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openSUSE is a community project, sponsored by Novell, to develop and maintain SUSE Linux components (such as YaST). After the acquisition of SUSE Linux, Novell has decided to make the community an important part of their development community. It is Novell's goal to market openSUSE as the best, easiest distribution for all users. It caters for both types of users by rather than providing a default Graphical User Interface, it allows the user (during installation) to select which interface they are comfortable with (either GNOME or KDE) .
History See History of SUSE Linux Features openSUSE shares many features of its retail brother, for example: Versions openSUSE has only been available as openSUSE for one major build release. Before this it was known and available under SUSE Linux. The current version openSUSE 10.1 was released to the public as SUSE Linux on May 11 2006. Some bugs were fixed and 10.1 was re-released at Oct 13 as remastered 10.1. This version is available for download. It also available as a retail version from Novell under the name SUSE Linux. At the moment, the next version of openSUSE is currently in development as openSUSE 10.2 Beta 1 was released. According to the project's roadmap, openSUSE 10.2 is scheduled to be released on the Thursday, December 7 2006. Installation media At present, openSUSE is available as two distribution mediums. These are DVD and CD. Response The openSUSE page on DistroWatch has been the second most frequently accessed of a comprehensive list of Linux distributions for more than a year, after Ubuntu, the most frequently accessed. See also | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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