https://de.opensuse.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Ctwx&feedformat=atomopenSUSE Wiki - Benutzerbeiträge [de]2024-03-29T10:46:44ZBenutzerbeiträgeMediaWiki 1.27.7https://de.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Benutzer:Ctwx&diff=23224Benutzer:Ctwx2012-02-23T22:25:21Z<p>Ctwx: /* Meine Fähigkeiten */</p>
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Mein Name ist Christian Wansart und zurzeit bin ich Informatikstudent. Ich nutze Linux seit fast 10 Jahren, jedoch muss ich zugeben, dass ich anfangs echte Schwierigkeiten hatte von Windows auf Linux zu wechseln und ich teilweise Linux immer wieder gelöscht habe.<br />
Mittlerweile sieht das Ganze anders aus: Linux ist mein Hauptbetriebssystem und auf einer zweiten Festplatte, die aber nur 160 GB groß ist, schlummert ein Windows-System. Das schläft aber die meiste Zeit, da ich es nicht zum Arbeiten, sondern nur zum Spielen verwende.<br />
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==Meine Linux-Geschichte==<br />
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SuSE Linux 9.0 war die erste Linux-Distribution die ich auf meinem PC ans Laufen gebracht habe. Damals hatte ich auch durch meinen Stief-Vater eine Red Had Box, welche jedoch nicht auf meinem PC lief. Wieso weiß ich leider nicht und die Box, um es auszuprobieren habe ich leider auch nicht mehr.<br />
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Ich habe auf meinem Weg zu openSUSE 11.4 einige Distributionen durchgetestet. Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Mandriva, Fedora, Arch und enige mehr. Debian hatte ich recht lange, aber es war frustrierend da aufgrund der Protokolländerungen bei ICQ/AOL die Verbindung mit GAIM (zu der Zeit gab es schon Pidgin) nicht mehr möglich war. Außerdem störte es mich, dass die Firefox-Version so veraltet war, da einige gute Features erst mit späteren Versionen eingeführt wurden. Danach habe ich einmal Gentoo ausprobiert, jedoch mit einem schrecklichen Ergebnis: Ich vergaß die USE-Flag für Grafiken zu setzen, was bedeutet hätte, dass ich so ziemlich alles hätte neu bauen dürfen. Auf meinem damaligen PC hätte das einige Ewigkeit gedauert.<br />
Also bin ich zur nächsten Distribution, das war Arch, die ich durch einen Bekannten gefunden habe. Arch hatte für meine damaligen Prioritäten alles was ich brauchte: Sie war ziemlich schnell, hatte vorkompilierte Pakete und man konnte viel mit der CLI machen, wodurch ich größtenteils den Umgang mit der CLI gelernt habe. (Aber um fair zu bleiben, ich hatte auch schon einiges mit der CLI unter Debian gemacht... dpkg und apt* sind aber echte Zumutungen... Ein hoch auf zypper und rpm!) Ich fand das Prinzip von Arch auch nicht schlecht, dass es möglichst zentrale Konfigurationen bot, z.B. die ''/etc/rc.conf''.<br />
Jedoch waren mit die Abhängigkeiten einfach zu viel und ich wollte mehr Kontrolle also versuchte ich Slackware aus. Nach einem fehlgeschlagenen Versuch, als Slackware noch den 2.4er-Kernel hatte, irgendwann als ich bei Debian war, versuchte ich es dann erneut. Erst hielt ich Slackware für ziemlich schlecht dokumentiert, aber nur weil auf der Webseite nicht so viel rauszuholen ist, wie aus anderen Seiten. Dafür enthielt die DVD alles was man braucht. Dokumentationen, Software, Quellcode, usw. Ich habe darauf hin einige Zeit mit Slackware gearbeitet und war unheimlich zufrieden; und falls Software fehlte schaute ich auf [http://slackbuilds.org/ SlackBuilds.org] und falls es dort nicht vorhanden war, baute ich mir eigene Pakete mit dem das Slackware-Paketmanagement umgehen konnte. In der Zeit habe ich wirklich viel über Linux im Allgemeinen gelernt. Aber aufgrund eines Softwarefehlers in Mumble, der sich komischerweise in virtuellen Maschinen nicht nachvollziehen ließ, installierte ich irgendwann openSUSE 11.4 – eigentlich nur testweise. Jedoch lief openSUSE so gut dass ich dabei blieb. Ich entschloss mich dann auch etwas beizutragen und wollte bei dem Wiki anfangen.<br />
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==openSUSE und ich==<br />
Nun versuche ich hier im Wiki beizutragen und ich helfe ebenfalls bei [http://www.open-slx.de open-slx] im Wiki, Forum und im Newsteam.<br />
Wenn es zeitlich machbar ist, will ich mich eventuell noch etwas stärker bei SUSE/openSUSE/open-slx engagieren.<br />
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==Meine Fähigkeiten==<br />
Meine Fähigkeiten beschränken sich nicht nur auf Texte schreiben, Korrigieren und Systemkonfiguration und -Wartung, ich beherrsche außerdem auch einige Programmier- und Skriptsprachen. Ich verwalte ein paar Webseiten und beschäftige mich zwangsweise auch mit Webdesign. Wobei ich aber sagen sollte, dass ich mich weniger für Webdesign/Webentwicklung, aber mehr für normale Programmentwicklung interessiere. Vor allem aber, was man so nicht sieht, aber ohne aufgeschmissen wäre.<br />
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</div></div>Ctwxhttps://de.opensuse.org/index.php?title=SDB:KDE_Upgrade&diff=23223SDB:KDE Upgrade2012-02-23T22:19:02Z<p>Ctwx: Getestet auf 11.4 und 12.1. Es sollte erwähnt werden, dass kactivities4 mit KDE 4.8 nachinstalliert werden muss, sonst funktionieren die Aktivitäten nicht mehr und der Desktop verschwindet... (Mache ich ggf. morgen ;))</p>
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{{Intro|Dieser Artikel beschreibt das vorgehen bei einem Upgrade der KDE Arbeitsumgebung. Das ausführen des Upgrades der Arbeitsumgebung weicht vom Standard ab, dessen sollten alle Anwender dieser Anleitung sich bewusst sein! Vor allem weil zusätzliche und/oder sich geänderte/ausgetauschte Repositorys samt deren Inhalt sich ändern, und so unter Umständen auch mal Probleme aufwerfen könnten! Dies sollten sich Anwender, die derartige Veränderungen am System vornehmen, sich verdeutlichen!}}<br />
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*[[openSUSE 12.1|12.1]]<br />
*[[openSUSE 11.4|11.4]]<br />
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*[[SDB:KDE_Installation|KDE Installation]]<br />
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==Vorbereitung==<br />
*Als eine der wichtigsten Vorbereitungen die bei tiefgreifenden Änderungen am System getroffen werden sollten, ist ein Backup der vorhandenen Daten! Bitte alle wichtigen Daten sichern bevor das Upgrade ausgeführt wird! Schließlich kann auch bei einem Upgrade der Arbeitsumgebung mal was daneben gehen, so kann einen Datensicherung eventuellen Verluste von Daten vorbeugen! <br />
*Auch sollte das betreffende System nicht schon offensichtliche Probleme aufweisen, die sich bei einem Upgrade unter Umständen nur verschlimmern würden. <br />
*Des weiteren sollte die verwendete openSUSE Distribution Regelmäßig aktualisiert werden, um angebotenen Sicherheitsrelevante und der Stabilität dienlichen Patches einzuspielen!<br />
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{{Warnung|<br><br />
*Es sollte beim ausführen des Upgrades der Arbeitsumgebung unbedingt und dringend auf eventuell gemeldete Abhängigkeiten geachtet und selbige korrekt aufgelöst werden um Schäden zu vermeiden!<br />
*Es gilt stets darauf zu achten, das alle Repositorys zur verwendeten KDE Version und openSUSE Ausgabe zueinander kompatibel sind! Das mischen von verschiedenen Repositorys die nicht zueinander in KDE Version, Architektur des Systems und openSUSE Ausgabe passen, gilt es zur Vermeidung von Schäden am System unbedingt zu vermeiden! <br />
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== Upgrade auf stabile KDE Ausgabe ==<br />
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*Wenn Sie nicht über die neueste openSUSE-Version wie zB. '11.4 (obwohl '12.1 bereits veröffentlicht wurde) verfügen, können Sie dennoch auf gründlich getestete, neueste KDE-Pakete aktualisieren. <br />
*Diese aktuellsten "stabilen" KDE-Pakete basierend auf openSUSE, werden über das gleichnamige "stable" -Repository verteilt. Pakete des "Stable-Repository" werden nur alle 8 Monate wesentlich verändert, eben dann wenn eine neue Version von openSUSE mit einer neuen Version der KDE Arbeitsumgebung freigegeben wird.<br />
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*Fügen Sie die '''K'''DE:'''D'''istro:'''S'''table Repository zu ihrer openSUSE Version hinzu:<br />
{{shell|# zypper ar -f <nowiki>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Distro:/Stable/openSUSE_12.1/</nowiki> KDS}}<br />
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Um folgend mit dem Upgrade die Pakete einzuspielen:<br />
{{shell|# zypper dup --from KDS}}<br />
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=== Extra Repository (optional) ===<br />
Werden weitere Pakete benötigt, bietet dies das '''KDE''':'''Extra''' Repository. Bind dazu folgendes Repository ein:<br />
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{{shell|# zypper ar -f <nowiki>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_12.1/</nowiki> KDE-Extra}}<br />
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Folgend um mit dem Upgrade die Pakete einspielen:<br />
{{shell|# zypper dup --from KDE-Extra}}<br />
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Anschließend, am System: '''Ab- und wieder Anmelden'''!<br />
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== Upgrade zur Release des KDE Upstreams ==<br />
===Entfernen alter/nicht benötigter Repositorys===<br />
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Sollten im vorhandenen System schon '''KDE (KDE:/Distro:/Stable/ + KDE:/Extra/) Repositorys''' eingebunden und aktiv sein, müssen diese vor dem Upgrade auf eine aktuellere KDE Ausgabe entfernt werden! Dies ist dringend notwendig um nicht auflösbare Abhängigkeiten mit "den neuen" Repositorys zu vermeiden!<br />
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Das geht dann so:<br />
*'''Entfernen → KDE:/Distro:/Stabil'''<br />
{{Versions Hinweis|openSUSE 12.1|<br />
{{shell|# zypper rr <nowiki>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Distro:/Stable/openSUSE_12.1/</nowiki>}}}}<br />
{{Versions Hinweis|openSUSE 11.4|<br />
{{shell|# zypper rr <nowiki>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Distro:/Stable/openSUSE_11.4/</nowiki>}}}}<br />
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*'''Entfernen → KDE:/Extra'''<br />
{{Versions Hinweis|openSUSE 12.1|<br />
{{shell|# zypper rr <nowiki>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_12.1/</nowiki>}}}}<br />
{{Versions Hinweis|openSUSE 11.4|<br />
{{shell|# zypper rr <nowiki>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_11.4/</nowiki>}}}}<br />
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Sind die nicht mehr benötigten Repositorys entfernt, können die künftig benötigten Repositorys passend zum System eingebunden und aktiviert werden! <br />
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{{Notiz|Dieses Vorgehen gilt auch für ein Upgrade auf <tt>Upstream Pakete</tt> aus den <tt>Release bzw Factory</tt> -Repositorys. Auch hier müssen nicht mehr benötigte Repositorys entfernt werden bevor das System einem Upgrade unterzogen wird!}}<br />
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===Upgrade auf Release:48 ===<br />
Um auf eine andere KDE Version zu wechseln, sind auch andere Repositorys nötig! Folgende Schritte zur Verwendung der KDE/Release/Upstream wären nötig!<br />
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{{Notiz|Dies ist ein nicht unterstütztes Upgrade unter Verwendung eines nicht so ausführlich getesteten Repository, wie dies bei einer als Stabil gekennzeichneten Repositorys!}}<br />
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*Als erstes fügen Sie die '''K'''DE:'''R'''elease:'''48''' Repository passend zur vorhandenen openSUSE Ausgabe hinzu:<br />
{{Versions Hinweis|openSUSE 12.1|<br />
{{shell|# zypper ar -f <nowiki>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/48/openSUSE_12.1/</nowiki> KR48}}}}<br />
{{Versions Hinweis|openSUSE 11.4|<br />
{{shell|# zypper ar -f <nowiki>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/48/openSUSE_11.4/</nowiki> KR48}}}}<br />
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Jetzt führen Sie das Upgrade der vorgesehenen Repository samt Pakete durch:<br />
{{shell|# zypper dup --from KR48}}<br />
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==== Extra Repository (optional)====<br />
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Optional können auch '''KDE:Extra''' Repository je nach vorhandener openSUSE Version verwendet werden.<br />
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*Fügen Sie nun die neuen '''K'''DE:'''R'''elease:'''48''' -'''Extra''' hinzu:<br />
{{Versions Hinweis|openSUSE 12.1|<br />
{{shell|# zypper ar -f <nowiki>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/KDE_Release_48_openSUSE_12.1/</nowiki> KR48-Extra}}}}<br />
{{Versions Hinweis|openSUSE 11.4|<br />
{{shell|# zypper ar -f <nowiki>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/KDE_Release_48_openSUSE_11.4/</nowiki> KR48-Extra}}}}<br />
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Führen Sie nun das Upgrade aus um die gewählten Pakete einzuspielen:<br />
{{shell|# zypper dup --from KR48-Extra}}<br />
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Abschließen, vom System '''Ab- und wieder neu Anmelden'''!<br />
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===Upgrade auf Release:47 ===<br />
Um auf eine andere KDE Version zu wechseln, sind auch andere Repositorys nötig! Folgende Schritte sind zur Verwendung der KDE/Release/Upstream nötig.<br />
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{{Notiz|Dies ist ein nicht unterstütztes Upgrade unter Verwendung eines nicht so ausführlich getesteten Repository, wie dies bei einer als Stabil gekennzeichneten Repositorys!}}<br />
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*Als erstes fügen Sie die '''K'''DE:'''R'''elease:'''47''' Repository passend zur vorhandenen openSUSE Ausgabe hinzu:<br />
{{Versions Hinweis|openSUSE 12.1|<br />
{{shell|# zypper ar -f <nowiki>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/47/openSUSE_12.1/</nowiki> KR47}}}}<br />
{{Versions Hinweis|openSUSE 11.4|<br />
{{shell|# zypper ar -f <nowiki>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/47/openSUSE_11.4/</nowiki> KR47}}}}<br />
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Jetzt führen Sie das Upgrade der vorgesehenen Repository samt Pakete durch:<br />
{{shell|# zypper dup --from KR47}}<br />
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==== Extra Repository (optional)====<br />
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Optional können auch '''KDE:Extra''' Repository je nach vorhandener openSUSE Version verwendet werden.<br />
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*Fügen Sie nun die neuen '''K'''DE:'''R'''elease:'''47''' -'''Extra''' hinzu:<br />
{{Versions Hinweis|openSUSE 12.1|<br />
{{shell|# zypper ar -f <nowiki>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/KDE_Release_47_openSUSE_12.1/</nowiki> KR47-Extra}}}}<br />
{{Versions Hinweis|openSUSE 11.4|<br />
{{shell|# zypper ar -f <nowiki>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/KDE_Release_47_openSUSE_11.4/</nowiki> KR47-Extra}}}}<br />
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Führen Sie nun das Upgrade aus um die gewählten Pakete einzuspielen:<br />
{{shell|# zypper dup --from KR47-Extra}}<br />
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Abschließen, vom System '''Ab- und wieder neu Anmelden'''!<br />
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== Upgrade auf KDE Factory Pakete ==<br />
Im Factory-Zweig gilt dasselbe Prozedere was alte bzw nicht mehr benötigte Repositorys und nicht auflösbare Abhängigkeiten angeht, wie bei allen anderen beschriebenen Ausgabe auch. Entfernung aller nicht mehr benötigten Repositorys, ist Voraussetzung für das weitere Vorgehen! Siehe dazu unter [[SDB:KDE_Upgrade#Entfernen_alter.2Fnicht_ben.C3.B6tigter_Repositorys|Repositorys entfernen]]. <br><br />
Des weiteren beachten Sie bitte, das Pakete aus dem '''Repositorys: Factory''' zyklische Entwickler Freigaben sind die für Testzwecke geeignet und nicht immer stabil sind!<br />
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{{Notiz|<br><br />
Dies ist ein nicht unterstütztes Upgrade, welches KDE-Pakete die sich in der Entwicklung für die nächste openSUSE-Version befinden ins System holt. Es sollten nur Anwender Gebrauch von diesem Entwicklungszweig machen, wer über ausreichend Kenntnis im Umgang mit dieser Art von Paketen verfügt. Zu dem wäre es nicht von Nachteil sich auf der ''opensuse-kde'' Mailingliste über Änderungen des Entwicklungsstands zu informieren und jedwede Art von Rückmeldungen an die Entwickler zu geben.}}<br />
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*Zu beginn sollte die '''K'''DE:'''D'''istro:'''F'''actory Repository passend zur vorhandenen openSUSE Version hinzu gefügt werden:<br />
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{{Versions Hinweis|openSUSE 12.1|<br />
{{shell|# zypper ar -f <nowiki>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Distro:/Factory/openSUSE_12.1</nowiki> KDF}}}}<br />
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Jetzt führen Sie das Upgrade durch um die gewünschte Pakete einzuspielen:<br />
{{shell|# zypper dup --from KDF}}<br />
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Abschließend, am '''System Ab- und wieder neu Anmelden'''!<br />
=== Extra Repository (optional) ===<br />
Optional können auch KDE:Extra Repository je nach vorhandener openSUSE Version verwendet werden. <br />
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*Fügen Sie nun '''K'''DE:'''D'''istro:'''F'''actory -'''Extra''' Repository passend zur vorhandenen openSUSE Version hinzu:<br />
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{{Versions Hinweis|openSUSE 12.1|<br />
{{shell|# zypper ar -f <nowiki>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_12.1_KDE_Distro_Factory/</nowiki> KDF-Extra}}}}<br />
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Führen Sie nun das Upgrade aus um die gewünschten Pakete einzuspielen:<br />
{{shell|# zypper dup --from KDF-Extra}}<br />
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Abschließend, am System '''Ab- und wieder neu Anmelden'''! <br />
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== Siehe weiter ==<br />
* [[KDE_Repositories|KDE Repositories]]<br />
* [[SDB:KDE_Installation|Installation KDE]]<br />
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[[Kategorie:Installation]]<br />
[[Kategorie:KDE]]<br />
[[Kategorie:SDB:HowTos]]<br />
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[[fr:SDB:KDE_upgrade]]</div>Ctwxhttps://de.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Diskussion:Evergreen&diff=22662Diskussion:Evergreen2012-01-24T09:06:20Z<p>Ctwx: </p>
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--[[Benutzer:Ctwx|Ctwx]] 02:06, 24. Jan. 2012 (MST)</div>Ctwxhttps://de.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Diskussion:Evergreen&diff=22661Diskussion:Evergreen2012-01-24T09:06:05Z<p>Ctwx: Die Seite wurde neu angelegt: „Ich denke es wäre sinnvoll hier eine Weiterleitung zum Portal:Evergreen einzurichten, da die Portalseite definitiv besser gewartet ist und eine Menge Informa…“</p>
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Mein Name ist Christian Wansart und zurzeit bin ich Informatikstudent. Ich nutze Linux seit fast 10 Jahren, jedoch muss ich zugeben, dass ich anfangs echte Schwierigkeiten hatte von Windows auf Linux zu wechseln und ich teilweise Linux immer wieder gelöscht habe.<br />
Mittlerweile sieht das Ganze anders aus: Linux ist mein Hauptbetriebssystem und auf einer zweiten Festplatte, die aber nur 160 GB groß ist, schlummert ein Windows-System. Das schläft aber die meiste Zeit, da ich es nicht zum Arbeiten, sondern nur zum Spielen verwende.<br />
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==Meine Linux-Geschichte==<br />
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SuSE Linux 9.0 war die erste Linux-Distribution die ich auf meinem PC ans Laufen gebracht habe. Damals hatte ich auch durch meinen Stief-Vater eine Red Had Box, welche jedoch nicht auf meinem PC lief. Wieso weiß ich leider nicht und die Box, um es auszuprobieren habe ich leider auch nicht mehr.<br />
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Ich habe auf meinem Weg zu openSUSE 11.4 einige Distributionen durchgetestet. Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Mandriva, Fedora, Arch und enige mehr. Debian hatte ich recht lange, aber es war frustrierend da aufgrund der Protokolländerungen bei ICQ/AOL die Verbindung mit GAIM (zu der Zeit gab es schon Pidgin) nicht mehr möglich war. Außerdem störte es mich, dass die Firefox-Version so veraltet war, da einige gute Features erst mit späteren Versionen eingeführt wurden. Danach habe ich einmal Gentoo ausprobiert, jedoch mit einem schrecklichen Ergebnis: Ich vergaß die USE-Flag für Grafiken zu setzen, was bedeutet hätte, dass ich so ziemlich alles hätte neu bauen dürfen. Auf meinem damaligen PC hätte das einige Ewigkeit gedauert.<br />
Also bin ich zur nächsten Distribution, das war Arch, die ich durch einen Bekannten gefunden habe. Arch hatte für meine damaligen Prioritäten alles was ich brauchte: Sie war ziemlich schnell, hatte vorkompilierte Pakete und man konnte viel mit der CLI machen, wodurch ich größtenteils den Umgang mit der CLI gelernt habe. (Aber um fair zu bleiben, ich hatte auch schon einiges mit der CLI unter Debian gemacht... dpkg und apt* sind aber echte Zumutungen... Ein hoch auf zypper und rpm!) Ich fand das Prinzip von Arch auch nicht schlecht, dass es möglichst zentrale Konfigurationen bot, z.B. die ''/etc/rc.conf''.<br />
Jedoch waren mit die Abhängigkeiten einfach zu viel und ich wollte mehr Kontrolle also versuchte ich Slackware aus. Nach einem fehlgeschlagenen Versuch, als Slackware noch den 2.4er-Kernel hatte, irgendwann als ich bei Debian war, versuchte ich es dann erneut. Erst hielt ich Slackware für ziemlich schlecht dokumentiert, aber nur weil auf der Webseite nicht so viel rauszuholen ist, wie aus anderen Seiten. Dafür enthielt die DVD alles was man braucht. Dokumentationen, Software, Quellcode, usw. Ich habe darauf hin einige Zeit mit Slackware gearbeitet und war unheimlich zufrieden; und falls Software fehlte schaute ich auf [http://slackbuilds.org/ SlackBuilds.org] und falls es dort nicht vorhanden war, baute ich mir eigene Pakete mit dem das Slackware-Paketmanagement umgehen konnte. In der Zeit habe ich wirklich viel über Linux im Allgemeinen gelernt. Aber aufgrund eines Softwarefehlers in Mumble, der sich komischerweise in virtuellen Maschinen nicht nachvollziehen ließ, installierte ich irgendwann openSUSE 11.4 – eigentlich nur testweise. Jedoch lief openSUSE so gut dass ich dabei blieb. Ich entschloss mich dann auch etwas beizutragen und wollte bei dem Wiki anfangen.<br />
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==openSUSE und ich==<br />
Nun versuche ich hier im Wiki beizutragen und ich helfe ebenfalls bei [http://www.open-slx.de open-slx] im Wiki, Forum und im Newsteam.<br />
Wenn es zeitlich machbar ist, will ich mich eventuell noch etwas stärker bei SUSE/openSUSE/open-slx engagieren.<br />
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Mein Name ist Christian Wansart und zurzeit bin ich Informatikstudent. Ich nutze Linux seit fast 10 Jahren, jedoch muss ich zugeben, dass ich anfangs echte Schwierigkeiten hatte von Windows auf Linux zu wechseln und ich teilweise Linux immer wieder gelöscht habe.<br />
Mittlerweile sieht das Ganze anders aus: Linux ist mein Hauptbetriebssystem und auf einer zweiten Festplatte, die aber nur 160 GB groß ist, schlummert ein Windows-System. Das schläft aber die meiste Zeit, da ich es nicht zum Arbeiten, sondern nur zum Spielen verwende.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Meine Linux-Geschichte==<br />
<br />
SuSE Linux 9.0 war die erste Linux-Distribution die ich auf meinem PC ans Laufen gebracht habe. Damals hatte ich auch durch meinen Stief-Vater eine Red Had Box, welche jedoch nicht auf meinem PC lief. Wieso weiß ich leider nicht und die Box, um es auszuprobieren habe ich leider auch nicht mehr.<br />
<br />
Ich habe auf meinem Weg zu openSUSE 11.4 einige Distributionen durchgetestet. Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Mandriva, Fedora, Arch und enige mehr. Debian hatte ich recht lange, aber es war frustrierend da aufgrund der Protokolländerungen bei ICQ/AOL die Verbindung mit GAIM (zu der Zeit gab es schon Pidgin) nicht mehr möglich war. Außerdem störte es mich, dass die Firefox-Version so veraltet war, da einige gute Features erst mit späteren Versionen eingeführt wurden. Danach habe ich einmal Gentoo ausprobiert, jedoch mit einem schrecklichen Ergebnis: Ich vergaß die USE-Flag für Grafiken zu setzen, was bedeutet hätte, dass ich so ziemlich alles hätte neu bauen dürfen. Auf meinem damaligen PC hätte das einige Ewigkeit gedauert.<br />
Also bin ich zur nächsten Distribution, das war Arch, die ich durch einen Bekannten gefunden habe. Arch hatte für meine damaligen Prioritäten alles was ich brauchte: Sie war ziemlich schnell, hatte vorkompilierte Pakete und man konnte viel mit der CLI machen, wodurch ich größtenteils den Umgang mit der CLI gelernt habe. (Aber um fair zu bleiben, ich hatte auch schon einiges mit der CLI unter Debian gemacht... dpkg und apt* sind aber echte Zumutungen... Ein hoch auf zypper und rpm!) Ich fand das Prinzip von Arch auch nicht schlecht, dass es möglichst zentrale Konfigurationen bot, z.B. die ''/etc/rc.conf''.<br />
Jedoch waren mit die Abhängigkeiten einfach zu viel und ich wollte mehr Kontrolle also versuchte ich Slackware aus. Nach einem fehlgeschlagenen Versuch, als Slackware noch den 2.4er-Kernel hatte, irgendwann als ich bei Debian war, versuchte ich es dann erneut. Erst hielt ich Slackware für ziemlich schlecht dokumentiert, aber nur weil auf der Webseite nicht so viel rauszuholen ist, wie aus anderen Seiten. Dafür enthielt die DVD alles was man braucht. Dokumentationen, Software, Quellcode, usw. Ich habe darauf hin einige Zeit mit Slackware gearbeitet und war unheimlich zufrieden; und falls Software fehlte schaute ich auf [http://slackbuilds.org/ SlackBuilds.org] und falls es dort nicht vorhanden war, baute ich mir eigene Pakete mit dem das Slackware-Paketmanagement umgehen konnte. In der Zeit habe ich wirklich viel über Linux im Allgemeinen gelernt. Aber aufgrund eines Softwarefehlers in Mumble, der sich komischerweise in virtuellen Maschinen nicht nachvollziehen ließ, installierte ich irgendwann openSUSE 11.4 – eigentlich nur testweise. Jedoch lief openSUSE so gut dass ich dabei blieb. Ich entschloss mich dann auch etwas beizutragen und wollte bei dem Wiki anfangen.<br />
<br />
<br />
==openSUSE und ich==<br />
Nun versuche ich hier im Wiki beizutragen und ich helfe ebenfalls bei [http://www.open-slx.de open-slx] im Wiki, Forum und im Newsteam.<br />
Wenn es zeitlich machbar ist, will ich mich eventuell noch etwas stärker bei SUSE/openSUSE/open-slx engagieren.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Meine Fähigkeiten==<br />
Meine Fähigkeiten beschränken sich nicht nur auf Texte schreiben, Korrigieren und Systemkonfiguration und -Wartung, ich beherrsche außerdem auch einige Programmier- und Skriptsprachen. Ich bin Webmaster von ein paar Webseiten und mache Gelegentlich auch etwas Webdesign. Ich möchte aber lieber zu richtiger Programmierung wechseln, mit Programmen die auf dem PC und nicht im Browser laufen. Mein Interessengebiet ist vor allem der Kernel und Bibliotheken, alles das, was man so nicht sieht, aber ohne aufgeschmissen wäre. Zurzeit fehlt mir aber leider noch das Knowhow und die Zeit (dank des Studiums) dazu. Aber ich lese fleißig in den passenden Mailinglisten mit und hoffe vielleicht in ein paar Jahren ebenfalls zum Kernel oder vielleicht zu KDE beitragen zu können.<br />
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Mein Name ist Christian Wansart und zurzeit bin ich Informatikstudent. Ich nutze Linux seit fast 10 Jahren, jedoch muss ich zugeben, dass ich anfangs echte Schwierigkeiten hatte von Windows auf Linux zu wechseln und ich teilweise Linux immer wieder gelöscht habe.<br />
Mittlerweile sieht das Ganze anders aus: Linux ist mein Hauptbetriebssystem und auf einer zweiten Festplatte, die aber nur 160 GB groß ist, schlummert ein Windows-System. Das schläft aber die meiste Zeit, da ich es nicht zum Arbeiten, sondern nur zum Spielen verwende.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Meine Linux-Geschichte==<br />
<br />
SuSE Linux 9.0 war die erste Linux-Distribution die ich auf meinem PC ans Laufen gebracht habe. Damals hatte ich auch durch meinen Stief-Vater eine Red Had Box, welche jedoch nicht auf meinem PC lief. Wieso weiß ich leider nicht und die Box, um es auszuprobieren habe ich leider auch nicht mehr.<br />
<br />
Ich habe auf meinem Weg zu openSUSE 11.4 einige Distributionen durchgetestet. Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Mandriva, Fedora, Arch und enige mehr. Debian hatte ich recht lange, aber es war frustrierend da aufgrund der Protokolländerungen bei ICQ/AOL die Verbindung mit GAIM (zu der Zeit gab es schon Pidgin) nicht mehr möglich war. Außerdem störte es mich, dass die Firefox-Version so veraltet war, da einige gute Features erst mit späteren Versionen eingeführt wurden. Danach habe ich einmal Gentoo ausprobiert, jedoch mit einem schrecklichen Ergebnis: Ich vergaß die USE-Flag für Grafiken zu setzen, was bedeutet hätte, dass ich so ziemlich alles hätte neu bauen dürfen. Auf meinem damaligen PC hätte das einige Ewigkeit gedauert.<br />
Also bin ich zur nächsten Distribution, das war Arch, die ich durch einen Bekannten gefunden habe. Arch hatte für meine damaligen Prioritäten alles was ich brauchte: Sie war ziemlich schnell, hatte vorkompilierte Pakete und man konnte viel mit der CLI machen, wodurch ich größtenteils den Umgang mit der CLI gelernt habe. (Aber um fair zu bleiben, ich hatte auch schon einiges mit der CLI unter Debian gemacht... dpkg und apt* sind aber echte Zumutungen... Ein hoch auf zypper und rpm!) Ich fand das Prinzip von Arch auch nicht schlecht, dass es möglichst zentrale Konfigurationen bot, z.B. die ''/etc/rc.conf''.<br />
Jedoch waren mit die Abhängigkeiten einfach zu viel und ich wollte mehr Kontrolle also versuchte ich Slackware aus. Nach einem fehlgeschlagenen Versuch, als Slackware noch den 2.4er-Kernel hatte, irgendwann als ich bei Debian war, versuchte ich es dann erneut. Erst hielt ich Slackware für ziemlich schlecht dokumentiert, aber nur weil auf der Webseite nicht so viel rauszuholen ist, wie aus anderen Seiten. Dafür enthielt die DVD alles was man braucht. Dokumentationen, Software, Quellcode, usw. Ich habe darauf hin einige Zeit mit Slackware gearbeitet und war unheimlich zufrieden; und falls Software fehlte schaute ich auf [http://slackbuilds.org/ SlackBuilds.org] und falls es dort nicht vorhanden war, baute ich mir eigene Pakete mit dem das Slackware-Paketmanagement umgehen konnte. In der Zeit habe ich wirklich viel über Linux im Allgemeinen gelernt. Aber aufgrund eines Softwarefehlers in Mumble, der sich komischerweise in virtuellen Maschinen nicht nachvollziehen ließ, installierte ich irgendwann openSUSE 11.4 – eigentlich nur testweise. Jedoch lief openSUSE so gut dass ich dabei blieb. Ich entschloss mich dann auch etwas beizutragen und wollte bei dem Wiki anfangen.<br />
<br />
<br />
==openSUSE und ich==<br />
Nun versuche ich hier im Wiki beizutragen und ich helfe ebenfalls bei [http://www.open-slx.de open-slx] im Wiki, Forum und im Newsteam.<br />
Wenn es zeitlich machbar ist, will ich mich eventuell noch etwas stärker bei SUSE/openSUSE/open-slx engagieren.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Meine Fähigkeiten==<br />
Meine Fähigkeiten beschränken sich nicht nur auf Texte schreiben, Korrigieren und Systemkonfiguration und -Wartung, ich beherrsche außerdem auch einige Programmier- und Skriptsprachen. Ich bin Webmaster von ein paar Webseiten und mache Gelegentlich auch etwas Webdesign. Ich möchte aber lieber zu richtiger Programmierung wechseln, mit Programmen die auf dem PC und nicht im Browser laufen. Mein Interessengebiet ist vor allem der Kernel und Bibliotheken, alles das, was man so nicht sieht, aber ohne aufgeschmissen wäre. Zurzeit fehlt mir aber leider noch das Knowhow und die Zeit (dank des Studiums) dazu. Aber ich lese fleißig in den passenden Mailinglisten mit und hoffe vielleicht in ein paar Jahren ebenfalls zum Kernel oder vielleicht zu KDE beitragen zu können.<br />
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Mein Name ist Christian Wansart und zurzeit bin ich Informatikstudent. Ich nutze Linux seit fast 10 Jahren, jedoch muss ich zugeben, dass ich anfangs echte Schwierigkeiten hatte von Windows auf Linux zu wechseln und ich teilweise Linux immer wieder gelöscht habe.<br />
Mittlerweile sieht das Ganze anders aus: Linux ist mein Hauptbetriebssystem und auf einer zweiten Festplatte, die aber nur 160 GB groß ist, schlummert ein Windows-System. Das schläft aber die meiste Zeit, da ich es nicht zum Arbeiten, sondern nur zum Spielen verwende.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Meine Linux-Geschichte==<br />
<br />
SuSE Linux 9.0 war die erste Linux-Distribution die ich auf meinem PC ans Laufen gebracht habe. Damals hatte ich auch durch meinen Stief-Vater eine Red Had Box, welche jedoch nicht auf meinem PC lief. Wieso weiß ich leider nicht und die Box, um es auszuprobieren habe ich leider auch nicht mehr.<br />
<br />
Ich habe auf meinem Weg zu openSUSE 11.4 einige Distributionen durchgetestet. Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Mandriva, Fedora, Arch und enige mehr. Debian hatte ich recht lange, aber es war frustrierend da aufgrund der Protokolländerungen bei ICQ/AOL die Verbindung mit GAIM (zu der Zeit gab es schon Pidgin) nicht mehr möglich war. Außerdem störte es mich, dass die Firefox-Version so veraltet war, da einige gute Features erst mit späteren Versionen eingeführt wurden. Danach habe ich einmal Gentoo ausprobiert, jedoch mit einem schrecklichen Ergebnis: Ich vergaß die USE-Flag für Grafiken zu setzen, was bedeutet hätte, dass ich so ziemlich alles hätte neu bauen dürfen. Auf meinem damaligen PC hätte das einige Ewigkeit gedauert.<br />
Also bin ich zur nächsten Distribution, das war Arch, die ich durch einen Bekannten gefunden habe. Arch hatte für meine damaligen Prioritäten alles was ich brauchte: Sie war ziemlich schnell, hatte vorkompilierte Pakete und man konnte viel mit der CLI machen, wodurch ich größtenteils den Umgang mit der CLI gelernt habe. (Aber um fair zu bleiben, ich hatte auch schon einiges mit der CLI unter Debian gemacht... dpkg und apt* sind aber echte Zumutungen... Ein hoch auf zypper und rpm!) Ich fand das Prinzip von Arch auch nicht schlecht, dass es möglichst zentrale Konfigurationen bot, z.B. die ''/etc/rc.conf''.<br />
Jedoch waren mit die Abhängigkeiten einfach zu viel und ich wollte mehr Kontrolle also versuchte ich Slackware aus. Nach einem fehlgeschlagenen Versuch, als Slackware noch den 2.4er-Kernel hatte, irgendwann als ich bei Debian war, versuchte ich es dann erneut. Erst hielt ich Slackware für ziemlich schlecht dokumentiert, aber nur weil auf der Webseite nicht so viel rauszuholen ist, wie aus anderen Seiten. Dafür enthielt die DVD alles was man braucht. Dokumentationen, Software, Quellcode, usw. Ich habe darauf hin einige Zeit mit Slackware gearbeitet und war unheimlich zufrieden; und falls Software fehlte schaute ich auf [http://slackbuilds.org/ SlackBuilds.org] und falls es dort nicht vorhanden war, baute ich mir eigene Pakete mit dem das Slackware-Paketmanagement umgehen konnte. In der Zeit habe ich wirklich viel über Linux im Allgemeinen gelernt. Aber aufgrund eines Softwarefehlers in Mumble, der sich komischerweise in virtuellen Maschinen nicht nachvollziehen ließ, installierte ich irgendwann openSUSE 11.4 – eigentlich nur testweise. Jedoch lief openSUSE so gut dass ich dabei blieb. Ich entschloss mich dann auch etwas beizutragen und wollte bei dem Wiki anfangen.<br />
<br />
<br />
==openSUSE und ich==<br />
Nun versuche ich hier im Wiki beizutragen und ich helfe ebenfalls bei [http://www.open-slx.de open-slx] im Wiki, Forum und im Newsteam.<br />
Wenn es zeitlich machbar ist, will ich mich eventuell noch etwas stärker bei SUSE/openSUSE/open-slx engagieren.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Meine Fähigkeiten==<br />
Meine Fähigkeiten beschränken sich nicht nur auf Texte schreiben, Korrigieren und Systemkonfiguration und -Wartung, ich beherrsche außerdem auch einige Programmier- und Skriptsprachen. Ich bin Webmaster von ein paar Webseiten und mache Gelegentlich auch etwas Webdesign. Ich möchte aber lieber zu richtiger Programmierung wechseln, mit Programmen die auf dem PC und nicht im Browser laufen. Mein Interessengebiet ist vor allem der Kernel und Bibliotheken, alles das, was man so nicht sieht, aber ohne aufgeschmissen wäre. Zurzeit fehlt mir aber leider noch das Knowhow und die Zeit (dank des Studiums) dazu. Aber ich lese fleißig in den passenden Mailinglisten mit und hoffe vielleicht in ein paar Jahren ebenfalls zum Kernel oder vielleicht zu KDE beitragen zu können.<br />
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{{Intro|Ein Bild sagt mehr als tausend Worte, was auch bei der [[Portal:12.1|openSUSE 12.1]] Distribution der Fall ist!}}. <br />
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==Installationsablauf DVD==<br />
{{Notiz|Weitere Bilder 12.1 Installation DVD bitter hier einfügen!}} <br />
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==Installationsablauf Live CD== <br />
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Bild:Oss12.1-GNOME3.2-LiveInstall1.png|Bootsplash<br />
Bild:Oss12.1-GNOME3.2-LiveInstall2.png|Sprachauswahl<br />
Bild:Oss12.1-GNOME3.2-LiveInstall4.png|Lizenzbedingungen<br />
Bild:Oss12.1-GNOME3.2-LiveInstall5.png|Zeitzone<br />
Bild:Oss12.1-GNOME3.2-LiveInstall6.png|Partitionieren<br />
Bild:Oss12.1-GNOME3.2-LiveInstall7.png|Nutzerverwaltung<br />
Bild:Oss12.1-GNOME3.2-LiveInstall-Übersicht.png|Installation Übersicht<br />
Bild:Oss12.1-GNOME3.2-LiveInstall9.png|Installation<br />
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==Bootsplash==<br />
{{Notiz|Weitere Bilder des Bootscreens hier einfügen}}<br />
<gallery><br />
Datei:Oss12.1-GNOME3.2-LiveInstall3.png|Bootsplash<br> Bootscreen eingeblendet<br />
Bild:OS12_1_kde_live_17.png|Bootsplash:<br> Bootscreen ausgeblendet<br />
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==KDE Plasma Desktop==<br />
{{Notiz|Weitere Bilder des KDE Desktops bitte hier einfügen!}}<br />
<gallery><br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kdm.png|Login Manager: KDM<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-activities.png|KDE Aktivitäten<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-desktop.png|KDE Desktop<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-widgets.png|Widgets<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-dolphin.png|KDE Dateimanager: Dolphin<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-dolphin-preview.png|Dolphin Vorschaubilder<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-gwenview.png|Bildbetrachter: gwenview<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-digiKam.png|Foto Manager: digiKam<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-kaffeine.png|Video Player: Kaffeine<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-firefox.png|Webbrowser: Firefox<br />
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==GNOME 3.2==<br />
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Bild:Oss12.1-GNOME3.2.1-GDM.png|GNOME 3.2:<br> Login Manager GDM <br />
Bild:OSS-12.1-GNOME3.2.png|GNOME Shell:<br> Aktivitäten (Live Betrieb)<br />
File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME desktop.png|Desktop Shell<br />
File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME activities.png|GNOME Shell:<br> Aktivitäten<br />
File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME eog.png|Bildbetrachter:<br> GNOME Eye<br />
File:OpenSUSE_12.1_GNOME_nautilus.png|Datei Manager:<br> Nautilus<br />
File:OpenSUSE_12.1_GNOME_shotwell.png|Photo Manager:<br> Shotwell<br />
File:OpenSUSE_12.1_GNOME_totem.png|Video Player:<br> Totem<br />
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==Xfce 4.8==<br />
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File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Login_Manager.png|Login Manager<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Desktop.png|Desktop<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Main_Menu.png|Hauptmenü<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Update_Notifier.png|Neuer Updatebenachrichtiger<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_File_Manager_Image_Viewer.png|Datei Manager & Bildbetrachter<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Dictionary_Office.png|Wörterbuch & LibreOffice<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Email_Client_Notes.png|Email Client & Notizapplikation<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Calendar.png|Kalender<br />
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==LXDE 0.5==<br />
