Today, openSUSE news [1] brought the announcement of a new openSUSE Medical [2] release and new leadership in the Medical project. openSUSE Medical was started during the openSUSE Conference 2009 and had it's first stable release in November 2010 based on openSUSE 11.3. A few days ago, the new team lead Anastasios Rousinopoulos has made available the first beta of openSUSE Medical 11.4 [3]. openSUSE Medical is now part of the Linux Medical Taskforce [4] and has exciting plans for the future included importing diabetes care and diabetics applications, some educational applications for students and of course the usual updates, bugfixes and translations. The openSUSE medical project has been a success. The SUSE gallery image has been downloaded well over 1400 times and was cloned by 162 users so they could provide their own variations of openSUSE Medical! The team is excited about the new release and especially looking forward to input from medical professionals in the field. They would greatly appreciate feedback from medical students and, physicians but also patients [5] to further improve the software selection. [1] http://news.opensuse.org/2011/06/09/new-leadership-inside-the-medical-projec... [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Medical [3] http://susegallery.com/a/UbPYJM/opensuse-medical-114 [4] http://www.linux.com/community/groups/viewgroup/1264-Medical+Task+Force [5] contact the team via the mailinglist at opensuse-medical+subscribe@opensuse.org