Standardizes the new file system and separate cores for desktops and servers.
openSUSE 11.2 was made available yesterday. This is the first major update of the Linux distribution for almost a year and includes enhanced versions of more than a thousand desktop applications, including Firefox, OpenOffice.org, GNOME and KDE.
Under the shell, there has been some changes. The default file system for new installations is now ext4, which among other things, to offer better performance and support for some larger files and partitions. But openSUSE 11.2 also supports the new file system Btrfs, which is developed by Oracle.
Also new is that users of the desktop edition of openSUSE now can choose a custom kernel that is optimized specifically for use on PCs, instead of using a common core with server installations of the operating system.
It will also be new and updated drivers for hardware, which will make more newer devices will work with openSUSE. This applies particularly to portable machines of the type of netbooks.
Administration and package tool YaST is now offered with a test version of a web interface, WebYaST. This will facilitate remote administration of your computer.
Existing users can update without having to route via optical media by using the host eye "zypper". A description of how this is done, can be found here.
It is also possible to start the openSUSE from an ISO file on a USB storage device.
openSUSE can be downloaded from this page.