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Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_login.png|LXDM Login-Manager<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_desktop_menu.png|LXDE Desktop und Menü<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_control_center.png|LXDE Kontrollzentrum<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_file_manager_image_viewer.png|Dateimanager PCManFM<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_config.png|Konfiguration<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_browser.png|Firefox<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_terminal_taskmanager.png|Terminal und Taskmanager<br />
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File:OpenSUSE_12.1_GNOME_nautilus.png|'''GNOME-3'''<br> Datei Manager: Nautilus<br />
File:OpenSUSE_12.1_GNOME_shotwell.png|'''GNOME-3'''<br> Photo Manager: Shotwell<br />
File:OpenSUSE_12.1_GNOME_totem.png|'''GNOME-3'''<br> Video Player: Totem<br />
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File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Email_Client_Notes.png|'''Xfce'''<br>Email Client & Note Taking Application<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Calendar.png|'''Xfce'''<br>Calendar<br />
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==openSUSE 12.1 - die neueste freie Software in einer stabilen und leichten Version==<br />
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Liebe Nutzer, Mitwirkende, Fans und Freunde,<br />Wir sind stolz, Ihnen die neueste Ausgabe von openSUSE zu präsentieren! Es ist das Ergebnis von 8 Monaten harter Arbeit der openSUSE Gemeinschaft. Sie erlaubt es Ihnen, sich darüber zu freuen, was die neueste freie Software zu bieten hat, mit dem einzigartigen openSUSE-Touch - stabil, freundlich, unterhaltsam.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 bringt Ihnen Aktualisierungen zur neuesten Freien Software als Desktop- und Servertechnologie, ebenso einzigartige Funktionen, wie das neueste Snapper-Werkzeug, Datei-Änderungs-Monitoring und Rollback-Funktionalität. <br />
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===Die neuesten Freien Desktops bringen Farb-Management, GNOME Shell und mehr===<br />
openSUSE bietet Ihnen die Auswahl aus 4 offiziell unterstützten Freien Desktops, alle auf hohem Niveau von Verfeinerung und Unterstützung. Bemerkenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste große Linux-Distribution ist, die Farb-Management-Werkzeuge sowohl für KDE als auch GNOME Desktops mitbringt! <br />
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====KDE führt Oyranos, Apper und Plasma Active ein====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 bringt den [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Arbeitsplatz] 4.7 als Standard-Desktop mit und ist die erste große Linux-Distribution, die auch den neuen [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Farb-Management]-Werkzeuge ausliefert. Eine andere große neue Änderung ist der Ersatz von KPackageKit durch Apper. Apper vereinfacht die Installation und das Entfernen von Anwendungen. <br />
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Das innovative Projekt der KDE-Gemeinschaft, die Tablet-Oberfläche Plasma Active, ist noch kein integraler Bestandteil des openSUSE 12.1 Release. Aber die Nutzer der Tablet-Oberfläche können Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 installieren. Wir arbeiten an der Integration bis zum nächsten Release.<br />
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====GNOME Shell - verbessert und verfeinert====<br />
Wir stellen Ihnen '''GNOME 3.2''' vor, eine verbesserte und verfeinerte Version der GNOME Shell, die in GNOME 3 eingeführt wurde. openSUSE liefert ebenso viele verbesserte GNOME-Anwendungen aus, die in die GNOME-Shell integriert sind.<br />
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Haupt-Verbesserungen im Vergleich zur GNOME 3-Vorschau in openSUSE 11.4 schließen einen besseren Umgang mit kleinen Bildschirmen und Multi-Bildschirm-Einrichtungen ein, bessere Ausführungsmeldungen und eine zentralisierte Konfiguration von <em>Online-Benutzerkonten</em>. Dieses Release bring Ihnen ebenso einen neuen Dokumentenmanager. Dieses Release bringt auch einen neuen Dokumenten-Manager, ein erweitertes Farb-Management und eine automatische Rotation für Touch-Screen-Geräte mit. [[:en:openSUSE:Product_highlights_12.1#GNOME_3.2|Hier finden Sie weitere Details über GNOME 3.2]]<br />
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====Die anderen Desktops====<br />
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Beide Desktops '''XFCE''' und '''LXDE''' habe keine größeren Funktionsuptates seit dem letzten openSUSE Release erhalten. Aber kleine Verbesserungen wurden durchgeführt und sind im Release enthalten. Das schließt bessere Themen- und Desktop-Integration ein und ebenso eine verbesserte Auswahl von Anwendungen, Teil der Standard-Auswahl für jeden Desktop. openSUSE stellt auch wieder KDE 3 Pakete zur Verfügung.<br />
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===openSUSE bietet die neuesten Web- und Wolken-Technologien an===<br />
Dieses openSUSE Release liefert die neuesten Web-Browser, das Groupware-Framework [http://www.horde.org/ Horde 4] und aktualisierte Wolken- und Virtualisierungs-Technologien.<br />
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====Im Web surfen und dienen====<br />
Auf der Client-Seite fügt openSUSE '''Chromium 16''' zu den Standard-Repositorys hinzu. Dieser auf WebKit basierende Internetbrowser von Google bietet eine zweckmäßige Benutzeroberfläche und ein äußerst schnelles browsen durchs Internet. Der Standardbrowser von openSUSE ist '''Firefox 7''', der neueste aus dem Mozilla-Labor.<br />
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Auf der Server-Seite bietet das Management-Werkzeug für entfernte Systeme '''WebYaST''' eine deutlich verbesserte Web-Schnittstelle, um openSUSE Systeme aus der Ferne mit neuen Modulen und besserer Leistungsfähigkeit zu administrieren. Die Einführung des Groupware-Frameworks '''Horde 4''' bringt einen leistungsfähigen Satz von Anwendungen mit, einschließlich eines modernen Webmail-Clients und einem auf PHP basierenden Rahmenwerk auf dem alles aufgebaut ist.<br />
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====Unterstützung der Wolken-Technologien====<br />
openSUSE ist ein ausgezeichnetes Gast-Betriebssystem für die Wolke, was in Erfahrung gebracht werden kann, indem man Lösungen im [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] baut. Mit einem neuen Kernel ist openSUSE nun bereit, in der '''Amazon EC2 cloud''' zu laufen. Auf der Host-Seite können die neuesten Virtualiesierungs-Technologien wie '''Xen 4.1''', '''KVM''' und '''Virtual Box''' mit dem neuesten '''[http://virt-manager.org/ virt-manager]''' und '''[http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ open-vm-tools]''' verwaltet werden. Schließlich ist openSUSE die erste Linux-Distribution, die die [http://owncloud.org/ eigene Wolke] in den Dektop integriert. Das [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualisierungs- und Wolken Repository] für openSUSE bietet die neuesten Versionen von '''[http://www.eucalyptus.com/ Eucalyptus]''', '''[http://opennebula.org/about:about OpenNebula]''' und '''[http://www.openstack.org/ OpenStack]''' für openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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[[:en:Product_highlights#Security_and_administration_tools|Hier können sie mehr über die Werkzeuge zu Administration und Wolke in openSUSE 12.1 lesen.]]<br />
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===Verbesserte Technologie der Distribution===<br />
openSUSE führt eine Anzahl von Verbessereungen und Innovationen in die darunter liegende Technologie der Distribution ein. Das schließt das einzigartige [[:en:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]]-Werkzeug, das Versionen von Dateien verwaltet, das [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd Systemd-Init-System] und die Sprache [http://code.google.com/p/go/ Go] von Google ein. <br />
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====Snapper rollt Änderungen zurück====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ist die erste Linux-Distribution, die die Schnappschuss-Funktion des zukünftigen Linux-Dateisystems Btrfs nutzt. Diese Schnappschüsse des Dateisystems verwenden "copy-on-write", und machen diese sehr Speicherplatz-Effizient. openSUSE führt [[:en:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] ein, was dem Benutzer ermöglicht, sich mit dieser Technologie auseinander zu setzen.<br />
Die Kommandozeile und die Snapper-Werkzeuge mit grafischer Oberfläche erlaubt es den Benutzern, sich ältere Dateiversionen anzusehen und Änderungen rückgängig zu machen. Diese einzigartige Integration in Paketmanager Zypper erlaubt es ganze Upgrades oder Software-Installationen mit den begleitenden Konfigurations-Änderungen rückgängig zu machen.<br />
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====Systemd startet Ihr System====<br />
Systemd ist das neue Init-Werkzeug in openSUSE. Es steuert und beschleunigt den Startprozess. Es wurde in enger Kooperation mit den der befreundeten Linux-Distribution Fedora entwickelt. Systemd ist besonders für Systemadministratoren interessant, wegen seines leistungsfähigen Sockel- und Bus-aktivierten Service-Systems. Es arbeitet mit der Kernel-Funktion [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups cgroups] eng zusammen und bietet eine bessere Sicherheit und Kontrolle über die Prozesse.<br />
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====Schreibe in '''go''', kompiliere mit Clang oder GCC====<br />
openSUSE ist stolz darauf, die erste große Distribution zu sein, die [http://golang.org/ '''Google's neue Programmiersprache Go '''] als Bestandteil des Release auszuliefern. Go ist eine schnelle, leichte Sprache, die gut darin ist, Mehrkernsysteme zu bedienen, ebenso an das Netzwerk angeschlossene Maschinen mit der Eignung zur Abfallsammlung und Laufzeit Reflexion.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 kommt mit dem gerade veröffentlichten [http://llvm.org/ '''Kompiler-Werkzeug LLVM3'''] und [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], dem C/C++ Kompiler, der auf LLVM baut. LLVM wird von den beschleunigten open Source Grafiktreibern für ATI und NVIDIA verwendet. Das bildet einen integralen Bestandteil von Hoch-Leistungs-Stack-Grafiken auf LINUX. <br />
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Diese openSUSE Ausgabe ist mit [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''] und [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''Link-Zeit- Optimierung'''] gebaut, die die komplette Leistung der Software verbessert.<br />
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==Mehr Details über openSUSE 12.1==<br />
Die folgenden Seiten zeigen auf, was neu in dieser openSUSE Version ist.<br />
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===Unter der Haube===<br />
Obwohl die meisten offensichtlichen Verbesserungen von openSUSE 12.1 an der Oberfläche zu sehen sind, haben wir ebenfalls eine Menge an Verbesserungen „unter der Haube” gemacht. Darunter verbessertes Starten (boot), Hardware Management und Systemkonfiguration. The Startprozedur von openSUSE wird nun von systemd übernommen (und SysVInit ist aber noch als Notlösung vorhanden); das neue Snapper Werkzeug hält überwacht automatisch die Systemkonfiguration und andere Dateiänderungen (und lässt es auf Wunsch zurücksetzen); YaST hat einige ganze Reihe an Verbesserungen erhalten; SAX kehrt in Form von SAX3 wieder zurück, ein openSUSE GSOC Projekt; und wir unterstützen natürlich die aktuelleste Version von jeder Kern-Komponente, z.B. Linux 3.1 Kernel, syslog-ng 3.3, GCC 4.6 und LLVM v3. Ebenfalls erwähnenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste Haupt-Distribution ist, die [http://golang.org Googles neue Go Programmiersprache] ausliefert.<br />
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====openSUSE Technologie Verbesserungen====<br />
openSUSE, als eine Linux-Distribution macht mehr als nur Pakete dritter anzubieten. Wir haben unsere eigenen Werkzeuge, mit dem Sie Ihr System konfigurieren, Software managen und vieles mehr können.<br />
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=====Snapper=====<br />
[[Image:openSUSE_12.1_Snapper.png|thumb|200px||Snapper YaST GUI in Aktion]]<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ist die erste Linux-Distribution die Vorteile aus der Schnappschuss-Funktion des kommenden Linux-Dateisystems Btrfs macht. Diese Schnappschüsse (engl.: Snapshots) vom Dateisystem benutzen „copy-on-write“ (Kopieren-beim-Schreiben), was das ganze sehr Platzsparend macht. openSUSE 12.1 führt [[:de:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] ein, welches dem Benutzer eine Schnittstelle zu dieser Technologie bietet.<br />
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Das Kommandozeilen- und GUI Snapper-Werkzeug erlaubt dem Benutzer ältere Versionen von Dateien anzuzeigen und Änderungen rückgängig zu machen. Die einzigartige Integration in den zypper-Paketmanager von openSUSE erlaubt dem Nutzer ganze Aktualisierungen oder Softwareinstallationen samt den dazugehörigen Konfigurationsänderungen rückgängig zu machen.<br />
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Beachte dass Snapper und das Zurückrollen (Rollback) zurzeit nur für btrfs Dateisysteme zur Verfügung steht! Arbeiten werden diese Funktionen auch für das ältere Ext4 Dateisystem verfügbar machen. Jedoch wird das nicht vor der nächsten openSUSE Version geschehen.<br />
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Sie können [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/04/01/introducing-snapper/ eine Einführung von Snapper hier lesen].<br />
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[http://www.youtube.com/susevideo#p/a/u/0/9H7e6BcI5Fo Greg K-H führt Snapper bei Brainshare vor].<br />
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=====SAX3=====<br />
Als Xorg sich über die xorg.conf hinaus zur neuen xorg.conf.d Struktur entwickelt, ging unser geliebtes X Konfigurationswerkzeug SAX2 ebenfalls. Dank der Mühen Manu Guptas [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/07/05/people-of-opensuse-manu-gupta/ während Googles Summer of Code] erhielt openSUSE wieder ein neues elegantes grafisches Werkzeug um die X Konfiguration anzupassen: SAX3. Nun haben openSUSE-Nutzer wieder die Möglichkeit einfach ihre Tastatur-, Maus-, Monitor und Touchpadeinstellungen in einer praktischen Oberfläche zu optimieren. Machen Sie sich keine Sorgen falls Sie Probleme mit Ihrer X-Konfiguration haben: Wie üblich für YaST-Module löst SAX3 das Huhn-Ei-Problem indem es eine ncurses Text-, als auch GTK und QT Grafikoberflächen integriert hat. Bitte beachten Sie, dass SAX3 in der OSS-Softwarequelle nicht ordnungsgemäß in 12.1 funktioniert. Ein kommendes Update wird das Problem lösen. Dieses ist bereits verfügbar in der [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=X11%3Asax X11:SAX-Softwarequelle].<br />
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=====YaST=====<br />
Neben der Unterstützung von Snapper und der Rückkehr von SAX3 erhielt YaST2 eine Anzahl an Bugfixes und kleineren Verbesserungen. Die YaST-Entwickler sind froh zu berichten, dass sie nach den letzten Korrekturen zuversichtlich sind, dass YaST nicht wieder versehentlich benutzer-modifizierte Konfigurationsdateien überschreiben wie es in den „frühen Tagen“ der Fall war. Zusammen mit den zypp-Paketmanagement-Leistungsverbesserungen in der 11er-openSUSE-Serie wurde dem Mythos das YaST langsam sei und Dateien überschreibt ein Ende gesetzt. Eine stärker sichtbare Änderung ist das neue Design was dank der [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/10/24/new-style-for-yast2/ CSS-basierten Themen für YaST ermöglicht wurde]. WebYaST entwickelt sich ebenfalls weiterhin gut; beinhaltet mittlerweile mehr Module als je zuvor um eine Web-basierte Administration von openSUSE zur unterstützen.<br />
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=====OBS, openQA und andere Werkzeuge=====<br />
openSUSE hat eine Reihe an mächtigen Werkzeugen, welche wir zum Bauen unserer Distribution, welche ebenfalls für Andere zum Bauen von Paketen oder Software-Testen verfügbar sind, entwickelt. Diese Werkzeuge beinhaltet den plattformübergreifenden [http://openbuildservice.org Open Build Service], das allmächtige [http://openqa.opensuse.org openQA], das flexible [[Portal:KIWI|KIWI]] und viele weitere.<br />
Von jedem kamen in den letzte 8 Monaten neue, verbesserte Versionen raus. Das beinhaltet die [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/10/11/opensuse-announces-first-public-release-of-openqa/ erste Freigabe von openQA] and der [http://news.opensuse.org/2010/10/19/the-opensuse-build-service-2-1-released/2.1 Freigabe des Open Build Service] für welches [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=openSUSE%3ATools Pakete für openSUSE 12.1 verfügbar sind].<br />
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====Linux Kernel 3.1====<br />
Der neue Linux 3.1 Kernel hat erhebliche Verbesserungen zum 2.6.38er Kernel, welcher Teil von openSUSE 11.4 war. Es wurden nicht nur Dateisysteme wie Ext4 und Btrfs verbessert, der Linux 3.1 Kernel bringt etliche Performance-Verbesserungen der Speicherverwaltung und der Datenverarbeitung. Natürlich enthält er auch eine Reihe von Treibern zur Unterstützung neuer Hardware, einschließlich externer Geräte wie z.B. Microsofts Kinect, Apple iSight Webcam und den Nintento Wii Controller als auch für interne Hardware wie die neuen AMD Llano Fusion APUs und Intels Ivy Bridge & Cedal Trail CPUs, eine Vielfalt an WLAN- und Grafikkarten und vieles mehr. Was noch neu im openSUSE Kernel ist, können Sie auf den KernelNewbies Seiten [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_39 Linux 2.6.39], [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.0 Linux 3.0] and [http://kernelnewbies.orgWilliams/Linux_3.1 Linux 3.1] erfahren.<br />
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====systemd und andere systemweite Änderungen====<br />
Der Systemstart wird nun vom neuen '''systemd''' Startwerkzeug übernommen, so kontrolliert es und beschleunigt den Startprozess. Entwickelt in enger Kooperation mit unserer Partnerdistribution Fedora, ist systemd vor allem interessant für Systemadministratoren aufgrund seines mächtigen socket- und bus-aktivierten Servicesystem welches die Parallelisierung und die Resourceverbrauch verbessert. Es arbeitet auch eng zusammen mit Linux cgroups und bietet so erhöhte Sicherheit und Kontrolle über die Prozesse.<br />
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Falls aus irgendeinem Grund systemd bei Ihnen nicht funktionieren sollte, können Sie immer noch das '''alte Sys-V-Init verwenden''' indem sie F5 im Bootloader drücken. Falls Sie permanent das alte Startsystem verwenden wollen, führen sie einfach „zypper rm systemd-sysvinit” aus.<br />
Wir bieten auch wieder '''grub2''' als einen optionalen Bootloader an. Obwohl wir noch nicht ganz mit Grub2 als Ersatz für das aktuelle Grub zufrieden sind, muntern wir unsere Nutzer auf es einmal auszuprobieren und wollen sicher gehen, dass es für Entwickler verfügbar ist.<br />
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Eine Reihe von kleinere Änderungen beinhaltet:<br />
* Das '''util-linux''' Werkzeug in der Version 2.20 führt die erste Hauptänderungen des dmesg Protokollierungsprogramms in 18 Jahren ein. So bringt es eine Anzahl von Optionen um menschlich-lesbare Präfixe und Zeitstempel auszugeben oder um sauber, nur wichtige Meldungen oder Meldungen die direkt vom Kernel oder Userspace kommen, anzuzeigen.<br />
* '''LightDM 1.0''' ist die erste stabile Version dieses schnelleren, erweiterbaren Anzeigemanager (Display Manager). LightDM soll die Vialzahl an verschiedenen Anzeigemanager mit einem einzigen [http://xkcd.com/927/ neuen Standard] ersetzen.<br />
* '''syslog-ng 3.3''' führt Multithreading, JSON und mongodb Ausgabe ein.<br />
*[http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.0 RPM 4.9] bringt einige Stabilitäts# und Performanceverbesserungen.<br />
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===Als erste Distribution die Google Go, LLVM v3 und CLANG v3 liefert===<br />
openSUSE ist stolz die erste Hauptdistribution zu sein, die [http://golang.org/ '''Googles neue Programmiersprache Go'''] als Teil unserer neuen Version ausliefert. Go ist eine schnelle, statisch-typisierte, kompilierte Sprache die sich dynamisch-typisiert, interpretierte Sprache anfühlt. Go macht es einfach mit Mehrkern- und Netzwerkmaschinen zu arbeiten und bietet ein flexiblen und modularen Konstruktionsmachanismus. Obwohl es (schnell) in Maschinencode kompiliert besitzt sie den Vorteil der Garbage Collection und die Stärke der Runtime Reflection. Sie finden weitere Informationen auf der [http://golang.org/ Webseite von Go].<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 bringt außerdem den soeben veröffentlichten [http://llvm.org/ '''LLVM3 Compiler'''] und [http://clang.llvm.org/ clan], der C/C++ Compiler der auf LLVM aufbaut. LLVM beinhaltet eine Reihe an flexiblen und performanten Compilern, die leiststungsstarken Code generieren, welcher von Mesa für seine software-basierten OpenGL "Gallium" Grafiktreiberarchitektur verwendet. Es wird ebenfalls bei den Open-Source Grafikkartentreibern von ATI und NVIDIA verwendet und bilden deshalb integraler Bestandteil eines Hochleistungs-Grafikstacks unter Linux.<br />
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[http://clang.llvm.org/ '''Clang'''] nutzt LLVM um einen schnellen und speichereffizienten, GCC-kompatiblen C/C++-Compiler bereitzustellen. Clang kommt in openSUSE 12.1 mit aktivierter ARM Code-Generationsunterstützung, ganz im Geiste des kürzlich gestarteten [http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:ARM ARM Projekts]!<br />
Neben Go und LLVM bietet openSUSE 12.1 eine große Auswahl aktuellster Coimpiler und Werkzeuge. openSUSE 12.1 wurde mit [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.3'''] gebaut, welche [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_fx4100_gcc&num=1 deutliche Perfomancesteigerung] seit der früheren 4.5er Version zeigt. Diese Version führt ebenfalls erstmalige Unterstützung für die Ada 2012 Programmiersprache als auch experimentelle Unterstützung für den aktuellen C++11 Standard (der Status kann auf der http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/cxx0x_status.html GCC Status Webseite nachgeschaut werden].<br />
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Diese Version von GCC, kombiniert mit den aktuellen '''binutils 2.21.1''' macht es uns möglich [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''link-time Optimierung'''] in einigen Paketen zu aktivieren, was wiederum zusätzliche Performance bringt.<br />
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=== Localization ===<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 has been [http://i18n.opensuse.org translated into many languages] - currently about 30 are over 90% complete and no less than 66 languages are in the process of being finished. This openSUSE release has added five Cyrillic fonts. Two of them (PT Sans and PT Serif) beside standard Western, Central European and Cyrillic code pages contain characters of all title languages of Russian Federation that make them unique and a very important tool of modern digital communications.}}<br />
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===Repository changes and third party support for openSUSE 12.1===<br />
Via the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service installation on build.opensuse.org] openSUSE hosts over 160.000 packages created by more than 30.000 individual contributors. These are available to openSUSE users as well as users from other Linux Distributions. But outside of this infrastructure, other projects like VLC and Packman offer their own OBS instance with packages for openSUSE! We highlight a few important projects from build.opensuse.org and third parties.<br />
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====Tumbleweed====<br />
'''Tumbleweed''', the unique [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed|rolling release repository for openSUSE]], can be considered 'complete' at the time of this release. Covering almost all of the openSUSE 12.1 packages, Tumbleweed offers newer versions as soon as they are deemed stable. Instead of making you wait for a new release of openSUSE, Tumbleweed lessens the significance and change impact of major releases by updating systems continuously. By enabling Tumbleweed you are always up to date with the '''latest software'''. And you won’t have to install newer versions of openSUSE as you’ll be running them already by the time they get released!<br />
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Tumbleweed will require its current users to make one manual change to the repositories upon the 12.1 release. Besides the Tumbleweed repository, users are required to have the latest stable openSUSE repositories enabled, currently for most users set at openSUSE 11.4. With the 12.1 release, these will thus have to change. The openSUSE sysadmins have ensured however that this will be the first and last time this has to be changed. From now on there will be a link to the latest stable release, for the convenience of Tumbleweed users. Upon a new release the openSUSE servers will automatically handle the required changes, transparent to the users. For instructions to make these changes, [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed_12.1change|please see here]].<br />
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Find more information [[:en:Tumbleweed|about Tumbleweed here]].<br />
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====Packman====<br />
[[Image:Packman.png|256px|link=|Features]]The well-known third-party [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] repositories for openSUSE already offer openSUSE 12.1 support. '''Packman''' provides four different repositories each offering a targeted selection of software, in addition to the larger common repository. Additional to packages for openSUSE 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, Factory and SLE 11, an essential set of Packman packages is provided for Tumbleweed. Find more information on the [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman website] and [[Paket_Repositorys#Packman| find out how to get software from Packman on the openSUSE wiki]].<br />
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====SUSE Studio====<br />
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[[Portal:SUSE_Studio|SUSE Studio]] is a project from openSUSE sponsor SUSE(TM) which builds upon the Free and Open Source openSUSE tools like '''KIWI''' and offers a convenient web interface for easy building of openSUSE and SLE based custom operating systems (appliances).<br />
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[http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] users can expect availability of openSUSE 12.1 right from the release date, and support for upgrading existing appliances shortly after. This means it will be possible to easily create your own versions of openSUSE 12.1 with '''custom package selections''', '''artwork''', '''scripts''' and any other properties and download them as USB or disk images, Live CDs and a variety of popular virtual formats. You can share your appliance or also browse other’s shared appliances on [http://susestudio.com/browse SUSE Gallery].<br />
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====Contrib retired====<br />
The [[:en:openSUSE:Contrib|Contrib]] repository for third-party packages was once a community-driven extension of the main repository. The vast majority of these packages have since been integrated in the main repository or in one of the central additional repositories like the official [[KDE_Repositorys|KDE]] and [[GNOME_Repositorys|GNOME]] repositories. These provide newer versions of the software in the main repositories as well as new or experimental software not yet available in openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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====Packages on the Open Build Service====<br />
If you can not find an application in openSUSE 12.1 you can use the search functionality on [http://software.opensuse.org software.opensuse.org]. If you enable searching in users home projects (under advanced) you can choose from the 160.000 packages provided by our 30.000 packagers using the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service instance on build.opensuse.org].<br />
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====VLC====<br />
The VideoLAN organization continues their robust support for openSUSE, with a 1-click install of the VLC universal media player already available for openSUSE 12.1 at [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html this page].<br />
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=== Latest Free Desktops ===<br />
openSUSE offers both major Free Software desktops as well as a number of community-supported desktops, all with a high level of polish and support. openSUSE 12.1 is the first release to introduce the new '''GNOME Shell''' user interface, part of GNOME 3.2. GNOME Shell brings a vastly refined user experience with a smooth, natural workflow. The default openSUSE desktop, the '''KDE Plasma Desktop''', brings color management and much improved performance as well as the new 'Akonadi' based Kontact2 groupware solution. Current releases of both XFCE and LXDE include minor improvements on the road to their next big releases.<br />
For the first time, the openSUSE community openly selected artwork for openSUSE 12.1; the preferred 'upwind' theme reflects in our new splash, boot and background images . GNOME users will notice that the art team has maintained the trend of providing a time-sensitive set of themed wallpapers.<br />
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==== KDE Plasma Workspaces and applications 4.7 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Workspaces] 4.7 and is the first major Linux distribution to ship the new [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos Color Management Service]. Oyranos and its associated tools add [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management color management] to KDE applications, making sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens. Another major new addition is Apper, an easy to use software management tool replacing KPackageKit. There are also improvements to network management, the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop tool and Activities. In total, this release fixed over 12.000 bugs and contains hundreds of smaller and larger performance improvements.<br />
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The innovative new Tablet project from the KDE community, Plasma Active, is not an integral part of the openSUSE 12.1 release as it depends on functionality not available in the released KDE Platform yet and conflicts with the Desktop and Netbook workspaces. However, tablet users can install Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 and we work on integrating it in the next openSUSE release.<br />
Read on for a more extensive view on what's new in the Desktop, Netbook and application area as well as to learn more about Plasma Active One!<br />
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File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-widgets.png|Widgets<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-digiKam.png|Foto Manager: digiKam<br />
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=====Plasma Workspaces bring improved visuals with Oyranos CMS=====<br />
openSUSE is the '''first major Linux distribution to ship [http://www.oyranos.org/about/ Oyranos CMS]''' integrated in the KDE applications and workspaces. Oyranos is is an operating system level [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Color Management System], matching input device colors to output device colors across supported applications. Oyranos makes use of the ICC color management standard and is integrated in the KDE Workspaces and applications through the new KolorManager application. The KolorManager application makes sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens.<br />
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Users can now configure their ICC profiles and settings in one central place. It brings as well a set of command line tools like oyranos-policy for handling policy configuration files and oyranos-profiles for installation of ICC profiles. KDE users can install the KolorManager package. This Oyranos front end adds a system settings control panel for individual settings adaption. Most systems will run fine with Oyranos defaults. [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ read more about color management in openSUSE 12.1 on the oyranos website]<br />
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'''Visual improvements'''<br />
On the visual side, KDE's Plasma workspaces provides '''better integration with GTK/GNOME applications''' with a port of KDE's Oxygen style to GTK. The Oxygen icons have been improved and the Plasma panel offers a more consistent look with changes to the icons and the clock. The new Shadow support in window manager '''KWin''' gives a better look on older hardware and performs better all around. KWin also can now disable compositing when a full-screen application calls for it, increasing performance for OpenGL games and GPU accelerated video playback.<br />
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Plasma's Activities have seen many improvements. The '''Activity Manager''' now takes a more prominent place in the default panel in Plasma Desktop. Activities enhance the users' workflows by providing smart ways of grouping applications, widgets and documents.<br />
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Navigating through applications and recent files is easier with the '''addition of breadcrumbs''' to the Kickoff application launcher, helping users to see where they are and quickly back up to higher menu levels. Many other usability and functionality improvements have been made to the Workspaces. For example, '''Konsole''' no longer blocks the removal of USB storage devices and '''KMix''' has improved PulseAudio support. <br />
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'''Network management, multimedia and Nepomuk'''<br />
The Plasma Workspaces now also offer '''much improved network management''', including support for NetworkManager 0.9 as well as Bluetooth tethering, 3G, VPN, MAC spoofing and other advanced networking options.<br />
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Thanks to [http://dot.kde.org/2011/09/21/nepomuk-stability-and-performance generous donations from the community], the Semantic Desktop technology '''Nepomuk has seen extensive bugfixing''', improving stability and performance as well as making it easier to use. Strigi analyzers now read meta-data in their own process, resolving over 35 crash-related bugs in Dolphin and Konqueror.<br />
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The latest version of '''Phonon''', our media framework, has seen work on the backends. The VLC-based back-end is now considered stable and is the preferred back-end for multiplatform use, while the back-end based on GStreamer is now also considered stable on Linux platforms. The xine back-end is no longer maintained.<br />
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=====KDE Applications suite 4.7 features many refinements=====<br />
The latest version of KPackageKit - now renamed '''Apper''' - (developed by [http://dantti.wordpress.com Daniel Nicoletti] ) is now included with Plasma Desktop. This brings significant improvements to the KDE's PackageKit front end and makes it possible to list Applications instead of listing only Packages. This makes openSUSE a lot more user-friendly and closer to Grandma compattible.<br />
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'''Dolphin''', KDE’s file manager, has a cleaner default appearance. The menu bar is hidden, but easy to reach and restore. The file searching interface has been improved. In addition, Dolphin now has much deeper integration with source code management systems, including the ability to create and clone repositories, push and pull changes, view diffs and much more.<br />
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Dolphin and Konqueror both benefit from a new plugin that provides a '''rating and an annotation menu action''' for files and folders, leveraging Nepomuk capabilities. <br />
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Image management has become easier with '''Gwenview''', the KDE image viewer, now offering the ability to compare two or more pictures side by side. From the browse mode, select two or more pictures, and then switch to the view mode or to the full-screen mode. In the view mode, you can add more pictures from the thumbnail bar.<br />
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Comic fans will be pleased that Okular, the universal file viewer, gains support for reading a directory as a comicbook.<br />
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'''KStars''', the essential KDE application for stargazers around the world, has gained a feature to predict a star hopping route and dynamic switching between its OpenGL and native rendering backends. Labels can now be assigned to points on celestial lines; comet trails are rendered in OpenGL mode. Mathematicians and scientists can now explore higher order functions in Kalgebra and get information on oxidation states for elements in Kalzium. <br />
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'''KDM''', the display manager, has gained ''GRUB2'' support. A user with multiple operating systems in their GRUB2 menu can now choose which one to reboot to in the shutdown dialog by holding down the mouse button on their reboot choice. <br />
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'''Marble''', the virtual globe application, has gained many improvements over the past eight months. It now has voice navigation support, a map creation wizard, and new plug-ins. Following the Voice of Marble contest, '''voice navigation''' is now available in several languages, with voices provided by the KDE community. For more details, see Marble's [http://edu.kde.org/marble/current_1.2.php visual changelog]. <br />
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Other applications such as Kate, Kalzium, KAlgebra, KStars, and KDevelop have also been updated in this release. Changes and improvements to some other major applications from the KDE community can be found in the [Product_highlights#New_and_updated_applications|applications section].<br />
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Find more information on what is new in the Plasma Workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Platform in the [http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.7/ announcement by KDE].<br />
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File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-dolphin.png|KDE Dateimanager: Dolphin<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-gwenview.png|Bildbetrachter: gwenview<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-kaffeine.png|Video Player: Kaffeine<br />
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=====Plasma Active One is optionally available=====<br />
The fresh and innovative [http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active Plasma Active] interface for tablets and mobile devices is available for openSUSE 12.1. It is not an integral part of this release as it still depends on a number of unreleased technologies but we plan to have Plasma Active as part of openSUSE 12.2.<br />
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'''Plasma Active'''<br />
Plasma Active aims at creating a cross-device user experience for emerging devices such as tablet computers, media centers, smartphones, and more. It builds on the Linux stack with X11, Qt and the KDE libraries. The user interface is designed using Plasma Quick, a declarative markup language allowing for organic user interface design based on Qt Quick.<br />
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The first release, [http://kde.org/announcements/plasma-active-one/ Plasma Active One] fully focuses on tablet computers. Plasma Active Tablet's user experience is designed around the web, social networks and multimedia content. Packages for openSUSE are offered in the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=KDE%3AActive Plasma Active] repository.<br />
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==== GNOME 3.2 ====<br />
After shipping a technical preview of [http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ GNOME 3] with 11.4, openSUSE 12.1 replaces the GNOME 2.x series with the latest GNOME 3.2 desktop to the openSUSE GNOME users. With many improvements based on the feedback of the openSUSE community and the wider Free Software community, numerous usability and application changes have been incorporated.<br />
