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You need a cost-effective, easy-to-use, secure desktop—and you need choice. SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop is the market's only enterprise-quality Linux desktop. It provides seamless interoperability with your existing systems and dozens of essential productivity applications. It delivers an easy-to-use, highly secure and "green" desktop experience. It also delivers unparalleled levels of flexibility, making it a great choice for an enterprise operating system. You can deploy SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on a wide range of client devices including desktops, notebooks, netbooks, nettops and workstations; on thin clients; or as a virtual desktop. Combined with world-class Novell support and available preloaded by our partners, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is the leading Windows alternative.
Lower Costs

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop lowers your desktop costs in two ways. First, you're no longer tied to the expensive and complex licensing that Microsoft delivers. Instead, you only buy what matters: a subscription for the updates and services that help run your business. At the end of the day, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop costs 90% less than Windows and Office, and doesn't sacrifice productivity in any way.

Second, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop delivers stronger security relative to Windows—essential in an enterprise operating system. This reduces the costs associated with virus, malware, and spyware attacks and dramatically cuts the number of helpdesk calls in your enterprise. In addition, it delivers innovative green IT capabilities. It helps you save on energy costs and delivers a rich suite of tools so you can achieve a green server-based computing deployment of your Linux desktop.

Dozens of Bundled Applications:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop bundles dozens of applications right into your desktop. You get the latest applications right at your fingertips, and slash costs associated with incremental software purchases. Key applications include:

• Office productivity: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Novell Edition, a full office productivity suite, provides word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database capabilities. It also interoperates with Microsoft Office file formats.
• Web browser: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, the world's fastest, most secure and most customizable Web browser. It has been downloaded more than 500 million times to date.
• E-mail and calendaring: Novell Evolution, the most widely used Linux collaboration client, integrates e-mail, calendaring, contact management and tasks into one easy-to-use application
• Instant messaging: Pidgin, the popular instant messaging (IM) application, supports public networks such as AOL, MSN, Jabber and Yahoo!, and enterprise software such as GroupWise.
• Multimedia: Banshee, the leading open source multimedia management tool, lets you import CDs, listen to streaming audio and video, and synchronize with a wide range of portable media players and smartphones. Also, integrated support for Windows multimedia files including a Firefox plug-in to support Microsoft Silverlight 1.0.
• Search: Beagle, an integrated search tool, provides real-time indexing and integrated search capabilities throughout the entire desktop.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop also delivers other leading applications like those for high-quality image editing, photo management, note-taking, and dozens of others.

Interoperability with Your Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop interoperates with your existing IT. This lets you easily leverage your current technology investments. For example, it:

• Works with Novell GroupWise (including GroupWise 8), Microsoft Exchange (including Exchange 2007) and other mail servers that support POP and IMAP.
• Connects to Novell eDirectory, Microsoft Active Directory, and other networking and directory standards.
• Supports key applications such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Sun Java Virtual Machine and much more.
• Includes Mono, an application framework that enables you to easily run Microsoft .NET applications on Linux. This enables enterprises to write applications that run on either Windows or SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, and is a key enabler of Linux desktop migration.
• Includes Moonlight, a Firefox browser plug-in that provides the ability to access Microsoft Silverlight enabled websites and to play Windows multimedia including Windows Media Audio (wma) and Windows Media Video (wmv) files.

System Requirements:

OpenSUSE 11.1 has full support for 32 bit i586 and 64 bit x86-64 PC hardware, as well as PowerPC(PPC) processors. The basic requirements for non-PPC hardware is as follows:

• CPU: Intel Pentium 1-4 or Xeon; AMD Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP, Athlon MP, Athlon 64, Sempron or Opteron
• RAM: 256 MB minimum, 512 MB recommended
• Hard drive: 500 MB for minimal system; 3 GB recommended for standard system

The actually achievable minimum specs differ. Older processors that still belong to the i586 family are usable, for example the AMD K6/2. When excess language/translation files and documentation are removed and X is not needed, decent console-based router systems can be made using 300 MB disk space. Most console workloads also cope with 128 MB RAM at the cost of increased swap activity in tight situations.

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