SOME dozens of SUSE developers lost their jobs, but this is probably unrelated to the quiet week it has been for SUSE. FOSDEM may have had a greater impact on this.

We were able to pull only a few items about OpenSUSE, mostly HOWTOs and technical writings. These would be:

• Digiband - Drumming & Guitar simulator in openSUSE
• AutoYaST and SLP on openSUSE 11.2
• Zypper: Improved bash completion and practical usage
• Packaging/Distribution differences

Jason Brooks took a look at OpenSUSE 11.1 and compared it to better known competitors.

Novell's OpenSUSE, one of the Linux world's most prominent distributions, hit Version 11.1 late in 2008, sporting a renewed focus on community involvement. Check out this slide show to see if the latest version of OpenSUSE has what it takes to win mind share from Canonical's Ubuntu and Red Hat's Fedora Linux distributions, and stay tuned for eWEEK Labs' full review of OpenSUSE 11.1.

Steve Carl took OpenSUSE 11.1 for a ride as well.

Were any major developments missed? The weekly news grouping from opensuse.org did not appear, either. ⬆