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'''GNOME Shell''' brings a fresh user-interface that is designed from the scratch to satisfy the needs of today's users. The interface focuses on getting out of the way and providing unobtrusive yet powerful notifications and deep integration of calendar, chat and other technologies. The UI elements and workflows are designed to be touch-friendly for use on tablets or desktops with a touch screen. By using the 3D acceleration capabilities provided by most of the computers these days, pleasing animations are used to give users an aesthetic look and feel and a much easier way of switching between applications. Read on for more details on what's new in GNOME 3.2.<br />
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===== What's new in GNOME Shell 3.2 =====<br />
Various minor tweaks and major features are incorporated into this release based on user feedback. openSUSE 12.1 ships the alt-status-menu extension to make various computer operations easily accessible. Some examples:<br />
*It is now easier to resize windows and titlebars, buttons and other controls are a bit less tall, making GNOME easier to use on small screens.<br />
* Notifications now include a counter so you can see how many mails or chats messages are waiting for you and Shell now also shows media device notifications.<br />
* The focus-follows-mouse feature has been improved and while it's not perfect yet, it will suffice for most usecases.<br />
* The System Settings have been improved, showing links to other relevant settings and has integrated color management<br />
* GNOME Shell battery power status now shows how much power you have left<br />
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===== Communication in GNOME Shell =====<br />
Compared to any prior release of GNOME, the instant messaging workflow is much improved in GNOME Shell 3.2. You can receive chats, reply to messages, approve / deny friendship requests, call requests, all without having to launch the IM application explicitly. You can change the status of your machine from a centralized place so that all the IM accounts reflect the status change. Error and new message notifications are so well integrated in GNOME shell so that you won't have focus stealing popups but only unobtrusive animations notifying you what is going on.<br />
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A new "Online Accounts" feature enables users to create online accounts. Accounts created will be seamlessly available for various applications throughout the desktop experience. For example, if you create a Google Account, your Google Docs documents will be available in the new Document browser, your Google contacts will be available in empathy for IM, and the calendar shows your appointments. http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/gnome-documents-google.png.en<br />
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[http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2]<br />
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===== What's new in the GNOME 3.2 Applications =====<br />
The new GNOME 3 libraries bring many improvements to GNOME 3 applications. Some examples:<br />
* File open dialogs in applications now show a list of recent files and directories<br />
* Better performance and a new theme<br />
* A redesigned Font chooser dialog<br />
* A new on-screen keyboard and a number of other accessibility enhancements<br />
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Moreover, the individual applications have seen many features and bugfixes, read on for a quick overview.<br />
A new people-focused '''Contacts"' application is shipped which can work with Evolution and Empathy in the background, providing you with a unified addressbook for your desktop. <br />
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'''Empathy''', the GNOME IM application has got a lot of improvements. You can easily search your logs visually filtering on various parameters such as Who, When.<br />
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http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/empathy-log.png.en NetworkManager-gnome version 0.9 provides fast user switching, improved WiFi roaming, WiMAX support, flexible permissions and centralized storage of network connection information.<br />
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Not to be left out of the party, GNOME 3.2 includes robust color management support as well, including the new GNOME Color Manager wizard for calibrating displays using either ICC profiles or a Huey hardware colorimeter. [http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-color-manager/screenshots.html]<br />
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File manager '''Nautilus''' has seen a major overhaul for GNOME 3, with an improved Places sidebar, a new ''Connect to server'' dialog and a quick preview function which can be triggered by 'space'.<br />
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Many smaller improvements include new and configurable effects in the Webcam application '''Cheese''', bookmark support in PDF viewer '''Evince''', plugins for image viewer '''Eye of GNOME''' and improved streaming support for video and audio in media player Totem.<br />
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Read more about [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2 in the official announcement] and find more GNOME applications in the sections below.<br />
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File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME desktop.png|Desktop Shell<br />
File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME activities.png|GNOME Shell:<br> Aktivitäten<br />
File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME eog.png|Bildbetrachter:<br> GNOME Eye<br />
File:OpenSUSE_12.1_GNOME_nautilus.png|Datei Manager:<br> Nautilus<br />
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==== LXDE 0.5 ====<br />
This release of openSUSE comes with LXDE 0.5. There have been no major updates to this lightweight desktop for a while but minor improvements and bugfixes have been integrated.<br />
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Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_desktop_menu.png|LXDE Desktop und Menü<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_control_center.png|LXDE Kontrollzentrum<br />
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==== Xfce 4.8 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships ''''Xfce 4.8''''. All Xfce components have been updated to the latest bugfix releases. The desktop has been polished further in terms of integration and branding. LightDM is now the default display manager reducing the dependencies on core GNOME components. The functionality provided in the default install should now be on par with GNOME/KDE desktops.<br />
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File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Desktop.png|Desktop<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Main_Menu.png|Haupt Menue<br />
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=== New and updated applications ===<br />
On top of the kernel and other low-level tools, openSUSE provides a huge variety of console and graphical applications. These applications have been updated to the latest versions bringing many improvements in terms of features and bugfixes.<br />
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====Web browsers====<br />
The web is important for modern computer users, and openSUSE has you covered with a selection of browsers Free Software has to offer. We ship a much faster Firefox, an innovative Opera, a well integrated Epiphany and a more stable Rekonq. New is Chromium, the fast and easy to use browser from Google. These browsers provide a wide range of rendering engines supporting the latest web standards. Read on to find out what is new in these browsers since we brought to you in openSUSE 11.4!<br />
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'''Firefox 7'''<br /><br />
Since Firefox 4.0 in openSUSE 11.4, the project has moved to a more rapid release schedule and thus we present you with Mozilla's latest Firefox 7.0.1. Firefox has introduced support for new privacy features like do-not-track and much improved developer tools in the new 'web developer' menu. End users will appreciate the many smaller and larger usability improvements like the URL bar highlighting the website domain and hiding the prefix. Last but not least, each subsequent Firefox release brought better performance, from faster loading of tabs to the large memory management improvements in Firefox 7 and of course support for the latest web standards.<br />
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'''Chromium 16'''<br /><br />
Chromium, meet openSUSE 12.1 users. Users, meet Chromium. This venerable WebKit based web browser from Google is quickly gaining popularity and thus had to become part of the openSUSE distribution. With its simplified interface, great integration with Google services, separate processes so a crashing site can not take down the browser and the fastest JavaScript engine in the world, it will impress you with it's speed and ease of use. The rapid release cycle of Chromium is hard to track - we ensure the latest is always available on your system so you don't have to worry about security or not being able to work with the latest websites.<br />
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'''Opera 11.52'''<br /><br />
Opera 11.52 brings much improved Opera Link to sync your passwords between system and a better Speed Dial which now supports extensions, small webpages embedded in your Speed Dial. Another new feature is the Location support on websites like Google Maps. Opera also uses far less memory now and became a fair bit more stable. Of course this release supports the latest HTML 5 and CSS 3 standards and features a faster JavaScript engine and smoother graphics.<br />
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'''Rekonq 0.8'''<br /><br />
With Rekonq 0.8, openSUSE ships a second WebKit based browser. Build on Qt and the KDE Platform this new release takes advantage of the many improvements in QtWebKit 2.2, bringing better stability and performance. New features include the Do-Not-Track feature, availability of history in restored tabs, and Third Party rule support in AdBlock. usability has been given attention with much improved drag'n'drop support, an new SSL UI, optional VI-style navigation and improved URL bar handling.<br />
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'''Epiphany from GNOME 3.2'''<br /><br />
The third WebKit based browser, this time from the GNOME community, Epiphany, allows you to create Web Application links. These Web Applications show up in the application view of GNOME Shell and act very much like real applications, opening links in new web browser windows and not showing a navigation bar or tabs. They also run in a process separate from the browser, so that crashes of Epiphany do not affect your web applications.<br />
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====Office and desktop publishing applications====<br />
openSUSE helps you get work done by providing a stable base and up to date productivity tools. The latest LibreOffice brings new features in most components as well as speed and stability improvements to this enterprise ready office suite. While Abiword, Gnumeric and KOffice are still at their latest stable versions, our additional repositories offer the innovative Calligra application suite as a choice.<br />
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'''Libreoffice 3.4.3'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://XXXX.org '''Libreoffice'''] release brings a large number of small additions and improvements like the ability to add and remove color charts, a named range as data source and supporting an unlimited number of fields in the DataPilot (now named Pivot Table), Greek Character mode for numbering in Writer and much more. As usual, much performance work was done decreasing the size of LibreOffice and improving startup speed. Text rendering and theming have received a major overhaul, making LibreOffice fitting better in your desktop.<br />
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'''Scribus 1.4'''<br /><br />
[http://www.scribus.net '''Scribus'''] is the major Open Source Desktop Publishing tool available for Linux. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation. openSUSE ships a release candidate of Scribus 1.4 which has a large number of stability fixes over the release in openSUSE 11.4.<br />
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'''Calligra 2.4 beta 3'''<br /><br />
The new [http://www.calligra-suite.org/ Calligra Suite], the successor of KOffice in openSUSE is not yet part of this release. However most users report the current beta's to be of '''better quality than the latest KOffice release''' and the openSUSE packagers have thus committed to provide a repository which will offer the latest Calligra releases.<br />
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Specifically '''targeting students and academic users''' with the productivity part, Calligra brings much improved text handling and rendering, state of the art '''import support for the Microsoft XML formats''' and many stability and usability improvements to all applications. Words introduces handling of citations and bibliographies and an automatically updating Table of Content, better text tables, footer- and header support and much more. Presentation application Stage has a new slide sorter and easier editing of notes with slides. Project Management application Plan introduces many new chart printing options and improved import from external data sources. Tables has improved support for large tables, rotated text, many new formulas, improved Microsoft Excel file support and much faster loading.<br />
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Calligra also introduces two new applications: <br />
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*Flow is a diagramming and flowcharting application in the spirit of Visio.<br />
*Braindump is a note taking application that builds on the Calligra core and uses the full power of the openDocument Format to allow for text, images and even multimedia in the notes.<br />
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Find a [http://www.calligra-suite.org/news/calligra-2-4-snapshot-1-tour/ Calligra Tour here].<br />
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You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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====Communication and groupware====<br />
Of course, openSUSE ships a wide variety of groupware and Personal Information Management (PIM) solutions like email clients, chat applications, calendar tools and more.<br />
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'''KDE PIM'''<br /><br />
Kontact, KDE’s groupware solution, has most components now ported to Akonadi. Once the initial bugs are ironed out, this will offer increased stability and performance, better connection to new services and sharing of communication information between more applications. The biggest change is the introduction of KMail 2. This application has the familiar interface, while under the surface, all mail storage and retrieval has been ported to use the powerful Akonadi cache.<br />
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The openSUSE KDE team has put '''significant efforts''' in ensuring a smooth upgrade to KMail 2 but this is a significant change and the team will keep an eye out for further issues. Bugfixes will be provided through updates and users are encouraged to report problems and update their systems frequently.<br />
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It should be noted that the move from KMail1 to KMail2 requires the '''import/conversion of email data to Akonadi'''. This process can take considerable time, measuring up to a day on slow systems with multiple gigabyte-sized mailboxes. It is possible to, instead of doing a migration, doing a clean start by moving the current data from the ~.kde4/share/apps/kmail to a backup location. If you have your data stored on a server and it is only cached locally this should not cause you to loose data. In case of a downloading POP mail account, however, you will have to use the conversion process or import your mail separately.<br />
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Also note that '''Akonadi is a cache''', not a permanent storage system. This means that your mail should remain where it is - be it on a server or in a local folder. Akonadi will store a '''copy''' in its database, as well as extra information like ratings and the like, for fast search and retrieval. This essentially replaces the internal cache KMail1 employed for this purpose. Due to this design, Akonadi is very unlikely to lose user data as it normally operates on a copy of it. Of course, actions like moving or removing mails are synced back to the original mail storage!<br />
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'''Evolution 3.2.1'''<br /><br />
Evolution provides integrated mail, address book and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop. Version 3.2.1 has been ported over to the GNOME 3 infrastructure and offers a number of small improvements and bugfixes over the previous release. Also new in the openSUSE 12.1 Evolution is the Exchange Connector for Evolution, compatible with Exchange 2007 and later, allowing Evolution to work with Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010. Evolution also works with the Google contacts, calendar and mail services.<br />
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'''Thunderbird 7.0.1'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird] email client shipped with openSUSE brings delivers faster performance, safer email experience, and a new add-ons manager. With over 390improvements and performance enhancements, Thunderbird is more responsive, starts faster and is easier to use than ever.<br />
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For example, the interface improvements like the improved RSS feeds and better Attachment management make handling your news and mail easier. Tabs can now be re-ordered or dragged into a new window and Thunderbird gives you control over the look and functionality of your email client with a gallery of hundreds of add-ons. The new Add-ons manager allows you to search the gallery in Thunderbird to install, remove, and manage the Add-ons. This release also adds support for technologies that make it easier for developers to build some of these amazing Add-ons, such as the Lightning Calendar, Conversation View, and Open Search.<br />
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====Multimedia====<br />
openSUSE comes with a number of prominent multimedia applications like the Amarok, Banshee and Rythmbox music players, DigiKam and Shotwell photo managers and the Marble virtual globe. Each of those has seen new releases with new features and bugfixes.<br />
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=====Music Players=====<br />
openSUSE comes with a large number of music players, from the well known Rythmbox, Banshee and Amarok to the less prominent like Juk, Totem, KMplayer, Dragon and Bangarang.<br />
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'''Banshee 2.2'''<br /><br />
The new [http://banshee.fm '''Banshee'''] comes with with lots of new extensions like an alarmclock, albumart writer, ampache, duplicated sound detector, jamendo, karaoke, live radio, lyrics and more. Other improvements include the ability to not only queue songs but also artists and albums and having the ability to play a queued song immediately after the current. There has been a number of UI improvements like putting the search next to the volume button, smaller icons in the source list, hidden counts for the libraries, named group separators and a resizable seek slider and search entry. Podcasts episodes are now shown in a grid, with several lines of description shown to help you find an appealing episode to enjoy.<br />
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'''Amarok 2.4.3 and Clementine 0.7.3'''<br /><br />
[http://amarok.kde.org '''Amarok'''] introduces improved Dynamic Playlists and Internet Services including integration with Gpodder.net. The user interface has been improved with better drag and drop, automatic scrolling in the lyrics applet and the ability to scrobble the composer as artist to last.fm. Otherwise, many bugs have been crushed and performance has improved a bit. For those not fond of the direction Amarok took with the 2.0 release, openSUSE ships [http://www.clementine-player.org '''Clementine 0.7.3'''] which in this version brings a new edit tag dialog which offers autocompletion and automatic music identification and missing-tag-fetching. CUE sheets are now supported, detected automatically and tracks will show up separately. Album covers are shown in the Library tab, deleted songs greyed out and much more.<br />
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=====Photo managers, editors and painting applications=====<br />
openSUSE ships with a large number of graphics and painting applications. There have been major versions of DigiKam and Blender as well as minor improvements to most of the other applications. openSUSE 12.1 also comes with lots of ICC color management Profiles ready to go.<br />
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'''DigiKam 2.2'''<br />
openSUSE 12.1 features the release of '''DigiKam''', the result of more than a year of hard work since the DigiKam version in openSUSE 11.4. This version features long awaited technologies like face detection and recognition, image versioning support, XMP metadata sidecar files support, big improvements in tagging and marking photos, reversed geotagging and many other improvements, including a total of 258 fixed bugs.<br />
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Close companion Kipi-plugins is released along with DigiKam 2.2. This release features new export tools to three web services - Yandex.Fotki, MediaWiki and Rajce. The GPSSync plugin now has the ability to do reverse-geocoding. Also new is a plugin which is dedicated to creating photo album-like layouts. Finally, there has been extensive bugfixing.<br />
Find out more about DigiKam and read articles with tips and tricks [http://www.digikam.org/ on the DigiKam website].<br />
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'''Inkscape 4.8.2'''<br />
[http://inkscape.org Inkscape] is a powerful vector graphics editor using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. It supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. The latest stable 4.8.2 version introduces a number of critical bugfixes and improvements to openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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This release is feature complete, offering the powerful UI, animation tools, rigging, modeling, shading, physics and particle tools and everything else Blender is known for.<br />
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'''Shotwell 0.11.5'''<br />
The [http://yorba.org/shotwell/ '''Shotwell'' photo organizer handles pictures based on a timeline. It also offers tagging and rating features and a host of image editing functions like rotating, cropping and adjustment of exposure, saturation and more. It can import photos from most cameras and from folders and publish photos and videos to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, and YouTube. The latest release introduces hierarchical trees for the tags, a new plugin framework, improved printing, a new crop tool and a new search bar as well as many smaller improvements to the user interface. New is also support for paired JPEG and RAW images, BMP, TIFF and other formats, and improved rendering of RAW files. This release also does automatic backups of the database and allows you to save searches.<br />
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'''F-spot 0.8.2-14'''<br />
The easy to use '''F-spot''' photo manager features a very simple interface combined with powerful search, import, browse and edit functionality. Advanced capabilities are exporting EXIF and XMP metadata to your images, versioning of changes in the image editor and quite complete import functionality. This release does not introduce major new features or improvements.<br />
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'''GIMP 2.6.11'''<br />
[http://www.gimp.org/ '''GIMP'''] is a versatile graphics manipulation package offering a customizable interface and a large number of plugins to modify and improve photos. It can work with a huge variety of fileformats. 2.6.11 brings bugfixes for this popular photo manipulation program as well as some minor usability and performance improvements.<br />
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'''Krita and Karbon 2.4 Beta3'''<br />
Two applications, part of the upcoming [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4] release, should not be missed in this overview. While they are not included in the standard openSUSE repositories, they offer some unique benefits many people will apreciate.<br />
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[http://krita.org '''Krita'''] is a sketching and painting tool, offering an end–to–end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters. Fields of painting that Krita explicitly supports are concept art, creation of comics and textures for rendering. Modelled on existing real-world painting materials and workflows, Krita supports creative working by getting out of the way and with snappy response. Developed in close collaboration with a number of artists Krita 2.4 brings many user interface improvements as well as much better performance. New functionality like the ability to share patterns, gradients and brushes over the web and the huge number of unique brushes solidify Krita's position as the '''premier Free Software sketching and drawing application'''.<br />
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The Karbon vector graphics application, also part of [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4], has much better '''support for the SVG standard''' and introduces many new filters and effects while improving on its stability.<br />
You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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=====Video editors and 3D modelling=====<br />
Out of the box, openSUSE does not ship multimedia support due to legal and patent worries in a number of countries. However, if it is legal for you to play your music and video's you can find information on the [http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia openSUSE-community Multimedia] and [http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats Restricted formats] pages on how to obtain the needed codecs. The [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] project which offers the codecs also packages a number of related applications like the excellent [http://www.kdenlive.org/ Kdenlive] and [http://www.openshotvideo.com/ openshot] video editors.<br />
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'''Kdenlive 0.8.2'''<br />
'''Kdenlive''' claims to be the most advanced video editor available on Linux today. It supports virtually any camera and codec thanks to the [http://www.ffmpeg.org/ FFMPEG] and [http://www.mltframework.org/ MLT] frameworks it builds upon. It is a multitrack editor with a timeline and an unlimited number of video and audio tracks. Thanks to the [http://www.piksel.org/frei0r Frei0r] framework Kdenlive offers a large number of effects and transitions and lets you add your own. It renders videos in a separate thread while you keep working and allows you to pause, stop and restart rendering. The latest 0.8.2 version fixes over 140 stability issues and introduces an automated backup feature to avoid the loss of any data. Check the [http://www.kdenlive.org/users/j-b-m/kdenlive-082-released announcement] for more information.<br />
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'''OpenShot 1.4'''<br />
The '''OpenShot''' video editor has a more easy to use interface and offers features like 3D animations, HD video support as well as Clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, and cutting, Video transitions with real-time previews, Compositing, image overlays, watermarks, Title templates, title creation, sub-titles and support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences. [http://vimeo.com/29465427 watch the video of the 1.4 release] or [http://www.openshot.org/features/ check out the openshot features] online.<br />
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'''Audacity 1.3.13'''<br />
For audio editing, '''Audacity''' offers a powerful set of features. Audacity lets you record live audio or convert existing music into digital data. It can also edit files, mixing the music or changing it with a variety of effects. These include echo, a fase changer, equalization, normalization and a number of effects to clean up hiss, noise and other mess. Additional plugins are availble with the VST and LADSPA plug-ins compatibility. Recording up to 96Khz, 32 bit is available with high quality sample rate conversion and there is a number of spectrum analysis tools for your viewing pleasure.<br />
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This release, while part of the beta series, is quite stable. Compared to the 1.3.12 version in the previous openSUSE release there has been a number of improvements to the effects, a new Device Toolbar showing all input and output devices has been introduced and the new "Sync-lock Tracks" feature allows groups of audio and/or label tracks to retain synchronisation when the track length changes. There has also been a fair number of bugfixes and some other smaller improvements.<br />
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'''PiTiVi 0.15'''<br />
openSUSE does ship the simple [http://www.pitivi.org/ '''PiTiVi''' video editor in the main repositories. PiTiVi is more intuitive and easy to use video editor compared to OpenShot and Kdenlive but does not offer the depth of in- and output formats, camera support and effects the others do.<br />
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'''Blender 2.59'''<br />
The well known [http://www.blender.org Blender] 3D content creation suite (3D modeller and video editor) is also part of openSUSE 12.1 with the stable 2.59 version. This third stable release in the 2.5 series brings big improvements in stability with many hundreds of bugs fixed. There is also a number of new features, including 3D mouse support and many UI improvements like the custom keymaps support and the camera locking. Sculpting, the warp modifier and the node editor have also been heavily improved.<br />
The biggest changes in the addons include:<br />
*the new Ivy Generator can grow curves over an existing mesh, <br />
*the Sapling addon generates trees<br />
*Mesh inset can inset individual faces or a selected region.<br />
*Grease scatter can scatter objects along predefined lines<br />
*much, much more. <br />
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openSUSE of course delivers far more multimedia applications to you, from the GStreamer framework to less known music players and a myriad of tools.<br />
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====Security and administration tools====<br />
openSUSE has always been a powertool for system adminstrators around the world and openSUSE 12.1 builds on this strong foundation. It is not only the powerful YaST which is appreciated but also the many tools available with openSUSE. This release brings major improvements to AppArmor, the new Shorewall gateway/firewall configuration application, a big update to the Performance Co-Pilot tool, an extended WebYaST and much more.<br />
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'''AppArmor 2.7 rc1'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships with the latest available [http://apparmor.net AppArmor] to ensure sys admins can easily secure their servers. [http://www.suse.com/support/security/apparmor/ Initially developed by SUSE], AppArmor is part of the Linux kernel now and openSUSE has the userspace components available. It is only in these userspace components that AppArmor ships changes compared to the previous release in openSUSE 11.4. Major features since AppArmor 2.5 include a working desktop notifier and automatic profile update for samba shares. And of course many other profile updates, bugfixes and better performance.<br />
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'''Shorewall 4.4.24'''<br /><br />
New in openSUSE from the Open Build Service is the [http://shorewall.net/Introduction.html Shoreline Firewall configuration tool]. This application offers a very powerful but still rather high-level interface to configure Netfilter through editing a series of configuration files. Upon starting Shorewall, it will read the files and with help of the iptables and other security utils configure Netfilter and the Linux networking subsystem to match your requirements, building a firewal, router or gateway. Find a list of [http://www.shorewall.net/4.4/shorewall_features.htm features of Shorewall here].<br />
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[[Image:WebYaST_Screenshot.png|thumb|250px||WebYast in action]]<br />
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'''Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) 3.5.8 and the PCP GUI charting tools.'''<br /><br />
The [http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/ performance co-pilot] is a heavy-duty performance monitoring tool. It is specifically build to find the harder type of system-level performance problems. It is capable of correlating end-user quality of service with platform activity and diagnosing complex interactions between resource demands on single or multiple systems in dynamic environments. This release is a significant upgrade over what was shipped in openSUSE 11.4, bringing a host of new features and improvements like support for distributed event tracing, transparent support for compressed archives in the client tools, Integrated pmieconf and pmlogconf utilities for automating management of pmie/pmlogger configuration files, Linux kernel control group metrics, per-node CPU metrics, XFS btree metrics and some Postfix updates.<br />
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'''WebYaST'''<br /><br />
The latest version of WebYaST has many improvements regarding speed, memory usage, usability and developing environment. Due a new caching mechanism the startup time of each module has been decreased to a maximum of 1-2 seconds. Former versions of WebYaST were split into a service and into an UI part. Each part has run in a own HTTP server. We have decided to bring these parts together in order to save one HTTP server which halves the memory usage.<br />
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====Virtualization, Cloud and web applications====<br />
openSUSE is an excellent guest OS for the cloud, as anyone who ever uses [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] can agree with. Nowhere is it as easy to build a cloud solution and openSUSE is now ready for the '''Amazon EC2 cloud''' by having a special EC2 kernel and suse-ami-tools in the default repositories.<br />
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But openSUSE can also be an excellent host and contains a fair number of virtualization and cloud tools. Most prominent is OwnCloud, which is shipped with unique desktop integration in openSUSE. What is not available in the default repositories can be found in the special [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualization and Cloud repository], where openSUSE contributors package and maintain '''Eucalyptus''', '''OpenNebula''' and '''OpenStack''' for openSUSE 12.1. <br />
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'''OwnCloud 2'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 delivers OwnCloud, the web-based storage application. OwnCloud is different from solutions like Google Docs, Dropbox or Ubuntu One in that it lets '''you own the data'''. With version 2, the ownCloud team has improved the basic service and added valuable features:<br />
* Secure file sharing<br />
* Improved web access including the ability to play music<br />
* Synchronization with other web application tools<br />
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openSUSE ships OwnCloud with a unique system tray based tool which can:<br />
* Install a new ownCloud locally or in a webspace<br />
* Connect your system to an existing ownCloud<br />
* give you assistance to set up mirrored folders<br />
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There is also basic Dolphin integration which XXXXXXXX<br />
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'''virtualization technologies'''<br /><br />
The new '''Xen 4.1''' release brings support for large systems (>255 processors and 1GB/2MB super page support), CPU Pools for advanced partitioning, prototype credit2 scheduler designed for latency-sensitive workloads and very large systems, a re-architected XL toolstack that is functionally nearly equivalent to XM/XEND, support for x86 Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX), new Memory Access API enabling integration of 3rd party security solutions into Xen virtualized environments and even better stability through the new automated regression tests.<br />
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The lastest version of '''KVM''' provides live migration from one host to another, guest swapping, paravirtualized networking and block devices and PCI-Express passthrough.<br />
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The new 4.1 series '''VirtualBox''' release brings new features like VM cloning, enhanced wizard for creating and copying virtual disks, raised memory limit to 1TB for 64 bit hosts and a couple of experimental featuers like PCI passthrough or SATA hard disk hot-plugging.<br />
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'''Virtualization tools'''<br /><br />
The latest release of '''virt-manager''' (supported by libvirt) brings new VM features including new VM wizard support for LCX guests, remote serial console access and remote URL guest installs.<br />
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The recent version of '''open-vm-tools''' provides integration (shared folders, drag and drop, clipboard sharing, automatic guest resolution resizing, etc.) with the VMware tools.<br />
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'''Horde 4.0.8'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the latest Horde 4 groupware server and framework! Horde 4 is the first release in over 6 years and brings major improvements to all applications of the suite as well as to the framework itself. <br />
Some of the more significant changes from Horde 3 to 4 include a requirement for PHP 5.2 or higher, a new Ajax interface and a new test suite. The complete framework has been modernized and cleaned up and the libraries are better separated and Unit tested.<br />
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The most important things users will notice are the e improved setup and upgrade processes, an Ajax interface for the calendar, and an improved interface for the complete application stack.<br />
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Horde offers a large number of web applications including a webmail tool (part of the Horde Groupware Webmail Edition) complete with WYSIWYG HTML editor, IMAP and POP3 support, message search and filtering, spell check, attachment viewer, encryption and signing, keyboard navigation, threaded view and previews, downloading of attachments in a ZIP file and much more.<br />
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There is now basic social media support with Facebook and Twitter integration and there is an Active Sync server component which can synchronize with iPhones and Android devices. The existing SyncML support already took care of most Nokia phones. The last missing piece is CalDAV support for calendar sharing, which is planned for the future.<br />
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== Entwicklungs-Werkzeuge und Platformen (GNOME/GTK, KDE/Qt,..., etc) ==<br />
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===IDEs und Werkzeugsätze===<br />
openSUSE bietet eine komplette und produktive Umgebung für Entwickler und Paketbauer. Mit stabilen Werkzeugen und aktualisierten Bibliotheken, durch [http://build.opensuse.org OBS] ermöglicht, können Entwickler leicht unter Verwendung mehrerer Programmiersprachen entwickeln und Pakete für mehrere Distributionen erstellen.<br />
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====KDevelop====<br />
Für Software-Entwickler: KDevelop hat zunehmende Unterstützung für [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style indentation styles] erhalten und der Python-Interpreter verwendet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kross_%28KDE%29 Kross]. Ein verbessertes Python mit auto-completion und Unterstützung für [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_%28software%29 lex/yacc] - Dateierweiterungen sind ebenso in dieser Ausgabe enthalten.<br />
