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291 SUSE open-source and Linux related news articles on Phoronix since 2006.

openSUSE 11.3 Released

As expected, openSUSE 11.3 has been released this morning. openSUSE 11.3 is the latest Linux distribution update from Novell and the openSUSE Project. This release introduces a number of new features, including SpiderOak file sync integration, improved file indexing, support for the Btrfs file-system, graphics driver updates, and many package updates. Available for openSUSE 11.3 is KDE SC 4.4.4 and GNOME 2.30.1, but a preview snapshot of GNOME 3.0 complete with the GNOME Shell is also available.

15 July 2010 - Novell Releases - 8 Comments
Moonlight 3.0 Approaches With New Features

Moonlight, the de facto open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight platform for Linux that leverages Mono, is nearing its 3.0 release. Moonlight 2.0 was just released a half-year ago, but Moonlight 3.0 Preview 7 was just released and it's offering up more features.

18 June 2010 - The Linux Silverlight - 31 Comments
MeeGo Loves The openSUSE Build Service

The openSUSE community has announced the releases of version 1.8 and 2.0 of the openSUSE Build Service. The 2.0 release brings in a new user-interface, an enhanced request system, and many other new features.

11 June 2010 - New Release - 6 Comments
openSUSE 11.3 Pulls In New Kernel & More

A new snapshot of openSUSE 11.3 is available, which now puts it at Milestone 7, and means that the first release candidate is near. However, while the release of openSUSE 11.3 is approaching in July, it continues to add in new packages and support.

26 May 2010 - New Milestone Reached - 39 Comments
SUSE Linux Is Hooking Up With Btrfs Too

Fedora was the first tier-one Linux distribution shipping with support for optionally installing to a Btrfs file-system for the past year, but in recent weeks the adoption rate of Btrfs looks like it will be quickly rising. Fedora 13 is extending the Btrfs support to offer system rollback support by where a file-system snapshot is created via Btrfs each time a yum transaction takes place. Red Hat recently released the first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 and it includes Ananconda installation support for RHEL6 onto Btrfs, MeeGo will be using Btrfs by default in this distribution that marries Maemo and Moblin, and Ubuntu is making Btrfs plans where Btrfs may become the default file-system in Ubuntu 10.10. Novell / openSUSE is also getting in bed with Btrfs.

19 May 2010 - Btrfs Features - 5 Comments
OpenSUSE Says Farewell To RadeonHD Driver

The RadeonHD Linux driver that came about in 2007 following the announcement of AMD's open-source driver strategy has had an interesting history. This driver was developed by Novell's developers, but now they are even dropping it from their openSUSE distribution.

3 May 2010 - No Longer In OpenSUSE - 44 Comments
openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 Released

Right on schedule, openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 has been released. This fourth test release brings many changes, among which that take place "under the hood" is switching over to the Upstart init daemon, an upgrade to NetworkManager 0.8 for wired/wireless/broadband network management, and other packages upgraded include OpenOffice.org, Mono, CUPS, Python, and Samba, among others.

25 March 2010 - New openSUSE Testing - Add A Comment
openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1 Released

While Red Hat is busy at work on Fedora 13 and Canonical is busy working on their Long-Term Support release of Ubuntu 10.04, Novell is working on openSUSE 11.3. This next upgrade to openSUSE is due out in mid-July, but the first milestone release is now available.

1 February 2010 - New openSUSE - 7 Comments
Mono 2.6 Released, Supports LLVM Generation

To end out 2009, Miguel de Icaza has announced the release of Mono 2.6 along with MonoDevelop 2.4. This major update to Mono delivers WCF client and server for what is exposed by Microsoft's Silverlight 2.0, a continuations framework, a new soft debugger, a verifier and security toolbox, more complete 3.5 coverage, and various other changes to this free software project to implement Microsoft's .NET on Linux. One of the interesting changes though in Mono 2.6 is that it now supports LLVM.

15 December 2009 - MonoDevelop 2.2 Too - 141 Comments
Mono's C# Compiler Now 4.0 Feature Complete

For those interested in programming in C# on Linux or have interest in Mono for using Microsoft's .NET, you may be pleased to know that Mono's C# compiler is now C# 4.0 feature complete. Covariance and contravariance, optional parameters, dynamic binding, and other features of the C# 4.0 programming language have now been implemented within Mono. The Mono C# compiler that supports this is not yet in a released version, but you will need to checkout the Mono SVN code.

