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Novell dishes up OpenSUSE 11.1 details

 
Tweaks licence, dumps EULA The next big release of Novell’s community-driven SUSE Linux distro is set to land on Thursday. Ahead of that, the firm has released details about what customers can expect from version 11.1, including a new licence in which the EULA has been ditched.… (link)

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