News in OpenSuse 11.4
OpenSUSE is a community-driven Linux distribution sponsored by Novell. The technology in openSUSE usually finds its way into Suse Linux Enterprise Server and Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop eventually. Now OpenSuse 11.4 is available for download and there are lots of news.
In opensuse you can choose from several window managers, including KDE Plasma desktop 4.6.1, Gnome 2:32, Xfce 4.8 and LXDE. FreeType in openSUSE 11.4 will provide better-looking fonts. Opensuse 11.4 will also come with a preview of Gnome 3 due later this spring.
Like other Linux distributions opensuse has swapped Open Office for LibreOffice 3.3.1. Several openSUSE developers are active in the community for Libre Office. Libre Office can handle svg images and supports up to a million rows in the spreadsheet portion of the program.Moreover, Opensuse comes with the latest beta of Firefox 4 which has a new look and is faster overall. Opensuse writes on its website that the rendering engine in Firefox 4 uses hardware acceleration where possible. There’s also for HTML5.
Program Management will also be speeded up considerably since updates are now available for download from several servers simultaneously, and only changes in the files downloaded are transferred.
One of the other major changes is project Tumbleweed. Tumbleweed has to be activated and gives you access to major software updates as they become ready. This means that you do not have to wait until the next version of openSUSE is released to get new software versions.