9 December 2009 - C# 4.0 Features - 10 Comments
openSUSE 11.2 Final Released

Coming in between the releases of Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 12 is openSUSE 11.2, which is available as of this morning. The openSUSE 11.2 desktop is now using KDE 4.3 by default (though GNOME 2.28 is also available), OpenOffice.org 3.1 integration, the Linux 2.6.31 kernel, and many other underlying advancements.

12 November 2009 - New openSUSE Release - 7 Comments
OpenSuSE 11.2 Reaches Release Candidate

OpenSuSE 11.2 is getting ready to be released with its EXT4 usage, Linux 2.6.31 kernel, updated drivers, updated desktop for both GNOME and KDE, YaST improvements, and much more. In preparation for this release, Novell has put out the first release candidate of 11.2. OpenSuSE 11.2 integrates bug-fixes as well as updates the kernel to Linux 2.6.31.3, pumps in the latest GNOME 2.28 final packages, bumps PulseAudio to 0.9.19, and brings Qt 4.5.3. Novell is still aware of some bugs with this OpenSuSE 11.2 build,

15 October 2009 - New OpenSuSE Build - Add A Comment
Moonlight 2.0 Beta 1 Rolls Out With Improvements

While betas of Microsoft's Silverlight 3 platform have been available for a number of months after being announced in the last half of 2008, their free software implementation of Silverlight, which is known as Moonlight and developed largely by Novell with the Mono developers, has lagged behind. Only today has the first beta release for Moonlight 2.0 been released. While Moonlight 2.0 is largely focused on implementing Silverlight 2 features, a few Silverlight 3 features did manage to work their way into this release.

17 August 2009 - New Silverlight Linux Release - 10 Comments
OpenSuSE 11.2 Milestone 5 Released

The OpenSuSE developers have just announced the release of 11.2 Milestone 5. OpenSuSE 11.2 Milestone 5 ships with the Linux 2.6.31-rc4 kernel, has been built with GCC 4.4.1, provides PackageKit 0.5, updates the desktop environments to KDE 4.3 and GNOME 2.27.5, and uses X Server 1.6.3. This new release from Novell also has Firefox 3.5.1 and version 3.1.1 Beta 1 of OpenOffice.org. The changes found in Milestone 5 can be found on their factory news page.

8 August 2009 - New Release From Novell - 2 Comments
OpenOffice.org 3.1 Released w/ New Features

OpenOffice.org 3.0 was release last October, but today the OpenOffice.org community has announced the release of its first major update. OpenOffice.org 3.1 brings a major revamp of the program's on-screen graphics, further grammar check integration, performance improvements, improved support for bi-directional scripts, easier deployment of macro applications, and many other features.

7 May 2009 - New OpenOffice.org Release - 1 Comment
OpenSuSE 11.2 Milestone 1 Released

The Novell developers behind OpenSuSE have announced the release of OpenSuSE 11.2 Milestone 1. This is the first, early look at OpenSuSE 11.2, which will officially be released later this year. OpenSuSE 11.2 Milestone 1 incorporates the Linux 2.6.29 kernel, KDE 4.2.2, GNOME 2.26, Mono 2.4, OpenOffice.org 3.1 Beta 4, and Xfce 4.6. Beyond many package updates, OpenSuSE 11.2 will also feature improvements to its installer, package cache handling in YaST, and the LiveCDs are now using LZMA compression.

24 April 2009 - New OpenSuSE Test Release - 4 Comments
OpenSuSE 11.1 Released

Just in time for Christmas, Novell has announced the availability of OpenSuSE 11.1. OpenSuSE 11.1 is updated against the latest Linux packages including KDE 4.1, GNOME 2.24, OpenOffice.org 3.0, the Linux 2.6.27 kernel, and various other updates. For more information on OpenSuSE 11.1 or to download it, checkout OpenSuSE.org.

18 December 2008 - Novell Updates Its Distro - 12 Comments
OpenSuSE 11.1 Release Candidate 1

Three weeks prior to the expected availability of OpenSuSE 11.1, the first release candidate is now out for testing. New packages in OpenSuSE 11.1 RC1 include the Linux 2.6.27.7 kernel, glibc 2.9, new translations, Amaraok 2.0 Release Candidate 1, and Zypper 1.0.1. OpenSuSE 11.1 RC1 also brings forth a newer and shorter distribution license. Download links and the release announcement can be read on the OpenSuSE mailing list.

