News Brief

By August 9th, 1999, SuSE will have released the new SuSE Linux 6.2 which was unavailable at the time of this writing. The new SuSE will use the 2.2.10 kernel, be based entirely on glibc 2.1, include XFree86 3.3.4, hardware-accelerated OpenGL drivers, VMware (expiring) for running DOS/Windows programs under Linux, RealPlayer 5.0 and a total of 1300 packages on six CD-ROMs. SuSE says the new distribution achieves markedly improved performance under heavy loads.