That's right folks, as of this morning I'm back to using openSUSE Factory. This is currently what will end up being version 11.0 and it's already really nice. The most noticeable thing for me so far has been how much quicker it feels that 10.3. This is because gcc 4.3 apparently produces binaries that are 20% faster than the previous version! The effect is that it zips along.

Speaking of zipping - or indeed, zypping - the new Gtk+ UI for the YaST package manager is a huge improvement. It's by no means pretty yet but so far I've not had need to use Smart.