28 November 2008 - Final Version Coming Soon - 8 Comments
OpenSuSE 11.0 Released

Today the OpenSuSE project has announced the release of OpenSuSE 11.0. This new Linux desktop release has a horde of improvements. Some of the new packages include GNOME 2.22, KDE 4.0, Compiz Fusion, Firefox 3.0, and more. This release also includes the new OpenSuSE installer. A few screenshots from an earlier development release can be viewed here. All of the release details (and download links) are available from the OpenSuSE website.

19 June 2008 - A New Distribution Release From Novell - 10 Comments
The Installer For OpenSUSE 11.0

Yesterday OpenSUSE 11.0 RC 1 was released with 578 bug-fixes since OpenSuSE 11.0 beta 3. This summer release of OpenSuSE 11.0 brings quite a bit to the table, among which is a new installer. Back in January when OpenSuSE 11.0 Alpha 1 surfaced we had provided a tour of the new OpenSuSE installer. This Linux installer uses Trolltech's Qt4 tool-kit and provides a dramatically improved experience over the earlier YaST installer. However, as the interface has changed slightly since sharing those screenshots, attached are the installation screenshots from OpenSuSE 11.0 RC 1. More information on this release candidate can be found in the OpenSuSE release announcement.

30 May 2008 - Novell Makes A Nice Installer - 7 Comments
OpenSuSE 11.0 Alpha 1 Released

Planned for release in June of 2008 is the release of OpenSuSE 11.0, while arriving today is OpenSuSE 11.0 Alpha 1. The first development release for OpenSuSE 11.0 was Alpha 0, which was released last December, and there are six more development/testing releases planned prior to its final release. New in OpenSuSE 11.0 Alpha 1 is the inclusion of KDE 4.0 with Qt4 updates, Perl 5.10, NetworkManager 0.7, CUPS 1.3.5, and the integration of PulseAudio. The release announcement can be found at the OpenSuSE website.

18 January 2008 - The Start Of OpenSuSE/SuSE 11.0 - Add A Comment
OpenSuSE 10.3 Released

While most of the desktop Linux community's attention is on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon that is being released in just two weeks, today marks the release of OpenSuSE 10.3. While the announcement will be officially made anytime now with the ISOs being available from their FTP server, among its updated packages are OpenOffice.org 2.3, VirtualBox 1.5, and GNOME 2.20.0. Among the new innovations in OpenSuSE 10.3 include a new Novell updating applet, redesigned network card module, and OpenSuSE community repositories. More is available at the OpenSuSE website and the announcement will come through the opensuse-announce list.

4 October 2007 - VirtualBox 1.5, OpenOffice 2.3, etc... - 2 Comments
Silverlight To Support x86_64 Linux

While Adobe doesn't offer a native x86_64 version of Adobe/Macromedia Flash for Linux, Microsoft and Novell will be offering a 64-bit edition of the Silverlight binary codecs for Linux. Miguel de Icaza had posted this information today on his blog. Will this motivate Adobe to offer a x86_64 version of its Linux Flash player to be competitive with 64-bit Silverlight/Moonlight?

5 September 2007 - 3 Comments
OpenSuSE 10.3 Alpha 4 Released

New in OpenSuSE 10.3 Alpha 4 is the introduction of the YaST Meta Packages handler, InstLux to start the OpenSuSE Linux installation from Windows, OpenOffice.org 2.2, GNOME 2.18.1, and the Linux 2.6.21 kernel. The OpenSuSE 10.3 Alpha 4 release announcement can be viewed on the SuSE mailing list.

16 May 2007 - Add A Comment
OpenSuSE 10.3 Alpha 3 Released

It's that time again where Andreas Jaegar pushes out a new OpenSuSE release. This time around is the third alpha release for OpenSuSE 10.3. Among the new implementations in OpenSuSE 10.3 Alpha 3 include 64-bit Firefox with nspluginwrapper for 32-bit plugin support, GNOME 2.18 integration, Linux 2.6.21-rc5 kernel, a new GNOME-native OpenSuSE updater, and libata fixes for IDE PATA devices. The release announcement can be read on the opensuse-announce-list.

12 April 2007 - Add A Comment
Visual Basic .NET On Linux

Visual Basic .NET is now supported by the latest release of Mono. This Visual Basic 8 compiler for Mono should work fine with Linux and all major platforms. Mono is not yet to the stages where .NET 2.0 will work perfectly, but 1.0 should.

