openSUSE team announced the new release of openSUSE distro tagged openSUSE 11.4.

This milestone contains libzypp version 8.1, which has a new backend for http and ftp package downloads. MultiCurl replaces the old MediaAria backend, and brings support for zsync transfers and better Metalink download support. ZSync reduces the amount of data to download by only fetching the changed parts of a file instead of the whole file. This speeds up repository refreshes, since due to the way the repository data is structured, it is easy to locate the parts of the metadata that changed since the last update.

Some of the features:

• Improved Package Management Performance
• XOrg 1.9
• KDE 4.5
• Gnome 2.32.0 Beta 1
• many more …

Official Announcement

Download Page

Report Bugs

Next Milestone due date is 30th September.

11.4 release schedule

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Hi folks, the wait is over and here is our favorite openSUSE new release.

openSUSE 11.3 is released a while ago. Release announcement:

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the latest incarnation of openSUSE, with support for 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

Some features of 11.3:

• Kernel 2.6.34
• KDE4.4.4
• Gnome 2.30.1
• SpiderOak to sync your files across the Internet for free.
• HP TouchSmart
• MariaDB and MySQL
• DVD include XFCE, LXDE desktop environments
• and many more…

Release announcement.

Don’t miss product highlights.

Wana check out screen shots before trying it out, here you go.

Wana download and install it, here are the mirrors:

openSUSE download site

gwdg mirror

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Stay tune for installation with windows 7 (dual boot). Coming soon.

Update (19-07-2010 1:00pm) : here is the dual boot guide.

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openSUSE 11.3 is around the corner.

Please fasten your seat belts, the touch down area is in sight we do have clear view and smooth weather conditions. So we expect a smooth landing for the release of openSUSE 11.3 on July 15, 2010. Let’s polish and fine-tune openSUSE 11.3 now.

Download from openSUSE site.

Download from gwdg

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Hi all,

M6 came with a lot of bug fixes, now its time for M7 with some more improvements in hand. And its the last milestone for 11.3, two more release candidates after this and then there we go for the final version(mid of July 2010).

openSUSE 11.3 M7 is available for download in the openSUSE developer zone.

Link for download.

Keep in touch for the announcement later.

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Update (27-05-2010):

Announcement from openSUSE.

gwdg mirrors for download.

New features:

• Netbook support with both Moblin and KDE.
• The approaching Btrfs file system can be configured in the installer.
• Better graphics driver support for Nvidia cards with integration of Nouveau driver.
• Kernel 2.6.34
• Great desktop experience with GNOME 2.30.1, KDE 4.4.3,  LXDE 0.5.5, and XFCE 4.6.1. LXDE has been newly integrated and is part of the DVD media.
• Imagewriter tool to copy ISO images to an USB stick.
• and many more… read the announcement page above.

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Have a lot of fun!

Arif

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Hi folks,

Ubuntu 10.04 is released few days ago, i haven’t used Ubuntu for some time, but 10.04 looks promising, so i downloaded the iso and tried it on my system as Live CD but did not go for installation, it was just to check and see what it have in the bowl. And sincerely it impressed me, i am user of openSUSE for long time, but i think Ubuntu also need some space on my laptop Hard Drive now. For now i am busy with some projects, and mainly with my thesis, no time to spent on its installation. Will install later.

It detected my laptop hardware when it loads the desktop and there was no installation needed for any driver. Wireless net was up on the spot, the time it loads desktop. I took some snapshots of different applications. Here they are:

Last words: Worth a TRY..

Enjoy and have fun with it.

Arif

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Officially openSUSE team not yet announced the release of milestone 6 for openSUSE 11.3. But there are download mirrors available to download it.

gwdg again is the 1st to provide iso for openSUSE as always.

http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/

Here is the download link from openSUSE site:

http://software.opensuse.org/developer/en

This post will be updated upon release announcement of openSUSE11.3 M6 from openSUSE team with details.

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Update (04-05-2010):

This link will guide you to have an eye on the updates and features for M6.

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Milestone 5 of openSUSE 11.3 is available for download.

There is no official announcement yet from openSUSE team, as i get updates, will post here.

Download it from gwdg.

ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/11.3-Milestone5/iso/

Update (15-04-2010):

Announcement from openSUSE.

Download from openSUSE developer zone.

Some new features:

• Perl 5.12
• PackageKit 0.6.2
• RPM 4.8.0
• Zypper 1.4.1
• NetBeans 6.8
• X11 7.5 and xorg-server to 1.8.0
• gutenprint 5.2.4
• Gnome 2.30
• and many more…

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Hi all,

The fourth milestone of openSUSE 11.3 is available for download.

Some new features:

• OpenOffice.Org has been updated to 3.2.1 Beta1 with new features
• NetworkManager has been updated to version 0.8 with fixes to better support bluetooth and GSM.
• Python was updated to the bug fix release 2.6.5 RC 2
• samba has been updated to version 3.5.1
• The Mono stack has been updated to the bug fix release 2.6.3 together with MonoDevelop 2.2.2.
• GNOME has been updated to the GNOME 2.30 release candidate (2.29.92)
• KDE has been updated to version 4.4.1

and many more…

Official Release

Download Links:

ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/11.3-Milestone4/iso/

http://software.opensuse.org/developer/en

Please report bugs to bug tracking to improve 11.3 for final release. Happy Testing.

Arif

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