An Exciting (open)SUSE Week

Saturday, 11 August 2007 | beineri

This week was so filled with events and news that it easily qualifies for the most exciting openSUSE week yet:

On Monday the rush until feature and version freeze of openSUSE 10.3 started in the evening.
The Final Draft of the openSUSE Guiding Principles was posted.
At the same day the LinuxWorldExpo San Francisco started with not only openSUSE being present but also the announcements that both Lenovo and Dell will start to pre-load SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and offer support.
Finally was announced that AMD has become a sponsor of the openSUSE project by providing hardware for the openSUSE Build Service.
The Build Service itself got a new distro download and package search front-end with 1-Click Installation.
On Thursday the openSUSE project turned two. The birthday wishes keep arriving and show that openSUSE News gets more known quickly.
To celebrate we had also the Release of openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1 which among other stuff has a new greeter (web mockup) to explain and link to the project better.
The 'People of openSUSE' series started, with already three interviews being published.
The news that SCO got a big kick after all the years also made people happy.
And still running the whole week-end, the first openSUSE Bug Slashing.

Dunno how we can top this week. Maybe with a great openSUSE 10.3 release which allows us to push PCLinuxOS from rank #1 of the DistroWatch charts. :-)