What's new in openSUSE 11.3
Don't be deceived by the version number: although the figure doesn't end in a 0, openSUSE 11.3 has a range of new features to offer – improved netbook support, a newly added desktop environment and additional package repository functions are only some of them. Before the official release date, the openSUSE team provided us with the gold master so that we could try out the new functions before the official public release.
Installation
The developers have made only few changes to the installer, a user friendly component which copes well installing openSUSE either in parallel with an already existing Windows system or as the only system on an empty hard disk. Follow the installer's suggestions and it won't take an hour until you find yourself on a Linux desktop. However, if openSUSE is installed on a computer whose hard disk contains a couple of other Linux distributions along with some free, un-partitioned disk space, things become a little more complicated. In our test, Ubuntu 10.04 was in /dev/sda1, Mandriva 2010.01 in /dev/sda5, and the swap area was in /dev/sda6. In this instance the installer automatically suggested using the free, un-partitioned area of 117 Gbytes for openSUSE. It allocated 20 Gbytes of disk space to the root partition and the rest of the space to users' home directories. Users who intend to try out lots of software would perhaps want to change this arrangement in favour of the system partition.
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Stylish!
I have always found openSUSE to be very stylish though it runs a bit slow on my systems as compared to some other offerings.