21 February 2007 - Add A Comment
OpenSuSE 10.2 Released

On Monday we told you that OpenSuSE 10.2 has been completed, and now this morning it is shipping. OpenSuSE 10.2 uses X.Org 7.2 (X11R72), Firefox 2.0, default EXT3 filesystem, and more. The mailing list announcement can be read here. The ISOs are available for download immediately and the retail boxed set will be available for purchase from Novell shortly.

7 December 2006 - Add A Comment
OpenSuSE 10.2 Completed

OpenSuSE 10.2 Release Candidate 5 was mastered yesterday and will be the build that goes gold. OpenSuSE 10.2 will be released for download this Thursday (December 7). The announcement can be found on the mailing list.

4 December 2006 - Add A Comment
Novell Issues Community Letter

After Novell has received a great deal of negative scrutiny for cooperating with Microsoft on Linux software, Ron Hovsepian (CEO of Novell) has issued an open letter to the community. His letter can be read here, and be sure to share your thoughts here.

20 November 2006 - Add A Comment
New Novell SuSE Driver Process

It seems that the interesting Linux and computer hardware stories today are never ending... Today Novell has announced a new device driver breakthrough that they claim will accelerate the Linux adoption. This new design, which will be integrated into SuSE Linux Enterprise, is designed to provide the Linux drivers from the manufacturers to their customers directly and transparently. Novell has stated that other Linux distributions will be able to partake in this new Linux driver process as well. Novell's new Linux driver process will ship with SuSE Linux Enterprise 10, and is currently available in SuSE Linux Enterprise 9 SP3. Below are a few of Novell's words on this new driver process. More on this is at Novell. With the Partner Linux Driver Process, Novell has created a clean and integrated infrastructure for partners to provide drivers for new hardware independent of SUSE Linux Enterprise release cycles and distributed media. Novell has also defined a process where partners can provide to customers driver updates corresponding to kernel updates (security or bug fix related). All a customer/administer must do is to register an "add-on product from a separate medium" (physical or online) which contains the driver, either during initial install or before updating hardware, and the rest is magic: the driver package is associated with the detected hardware and is automatically installed. The add-on product also "knows" where to get updated drivers and when a security update is installed, the system management tool coordinates the SUSE Linux kernel security updates with the vendor�s driver updates. If updated drivers matching the kernel version of the security update are available, YaST will fetch and install them alongside the security update, else it will interact with the user and guide them on how to proceed.

17 May 2006 - Add A Comment
OpenSuSE v10.1 Released

After the numerous delays and all other problems that plagued the SuSE development team in the 10.1 branch, the latest release of OpenSuSE v10.1 has finally been made available. This release comes on the passing of Douglas Adams, for which this release is dedicated. Only CD ISOs are available at this time, the DVDs will not be available until next week -- May 18 -- for unspecified reasons. Some of the specialties with OpenSuSE/SuSE 10.1 include XGL for 3D desktop acceleration, NetworkManager support, AppArmor 2.0, and full Xen 3 integration with YaST. More is at OpenSuSE.

11 May 2006 - Add A Comment
OpenSuSE Linux 10.1 RC3

The never-ending development cycle for SuSE/OpenSuSE v10.1 has come out today with the third release candidate. When in the release candidate series, only delta ISO images are available. This third (and unexpected) release candidate is the last remaining release on the public OpenSuSE 10.1 road-map. Additional release candidates and the final version are still being finalized when it comes to dates. The road-map also states the first 10.2 Alpha will be out on June 16, which certainly will come almost immediately after the 10.1 release if the developers live up to their word. If we had to wager any money on when SuSE 10.1 will finally go gold, we would likely estimate it to be the middle of May. The famous list of most annoying bugs, have been trimmed down to three issues for 10.1 RC3. More information on SuSE/OpenSuSE Linux 10.1 RC3 is available on the mailing list.

28 April 2006 - Add A Comment
OpenSuSE 10.1 RC1

After numerous delays, and a great deal of bugs, the first release candidate for OpenSuSE v10.1 is finally out on its mirrors. SuSE 10.1 (also referred to as "Agama Lizard") is intended to be announced on April 25, 2006. The SuSE Most Annoying Bugs have been slimmed down to seven major issues at this time. Andreas Jaeger OpenSuSE 10.1 Release Candidate 1 announcement is on their mailing list.

