How are you spending your Thursday evening? Me, I'll be slapping the openSUSE 11.2 final release candidate on my work machines and testing like crazy.
The last release candidate hit the mirrors on schedule today, with lots of goodies for Linux enthusiasts and new Linux users alike. You have your choice of desktop: KDE 4.3 or GNOME 2.28, a rock-solid Linux kernel (2.6.31.5), a technology preview of WebYaST, and much, much more.
This release has been pretty long in the making. We unleashed 11.1 nearly 11 months ago in mid-December. Then the project had some time for self-reflection and consideration about what the best release cycle would be, and that pushed this release to November.
But if you give it a shot, I think you'll find that the added time has been well used and that 11.2 is going to be very well worth the wait. Don't take my word for it, though: Grab it yourself on the developer download page and give it a spin! You can choose from the full DVD or the GNOME or KDE live CDs. All the CDs are available in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors.
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I have tried the first release candidate, but i was not very impressed. Sure KDE 4.3 in Opensuse looks awesome, but sound is not working proberly on my notebook. i have needed a whole day to get it working. Then i cannot get vpn configured properly in Knetworkmanager. So i think i will try opensue Gnome and sure sound and vpn works in Gnome, but the fonts look very ugly and unprofessionell. So installed MS Fonts on the machine to get good looking fonts, but the result does not fully statisfy me. The icon theme in Gnome looks a bit old too. I really want to use Opensuse, because in work i use SLES for the server and the are really good as a server os and i really like the build service and suse studio is great. But as a os for my homesystem used for managing my photos and music ubuntu is far superior. Everything is working right after the install. Tested with the RC of Karmic. The fonts and artwork looks very good in Gnome. Maybe not so good then in Opensuse KDE 4.3, but definitly better than in Opensue Gnome 2.28. So Please improve the visual design of Opensuse Gnome and i will be a happy Opensuse user in the future.
Unfortunately, the KDE4 LiveCD is far from ready and, given the default KDE installation, many users may be tempted to go this way rather than download the DVD.