We're glad to announce SUSE Linux 10.2 Codename "Basilisk Lizard" Alpha2. It's downloadable from today on and will be the last community/consumer distribution called SUSE Linux. We'll rename SUSE Linux into openSUSE. With current naming we experienced confusion internally and externally between the project openSUSE and the distribution created there. And especially with the new naming of our Linux business products (SUSE Linux Enterprise 10) the differentiation between our business products and community/consumer product is not intuitive. Therefor the upcoming community/consumer version will be named openSUSE 10.2. We'll implement first name changes with Alpha 3 starting directly after Alpha 2 and will have a fully renamed distribution with Beta 1 in Nov. We're very sorry that suggestions like SuSE Linux Voyager, Gecko Linux or Novora didn't make it ;-). But according to the discussions on the mailinglist openSUSE is one of your favorites and will make openSUSE consistent in all. SUSE Linux 10.2 Alpha2 is slowly moving to 10.1. We have not done any real major updates yet but lots of minor changes, I list some below: Desktop * KOffice 1.5.2 * Poppler 0.5.3 * ALSA 1.0.12rc1 * OpenOffice 2.0.3rc7 * freetype 2.2.1 Development packages * GCC 4.1.2 pre-release * Autoconf 2.60 * gdb 6.5 Misc * enable MALLOC_PERTURB_ and MALLOC_CHECK_ for hardcore malloc debugging and failure. * Various package updates * Lots of Bugfixes * MIT kerberos 1.5 * coreutils 5.97 * gphoto 2.2.0 Full details are in the ChangeLog file on CD1. Alpha2 has one major problem: * The installation using the GUI interface does not work, please select "Text Mode" when booting from CD media (#183827) Further problems are available as usual from: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs Have a lot of fun! Michael & Andreas Download URLs for the torrents of the DELTA-ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alp... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alp... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alp... Download URLs for the torrents of the ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/SUSE-Linux-10.1-RC1... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/SUSE-Linux-10.1-RC1... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/SUSE-Linux-10.1-RC1... Download URLs for the Add-On Media torrent: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/SUSE-Linux-10.1-RC1... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/SUSE-Linux-10.1-RC1... Download URLs for the full Delta ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linu... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linu... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linu... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linu... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linu... For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linu... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linu... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linu... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linu... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linu... For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linu... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linu... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linu... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linu... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linu... Download URLs for the full ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2... For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2... For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2... Download URLs for the Add-On Media ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/non-oss/SUSE-Linux-... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/non-oss/SUSE-Linux-... -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126