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====Kate====<br />
KDE’s fortschrittlicher Text Editor Kate hat eine ganze Menge Verbesserungen erhalten, die folgendes enthalten:<br />
* Ein neues Such-Plugin mit der Fähigkeit in Dateien auf der Festplatte oder in geöffneten Dateien zu suchen<br />
* Plugin-Verbesserung: Build Plugin, GDB Plugin <br />
* Kate’s tab bar Plugins erhielten verschiedene neue Funktionen<br />
* Swap Dateien: Wenn verlorene Daten gefunden werden, werden die Dokumente als read-only markiert<br />
* Weitere bemerkenswerte Änderungen: Verbessertes Drucken, Änderung des Zeilenendes, das ein modifiziertes flag triggert, gelöste Shortcut-Aufgaben, gelöstes Popup für Auto-Komplettierung und mehr.<br />
Mehr Informationen finden Sie auf [http://kate-editor.org/2011/07/09/kate-in-kde-4-7/ diesem Blog].<br />
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===KDE Plattform===<br />
openSUSE 12.1 liefert die neueste stabile '''Qt 4.7.4''' und die '''KDE Plattform 4.7.2''' aus. Sie geben Entwicklern das Beste dieser leistungsfähigen Cross-Plattform-Entwicklungs-Bibliotheken. <br />
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'''KDE Plattform 4.7 '''<br /><br />
Diese Ausgabe von KDE's Entwicklungs-Plattform ist eine vorwärts zählende Ausgabe, die viele Fehlerbereinigungen und kleine Verbesserungen bei folgenden Technologien wie die eingebaute Browser-Maschine WebKit, System weite Proxy-Unterstützung und die Phonon-Multimedia-Maschine mitbringt.<br />
Für Entwickler sichtbare Änderungen sind:<br />
* Verbesserungen zu Komponenten des Semantic Desktop, die eine reiche API für Anwendungen bieten<br />
* Die Option um in KWin Compositing zu verschieben, wenn immer eine Anwendung danach ruft, um die Leistung in OpenGL-Spielen und GPU-beschleunigten Video-Playback zu verbessern.<br />
Details zur Ausgabe der KDE Plattform 4.7 lesen Sie bitte [http://kde.org/announcements/4.7/platform.php die KDE Plattform Release Notizen].<br />
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'''Qt 4.7 führt QtQuick ein'''<br /><br />
Qt 4.7.4 ist ein '''Bugfix-Release''' das mit openSUSE 11.4 ausgeliefert wurde. <br />
Wie auch immer, es führt einige leistungsfähige Funktionen ein, einschließlich dem Release von [http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/01/qt-quick-is-here QtQuick], einer neuen Funktion innerhalb Qt, die es leicht macht, Leichtgewichts-Apps und UIs zu kreieren. Es enthält die neue Sprache QML, einer einfach zu lernenden deklaratorischen Sprache, um dynamische und flüssige Schnittstellen zu bauen, das Qt Declarative-Modul und neue Werkzeugbereitstellung, um leicht Apps zu bauen. <br />
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QtQuick 1.1 bringt Right-to-Left Unterstützung, verbessertes Caching und Texteingabe und eine deklaratorische API zur Handhabung von Berührungs-Eingaben. Es gibt ebenso ein neues QML Sharders Plugin, das es Entwicklern eingebettete deklaratorische OpenGL Sharder Effekte in QML Apps erlaubt.<br />
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=== GNOME-Plattform-Verbesserungen ===<br />
Weitere Details, siehe: [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2 Release-Notizen].<br />
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==== Neue Funktionen und Funktionsweisen ====<br />
In openSUSE 12.1 ist die neueste GNOME-Entwickler-Plattform enthalten. Das besteht aus einem Satz aus API- und ABI-stabilen Bibliotheken, die unter der GNU LGPL stehen. Diese können für die Entwicklung von Cross-Plattform-Anwendungen verwendet werden.<br />
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Informationen zur Entwicklung mit GNOME finden Sie im [http://developer.gnome.org GNOME Entwicklungs-Zentrum].<br />
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'''GLib 2.30'''<br /><br />
GNOME's low-level software utility library GLib has seen various improvements, some of which are:<br />
* GApplication can now be used for non-unique applications.<br />
* GDBus supports the 'object manager' pattern with a number of new interfaces and has a code generator: gdbus-codegen.<br />
* An interface for certificate and key lookup has been added: GTlsDatabase. An implementation is provided by glib-networking.<br />
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'''GTK+ 3.2'''<br /><br />
GTK+ 3.2 is the latest release of the GTK+ toolkit, which is at the heart of GNOME. GTK+ 3.2 includes new features for developers, as well as extensive bug fixes. <br />
* Many more widgets support height-for-width geometry management. It is important to set reasonable sizes on labels and check window sizes.<br />
* New widgets include GtkLockButton for privileged operations, GtkOverlay for floating controls over a content area, the new GtkFontChooserDialog and more.<br />
* There is also improved CSS theming support and the HTML backend Broadway, which renders a GTK3 application in a browser. It is still experimental and requires compiling with --enable-broadway-backend and environment varialbe GDK_BACKEND at runtime.<br />
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'''Clutter 1.8'''<br /><br />
GNOME's graphics library for hardware-accelerated user interfaces Clutter provides, among other things, the following improvements: <br />
* New actions including Gesture and swipe detection, creating drop actors and long-press support for ClutterClickAction. <br />
* ClutterState transitions can be bound to object signals when creating a scene in ClutterScript. <br />
* Cogl, the GPU programming interface used by Clutter, is exposed as a separate library. <br />
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'''Use of Deprecated Libraries'''<br /><br />
Further progress has been made in the continuous work of replacing outdated technologies with superior facilities. Some examples:<br />
* GConf now uses D-Bus. As a consequence, the deprecated libraries ORBit2 and libIDL have been removed from GNOME. Many applications using GConf have been ported to gsettings.<br />
* GNOME core modules now only depend on introspection-based Python bindings (pygobject-3) and hence pygtk, gnome-python and gnome-python-desktop are not required anymore.<br />
* Several packages, such as the Epiphany web browser, have been converted from using dbus-glib to GDBus and from libunique to G(tk)Application.<br />
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'''Miscellaneous Developer Updates'''<br /><br />
Other GNOME Platform improvements in GNOME 3.2 include: <br />
* GNOME's build tool JHBuild does not build a module anymore if the version installed on your system is recent enough. If you start to build GNOME from scratch with a recent distribution, this can easily drop 50 modules from the list of modules to compile.<br />
* Tracker version 0.12 provides support for Firefox ≥ 4.0, Thunderbird ≥ 5.0, MeeGoTouch, several additional SPARQL parameters, extracting information from EPub files, and local XDG directories for desktop files. <br />
* NetworkManager version 0.9 provides introspection support and a simplified D-Bus API. Information how to port applications from NetworkManager 0.8 to 0.9 is available.<br />
* GtkSourceView now supports syntax highlighting of Markdown and Standard ML files.<br />
* libfolks now includes an Evolution-Data-Server backend, which is used by the new Contacts application.<br />
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== Und mehr ==<br />
Die obigen Abschnitte über Änderungen und Verbesserungen in openSUSE 12.1 sind natürlich unvollständig aber geben Vorgeschmack auf das, was neu ist. Wir hoffen Sie hatte Spaß beim Lesen.<br />
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===Mehr Infos===<br />
* Verfügbar für die Architekturen i386 und x86_64<br />
* [[Bildschirmfotos]] und [[Ankündigung]] über openSUSE 12.1<br />
* [[Medienaufteilung]]<br />
* [[openSUSE kaufen|Verkaufsversion]]: Doppellagige DVD für 32bit und 64 bit, gedrucktes Handbuch, kostenlose Installationsunterstützung<br />
* [[Produktlebensdauer|18 Monate Lebensdauer]]<br />
*[http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/12.1/RELEASE-NOTES.de.html openSUSE 12.1 Release Notes]<br />
*[[In_der_Presse| openSUSE 12.1 in der Presse]]<br />
* [[Portal:Installation|Installation]]<br />
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[[en:Product_highlights]]</div>Ctwxhttps://de.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Archive_Talk:Produktbesonderheiten_12.1&diff=20388Archive Talk:Produktbesonderheiten 12.12011-11-12T22:25:57Z<p>Ctwx: </p>
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<div>Hallo Team,<br />
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ich fange dann mal mit dem Übersetzen an. Ich gehe immer Abschnittsweise vor.<br />
Achtung: Bitte nicht mehrere Leute gleichzeitig an einem Text arbeiten. Dann gehen nicht gesicherte Daten verloren!!!! Auch wenn man sie gerade sichern möchte!<br />
--[[Benutzer:Slughorn|Slughorn]] 05:22, 11. Nov. 2011 (MST)<br />
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Hallo,<br />
ich wollte wohl mithelfen beim Übersetzen. Gibt es spezielle Abschnitte die noch nicht zugeteilt wurden, die ich übersetzen kann?<br />
--[[Benutzer:Ctwx|Ctwx]] 05:31, 11. Nov. 2011 (MST)<br />
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{{Notiz|Setzt doch bitte einen Link des betreffenden Kapitels welches ihr übersetzt, so weiß der nächste welches Kapitel jener anfangen kann. --[[Benutzer:Linuxsusefan|Linuxsusefan]] 09:32, 11. Nov. 2011 (MST)}}<br />
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Ich habe Jetzt Kapitel 1 bis einschließlich 1.3.3. fertig. Mache jetzt mit [[Produktbesonderheiten#Development tools and platforms (GNOME/GTK, KDE/Qt,..., etc)]] weiter und arbeite mich dann nach oben. --[[Benutzer:Slughorn|Slughorn]] 06:22, 12. Nov. 2011 (MST)<br />
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Ich mache heute Abend auch noch etwas weiter wo ich aufgehört habe, jedoch muss ich heute noch einiges für die Uni fertigmachen.<br />
--[[Benutzer:Ctwx|Ctwx]] 07:08, 12. Nov. 2011 (MST)<br />
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Ich trete auch gerne noch etwas ab. Ich habe soeben ''2.2 Als erste Distribution die Google Go, LLVM v3 und CLANG v3 liefert'' übersetzt, weiß aber nicht wie viel ich morgen schaffe, da ich immer noch Unisachen machen muss – bis Montag. Ihr könnt also euch nach 2.2 erst mal bedienen. Bevor ich morgen anfange etwas zu übersetzen, werde ich es dann hier notieren. ;)<br />
--[[Benutzer:Ctwx|Ctwx]] 15:25, 12. Nov. 2011 (MST)</div>Ctwxhttps://de.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Archive:Produktbesonderheiten_12.1&diff=20387Archive:Produktbesonderheiten 12.12011-11-12T22:19:51Z<p>Ctwx: /* First to ship Google Go, LLVM v3 and CLANG v3 */</p>
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==openSUSE 12.1 - die neueste freie Software in einer stabilen und leichten Version==<br />
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Liebe Nutzer, Mitwirkende, Fans und Freunde,<br />Wir sind stolz, Ihnen die neueste Ausgabe von openSUSE zu präsentieren! Es ist das Ergebnis von 8 Monaten harter Arbeit der openSUSE Gemeinschaft. Sie erlaubt es Ihnen, sich darüber zu freuen, was die neueste freie Software zu bieten hat, mit dem einzigartigen openSUSE-Touch - stabil, freundlich, unterhaltsam.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 bringt Ihnen Aktualisierungen zur neuesten Freien Software als Desktop- und Servertechnologie, ebenso einzigartige Funktionen, wie das neueste Snapper-Werkzeug, Datei-Änderungs-Monitoring und Rollback-Funktionalität. <br />
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===Die neuesten Freien Desktops bringen Farb-Management, GNOME Shell und mehr===<br />
openSUSE bietet Ihnen die Auswahl aus 4 offiziell unterstützten Freien Desktops, alle auf hohem Niveau von Verfeinerung und Unterstützung. Bemerkenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste große Linux-Distribution ist, die Farb-Management-Werkzeuge sowohl für KDE als auch GNOME Desktops mitbringt! <br />
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====KDE führt Oyranos, Apper und Plasma Active ein====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 bringt den [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Arbeitsplatz] 4.7 als Standard-Desktop mit und ist die erste große Linux-Distribution, die auch den neuen [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Farb-Management]-Werkzeuge ausliefert. Eine andere große neue Änderung ist der Ersatz von KPackageKit durch Apper. Apper vereinfacht die Installation und das Entfernen von Anwendungen. <br />
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Das innovative Projekt der KDE-Gemeinschaft, die Tablet-Oberfläche Plasma Active, ist noch kein integraler Bestandteil des openSUSE 12.1 Release. Aber die Nutzer der Tablet-Oberfläche können Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 installieren. Wir arbeiten an der Integration bis zum nächsten Release.<br />
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====GNOME Shell - verbessert und verfeinert====<br />
Wir stellen Ihnen '''GNOME 3.2''' vor, eine verbesserte und verfeinerte Version der GNOME Shell, die in GNOME 3 eingeführt wurde. openSUSE liefert ebenso viele verbesserte GNOME-Anwendungen aus, die in die GNOME-Shell integriert sind.<br />
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Haupt-Verbesserungen im Vergleich zur GNOME 3-Vorschau in openSUSE 11.4 schließen einen besseren Umgang mit kleinen Bildschirmen und Multi-Bildschirm-Einrichtungen ein, bessere Ausführungsmeldungen und eine zentralisierte Konfiguration von <em>Online-Benutzerkonten</em>. Dieses Release bring Ihnen ebenso einen neuen Dokumentenmanager. Dieses Release bringt auch einen neuen Dokumenten-Manager, ein erweitertes Farb-Management und eine automatische Rotation für Touch-Screen-Geräte mit. [[:en:openSUSE:Product_highlights_12.1#GNOME_3.2|Hier finden Sie weitere Details über GNOME 3.2]]<br />
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====Die anderen Desktops====<br />
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Beide Desktops '''XFCE''' und '''LXDE''' habe keine größeren Funktionsuptates seit dem letzten openSUSE Release erhalten. Aber kleine Verbesserungen wurden durchgeführt und sind im Release enthalten. Das schließt bessere Themen- und Desktop-Integration ein und ebenso eine verbesserte Auswahl von Anwendungen, Teil der Standard-Auswahl für jeden Desktop. openSUSE stellt auch wieder KDE 3 Pakete zur Verfügung.<br />
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===openSUSE bietet die neuesten Web- und Wolken-Technologien an===<br />
Dieses openSUSE Release liefert die neuesten Web-Browser, das Groupware-Framework [http://www.horde.org/ Horde 4] und aktualisierte Wolken- und Virtualisierungs-Technologien.<br />
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====Im Web surfen und dienen====<br />
Auf der Client-Seite fügt openSUSE '''Chromium 16''' zu den Standard-Repositorys hinzu. Dieser auf WebKit basierende Internetbrowser von Google bietet eine zweckmäßige Benutzeroberfläche und ein äußerst schnelles browsen durchs Internet. Der Standardbrowser von openSUSE ist '''Firefox 7''', der neueste aus dem Mozilla-Labor.<br />
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Auf der Server-Seite bietet das Management-Werkzeug für entfernte Systeme '''WebYaST''' eine deutlich verbesserte Web-Schnittstelle, um openSUSE Systeme aus der Ferne mit neuen Modulen und besserer Leistungsfähigkeit zu administrieren. Die Einführung des Groupware-Frameworks '''Horde 4''' bringt einen leistungsfähigen Satz von Anwendungen mit, einschließlich eines modernen Webmail-Clients und einem auf PHP basierenden Rahmenwerk auf dem alles aufgebaut ist.<br />
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====Unterstützung der Wolken-Technologien====<br />
openSUSE ist ein ausgezeichnetes Gast-Betriebssystem für die Wolke, was in Erfahrung gebracht werden kann, indem man Lösungen im [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] baut. Mit einem neuen Kernel ist openSUSE nun bereit, in der '''Amazon EC2 cloud''' zu laufen. Auf der Host-Seite können die neuesten Virtualiesierungs-Technologien wie '''Xen 4.1''', '''KVM''' und '''Virtual Box''' mit dem neuesten '''[http://virt-manager.org/ virt-manager]''' und '''[http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ open-vm-tools]''' verwaltet werden. Schließlich ist openSUSE die erste Linux-Distribution, die die [http://owncloud.org/ eigene Wolke] in den Dektop integriert. Das [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualisierungs- und Wolken Repository] für openSUSE bietet die neuesten Versionen von '''[http://www.eucalyptus.com/ Eucalyptus]''', '''[http://opennebula.org/about:about OpenNebula]''' und '''[http://www.openstack.org/ OpenStack]''' für openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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[[:en:Product_highlights#Security_and_administration_tools|Hier können sie mehr über die Werkzeuge zu Administration und Wolke in openSUSE 12.1 lesen.]]<br />
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===Verbesserte Technologie der Distribution===<br />
openSUSE führt eine Anzahl von Verbessereungen und Innovationen in die darunter liegende Technologie der Distribution ein. Das schließt das einzigartige [[:en:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]]-Werkzeug, das Versionen von Dateien verwaltet, das [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd Systemd-Init-System] und die Sprache [http://code.google.com/p/go/ Go] von Google ein. <br />
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====Snapper rollt Änderungen zurück====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ist die erste Linux-Distribution, die die Schnappschuss-Funktion des zukünftigen Linux-Dateisystems Btrfs nutzt. Diese Schnappschüsse des Dateisystems verwenden "copy-on-write", und machen diese sehr Speicherplatz-Effizient. openSUSE führt [[:en:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] ein, was dem Benutzer ermöglicht, sich mit dieser Technologie auseinander zu setzen.<br />
Die Kommandozeile und die Snapper-Werkzeuge mit grafischer Oberfläche erlaubt es den Benutzern, sich ältere Dateiversionen anzusehen und Änderungen rückgängig zu machen. Diese einzigartige Integration in Paketmanager Zypper erlaubt es ganze Upgrades oder Software-Installationen mit den begleitenden Konfigurations-Änderungen rückgängig zu machen.<br />
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====Systemd startet Ihr System====<br />
Systemd ist das neue Init-Werkzeug in openSUSE. Es steuert und beschleunigt den Startprozess. Es wurde in enger Kooperation mit den der befreundeten Linux-Distribution Fedora entwickelt. Systemd ist besonders für Systemadministratoren interessant, wegen seines leistungsfähigen Sockel- und Bus-aktivierten Service-Systems. Es arbeitet mit der Kernel-Funktion [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups cgroups] eng zusammen und bietet eine bessere Sicherheit und Kontrolle über die Prozesse.<br />
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====Schreibe in '''go''', kompiliere mit Clang oder GCC====<br />
openSUSE ist stolz darauf, die erste große Distribution zu sein, die [http://golang.org/ '''Google's neue Programmiersprache Go '''] als Bestandteil des Release auszuliefern. Go ist eine schnelle, leichte Sprache, die gut darin ist, Mehrkernsysteme zu bedienen, ebenso an das Netzwerk angeschlossene Maschinen mit der Eignung zur Abfallsammlung und Laufzeit Reflexion.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 kommt mit dem gerade veröffentlichten [http://llvm.org/ '''Kompiler-Werkzeug LLVM3'''] und [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], dem C/C++ Kompiler, der auf LLVM baut. LLVM wird von den beschleunigten open Source Grafiktreibern für ATI und NVIDIA verwendet. Das bildet einen integralen Bestandteil von Hoch-Leistungs-Stack-Grafiken auf LINUX. <br />
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Diese openSUSE Ausgabe ist mit [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''] und [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''Link-Zeit- Optimierung'''] gebaut, die die komplette Leistung der Software verbessert.<br />
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==Mehr Details über openSUSE 12.1==<br />
Die folgenden Seiten zeigen auf, was neu in dieser openSUSE Version ist.<br />
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===Unter der Haube===<br />
Obwohl die meisten offensichtlichen Verbesserungen von openSUSE 12.1 an der Oberfläche zu sehen sind, haben wir ebenfalls eine Menge an Verbesserungen „unter der Haube” gemacht. Darunter verbessertes Starten (boot), Hardware Management und Systemkonfiguration. The Startprozedur von openSUSE wird nun von systemd übernommen (und SysVInit ist aber noch als Notlösung vorhanden); das neue Snapper Werkzeug hält überwacht automatisch die Systemkonfiguration und andere Dateiänderungen (und lässt es auf Wunsch zurücksetzen); YaST hat einige ganze Reihe an Verbesserungen erhalten; SAX kehrt in Form von SAX3 wieder zurück, ein openSUSE GSOC Projekt; und wir unterstützen natürlich die aktuelleste Version von jeder Kern-Komponente, z.B. Linux 3.1 Kernel, syslog-ng 3.3, GCC 4.6 und LLVM v3. Ebenfalls erwähnenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste Haupt-Distribution ist, die [http://golang.org Googles neue Go Programmiersprache] ausliefert.<br />
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====openSUSE Technologie Verbesserungen====<br />
openSUSE, als eine Linux-Distribution macht mehr als nur Pakete dritter anzubieten. Wir haben unsere eigenen Werkzeuge, mit dem Sie Ihr System konfigurieren, Software managen und vieles mehr können.<br />
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=====Snapper=====<br />
[[Image:openSUSE_12.1_Snapper.png|thumb|200px||Snapper YaST GUI in Aktion]]<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ist die erste Linux-Distribution die Vorteile aus der Schnappschuss-Funktion des kommenden Linux-Dateisystems Btrfs macht. Diese Schnappschüsse (engl.: Snapshots) vom Dateisystem benutzen „copy-on-write“ (Kopieren-beim-Schreiben), was das ganze sehr Platzsparend macht. openSUSE 12.1 führt [[:de:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] ein, welches dem Benutzer eine Schnittstelle zu dieser Technologie bietet.<br />
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Das Kommandozeilen- und GUI Snapper-Werkzeug erlaubt dem Benutzer ältere Versionen von Dateien anzuzeigen und Änderungen rückgängig zu machen. Die einzigartige Integration in den zypper-Paketmanager von openSUSE erlaubt dem Nutzer ganze Aktualisierungen oder Softwareinstallationen samt den dazugehörigen Konfigurationsänderungen rückgängig zu machen.<br />
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Beachte dass Snapper und das Zurückrollen (Rollback) zurzeit nur für btrfs Dateisysteme zur Verfügung steht! Arbeiten werden diese Funktionen auch für das ältere Ext4 Dateisystem verfügbar machen. Jedoch wird das nicht vor der nächsten openSUSE Version geschehen.<br />
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Sie können [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/04/01/introducing-snapper/ eine Einführung von Snapper hier lesen].<br />
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[http://www.youtube.com/susevideo#p/a/u/0/9H7e6BcI5Fo Greg K-H führt Snapper bei Brainshare vor].<br />
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=====SAX3=====<br />
Als Xorg sich über die xorg.conf hinaus zur neuen xorg.conf.d Struktur entwickelt, ging unser geliebtes X Konfigurationswerkzeug SAX2 ebenfalls. Dank der Mühen Manu Guptas [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/07/05/people-of-opensuse-manu-gupta/ während Googles Summer of Code] erhielt openSUSE wieder ein neues elegantes grafisches Werkzeug um die X Konfiguration anzupassen: SAX3. Nun haben openSUSE-Nutzer wieder die Möglichkeit einfach ihre Tastatur-, Maus-, Monitor und Touchpadeinstellungen in einer praktischen Oberfläche zu optimieren. Machen Sie sich keine Sorgen falls Sie Probleme mit Ihrer X-Konfiguration haben: Wie üblich für YaST-Module löst SAX3 das Huhn-Ei-Problem indem es eine ncurses Text-, als auch GTK und QT Grafikoberflächen integriert hat. Bitte beachten Sie, dass SAX3 in der OSS-Softwarequelle nicht ordnungsgemäß in 12.1 funktioniert. Ein kommendes Update wird das Problem lösen. Dieses ist bereits verfügbar in der [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=X11%3Asax X11:SAX-Softwarequelle].<br />
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=====YaST=====<br />
Neben der Unterstützung von Snapper und der Rückkehr von SAX3 erhielt YaST2 eine Anzahl an Bugfixes und kleineren Verbesserungen. Die YaST-Entwickler sind froh zu berichten, dass sie nach den letzten Korrekturen zuversichtlich sind, dass YaST nicht wieder versehentlich benutzer-modifizierte Konfigurationsdateien überschreiben wie es in den „frühen Tagen“ der Fall war. Zusammen mit den zypp-Paketmanagement-Leistungsverbesserungen in der 11er-openSUSE-Serie wurde dem Mythos das YaST langsam sei und Dateien überschreibt ein Ende gesetzt. Eine stärker sichtbare Änderung ist das neue Design was dank der [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/10/24/new-style-for-yast2/ CSS-basierten Themen für YaST ermöglicht wurde]. WebYaST entwickelt sich ebenfalls weiterhin gut; beinhaltet mittlerweile mehr Module als je zuvor um eine Web-basierte Administration von openSUSE zur unterstützen.<br />
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=====OBS, openQA und andere Werkzeuge=====<br />
openSUSE hat eine Reihe an mächtigen Werkzeugen, welche wir zum Bauen unserer Distribution, welche ebenfalls für Andere zum Bauen von Paketen oder Software-Testen verfügbar sind, entwickelt. Diese Werkzeuge beinhaltet den plattformübergreifenden [http://openbuildservice.org Open Build Service], das allmächtige [http://openqa.opensuse.org openQA], das flexible [[Portal:KIWI|KIWI]] und viele weitere.<br />
Von jedem kamen in den letzte 8 Monaten neue, verbesserte Versionen raus. Das beinhaltet die [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/10/11/opensuse-announces-first-public-release-of-openqa/ erste Freigabe von openQA] and der [http://news.opensuse.org/2010/10/19/the-opensuse-build-service-2-1-released/2.1 Freigabe des Open Build Service] für welches [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=openSUSE%3ATools Pakete für openSUSE 12.1 verfügbar sind].<br />
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====Linux Kernel 3.1====<br />
Der neue Linux 3.1 Kernel hat erhebliche Verbesserungen zum 2.6.38er Kernel, welcher Teil von openSUSE 11.4 war. Es wurden nicht nur Dateisysteme wie Ext4 und Btrfs verbessert, der Linux 3.1 Kernel bringt etliche Performance-Verbesserungen der Speicherverwaltung und der Datenverarbeitung. Natürlich enthält er auch eine Reihe von Treibern zur Unterstützung neuer Hardware, einschließlich externer Geräte wie z.B. Microsofts Kinect, Apple iSight Webcam und den Nintento Wii Controller als auch für interne Hardware wie die neuen AMD Llano Fusion APUs und Intels Ivy Bridge & Cedal Trail CPUs, eine Vielfalt an WLAN- und Grafikkarten und vieles mehr. Was noch neu im openSUSE Kernel ist, können Sie auf den KernelNewbies Seiten [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_39 Linux 2.6.39], [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.0 Linux 3.0] and [http://kernelnewbies.orgWilliams/Linux_3.1 Linux 3.1] erfahren.<br />
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====systemd und andere systemweite Änderungen====<br />
Der Systemstart wird nun vom neuen '''systemd''' Startwerkzeug übernommen, so kontrolliert es und beschleunigt den Startprozess. Entwickelt in enger Kooperation mit unserer Partnerdistribution Fedora, ist systemd vor allem interessant für Systemadministratoren aufgrund seines mächtigen socket- und bus-aktivierten Servicesystem welches die Parallelisierung und die Resourceverbrauch verbessert. Es arbeitet auch eng zusammen mit Linux cgroups und bietet so erhöhte Sicherheit und Kontrolle über die Prozesse.<br />
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Falls aus irgendeinem Grund systemd bei Ihnen nicht funktionieren sollte, können Sie immer noch das '''alte Sys-V-Init verwenden''' indem sie F5 im Bootloader drücken. Falls Sie permanent das alte Startsystem verwenden wollen, führen sie einfach „zypper rm systemd-sysvinit” aus.<br />
Wir bieten auch wieder '''grub2''' als einen optionalen Bootloader an. Obwohl wir noch nicht ganz mit Grub2 als Ersatz für das aktuelle Grub zufrieden sind, muntern wir unsere Nutzer auf es einmal auszuprobieren und wollen sicher gehen, dass es für Entwickler verfügbar ist.<br />
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Eine Reihe von kleinere Änderungen beinhaltet:<br />
* Das '''util-linux''' Werkzeug in der Version 2.20 führt die erste Hauptänderungen des dmesg Protokollierungsprogramms in 18 Jahren ein. So bringt es eine Anzahl von Optionen um menschlich-lesbare Präfixe und Zeitstempel auszugeben oder um sauber, nur wichtige Meldungen oder Meldungen die direkt vom Kernel oder Userspace kommen, anzuzeigen.<br />
* '''LightDM 1.0''' ist die erste stabile Version dieses schnelleren, erweiterbaren Anzeigemanager (Display Manager). LightDM soll die Vialzahl an verschiedenen Anzeigemanager mit einem einzigen [http://xkcd.com/927/ neuen Standard] ersetzen.<br />
* '''syslog-ng 3.3''' führt Multithreading, JSON und mongodb Ausgabe ein.<br />
*[http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.0 RPM 4.9] bringt einige Stabilitäts# und Performanceverbesserungen.<br />
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===Als erste Distribution die Google Go, LLVM v3 und CLANG v3 liefert===<br />
openSUSE ist stolz die erste Hauptdistribution zu sein, die [http://golang.org/ '''Googles neue Programmiersprache Go'''] als Teil unserer neuen Version ausliefert. Go ist eine schnelle, statisch-typisierte, kompilierte Sprache die sich dynamisch-typisiert, interpretierte Sprache anfühlt. Go macht es einfach mit Mehrkern- und Netzwerkmaschinen zu arbeiten und bietet ein flexiblen und modularen Konstruktionsmachanismus. Obwohl es (schnell) in Maschinencode kompiliert besitzt sie den Vorteil der Garbage Collection und die Stärke der Runtime Reflection. Sie finden weitere Informationen auf der [http://golang.org/ Webseite von Go].<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 bringt außerdem den soeben veröffentlichten [http://llvm.org/ '''LLVM3 Compiler'''] und [http://clang.llvm.org/ clan], der C/C++ Compiler der auf LLVM aufbaut. LLVM beinhaltet eine Reihe an flexiblen und performanten Compilern, die leiststungsstarken Code generieren, welcher von Mesa für seine software-basierten OpenGL "Gallium" Grafiktreiberarchitektur verwendet. Es wird ebenfalls bei den Open-Source Grafikkartentreibern von ATI und NVIDIA verwendet und bilden deshalb integraler Bestandteil eines Hochleistungs-Grafikstacks unter Linux.<br />
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[http://clang.llvm.org/ '''Clang'''] nutzt LLVM um einen schnellen und speichereffizienten, GCC-kompatiblen C/C++-Compiler bereitzustellen. Clang kommt in openSUSE 12.1 mit aktivierter ARM Code-Generationsunterstützung, ganz im Geiste des kürzlich gestarteten [http://opensuse.org/opensuse:ARMopenSUSE ARM Projekts]!<br />
Neben Go und LLVM bietet openSUSE 12.1 eine große Auswahl aktuellster Coimpiler und Werkzeuge. openSUSE 12.1 wurde mit [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.3'''] gebaut, welche [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_fx4100_gcc&num=1 deutliche Perfomancesteigerung] seit der früheren 4.5er Version zeigt. Diese Version führt ebenfalls erstmalige Unterstützung für die Ada 2012 Programmiersprache als auch experimentelle Unterstützung für den aktuellen C++11 Standard (der Status kann auf der http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/cxx0x_status.html GCC Status Webseite nachgeschaut werden].<br />
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Diese Version von GCC, kombiniert mit den aktuellen '''binutils 2.21.1''' macht es uns möglich [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''link-time Optimierung'''] in einigen Paketen zu aktivieren, was wiederum zusätzliche Performance bringt.<br />
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=== Localization ===<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 has been [http://i18n.opensuse.org translated into many languages] - currently about 30 are over 90% complete and no less than 66 languages are in the process of being finished. This openSUSE release has added five Cyrillic fonts. Two of them (PT Sans and PT Serif) beside standard Western, Central European and Cyrillic code pages contain characters of all title languages of Russian Federation that make them unique and a very important tool of modern digital communications.}}<br />
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===Repository changes and third party support for openSUSE 12.1===<br />
Via the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service installation on build.opensuse.org] openSUSE hosts over 160.000 packages created by more than 30.000 individual contributors. These are available to openSUSE users as well as users from other Linux Distributions. But outside of this infrastructure, other projects like VLC and Packman offer their own OBS instance with packages for openSUSE! We highlight a few important projects from build.opensuse.org and third parties.<br />
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====Tumbleweed====<br />
'''Tumbleweed''', the unique [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed|rolling release repository for openSUSE]], can be considered 'complete' at the time of this release. Covering almost all of the openSUSE 12.1 packages, Tumbleweed offers newer versions as soon as they are deemed stable. Instead of making you wait for a new release of openSUSE, Tumbleweed lessens the significance and change impact of major releases by updating systems continuously. By enabling Tumbleweed you are always up to date with the '''latest software'''. And you won’t have to install newer versions of openSUSE as you’ll be running them already by the time they get released!<br />
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Tumbleweed will require its current users to make one manual change to the repositories upon the 12.1 release. Besides the Tumbleweed repository, users are required to have the latest stable openSUSE repositories enabled, currently for most users set at openSUSE 11.4. With the 12.1 release, these will thus have to change. The openSUSE sysadmins have ensured however that this will be the first and last time this has to be changed. From now on there will be a link to the latest stable release, for the convenience of Tumbleweed users. Upon a new release the openSUSE servers will automatically handle the required changes, transparent to the users. For instructions to make these changes, [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed_12.1change|please see here]].<br />
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Find more information [[:en:Tumbleweed|about Tumbleweed here]].<br />
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====Packman====<br />
[[Image:Packman.png|256px|link=|Features]]The well-known third-party [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] repositories for openSUSE already offer openSUSE 12.1 support. '''Packman''' provides four different repositories each offering a targeted selection of software, in addition to the larger common repository. Additional to packages for openSUSE 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, Factory and SLE 11, an essential set of Packman packages is provided for Tumbleweed. Find more information on the [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman website] and [[Paket_Repositorys#Packman| find out how to get software from Packman on the openSUSE wiki]].<br />
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====SUSE Studio====<br />
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[[Portal:SUSE_Studio|SUSE Studio]] is a project from openSUSE sponsor SUSE(TM) which builds upon the Free and Open Source openSUSE tools like '''KIWI''' and offers a convenient web interface for easy building of openSUSE and SLE based custom operating systems (appliances).<br />
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[http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] users can expect availability of openSUSE 12.1 right from the release date, and support for upgrading existing appliances shortly after. This means it will be possible to easily create your own versions of openSUSE 12.1 with '''custom package selections''', '''artwork''', '''scripts''' and any other properties and download them as USB or disk images, Live CDs and a variety of popular virtual formats. You can share your appliance or also browse other’s shared appliances on [http://susestudio.com/browse SUSE Gallery].<br />
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====Contrib retired====<br />
The [[:en:openSUSE:Contrib|Contrib]] repository for third-party packages was once a community-driven extension of the main repository. The vast majority of these packages have since been integrated in the main repository or in one of the central additional repositories like the official [[KDE_Repositorys|KDE]] and [[GNOME_Repositorys|GNOME]] repositories. These provide newer versions of the software in the main repositories as well as new or experimental software not yet available in openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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====Packages on the Open Build Service====<br />
If you can not find an application in openSUSE 12.1 you can use the search functionality on [http://software.opensuse.org software.opensuse.org]. If you enable searching in users home projects (under advanced) you can choose from the 160.000 packages provided by our 30.000 packagers using the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service instance on build.opensuse.org].<br />
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====VLC====<br />
The VideoLAN organization continues their robust support for openSUSE, with a 1-click install of the VLC universal media player already available for openSUSE 12.1 at [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html this page].<br />
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=== Latest Free Desktops ===<br />
openSUSE offers both major Free Software desktops as well as a number of community-supported desktops, all with a high level of polish and support. openSUSE 12.1 is the first release to introduce the new '''GNOME Shell''' user interface, part of GNOME 3.2. GNOME Shell brings a vastly refined user experience with a smooth, natural workflow. The default openSUSE desktop, the '''KDE Plasma Desktop''', brings color management and much improved performance as well as the new 'Akonadi' based Kontact2 groupware solution. Current releases of both XFCE and LXDE include minor improvements on the road to their next big releases.<br />
For the first time, the openSUSE community openly selected artwork for openSUSE 12.1; the preferred 'upwind' theme reflects in our new splash, boot and background images . GNOME users will notice that the art team has maintained the trend of providing a time-sensitive set of themed wallpapers.<br />
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==== KDE Plasma Workspaces and applications 4.7 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Workspaces] 4.7 and is the first major Linux distribution to ship the new [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos Color Management Service]. Oyranos and its associated tools add [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management color management] to KDE applications, making sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens. Another major new addition is Apper, an easy to use software management tool replacing KPackageKit. There are also improvements to network management, the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop tool and Activities. In total, this release fixed over 12.000 bugs and contains hundreds of smaller and larger performance improvements.<br />
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The innovative new Tablet project from the KDE community, Plasma Active, is not an integral part of the openSUSE 12.1 release as it depends on functionality not available in the released KDE Platform yet and conflicts with the Desktop and Netbook workspaces. However, tablet users can install Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 and we work on integrating it in the next openSUSE release.<br />
Read on for a more extensive view on what's new in the Desktop, Netbook and application area as well as to learn more about Plasma Active One!<br />
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File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-widgets.png|Widgets<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-digiKam.png|Foto Manager: digiKam<br />
