| OpenSUSE 10.2 live DVD arrives |
Jan. 30, 2007
 Development manager Adrian Schroeter on Jan. 29 announced the release of a live DVD edition of openSUSE 10.2, featuring a spiffy new 2.6.20-rc4 kernel plus the latest KDE, GNOME, and Xfce desktop environments.
"The last piece of the openSUSE 10.2 distribution got released today," Schroeter said in the release announcement. "The Live DVD image has a size of 1.7 GB and can be used on every x86 compatible system with at least 512 MB of memory."
OpenSUSE 10.2 contains one of the most complete application packages in all of Linuxdom, including such favorites as:- GIMP 2.2.13 image editor
- OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 office suite
- SeaMonkey 1.0.99 web application suite
- MySQL 5.0.27 relational database
- GIMP 2.2.13 image editor
- Thunderbird 1.3.0.8 email client
- AbiWord 2.4.5 text editor
For a closer look at openSUSE 10.2, read DesktopLinux.com columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's personal evaluation here.
You can download the live DVD (1.7 GB) iso image here.
Screen shots are available for viewing here, thanks to LinuxQuestions.org.
On a related note, the openSUSE project has also announced that the first alpha build of openSUSE 10.3 will be released on Feb. 15, with the final product expected at the end of September. More information is available on the openSUSE roadmap page.
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