The second alpha version of openSUSE 11.1 was announced last night by the hard working people behind the openSUSE project: "openSUSE 11.1 Alpha2 is available and ready for testing. This time it is actually installable and bootable. But you'll need to be quick and select the right boot option from the bootmenu. Due to bug #418619, "Failsafe" is the default boot option. Please make sure to always select real "openSUSE 10.0.42 - 2.6.26-14" option!" said Christoph Thiel in the release announcement. Unfortunately, the openSUSE developers decided not to include a Live CD with this Alpha! Among the new technologies and applications that will be part of the final version of openSUSE 11.1, due for release on December 18, 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...

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

Download and test openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 2 right now from Softpedia. 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.

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