This week was so filled with events and news that it easily qualifies for the most exciting openSUSE week yet:
- On Monday the rush until feature and version freeze of openSUSE 10.3 started in the evening.
- The Final Draft of the openSUSE Guiding Principles was posted.
- At the same day the LinuxWorldExpo San Francisco started with not only openSUSE being present but also the announcements that both Lenovo and Dell will start to pre-load SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and offer support.
- Finally was announced that AMD has become a sponsor of the openSUSE project by providing hardware for the openSUSE Build Service.
- The Build Service itself got a new distro download and package search front-end with 1-Click Installation.
- On Thursday the openSUSE project turned two. The birthday wishes keep arriving and show that openSUSE News gets more known quickly.
- To celebrate we had also the Release of openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1 which among other stuff has a new greeter (web mockup) to explain and link to the project better.
- The 'People of openSUSE' series started, with already three interviews being published.
- The news that SCO got a big kick after all the years also made people happy.
- And still running the whole week-end, the first openSUSE Bug Slashing.
Dunno how we can top this week. Maybe with a great openSUSE 10.3 release which allows us to push PCLinuxOS from rank #1 of the DistroWatch charts. 
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What a Compliment
You have no clue how much the developers over at PCLinuxOS are complimented by this comment (they read all the KDE blogs). They could care less if you pushed them down, just the simple fact it was said. They look up to Suse, Fedora, and Ubuntu like big brothers. No matter what the DistroWatch rankings say. This is pretty awesome.
Re: What a Compliment
I'm not really sure I understand by what you feel complimented by me, PCLinuxOs is at top in that statistics independent of me citing it or not.
The Developers
They're pretty humble people over there. I think they feel honored, for the mention and also that someone from Suse (or affiliated with Suse) recognizes there existence. A lot of grief comes from people on those statistics. There's a lot of Fan Boyism and comments made that have little to no truth. Some people just get so aggravated that they say the stats are biased, rigged etc.. It's kinda neat to see someone from one of the big boys take it kinda serious. I just run the hardware database I'm not a huge developer over there or anything. Never the less some how it's a compliment to be in some rating whether above or below a distribution as big as Suse in any statistic.
Distrowatch Statistics
> It's kinda neat to see someone from one of the big boys take it kinda serious.
Well, not too serious. I know, in opposite to even some 'journalists', what they measure - that they don't show actual current installations or installed base but rather what the notorious distro-hoppers are interested in this month. The big distros tend to be 'underrepresented' in there, eg I'm sure that Fedora has a way bigger community, more developers and numbers of installations than PCLinuxOS. And Kubuntu is also listed far behind.