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Suse Linux 10.0 Beta available as download from next week On Tuesday of next week Novell intends to launch its Community Project openSUSE with a first beta of the next Suse Linux Version 10.0. On opensuse.org, opensuse.de and a number of mirror servers the company will make available for download complete CD images, the rpm packets and the source code. A Bugzilla system will receive the testers' patches and error messages. Suse Linux 10.0 is to be ready by October. With Version 10.0 Novell is also aiming to kick off a community process in which external developers contributing to the Distribution can become maintainers for parts of the Distribution. Sometime next year a complete infrastructure for an open development process is to be in place. Novell will continue to pay developers for work on Suse Linux, whilst in addition making the build system available and taking care of marketing. Besides free downloads, what are planned are supplements in books and magazines, free CDs and DVDs at events, as well as boxes with manuals and installation support - previously familiar with regard to the commercial product Suse Linux Professional. The next version too of the Suse Linux Enterprise Server is to rise on the foundations of the Community Linux code. It was the goal of the openSUSE Project to create, through multiple channels of distribution and by involving the Linux Community in the development process, as broad a user base as possible for Suse Linux, Greg Mancusi-Ungaro, Director of Marketing of Suse Products, explained in a talk with heise online. The object was to market Suse Linux aggressively and spark a "Lizard Blizzard," he said referring obliquely to the green chameleon that appears in the Suse Linux logo. Suse Linux was to be there at hand on everyone's preferred path, he added. (Robert W. Smith) / (jk/c't)