Upgrade openSuSE 11.3 to 12.1
OpenSuSE 12.1 is out and updating has never been better.
Why should you update? Here is a list of some of the newest additions to openSuSE 12.1:
• GNOME Shell 3.2 is improved and refined
• KDE introduces Oyranos, Apper and Plasma Active
• Minor improvements to Both Xfce and LXDE
• Chromium 17 has been added to the standard repositories
• WebYaST remote system management tool
• openSUSE is now ready to run directly on the Amazon EC2 cloud
• Snapper rolls back changes
• Systemd boots your system

Updating openSuSE to 12.1
I am a command line man so open a console and let's get to this fast update.

Enable the update repository:
zypper modifyrepo --enable repo-update
Add the Repository:
zypper addrepo --check --refresh --name 'openSUSE-11.3-Update' http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.3/ repo-update
It is good to refresh all repositories before any install or update:
zypper refresh
Update all software to the newest version:
zypper update
Check Version:
cat /etc/SuSE-release

If there are any questions, please see our forum at http://forum.the-server-admin.com