OpenSUSE now a little more Open
December 17th, 2008 | by kfinney |Due out this Thursday is the latest offering from the OpenSUSE project. OpenSUSE 11.1 releases with some minor tweaks to the license agreement and removes some of the proprietary software that was originally bundled with it such as Acrobat and Java. Not surprising given Novell and Microsoft’s relationship. The modifications to the license should make it easier to distribute which in turn should allow the community to grow. It was also completely developed using the openSUSE build service which allows anyone to submit changes.
OpenSUSE has struggled in the past against the much more popular Fedora Project which is based on the popular Red Hat distro. These changes offer Novell the ability to increase collaboration and hopefully grow the community.
Some of the improvements include the latest offering of the GNOME and KDE desktop environments which offer improvements to Nautilus, F-Spot, and Totem in GNOME. KDE 4.1 will be built into 11.1 as well which now offers cube desktop effects. Other improvements include updates that allow syncing with the Google Android based phones and updates to YaST, the system administration software, including aesthetics.
The new direction is aimed in the right direction offering more of the “Open” in OpenSUSE.
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