Open Suse 11.3 has been released

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the latest incarnation of openSUSE, with support for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. openSUSE 11.3 is packed with new features and updates including SpiderOak to sync your files across the Internet for free, Rosegarden for free editing of your audio files, improved indexing with Tracker, and updates to Mozilla Firefox, and Thunderbird.

Among these many new features, openSUSE also provides support for netbooks and the Btrfs file system support. Users can expect to see improved hardware support with the 2.6.34 Linux kernel and updated graphics drivers. And support for the next generation of interactive computing for touchscreens like the HP TouchSmart.

openSUSE continues its tradition of delivering the popular KDE, GNOME and Xfce desktop environments, and now also provides the lightweight LXDE desktop environment. With GNOME, you can use the latest 2.30.1 version or take your installation for a drive with a preview of the upcoming GNOME 3.0. Or choose KDE SC 4.4.4 for the latest updates. They all feature the polish and integration that the openSUSE distro has been known for.

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GNOME Shell in GNOME 3.0

Plasma Desktop on KDE SC 4.4.4

For servers and development platforms, administrators can take full advantage of the new MariaDB and MySQL Cluster services as well as Conntrack to filter network packets for iptables. Developers will appreciate the plethora of tools available at their fingertips with GCC, GDB and Mono and IDEs such as Netbeans, Qt-Creator and many others. This is all on top of the countless libraries available through the openSUSE Build Service (OBS).

Visit our Product Highlights page for a detailed list of new features.

Source : news.opensuse.com

DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT IN LINUX

Desktop Environment is a graphical environment that not only window manager but also consist of the other applications. The functions of this applications is to complete anything that doesn't exist at window manager,setting the icon on the desktop, drag and drop function in desktop, sound event etc. GBeside that Desktop Environment usually completed with applications for setting the desktop appereance, theme appearance, graphic application, multimedia application etc.Desktop Environment has more complex function and appearance and complete than window manager. There are many desktop environment at the world like :

1. KDE ( K(Kubical) Desktop Environment) is the first desktop environment. KDE is the desktop environment based on Qt. Cause this is the first desktop environment, so there are a lot of application that supported that than other desktop environment. Based on the literacy that i have been read this desktop environment use the engine from windows 98. So the appearance is not so foreign than the other desktop environment. The Lastest version of KDE is KDE version 4.xx

2. GNOME (GNU Object Model Environment) is desktop environment based on GTK. Cause this desktop environment more newer than KDE, just a few application that supported for this desktop environment.GNOME support theme for widget(edit box, check box etc) so the appearance is more interesting than KDE.

3.XFCE
4.OpenBox
5.Enlightment
6.FluxBox
7.IceWM
8.etc