SUSE 10.x renamed to openSUSE

Dec 8, 2006 07:26 GMT  ·  By

Michael Loeffler has announced yesterday evening the final and the official release of OpenSuSE 10.2 : "After a lot of work, we proudly announce the availability of openSUSE 10.2 formerly know as SUSE Linux 10.x"

openSUSE team offers for download 5 open source ISOs CD plus their add-on CD with proprietary software, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, RealNetworks RealPlayer, and Sun Java Runtime Environment. Also, the DVDs for all architectures are available and contain the open source version plus proprietary add-ons. For the first time, openSUSE team offers a language add-on CD which offers support for languages which are not part of their base language set up. Later this week, the Live DVD release of openSUSE 10.2 will also be available.

Let's have a look at the highlights of this release:

■ Distribution renamed to openSUSE. ■ Available for i386, x86_64 and PowerPC architectures. ■ Package groupings are handled differently, 10.2 will use Patterns instead of selections. ■ Numerous improvements to the package manager stack, including a new update notification applet (opensuse-updater) and a console application called zypper which are both non-ZMD based. ■ Linux kernel 2.6.18.2, using only SMP kernels. ■ glibc 2.5. ■ X.Org 7.2rc2. ■ Using opensync instead of multisync for much better syncing. ■ Integration of power management features into hal. ■ Support to install multiple gcc versions in parallel. ■ Removal of several unneeded SuSEconfig scripts. ■ No reboot after CD1, display of slideshow during all media. ■ autoconf 2.60. ■ bison 2.3. ■ gcc 4.1.2 cvs. ■ gdb 6.5. ■ make 3.81. ■ Both KDE and GNOME features improved start menus compared to upstream. ■ Additional CD with non-tier 1 languages. ■ 2 years lifetime.

openSUSE 10.2 comes with a redesigned GNOME and KDE desktop, 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.

In conclusion to this announcement of openSUSE 10.2, which I personally consider as being a great Christmas Gift, the openSUSE team says: "We'd like to thank you all for testing heavily, reporting bugs, giving feedback on mailing lists, etc., and in general for supporting and participating in creating openSUSE 10.2"

You can download openSUSE 10.2 now from Softpedia.