What's new in openSUSE 11.2? Andreas Jaeger Director openSUSE Novell

© Novell Inc. 2 What's new in openSUSE 11.2? openSUSE Distribution overview How is openSUSE 11.2 developed? Key Features of openSUSE 11.2

The openSUSE Distribution

© Novell Inc. 4 Server or Desktop? Default: Desktop Installation Server Edition?

© Novell Inc. 5 All 8 months a new openSUSE November 2009: openSUSE 11.2 July 2010: openSUSE 11.3 March 2011: openSUSE 12.0

Development of openSUSE

© Novell Inc. 7 From SUSE Linux to openSUSE SUSE Linux: Closed development, private Beta tester group openSUSE: completely open and community-distribution

© Novell Inc. 8 Opening of all processes for contribution Evaluate features Change packages in Factory Test Build own distribution Updates

© Novell Inc. 9 Packagebuild in openSUSE BuildService Build packages for Fedora, Mandriva, Ubuntu,.. - and openSUSE Teamwork on Packages und Package groups Change Review Stable Package – and development-versions Factory process Daily snapshots of Factory Daily Package updates, integration – and build of a distribution

© Novell Inc Factory daily updates zypper dup Smaller updates as in the past Deltas between packages Unchanged packages are ignored Users of Factory are testers – and very welcome!

© Novell Inc. 1 Build your own distribution SUSE Studio KIWI Trademark Policy

© Novell Inc Custom build distributions openSUSE Li-f-e based on openSUSE 11.1 Installable Live DVD Packages for students, pupils, teachers Goblin – for Netbooks KDE Four Live

What features are new?

© Novell Inc openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 3 Just released Main changes since Milestone 2: Linux Kernel Glibc GNOME KDE 4.3 Beta2 Firefox 3.5 RC2 OpenOffice.Org Alpha Compiler flags changed to i586

© Novell Inc YaST & Web 2.0 YaST web-service with RESTful Interface (http) Callable via YaST webfrontend or command-line „Technology Preview“ in openSUSE 11.2 Developers and designers welcome

© Novell Inc Demo of WebYaST See also

© Novell Inc YaST2 Partitioner

© Novell Inc GNOME 2.28 Integration of clutter, for example in games Geo localization in Empathy a.o. Empathy may be the default IM client Banshee 1.6 Packages for GNOME development, z.B. jhbuild New look & feel

© Novell Inc GNOME 2.28

© Novell Inc KDE 4.3 Amarok 2.1 Digikam 1.0 (planned) KOffice 2.0 Integration of PolicyKit and Geo localization Big changes in Kmail

© Novell Inc KDE 4.3

© Novell Inc. 2 Features Current software: Current applications like Firefox 3.5, OpenOffice.Org 3.1+ Current desktops like GNOME 2.28, KDE 4.3 Live update using zypper from 11.1 to 11.2 Default file system: ext4

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