The openSUSE project has three main goals: Making openSUSE the most accessible and widely used Linux distribution available to anyone, leveraging the combination of open source software to make openSUSE the most available Linux distribution in the world and the desktop environment for both new and experienced Linux users, Significantly simplifying and opening up its development and packaging process to make openSUSE the platform of choice for Linux developers and software providers.
openSUSE 11.1RC 1 was scheduled to be released today, but the openSUSE team has temporarily decided to release openSUSE 11.1 beta 5 instead due to bug fixes.
Some of the major new features in openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5:
Linux Kernel 2.6.27.5
Smolt
PackageKit 0.3.9
KDE 4.1.3
Xfce 4.4.3
Many other packages have been updated and include more translations