Monday, October 29, 2007

Novell unleashed one more Gem in the Operating System Segment

Novell India has released the latest version of PC operating system openSUSE - version 10.3. has a dual-boot (an option to start running either Linux or Windows on the PC), compatibility of OpenOffice.org office suite with Microsoft Office and better multimedia support.

The latest GNOME and KDE desktop environments have been included, including a KDE 4 preview. AppArmor protects the operating system and applications from attacks, viruses and malicious applications. Version 10.3 also now includes MP3 support for Banshee and Amarok, the default media players.

Users can also set up a home network and run a Web server with virtualisation software such as Xen 3.1 and VirtualBox 1.5 on the OS. With ‘1-Click Install’, the installation of new drivers and applications is simplified. OpenSUSE is created by the openSUSE project, which has more than 54,000 registered members.

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