SUSE Linux 9.3 Released to public mirrors

SUSE Linux 9.3 Released to public mirrors

SUSE is a major retail Linux distribution, produced in Germany. The company is owned by Novell, Inc. SUSE is also a founding member of the Desktop Linux Consortium. SUSE includes an installation and administration program called YaST2, which handles hard disk partitioning, system setup, online updates, network and firewall configuration, user administration and more in an integrated interface.

SUSE has support for resizing NTFS partitions during installation, which allows it to co-exist with existing Windows 2000 or XP installations. SUSE has the ability to detect and install drivers for many common winmodems shipped with OEM desktop and laptop systems (such modems are designed to use Windows-specific software to operate).

Several desktop environments such as KDE and GNOME and window managers like Window Maker and Blackbox are included, with KDE as the default environment. SUSE ships with multimedia software such as K3B (CD/DVD burning), amaroK (audio playback), and Xine (movie playback). It contains OpenOffice.org, and other common document reading/processing formats such as PDF.

Some nine weeks after the official release of SUSE LINUX 9.3, an installable DVD image of the product has been released to SUSE’s download mirrors. Check out the list here: Novell’s International Mirrors List