I hope you all remember our detailed reviews on Fedora 10, Windows 7 and Ubuntu 8.10. But we are not finished yet. Open Suse is coming out with their new version of 11.1 and we are at it. openSUSE 11.1 beta 4 is just released, while the official launch of the final version is on 18 December, 2008. We took a detailed look into openSUSE 11.1 beta 4 and here are the gems we found. Quick Overview Some of the key new features include an improved KDE desktop experience, better synchronization with the iPod with an updated Banshee Media Player, and many other improvement and refinements in the openSUSE desktop. Also included are software updates including GNOME 2.24, KDE 4.1.3, OpenOffice.org 3.0, and Firefox 3.0.3 - confirms the developers. There is more after the break and nice pictures too.

TRAI* (Telecom regulatory body) report on growth of telecom in India for September reveals some startling facts about Mobile growth and penetration in India. Highlights are as follows:

If you are wondering what mrepo actually is, YAM has been renamed and changed to mrepo. mrepo builds a local APT/Yum RPM repository from local ISO files, downloaded updates, and extra packages from 3rd party repositories. It takes care of setting up the ISO files, downloading the RPMs, configuring HTTP access and providing PXE/TFTP resources for remote network installations. Developers at first had mrepo in mind to assign remote network installation. Let us take and example of a laptop where you can install various distributions without the help of a CD/DVD or floppy. mrepo also helps in maintaining centralized update server.