The openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell (http://www.novell.com) that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE Linux provides anyone with free and easy access to the world's most usable Linux distribution, SUSE Linux.

The goals of the openSUSE project are:

Make SUSE Linux the easiest Linux distribution for anyone to obtain, and the most widely used open source platform.

Provide an environment for open source collaboration tha makes SUSE Linux the world's best Linux distribution for new and experienced Linux users.

Dramatically simplify and open the development and packaging processes to make SUSE Linux the platform of choice for Linux hackers and application developers.

Currently, SUSE Linux is an unsupported, open source only, preliminary edition of SUSE Linux that contains bleeding-edge packages and represents the latest development snapshot. If you intend to test for bugs or contribute patches, this version is for you...

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Live version upgrade. No need to stop working while upgrading from
· openSUSE 11.1 to openSUSE 11.2
· Support for several social networks like Facebook, Twitter and identi.ca
· Running openSUSE from an USB stick (especially for that we ask you for
· testing)

· Linux kernel 2.6.31.3
· GNOME 2.28
· PulseAudio 0.9.19
· Evolution 2.28
· Qt 4.5.3
· SeaMonkey 2.0 RC1