1. What's new in openSUSE 11.2? Andreas Jaeger Director openSUSE aj@suse.de Novell

2. © 21.09.2016 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

3. The openSUSE Distribution

4. © 21.09.2016 Novell Inc. 4 Server or Desktop? Default: Desktop Installation Server Edition?

5. © 21.09.2016 Novell Inc. 5 All 8 months a new openSUSE November 2009: openSUSE 11.2 July 2010: openSUSE 11.3 March 2011: openSUSE 12.0

6. Development of openSUSE

7. © 21.09.2016 Novell Inc. 7 From SUSE Linux to openSUSE SUSE Linux: Closed development, private Beta tester group openSUSE: completely open and community-distribution

8. © 21.09.2016 Novell Inc. 8 Opening of all processes for contribution Evaluate features Change packages in Factory Test Build own distribution Updates

9. © 21.09.2016 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

10. © 21.09.2016 Novell Inc. 1010 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!

11. © 21.09.2016 Novell Inc. 1 Build your own distribution SUSE Studio KIWI Trademark Policy

12. © 21.09.2016 Novell Inc. 1212 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

13. What features are new?

14. © 21.09.2016 Novell Inc. 1414 openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 3 Just released Main changes since Milestone 2: Linux Kernel 2.6.30 Glibc 2.10.1 GNOME 2.27.2 KDE 4.3 Beta2 Firefox 3.5 RC2 OpenOffice.Org 3.1.1 Alpha Compiler flags changed to i586

15. © 21.09.2016 Novell Inc. 1515 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

16. © 21.09.2016 Novell Inc. 1616 Demo of WebYaST See also http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Webhttp://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Web

17. © 21.09.2016 Novell Inc. 1717 YaST2 Partitioner

18. © 21.09.2016 Novell Inc. 1818 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

19. © 21.09.2016 Novell Inc. 1919 GNOME 2.28

20. © 21.09.2016 Novell Inc. 2020 KDE 4.3 Amarok 2.1 Digikam 1.0 (planned) KOffice 2.0 Integration of PolicyKit and Geo localization Big changes in Kmail

21. © 21.09.2016 Novell Inc. 2121 KDE 4.3

22. © 21.09.2016 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

23. © 21.09.2016 Novell Inc. 2323 Communication opensuse-factory@opensuse.org mailinglistopensuse-factory@opensuse.org #opensuse-factory IRC channel @freenode http://lists.opensuse.org for detailshttp://lists.opensuse.org

24. © 21.09.2016 Novell Inc. 2424

25. 2525 openSUSE Conference September 17-20 Nürnberg, Germany http://conference.opensuse.org/

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