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recent releases: openSUSE 11.3 and Anna 1.0

Thursday, 15 July 2010  |  Will Stephenson

Today openSUSE 11.3 is released, concluding 8 months of intense and enjoyable work. This release has been especially enjoyable for me, as it was the first openSUSE release where the community KDE team really took the driving seat and made decisions about what to include, updated packages and intensively tested. Instead of just being a slave to a feature list this release, I was more occupied in enabling, advising and reviewing others' contributions. I'd like to say "Excellent work!" to the whole openSUSE team here in Nuremberg, Prague, the rest of Novell and to every openSUSE contributor who has tested milestones, reported bugs, learned how to use osc and

After 9 months of enjoyable and intense work, our daughter Anna was released a couple of weeks ago. At the moment she's quite unimpressed by computers, desktops and operating systems, but I hope that Free Software will be of benefit to her life as it already is to millions around the world.