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=====Plasma Workspaces bring improved visuals with Oyranos CMS=====<br />
openSUSE is the '''first major Linux distribution to ship [http://www.oyranos.org/about/ Oyranos CMS]''' integrated in the KDE applications and workspaces. Oyranos is is an operating system level [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Color Management System], matching input device colors to output device colors across supported applications. Oyranos makes use of the ICC color management standard and is integrated in the KDE Workspaces and applications through the new KolorManager application. The KolorManager application makes sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens.<br />
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Users can now configure their ICC profiles and settings in one central place. It brings as well a set of command line tools like oyranos-policy for handling policy configuration files and oyranos-profiles for installation of ICC profiles. KDE users can install the KolorManager package. This Oyranos front end adds a system settings control panel for individual settings adaption. Most systems will run fine with Oyranos defaults. [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ read more about color management in openSUSE 12.1 on the oyranos website]<br />
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'''Visual improvements'''<br />
On the visual side, KDE's Plasma workspaces provides '''better integration with GTK/GNOME applications''' with a port of KDE's Oxygen style to GTK. The Oxygen icons have been improved and the Plasma panel offers a more consistent look with changes to the icons and the clock. The new Shadow support in window manager '''KWin''' gives a better look on older hardware and performs better all around. KWin also can now disable compositing when a full-screen application calls for it, increasing performance for OpenGL games and GPU accelerated video playback.<br />
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Plasma's Activities have seen many improvements. The '''Activity Manager''' now takes a more prominent place in the default panel in Plasma Desktop. Activities enhance the users' workflows by providing smart ways of grouping applications, widgets and documents.<br />
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Navigating through applications and recent files is easier with the '''addition of breadcrumbs''' to the Kickoff application launcher, helping users to see where they are and quickly back up to higher menu levels. Many other usability and functionality improvements have been made to the Workspaces. For example, '''Konsole''' no longer blocks the removal of USB storage devices and '''KMix''' has improved PulseAudio support. <br />
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'''Network management, multimedia and Nepomuk'''<br />
The Plasma Workspaces now also offer '''much improved network management''', including support for NetworkManager 0.9 as well as Bluetooth tethering, 3G, VPN, MAC spoofing and other advanced networking options.<br />
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Thanks to [http://dot.kde.org/2011/09/21/nepomuk-stability-and-performance generous donations from the community], the Semantic Desktop technology '''Nepomuk has seen extensive bugfixing''', improving stability and performance as well as making it easier to use. Strigi analyzers now read meta-data in their own process, resolving over 35 crash-related bugs in Dolphin and Konqueror.<br />
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The latest version of '''Phonon''', our media framework, has seen work on the backends. The VLC-based back-end is now considered stable and is the preferred back-end for multiplatform use, while the back-end based on GStreamer is now also considered stable on Linux platforms. The xine back-end is no longer maintained.<br />
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=====KDE Applications suite 4.7 features many refinements=====<br />
The latest version of KPackageKit - now renamed '''Apper''' - (developed by [http://dantti.wordpress.com Daniel Nicoletti] ) is now included with Plasma Desktop. This brings significant improvements to the KDE's PackageKit front end and makes it possible to list Applications instead of listing only Packages. This makes openSUSE a lot more user-friendly and closer to Grandma compattible.<br />
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'''Dolphin''', KDE’s file manager, has a cleaner default appearance. The menu bar is hidden, but easy to reach and restore. The file searching interface has been improved. In addition, Dolphin now has much deeper integration with source code management systems, including the ability to create and clone repositories, push and pull changes, view diffs and much more.<br />
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Dolphin and Konqueror both benefit from a new plugin that provides a '''rating and an annotation menu action''' for files and folders, leveraging Nepomuk capabilities. <br />
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Image management has become easier with '''Gwenview''', the KDE image viewer, now offering the ability to compare two or more pictures side by side. From the browse mode, select two or more pictures, and then switch to the view mode or to the full-screen mode. In the view mode, you can add more pictures from the thumbnail bar.<br />
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Comic fans will be pleased that Okular, the universal file viewer, gains support for reading a directory as a comicbook.<br />
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'''KStars''', the essential KDE application for stargazers around the world, has gained a feature to predict a star hopping route and dynamic switching between its OpenGL and native rendering backends. Labels can now be assigned to points on celestial lines; comet trails are rendered in OpenGL mode. Mathematicians and scientists can now explore higher order functions in Kalgebra and get information on oxidation states for elements in Kalzium. <br />
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'''KDM''', the display manager, has gained ''GRUB2'' support. A user with multiple operating systems in their GRUB2 menu can now choose which one to reboot to in the shutdown dialog by holding down the mouse button on their reboot choice. <br />
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'''Marble''', the virtual globe application, has gained many improvements over the past eight months. It now has voice navigation support, a map creation wizard, and new plug-ins. Following the Voice of Marble contest, '''voice navigation''' is now available in several languages, with voices provided by the KDE community. For more details, see Marble's [http://edu.kde.org/marble/current_1.2.php visual changelog]. <br />
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Other applications such as Kate, Kalzium, KAlgebra, KStars, and KDevelop have also been updated in this release. Changes and improvements to some other major applications from the KDE community can be found in the [Product_highlights#New_and_updated_applications|applications section].<br />
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Find more information on what is new in the Plasma Workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Platform in the [http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.7/ announcement by KDE].<br />
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File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-dolphin.png|KDE Dateimanager: Dolphin<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-gwenview.png|Bildbetrachter: gwenview<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-kaffeine.png|Video Player: Kaffeine<br />
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=====Plasma Active One is optionally available=====<br />
The fresh and innovative [http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active Plasma Active] interface for tablets and mobile devices is available for openSUSE 12.1. It is not an integral part of this release as it still depends on a number of unreleased technologies but we plan to have Plasma Active as part of openSUSE 12.2.<br />
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'''Plasma Active'''<br />
Plasma Active aims at creating a cross-device user experience for emerging devices such as tablet computers, media centers, smartphones, and more. It builds on the Linux stack with X11, Qt and the KDE libraries. The user interface is designed using Plasma Quick, a declarative markup language allowing for organic user interface design based on Qt Quick.<br />
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The first release, [http://kde.org/announcements/plasma-active-one/ Plasma Active One] fully focuses on tablet computers. Plasma Active Tablet's user experience is designed around the web, social networks and multimedia content. Packages for openSUSE are offered in the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=KDE%3AActive Plasma Active] repository.<br />
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==== GNOME 3.2 ====<br />
After shipping a technical preview of [http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ GNOME 3] with 11.4, openSUSE 12.1 replaces the GNOME 2.x series with the latest GNOME 3.2 desktop to the openSUSE GNOME users. With many improvements based on the feedback of the openSUSE community and the wider Free Software community, numerous usability and application changes have been incorporated.<br />
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'''GNOME Shell''' brings a fresh user-interface that is designed from the scratch to satisfy the needs of today's users. The interface focuses on getting out of the way and providing unobtrusive yet powerful notifications and deep integration of calendar, chat and other technologies. The UI elements and workflows are designed to be touch-friendly for use on tablets or desktops with a touch screen. By using the 3D acceleration capabilities provided by most of the computers these days, pleasing animations are used to give users an aesthetic look and feel and a much easier way of switching between applications. Read on for more details on what's new in GNOME 3.2.<br />
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===== What's new in GNOME Shell 3.2 =====<br />
Various minor tweaks and major features are incorporated into this release based on user feedback. openSUSE 12.1 ships the alt-status-menu extension to make various computer operations easily accessible. Some examples:<br />
*It is now easier to resize windows and titlebars, buttons and other controls are a bit less tall, making GNOME easier to use on small screens.<br />
* Notifications now include a counter so you can see how many mails or chats messages are waiting for you and Shell now also shows media device notifications.<br />
* The focus-follows-mouse feature has been improved and while it's not perfect yet, it will suffice for most usecases.<br />
* The System Settings have been improved, showing links to other relevant settings and has integrated color management<br />
* GNOME Shell battery power status now shows how much power you have left<br />
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===== Communication in GNOME Shell =====<br />
Compared to any prior release of GNOME, the instant messaging workflow is much improved in GNOME Shell 3.2. You can receive chats, reply to messages, approve / deny friendship requests, call requests, all without having to launch the IM application explicitly. You can change the status of your machine from a centralized place so that all the IM accounts reflect the status change. Error and new message notifications are so well integrated in GNOME shell so that you won't have focus stealing popups but only unobtrusive animations notifying you what is going on.<br />
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A new "Online Accounts" feature enables users to create online accounts. Accounts created will be seamlessly available for various applications throughout the desktop experience. For example, if you create a Google Account, your Google Docs documents will be available in the new Document browser, your Google contacts will be available in empathy for IM, and the calendar shows your appointments. http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/gnome-documents-google.png.en<br />
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[http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2]<br />
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===== What's new in the GNOME 3.2 Applications =====<br />
The new GNOME 3 libraries bring many improvements to GNOME 3 applications. Some examples:<br />
* File open dialogs in applications now show a list of recent files and directories<br />
* Better performance and a new theme<br />
* A redesigned Font chooser dialog<br />
* A new on-screen keyboard and a number of other accessibility enhancements<br />
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Moreover, the individual applications have seen many features and bugfixes, read on for a quick overview.<br />
A new people-focused '''Contacts"' application is shipped which can work with Evolution and Empathy in the background, providing you with a unified addressbook for your desktop. <br />
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'''Empathy''', the GNOME IM application has got a lot of improvements. You can easily search your logs visually filtering on various parameters such as Who, When.<br />
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http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/empathy-log.png.en NetworkManager-gnome version 0.9 provides fast user switching, improved WiFi roaming, WiMAX support, flexible permissions and centralized storage of network connection information.<br />
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Not to be left out of the party, GNOME 3.2 includes robust color management support as well, including the new GNOME Color Manager wizard for calibrating displays using either ICC profiles or a Huey hardware colorimeter. [http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-color-manager/screenshots.html]<br />
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File manager '''Nautilus''' has seen a major overhaul for GNOME 3, with an improved Places sidebar, a new ''Connect to server'' dialog and a quick preview function which can be triggered by 'space'.<br />
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Many smaller improvements include new and configurable effects in the Webcam application '''Cheese''', bookmark support in PDF viewer '''Evince''', plugins for image viewer '''Eye of GNOME''' and improved streaming support for video and audio in media player Totem.<br />
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Read more about [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2 in the official announcement] and find more GNOME applications in the sections below.<br />
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File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME desktop.png|Desktop Shell<br />
File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME activities.png|GNOME Shell:<br> Aktivitäten<br />
File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME eog.png|Bildbetrachter:<br> GNOME Eye<br />
File:OpenSUSE_12.1_GNOME_nautilus.png|Datei Manager:<br> Nautilus<br />
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==== LXDE 0.5 ====<br />
This release of openSUSE comes with LXDE 0.5. There have been no major updates to this lightweight desktop for a while but minor improvements and bugfixes have been integrated.<br />
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Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_desktop_menu.png|LXDE Desktop und Menü<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_control_center.png|LXDE Kontrollzentrum<br />
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==== Xfce 4.8 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships ''''Xfce 4.8''''. All Xfce components have been updated to the latest bugfix releases. The desktop has been polished further in terms of integration and branding. LightDM is now the default display manager reducing the dependencies on core GNOME components. The functionality provided in the default install should now be on par with GNOME/KDE desktops.<br />
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File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Desktop.png|Desktop<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Main_Menu.png|Haupt Menue<br />
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=== New and updated applications ===<br />
On top of the kernel and other low-level tools, openSUSE provides a huge variety of console and graphical applications. These applications have been updated to the latest versions bringing many improvements in terms of features and bugfixes.<br />
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====Web browsers====<br />
The web is important for modern computer users, and openSUSE has you covered with a selection of browsers Free Software has to offer. We ship a much faster Firefox, an innovative Opera, a well integrated Epiphany and a more stable Rekonq. New is Chromium, the fast and easy to use browser from Google. These browsers provide a wide range of rendering engines supporting the latest web standards. Read on to find out what is new in these browsers since we brought to you in openSUSE 11.4!<br />
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'''Firefox 7'''<br /><br />
Since Firefox 4.0 in openSUSE 11.4, the project has moved to a more rapid release schedule and thus we present you with Mozilla's latest Firefox 7.0.1. Firefox has introduced support for new privacy features like do-not-track and much improved developer tools in the new 'web developer' menu. End users will appreciate the many smaller and larger usability improvements like the URL bar highlighting the website domain and hiding the prefix. Last but not least, each subsequent Firefox release brought better performance, from faster loading of tabs to the large memory management improvements in Firefox 7 and of course support for the latest web standards.<br />
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'''Chromium 16'''<br /><br />
Chromium, meet openSUSE 12.1 users. Users, meet Chromium. This venerable WebKit based web browser from Google is quickly gaining popularity and thus had to become part of the openSUSE distribution. With its simplified interface, great integration with Google services, separate processes so a crashing site can not take down the browser and the fastest JavaScript engine in the world, it will impress you with it's speed and ease of use. The rapid release cycle of Chromium is hard to track - we ensure the latest is always available on your system so you don't have to worry about security or not being able to work with the latest websites.<br />
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'''Opera 11.52'''<br /><br />
Opera 11.52 brings much improved Opera Link to sync your passwords between system and a better Speed Dial which now supports extensions, small webpages embedded in your Speed Dial. Another new feature is the Location support on websites like Google Maps. Opera also uses far less memory now and became a fair bit more stable. Of course this release supports the latest HTML 5 and CSS 3 standards and features a faster JavaScript engine and smoother graphics.<br />
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'''Rekonq 0.8'''<br /><br />
With Rekonq 0.8, openSUSE ships a second WebKit based browser. Build on Qt and the KDE Platform this new release takes advantage of the many improvements in QtWebKit 2.2, bringing better stability and performance. New features include the Do-Not-Track feature, availability of history in restored tabs, and Third Party rule support in AdBlock. usability has been given attention with much improved drag'n'drop support, an new SSL UI, optional VI-style navigation and improved URL bar handling.<br />
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'''Epiphany from GNOME 3.2'''<br /><br />
The third WebKit based browser, this time from the GNOME community, Epiphany, allows you to create Web Application links. These Web Applications show up in the application view of GNOME Shell and act very much like real applications, opening links in new web browser windows and not showing a navigation bar or tabs. They also run in a process separate from the browser, so that crashes of Epiphany do not affect your web applications.<br />
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====Office and desktop publishing applications====<br />
openSUSE helps you get work done by providing a stable base and up to date productivity tools. The latest LibreOffice brings new features in most components as well as speed and stability improvements to this enterprise ready office suite. While Abiword, Gnumeric and KOffice are still at their latest stable versions, our additional repositories offer the innovative Calligra application suite as a choice.<br />
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'''Libreoffice 3.4.3'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://XXXX.org '''Libreoffice'''] release brings a large number of small additions and improvements like the ability to add and remove color charts, a named range as data source and supporting an unlimited number of fields in the DataPilot (now named Pivot Table), Greek Character mode for numbering in Writer and much more. As usual, much performance work was done decreasing the size of LibreOffice and improving startup speed. Text rendering and theming have received a major overhaul, making LibreOffice fitting better in your desktop.<br />
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'''Scribus 1.4'''<br /><br />
[http://www.scribus.net '''Scribus'''] is the major Open Source Desktop Publishing tool available for Linux. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation. openSUSE ships a release candidate of Scribus 1.4 which has a large number of stability fixes over the release in openSUSE 11.4.<br />
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'''Calligra 2.4 beta 3'''<br /><br />
The new [http://www.calligra-suite.org/ Calligra Suite], the successor of KOffice in openSUSE is not yet part of this release. However most users report the current beta's to be of '''better quality than the latest KOffice release''' and the openSUSE packagers have thus committed to provide a repository which will offer the latest Calligra releases.<br />
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Specifically '''targeting students and academic users''' with the productivity part, Calligra brings much improved text handling and rendering, state of the art '''import support for the Microsoft XML formats''' and many stability and usability improvements to all applications. Words introduces handling of citations and bibliographies and an automatically updating Table of Content, better text tables, footer- and header support and much more. Presentation application Stage has a new slide sorter and easier editing of notes with slides. Project Management application Plan introduces many new chart printing options and improved import from external data sources. Tables has improved support for large tables, rotated text, many new formulas, improved Microsoft Excel file support and much faster loading.<br />
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Calligra also introduces two new applications: <br />
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*Flow is a diagramming and flowcharting application in the spirit of Visio.<br />
*Braindump is a note taking application that builds on the Calligra core and uses the full power of the openDocument Format to allow for text, images and even multimedia in the notes.<br />
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Find a [http://www.calligra-suite.org/news/calligra-2-4-snapshot-1-tour/ Calligra Tour here].<br />
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You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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====Communication and groupware====<br />
Of course, openSUSE ships a wide variety of groupware and Personal Information Management (PIM) solutions like email clients, chat applications, calendar tools and more.<br />
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'''KDE PIM'''<br /><br />
Kontact, KDE’s groupware solution, has most components now ported to Akonadi. Once the initial bugs are ironed out, this will offer increased stability and performance, better connection to new services and sharing of communication information between more applications. The biggest change is the introduction of KMail 2. This application has the familiar interface, while under the surface, all mail storage and retrieval has been ported to use the powerful Akonadi cache.<br />
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The openSUSE KDE team has put '''significant efforts''' in ensuring a smooth upgrade to KMail 2 but this is a significant change and the team will keep an eye out for further issues. Bugfixes will be provided through updates and users are encouraged to report problems and update their systems frequently.<br />
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It should be noted that the move from KMail1 to KMail2 requires the '''import/conversion of email data to Akonadi'''. This process can take considerable time, measuring up to a day on slow systems with multiple gigabyte-sized mailboxes. It is possible to, instead of doing a migration, doing a clean start by moving the current data from the ~.kde4/share/apps/kmail to a backup location. If you have your data stored on a server and it is only cached locally this should not cause you to loose data. In case of a downloading POP mail account, however, you will have to use the conversion process or import your mail separately.<br />
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Also note that '''Akonadi is a cache''', not a permanent storage system. This means that your mail should remain where it is - be it on a server or in a local folder. Akonadi will store a '''copy''' in its database, as well as extra information like ratings and the like, for fast search and retrieval. This essentially replaces the internal cache KMail1 employed for this purpose. Due to this design, Akonadi is very unlikely to lose user data as it normally operates on a copy of it. Of course, actions like moving or removing mails are synced back to the original mail storage!<br />
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'''Evolution 3.2.1'''<br /><br />
Evolution provides integrated mail, address book and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop. Version 3.2.1 has been ported over to the GNOME 3 infrastructure and offers a number of small improvements and bugfixes over the previous release. Also new in the openSUSE 12.1 Evolution is the Exchange Connector for Evolution, compatible with Exchange 2007 and later, allowing Evolution to work with Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010. Evolution also works with the Google contacts, calendar and mail services.<br />
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'''Thunderbird 7.0.1'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird] email client shipped with openSUSE brings delivers faster performance, safer email experience, and a new add-ons manager. With over 390improvements and performance enhancements, Thunderbird is more responsive, starts faster and is easier to use than ever.<br />
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For example, the interface improvements like the improved RSS feeds and better Attachment management make handling your news and mail easier. Tabs can now be re-ordered or dragged into a new window and Thunderbird gives you control over the look and functionality of your email client with a gallery of hundreds of add-ons. The new Add-ons manager allows you to search the gallery in Thunderbird to install, remove, and manage the Add-ons. This release also adds support for technologies that make it easier for developers to build some of these amazing Add-ons, such as the Lightning Calendar, Conversation View, and Open Search.<br />
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====Multimedia====<br />
openSUSE comes with a number of prominent multimedia applications like the Amarok, Banshee and Rythmbox music players, DigiKam and Shotwell photo managers and the Marble virtual globe. Each of those has seen new releases with new features and bugfixes.<br />
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=====Music Players=====<br />
openSUSE comes with a large number of music players, from the well known Rythmbox, Banshee and Amarok to the less prominent like Juk, Totem, KMplayer, Dragon and Bangarang.<br />
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'''Banshee 2.2'''<br /><br />
The new [http://banshee.fm '''Banshee'''] comes with with lots of new extensions like an alarmclock, albumart writer, ampache, duplicated sound detector, jamendo, karaoke, live radio, lyrics and more. Other improvements include the ability to not only queue songs but also artists and albums and having the ability to play a queued song immediately after the current. There has been a number of UI improvements like putting the search next to the volume button, smaller icons in the source list, hidden counts for the libraries, named group separators and a resizable seek slider and search entry. Podcasts episodes are now shown in a grid, with several lines of description shown to help you find an appealing episode to enjoy.<br />
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'''Amarok 2.4.3 and Clementine 0.7.3'''<br /><br />
[http://amarok.kde.org '''Amarok'''] introduces improved Dynamic Playlists and Internet Services including integration with Gpodder.net. The user interface has been improved with better drag and drop, automatic scrolling in the lyrics applet and the ability to scrobble the composer as artist to last.fm. Otherwise, many bugs have been crushed and performance has improved a bit. For those not fond of the direction Amarok took with the 2.0 release, openSUSE ships [http://www.clementine-player.org '''Clementine 0.7.3'''] which in this version brings a new edit tag dialog which offers autocompletion and automatic music identification and missing-tag-fetching. CUE sheets are now supported, detected automatically and tracks will show up separately. Album covers are shown in the Library tab, deleted songs greyed out and much more.<br />
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=====Photo managers, editors and painting applications=====<br />
openSUSE ships with a large number of graphics and painting applications. There have been major versions of DigiKam and Blender as well as minor improvements to most of the other applications. openSUSE 12.1 also comes with lots of ICC color management Profiles ready to go.<br />
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'''DigiKam 2.2'''<br />
openSUSE 12.1 features the release of '''DigiKam''', the result of more than a year of hard work since the DigiKam version in openSUSE 11.4. This version features long awaited technologies like face detection and recognition, image versioning support, XMP metadata sidecar files support, big improvements in tagging and marking photos, reversed geotagging and many other improvements, including a total of 258 fixed bugs.<br />
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Close companion Kipi-plugins is released along with DigiKam 2.2. This release features new export tools to three web services - Yandex.Fotki, MediaWiki and Rajce. The GPSSync plugin now has the ability to do reverse-geocoding. Also new is a plugin which is dedicated to creating photo album-like layouts. Finally, there has been extensive bugfixing.<br />
Find out more about DigiKam and read articles with tips and tricks [http://www.digikam.org/ on the DigiKam website].<br />
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'''Inkscape 4.8.2'''<br />
[http://inkscape.org Inkscape] is a powerful vector graphics editor using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. It supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. The latest stable 4.8.2 version introduces a number of critical bugfixes and improvements to openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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This release is feature complete, offering the powerful UI, animation tools, rigging, modeling, shading, physics and particle tools and everything else Blender is known for.<br />
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'''Shotwell 0.11.5'''<br />
The [http://yorba.org/shotwell/ '''Shotwell'' photo organizer handles pictures based on a timeline. It also offers tagging and rating features and a host of image editing functions like rotating, cropping and adjustment of exposure, saturation and more. It can import photos from most cameras and from folders and publish photos and videos to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, and YouTube. The latest release introduces hierarchical trees for the tags, a new plugin framework, improved printing, a new crop tool and a new search bar as well as many smaller improvements to the user interface. New is also support for paired JPEG and RAW images, BMP, TIFF and other formats, and improved rendering of RAW files. This release also does automatic backups of the database and allows you to save searches.<br />
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'''F-spot 0.8.2-14'''<br />
The easy to use '''F-spot''' photo manager features a very simple interface combined with powerful search, import, browse and edit functionality. Advanced capabilities are exporting EXIF and XMP metadata to your images, versioning of changes in the image editor and quite complete import functionality. This release does not introduce major new features or improvements.<br />
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'''GIMP 2.6.11'''<br />
[http://www.gimp.org/ '''GIMP'''] is a versatile graphics manipulation package offering a customizable interface and a large number of plugins to modify and improve photos. It can work with a huge variety of fileformats. 2.6.11 brings bugfixes for this popular photo manipulation program as well as some minor usability and performance improvements.<br />
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'''Krita and Karbon 2.4 Beta3'''<br />
Two applications, part of the upcoming [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4] release, should not be missed in this overview. While they are not included in the standard openSUSE repositories, they offer some unique benefits many people will apreciate.<br />
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[http://krita.org '''Krita'''] is a sketching and painting tool, offering an end–to–end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters. Fields of painting that Krita explicitly supports are concept art, creation of comics and textures for rendering. Modelled on existing real-world painting materials and workflows, Krita supports creative working by getting out of the way and with snappy response. Developed in close collaboration with a number of artists Krita 2.4 brings many user interface improvements as well as much better performance. New functionality like the ability to share patterns, gradients and brushes over the web and the huge number of unique brushes solidify Krita's position as the '''premier Free Software sketching and drawing application'''.<br />
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The Karbon vector graphics application, also part of [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4], has much better '''support for the SVG standard''' and introduces many new filters and effects while improving on its stability.<br />
You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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=====Video editors and 3D modelling=====<br />
Out of the box, openSUSE does not ship multimedia support due to legal and patent worries in a number of countries. However, if it is legal for you to play your music and video's you can find information on the [http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia openSUSE-community Multimedia] and [http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats Restricted formats] pages on how to obtain the needed codecs. The [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] project which offers the codecs also packages a number of related applications like the excellent [http://www.kdenlive.org/ Kdenlive] and [http://www.openshotvideo.com/ openshot] video editors.<br />
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'''Kdenlive 0.8.2'''<br />
'''Kdenlive''' claims to be the most advanced video editor available on Linux today. It supports virtually any camera and codec thanks to the [http://www.ffmpeg.org/ FFMPEG] and [http://www.mltframework.org/ MLT] frameworks it builds upon. It is a multitrack editor with a timeline and an unlimited number of video and audio tracks. Thanks to the [http://www.piksel.org/frei0r Frei0r] framework Kdenlive offers a large number of effects and transitions and lets you add your own. It renders videos in a separate thread while you keep working and allows you to pause, stop and restart rendering. The latest 0.8.2 version fixes over 140 stability issues and introduces an automated backup feature to avoid the loss of any data. Check the [http://www.kdenlive.org/users/j-b-m/kdenlive-082-released announcement] for more information.<br />
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'''OpenShot 1.4'''<br />
The '''OpenShot''' video editor has a more easy to use interface and offers features like 3D animations, HD video support as well as Clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, and cutting, Video transitions with real-time previews, Compositing, image overlays, watermarks, Title templates, title creation, sub-titles and support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences. [http://vimeo.com/29465427 watch the video of the 1.4 release] or [http://www.openshot.org/features/ check out the openshot features] online.<br />
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'''Audacity 1.3.13'''<br />
For audio editing, '''Audacity''' offers a powerful set of features. Audacity lets you record live audio or convert existing music into digital data. It can also edit files, mixing the music or changing it with a variety of effects. These include echo, a fase changer, equalization, normalization and a number of effects to clean up hiss, noise and other mess. Additional plugins are availble with the VST and LADSPA plug-ins compatibility. Recording up to 96Khz, 32 bit is available with high quality sample rate conversion and there is a number of spectrum analysis tools for your viewing pleasure.<br />
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This release, while part of the beta series, is quite stable. Compared to the 1.3.12 version in the previous openSUSE release there has been a number of improvements to the effects, a new Device Toolbar showing all input and output devices has been introduced and the new "Sync-lock Tracks" feature allows groups of audio and/or label tracks to retain synchronisation when the track length changes. There has also been a fair number of bugfixes and some other smaller improvements.<br />
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'''PiTiVi 0.15'''<br />
openSUSE does ship the simple [http://www.pitivi.org/ '''PiTiVi''' video editor in the main repositories. PiTiVi is more intuitive and easy to use video editor compared to OpenShot and Kdenlive but does not offer the depth of in- and output formats, camera support and effects the others do.<br />
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'''Blender 2.59'''<br />
The well known [http://www.blender.org Blender] 3D content creation suite (3D modeller and video editor) is also part of openSUSE 12.1 with the stable 2.59 version. This third stable release in the 2.5 series brings big improvements in stability with many hundreds of bugs fixed. There is also a number of new features, including 3D mouse support and many UI improvements like the custom keymaps support and the camera locking. Sculpting, the warp modifier and the node editor have also been heavily improved.<br />
The biggest changes in the addons include:<br />
*the new Ivy Generator can grow curves over an existing mesh, <br />
*the Sapling addon generates trees<br />
*Mesh inset can inset individual faces or a selected region.<br />
*Grease scatter can scatter objects along predefined lines<br />
*much, much more. <br />
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openSUSE of course delivers far more multimedia applications to you, from the GStreamer framework to less known music players and a myriad of tools.<br />
