| OpenSUSE kicks off 10.3 cycle with first alpha |
Feb. 15, 2007
 Chief maintainer Andreas Jaeger announced today that development of the next version of openSUSE Linux is officially under way, with the release of the first public alpha. OpenSUSE 10.3 boasts a 2.6.20 kernel, a choice of GNOME or KDE desktops, and its usual full-bodied application set.
Subsequent to the final release of openSUSE 10.2 last December, the most significant changes, according to Jaeger, have been: - GNOME is moved to /usr
- KDE updated to KDE 3.5.6
- no Xen support enabled for this version
- new pattern for minimal text install
- OpenOffice.org updated to version 2.1.3
- the whole distribution is now built with -fstack-protector to better guard against some buffer overflows
- usage of LUKS by default for crypto partitions in YaST
Some of the standard features, according to the team, include:- Evolution 2.8.2 information manager
- Firefox 2.0 browser
- GIMP 2.2.13 graphics editor
- abiword 2.4.5 text editor
- GAIM 1.5 messenger
You can download the live 3.7 GB iso image from the main project site here. Alternatively, you can obtain the iso alpha images via BitTorrent, here (for i386 machines) or here (for x86_64 machines).
This, of course, is a test version, and Jaeger encourages users to report bugs at the project's bugzilla here. Alpha 2 is expected in four weeks (March 15), and the final 10.3 version is expected by the end of September, Jaeger said.
Screen shots are available for viewing here, thanks to LinuxQuestions.org.
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