De ontwikkelaars van openSuse hebben dan eindelijk de final uitgebracht van openSuse 10.3. OpenSuse is sinds ongeveer een jaar de nieuwe naam van Suse Linux om verwarring met Suse Linux Enterprise-producten te voorkomen. Zoals gewoonlijk zijn er verschillende uitgaves binnen te halen, een volledige dvd met opensource- en niet-opensourceonderdelen, een cd voor een kale installatie met KDE of Gnome en verschillende cd’s met extra software en add-ons. De aankondiging van openSuse 10.3 ziet er als volgt uit:

The openSUSE team proudly announces the availability of openSUSE 10.3.

We’re shipping all the latest open source packages that are available at time of launch. As highlights, we’d like to point out the latest desktops, GNOME 2.20 and KDE 3.5.7 plus KDE 4 preview, our MP3 support via gstreamer plug-in by Fluendo, a faster boot process, heavily optimised and improved package management, 1-click install option for additional software, OpenOffice 2.3, XEN 3.1 and VirtualBox 1.5 and, last but not least, our 1 CD installation which provides a small but fully loaded desktop. For all the news and impressive screenshots, have a look here.

It’s available now to download here in x86, x86-64 and ppc versions – from our mirrors and via bittorrent.

The following ISOs can be downloaded: the 1 CD open source version with an add-on CD containing proprietary software, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, RealNetworks RealPlayer, and Sun Java Runtime Environment. DVD ISOs for all architectures are available and contain the open source version plus proprietary add-ons. An installable Live CD will be released in October, and the Edu add-on CD will show up in the same time frame.

As usual, openSUSE 10.3 will be available in European retail channels as a boxed product. In North America, the box will be available through shopNovell. Due to production lead times, boxes will start to show up on shelves and in online shops approximately on Oct 11th. Pre-orders can be placed here.

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank the whole openSUSE community for tons of testing, feedback, contributions and over all participation in helping to make openSUSE 10.3 an awesome distribution. While risking missing out some important contributors, we’d like to spotlight some community members for their outstanding work:

• Francis for Sneak Peeks
• Beineri for his Quickies
• Benji for the 1-click install
• Pascal and sPIN for community help
• All the community translators

Our top 3 bug reporters for openSUSE 10.3:

• Andreas Hanke
• David Binderman
• Casual J. Programmer

Have a lot of fun!

Christoph, Coolo, Michael