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====Security and administration tools====<br />
openSUSE has always been a powertool for system adminstrators around the world and openSUSE 12.1 builds on this strong foundation. It is not only the powerful YaST which is appreciated but also the many tools available with openSUSE. This release brings major improvements to AppArmor, the new Shorewall gateway/firewall configuration application, a big update to the Performance Co-Pilot tool, an extended WebYaST and much more.<br />
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'''AppArmor 2.7 rc1'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships with the latest available [http://apparmor.net AppArmor] to ensure sys admins can easily secure their servers. [http://www.suse.com/support/security/apparmor/ Initially developed by SUSE], AppArmor is part of the Linux kernel now and openSUSE has the userspace components available. It is only in these userspace components that AppArmor ships changes compared to the previous release in openSUSE 11.4. Major features since AppArmor 2.5 include a working desktop notifier and automatic profile update for samba shares. And of course many other profile updates, bugfixes and better performance.<br />
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'''Shorewall 4.4.24'''<br /><br />
New in openSUSE from the Open Build Service is the [http://shorewall.net/Introduction.html Shoreline Firewall configuration tool]. This application offers a very powerful but still rather high-level interface to configure Netfilter through editing a series of configuration files. Upon starting Shorewall, it will read the files and with help of the iptables and other security utils configure Netfilter and the Linux networking subsystem to match your requirements, building a firewal, router or gateway. Find a list of [http://www.shorewall.net/4.4/shorewall_features.htm features of Shorewall here].<br />
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[[Image:WebYaST_Screenshot.png|thumb|250px||WebYast in action]]<br />
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'''Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) 3.5.8 and the PCP GUI charting tools.'''<br /><br />
The [http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/ performance co-pilot] is a heavy-duty performance monitoring tool. It is specifically build to find the harder type of system-level performance problems. It is capable of correlating end-user quality of service with platform activity and diagnosing complex interactions between resource demands on single or multiple systems in dynamic environments. This release is a significant upgrade over what was shipped in openSUSE 11.4, bringing a host of new features and improvements like support for distributed event tracing, transparent support for compressed archives in the client tools, Integrated pmieconf and pmlogconf utilities for automating management of pmie/pmlogger configuration files, Linux kernel control group metrics, per-node CPU metrics, XFS btree metrics and some Postfix updates.<br />
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'''WebYaST'''<br /><br />
The latest version of WebYaST has many improvements regarding speed, memory usage, usability and developing environment. Due a new caching mechanism the startup time of each module has been decreased to a maximum of 1-2 seconds. Former versions of WebYaST were split into a service and into an UI part. Each part has run in a own HTTP server. We have decided to bring these parts together in order to save one HTTP server which halves the memory usage.<br />
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====Virtualization, Cloud and web applications====<br />
openSUSE is an excellent guest OS for the cloud, as anyone who ever uses [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] can agree with. Nowhere is it as easy to build a cloud solution and openSUSE is now ready for the '''Amazon EC2 cloud''' by having a special EC2 kernel and suse-ami-tools in the default repositories.<br />
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But openSUSE can also be an excellent host and contains a fair number of virtualization and cloud tools. Most prominent is OwnCloud, which is shipped with unique desktop integration in openSUSE. What is not available in the default repositories can be found in the special [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualization and Cloud repository], where openSUSE contributors package and maintain '''Eucalyptus''', '''OpenNebula''' and '''OpenStack''' for openSUSE 12.1. <br />
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'''OwnCloud 2'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 delivers OwnCloud, the web-based storage application. OwnCloud is different from solutions like Google Docs, Dropbox or Ubuntu One in that it lets '''you own the data'''. With version 2, the ownCloud team has improved the basic service and added valuable features:<br />
* Secure file sharing<br />
* Improved web access including the ability to play music<br />
* Synchronization with other web application tools<br />
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openSUSE ships OwnCloud with a unique system tray based tool which can:<br />
* Install a new ownCloud locally or in a webspace<br />
* Connect your system to an existing ownCloud<br />
* give you assistance to set up mirrored folders<br />
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There is also basic Dolphin integration which XXXXXXXX<br />
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'''virtualization technologies'''<br /><br />
The new '''Xen 4.1''' release brings support for large systems (>255 processors and 1GB/2MB super page support), CPU Pools for advanced partitioning, prototype credit2 scheduler designed for latency-sensitive workloads and very large systems, a re-architected XL toolstack that is functionally nearly equivalent to XM/XEND, support for x86 Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX), new Memory Access API enabling integration of 3rd party security solutions into Xen virtualized environments and even better stability through the new automated regression tests.<br />
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The lastest version of '''KVM''' provides live migration from one host to another, guest swapping, paravirtualized networking and block devices and PCI-Express passthrough.<br />
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The new 4.1 series '''VirtualBox''' release brings new features like VM cloning, enhanced wizard for creating and copying virtual disks, raised memory limit to 1TB for 64 bit hosts and a couple of experimental featuers like PCI passthrough or SATA hard disk hot-plugging.<br />
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'''Virtualization tools'''<br /><br />
The latest release of '''virt-manager''' (supported by libvirt) brings new VM features including new VM wizard support for LCX guests, remote serial console access and remote URL guest installs.<br />
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The recent version of '''open-vm-tools''' provides integration (shared folders, drag and drop, clipboard sharing, automatic guest resolution resizing, etc.) with the VMware tools.<br />
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'''Horde 4.0.8'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the latest Horde 4 groupware server and framework! Horde 4 is the first release in over 6 years and brings major improvements to all applications of the suite as well as to the framework itself. <br />
Some of the more significant changes from Horde 3 to 4 include a requirement for PHP 5.2 or higher, a new Ajax interface and a new test suite. The complete framework has been modernized and cleaned up and the libraries are better separated and Unit tested.<br />
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The most important things users will notice are the e improved setup and upgrade processes, an Ajax interface for the calendar, and an improved interface for the complete application stack.<br />
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Horde offers a large number of web applications including a webmail tool (part of the Horde Groupware Webmail Edition) complete with WYSIWYG HTML editor, IMAP and POP3 support, message search and filtering, spell check, attachment viewer, encryption and signing, keyboard navigation, threaded view and previews, downloading of attachments in a ZIP file and much more.<br />
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There is now basic social media support with Facebook and Twitter integration and there is an Active Sync server component which can synchronize with iPhones and Android devices. The existing SyncML support already took care of most Nokia phones. The last missing piece is CalDAV support for calendar sharing, which is planned for the future.<br />
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== Entwicklungs-Werkzeuge und Platformen (GNOME/GTK, KDE/Qt,..., etc) ==<br />
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===IDEs und Werkzeugsätze===<br />
openSUSE bietet eine komplette und produktive Umgebung für Entwickler und Paketbauer. Mit stabilen Werkzeugen und aktualisierten Bibliotheken, durch [http://build.opensuse.org OBS] ermöglicht, können Entwickler leicht unter Verwendung mehrerer Programmiersprachen entwickeln und Pakete für mehrere Distributionen erstellen.<br />
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====KDevelop====<br />
Für Software-Entwickler: KDevelop hat zunehmende Unterstützung für [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style indentation styles] erhalten und der Python-Interpreter verwendet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kross_%28KDE%29 Kross]. Ein verbessertes Python mit auto-completion und Unterstützung für [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_%28software%29 lex/yacc] - Dateierweiterungen sind ebenso in dieser Ausgabe enthalten.<br />
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====Kate====<br />
KDE’s fortschrittlicher Text Editor Kate hat eine ganze Menge Verbesserungen erhalten, die folgendes enthalten:<br />
* Ein neues Such-Plugin mit der Fähigkeit in Dateien auf der Festplatte oder in geöffneten Dateien zu suchen<br />
* Plugin-Verbesserung: Build Plugin, GDB Plugin <br />
* Kate’s tab bar Plugins erhielten verschiedene neue Funktionen<br />
* Swap Dateien: Wenn verlorene Daten gefunden werden, werden die Dokumente als read-only markiert<br />
* Weitere bemerkenswerte Änderungen: Verbessertes Drucken, Änderung des Zeilenendes, das ein modifiziertes flag triggert, gelöste Shortcut-Aufgaben, gelöstes Popup für Auto-Komplettierung und mehr.<br />
Mehr Informationen finden Sie auf [http://kate-editor.org/2011/07/09/kate-in-kde-4-7/ diesem Blog].<br />
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===KDE Plattform===<br />
openSUSE 12.1 liefert die neueste stabile '''Qt 4.7.4''' und die '''KDE Plattform 4.7.2''' aus. Sie geben Entwicklern das Beste dieser leistungsfähigen Cross-Plattform-Entwicklungs-Bibliotheken. <br />
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'''KDE Plattform 4.7 '''<br /><br />
Diese Ausgabe von KDE's Entwicklungs-Plattform ist eine vorwärts zählende Ausgabe, die viele Fehlerbereinigungen und kleine Verbesserungen bei folgenden Technologien wie die eingebaute Browser-Maschine WebKit, System weite Proxy-Unterstützung und die Phonon-Multimedia-Maschine mitbringt.<br />
Für Entwickler sichtbare Änderungen sind:<br />
* Verbesserungen zu Komponenten des Semantic Desktop, die eine reiche API für Anwendungen bieten<br />
* Die Option um in KWin Compositing zu verschieben, wenn immer eine Anwendung danach ruft, um die Leistung in OpenGL-Spielen und GPU-beschleunigten Video-Playback zu verbessern.<br />
Details zur Ausgabe der KDE Plattform 4.7 lesen Sie bitte [http://kde.org/announcements/4.7/platform.php die KDE Plattform Release Notizen].<br />
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'''Qt 4.7 führt QtQuick ein'''<br /><br />
Qt 4.7.4 ist ein '''Bugfix-Release''' das mit openSUSE 11.4 ausgeliefert wurde. <br />
Wie auch immer, es führt einige leistungsfähige Funktionen ein, einschließlich dem Release von [http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/01/qt-quick-is-here QtQuick], einer neuen Funktion innerhalb Qt, die es leicht macht, Leichtgewichts-Apps und UIs zu kreieren. Es enthält die neue Sprache QML, einer einfach zu lernenden deklaratorischen Sprache, um dynamische und flüssige Schnittstellen zu bauen, das Qt Declarative-Modul und neue Werkzeugbereitstellung, um leicht Apps zu bauen. <br />
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QtQuick 1.1 bringt Right-to-Left Unterstützung, verbessertes Caching und Texteingabe und eine deklaratorische API zur Handhabung von Berührungs-Eingaben. Es gibt ebenso ein neues QML Sharders Plugin, das es Entwicklern eingebettete deklaratorische OpenGL Sharder Effekte in QML Apps erlaubt.<br />
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=== GNOME-Plattform-Verbesserungen ===<br />
Weitere Details, siehe: [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2 Release-Notizen].<br />
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==== Neue Funktionen und Funktionsweisen ====<br />
In openSUSE 12.1 ist die neueste GNOME-Entwickler-Plattform enthalten. Das besteht aus einem Satz aus API- und ABI-stabilen Bibliotheken, die unter der GNU LGPL stehen. Diese können für die Entwicklung von Cross-Plattform-Anwendungen verwendet werden.<br />
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Informationen zur Entwicklung mit GNOME finden Sie im [http://developer.gnome.org GNOME Entwicklungs-Zentrum].<br />
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'''GLib 2.30'''<br /><br />
GNOME's low-level software utility library GLib has seen various improvements, some of which are:<br />
* GApplication can now be used for non-unique applications.<br />
* GDBus supports the 'object manager' pattern with a number of new interfaces and has a code generator: gdbus-codegen.<br />
* An interface for certificate and key lookup has been added: GTlsDatabase. An implementation is provided by glib-networking.<br />
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'''GTK+ 3.2'''<br /><br />
GTK+ 3.2 is the latest release of the GTK+ toolkit, which is at the heart of GNOME. GTK+ 3.2 includes new features for developers, as well as extensive bug fixes. <br />
* Many more widgets support height-for-width geometry management. It is important to set reasonable sizes on labels and check window sizes.<br />
* New widgets include GtkLockButton for privileged operations, GtkOverlay for floating controls over a content area, the new GtkFontChooserDialog and more.<br />
* There is also improved CSS theming support and the HTML backend Broadway, which renders a GTK3 application in a browser. It is still experimental and requires compiling with --enable-broadway-backend and environment varialbe GDK_BACKEND at runtime.<br />
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'''Clutter 1.8'''<br /><br />
GNOME's graphics library for hardware-accelerated user interfaces Clutter provides, among other things, the following improvements: <br />
* New actions including Gesture and swipe detection, creating drop actors and long-press support for ClutterClickAction. <br />
* ClutterState transitions can be bound to object signals when creating a scene in ClutterScript. <br />
* Cogl, the GPU programming interface used by Clutter, is exposed as a separate library. <br />
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'''Use of Deprecated Libraries'''<br /><br />
Further progress has been made in the continuous work of replacing outdated technologies with superior facilities. Some examples:<br />
* GConf now uses D-Bus. As a consequence, the deprecated libraries ORBit2 and libIDL have been removed from GNOME. Many applications using GConf have been ported to gsettings.<br />
* GNOME core modules now only depend on introspection-based Python bindings (pygobject-3) and hence pygtk, gnome-python and gnome-python-desktop are not required anymore.<br />
* Several packages, such as the Epiphany web browser, have been converted from using dbus-glib to GDBus and from libunique to G(tk)Application.<br />
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'''Miscellaneous Developer Updates'''<br /><br />
Other GNOME Platform improvements in GNOME 3.2 include: <br />
* GNOME's build tool JHBuild does not build a module anymore if the version installed on your system is recent enough. If you start to build GNOME from scratch with a recent distribution, this can easily drop 50 modules from the list of modules to compile.<br />
* Tracker version 0.12 provides support for Firefox ≥ 4.0, Thunderbird ≥ 5.0, MeeGoTouch, several additional SPARQL parameters, extracting information from EPub files, and local XDG directories for desktop files. <br />
* NetworkManager version 0.9 provides introspection support and a simplified D-Bus API. Information how to port applications from NetworkManager 0.8 to 0.9 is available.<br />
* GtkSourceView now supports syntax highlighting of Markdown and Standard ML files.<br />
* libfolks now includes an Evolution-Data-Server backend, which is used by the new Contacts application.<br />
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== Und mehr ==<br />
Die obigen Abschnitte über Änderungen und Verbesserungen in openSUSE 12.1 sind natürlich unvollständig aber geben Vorgeschmack auf das, was neu ist. Wir hoffen Sie hatte Spaß beim Lesen.<br />
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* [[Bildschirmfotos]] und [[Ankündigung]] über openSUSE 12.1<br />
* [[Medienaufteilung]]<br />
* [[openSUSE kaufen|Verkaufsversion]]: Doppellagige DVD für 32bit und 64 bit, gedrucktes Handbuch, kostenlose Installationsunterstützung<br />
* [[Produktlebensdauer|18 Monate Lebensdauer]]<br />
*[http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/12.1/RELEASE-NOTES.de.html openSUSE 12.1 Release Notes]<br />
*[[In_der_Presse| openSUSE 12.1 in der Presse]]<br />
* [[Portal:Installation|Installation]]<br />
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==openSUSE 12.1 - die neueste freie Software in einer stabilen und leichten Version==<br />
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Liebe Nutzer, Mitwirkende, Fans und Freunde,<br />Wir sind stolz, Ihnen die neueste Ausgabe von openSUSE zu präsentieren! Es ist das Ergebnis von 8 Monaten harter Arbeit der openSUSE Gemeinschaft. Sie erlaubt es Ihnen, sich darüber zu freuen, was die neueste freie Software zu bieten hat, mit dem einzigartigen openSUSE-Touch - stabil, freundlich, unterhaltsam.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 bringt Ihnen Aktualisierungen zur neuesten Freien Software als Desktop- und Servertechnologie, ebenso einzigartige Funktionen, wie das neueste Snapper-Werkzeug, Datei-Änderungs-Monitoring und Rollback-Funktionalität. <br />
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===Die neuesten Freien Desktops bringen Farb-Management, GNOME Shell und mehr===<br />
openSUSE bietet Ihnen die Auswahl aus 4 offiziell unterstützten Freien Desktops, alle auf hohem Niveau von Verfeinerung und Unterstützung. Bemerkenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste große Linux-Distribution ist, die Farb-Management-Werkzeuge sowohl für KDE als auch GNOME Desktops mitbringt! <br />
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====KDE führt Oyranos, Apper und Plasma Active ein====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 bringt den [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Arbeitsplatz] 4.7 als Standard-Desktop mit und ist die erste große Linux-Distribution, die auch den neuen [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Farb-Management]-Werkzeuge ausliefert. Eine andere große neue Änderung ist der Ersatz von KPackageKit durch Apper. Apper vereinfacht die Installation und das Entfernen von Anwendungen. <br />
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Das innovative Projekt der KDE-Gemeinschaft, die Tablet-Oberfläche Plasma Active, ist noch kein integraler Bestandteil des openSUSE 12.1 Release. Aber die Nutzer der Tablet-Oberfläche können Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 installieren. Wir arbeiten an der Integration bis zum nächsten Release.<br />
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====GNOME Shell - verbessert und verfeinert====<br />
Wir stellen Ihnen '''GNOME 3.2''' vor, eine verbesserte und verfeinerte Version der GNOME Shell, die in GNOME 3 eingeführt wurde. openSUSE liefert ebenso viele verbesserte GNOME-Anwendungen aus, die in die GNOME-Shell integriert sind.<br />
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Haupt-Verbesserungen im Vergleich zur GNOME 3-Vorschau in openSUSE 11.4 schließen einen besseren Umgang mit kleinen Bildschirmen und Multi-Bildschirm-Einrichtungen ein, bessere Ausführungsmeldungen und eine zentralisierte Konfiguration von <em>Online-Benutzerkonten</em>. Dieses Release bring Ihnen ebenso einen neuen Dokumentenmanager. Dieses Release bringt auch einen neuen Dokumenten-Manager, ein erweitertes Farb-Management und eine automatische Rotation für Touch-Screen-Geräte mit. [[:en:openSUSE:Product_highlights_12.1#GNOME_3.2|Hier finden Sie weitere Details über GNOME 3.2]]<br />
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====Die anderen Desktops====<br />
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Beide Desktops '''XFCE''' und '''LXDE''' habe keine größeren Funktionsuptates seit dem letzten openSUSE Release erhalten. Aber kleine Verbesserungen wurden durchgeführt und sind im Release enthalten. Das schließt bessere Themen- und Desktop-Integration ein und ebenso eine verbesserte Auswahl von Anwendungen, Teil der Standard-Auswahl für jeden Desktop. openSUSE stellt auch wieder KDE 3 Pakete zur Verfügung.<br />
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===openSUSE bietet die neuesten Web- und Wolken-Technologien an===<br />
Dieses openSUSE Release liefert die neuesten Web-Browser, das Groupware-Framework [http://www.horde.org/ Horde 4] und aktualisierte Wolken- und Virtualisierungs-Technologien.<br />
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====Im Web surfen und dienen====<br />
Auf der Client-Seite fügt openSUSE '''Chromium 16''' zu den Standard-Repositorys hinzu. Dieser auf WebKit basierende Internetbrowser von Google bietet eine zweckmäßige Benutzeroberfläche und ein äußerst schnelles browsen durchs Internet. Der Standardbrowser von openSUSE ist '''Firefox 7''', der neueste aus dem Mozilla-Labor.<br />
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Auf der Server-Seite bietet das Management-Werkzeug für entfernte Systeme '''WebYaST''' eine deutlich verbesserte Web-Schnittstelle, um openSUSE Systeme aus der Ferne mit neuen Modulen und besserer Leistungsfähigkeit zu administrieren. Die Einführung des Groupware-Frameworks '''Horde 4''' bringt einen leistungsfähigen Satz von Anwendungen mit, einschließlich eines modernen Webmail-Clients und einem auf PHP basierenden Rahmenwerk auf dem alles aufgebaut ist.<br />
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====Unterstützung der Wolken-Technologien====<br />
openSUSE ist ein ausgezeichnetes Gast-Betriebssystem für die Wolke, was in Erfahrung gebracht werden kann, indem man Lösungen im [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] baut. Mit einem neuen Kernel ist openSUSE nun bereit, in der '''Amazon EC2 cloud''' zu laufen. Auf der Host-Seite können die neuesten Virtualiesierungs-Technologien wie '''Xen 4.1''', '''KVM''' und '''Virtual Box''' mit dem neuesten '''[http://virt-manager.org/ virt-manager]''' und '''[http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ open-vm-tools]''' verwaltet werden. Schließlich ist openSUSE die erste Linux-Distribution, die die [http://owncloud.org/ eigene Wolke] in den Dektop integriert. Das [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualisierungs- und Wolken Repository] für openSUSE bietet die neuesten Versionen von '''[http://www.eucalyptus.com/ Eucalyptus]''', '''[http://opennebula.org/about:about OpenNebula]''' und '''[http://www.openstack.org/ OpenStack]''' für openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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[[:en:Product_highlights#Security_and_administration_tools|Hier können sie mehr über die Werkzeuge zu Administration und Wolke in openSUSE 12.1 lesen.]]<br />
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===Verbesserte Technologie der Distribution===<br />
openSUSE führt eine Anzahl von Verbessereungen und Innovationen in die darunter liegende Technologie der Distribution ein. Das schließt das einzigartige [[:en:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]]-Werkzeug, das Versionen von Dateien verwaltet, das [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd Systemd-Init-System] und die Sprache [http://code.google.com/p/go/ Go] von Google ein. <br />
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====Snapper rollt Änderungen zurück====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ist die erste Linux-Distribution, die die Schnappschuss-Funktion des zukünftigen Linux-Dateisystems Btrfs nutzt. Diese Schnappschüsse des Dateisystems verwenden "copy-on-write", und machen diese sehr Speicherplatz-Effizient. openSUSE führt [[:en:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] ein, was dem Benutzer ermöglicht, sich mit dieser Technologie auseinander zu setzen.<br />
Die Kommandozeile und die Snapper-Werkzeuge mit grafischer Oberfläche erlaubt es den Benutzern, sich ältere Dateiversionen anzusehen und Änderungen rückgängig zu machen. Diese einzigartige Integration in Paketmanager Zypper erlaubt es ganze Upgrades oder Software-Installationen mit den begleitenden Konfigurations-Änderungen rückgängig zu machen.<br />
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====Systemd startet Ihr System====<br />
Systemd ist das neue Init-Werkzeug in openSUSE. Es steuert und beschleunigt den Startprozess. Es wurde in enger Kooperation mit den der befreundeten Linux-Distribution Fedora entwickelt. Systemd ist besonders für Systemadministratoren interessant, wegen seines leistungsfähigen Sockel- und Bus-aktivierten Service-Systems. Es arbeitet mit der Kernel-Funktion [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups cgroups] eng zusammen und bietet eine bessere Sicherheit und Kontrolle über die Prozesse.<br />
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====Schreibe in '''go''', kompiliere mit Clang oder GCC====<br />
openSUSE ist stolz darauf, die erste große Distribution zu sein, die [http://golang.org/ '''Google's neue Programmiersprache Go '''] als Bestandteil des Release auszuliefern. Go ist eine schnelle, leichte Sprache, die gut darin ist, Mehrkernsysteme zu bedienen, ebenso an das Netzwerk angeschlossene Maschinen mit der Eignung zur Abfallsammlung und Laufzeit Reflexion.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 kommt mit dem gerade veröffentlichten [http://llvm.org/ '''Kompiler-Werkzeug LLVM3'''] und [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], dem C/C++ Kompiler, der auf LLVM baut. LLVM wird von den beschleunigten open Source Grafiktreibern für ATI und NVIDIA verwendet. Das bildet einen integralen Bestandteil von Hoch-Leistungs-Stack-Grafiken auf LINUX. <br />
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Diese openSUSE Ausgabe ist mit [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''] und [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''Link-Zeit- Optimierung'''] gebaut, die die komplette Leistung der Software verbessert.<br />
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==Mehr Details über openSUSE 12.1==<br />
Die folgenden Seiten zeigen auf, was neu in dieser openSUSE Version ist.<br />
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===Unter der Haube===<br />
Obwohl die meisten offensichtlichen Verbesserungen von openSUSE 12.1 an der Oberfläche zu sehen sind, haben wir ebenfalls eine Menge an Verbesserungen „unter der Haube” gemacht. Darunter verbessertes Starten (boot), Hardware Management und Systemkonfiguration. The Startprozedur von openSUSE wird nun von systemd übernommen (und SysVInit ist aber noch als Notlösung vorhanden); das neue Snapper Werkzeug hält überwacht automatisch die Systemkonfiguration und andere Dateiänderungen (und lässt es auf Wunsch zurücksetzen); YaST hat einige ganze Reihe an Verbesserungen erhalten; SAX kehrt in Form von SAX3 wieder zurück, ein openSUSE GSOC Projekt; und wir unterstützen natürlich die aktuelleste Version von jeder Kern-Komponente, z.B. Linux 3.1 Kernel, syslog-ng 3.3, GCC 4.6 und LLVM v3. Ebenfalls erwähnenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste Haupt-Distribution ist, die [http://golang.org Googles neue Go Programmiersprache] ausliefert.<br />
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====openSUSE Technologie Verbesserungen====<br />
openSUSE, als eine Linux-Distribution macht mehr als nur Pakete dritter anzubieten. Wir haben unsere eigenen Werkzeuge, mit dem Sie Ihr System konfigurieren, Software managen und vieles mehr können.<br />
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=====Snapper=====<br />
[[Image:openSUSE_12.1_Snapper.png|thumb|200px||Snapper YaST GUI in Aktion]]<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ist die erste Linux-Distribution die Vorteile aus der Schnappschuss-Funktion des kommenden Linux-Dateisystems Btrfs macht. Diese Schnappschüsse (engl.: Snapshots) vom Dateisystem benutzen „copy-on-write“ (Kopieren-beim-Schreiben), was das ganze sehr Platzsparend macht. openSUSE 12.1 führt [[:de:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] ein, welches dem Benutzer eine Schnittstelle zu dieser Technologie bietet.<br />
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Das Kommandozeilen- und GUI Snapper-Werkzeug erlaubt dem Benutzer ältere Versionen von Dateien anzuzeigen und Änderungen rückgängig zu machen. Die einzigartige Integration in den zypper-Paketmanager von openSUSE erlaubt dem Nutzer ganze Aktualisierungen oder Softwareinstallationen samt den dazugehörigen Konfigurationsänderungen rückgängig zu machen.<br />
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Beachte dass Snapper und das Zurückrollen (Rollback) zurzeit nur für btrfs Dateisysteme zur Verfügung steht! Arbeiten werden diese Funktionen auch für das ältere Ext4 Dateisystem verfügbar machen. Jedoch wird das nicht vor der nächsten openSUSE Version geschehen.<br />
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Sie können [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/04/01/introducing-snapper/ eine Einführung von Snapper hier lesen].<br />
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[http://www.youtube.com/susevideo#p/a/u/0/9H7e6BcI5Fo Greg K-H führt Snapper bei Brainshare vor].<br />
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=====SAX3=====<br />
Als Xorg sich über die xorg.conf hinaus zur neuen xorg.conf.d Struktur entwickelt, ging unser geliebtes X Konfigurationswerkzeug SAX2 ebenfalls. Dank der Mühen Manu Guptas [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/07/05/people-of-opensuse-manu-gupta/ während Googles Summer of Code] erhielt openSUSE wieder ein neues elegantes grafisches Werkzeug um die X Konfiguration anzupassen: SAX3. Nun haben openSUSE-Nutzer wieder die Möglichkeit einfach ihre Tastatur-, Maus-, Monitor und Touchpadeinstellungen in einer praktischen Oberfläche zu optimieren. Machen Sie sich keine Sorgen falls Sie Probleme mit Ihrer X-Konfiguration haben: Wie üblich für YaST-Module löst SAX3 das Huhn-Ei-Problem indem es eine ncurses Text-, als auch GTK und QT Grafikoberflächen integriert hat. Bitte beachten Sie, dass SAX3 in der OSS-Softwarequelle nicht ordnungsgemäß in 12.1 funktioniert. Ein kommendes Update wird das Problem lösen. Dieses ist bereits verfügbar in der [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=X11%3Asax X11:SAX-Softwarequelle].<br />
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=====YaST=====<br />
Neben der Unterstützung von Snapper und der Rückkehr von SAX3 erhielt YaST2 eine Anzahl an Bugfixes und kleineren Verbesserungen. Die YaST-Entwickler sind froh zu berichten, dass sie nach den letzten Korrekturen zuversichtlich sind, dass YaST nicht wieder versehentlich benutzer-modifizierte Konfigurationsdateien überschreiben wie es in den „frühen Tagen“ der Fall war. Zusammen mit den zypp-Paketmanagement-Leistungsverbesserungen in der 11er-openSUSE-Serie wurde dem Mythos das YaST langsam sei und Dateien überschreibt ein Ende gesetzt. Eine stärker sichtbare Änderung ist das neue Design was dank der [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/10/24/new-style-for-yast2/ CSS-basierten Themen für YaST ermöglicht wurde]. WebYaST entwickelt sich ebenfalls weiterhin gut; beinhaltet mittlerweile mehr Module als je zuvor um eine Web-basierte Administration von openSUSE zur unterstützen.<br />
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=====OBS, openQA und andere Werkzeuge=====<br />
openSUSE hat eine Reihe an mächtigen Werkzeugen, welche wir zum Bauen unserer Distribution, welche ebenfalls für Andere zum Bauen von Paketen oder Software-Testen verfügbar sind, entwickelt. Diese Werkzeuge beinhaltet den plattformübergreifenden [http://openbuildservice.org Open Build Service], das allmächtige [http://openqa.opensuse.org openQA], das flexible [[Portal:KIWI|KIWI]] und viele weitere.<br />
Von jedem kamen in den letzte 8 Monaten neue, verbesserte Versionen raus. Das beinhaltet die [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/10/11/opensuse-announces-first-public-release-of-openqa/ erste Freigabe von openQA] and der [http://news.opensuse.org/2010/10/19/the-opensuse-build-service-2-1-released/2.1 Freigabe des Open Build Service] für welches [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=openSUSE%3ATools Pakete für openSUSE 12.1 verfügbar sind].<br />
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====Linux Kernel 3.1====<br />
Der neue Linux 3.1 Kernel hat erhebliche Verbesserungen zum 2.6.38er Kernel, welcher Teil von openSUSE 11.4 war. Es wurden nicht nur Dateisysteme wie Ext4 und Btrfs verbessert, der Linux 3.1 Kernel bringt etliche Performance-Verbesserungen der Speicherverwaltung und der Datenverarbeitung. Natürlich enthält er auch eine Reihe von Treibern zur Unterstützung neuer Hardware, einschließlich externer Geräte wie z.B. Microsofts Kinect, Apple iSight Webcam und den Nintento Wii Controller als auch für interne Hardware wie die neuen AMD Llano Fusion APUs und Intels Ivy Bridge & Cedal Trail CPUs, eine Vielfalt an WLAN- und Grafikkarten und vieles mehr. Was noch neu im openSUSE Kernel ist, können Sie auf den KernelNewbies Seiten [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_39 Linux 2.6.39], [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.0 Linux 3.0] and [http://kernelnewbies.orgWilliams/Linux_3.1 Linux 3.1] erfahren.<br />
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====systemd und andere systemweite Änderungen====<br />
Der Systemstart wird nun vom neuen '''systemd''' Startwerkzeug übernommen, so kontrolliert es und beschleunigt den Startprozess. Entwickelt in enger Kooperation mit unserer Partnerdistribution Fedora, ist systemd vor allem interessant für Systemadministratoren aufgrund seines mächtigen socket- und bus-aktivierten Servicesystem welches die Parallelisierung und die Resourceverbrauch verbessert. Es arbeitet auch eng zusammen mit Linux cgroups und bietet so erhöhte Sicherheit und Kontrolle über die Prozesse.<br />
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Falls aus irgendeinem Grund systemd bei Ihnen nicht funktionieren sollte, können Sie immer noch das '''alte Sys-V-Init verwenden''' indem sie F5 im Bootloader drücken. Falls Sie permanent das alte Startsystem verwenden wollen, führen sie einfach „zypper rm systemd-sysvinit” aus.<br />
Wir bieten auch wieder '''grub2''' als einen optionalen Bootloader an. Obwohl wir noch nicht ganz mit Grub2 als Ersatz für das aktuelle Grub zufrieden sind, muntern wir unsere Nutzer auf es einmal auszuprobieren und wollen sicher gehen, dass es für Entwickler verfügbar ist.<br />
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Eine Reihe von kleinere Änderungen beinhaltet:<br />
* Das '''util-linux''' Werkzeug in der Version 2.20 führt die erste Hauptänderungen des dmesg Protokollierungsprogramms in 18 Jahren ein. So bringt es eine Anzahl von Optionen um menschlich-lesbare Präfixe und Zeitstempel auszugeben oder um sauber, nur wichtige Meldungen oder Meldungen die direkt vom Kernel oder Userspace kommen, anzuzeigen.<br />
* '''LightDM 1.0''' ist die erste stabile Version dieses schnelleren, erweiterbaren Anzeigemanager (Display Manager). LightDM soll die Vialzahl an verschiedenen Anzeigemanager mit einem einzigen [http://xkcd.com/927/ neuen Standard] ersetzen.<br />
* '''syslog-ng 3.3''' führt Multithreading, JSON und mongodb Ausgabe ein.<br />
*[http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.0 RPM 4.9] bringt einige Stabilitäts# und Performanceverbesserungen.<br />
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==== First to ship Google Go, LLVM v3 and CLANG v3 ====<br />
openSUSE is proud to be the first major distribution to ship [http://golang.org/ '''Google's new Go programming language'''] as part of our release. Go is a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language. Go makes it easy to work with multi-core and networked machines and offers flexible and modular program construction mechanisms. While it compiles (quickly) to machine code it has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. Learn more on the [http://golang.org/ Go language website].<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 also comes with the just-released [http://llvm.org/ '''LLVM3 compiler tool'''] and [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], the C/C++ compiler building upon LLVM. LLVM, a set of flexible and performant compiler tools, offers powerful code generation which is used by Mesa for its software based OpenGL "Gallium" graphics driver architecture. It is also employed by the open source ATI and NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers and thus forms an integral part of a high-performance graphics stack on Linux.<br />
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[http://clang.llvm.org/ '''Clang'''] takes advantage of LLVM to provide an fast and memory-efficient GCC-compatible C/C++ code compiler. Clang in openSUSE 12.1 comes with enabled ARM code generation support, in the spirit of the recently started [http://opensuse.org/opensuse:ARMopenSUSE ARMs project]!<br />
Aside from Go and LLVM, openSUSE offers a large number of the latest compilers and tools. openSUSE 12.1 is build with [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''], which has [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_fx4100_gcc&num=1 shown to offer significant performance improvements] over the previous 4.5 version. This release also introduces initial support for the Ada 2012 programming language as well as experimental support for the latest C++11 standard (status can be found [http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/cxx0x_status.html here]).<br />
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This release of GCC, combined with the latest '''binutils 2.21.1''', has allowed us to enable [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''link-time optimization'''] in a number of packages, bringing an additional performance improvement.<br />
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=== Localization ===<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 has been [http://i18n.opensuse.org translated into many languages] - currently about 30 are over 90% complete and no less than 66 languages are in the process of being finished. This openSUSE release has added five Cyrillic fonts. Two of them (PT Sans and PT Serif) beside standard Western, Central European and Cyrillic code pages contain characters of all title languages of Russian Federation that make them unique and a very important tool of modern digital communications.}}<br />
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===Repository changes and third party support for openSUSE 12.1===<br />
Via the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service installation on build.opensuse.org] openSUSE hosts over 160.000 packages created by more than 30.000 individual contributors. These are available to openSUSE users as well as users from other Linux Distributions. But outside of this infrastructure, other projects like VLC and Packman offer their own OBS instance with packages for openSUSE! We highlight a few important projects from build.opensuse.org and third parties.<br />
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====Tumbleweed====<br />
'''Tumbleweed''', the unique [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed|rolling release repository for openSUSE]], can be considered 'complete' at the time of this release. Covering almost all of the openSUSE 12.1 packages, Tumbleweed offers newer versions as soon as they are deemed stable. Instead of making you wait for a new release of openSUSE, Tumbleweed lessens the significance and change impact of major releases by updating systems continuously. By enabling Tumbleweed you are always up to date with the '''latest software'''. And you won’t have to install newer versions of openSUSE as you’ll be running them already by the time they get released!<br />
