The openSUSE team is proud to present the final release of openSUSE 11.1, made available a few minutes ago. The new version is injected with more than 230 new features and improvements, KDE 4.1.3, GNOME 2.24.1, OpenOffice.org 3.0, a brand new license, Liberation fonts, openJDK and many more. Judging from the included applications and technologies, we can say that openSUSE 11.1 is indeed a bleeding-edge Linux distribution. Without further introduction let's take a look at the major changes since openSUSE 11.0:

· A brand new license that allows redistribution;
· YaST improvements;
· The proprietary Agfa fonts were replaced by the Liberation fonts;
· Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4 award-winning web browser;
· OpenOffice.org 3.0, open source office suite;
· K Ddesktop Environment 4.1.3 and 3.5.10;
· GNOME 2.24.1 desktop environment;
· Xfce 4.4.3 desktop environment;
· Sun Java was replaced with openJDK;
· Amazing 3D desktop effects using Compiz Fusion;
· Adobe Flash Player 10;
· Bluetooth and 3G support;
· External monitor support;
· Docking stations support;
· Fingerprint recognition support.

Under the hood:

· Linux kernel 2.6.27.7
· X.Org 7.4
· PulseAudio 0.9.12
· Glibc 2.9
· GCC 4.3.2
· Mono 2.0.1
· Python 2.6
· Perl 5.10
· Xen 3.3.1

Images courtesy of the openSUSE Project

The following is a list with the most important applications updated in openSUSE 11.1: Virtual Box 2.0.6, Ekiga 3.0.1, Linphone 2.1.1, Twinkle 1.3.2, NetworkManager 0.7, Ktorrent 3.1.5, Monsoon 0.15, SeaMonkey 1.1.13, Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.18, Pidgin 2.5.1, Empathy 2.24.1, The GIMP 2.6.2, Inkscape 0.46, F-Spot 0.5.0.3, Gwenview 1.4.2, Digikam 0.9.4, Banshee 1.4.1, Amarok 2.0, Kaffeine 0.8.7, Audacity 1.3.5, K3b 1.0.5, Gnash 0.8.4, Samba 3.2.4, AppArmor 2.3, CUPS 1.3.9, Apache 2.2.10, OpenLDAP 2.4.12, Nagios 3.0.5, ClamAV 0.94.1, SpamAssasin 3.2.5, PostgreSQL 8.3.5, MySQL 5.0.67, Derby 10.3.1.4, Eclipse 3.4, Ruby 1.8.7, Ruby on Rails 2.1 and many, many more!

The openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell, which promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE Linux provides anyone with free and easy access to the world's most usable Linux distribution, SUSE Linux. The openSUSE 11.1 Linux distribution is now available for download from Softpedia.