As has been previously scheduled, the openSUSE 11.1 Release Candidate (RC) was launched today. It also marks the launch of the successful completion of the development version of openSUSE 11.1 on the distributions.

This latest version includes a new improvement kernel, many improvements to the bug, and update the latest software including the licenses at once.

The changes after the openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5 released including updates Linux kernel 2.6.27.7, Amarok 2.0 RC1, Zypper 1.0.1, glibc 2.9, and a number of other enhancements.

“If all goes well, this version will be the last release before the final version 11.1 Public Release later released on December 18,” said Joe Brockmeier, one of openSUSE developers, as quoted from Softpedia, Monday (12/01/2008).

openSUSE 11.1 will be distributed via the KDE4 and GNOME Live CD for i386 and x86_64 architectures. Meanwhile, CDs and DVDs for i586/x86_64/PPC architecture, the Net Install Disk, and Addon-NonOss/Addon Language will also be available.

“in three weeks, you can enjoy the latest version of the Linux kernel 2.6.27, KDE 4.1, GNOME 2:24, OpenOffice.org 3, a number of software updates, and much more,” said Brockmeier.

Here is the schedule since the release of openSUSE 11.1 was first developed:

July 24 2008 – openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 1
Aug 21 2008 – openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 2
September 18 2008 – openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1
Oct 3 2008 – openSUSE 11.1 Beta 2
October 16 2008 – openSUSE 11.1 Beta 3
November 3 2008 – openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4
November 13 2008 – openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5
November 27 2008 – openSUSE 11.1 Release Candidate
Desemeber 4 2008 – openSUSE 11.1 Goldmaster release (internal)
December 18 2008- openSUSE 11.1 Public release.

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