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Tumbleweed will require its current users to make one manual change to the repositories upon the 12.1 release. Besides the Tumbleweed repository, users are required to have the latest stable openSUSE repositories enabled, currently for most users set at openSUSE 11.4. With the 12.1 release, these will thus have to change. The openSUSE sysadmins have ensured however that this will be the first and last time this has to be changed. From now on there will be a link to the latest stable release, for the convenience of Tumbleweed users. Upon a new release the openSUSE servers will automatically handle the required changes, transparent to the users. For instructions to make these changes, [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed_12.1change|please see here]].<br />
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Find more information [[:en:Tumbleweed|about Tumbleweed here]].<br />
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====Packman====<br />
[[Image:Packman.png|256px|link=|Features]]The well-known third-party [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] repositories for openSUSE already offer openSUSE 12.1 support. '''Packman''' provides four different repositories each offering a targeted selection of software, in addition to the larger common repository. Additional to packages for openSUSE 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, Factory and SLE 11, an essential set of Packman packages is provided for Tumbleweed. Find more information on the [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman website] and [[Paket_Repositorys#Packman| find out how to get software from Packman on the openSUSE wiki]].<br />
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====SUSE Studio====<br />
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[[Portal:SUSE_Studio|SUSE Studio]] is a project from openSUSE sponsor SUSE(TM) which builds upon the Free and Open Source openSUSE tools like '''KIWI''' and offers a convenient web interface for easy building of openSUSE and SLE based custom operating systems (appliances).<br />
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[http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] users can expect availability of openSUSE 12.1 right from the release date, and support for upgrading existing appliances shortly after. This means it will be possible to easily create your own versions of openSUSE 12.1 with '''custom package selections''', '''artwork''', '''scripts''' and any other properties and download them as USB or disk images, Live CDs and a variety of popular virtual formats. You can share your appliance or also browse other’s shared appliances on [http://susestudio.com/browse SUSE Gallery].<br />
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====Contrib retired====<br />
The [[:en:openSUSE:Contrib|Contrib]] repository for third-party packages was once a community-driven extension of the main repository. The vast majority of these packages have since been integrated in the main repository or in one of the central additional repositories like the official [[KDE_Repositorys|KDE]] and [[GNOME_Repositorys|GNOME]] repositories. These provide newer versions of the software in the main repositories as well as new or experimental software not yet available in openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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====Packages on the Open Build Service====<br />
If you can not find an application in openSUSE 12.1 you can use the search functionality on [http://software.opensuse.org software.opensuse.org]. If you enable searching in users home projects (under advanced) you can choose from the 160.000 packages provided by our 30.000 packagers using the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service instance on build.opensuse.org].<br />
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====VLC====<br />
The VideoLAN organization continues their robust support for openSUSE, with a 1-click install of the VLC universal media player already available for openSUSE 12.1 at [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html this page].<br />
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=== Latest Free Desktops ===<br />
openSUSE offers both major Free Software desktops as well as a number of community-supported desktops, all with a high level of polish and support. openSUSE 12.1 is the first release to introduce the new '''GNOME Shell''' user interface, part of GNOME 3.2. GNOME Shell brings a vastly refined user experience with a smooth, natural workflow. The default openSUSE desktop, the '''KDE Plasma Desktop''', brings color management and much improved performance as well as the new 'Akonadi' based Kontact2 groupware solution. Current releases of both XFCE and LXDE include minor improvements on the road to their next big releases.<br />
For the first time, the openSUSE community openly selected artwork for openSUSE 12.1; the preferred 'upwind' theme reflects in our new splash, boot and background images . GNOME users will notice that the art team has maintained the trend of providing a time-sensitive set of themed wallpapers.<br />
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==== KDE Plasma Workspaces and applications 4.7 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Workspaces] 4.7 and is the first major Linux distribution to ship the new [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos Color Management Service]. Oyranos and its associated tools add [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management color management] to KDE applications, making sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens. Another major new addition is Apper, an easy to use software management tool replacing KPackageKit. There are also improvements to network management, the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop tool and Activities. In total, this release fixed over 12.000 bugs and contains hundreds of smaller and larger performance improvements.<br />
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The innovative new Tablet project from the KDE community, Plasma Active, is not an integral part of the openSUSE 12.1 release as it depends on functionality not available in the released KDE Platform yet and conflicts with the Desktop and Netbook workspaces. However, tablet users can install Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 and we work on integrating it in the next openSUSE release.<br />
Read on for a more extensive view on what's new in the Desktop, Netbook and application area as well as to learn more about Plasma Active One!<br />
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File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-widgets.png|Widgets<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-digiKam.png|Foto Manager: digiKam<br />
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=====Plasma Workspaces bring improved visuals with Oyranos CMS=====<br />
openSUSE is the '''first major Linux distribution to ship [http://www.oyranos.org/about/ Oyranos CMS]''' integrated in the KDE applications and workspaces. Oyranos is is an operating system level [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Color Management System], matching input device colors to output device colors across supported applications. Oyranos makes use of the ICC color management standard and is integrated in the KDE Workspaces and applications through the new KolorManager application. The KolorManager application makes sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens.<br />
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Users can now configure their ICC profiles and settings in one central place. It brings as well a set of command line tools like oyranos-policy for handling policy configuration files and oyranos-profiles for installation of ICC profiles. KDE users can install the KolorManager package. This Oyranos front end adds a system settings control panel for individual settings adaption. Most systems will run fine with Oyranos defaults. [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ read more about color management in openSUSE 12.1 on the oyranos website]<br />
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'''Visual improvements'''<br />
On the visual side, KDE's Plasma workspaces provides '''better integration with GTK/GNOME applications''' with a port of KDE's Oxygen style to GTK. The Oxygen icons have been improved and the Plasma panel offers a more consistent look with changes to the icons and the clock. The new Shadow support in window manager '''KWin''' gives a better look on older hardware and performs better all around. KWin also can now disable compositing when a full-screen application calls for it, increasing performance for OpenGL games and GPU accelerated video playback.<br />
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Plasma's Activities have seen many improvements. The '''Activity Manager''' now takes a more prominent place in the default panel in Plasma Desktop. Activities enhance the users' workflows by providing smart ways of grouping applications, widgets and documents.<br />
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Navigating through applications and recent files is easier with the '''addition of breadcrumbs''' to the Kickoff application launcher, helping users to see where they are and quickly back up to higher menu levels. Many other usability and functionality improvements have been made to the Workspaces. For example, '''Konsole''' no longer blocks the removal of USB storage devices and '''KMix''' has improved PulseAudio support. <br />
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'''Network management, multimedia and Nepomuk'''<br />
The Plasma Workspaces now also offer '''much improved network management''', including support for NetworkManager 0.9 as well as Bluetooth tethering, 3G, VPN, MAC spoofing and other advanced networking options.<br />
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Thanks to [http://dot.kde.org/2011/09/21/nepomuk-stability-and-performance generous donations from the community], the Semantic Desktop technology '''Nepomuk has seen extensive bugfixing''', improving stability and performance as well as making it easier to use. Strigi analyzers now read meta-data in their own process, resolving over 35 crash-related bugs in Dolphin and Konqueror.<br />
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The latest version of '''Phonon''', our media framework, has seen work on the backends. The VLC-based back-end is now considered stable and is the preferred back-end for multiplatform use, while the back-end based on GStreamer is now also considered stable on Linux platforms. The xine back-end is no longer maintained.<br />
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=====KDE Applications suite 4.7 features many refinements=====<br />
The latest version of KPackageKit - now renamed '''Apper''' - (developed by [http://dantti.wordpress.com Daniel Nicoletti] ) is now included with Plasma Desktop. This brings significant improvements to the KDE's PackageKit front end and makes it possible to list Applications instead of listing only Packages. This makes openSUSE a lot more user-friendly and closer to Grandma compattible.<br />
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'''Dolphin''', KDE’s file manager, has a cleaner default appearance. The menu bar is hidden, but easy to reach and restore. The file searching interface has been improved. In addition, Dolphin now has much deeper integration with source code management systems, including the ability to create and clone repositories, push and pull changes, view diffs and much more.<br />
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Dolphin and Konqueror both benefit from a new plugin that provides a '''rating and an annotation menu action''' for files and folders, leveraging Nepomuk capabilities. <br />
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Image management has become easier with '''Gwenview''', the KDE image viewer, now offering the ability to compare two or more pictures side by side. From the browse mode, select two or more pictures, and then switch to the view mode or to the full-screen mode. In the view mode, you can add more pictures from the thumbnail bar.<br />
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Comic fans will be pleased that Okular, the universal file viewer, gains support for reading a directory as a comicbook.<br />
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'''KStars''', the essential KDE application for stargazers around the world, has gained a feature to predict a star hopping route and dynamic switching between its OpenGL and native rendering backends. Labels can now be assigned to points on celestial lines; comet trails are rendered in OpenGL mode. Mathematicians and scientists can now explore higher order functions in Kalgebra and get information on oxidation states for elements in Kalzium. <br />
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'''KDM''', the display manager, has gained ''GRUB2'' support. A user with multiple operating systems in their GRUB2 menu can now choose which one to reboot to in the shutdown dialog by holding down the mouse button on their reboot choice. <br />
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'''Marble''', the virtual globe application, has gained many improvements over the past eight months. It now has voice navigation support, a map creation wizard, and new plug-ins. Following the Voice of Marble contest, '''voice navigation''' is now available in several languages, with voices provided by the KDE community. For more details, see Marble's [http://edu.kde.org/marble/current_1.2.php visual changelog]. <br />
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Other applications such as Kate, Kalzium, KAlgebra, KStars, and KDevelop have also been updated in this release. Changes and improvements to some other major applications from the KDE community can be found in the [Product_highlights#New_and_updated_applications|applications section].<br />
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Find more information on what is new in the Plasma Workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Platform in the [http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.7/ announcement by KDE].<br />
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File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-dolphin.png|KDE Dateimanager: Dolphin<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-gwenview.png|Bildbetrachter: gwenview<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-kaffeine.png|Video Player: Kaffeine<br />
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=====Plasma Active One is optionally available=====<br />
The fresh and innovative [http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active Plasma Active] interface for tablets and mobile devices is available for openSUSE 12.1. It is not an integral part of this release as it still depends on a number of unreleased technologies but we plan to have Plasma Active as part of openSUSE 12.2.<br />
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'''Plasma Active'''<br />
Plasma Active aims at creating a cross-device user experience for emerging devices such as tablet computers, media centers, smartphones, and more. It builds on the Linux stack with X11, Qt and the KDE libraries. The user interface is designed using Plasma Quick, a declarative markup language allowing for organic user interface design based on Qt Quick.<br />
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The first release, [http://kde.org/announcements/plasma-active-one/ Plasma Active One] fully focuses on tablet computers. Plasma Active Tablet's user experience is designed around the web, social networks and multimedia content. Packages for openSUSE are offered in the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=KDE%3AActive Plasma Active] repository.<br />
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==== GNOME 3.2 ====<br />
After shipping a technical preview of [http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ GNOME 3] with 11.4, openSUSE 12.1 replaces the GNOME 2.x series with the latest GNOME 3.2 desktop to the openSUSE GNOME users. With many improvements based on the feedback of the openSUSE community and the wider Free Software community, numerous usability and application changes have been incorporated.<br />
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'''GNOME Shell''' brings a fresh user-interface that is designed from the scratch to satisfy the needs of today's users. The interface focuses on getting out of the way and providing unobtrusive yet powerful notifications and deep integration of calendar, chat and other technologies. The UI elements and workflows are designed to be touch-friendly for use on tablets or desktops with a touch screen. By using the 3D acceleration capabilities provided by most of the computers these days, pleasing animations are used to give users an aesthetic look and feel and a much easier way of switching between applications. Read on for more details on what's new in GNOME 3.2.<br />
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===== What's new in GNOME Shell 3.2 =====<br />
Various minor tweaks and major features are incorporated into this release based on user feedback. openSUSE 12.1 ships the alt-status-menu extension to make various computer operations easily accessible. Some examples:<br />
*It is now easier to resize windows and titlebars, buttons and other controls are a bit less tall, making GNOME easier to use on small screens.<br />
* Notifications now include a counter so you can see how many mails or chats messages are waiting for you and Shell now also shows media device notifications.<br />
* The focus-follows-mouse feature has been improved and while it's not perfect yet, it will suffice for most usecases.<br />
* The System Settings have been improved, showing links to other relevant settings and has integrated color management<br />
* GNOME Shell battery power status now shows how much power you have left<br />
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===== Communication in GNOME Shell =====<br />
Compared to any prior release of GNOME, the instant messaging workflow is much improved in GNOME Shell 3.2. You can receive chats, reply to messages, approve / deny friendship requests, call requests, all without having to launch the IM application explicitly. You can change the status of your machine from a centralized place so that all the IM accounts reflect the status change. Error and new message notifications are so well integrated in GNOME shell so that you won't have focus stealing popups but only unobtrusive animations notifying you what is going on.<br />
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A new "Online Accounts" feature enables users to create online accounts. Accounts created will be seamlessly available for various applications throughout the desktop experience. For example, if you create a Google Account, your Google Docs documents will be available in the new Document browser, your Google contacts will be available in empathy for IM, and the calendar shows your appointments. http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/gnome-documents-google.png.en<br />
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[http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2]<br />
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===== What's new in the GNOME 3.2 Applications =====<br />
The new GNOME 3 libraries bring many improvements to GNOME 3 applications. Some examples:<br />
* File open dialogs in applications now show a list of recent files and directories<br />
* Better performance and a new theme<br />
* A redesigned Font chooser dialog<br />
* A new on-screen keyboard and a number of other accessibility enhancements<br />
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Moreover, the individual applications have seen many features and bugfixes, read on for a quick overview.<br />
A new people-focused '''Contacts"' application is shipped which can work with Evolution and Empathy in the background, providing you with a unified addressbook for your desktop. <br />
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'''Empathy''', the GNOME IM application has got a lot of improvements. You can easily search your logs visually filtering on various parameters such as Who, When.<br />
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http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/empathy-log.png.en NetworkManager-gnome version 0.9 provides fast user switching, improved WiFi roaming, WiMAX support, flexible permissions and centralized storage of network connection information.<br />
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Not to be left out of the party, GNOME 3.2 includes robust color management support as well, including the new GNOME Color Manager wizard for calibrating displays using either ICC profiles or a Huey hardware colorimeter. [http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-color-manager/screenshots.html]<br />
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File manager '''Nautilus''' has seen a major overhaul for GNOME 3, with an improved Places sidebar, a new ''Connect to server'' dialog and a quick preview function which can be triggered by 'space'.<br />
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Many smaller improvements include new and configurable effects in the Webcam application '''Cheese''', bookmark support in PDF viewer '''Evince''', plugins for image viewer '''Eye of GNOME''' and improved streaming support for video and audio in media player Totem.<br />
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Read more about [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2 in the official announcement] and find more GNOME applications in the sections below.<br />
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<gallery><br />
File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME desktop.png|Desktop Shell<br />
File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME activities.png|GNOME Shell:<br> Aktivitäten<br />
File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME eog.png|Bildbetrachter:<br> GNOME Eye<br />
File:OpenSUSE_12.1_GNOME_nautilus.png|Datei Manager:<br> Nautilus<br />
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==== LXDE 0.5 ====<br />
This release of openSUSE comes with LXDE 0.5. There have been no major updates to this lightweight desktop for a while but minor improvements and bugfixes have been integrated.<br />
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Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_desktop_menu.png|LXDE Desktop und Menü<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_control_center.png|LXDE Kontrollzentrum<br />
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==== Xfce 4.8 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships ''''Xfce 4.8''''. All Xfce components have been updated to the latest bugfix releases. The desktop has been polished further in terms of integration and branding. LightDM is now the default display manager reducing the dependencies on core GNOME components. The functionality provided in the default install should now be on par with GNOME/KDE desktops.<br />
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File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Desktop.png|Desktop<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Main_Menu.png|Haupt Menue<br />
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=== New and updated applications ===<br />
On top of the kernel and other low-level tools, openSUSE provides a huge variety of console and graphical applications. These applications have been updated to the latest versions bringing many improvements in terms of features and bugfixes.<br />
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====Web browsers====<br />
The web is important for modern computer users, and openSUSE has you covered with a selection of browsers Free Software has to offer. We ship a much faster Firefox, an innovative Opera, a well integrated Epiphany and a more stable Rekonq. New is Chromium, the fast and easy to use browser from Google. These browsers provide a wide range of rendering engines supporting the latest web standards. Read on to find out what is new in these browsers since we brought to you in openSUSE 11.4!<br />
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'''Firefox 7'''<br /><br />
Since Firefox 4.0 in openSUSE 11.4, the project has moved to a more rapid release schedule and thus we present you with Mozilla's latest Firefox 7.0.1. Firefox has introduced support for new privacy features like do-not-track and much improved developer tools in the new 'web developer' menu. End users will appreciate the many smaller and larger usability improvements like the URL bar highlighting the website domain and hiding the prefix. Last but not least, each subsequent Firefox release brought better performance, from faster loading of tabs to the large memory management improvements in Firefox 7 and of course support for the latest web standards.<br />
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'''Chromium 16'''<br /><br />
Chromium, meet openSUSE 12.1 users. Users, meet Chromium. This venerable WebKit based web browser from Google is quickly gaining popularity and thus had to become part of the openSUSE distribution. With its simplified interface, great integration with Google services, separate processes so a crashing site can not take down the browser and the fastest JavaScript engine in the world, it will impress you with it's speed and ease of use. The rapid release cycle of Chromium is hard to track - we ensure the latest is always available on your system so you don't have to worry about security or not being able to work with the latest websites.<br />
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'''Opera 11.52'''<br /><br />
Opera 11.52 brings much improved Opera Link to sync your passwords between system and a better Speed Dial which now supports extensions, small webpages embedded in your Speed Dial. Another new feature is the Location support on websites like Google Maps. Opera also uses far less memory now and became a fair bit more stable. Of course this release supports the latest HTML 5 and CSS 3 standards and features a faster JavaScript engine and smoother graphics.<br />
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'''Rekonq 0.8'''<br /><br />
With Rekonq 0.8, openSUSE ships a second WebKit based browser. Build on Qt and the KDE Platform this new release takes advantage of the many improvements in QtWebKit 2.2, bringing better stability and performance. New features include the Do-Not-Track feature, availability of history in restored tabs, and Third Party rule support in AdBlock. usability has been given attention with much improved drag'n'drop support, an new SSL UI, optional VI-style navigation and improved URL bar handling.<br />
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'''Epiphany from GNOME 3.2'''<br /><br />
The third WebKit based browser, this time from the GNOME community, Epiphany, allows you to create Web Application links. These Web Applications show up in the application view of GNOME Shell and act very much like real applications, opening links in new web browser windows and not showing a navigation bar or tabs. They also run in a process separate from the browser, so that crashes of Epiphany do not affect your web applications.<br />
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====Office and desktop publishing applications====<br />
openSUSE helps you get work done by providing a stable base and up to date productivity tools. The latest LibreOffice brings new features in most components as well as speed and stability improvements to this enterprise ready office suite. While Abiword, Gnumeric and KOffice are still at their latest stable versions, our additional repositories offer the innovative Calligra application suite as a choice.<br />
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'''Libreoffice 3.4.3'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://XXXX.org '''Libreoffice'''] release brings a large number of small additions and improvements like the ability to add and remove color charts, a named range as data source and supporting an unlimited number of fields in the DataPilot (now named Pivot Table), Greek Character mode for numbering in Writer and much more. As usual, much performance work was done decreasing the size of LibreOffice and improving startup speed. Text rendering and theming have received a major overhaul, making LibreOffice fitting better in your desktop.<br />
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'''Scribus 1.4'''<br /><br />
[http://www.scribus.net '''Scribus'''] is the major Open Source Desktop Publishing tool available for Linux. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation. openSUSE ships a release candidate of Scribus 1.4 which has a large number of stability fixes over the release in openSUSE 11.4.<br />
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'''Calligra 2.4 beta 3'''<br /><br />
The new [http://www.calligra-suite.org/ Calligra Suite], the successor of KOffice in openSUSE is not yet part of this release. However most users report the current beta's to be of '''better quality than the latest KOffice release''' and the openSUSE packagers have thus committed to provide a repository which will offer the latest Calligra releases.<br />
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Specifically '''targeting students and academic users''' with the productivity part, Calligra brings much improved text handling and rendering, state of the art '''import support for the Microsoft XML formats''' and many stability and usability improvements to all applications. Words introduces handling of citations and bibliographies and an automatically updating Table of Content, better text tables, footer- and header support and much more. Presentation application Stage has a new slide sorter and easier editing of notes with slides. Project Management application Plan introduces many new chart printing options and improved import from external data sources. Tables has improved support for large tables, rotated text, many new formulas, improved Microsoft Excel file support and much faster loading.<br />
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Calligra also introduces two new applications: <br />
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*Flow is a diagramming and flowcharting application in the spirit of Visio.<br />
*Braindump is a note taking application that builds on the Calligra core and uses the full power of the openDocument Format to allow for text, images and even multimedia in the notes.<br />
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Find a [http://www.calligra-suite.org/news/calligra-2-4-snapshot-1-tour/ Calligra Tour here].<br />
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You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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====Communication and groupware====<br />
Of course, openSUSE ships a wide variety of groupware and Personal Information Management (PIM) solutions like email clients, chat applications, calendar tools and more.<br />
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'''KDE PIM'''<br /><br />
Kontact, KDE’s groupware solution, has most components now ported to Akonadi. Once the initial bugs are ironed out, this will offer increased stability and performance, better connection to new services and sharing of communication information between more applications. The biggest change is the introduction of KMail 2. This application has the familiar interface, while under the surface, all mail storage and retrieval has been ported to use the powerful Akonadi cache.<br />
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The openSUSE KDE team has put '''significant efforts''' in ensuring a smooth upgrade to KMail 2 but this is a significant change and the team will keep an eye out for further issues. Bugfixes will be provided through updates and users are encouraged to report problems and update their systems frequently.<br />
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It should be noted that the move from KMail1 to KMail2 requires the '''import/conversion of email data to Akonadi'''. This process can take considerable time, measuring up to a day on slow systems with multiple gigabyte-sized mailboxes. It is possible to, instead of doing a migration, doing a clean start by moving the current data from the ~.kde4/share/apps/kmail to a backup location. If you have your data stored on a server and it is only cached locally this should not cause you to loose data. In case of a downloading POP mail account, however, you will have to use the conversion process or import your mail separately.<br />
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Also note that '''Akonadi is a cache''', not a permanent storage system. This means that your mail should remain where it is - be it on a server or in a local folder. Akonadi will store a '''copy''' in its database, as well as extra information like ratings and the like, for fast search and retrieval. This essentially replaces the internal cache KMail1 employed for this purpose. Due to this design, Akonadi is very unlikely to lose user data as it normally operates on a copy of it. Of course, actions like moving or removing mails are synced back to the original mail storage!<br />
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'''Evolution 3.2.1'''<br /><br />
Evolution provides integrated mail, address book and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop. Version 3.2.1 has been ported over to the GNOME 3 infrastructure and offers a number of small improvements and bugfixes over the previous release. Also new in the openSUSE 12.1 Evolution is the Exchange Connector for Evolution, compatible with Exchange 2007 and later, allowing Evolution to work with Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010. Evolution also works with the Google contacts, calendar and mail services.<br />
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'''Thunderbird 7.0.1'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird] email client shipped with openSUSE brings delivers faster performance, safer email experience, and a new add-ons manager. With over 390improvements and performance enhancements, Thunderbird is more responsive, starts faster and is easier to use than ever.<br />
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For example, the interface improvements like the improved RSS feeds and better Attachment management make handling your news and mail easier. Tabs can now be re-ordered or dragged into a new window and Thunderbird gives you control over the look and functionality of your email client with a gallery of hundreds of add-ons. The new Add-ons manager allows you to search the gallery in Thunderbird to install, remove, and manage the Add-ons. This release also adds support for technologies that make it easier for developers to build some of these amazing Add-ons, such as the Lightning Calendar, Conversation View, and Open Search.<br />
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====Multimedia====<br />
openSUSE comes with a number of prominent multimedia applications like the Amarok, Banshee and Rythmbox music players, DigiKam and Shotwell photo managers and the Marble virtual globe. Each of those has seen new releases with new features and bugfixes.<br />
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=====Music Players=====<br />
openSUSE comes with a large number of music players, from the well known Rythmbox, Banshee and Amarok to the less prominent like Juk, Totem, KMplayer, Dragon and Bangarang.<br />
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'''Banshee 2.2'''<br /><br />
The new [http://banshee.fm '''Banshee'''] comes with with lots of new extensions like an alarmclock, albumart writer, ampache, duplicated sound detector, jamendo, karaoke, live radio, lyrics and more. Other improvements include the ability to not only queue songs but also artists and albums and having the ability to play a queued song immediately after the current. There has been a number of UI improvements like putting the search next to the volume button, smaller icons in the source list, hidden counts for the libraries, named group separators and a resizable seek slider and search entry. Podcasts episodes are now shown in a grid, with several lines of description shown to help you find an appealing episode to enjoy.<br />
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'''Amarok 2.4.3 and Clementine 0.7.3'''<br /><br />
[http://amarok.kde.org '''Amarok'''] introduces improved Dynamic Playlists and Internet Services including integration with Gpodder.net. The user interface has been improved with better drag and drop, automatic scrolling in the lyrics applet and the ability to scrobble the composer as artist to last.fm. Otherwise, many bugs have been crushed and performance has improved a bit. For those not fond of the direction Amarok took with the 2.0 release, openSUSE ships [http://www.clementine-player.org '''Clementine 0.7.3'''] which in this version brings a new edit tag dialog which offers autocompletion and automatic music identification and missing-tag-fetching. CUE sheets are now supported, detected automatically and tracks will show up separately. Album covers are shown in the Library tab, deleted songs greyed out and much more.<br />
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=====Photo managers, editors and painting applications=====<br />
openSUSE ships with a large number of graphics and painting applications. There have been major versions of DigiKam and Blender as well as minor improvements to most of the other applications. openSUSE 12.1 also comes with lots of ICC color management Profiles ready to go.<br />
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'''DigiKam 2.2'''<br />
openSUSE 12.1 features the release of '''DigiKam''', the result of more than a year of hard work since the DigiKam version in openSUSE 11.4. This version features long awaited technologies like face detection and recognition, image versioning support, XMP metadata sidecar files support, big improvements in tagging and marking photos, reversed geotagging and many other improvements, including a total of 258 fixed bugs.<br />
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Close companion Kipi-plugins is released along with DigiKam 2.2. This release features new export tools to three web services - Yandex.Fotki, MediaWiki and Rajce. The GPSSync plugin now has the ability to do reverse-geocoding. Also new is a plugin which is dedicated to creating photo album-like layouts. Finally, there has been extensive bugfixing.<br />
Find out more about DigiKam and read articles with tips and tricks [http://www.digikam.org/ on the DigiKam website].<br />
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'''Inkscape 4.8.2'''<br />
[http://inkscape.org Inkscape] is a powerful vector graphics editor using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. It supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. The latest stable 4.8.2 version introduces a number of critical bugfixes and improvements to openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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This release is feature complete, offering the powerful UI, animation tools, rigging, modeling, shading, physics and particle tools and everything else Blender is known for.<br />
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'''Shotwell 0.11.5'''<br />
The [http://yorba.org/shotwell/ '''Shotwell'' photo organizer handles pictures based on a timeline. It also offers tagging and rating features and a host of image editing functions like rotating, cropping and adjustment of exposure, saturation and more. It can import photos from most cameras and from folders and publish photos and videos to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, and YouTube. The latest release introduces hierarchical trees for the tags, a new plugin framework, improved printing, a new crop tool and a new search bar as well as many smaller improvements to the user interface. New is also support for paired JPEG and RAW images, BMP, TIFF and other formats, and improved rendering of RAW files. This release also does automatic backups of the database and allows you to save searches.<br />
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'''F-spot 0.8.2-14'''<br />
The easy to use '''F-spot''' photo manager features a very simple interface combined with powerful search, import, browse and edit functionality. Advanced capabilities are exporting EXIF and XMP metadata to your images, versioning of changes in the image editor and quite complete import functionality. This release does not introduce major new features or improvements.<br />
