"We'd like to kick start the development of openSUSE 11.0 in releasing the current state of Factory as Alpha0 release."

The GNOME and KDE teams have teamed up to provide two packaging days, from November 30th until December 1st (from any timezone to any timezone). It will take place on IRC in the #opensuse-buildservice channel.

The YaST survey has now been closed. More than 11,000 individuals participated in it, a PDF of the results is now available.

The openSUSE board has been setup to lead the overall project. The board will: act as a central point of contact, help resolve conflicts, communicate community interests to Novell, facilitate communication with all areas of the community, and facilitate decision making processes where needed.

From today on the live version of openSUSE 10.3 is available as GNOME or KDE Live CD. Both contain the same software as the 1 CD installation versions from launch time - just as live system.

The casual reader of news.opensuse.org knows that openSUSE 10.3 contains a YaST tool for creating images using KIWI. However, it is not that known fact that openSUSE 10.3 contains much more tools to manipulate RPM-based software and wrap it into a numerous ways for delivery, from a simple repository to a complete appliance creation. The picture below describes how the tools fit together.

Sony has created kernel patches specific for the PS3 in Linux Kernel 2.6.22, as well as maintaining the GNU toolchain (gcc, binutils etc).

Novell today announced the availability of openSUSE 10.3, the newest version of the award-winning community Linux distribution. Available for free download or in a convenient packaged retail edition, openSUSE 10.3 provides everything a user needs to get started with Linux. To improve the user experience, openSUSE 10.3 includes a flexible Linux-Windows dual-boot configuration, improved user interface, Microsoft Office file compatibility with the latest OpenOffice.org office productivity suite, and enhanced multimedia support.

The openSUSE project we're looking for an enthusiastic Chief Evangelist to promote and spread the adoption of openSUSE, be a public face for the project on conferences and events, act as voice of the community back to Novell's leadership team, develop and nurture the openSUSE communities, pro actively drive openSUSE marketing. This is a global role and as such, you can be located anywhere in the world.

"As mentioned in the RC1 announcement, we're doing only internal testing of the following release candidates to avoid storming the mirrors. But we decided to upload the live CDs, so you can test these and see if there are regressions in what you reported."

OpenSUSE 10.3 RC 1 is available for immediate download and testing.

The JackLab project released the final 1.0 version of the JackLab Audio Distribution (JAD) today after a development period of over eight months. JAD 1.0 is based upon openSUSE 10.2 with the addition of a real-time Kernel for fast audio processing with the professional audio server JACK.

Announcing the availability of openSUSE 10.3 Beta2.

On the second anniversary of the creation of the openSUSE project, the community program this week marked two new milestones – the availability of the first beta of openSUSE 10.3 and the continued growth of the openSUSE Build Service.

Alpha7 is ready after 5 rebuilds. Important changes since Alpha6 include Linux 2.6.22.1, gcc 4.2.1, libzypp 3.12.1 and the package set of the CDs are heavily reshuffled and with it the patterns also affecting the DVD.