Since both Coolo and Michl are on vacation for two weeks, I’m a bit more involved with the openSUSE distribution.  Besides announcing the openSUSE 11.1 roadmap, I was busy to stabilize the factory trees and get an installable distribution  after quite some major changes have been checked into factory. The goal was to have a snapshot of factory as internal Alpha0 release to see what’s working and what’s broken.

Factory has received the following visible major updates after 11.0:

• The GNOME team prepares for GNOME 2.24 and updated to the development release GNOME 2.23.4
• Similarly, the KDE team prepares for KDE4.1 and updated to KDE 4.0.84 (4.0.83 was KDE 4.1 beta2, not sure what .84 corresponds exactly to)
• Installation-Images now have support for IPv6 so that you can install with IPv6 remote hosts

Besides that a large number of packages were updated, renamed, or removed.  In our effort to create small JeOS images, cracklib now uses compressed passwords to save space.

A number of updates are already queued but did not go into factory yet since they missed the deadline for Alpha0, I’d like to point out the following:

• OpenOffice.Org 3.0 Alpha2 – in preparation for the OpenOffice.Org 3.0 release
• NetworkManager update to current svn

Alpha0 is not yet released, we’re still hunting some bugs but I hope the above gives some impression where openSUSE 11.1 will go.

Have a lot of fun!

Andreas