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.

Click the desktop screenshots for a full view or see the complete collection of screenshots here.

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

NIMBLEX 2008 "DISTRO WITH SMALL SIZE"

Currently in the world of pop has many new distributions-distributions, is one of nimblex 2008, which is a continuation of previous versions, namely nimblex 2007. Nimblex distribution is derived from the distribution SLAX, while SLAX itself is derived from the slackware distribution. So can be said that nimblex is the granddaughter of Slackware. Size nimbleX 2008 is quite small, less than 200 MB, with the distribution of this we can try compiz Fusion, and various other interesting applications. These distributions can be run from the CD (live CD) or installed on the hard drive or bring. The installation is simple enough, because during the process inistalasi we will not be asked to partition and Linux native for linux swap. The installation of this distribution is actually the process The folder / boot and the folder / nimblex to the hard disk and pen-setting of the bootloader. Package applications in the distribution of this compress *. lzm in the form of applications that are essential as the kernel and base system to additional packages that are as KOffice etc.. We can also add applications package that we need a way to download the package from http://extends.nimblex.net *. lzm in the form of coffee and then we file to the directory / nimblex / module without the need through the installation process. the package is automatically activated when the system is run, with a note that nimblex 2008 has been installed in hardddisk atapun bring. nimbleX 2008 because the distributions are based live script, so any changes we make to nimblex will not be saved unless we have allocated a special space / folder diharddisk to mrnyimpan results of these changes.
How:
1. From KMenu>> select System>> Then select save in nimblex
2. Find the folder location where we will store the results of these changes
Can make or edit a file with the menu.lst the contents are as follows:

Title nimbleX 2008 - Boot in KDM
Root (hd0, 0)
kernel / boot/vmlinuz-nx08 ramdisk_size = 7120 = root / rw dev/ram0 quiet splash vga = 791 = silent changes = / nimblex / change autoexec = xconf; kdm
Initrd / boot/initrd-nx08.gz

Title nimbleX 2008 - Boot in the CLI
Root (hd0, 0)
kernel / boot/vmlinuz-nx08 ramdisk_size = 7120 = root / rw dev/ram0
Initrd / boot/initrd-nx08.gz

Directory is a directory change that we made, that we will use as a place to store the results change the settings on nimbleX 2008.