13 April 2006 - Add A Comment
OpenSuSE v10.1 Beta 9

Continuing in the LONG development cycle for SuSE/OpenSuSE v10.1, the ninth Beta release finally made its way onto the mirrors this morning. It seems as though some of the most annoying bugs have finally been killed, but there remains a small list of known bugs that they define as the most annoying for Beta 9. Unless the development team decides to extend the development cycle to 10+ Betas, the first OpenSuSE 10.1 Release Candidate should be expected on April 12, and an intended final release on April 25. The official Beta 9 announcement for OpenSuSE v10.1 Agama Lizard is on their mailing list.

31 March 2006 - Add A Comment
OpenSuSE Schedule

While we won't go as far as saying the OpenSuSE v10.1 fiasco has been a disaster for Novell, this version of SuSE 10.1 has certainly seen its share of problems. BETA releases of OpenSuSE v10.1 has been available this entire year and Alpha versions last year, while many of these releases have been plagued by significant problems and globs of bugs. However, we have just noted that the SuSE roadmap has been updated. While the sixth SuSE v10.1 beta had occurred on March 3, the seventh BETA will not be mastered and made available for the public (this release would have likely occurred today). The next release to come will be on March 17 with BETA 8. Presently scheduled after the final BETA is a single release candidate on March 31, followed by the intended OpenSuSE release to occur on April 13 of 2006. This is coming about two months later than their original expected target date. On the topic of the SuSE roadmap, they have already posted the preliminary v10.2 schedule with its Alpha releases. The OpenSuSE v10.2 Alpha builds should start to appear around June 16, while the fifth Alpha will come out in October. With all of the development issues that have faced SuSE v10.1 we certainly wish its developers the best of luck.

10 March 2006 - Add A Comment
OpenSUSE v10.1 BETA 5

The fifth BETA for the upcoming SuSE/OpenSuSE v10.1 has been released. Although a portion of the bugs have been fixed from BETA 4, there continues to remain a great deal of annoying issues with this release (more info here). Meanwhile, a sixth BETA milestone is presently scheduled for March 3 and the schedule after that is still being debated, but with the present number of bugs, there is likely to be even a few more BETA candidates. Anyhow, with the fifth BETA of the Agama Lizard there doesn't appear to be too many new additions to this release other than fixes, and Andreas Jaeger's release announcement is visible on their mailing list. Development downloads are here. It is still advised that BETA 5 be not installed on any production systems.

25 February 2006 - Add A Comment
SuSE v10.1 / Ubuntu v6.04

It looks like yesterday, a few hours after we made the announcement that SuSE v10.1 did not make its BETA release of last Thursday, OpenSuse v10.1 BETA 4 was finally released. However, in that announcement, there were warnings as BETA 4 is fairly unreliable. Here is a list of the most annoying bugs in this release, while the release announcement can be found here. Also, if you take a close look at the road-map you will see they have now added a sixth BETA candidate, which will be released on March 2. After these BETA releases, there is still no word when the release candidate will come down the road. Certainly things aren't looking good right now for Novell's SuSE v10.1. Onto some less gloomy news, Ubuntu Dapper Drake v6.04 Flight 4 was released early this morning. Among many other improvements, there is now an Espresso LiveCD installer as well as GNOME v2.14 BETA 2. In addition, they have included Novell's Xgl and Compiz. Meeting up with this Ubuntu release is Kubuntu as well as Edubuntu. Out on the horizon for this week is Fedora Core 5 Test 3.

19 February 2006 - Add A Comment
OpenSuSE v10.1 Delays

It seems as though OpenSuSE v10.1 has been delayed yet again. According to the project's roadmap there was supposed to be the fourth SuSE v10.1 BETA on February 16, however, on February 18 we still have seen no signs of this fourth BETA. Incidentally, the fifth BETA is scheduled for release on February 23, with no set day in mind yet for a release candidate. Of course, there were already some delays in this version, as initially Novell had hoped for the release candidate to debut on February 16, after weekly BETA candidates. Yet, two days later we still see no signs of this fourth BETA nor any major notices on the OpenSuSE site. As the friends over at The Inquirer had reported, SuSE v10.1 OSS will take on Macintosh OS X like characteristics. Upon hearing any additional information in regards to the targeted schedule for SuSE v10.1, we will pass along the information.

18 February 2006 - Add A Comment

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