OpenSUSE 11.0 alpha 2 release was recently announced. The development and testing are going on, and openSUSE 11.0 is candidate to be a nice openSUSE release. Here there are the most important new features introduced in this release
- KDE 4.0.1
- GNOME 2.21.90
- Linux 2.6.24
- OpenOffice.org 2.4 Beta
- Alsa 1.0.16rc2
- D-Bus 1.2rc2
Recently some mockup for the new openSUSE 11.0 look have been proposed on the openSUSE wiki, and they look very cool! Give them a look here.
Another important novelty from the openSUSE community is the possibility to apply for membership for all the users who are making continued and substantial contribution to the openSUSE project. You can find more details here.