openSUSE 11.1 Beta 3 Released

The third beta version of openSUSE 11.1 was announced last night by the hard working people behind the openSUSE project. "The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the availability of beta 3 of the 11.1 release. It's a few days late, but much better for the delay. Beta 3 is now available for immediate download and testing. As mentioned on news.opensuse.org, this release was delayed significantly by the power outage in Nuremberg over the weekend of October 11th." - said Christoph Thiel in the official release announcement.

Here are the changes since openSUSE 11.1 Beta 2:

· Live CDs for x86 and x86_64 (with GNOME and KDE4)
· Linux 2.6.27.1
· GNOME 2.24
· OpenOffice.org 3.0
· Mono 2.0 Final
· CUPS 1.3.9
· Amarok 2.0 beta 2
· Banshee 1.3.2

Among the new technologies and applications that will be part of the final version of openSUSE 11.1, due for release on December 18th, you'll find Linux kernel 2.6.27, KDE 4.1, GNOME 2.24, OpenOffice.org 3.0, software update stack improvements, and many more...

openSUSE 11.1 release schedule:

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

Download and test openSUSE 11.1 Beta 3 right now from Softpedia. 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.

The stable openSUSE 11.0 release can also be downloaded from Softpedia.