Microsoft's mule

Summary: A brief progress report about SUSE's pet project, which helps sell Microsoft-taxed GNU/Linux

OPENSUSE is the child of SUSE, the dependent partner of Microsoft. There has been very little news about the project recently, maybe half the amount of news compared to the same period last year. Someone asked us in IRC this week whether OpenSUSE was going to die. The answer was "no" because OpenSUSE is mostly a trademark for SUSE to organise developers around and rally volunteers with.

Among the latest blog posts about OpenSUSE there's this remark on the project's KDE leaning. An approaching release is still in the works and 'flavours' are officially released. The latest release is "a Linux distribution that provides parents, students, teachers as well as IT admins running labs at educational institutes with education and development resources for their needs. Edu Li-f-e is based on openSUSE 11.4."

Michal Hrušecký writes about the OpenSUSE conference which is coming quite soon. There is also this OpenSUSE summary of the Desktop Summit which is now finished. On the technical side, nothing is new. There is not even marketing. ⬆