Nixstaller is conceived as an installation kit for Unix systems and conducts dependency tests and supports UTF-8.

Novell announced today that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is officially out in version 11. The SLES extensions for Mono and the desktop version SLED 11 should also concurrently hit the market. A high-availability extension is to follow.

The newly released version 1.5 of the openSUSE Build Service (OBS) will enable developers to build not only software packages but entire distributions.

Due to a breakdown in storage array, some openSUSE servers were unavailable yesterday, including download.opensuse.org.

Where Fedora is, so do they stand: shortly after openSUSE announced its own trademark guidelines, Fedora is coming up with its own variation.

The openSUSE team is abandoning its usual half-year release cycle and is planning its next versions for every eight months instead.

The openSUSE project has released guidelines for use of the Novell marks openSUSE, SUSE, YaST, Gecko and AutoBuild.