We're glad to announce SUSE Linux 10.2 Codename "Basilisk Lizard"
Alpha2.

It's downloadable from today on and will be the last community/consumer
distribution called SUSE Linux. We'll rename SUSE Linux into openSUSE.

With current naming we experienced confusion internally and externally
between the project openSUSE and the distribution created there. And
especially with the new naming of our Linux business products (SUSE
Linux Enterprise 10) the differentiation between our business products
and community/consumer product is not intuitive. Therefor the upcoming
community/consumer version will be named openSUSE 10.2. We'll
implement first name changes with Alpha 3 starting directly after
Alpha 2 and will have a fully renamed distribution with Beta 1 in Nov.

We're very sorry that suggestions like SuSE Linux Voyager, Gecko Linux
or Novora didn't make it ;-). But according to the discussions on the
mailinglist openSUSE is one of your favorites and will make openSUSE
consistent in all.

SUSE Linux 10.2 Alpha2 is slowly moving to 10.1. We have not done any
real major updates yet but lots of minor changes, I list some below:

Desktop
* KOffice 1.5.2
* Poppler 0.5.3
* ALSA 1.0.12rc1
* OpenOffice 2.0.3rc7
* freetype 2.2.1

Development packages
* GCC 4.1.2 pre-release
* Autoconf 2.60
* gdb 6.5

Misc
* enable MALLOC_PERTURB_ and MALLOC_CHECK_ for hardcore
malloc debugging and failure.
* Various package updates
* Lots of Bugfixes
* MIT kerberos 1.5
* coreutils 5.97
* gphoto 2.2.0

Full details are in the ChangeLog file on CD1.

Alpha2 has one major problem:

* The installation using the GUI interface does not work,
please select "Text Mode" when booting from CD media (#183827)

Further problems are available as usual from:
http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs

Have a lot of fun!
Michael Andreas

Download URLs for the torrents of the DELTA-ISOs:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha1_Alpha2-i386.torrent
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha1_Alpha2-ppc.torrent
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha1_Alpha2-x86_64.torrent

Download URLs for the torrents of the ISOs:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/SUSE-Linux-10.1-RC1-i386.torrent
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/SUSE-Linux-10.1-RC1-ppc.torrent
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/SUSE-Linux-10.1-RC1-x86_64.torrent

Download URLs for the Add-On Media torrent:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/SUSE-Linux-10.1-RC1-Addon-BiArch.torrent
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/SUSE-Linux-10.1-RC1-Addon-ppc.torrent

Download URLs for the full Delta ISOs:
x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha1_Alpha2-i386-CD1.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha1_Alpha2-i386-CD2.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha1_Alpha2-i386-CD3.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha1_Alpha2-i386-CD4.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha1_Alpha2-i386-CD5.delta.iso

For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha1_Alpha2-x86_64-CD1.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha1_Alpha2-x86_64-CD2.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha1_Alpha2-x86_64-CD3.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha1_Alpha2-x86_64-CD4.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha1_Alpha2-x86_64-CD5.delta.iso

For PowerPC architecture:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha1_Alpha2-ppc-CD1.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha1_Alpha2-ppc-CD2.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha1_Alpha2-ppc-CD3.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha1_Alpha2-ppc-CD4.delta.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/delta-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha1_Alpha2-ppc-CD5.delta.iso

Download URLs for the full ISOs:
x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha2-i386-CD1.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha2-i386-CD2.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha2-i386-CD3.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha2-i386-CD4.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha2-i386-CD5.iso

For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha2-x86_64-CD1.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha2-x86_64-CD2.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha2-x86_64-CD3.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha2-x86_64-CD4.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha2-x86_64-CD5.iso

For PowerPC architecture:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha2-ppc-CD1.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha2-ppc-CD2.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha2-ppc-CD3.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha2-ppc-CD4.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha2-ppc-CD5.iso

Download URLs for the Add-On Media ISOs:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/non-oss/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha2-Addon-BiArch.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/non-oss/SUSE-Linux-10.2-Alpha2-Addon-ppc.iso