Two years ago, Michael Loeffler announced, a nice Christmas gift at that point in time, the release of openSUSE 10.2, on December 7th, 2006. "After a lot of work, we proudly announce the availability of openSUSE 10.2 formerly know as SUSE Linux 10.x" - said Loeffler in the release announcement. But this was not a usual release of the openSUSE project, and all Linux users should know that with version 10.2, the project was renamed from SUSE Linux to openSUSE.

openSUSE 10.2 brought many new things for the end user, such as redesigned versions of the K Desktop Environment (KDE 3.5) and the GNOME desktop environment, latest versions of the Linux kernel (2.6.18.2) and the X.Org server (7.2 RC2), Firefox 2.0, ext3 as new default file system, support for internal SD card readers, new power management and, last but not least, an improved package management.

Today, we are sorry to announce that openSUSE 10.2 reached its end-of-life on December 16th, 2008 and it is now officially discontinued and no longer supported. The end of life actually means that openSUSE 10.2 users will not receive security/critical fixes and software updates any longer. Therefore, we encourage users to upgrade their systems tomorrow when openSUSE 11.1 will be officially released!

"With the release of a 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." - said Marcus Meissner, on the openSUSE announce list.

The openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell, which promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE Linux provides anyone with free and easy access to the world's most usable Linux distribution, SUSE Linux. Tomorrow you will witness the final release of the openSUSE 11.1 Linux distribution, which will be available for download from Softpedia.