不久前，opneSUSE开发团队发布了openSUSE 11.1 的第二个Beta版，Christoph Thiel在官方的发布声明中发布11.1 beta 2了。在这个开发版中，它给我们带来了GNOME 2.24, KDE 4.1.2, VirtualBox 2.0.2和一些相对beta 1所做的改进。和以往一样，现在还没有Live CD下载，预计Live CD会在10月6日发布。
openSUSE 11.1 beta 2与beta 1相比，主要有以下变改：
GNOME 2.24.0
KDE 4.1.2
VirtualBox 2.0.2
OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC2
Mono 2.0 RC3
Compiz 0.7.8
在12月发布的openSUSE 11.1正式版中，将会包含不少新的技术和软件，其中包括：
Linux kernel 2.6.27
KDE 4.1
KDE 3.5.10 (可选)
GNOME 2.24
OpenOffice.org 3.0
软件的升级，和......
openSUSE 11.1开发日程表：
July 24th, 2008 - openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 1
August 21st, 2008 - openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 2
September 18th, 2008 - openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1
October 3rd, 2008 - openSUSE 11.1 Beta 2
October 16th, 2008 - openSUSE 11.1 Beta 3
October 30th, 2008 - openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4
November 13th, 2008 - openSUSE 11.1 Release Candidate 1
November 27th, 2008 - openSUSE 11.1 Release Candidate 2
December 4th, 2008 - openSUSE 11.1 Goldmaster release (internal)
December 18th, 2008 - openSUSE 11.1 Public release
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Beta2/iso/.
