First of all, happy Thanksgiving to our American readers (we forgot to say this earlier on). It's this time of the week again when we say nice things about Novell and we shall begin with OpenSUSE.

There is a decent review of OpenSUSE 10.3 over at sys-con.

All in all, openSUSE 10.3 is highly recommended and is among the best distros released this year!

Andreas announced that the results of the YaST survey had finally been published. They are based on the feedback from approximately 10,000 users.

A PDF of the results is now available.

One of the of the members of the new OpenSUSE board has had an interview, which is part of a series.

Federico Mena-Quintero, the last member of the first openSUSE Board being interviewed on the ‘People of openSUSE’, is a full time GNOME ‘bug-fixing’ hacker, and one of the founders of the GNOME Project.

Here is another nice review of OpenSUSE. It actually comes from a site that has roots in Mandrake.

openSUSE 10.3 is a great Linux system, unless you run into problems. With perseverence and some time investment it is possible to fix those problems. After all, it is Linux.

Here is an even more enthusiastic reviewer.

All in all, a very pleasant experience. Definitely distro of the year. Hopefully I'll be doing a lot more KDE4 hacking now -- instead of having to compile all of SVN I'll use the RPMs that the SUSE guys are generating weekly over at the buildservice.

The Linux Foundation's survey ought to be analysed more carefully in days to come. The raw data is out there and SJVN has had a first go at it just before Thanksgiving. It looks good for desktop Linux. ⬆