Ah, it looks like it’s release galore for quite a few distros - Mandriva, SUSE, and soon Ubuntu. I have little interest in Mandriva and because my time with Linux isn’t unlimited, I’ve chosen to monitor only two - SUSE for enterprise and Ubuntu for the community. While Ubuntu is still test releases, there’s already been a few SUSE review. I’ve come to trust Tux Machines over time, so I’ll recommend their review - SUSE Linux 10.1 Final Report by tuxmachines.org.

I’m very tempted to download and burn the DVD ISO but after numerous bad luck with my hard drive, I’m a bit wary of anything that has anything to do with partitioning . And because some of the features that I’m interested in - xgl and xen - concerns running in real hardware (as opposed to virtual machines) to be off any real use, I’m holding off the installation for now.
In the mean time, I’m getting my fix out the screen shots of the new distro here (OSDir.com).