openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 2 Comes with Linux Kernel 2.6.36 RC4

openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 2 has been announced. The second development release of the popular Linux distribution comes with some bleeding edge packages, including a release candidate build of the Linux kernel 2.6.36, as well as the usual array of bug fixes and updates.

"[T]he openSUSE project announces Milestone 2 of openSUSE 11.4. Milestone 2 (M2) is the second of six periodic development snapshots of openSUSE 11.4 and includes updates to major components across the breadth of the distribution," Will Stephenson announced.

"The cronie crontab manager replaces the Vixie cron used until now and adds the flexible anacron, which allows cronjobs to happen even if the machine was powered down at the scheduled time. D-Bus 1.4 adds support for systems and fixes the threading issues which gave KDE 4.5 problems," he listed some of the updates.

Highlights of openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 2:

· Linux kernel 2.6.36 RC4;
· Mesa 7.9;
· OpenOffice 3.3 alpha;
· Python 2.7;
· GDB 7.2 - with D language support;
· Qt 4.7;
· GNOME 2.31.92;
· KDE 4.5.1;
· Inkscape 0.48;
· KOffice 2.2.2;
· Firefox 3.6.10.

Note that the ISOs have been available, on Softpedia as well, since September 30th, the date when Milestone 2 was supposed to be released. However, the official announcement only came now.

The openSUSE 11.4 release schedule:

September 2nd, 2010 - Milestone 1
September 30th, 2010 - Milestone 2
November 5th, 2010 - Milestone 3
November 25th, 2010 - Milestone 4
December 16th, 2010 - Milestone 5
January 20th, 2011 - Milestone 6
February 10th, 2011 - Release Candidate 1
February 25th, 2011 - Release Candidate 2
March 10th, 2011 - Final Release

openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 2 is available for download here on Softpedia. Remember that this is a development release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only. Please report bugs to the official openSUSE Bug Tracker.