With other Linux Distros allready released Cloud/Netbook support, Open Suse is not behind with its new release, The release announcement clearly sums up that ""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 synchronize 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."

Top Features

• Netbook support

The KDE project brings you the Plasma Netbook Workspace that is made specifically for those kinds of devices. MeeGo on openSUSE (Code named Smeegol) brings many additional features.

• Smartphone Support

• Secure backup and file sharing in the cloud

OpenSUSE 11.3 we provide a personal cloud for users. OpenSuse provide SpiderOak,an easy, secure and consolidated free online backup, sync, sharing, access & storage solution. It provides 2 GBs Free / $10 per 100 GBs / Unlimited devices.

• Support for the new Btrfs file system

Btrfs has been developed to become the next generation default Linux file system. openSUSE is the first distribution that lets you choose Btrfs in the installer.

• Package management with zypper

Lots of improvements in this command line package manager.

Other Features of Importance

• Linux 2.6.34
• GNOME 2.30.1
• KDE SC 4.4.4
• GoogleCL (in Contrib)
• GCC 4.5 with better link-time and whole-program optimization
• Empathy is the default IM client for GNOME.
• Access to iPhone and iPod touch files from nautilus.
• Netbeans 6.8

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