes watershed changes like a new license, new build system, and significant upstream integrations, DesktopLinux collared Community Manager Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier for perspective about what it all means. Enjoy . . . !
Read more at DesktopLinux.com

Ladies and Gents!
Glad to announce the third release of unofficial Enlightenment LiveCD based on our brand new OpenSUSE-11.1.
Download page
‘Welcome’ notes (PDF)
Please visit the download page to see the details and try the mirror provided by Yandex.ru. Read the Welcome.pdf before you pop the disk into the PC/Qemu/etc.
Along with this “release” we made another ‘iso’ which [...]

We are pleased to announce:
Issue 51 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0]
In this week’s issue:
* openSUSE 11.1 out
* Lee Matheson: NEWBIES - Suse-11.1 Pre-installation
* Joe Brockmeier: Leaping lizards! Lots going on in the openSUSE community
* Petr Mladek: OpenOffice_org [...]

Earlier known as Suse or SuSE and used as a business-only solution, now OpenSUSE concentrates on home users desktops and workstations. Great features like YAST system administration control center, easy installation and configuration, and great support has made OpenSUSE popular among desktop users. This course outlines the entire operating system step-by-step.

Introduction

The Desktop
Home
File System [...]

It’s that time of the year again. No, not Christmas — it’s the time of the year we get the latest versions of our favorite Linux distributions. Version 11.1 of openSUSE is being released today. Designated as a point release, there are enough new goodies to warrant a new install or upgrade.
Read more at Linux.com

Community,
this is a call for volunteers. Thanks to your awesome help, the
openSUSE Weekly Newsletter Team currently provides the Weekly News in
9 languages (including English) to the openSUSE community. To be able
to further enhance the quality of our current offering, the openSUSE
Weekly Newsletter Team always welcomes contributors. What we
especially need:
1. We did an investigation last week [...]

Novell Inc.’s openSUSE project is becoming more open, as a new release due out Thursday includes licensing changes that make it easier to redistribute the Linux operating system, as well as a build service that will encourage more contributions from open-source developers.
OpenSUSE previously used a standard user license agreement and contained some proprietary software — [...]

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the release of openSUSE
11.1. The openSUSE 11.1 release includes more than 230 new
features[1], improvements to YaST, major updates to GNOME, KDE,
OpenOffice.org, and more freedom with a brand new license[2],
Liberation fonts, and openJDK. This is also the first release built
entirely in the openSUSE Build Service.
All of the Sneak Peeks [...]

Hi,
With the release of an squirrelmail security/regression fix on December
16 we have released the last update for openSUSE 10.2.
It is now officially discontinued and out of support.
openSUSE 10.2 was released on December 7 2006.
Some statistics on the released patches:
Total updates: 643 ( -20)
Security: 486 ( 0)
Recommended: 154 (-14)
Optional: 3 ( -6)
CVE Numbers: 706 (+50)
There is no notable [...]

We are pleased to announce:
Issue 50 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0]
In this week’s issue:
* Pre-order openSUSE 11.1
* Wanted: Tester from SUSE Studio
* Password Protect for GRUB
* KDE4-Repository changes
* SELinux in openSUSE 11.1
The [...]

openSUSE 11.1 is gold, and available for pre-order! The release date is still the 18th of December, just in time to have some fun over the holidays …
So what do you get for your money?
dual layer DVD9, with 32 and 64bit version(not available for download)
NON-OSS add-on CD with programs like flash, acrobat reader, mp3 support [...]

We are pleased to announce:
Issue 49 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0]
In this week’s issue:
* Andreas Jaeger: openSUSE 11.1 Goes RC2
* Joe Brockmeier: Mounting remote directories using FUSE
and sshfs on openSUSE
* Henne Vogelsang: What’s Working Well and What To Do With It
* RedDwarf: Check your multimedia problem in ten steps
* arstechnica.com: Distro(s) [...]

Hi
Some think that the information we have available online is not really suited
for beginners, especially if they are completely new to Linux. We want to
scan through the wiki to see what we already have and try to make it better.
Zonker & /me have dedicated the whole Monday, 2008-12-08 for this. Well nearly
the whole, 11:00-18:00 CET.
If [...]

We are pleased to announce:
Issue 48 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0]
In this week’s issue:
* Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 RC 1 Now Available
* Joe Brockmeier: YaST Mascot Winner Chosen! Say Hello to Yastie!
* Ben Martin: Debug your shell scripts with bashdb
[...]

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that openSUSE 11.1 RC 1 is
now available. If all goes well, this will be the last testing release
before the final 11.1 public release on December 18th.
This release includes a number of bugfixes and changes since 11.1 beta
5, as well as a new license.
Call for Testing
================
We all want openSUSE [...]

Just in time for openSUSE 11.1 RC 1, we’ve finished the new and improved license for openSUSE 11.1. The days of agreeing to a EULA for openSUSE are over!
The text of the new license is included on the wiki, but the highlights are:
* Users no longer need to agree to the [...]

Novell today claimed to have more certified software partners than rival Linux providers. The chest pumping represents Novell’s latest thinly veiled attack against Red Hat. But take a closer look at Novell’s claims and you’ll see why Red Hat may take issue with some of Novell’s statements.
First, the good news for Novell: The company says [...]

We are pleased to announce:
Issue 47 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! [0]
In this week’s issue:
* openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5.1 for PowerPC Released
* Fresh Factory Live-CDs
* People of openSUSE: Vincent Untz
* ARM Support for openSUSE Buildservice and openSUSE
[...]

We are pleased to announce:
Issue 46 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! [0]
In this week’s issue:
* openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5 Released
* Updated Build Service Roadmap
* KDE’s Compositing in openSUSE 11.1
* SLES Now Easy for Users of RHEL and [...]