openSUSE Linux 10.2 is ready

Posted by Daniel Stout on Sat 2 Dec 2006 at 10:12 AM

Andreas Jaeger sent an email to the openSUSE mailing list last night to announce that the new version of openSUSE Linux, that is, version 10.2 has gone gold and is ready for release.

Our build folks have created the first set of ISO images and will continue to create all of them — and the complete ftp distribution — early next week. We’ll start syncing soon the images to the ftp mirrors so that they have all files on thursday, 7th December, for the announcement.

CD production is starting now and I hope to see some shiny green openSUSE 10.2 boxes on the shelves before Christmas.

One big change in 10.2 is the default filesystem shifted from Reiser to ext3. The other big Linux news this week is that the 2.6.19 kernel has been released, which includes support for ext4 among other things.

If you want to get started with openSUSE, which is now the official name of the community distribution, that is, SUSE will be the name of the commercial Novell product, then go to openSUSE.org.

Tags: 10.2 · 2.6.19 · ext3 · ext4 · kernel · linux · opensuse · reiser · suse linux

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