openSUSE 11.0
Personal Desktop Features
openSUSE 11.0 includes all of the latest desktop productivity tools to help you with your most common home computing tasks. Whether it's instant messaging and communicating with friends, creating and designing graphics, or organizing digital picture and music files, you'll find what you need on our easy-to-use desktop.
Internet and Messaging
openSUSE has everything you need for effortless browsing and communication. Enjoy safe, secure, seamless Web browsing with Mozilla Firefox. With features such as pop-up blocking, phishing protection, tabbed browsing, live bookmarks, endless customization choices and much more, it's no wonder that it's the world's most popular open source browser. For calendaring and e-mail, Novell Evolution and Kontact provide easy-to-use choices. Even chatting is easier with Pidgin and Kopete, which let you chat with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, IRC, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! and many other popular chat services—all from a single application.
Home Office and Productivity
Working on Linux is no problem, thanks to OpenOffice.org 2.4, a powerful productivity suite that includes everything you need for Microsoft Office compatibility. You can read and create documents, spreadsheets and graphical presentations that you can exchange with your colleagues and friends who still use Microsoft Windows. Adobe Reader for Linux is also included, giving you quick and easy access to PDF documents. In addition, openSUSE 11.0 includes Beagle, the desktop search technology that you can use to quickly locate and display files, Pidgin chats, Novell Evolution mail and contacts and more.
Security and Mobility
With openSUSE 11.0, you'll enjoy great functionality—no matter where you are. Call friends and colleagues using Ekiga for just the cost of the Internet connection. Connect to networks quickly and easily with enhanced Wi-Fi functionality, and use Bluetooth devices freely—openSUSE recognizes them automatically. Best of all, you need never worry about the safety of your work because you're working on Linux. openSUSE is immune to Windows viruses and malware—so you don't have to worry if the next e-mail you open is going to compromise your system.
Linux Multimedia and Graphics
Turn your Linux home office into your personal creativity studio. From graphics to video to images, openSUSE gives you all the tools you need for supporting, creating, editing, organizing and managing cutting-edge multimedia. Now, for the first time, openSUSE 11.0 includes full MP3 playback support using Fluendo GStreamer.
Banshee is a music management and playback application that lets you import CDs, sync your music collection to an MP3 player, play music directly from an MP3 player, create playlists with songs from your library and create audio and MP3 CDs from subsets of your library. Read more about the digital-photo organizers in openSUSE as well as its other easy-to-use graphics and Linux multimedia applications.
Enhanced 3D Desktop
Experience the new graphics capabilities that not only provide you with cool effects and fun stuff, but also help you achieve new levels of productivity. Through Novell contributions such as Xgl and Compiz Fusion, to the open source graphics subsystem, you get the latest functionality in openSUSE 11.0.
Linux Entertainment and Games
If you're ready for a break, choose from a whole spectrum of Linux entertainment applications in openSUSE 11.0. From classic card and board games to the latest open source favorites like Frozen Bubble, Freeciv, and SuperTux, there's plenty to keep you busy. openSUSE also includes a unique collection of educational software, so no matter what you're interested in—from stargazing to language study—you'll find open source tools ready to assist you.
Find out more about using Linux for multimedia and entertainment in the home office.