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Archive for July 16th, 2010

openSUSE 11.3 Launch Party in Nürnberg

July 16th, 2010 by

At the SUSE/Novell offices in Germany, we had a great launch party. With free beer, BBQ, sunshine, a clown and openSUSE 11.3 released, it was a great atmosphere!

More than 100 people showed up: some Novell employees, some former colleagues,  and also many folks whose faces I haven’t seen before. We were overwhelmed and excited by this and after an hour Michael Löffler had to buy some more meat for the BBQ.

I gave a short demo about some of the highlights of openSUSE 11.3. I demonstrated GNOME 3 preview with GNOME Shell, the new tracker indexer, KDE Plasma Netbook interface, ksuseinstall, the LXDE desktop,  SpiderOak and zypper.

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