Oct 04 2007
OpenSUSE 10.3 is ready for download today on Novell’s ftp servers and mirrors.
OpenSUSE 10.3 , the latest community version of Novell’s SUSE Linux, is available for download today from the usual mirrors and ftp servers.
The new features include:
- KDE 4, not the full thing but the first available elements of KDE’s new desktop.
- A stronger emphasis on virtualziation. The Xen virtual machine’s been available in the last few releases but the new thing is to make OpenSUSE 10.3 THE distro for virtual machin implementation. So now you get Xen, Quemu, Virtualbox and KVM.
- Single disk install. Instead of juggling around with the usual 5 or 6 installation disks, now all you need in order to get started is one single disk for the GUI of your choice (Gnome or KDE) and then you can use the rest of the disks for additional software.
- Network installation, according to OpenSUSE’s website, just works.
- Native support for multimedia codecs is now available, and for those that are not natively supported installation is just one click away with a new automatic codec installer.
These new release’s new features show the influence of the controversial Novell-MS Deal on one hand, and the pressure that Ubuntu’s usability is putting even in the most solid distros on the other –will there be a LiveDVD/installer OpenSUSE 10.4?
