Product Highlights/11.1

From openSUSE

• Available for i386, x86_64 and PowerPC architectures.
• Media Layout/11.1
• Retail product: DualLayer-DVD for 32bit and 64bit, printed user manual, free installation support
• 2 years lifetime
• openSUSE 11.1 Release Notes
• Full Package List
• openSUSE 11.1 Screenshots
• In the Press
• Most Annoying Bugs

For a detailed description of some new features read the Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.1 series on openSUSE News.

• new shorter distro license allowing redistribution
• Linux 2.6.27.8-rc1, Alsa 1.0.18, Xen 3.3.1
• glibc 2.9
• Nomad for "unmatchable remote desktop experience"
• CUPS 1.3.9
• cmake 2.6.2
• D-Bus 1.2.4
• PackageKit 0.3.11
• Python 2.6 and 3.0beta3
• Samba 3.2.4
• Mesa 7.2
• Basic SELinux Enablement
• gcc 4.3.2
• Rewritten YaST modules: Partitioner, Printer, Security
• X Server 1.5.0 (X.org 7.4)
• PulseAudio 0.9.12
• IPv6 improvements: distro can be installed in a ipv6 environment and run an IPv6 web server.
• Cluster stack features significant usability changes and has adopted OpenAIS, an industry standard also supported by leading vendors, for its core infrastructure.
• Support for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) -- using KIWI, users can easily create an EC2 cloud based on openSUSE 11.1.
• Improvements in OCFS2: Full integration with userspace cluster stack, POSIX file locking, extended attributes, and file system sizes up to four Petabytes (4PiB).
• autoconf 2.63
• NetworkManager 0.7 SVN
• bluez 4.19

Important updates and package additions compared to 11.0: