RoadMap to OpenSuSE 11.1, prepare for the new openSuSE

OpenSUSE 11.1, the future version of openSUSE 11, is coming December 18, 2008, and we will see the first alpha on July 24, 2008. It will feature the latest in open source innovations and cool new features from the openSUSE community, as well as software updates including GNOME 2.24, KDE 4.1.1, and a final version of Firefox 3.0.

Help out!

You can help us out to get openSUSE 11.1 ready! You can test the latest development builds (until the Alpha1 release is out) and file bugs, or find another way to participate in openSUSE!

More information

For info regarding releases, refer to the roadmap. Stay up to date with the latest news regarding openSUSE 11.1 and everything else in the openSUSE project with openSUSE News, and chat with other openSUSE users through IRC chat and the openSUSE mailinglists.

openSUSE 11.1 is the next community release that incorporates new features from both the community and internal development. It will be done for the x86, x86-64 and ppc platforms.

Major areas of interest:

• GNOME 2.24
• KDE: KDE 4.1.1 (optionally also KDE 3.5.10)
• OpenOffice.org 3.0
• Continued improvement in the software update stack
• Linux kernel 2.6.27 (or later)

The most important dates of the currently planned schedule are:

• Thu, Jul 24: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1
• Thu, Aug 21: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha2
• Thu, Sep 18: openSUSE 11.1 Beta1 - snapshot release
• Thu, Oct 02: openSUSE 11.1 Beta2 - snapshot release
• Thu, Oct 16: openSUSE 11.1 Beta3 - snapshot release
• Thu, Oct 30: openSUSE 11.1 Beta4 - snapshot release
• Thu, Nov 13: openSUSE 11.1 RC1 - snapshot release
• Thu, Nov 27: openSUSE 11.1 RC2 - snapshot release
• Thu, Dec 4: openSUSE 11.1 GM - final release
• Thu, Dec 18: openSUSE 11.1 public release

The detailed schedule will be added later.

open SuSE 11.0 now available

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 11.0 — everything you need to get started with Linux on the desktop and on the server. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, the openSUSE Project provides free, easy access to the world’s most usable Linux distribution, openSUSE.

The 11.0 release of openSUSE includes more than 200 new features specific to openSUSE, a redesigned installer that makes openSUSE even easier to install, faster package management thanks to major updates in the ZYpp stack, and KDE 4, GNOME 2.22, Compiz Fusion, and much more.

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Run Windows Software on Linux with Wine 1.0

After a mere 15 years of development the Wine team yesterday announced the release of Wine 1.0, the first full official release. Wine, however, is already in widespread use in the Linux community and has been for most of its 15-year development.

For those not in the know, Wine allows a wide range of Windows applications to be run on Linux without needing to install Microsoft’s operating system.

Wine is not an emulator so much as a Linux replacement for core Windows components needed to run applications from that platform.

Despite the 15-year development cycle, the Wine team said in its announcement that compatibility in 1.0 may not be “perfect yet”. But the good news is that “thousands of applications have been reported to work very well”.

To see see what applications can be run using Wine see http://appdb.winehq.org.

The source code for Wine 1.0 can be found at:
http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.0.tar.bz2 or
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.0.tar.bz2

Binary packages for various distributions including Ubuntu, Suse, Mandriva and Red Hat are already available from http://www.winehq.org/site/download.

Linux captures the 'green' flag, beats Windows 2008 power-saving measures

Network World takes a look at power consumption by comparing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 SP1, and Windows Server 2008 on four different servers. "The results showed that while Windows Server 2008 drew slightly less power in a few test cases when it had its maximum power saving settings turned on, it was RHEL that did the best job of keeping the power draw in check across the board."