The openSUSE team finally announced a quite highly anticipated release: openSUSE 10.3 . Aside from the distribution itself being technically great, the release itself also went really well and appears to have hit nearly all the major Linux News-related websites, as you would expect.

The torrents have many thousand seeders, the news story has had over 80 comments of praise in a matter of a few hours already, and the mirrors have been pumping gigabytes out per-second. For the first day, apart from our great Released Version Mirrors, we have also adopted the services of akamai, which is for mission-critical delivery of web content. Christoph informed us earlier that It has been averaging at piping out a massive 12Gbit/s, with peaks at around 14Gbit/s! With all the other gigabit-backbone mirrors working, it’s hard to imagine what kind of speeds we’re hitting overall.

Despite the huge load and though the wiki was crawling for a short period, the site has remained up and strong throughout. We’ve pushed out most of the load to the mirrors for now, with our trusty redirector doing the work.

The community contribution in this release is both huge and encouraging; I’m proud to be able to be a part of it . A huge thanks to everyone involved for making it such a great release!