| OpenSUSE 10.2 Beta 2 available for download, testing |
Nov. 10, 2006
 Novell SUSE Linux project manager Andreas Jaeger announced Friday that his team has released OpenSUSE 10.2 beta 2. The release includes "a large number of enhancements and updates by the open source community and Novell's development teams," Jaeger said.
This newest distribution, codenamed Basilisk Lizard, is based on the latest (2.6.18.2) Linux kernel and features a choice of the GNOME 2.16.1 and KDE 3.5.5 desktops.
"We have fixed most of the annoying bugs of Beta 1," Jaeger said in the release announcement. "I'm grateful for a localized product and like to thanks especially the many volunteers that did the translations. Some of them came in too late to add them to Beta 2."
OpenSUSE is one of the most feature-filled Linux distros. Key standard features, according to Jaeger and the Germany-based project team, include:- OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 office suite
- SeaMonkey 1.0.99 Web application suite
- MySQL 5.0.26database
- Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 email client
- GIMP 2.2.13 graphics editor
OpenSUSE 10.2 Beta 2 comes in many different versions:- 5 CDs; CDs 1-3 are needed for a normal installation with just GNOME or KDE (any language)
- 1 AddOn CD with only binary packages on it
- 1 AddOn CD with language packages used for tier 2 languages (tier 1 languages are English, French, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portugese, German, Chinese, Japanese and Czech; support for those is on the standard 5 CDs) (the 5 CDs have support for installation in all translated languages; extra packages only are on this extra CD)
- 1 DVD containing the contents of the above 7 media
- an FTP tree with open source packages (only for the final version, or now use the factory tree)
- a FTP tree with binary packages (only for the final version; for now use the factory-extra tree)
You can download the CD/DVD images via BitTorrent or from the OpenSUSE mirrors.
Screen shots are available here, thanks to OSDir.com.
Read why DesktopLinux's resident Linux analyst and curmudgeon, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, has decided to stick by using OpenSUSE in his production machines, despite Novell's new partnership with Microsoft.
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