The next version of openSUSE is now available! Some of the new features and cool innovations in openSUSE 11.0 include updated desktops with new features, including the revolutionary new KDE 4; a new installer which makes the installation quicker and nicer; Live CDs so you can try openSUSE before committing; innovative new desktop effects, quicker and slicker software management, and many new applications to improve your daily life.
Sneak Peeks of openSUSE 11.0
openSUSE 11.0 includes a brand-new installer. The Sneak Peek series on openSUSE News shows off some new features, plus an interview with Stephan Kulow!
There have been many improvements and changes to ZYpp, openSUSE’s package management system, including the major improvement: it’s lightning fast! Features an interview with Duncan Mac-Vicar.
openSUSE’s Desktop Effects (Compiz) have been improved, and include many new effects and new features which make running and managing them better! Also includes an interview with Dennis Kasprzyk!
In openSUSE 11.0, you get two KDEs for the price of one. Take a look at the new KDE!
There are many improvements in the new version of GNOME. Vincent Untz talks about the GNOME desktop environment in openSUSE 11.0.
Are you a reviewer, or are you writing about openSUSE 11.0? Take a look at our 11.0 Reviewer Guide.
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Set the Guiness Book of World Record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours
On June 17th 2008, Firefox decided to set the Guiness Book of World Record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours. Mozillafoundation urged its users the world over to update their browsers by downloading the latest version namely Firefox 3. And the response was so massive on the D-Day that, there was an outage at the Mozilla data center for several hours. Once the servers were back online, the downloading continued and Firefox set the world record well within the 24 hours.
The record is 15,067,570 downloads (15 Million). Country wise, USA tops the list with a whooping 4 million + downloads. Surprisingly, sans the US, relatively small countries like Iran and France clocked more downloads than its larger counterparts like India and China.
If you are one of the people who downloaded Firefox on June 17th, then congratulations !!; You are a part of the Guiness Book of World Records. And the people at Firefox are ever too grateful to forget your valuable contribution.
So go ahead and download your own personalized Guiness Book of World Records Certificate
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As the clock just passes 18:16 GMT on June 18, signaling the end of the 24 hours period for counting the number of downloads Firefox 3.
8′290,908 is the exact number of Firefox 3 downloads, give or take a few thousands, with a strong 12 thousand downloads per minute rate at the time the mark was crossed.
In fact, the push was so hard that NetApplications reports it moved the market share needle by about 2% for Firefox 3: from around 1% early in the morning to about 3% by late at night.
Unsurprisingly, the United States is the country generating the most downloads with about 2.5 million, followed by Germany, Japan, Spain, the UK, France, Canada, Brazil, China and Turkey.
The number has yet to be validated by Guinness officials and hopefullly it will be included in the next printed edition of the Guinness World Records.
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