The openSUSE project is happy to announce that the second milestone release for openSUSE 11.2 is ready for download. This release includes Firefox 3.5 beta 4, KDE 4.3 beta 1, GNOME 2.26, and hundreds of other updates from milestone 1. A lot has changed since the 11.1 M1 release, with many packages being updated for 11.2. Some of the major changes in this release include: the distribution is built with GCC 4.4; M2 uses the 2.6.30-rc6 kernel; live CDs include GIMP; default file system is ext4....

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