openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 1 Is Out

The first alpha version of openSUSE 11.1 was announced last night by the hard working people behind the openSUSE project: "While testing this on a Thinkpad R51, the system didn't boot after first stage installation. We are still looking into this issue (#411937). In addition to that, the default GNOME installation will complain about a missing package (providing gnome-session-branding)," said Christoph Thiel in the release announcement. Therefore, the DVD version of this first alpha is not recommended to be used for installation. Among the new technologies and applications included in the final version of openSUSE 11.1, due for release on December 18th, you'll find:

￭ Linux kernel 2.6.27
￭ KDE 4.1.1
￭ KDE 3.5.10 (optional)
￭ GNOME 2.24
￭ OpenOffice.org 3.0
￭ Software update stack improvements and many more...

We've tested the GNOME and KDE 4 Live CD i386 editions for you. There are a few screenshots below...

openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 1 boot screen

openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 1 GNOME Live CD

openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 1 GNOME Live CD

openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 1 KDE 4 Live CD

openSUSE 11.1 release schedule:

24 July 2008: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 1
21 August 2008: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 2
18 September 2008: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1
2 October 2008: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 2
16 October 2008: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 3
30 October 2008: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4
13 November 2008: openSUSE 11.1 Release Candidate 1
27 November 2008: openSUSE 11.1 Release Candidate 2
4 December 2008: openSUSE 11.1 Goldmaster release (internal)
18 December 2008: openSUSE 11.1 Public release

Remember that this is an alpha 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 11.1 Alpha 1 right now from Softpedia.

The stable openSUSE 11 release can also be downloaded from Softpedia.