openSUSE 10.3
Home-desktop Features
openSUSE 10.3 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 complete, easy-to-use desktop. To make finding things even easier, we've included Beagle, the powerful new open source search engine that puts all of the content in your personal information space at your fingertips. Plus, to keep your desktop secure, openSUSE includes powerful built-in tools for spam blocking and virus scanning.
Internet and Messaging
openSUSE has everything you need for effortless browsing and communication. Enjoy safe, secure, seamless Web browsing with Mozilla Firefox. With features like popup blocking, 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 2.0. It's a powerful productivity suite that includes everything you need. 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 7 for Linux is also included, giving you quick and easy access to PDF documents. openSUSE 10.3 also includes Beagle, the new desktop search technology that you can use to quickly locate and display files, Gaim chats, Novell Evolution mail and contacts, and more.
Security and Mobility
With openSUSE 10.3, you'll enjoy great functionality—no matter where you are. Call friends and colleagues using Ekiga or Linphone for just the cost of the Internet connection. Connect to networks quickly and easily with enhanced WiFi functionality, and use Bluetooth devices freely—openSUSE recognizes them automatically. Best of all, you need never worry about the safety of your work. openSUSE 10.3 includes AppArmor 2.1, an integrated firewall and antivirus software, to protect you against malicious attacks and other threats.
Linux Multimedia and Graphics
Turn your Linux home office into your personal creative 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 10.3 includes full MP3 playback support using Fluendo's Gstreamer. Helix* Banshee is a music management and playback application that lets you import CDs, sync your music collection to an iPod, play music directly from an iPod, 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: GIMP 2.2.17, K3b, and RealPlayer 10 and Krita, the new image-processing tool for KDE.
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 (e.g., Xgl and 'Compiz Fusion') to the open source graphics subsystem, you get the latest functionality in your openSUSE 10.3.
Linux Entertainment and Games
If you're ready for a break, choose from a whole spectrum of Linux entertainment applications in openSUSE 10.3. 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 whether you're interested in stargazing or 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.