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As posted on openSUSE website dated Oct.1 2009, their latest release of 11.2 M8 is now ready for download and you can be one to first to test for bugs or any issues.

There are some important updates and additional packages included on the release.

Changes between openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 7 and Milestone 8 are:
* Linux 2.6.31 final
* more 11.2 theming is in place
* -lang packages are built as noarch
* bluez 4.5.1, PulseAudio 0.9.17
* Samba 3.4.1, php 5.3.0, postresql 8.4.1
* Firefox/KDE integration

For complete article:

http://news.opensuse.org/2009/10/01/opensuse-11-2-milestone-8-released/

Linux.org presented one of the most detailed important events in the history of the Linux operating system development

1983
September    Richard M. Stallman announces the GNU Project, an attempt at creating a completely free operating system.

1984
January    Work begins on the GNU operating system

1985
October    Free Software Foundation established as a non-profit organization to promote the development of Free Software. Sponsors the GNU Project.

1987
January    Computer science professor Andrew Tannenbaum publishes the textbook Operating Systems: Design and Implementation which includes a copy of a teaching version of Unix called Minix.
December    Larry Wall releases version 1.0 of Perl

The new release provides high level coverage of the improvements and additions that have been implemented in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4.

Changes include:

a. Package Updates
b. New Packages
c. Technology Previews
d. Fix Known Issues
e. Package Manifest

Some important Updates are:

1. Virtualization Updates
2. Clustering Updates
3. Networking Updates
4. Filesystems and Storage updates
5. Desktop Updates
6. Tools Updates
7. Architecture Specific Support
8. Kernel Updates

Official Release Notes:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html-single/Release_Notes/

Technical Notes can be read thru:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Technical_Notes/

Copyright belongs to Red Hat, Inc..

One of my favorite linux distribution, Slackware, had released their version 13.0.

One of the significant change is the release of the official 64-bit.  Their is also a completely reworked on the  collection of X packages, major upgrades to the desktop environments for KDE and Xfce.

Full Official announcement in:

http://www.slackware.com/announce/13.0.php