The release candidate version of openSUSE 11.0 was announced last night by the hard working people behind the openSUSE project: "The good news is that we're closing in on the final release of 11.0, but it's not time to relax just yet. We're getting really close, so we need all hands on deck to help test this release candidate." This RC fixes 578 bugs and resolves 1.118 ones. Among the new technologies and applications included in the final version of openSUSE 11.0, due for release on June 19th, you'll find:

￭ Linux kernel 2.6.25
￭ GCC 4.3.0
￭ PulseAudio 0.9.10
￭ AppArmor 2.3
￭ PackageKit 0.2
￭ Xen 3.2
￭ glibc 2.8
￭ libzypp 3.12

The openSUSE developers have found some bugs, which are not fixed yet. Here is a short list with the most annoying ones and their workarounds:

￭ The GRUB boot loader configuration is broken for other hard drive partitions (no workaround yet!);
￭ The Nvidia video driver will not compile. Workaround: check here for a patch;
￭ GNOME desktop environment will ask you for the root (system administrator) password on the first log-in (no workaround yet!);
￭ The default icon theme for GNOME is wrong. This will be fixed on the final version.

openSUSE 11.0 release schedule:

6 December 2007: openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 0
17 January 2008: openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 1
7 February 2008: openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2
19 March 2008: openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 3
18 April 2008: openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1
2 May 2008: openSUSE 11.0 Beta 2
13 May 2008: openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3
29 May 2008: openSUSE 11.0 Release Candidate 1
12 June 2008: openSUSE 11.0 Goldmaster release (internal)
19 June 2008: openSUSE 11.0 Public release

Remember that this is a beta release and should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only. Please report bugs to the openSUSE Bug Tracker.

Download and test openSUSE 11.0 RC1 right now from Softpedia and don't forget to drop us a line or two about it!

The stable openSUSE 10.3 release can also be downloaded from Softpedia.