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Whether you use your computer to communicate with friends, family, or colleagues; to manage and enjoy your pictures and music; to browse the Internet for the latest news or for fun; to write a report or budget; or to host a personal Web site or home network, you will find everything you need in openSUSE &suse-version;.

openSUSE is a community project created and sponsored by Novell to deliver the world's most user-friendly computing platform. Many people from around the world contribute to the openSUSE Project by packaging software, testing programs, writing documentation, and translating components into dozens of languages. All of that work is available for free in the openSUSE Linux distribution available at www.opensuse.org. Visit www.opensuse.org/How_to_Participate to learn how you can join the openSUSE community.

The openSUSE distribution is available in many languages. Localization for openSUSE software occurs through the efforts of our hard-working, community-driven language teams. Thank you to all of our contributors. Find the localization portal at: http://i18n.opensuse.org/

You can communicate more effectively with openSUSE &suse-version; because it provides a complete set of tools for Web browsing and e-mail management—it even includes the newest Voice over IP technology. openSUSE includes Mozilla Firefox, one of the best Web browsers in the world. Firefox includes all the features you need to enjoy the Web, including Java, Adobe Acrobat Reader, and Adobe Flash plugins. Firefox also boasts lightning-fast performance, and a number of improvements designed to protect your privacy and prevent phishing attacks. Also included with openSUSE are Novell Evolution and Kontact, complete e-mail and contact management applications. For instant messaging, openSUSE features easy to use IM clients that support all of the popular protocols: AIM, Google Talk, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Groupwise, and many others.

Download tunes from the Internet. Rip CDs to create your own customized music library. Listen to your playlist online. Burn CDs or DVDs. Copy your files to an iPod or media player and take your music anywhere. Manage and edit digital pictures with powerful graphics editors. It's all easy with openSUSE.

The openSUSE &suse-version; distribution comes complete with the latest version of the leading Linux productivity suite, OpenOffice.org. It features a word processor, spreadsheet application, HTML editor, presentation designer, and database manager. It reads and writes multiple formats—including Microsoft Office formats—so you can move back and forth easily between openSUSE and popular non-Linux productivity software. OpenOffice.org is the perfect choice for reports, papers, home budgets, simple graphics and more.

Using the tools in openSUSE, you can create or edit almost any type of graphic. For advanced image manipulation and graphics creation, use The GIMP a powerful tool for image retouching, composition, and authoring. For vector graphics, openSUSE includes Inkscape—a versatile graphics solution delivers support for transparent layers, bitmap tracing, text paths and much more.

openSUSE includes the most advanced mobility features. You can switch effortlessly between wireless and wired networks using NetworkManager from openSUSE. Connect with mobile devices like mobile phones and PDAs via Bluetooth, or use infrared ports to synchronize your data. The newest innovations in power management from openSUSE increase your mobility and give you the freedom to take your work wherever you go.

Help secure your system and data from Internet intruders with SUSE Firewall. This security device is activated by default and easy to configure. But you can do even more to protect your system with openSUSE because it also includes AppArmor, the most effective and easy-to-use Linux application security system available today. AppArmor proactively protects your operating system and applications from internal or external threats. In addition to SUSE Firewall and AppArmor, openSUSE also includes a special security patch update system. To ensure that the latest security patches are installed on your system, you can choose to perform an online update at the end of this installation procedure. And in the future, you will be automatically informed of the availability of important security updates, so you can install them at your convenience.

The Xen hypervisor is included with openSUSE. Xen is one of the most robust solutions for virtualization available. In addition, openSUSE provides tools for network file sharing (Samba, NFS, etc.), printing (CUPS) and Web hosting (Apache). For application development, openSUSE comes with a complete set of runtime environments plus extensive application development tools, including KDevelop, Eclipse and Mono.

The openSUSE distribution provides extensive documentation for specific openSUSE questions as well as general Linux-related questions. The Help Center is accessible via the main menu. Manuals are also available in PDF and can be downloaded and printed (http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation). Even more information is available in the openSUSE wiki at http://en.opensuse.org/. Under "Documentation," you'll discover links to useful information created and maintained by other openSUSE users. You can also find links to the documentation available on the official Novell Web site. For help with specific openSUSE problems, check out the Support Database at www.opensuse.org For support from other openSUSE users, visit the official openSUSE forums at http://forums.opensuse.org/. Here you'll find thousands of other openSUSE users, eager to help you get everything you can out of Linux. If you're an experienced openSUSE user, the forums are a great place to meet other users, and help out other Linux users. Want to make openSUSE even better? You can build almost anything with openSUSE. It's easy to create and share new packages for multiple Linux distributions using the unique and powerful openSUSE Build Service. Join openSUSE.org to collaborate.

Novell is committed to your success with Linux. In addition to openSUSE, Novell also delivers an exciting suite of products designed to meet the needs of businesses large and small. The enterprise Linux products from Novell include SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and Novell Open Enterprise Server. Our enterprise products are delivered with a seven-year maintenance guarantee and optional support programs. For more information on enterprise Linux from Novell, visit http://www.novell.com/linux