openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1 Available Now

The openSUSE team is working hard for the new release of their free Linux operating system, scheduled for release somewhere in October, very close to the Ubuntu 7.10 release. They are proud to announce today the first beta version of openSUSE 10.3. This beta comes with OpenOffice 2.3 beta (that has the ability to read and write to Open XML files), latest 2.6.21.1 Linux kernel, faster startup times and many fixes/improvements.

The openSUSE team is also proud to present a project called openSUSE Build Service, which allows openSUSE users to search and install applications with a single click : "As we seek to streamline and improve collaboration between all Linux developers, the OpenSUSE Build Service has changed the way packages have been built. The build service is quickly becoming a center for building any Linux distribution," said Michael Loeffler, OpenSUSE product manager. The openSUSE Build Service provides software for the following SUSE distributions:

￭ openSUSE 10.2
￭ SUSE Linux 10.1
￭ SUSE Linux 10.0
￭ SLES/SLED 10
￭ SLES 9

It is also said (and are listed) that the software portal supports distributions such as:

￭ Fedora 7
￭ Fedora Core 6
￭ Mandriva 2007
￭ Mandriva 2006
￭ Debian 4,0 Etch
￭ Ubuntu 7.04
￭ Ubuntu 6.06

but it looks like it doesn't work at the moment for these distributions (or the software packages are very limited) as our search results returned nothing.

openSUSE 10.3 release schedule:

Wed, May 16: openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 4
Thu, Jun 14: openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 5
Thu, Jul 19: openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 6
Thu, Aug 2: openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 7
Thu, Aug 9: openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1
Thu, Aug 23: openSUSE 10.3 Beta 2
Thu, Sep 6: openSUSE 10.3 Beta 3
Thu, Sep 20: openSUSE 10.3 Release Candidate 1
Thu, Sep 27: openSUSE 10.3 Goldmaster release (internal)
Thu, Oct 4: openSUSE 10.3 public release

Please report bugs you find in openSUSE's bugzilla.

You can download openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1 (for testing purposes only) now from Softpedia.

You can download openSUSE 10.2 now from Softpedia.