Only three weeks after Alpha1, we’re glad to announce the release of openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2. There are various exciting changes in there that we would like to have feedback on.

Changes since openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 1

KDE 4.0.1 replaced KDE 3.5.8 as default KDE
GNOME 2.21.90 was integrated
Continued work on the Installation workflow
Live CDs for both GNOME and KDE
CDs support German as an additional language
DVDs have only OSS software
Linux 2.6.24
OpenOffice.org 2.4 Beta
Alsa 1.0.16rc2
D-Bus 1.2rc2

For a more detailed list with links to backported packages, see the Factory/News wiki page.