SUSE 11.1 Released

Posted December 19th, 2008 in Linux/Unix/BSD

SUSE 11.1 has been released and includes more than 230 new features, improvements to YaST, major updates to GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice.org, and more freedom with a brand new license, Liberation fonts, and openJDK. This is also the first release built entirely in the openSUSE Build Service.

There are live CDs for either KDE or Gnome or a full DVD which contains a much larger pool of software, including both the KDE and Gnome desktop environments (and also the older KDE 3.5 - see below).

SUSE 11.1 comes with the Linux Kernel 2.6.27.7, Gnome 2.24.1, KDE 4.1.3 and also the older KDE 3.5.10 if you prefer to stick with the "classic" KDE. To install the older version of KDE, install from the DVD media and choose KDE 3.5.10 from the selection of other window managers in the desktop selection screen.

Other software includes openOffice.org 3.0, Evolution 2.24.1.1, Firefox 3.0.4, k3b 1.0.5, KOffice 1.6.3, Thunderbird 2.0.0.18, and the GIMP 2.6.2.

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