1. openSUSE 11.3 suseROCKs (suserocks @ bryen.com) manugupt1 (manugupt1@gmail.com)

2. © 9/19/2016 Novell Inc. 2 Intoduction Introduce yourself

3. © 9/19/2016 Novell Inc. 3 Base system Linux 2.6.34 which includes support for future Intel processors, improved virtualization and more energy saving features. Alsa 1.0.23 Graphic Drivers X.org 7.5, xserver 1.8 packages Kernel Mode Settings enabled by default for ATI, Nvidia and Intel Nouveau is the default Nvidia driver Radeon has superseded radeonhd

4. © 9/19/2016 Novell Inc. 4 Base System Conntrack – network filtering system has been added Upstart is included as optional init system Grub2 is included for evaluation but not integrated

5. © 9/19/2016 Novell Inc. 5 GNOME GNOME 3.0 preview is available with GNOME Shell and the new accessibility stack (disabled by default) Tracker is the default file indexer, replacing beagle. Empathy is the default IM client for GNOME. Empathy supports now sending files via drag and drop and the IRC module now includes support for common IRC commands such as /join. Access to iPhone and iPod touch files from nautilus. Rhythmbox can also play music from those devices. Transmission is shipped with DHT enabled Tomboy’s startup time has been drastically improved. Syncing notes can now be done automatically by enabling it in the preference

6. © 9/19/2016 Novell Inc. 6 GNOME Nautilus’ user interface now includes a new split view mode and the default is set to browser mode. Simple right-click menu item to open a an archive file (zip,.tar.gz, etc.) in nautilus. Improved selection of screensavers and games installed by default. Complete move away from hal to udisks/upower. Removal of the GNOME 1.x stack. Massive improvements to Banshee - the default media player

7. © 9/19/2016 Novell Inc. 7 KDE Synaptiks touchpad configuration tool is included KTorrent is shipped with DHT support now KSuseInstall - on demand package installation, e.g. for Amarok codecs and debug packages KUpdateapplet supports dist-upgrade Oxygen-molecule GTK theme provides better integration of GTK apps in KDE Plasma Desktop Browse ISO service menu KAddressBook has been completely rewritten to use the new Akonadi PIM framework Amarok is now at version 2.3

8. © 9/19/2016 Novell Inc. 8 LXDE Lxdm 0.2.0 as default Login Manager Pcmanfm 0.9.7 completly rewritten with GVFS and Trash support LXDE Control Center (LXCC) is included Lxdm-conf configuration tool is included Gnome-keyring support out of the box Brasero as cd and dvd burning tool without any GNOME dependencie

9. © 9/19/2016 Novell Inc. 9 More Desktop Changes Xfce 4.6.1 Moblin UI

10. © 9/19/2016 Novell Inc. 1010 Applications SpiderOak client (in Non-oss) OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 - the free and open productivity suite - brings faster start up times, make further strides in compliance with ODF 1.2 and improves support for other common office document types. Rosegarden 10.04 Mozilla Firefox 3.6.6 Thunderbird, the award-winning email application from Mozilla, was updated to version 3.0.5 which includes a number of stability and security fixes. Lots more applications are available at Contrib: the universal openSUSE repository for third-party packages like GoogleCL.

11. © 9/19/2016 Novell Inc. 1 Get Productive!!! With OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 make documents, spreadsheets and presentations Manage your financials Maintain your Journal and plan your daily tasks Plan your projects Writer ImpressCalc Draw Base

12. © 9/19/2016 Novell Inc. 1212 Gain Control with YaST2 Network Configuration Manage users and groups Set up Mail Notification Enable / Disable / Configure services Apply patches, updates and install new softwares Profile your applications with AppArmor View logs

13. © 9/19/2016 Novell Inc. 1313 Remote Management WebYaST Remote Desktop

14. © 9/19/2016 Novell Inc. 1414 Security Use YaST2 to configure your security settings PolicyKit Linux Audit Framework Detect intrusion with AIDE Encrypt Partitions and files Use SSH for secure network operations Prevent masquerading with SuSEFirewall Configure a VPN server easily

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16. 1616 Any Questions?? Testing

17. 1717 Thank you Testing