In 2005, Novell refocused its development efforts to do as Red Hat does with
its Red Hat Enterprise Linux product and Fedora project: Novell formed the
openSUSE project, which, like the Fedora project, produces a free communitydriven
Linux system that feeds into Novell??™s for-profit Linux systems. Unlike
Fedora and RHEL, however, openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise are, so
far, following the same release numbers. They are differentiated by the fact
that openSUSE offers no official Novell support and SUSE may contain some
non??“open source software.
The DVD that comes with this book contains the openSUSE 10.3
KDE install CD. ON the DVD-ROM
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IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding SUSE
What??™s in SUSE
Getting support for SUSE
Installing openSUSE
Running SUSE and
openSUSE Linux
This chapter describes the features and approach to Linux that sets SUSE apart from other Linux
distributions. It also explains how to install the openSUSE Linux 10.3 distribution that is included
with this book.
The current versions of openSUSE and SUSE Linux (10.3) feature the YaST installer, and the current
versions of KDE 3.5.7 desktop environment, GNOME 2.20.0, Firefox 2.0.0.7, GIMP 2.2.17,
Apache 2.2.6, MySQL 5.0.45, and OpenOffice.org 2.3.0. All SUSE Linux packages for the
current release are listed at www.
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