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The next version of openSUSE is now available! Some of the new features and cool innovations in openSUSE 11.0 include updated desktops with new features, including the revolutionary new KDE 4; a new installer which makes the installation quicker and nicer; Live CDs so you can try openSUSE before committing; innovative new desktop effects, quicker and slicker software management, and many new applications to improve your daily life.

Installation

Installation DVD (4.3 GB)
openSUSE 11.0 for x86 on DVD via http

After a week full of Red Bulls, Fruit by the Foot and dreams of In-N-Out, the mighty Sony VAIO loaded with Linux stood as the only machine unhacked by the end of the PWN 2 OWN hacking contest at CanSecWest.

In this competition there were 3 laptops, with different OS’s offered for being hacked into. These included an Apple Macbook Air running OS X 10.5.2, a Sony Vaio VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10 and a Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1. Anyone who could successfully hack or exploit these machines would win a $10,000 price from famous security company Tipping Point.

the MacBook Air on display was seized in two minutes by the presumably well prepared Charlie Miller, and after two full days of work, Shane Macaulay and a few of his 1337 associates managed to crack the Vista rig on Friday. Reportedly, Shane and his pals weren’t expecting to do battle with the extra protected SP1 version of Vista, and while the exact loophole won’t be divulged, we are told that it was a cross-platform bug that “took advantage of Java to circumvent Vista’s security.” In the end, it was reported that some folks on hand had discovered bugs in the Linux OS, but many of them “didn’t want to put the work into developing the exploit code that would be required to win the contest.”

Well 2 days back i got my new 160gb hard disk increasing the total storage to 240gb and the first thing i wanted to do was to install Linux again…

i still remember the first time i installed Linux with a lot of excitement to explore a new OS and because of newly formed JLUG {jaypee Linux user group},it was Suse10.2 that i chose to install.. worked on it for i guess a week and explored lots of features and softwares..

there was almost an alternate software for whatever i used in windows…

but a lot was missing.. no jap that means slow internet n no orkut{university restrictions force us to use tunneling softwares} and then no gtalk… n a few other things…

and one fine day i did something {well to be precise i installed an older version of audio driver over the newer installed one thinking that the one i installed is from Intel’s site and should be better-hey don’t laugh..} and the result no audio…

i asked my friends in JLUG to come and do something but they were busy and finally i decided to shift back to windows.. and i deleted Linux and then there were booting issues that i managed to fix on my own…

and now in this semester i have a Linux course so i needed Linux {just a few tools like latex,x fig} and i thought about giving Linux a second chance and not to us it just for the course but in normal day-2-day life..

and this time i chose Suse 10.3,called my friend and together we installed it,some minor problems right from the starting,problems with network,graphics etc.. but this time am not gonna give up so easily.. am gonna master this OS just like i mastered windows..

So right now update is in progress.. downloading around 4.9gb of updates.. i hope it will function well after the update..

So all of you with pirated windows.. give a try to original,free of cost,more secured and more fun,open source OS— Linux…