openSUSE 11.1: the roadmap
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The last major version of GNU / Linux openSUSE has just been delivered, and the community to detail its schedule for the next milling scheduled at the end of 2008.
With GNU / Linux distributions, it’s always a bit the same story, and for the most popular of them in any case, it never stops with regard to the adoption of a development cycle can usually distribute two versions per year.
Thus, after Mandriva for Mandriva 2009.1, and the Ubuntu community with the publication of the first alpha version of Intrepid Ibex, it is the turn of the community acting under the auspices of Novell announced the color for openSUSE 11.1, finally a little.
Taking logically following openSUSE 11.0, the new version will be based on a Linux kernel 2.6.27, or even more, knowing that the final version 2.6.26 is not yet available. But so, it still provides a wide trusting the work of other communities. As for desktop environments, the time of the GNOME 2.24 will come, while this is the KDE version 4.1.1, which has had time to digest its passage QT 4.4. Nevertheless, KDE 3.5.10 will be offered as an option. For the rest … not much if not efforts that will focus on improving the mechanism for updating packages.
A mark on your calendars
Pending more information, it will be content with the roadmap may hear various changes at the whim of adventures, or more often misadventures. The 2008 calendar of OpenSUSE 11.1 is currently as follows:
* July 24: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1
* August 21: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 2
* September 18: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1
* October 2: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 2
* October 16: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 3
* October 30: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4
* November 13: openSUSE 11.1 RC1
* November 27: openSUSE 11.1 RC2
* December 18: openSUSE 11.1