[ Thanks to Andrew
Weber for this link. ]
“The New Release Cycle
“The last time OpenSUSE users enjoyed a stable release was in
November 2009 making today’s release of OpenSUSE 11.3 a pretty big
deal. This is the first release in the new fixed eight month
release schedule for OpenSUSE. I like the new release schedule
because it separates OpenSUSE from the other top distros. People
got overwhelmed with the old Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, within 30
days schedule. So we agree they got the release timing right but
what about 11.3 features, are they worth checking out?“BtrFS Filesystem
“OpenSUSE 11.3 has a new installer option that lets users choose
the BtrFS file system which is under heavy development but offers
many advanced features including Writable snapshots, Subvolumes,
and more. Users will need to go into the Partitioning part of the
installer and select Advanced. Under Formatting Options you can
change the file system to BtrFS. This is an experimental feature
and as the installer warning states, you’ll likely experience
problems if you turn this feature on.”