01.19.08
Do-No-Evil Saturday - Part I: A Week of OpenSUSE 11.0 Alpha One
Alpha1 of OpenSUSE 11.0 has just been released.
With the new year beginning we kick start major development into the next version of openSUSE: openSUSE 11.0 (roadmap). A very early alpha version, Alpha 1, is now available for download and testing.
What appears to draw people’s attention is the new appearance of the installer, which the project manager offered a sneak preview of just before Christmas.
Some of the major developments in this release will be integrating KDE 4.0 and major changes to the appearance of the Installer.
Here are some of the latest news from the OpenSUSE project, accumulated by volunteers (not Novell).
A profile of James Tremblay was published just a week ago.
openSUSE Education founder James Tremblay was caught up by ‘People of openSUSE’ to an interesting interview.
That’s about it for OpenSUSE — for now. █





















Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself.
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support.
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux.
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys.
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft.
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.