openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1

Christoph Thiel has announced the first beta release of openSUSE 11.1: "The openSUSE Project is happy to announce the first beta release of openSUSE 11.1. It includes quite a few improvements and new features over the 11.0 release, including new versions of KDE, GNOME, the Linux kernel, improved YaST modules, and much more! What's new? GNOME 2.24 - PulseAudio improvements, Ekiga 3.0, Empathy instant messenger based on Telepathy framework; KDE 4.1.x - KWin has compositing enabled by default, Amarok 2.0 beta 1, auto-hiding panels, KWin cube effect; basic SELinux enablement; YaST Modules - rewritten YaST printer, partitioner and security modules; cluster stack features significant usability changes; support for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2); new BlueTooth features with BlueZ 4.6." There is much more so check out the full release announcement for more details. Currently only installation DVDs are available for download via BitTorrent: openSUSE-11.1-Beta1-DVD-i386.iso (3,628MB), openSUSE-11.1-Beta1-DVD-x86_64.iso (3,771MB).