Suse 9.3 Release Details
Novell has officially announced that Suse 9.3 will be shipping in April of this year. They’ve also announced what improvements there will be in the new release.
useful improvements
There are several software and driver updates that will make this release of Suse Linux an excellent upgrade.
- Suse 9.3 will support Centrino, Bluetooth devices and many kinds of PDAs with synchronization.
- Power management for Suse 9.3 will be improved.
- Apple’s Ipod will be supported on Suse 9.3
serious improvements:
I didn’t realize how major the difference between Suse 9.2 and Suse 9.3 was going to be. There are some huge pieces of software innovation to be built into this release.
- The latest release of Mono will be included.
- the VoIP application Linphone is likely to be added to this release.
- Gnome 2.10 (released one day before the time of this article) will be included.
- KDE 3.4 will be shipped.
- The Xen Hypervisor will be included. Xen is like VMWare in that it allows multiple operating systems to run concurrently on a single host operating system. It’s the open source response to VMWare that will have Intel and IBM support as of it’s next release.
I’m really, really excited about Xen. I don’t have the cash for a VMWare licence and I’m huge on experimenting with different operating systems (as you can probably tell by my Distro Installs category). If anyone has used Xen before, please leave a comment and describe how it went.
I don’t know if there will be a Suse 9.3 torrent available, but I’m definitely installing Suse 9.3 the day it’s released.