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'''GIMP 2.6.11'''<br />
[http://www.gimp.org/ '''GIMP'''] is a versatile graphics manipulation package offering a customizable interface and a large number of plugins to modify and improve photos. It can work with a huge variety of fileformats. 2.6.11 brings bugfixes for this popular photo manipulation program as well as some minor usability and performance improvements.<br />
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'''Krita and Karbon 2.4 Beta3'''<br />
Two applications, part of the upcoming [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4] release, should not be missed in this overview. While they are not included in the standard openSUSE repositories, they offer some unique benefits many people will apreciate.<br />
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[http://krita.org '''Krita'''] is a sketching and painting tool, offering an end–to–end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters. Fields of painting that Krita explicitly supports are concept art, creation of comics and textures for rendering. Modelled on existing real-world painting materials and workflows, Krita supports creative working by getting out of the way and with snappy response. Developed in close collaboration with a number of artists Krita 2.4 brings many user interface improvements as well as much better performance. New functionality like the ability to share patterns, gradients and brushes over the web and the huge number of unique brushes solidify Krita's position as the '''premier Free Software sketching and drawing application'''.<br />
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The Karbon vector graphics application, also part of [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4], has much better '''support for the SVG standard''' and introduces many new filters and effects while improving on its stability.<br />
You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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=====Video editors and 3D modelling=====<br />
Out of the box, openSUSE does not ship multimedia support due to legal and patent worries in a number of countries. However, if it is legal for you to play your music and video's you can find information on the [http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia openSUSE-community Multimedia] and [http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats Restricted formats] pages on how to obtain the needed codecs. The [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] project which offers the codecs also packages a number of related applications like the excellent [http://www.kdenlive.org/ Kdenlive] and [http://www.openshotvideo.com/ openshot] video editors.<br />
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'''Kdenlive 0.8.2'''<br />
'''Kdenlive''' claims to be the most advanced video editor available on Linux today. It supports virtually any camera and codec thanks to the [http://www.ffmpeg.org/ FFMPEG] and [http://www.mltframework.org/ MLT] frameworks it builds upon. It is a multitrack editor with a timeline and an unlimited number of video and audio tracks. Thanks to the [http://www.piksel.org/frei0r Frei0r] framework Kdenlive offers a large number of effects and transitions and lets you add your own. It renders videos in a separate thread while you keep working and allows you to pause, stop and restart rendering. The latest 0.8.2 version fixes over 140 stability issues and introduces an automated backup feature to avoid the loss of any data. Check the [http://www.kdenlive.org/users/j-b-m/kdenlive-082-released announcement] for more information.<br />
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'''OpenShot 1.4'''<br />
The '''OpenShot''' video editor has a more easy to use interface and offers features like 3D animations, HD video support as well as Clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, and cutting, Video transitions with real-time previews, Compositing, image overlays, watermarks, Title templates, title creation, sub-titles and support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences. [http://vimeo.com/29465427 watch the video of the 1.4 release] or [http://www.openshot.org/features/ check out the openshot features] online.<br />
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'''Audacity 1.3.13'''<br />
For audio editing, '''Audacity''' offers a powerful set of features. Audacity lets you record live audio or convert existing music into digital data. It can also edit files, mixing the music or changing it with a variety of effects. These include echo, a fase changer, equalization, normalization and a number of effects to clean up hiss, noise and other mess. Additional plugins are availble with the VST and LADSPA plug-ins compatibility. Recording up to 96Khz, 32 bit is available with high quality sample rate conversion and there is a number of spectrum analysis tools for your viewing pleasure.<br />
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This release, while part of the beta series, is quite stable. Compared to the 1.3.12 version in the previous openSUSE release there has been a number of improvements to the effects, a new Device Toolbar showing all input and output devices has been introduced and the new "Sync-lock Tracks" feature allows groups of audio and/or label tracks to retain synchronisation when the track length changes. There has also been a fair number of bugfixes and some other smaller improvements.<br />
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'''PiTiVi 0.15'''<br />
openSUSE does ship the simple [http://www.pitivi.org/ '''PiTiVi''' video editor in the main repositories. PiTiVi is more intuitive and easy to use video editor compared to OpenShot and Kdenlive but does not offer the depth of in- and output formats, camera support and effects the others do.<br />
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'''Blender 2.59'''<br />
The well known [http://www.blender.org Blender] 3D content creation suite (3D modeller and video editor) is also part of openSUSE 12.1 with the stable 2.59 version. This third stable release in the 2.5 series brings big improvements in stability with many hundreds of bugs fixed. There is also a number of new features, including 3D mouse support and many UI improvements like the custom keymaps support and the camera locking. Sculpting, the warp modifier and the node editor have also been heavily improved.<br />
The biggest changes in the addons include:<br />
*the new Ivy Generator can grow curves over an existing mesh, <br />
*the Sapling addon generates trees<br />
*Mesh inset can inset individual faces or a selected region.<br />
*Grease scatter can scatter objects along predefined lines<br />
*much, much more. <br />
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openSUSE of course delivers far more multimedia applications to you, from the GStreamer framework to less known music players and a myriad of tools.<br />
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====Security and administration tools====<br />
openSUSE has always been a powertool for system adminstrators around the world and openSUSE 12.1 builds on this strong foundation. It is not only the powerful YaST which is appreciated but also the many tools available with openSUSE. This release brings major improvements to AppArmor, the new Shorewall gateway/firewall configuration application, a big update to the Performance Co-Pilot tool, an extended WebYaST and much more.<br />
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'''AppArmor 2.7 rc1'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships with the latest available [http://apparmor.net AppArmor] to ensure sys admins can easily secure their servers. [http://www.suse.com/support/security/apparmor/ Initially developed by SUSE], AppArmor is part of the Linux kernel now and openSUSE has the userspace components available. It is only in these userspace components that AppArmor ships changes compared to the previous release in openSUSE 11.4. Major features since AppArmor 2.5 include a working desktop notifier and automatic profile update for samba shares. And of course many other profile updates, bugfixes and better performance.<br />
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'''Shorewall 4.4.24'''<br /><br />
New in openSUSE from the Open Build Service is the [http://shorewall.net/Introduction.html Shoreline Firewall configuration tool]. This application offers a very powerful but still rather high-level interface to configure Netfilter through editing a series of configuration files. Upon starting Shorewall, it will read the files and with help of the iptables and other security utils configure Netfilter and the Linux networking subsystem to match your requirements, building a firewal, router or gateway. Find a list of [http://www.shorewall.net/4.4/shorewall_features.htm features of Shorewall here].<br />
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[[Image:WebYaST_Screenshot.png|thumb|250px||WebYast in action]]<br />
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'''Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) 3.5.8 and the PCP GUI charting tools.'''<br /><br />
The [http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/ performance co-pilot] is a heavy-duty performance monitoring tool. It is specifically build to find the harder type of system-level performance problems. It is capable of correlating end-user quality of service with platform activity and diagnosing complex interactions between resource demands on single or multiple systems in dynamic environments. This release is a significant upgrade over what was shipped in openSUSE 11.4, bringing a host of new features and improvements like support for distributed event tracing, transparent support for compressed archives in the client tools, Integrated pmieconf and pmlogconf utilities for automating management of pmie/pmlogger configuration files, Linux kernel control group metrics, per-node CPU metrics, XFS btree metrics and some Postfix updates.<br />
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'''WebYaST'''<br /><br />
The latest version of WebYaST has many improvements regarding speed, memory usage, usability and developing environment. Due a new caching mechanism the startup time of each module has been decreased to a maximum of 1-2 seconds. Former versions of WebYaST were split into a service and into an UI part. Each part has run in a own HTTP server. We have decided to bring these parts together in order to save one HTTP server which halves the memory usage.<br />
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====Virtualization, Cloud and web applications====<br />
openSUSE is an excellent guest OS for the cloud, as anyone who ever uses [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] can agree with. Nowhere is it as easy to build a cloud solution and openSUSE is now ready for the '''Amazon EC2 cloud''' by having a special EC2 kernel and suse-ami-tools in the default repositories.<br />
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But openSUSE can also be an excellent host and contains a fair number of virtualization and cloud tools. Most prominent is OwnCloud, which is shipped with unique desktop integration in openSUSE. What is not available in the default repositories can be found in the special [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualization and Cloud repository], where openSUSE contributors package and maintain '''Eucalyptus''', '''OpenNebula''' and '''OpenStack''' for openSUSE 12.1. <br />
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'''OwnCloud 2'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 delivers OwnCloud, the web-based storage application. OwnCloud is different from solutions like Google Docs, Dropbox or Ubuntu One in that it lets '''you own the data'''. With version 2, the ownCloud team has improved the basic service and added valuable features:<br />
* Secure file sharing<br />
* Improved web access including the ability to play music<br />
* Synchronization with other web application tools<br />
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openSUSE ships OwnCloud with a unique system tray based tool which can:<br />
* Install a new ownCloud locally or in a webspace<br />
* Connect your system to an existing ownCloud<br />
* give you assistance to set up mirrored folders<br />
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There is also basic Dolphin integration which XXXXXXXX<br />
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'''virtualization technologies'''<br /><br />
The new '''Xen 4.1''' release brings support for large systems (>255 processors and 1GB/2MB super page support), CPU Pools for advanced partitioning, prototype credit2 scheduler designed for latency-sensitive workloads and very large systems, a re-architected XL toolstack that is functionally nearly equivalent to XM/XEND, support for x86 Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX), new Memory Access API enabling integration of 3rd party security solutions into Xen virtualized environments and even better stability through the new automated regression tests.<br />
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The lastest version of '''KVM''' provides live migration from one host to another, guest swapping, paravirtualized networking and block devices and PCI-Express passthrough.<br />
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The new 4.1 series '''VirtualBox''' release brings new features like VM cloning, enhanced wizard for creating and copying virtual disks, raised memory limit to 1TB for 64 bit hosts and a couple of experimental featuers like PCI passthrough or SATA hard disk hot-plugging.<br />
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'''Virtualization tools'''<br /><br />
The latest release of '''virt-manager''' (supported by libvirt) brings new VM features including new VM wizard support for LCX guests, remote serial console access and remote URL guest installs.<br />
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The recent version of '''open-vm-tools''' provides integration (shared folders, drag and drop, clipboard sharing, automatic guest resolution resizing, etc.) with the VMware tools.<br />
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'''Horde 4.0.8'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the latest Horde 4 groupware server and framework! Horde 4 is the first release in over 6 years and brings major improvements to all applications of the suite as well as to the framework itself. <br />
Some of the more significant changes from Horde 3 to 4 include a requirement for PHP 5.2 or higher, a new Ajax interface and a new test suite. The complete framework has been modernized and cleaned up and the libraries are better separated and Unit tested.<br />
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The most important things users will notice are the e improved setup and upgrade processes, an Ajax interface for the calendar, and an improved interface for the complete application stack.<br />
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Horde offers a large number of web applications including a webmail tool (part of the Horde Groupware Webmail Edition) complete with WYSIWYG HTML editor, IMAP and POP3 support, message search and filtering, spell check, attachment viewer, encryption and signing, keyboard navigation, threaded view and previews, downloading of attachments in a ZIP file and much more.<br />
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There is now basic social media support with Facebook and Twitter integration and there is an Active Sync server component which can synchronize with iPhones and Android devices. The existing SyncML support already took care of most Nokia phones. The last missing piece is CalDAV support for calendar sharing, which is planned for the future.<br />
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== Entwicklungs-Werkzeuge und Platformen (GNOME/GTK, KDE/Qt,..., etc) ==<br />
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===IDEs und Werkzeugsätze===<br />
openSUSE bietet eine komplette und produktive Umgebung für Entwickler und Paketbauer. Mit stabilen Werkzeugen und aktualisierten Bibliotheken, durch [http://build.opensuse.org OBS] ermöglicht, können Entwickler leicht unter Verwendung mehrerer Programmiersprachen entwickeln und Pakete für mehrere Distributionen erstellen.<br />
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====KDevelop====<br />
Für Software-Entwickler: KDevelop hat zunehmende Unterstützung für [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style indentation styles] erhalten und der Python-Interpreter verwendet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kross_%28KDE%29 Kross]. Ein verbessertes Python mit auto-completion und Unterstützung für [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_%28software%29 lex/yacc] - Dateierweiterungen sind ebenso in dieser Ausgabe enthalten.<br />
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====Kate====<br />
KDE’s fortschrittlicher Text Editor Kate hat eine ganze Menge Verbesserungen erhalten, die folgendes enthalten:<br />
* Ein neues Such-Plugin mit der Fähigkeit in Dateien auf der Festplatte oder in geöffneten Dateien zu suchen<br />
* Plugin-Verbesserung: Build Plugin, GDB Plugin <br />
* Kate’s tab bar Plugins erhielten verschiedene neue Funktionen<br />
* Swap Dateien: Wenn verlorene Daten gefunden werden, werden die Dokumente als read-only markiert<br />
* Weitere bemerkenswerte Änderungen: Verbessertes Drucken, Änderung des Zeilenendes, das ein modifiziertes flag triggert, gelöste Shortcut-Aufgaben, gelöstes Popup für Auto-Komplettierung und mehr.<br />
Mehr Informationen finden Sie auf [http://kate-editor.org/2011/07/09/kate-in-kde-4-7/ diesem Blog].<br />
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===KDE Plattform===<br />
openSUSE 12.1 liefert die neueste stabile '''Qt 4.7.4''' und die '''KDE Plattform 4.7.2''' aus. Sie geben Entwicklern das Beste dieser leistungsfähigen Cross-Plattform-Entwicklungs-Bibliotheken. <br />
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'''KDE Plattform 4.7 '''<br /><br />
Diese Ausgabe von KDE's Entwicklungs-Plattform ist eine vorwärts zählende Ausgabe, die viele Fehlerbereinigungen und kleine Verbesserungen bei folgenden Technologien wie die eingebaute Browser-Maschine WebKit, System weite Proxy-Unterstützung und die Phonon-Multimedia-Maschine mitbringt.<br />
Für Entwickler sichtbare Änderungen sind:<br />
* Verbesserungen zu Komponenten des Semantic Desktop, die eine reiche API für Anwendungen bieten<br />
* Die Option um in KWin Compositing zu verschieben, wenn immer eine Anwendung danach ruft, um die Leistung in OpenGL-Spielen und GPU-beschleunigten Video-Playback zu verbessern.<br />
Details zur Ausgabe der KDE Plattform 4.7 lesen Sie bitte [http://kde.org/announcements/4.7/platform.php die KDE Plattform Release Notizen].<br />
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'''Qt 4.7 führt QtQuick ein'''<br /><br />
Qt 4.7.4 ist ein '''Bugfix-Release''' das mit openSUSE 11.4 ausgeliefert wurde. <br />
Wie auch immer, es führt einige leistungsfähige Funktionen ein, einschließlich dem Release von [http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/01/qt-quick-is-here QtQuick], einer neuen Funktion innerhalb Qt, die es leicht macht, Leichtgewichts-Apps und UIs zu kreieren. Es enthält die neue Sprache QML, einer einfach zu lernenden deklaratorischen Sprache, um dynamische und flüssige Schnittstellen zu bauen, das Qt Declarative-Modul und neue Werkzeugbereitstellung, um leicht Apps zu bauen. <br />
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QtQuick 1.1 bringt Right-to-Left Unterstützung, verbessertes Caching und Texteingabe und eine deklaratorische API zur Handhabung von Berührungs-Eingaben. Es gibt ebenso ein neues QML Sharders Plugin, das es Entwicklern eingebettete deklaratorische OpenGL Sharder Effekte in QML Apps erlaubt.<br />
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=== GNOME-Plattform-Verbesserungen ===<br />
Weitere Details, siehe: [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2 Release-Notizen].<br />
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==== Neue Funktionen und Funktionsweisen ====<br />
In openSUSE 12.1 ist die neueste GNOME-Entwickler-Plattform enthalten. Das besteht aus einem Satz aus API- und ABI-stabilen Bibliotheken, die unter der GNU LGPL stehen. Diese können für die Entwicklung von Cross-Plattform-Anwendungen verwendet werden.<br />
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Informationen zur Entwicklung mit GNOME finden Sie im [http://developer.gnome.org GNOME Entwicklungs-Zentrum].<br />
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'''GLib 2.30'''<br /><br />
GNOME's low-level software utility library GLib has seen various improvements, some of which are:<br />
* GApplication can now be used for non-unique applications.<br />
* GDBus supports the 'object manager' pattern with a number of new interfaces and has a code generator: gdbus-codegen.<br />
* An interface for certificate and key lookup has been added: GTlsDatabase. An implementation is provided by glib-networking.<br />
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'''GTK+ 3.2'''<br /><br />
GTK+ 3.2 is the latest release of the GTK+ toolkit, which is at the heart of GNOME. GTK+ 3.2 includes new features for developers, as well as extensive bug fixes. <br />
* Many more widgets support height-for-width geometry management. It is important to set reasonable sizes on labels and check window sizes.<br />
* New widgets include GtkLockButton for privileged operations, GtkOverlay for floating controls over a content area, the new GtkFontChooserDialog and more.<br />
* There is also improved CSS theming support and the HTML backend Broadway, which renders a GTK3 application in a browser. It is still experimental and requires compiling with --enable-broadway-backend and environment varialbe GDK_BACKEND at runtime.<br />
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'''Clutter 1.8'''<br /><br />
GNOME's graphics library for hardware-accelerated user interfaces Clutter provides, among other things, the following improvements: <br />
* New actions including Gesture and swipe detection, creating drop actors and long-press support for ClutterClickAction. <br />
* ClutterState transitions can be bound to object signals when creating a scene in ClutterScript. <br />
* Cogl, the GPU programming interface used by Clutter, is exposed as a separate library. <br />
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'''Use of Deprecated Libraries'''<br /><br />
Further progress has been made in the continuous work of replacing outdated technologies with superior facilities. Some examples:<br />
* GConf now uses D-Bus. As a consequence, the deprecated libraries ORBit2 and libIDL have been removed from GNOME. Many applications using GConf have been ported to gsettings.<br />
* GNOME core modules now only depend on introspection-based Python bindings (pygobject-3) and hence pygtk, gnome-python and gnome-python-desktop are not required anymore.<br />
* Several packages, such as the Epiphany web browser, have been converted from using dbus-glib to GDBus and from libunique to G(tk)Application.<br />
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'''Miscellaneous Developer Updates'''<br /><br />
Other GNOME Platform improvements in GNOME 3.2 include: <br />
* GNOME's build tool JHBuild does not build a module anymore if the version installed on your system is recent enough. If you start to build GNOME from scratch with a recent distribution, this can easily drop 50 modules from the list of modules to compile.<br />
* Tracker version 0.12 provides support for Firefox ≥ 4.0, Thunderbird ≥ 5.0, MeeGoTouch, several additional SPARQL parameters, extracting information from EPub files, and local XDG directories for desktop files. <br />
* NetworkManager version 0.9 provides introspection support and a simplified D-Bus API. Information how to port applications from NetworkManager 0.8 to 0.9 is available.<br />
* GtkSourceView now supports syntax highlighting of Markdown and Standard ML files.<br />
* libfolks now includes an Evolution-Data-Server backend, which is used by the new Contacts application.<br />
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== Und mehr ==<br />
Die obigen Abschnitte über Änderungen und Verbesserungen in openSUSE 12.1 sind natürlich unvollständig aber geben Vorgeschmack auf das, was neu ist. Wir hoffen Sie hatte Spaß beim Lesen.<br />
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===Mehr Infos===<br />
* Verfügbar für die Architekturen i386 und x86_64<br />
* [[Bildschirmfotos]] und [[Ankündigung]] über openSUSE 12.1<br />
* [[Medienaufteilung]]<br />
* [[openSUSE kaufen|Verkaufsversion]]: Doppellagige DVD für 32bit und 64 bit, gedrucktes Handbuch, kostenlose Installationsunterstützung<br />
* [[Produktlebensdauer|18 Monate Lebensdauer]]<br />
*[http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/12.1/RELEASE-NOTES.de.html openSUSE 12.1 Release Notes]<br />
*[[In_der_Presse| openSUSE 12.1 in der Presse]]<br />
* [[Portal:Installation|Installation]]<br />
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==openSUSE 12.1 - die neueste freie Software in einer stabilen und leichten Version==<br />
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Liebe Nutzer, Mitwirkende, Fans und Freunde,<br />Wir sind stolz, Ihnen die neueste Ausgabe von openSUSE zu präsentieren! Es ist das Ergebnis von 8 Monaten harter Arbeit der openSUSE Gemeinschaft. Sie erlaubt es Ihnen, sich darüber zu freuen, was die neueste freie Software zu bieten hat, mit dem einzigartigen openSUSE-Touch - stabil, freundlich, unterhaltsam.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 bringt Ihnen Aktualisierungen zur neuesten Freien Software als Desktop- und Servertechnologie, ebenso einzigartige Funktionen, wie das neueste Snapper-Werkzeug, Datei-Änderungs-Monitoring und Rollback-Funktionalität. <br />
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===Die neuesten Freien Desktops bringen Farb-Management, GNOME Shell und mehr===<br />
openSUSE bietet Ihnen die Auswahl aus 4 offiziell unterstützten Freien Desktops, alle auf hohem Niveau von Verfeinerung und Unterstützung. Bemerkenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste große Linux-Distribution ist, die Farb-Management-Werkzeuge sowohl für KDE als auch GNOME Desktops mitbringt! <br />
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====KDE führt Oyranos, Apper und Plasma Active ein====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 bringt den [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Arbeitsplatz] 4.7 als Standard-Desktop mit und ist die erste große Linux-Distribution, die auch den neuen [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Farb-Management]-Werkzeuge ausliefert. Eine andere große neue Änderung ist der Ersatz von KPackageKit durch Apper. Apper vereinfacht die Installation und das Entfernen von Anwendungen. <br />
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Das innovative Projekt der KDE-Gemeinschaft, die Tablet-Oberfläche Plasma Active, ist noch kein integraler Bestandteil des openSUSE 12.1 Release. Aber die Nutzer der Tablet-Oberfläche können Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 installieren. Wir arbeiten an der Integration bis zum nächsten Release.<br />
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====GNOME Shell - verbessert und verfeinert====<br />
Wir stellen Ihnen '''GNOME 3.2''' vor, eine verbesserte und verfeinerte Version der GNOME Shell, die in GNOME 3 eingeführt wurde. openSUSE liefert ebenso viele verbesserte GNOME-Anwendungen aus, die in die GNOME-Shell integriert sind.<br />
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Haupt-Verbesserungen im Vergleich zur GNOME 3-Vorschau in openSUSE 11.4 schließen einen besseren Umgang mit kleinen Bildschirmen und Multi-Bildschirm-Einrichtungen ein, bessere Ausführungsmeldungen und eine zentralisierte Konfiguration von <em>Online-Benutzerkonten</em>. Dieses Release bring Ihnen ebenso einen neuen Dokumentenmanager. Dieses Release bringt auch einen neuen Dokumenten-Manager, ein erweitertes Farb-Management und eine automatische Rotation für Touch-Screen-Geräte mit. [[:en:openSUSE:Product_highlights_12.1#GNOME_3.2|Hier finden Sie weitere Details über GNOME 3.2]]<br />
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====Die anderen Desktops====<br />
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Beide Desktops '''XFCE''' und '''LXDE''' habe keine größeren Funktionsuptates seit dem letzten openSUSE Release erhalten. Aber kleine Verbesserungen wurden durchgeführt und sind im Release enthalten. Das schließt bessere Themen- und Desktop-Integration ein und ebenso eine verbesserte Auswahl von Anwendungen, Teil der Standard-Auswahl für jeden Desktop. openSUSE stellt auch wieder KDE 3 Pakete zur Verfügung.<br />
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===openSUSE bietet die neuesten Web- und Wolken-Technologien an===<br />
Dieses openSUSE Release liefert die neuesten Web-Browser, das Groupware-Framework [http://www.horde.org/ Horde 4] und aktualisierte Wolken- und Virtualisierungs-Technologien.<br />
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====Im Web surfen und dienen====<br />
Auf der Client-Seite fügt openSUSE '''Chromium 16''' zu den Standard-Repositorys hinzu. Dieser auf WebKit basierende Internetbrowser von Google bietet eine zweckmäßige Benutzeroberfläche und ein äußerst schnelles browsen durchs Internet. Der Standardbrowser von openSUSE ist '''Firefox 7''', der neueste aus dem Mozilla-Labor.<br />
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Auf der Server-Seite bietet das Management-Werkzeug für entfernte Systeme '''WebYaST''' eine deutlich verbesserte Web-Schnittstelle, um openSUSE Systeme aus der Ferne mit neuen Modulen und besserer Leistungsfähigkeit zu administrieren. Die Einführung des Groupware-Frameworks '''Horde 4''' bringt einen leistungsfähigen Satz von Anwendungen mit, einschließlich eines modernen Webmail-Clients und einem auf PHP basierenden Rahmenwerk auf dem alles aufgebaut ist.<br />
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====Unterstützung der Wolken-Technologien====<br />
openSUSE ist ein ausgezeichnetes Gast-Betriebssystem für die Wolke, was in Erfahrung gebracht werden kann, indem man Lösungen im [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] baut. Mit einem neuen Kernel ist openSUSE nun bereit, in der '''Amazon EC2 cloud''' zu laufen. Auf der Host-Seite können die neuesten Virtualiesierungs-Technologien wie '''Xen 4.1''', '''KVM''' und '''Virtual Box''' mit dem neuesten '''[http://virt-manager.org/ virt-manager]''' und '''[http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ open-vm-tools]''' verwaltet werden. Schließlich ist openSUSE die erste Linux-Distribution, die die [http://owncloud.org/ eigene Wolke] in den Dektop integriert. Das [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualisierungs- und Wolken Repository] für openSUSE bietet die neuesten Versionen von '''[http://www.eucalyptus.com/ Eucalyptus]''', '''[http://opennebula.org/about:about OpenNebula]''' und '''[http://www.openstack.org/ OpenStack]''' für openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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[[:en:Product_highlights#Security_and_administration_tools|Hier können sie mehr über die Werkzeuge zu Administration und Wolke in openSUSE 12.1 lesen.]]<br />
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===Verbesserte Technologie der Distribution===<br />
openSUSE führt eine Anzahl von Verbessereungen und Innovationen in die darunter liegende Technologie der Distribution ein. Das schließt das einzigartige [[:en:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]]-Werkzeug, das Versionen von Dateien verwaltet, das [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd Systemd-Init-System] und die Sprache [http://code.google.com/p/go/ Go] von Google ein. <br />
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====Snapper rollt Änderungen zurück====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ist die erste Linux-Distribution, die die Schnappschuss-Funktion des zukünftigen Linux-Dateisystems Btrfs nutzt. Diese Schnappschüsse des Dateisystems verwenden "copy-on-write", und machen diese sehr Speicherplatz-Effizient. openSUSE führt [[:en:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] ein, was dem Benutzer ermöglicht, sich mit dieser Technologie auseinander zu setzen.<br />
Die Kommandozeile und die Snapper-Werkzeuge mit grafischer Oberfläche erlaubt es den Benutzern, sich ältere Dateiversionen anzusehen und Änderungen rückgängig zu machen. Diese einzigartige Integration in Paketmanager Zypper erlaubt es ganze Upgrades oder Software-Installationen mit den begleitenden Konfigurations-Änderungen rückgängig zu machen.<br />
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====Systemd startet Ihr System====<br />
Systemd ist das neue Init-Werkzeug in openSUSE. Es steuert und beschleunigt den Startprozess. Es wurde in enger Kooperation mit den der befreundeten Linux-Distribution Fedora entwickelt. Systemd ist besonders für Systemadministratoren interessant, wegen seines leistungsfähigen Sockel- und Bus-aktivierten Service-Systems. Es arbeitet mit der Kernel-Funktion [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups cgroups] eng zusammen und bietet eine bessere Sicherheit und Kontrolle über die Prozesse.<br />
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====Schreibe in '''go''', kompiliere mit Clang oder GCC====<br />
openSUSE ist stolz darauf, die erste große Distribution zu sein, die [http://golang.org/ '''Google's neue Programmiersprache Go '''] als Bestandteil des Release auszuliefern. Go ist eine schnelle, leichte Sprache, die gut darin ist, Mehrkernsysteme zu bedienen, ebenso an das Netzwerk angeschlossene Maschinen mit der Eignung zur Abfallsammlung und Laufzeit Reflexion.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 kommt mit dem gerade veröffentlichten [http://llvm.org/ '''Kompiler-Werkzeug LLVM3'''] und [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], dem C/C++ Kompiler, der auf LLVM baut. LLVM wird von den beschleunigten open Source Grafiktreibern für ATI und NVIDIA verwendet. Das bildet einen integralen Bestandteil von Hoch-Leistungs-Stack-Grafiken auf LINUX. <br />
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Diese openSUSE Ausgabe ist mit [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''] und [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''Link-Zeit- Optimierung'''] gebaut, die die komplette Leistung der Software verbessert.<br />
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==Mehr Details über openSUSE 12.1==<br />
Die folgenden Seiten zeigen auf, was neu in dieser openSUSE Version ist.<br />
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===Unter der Haube===<br />
Obwohl die meisten offensichtlichen Verbesserungen von openSUSE 12.1 an der Oberfläche zu sehen sind, haben wir ebenfalls eine Menge an Verbesserungen „unter der Haube” gemacht. Darunter verbessertes Starten (boot), Hardware Management und Systemkonfiguration. The Startprozedur von openSUSE wird nun von systemd übernommen (und SysVInit ist aber noch als Notlösung vorhanden); das neue Snapper Werkzeug hält überwacht automatisch die Systemkonfiguration und andere Dateiänderungen (und lässt es auf Wunsch zurücksetzen); YaST hat einige ganze Reihe an Verbesserungen erhalten; SAX kehrt in Form von SAX3 wieder zurück, ein openSUSE GSOC Projekt; und wir unterstützen natürlich die aktuelleste Version von jeder Kern-Komponente, z.B. Linux 3.1 Kernel, syslog-ng 3.3, GCC 4.6 und LLVM v3. Ebenfalls erwähnenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste Haupt-Distribution ist, die [http://golang.org Googles neue Go Programmiersprache] ausliefert.<br />
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====openSUSE Technologie Verbesserungen====<br />
openSUSE, als eine Linux-Distribution macht mehr als nur Pakete dritter anzubieten. Wir haben unsere eigenen Werkzeuge, mit dem Sie Ihr System konfigurieren, Software managen und vieles mehr können.<br />
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=====Snapper=====<br />
[[Image:openSUSE_12.1_Snapper.png|thumb|200px||Snapper YaST GUI in Aktion]]<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ist die erste Linux-Distribution die Vorteile aus der Schnappschuss-Funktion des kommenden Linux-Dateisystems Btrfs macht. Diese Schnappschüsse (engl.: Snapshots) vom Dateisystem benutzen „copy-on-write“ (Kopieren-beim-Schreiben), was das ganze sehr Platzsparend macht. openSUSE 12.1 führt [[:de:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] ein, welches dem Benutzer eine Schnittstelle zu dieser Technologie bietet.<br />
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Das Kommandozeilen- und GUI Snapper-Werkzeug erlaubt dem Benutzer ältere Versionen von Dateien anzuzeigen und Änderungen rückgängig zu machen. Die einzigartige Integration in den zypper-Paketmanager von openSUSE erlaubt dem Nutzer ganze Aktualisierungen oder Softwareinstallationen samt den dazugehörigen Konfigurationsänderungen rückgängig zu machen.<br />
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Beachte dass Snapper und das Zurückrollen (Rollback) zurzeit nur für btrfs Dateisysteme zur Verfügung steht! Arbeiten werden diese Funktionen auch für das ältere Ext4 Dateisystem verfügbar machen. Jedoch wird das nicht vor der nächsten openSUSE Version geschehen.<br />
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Sie können [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/04/01/introducing-snapper/ eine Einführung von Snapper hier lesen].<br />
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[http://www.youtube.com/susevideo#p/a/u/0/9H7e6BcI5Fo Greg K-H führt Snapper bei Brainshare vor].<br />
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=====SAX3=====<br />
Als Xorg sich über die xorg.conf hinaus zur neuen xorg.conf.d Struktur entwickelt, ging unser geliebtes X Konfigurationswerkzeug SAX2 ebenfalls. Dank der Mühen Manu Guptas [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/07/05/people-of-opensuse-manu-gupta/ während Googles Summer of Code] erhielt openSUSE wieder ein neues elegantes grafisches Werkzeug um die X Konfiguration anzupassen: SAX3. Nun haben openSUSE-Nutzer wieder die Möglichkeit einfach ihre Tastatur-, Maus-, Monitor und Touchpadeinstellungen in einer praktischen Oberfläche zu optimieren. Machen Sie sich keine Sorgen falls Sie Probleme mit Ihrer X-Konfiguration haben: Wie üblich für YaST-Module löst SAX3 das Huhn-Ei-Problem indem es eine ncurses Text-, als auch GTK und QT Grafikoberflächen integriert hat. Bitte beachten Sie, dass SAX3 in der OSS-Softwarequelle nicht ordnungsgemäß in 12.1 funktioniert. Ein kommendes Update wird das Problem lösen. Dieses ist bereits verfügbar in der [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=X11%3Asax X11:SAX-Softwarequelle].<br />
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=====YaST=====<br />
Neben der Unterstützung von Snapper und der Rückkehr von SAX3 erhielt YaST2 eine Anzahl an Bugfixes und kleineren Verbesserungen. Die YaST-Entwickler sind froh zu berichten, dass sie nach den letzten Korrekturen zuversichtlich sind, dass YaST nicht wieder versehentlich benutzer-modifizierte Konfigurationsdateien überschreiben wie es in den „frühen Tagen“ der Fall war. Zusammen mit den zypp-Paketmanagement-Leistungsverbesserungen in der 11er-openSUSE-Serie wurde dem Mythos das YaST langsam sei und Dateien überschreibt ein Ende gesetzt. Eine stärker sichtbare Änderung ist das neue Design was dank der [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/10/24/new-style-for-yast2/ CSS-basierten Themen für YaST ermöglicht wurde]. WebYaST entwickelt sich ebenfalls weiterhin gut; beinhaltet mittlerweile mehr Module als je zuvor um eine Web-basierte Administration von openSUSE zur unterstützen.<br />
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=====OBS, openQA und andere Werkzeuge=====<br />
openSUSE hat eine Reihe an mächtigen Werkzeugen, welche wir zum Bauen unserer Distribution, welche ebenfalls für Andere zum Bauen von Paketen oder Software-Testen verfügbar sind, entwickelt. Diese Werkzeuge beinhaltet den plattformübergreifenden [http://openbuildservice.org Open Build Service], das allmächtige [http://openqa.opensuse.org openQA], das flexible [[Portal:KIWI|KIWI]] und viele weitere.<br />
Von jedem kamen in den letzte 8 Monaten neue, verbesserte Versionen raus. Das beinhaltet die [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/10/11/opensuse-announces-first-public-release-of-openqa/ erste Freigabe von openQA] and der [http://news.opensuse.org/2010/10/19/the-opensuse-build-service-2-1-released/2.1 Freigabe des Open Build Service] für welches [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=openSUSE%3ATools Pakete für openSUSE 12.1 verfügbar sind].<br />
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====Linux Kernel 3.1====<br />
Der neue Linux 3.1 Kernel hat erhebliche Verbesserungen zum 2.6.38er Kernel, welcher Teil von openSUSE 11.4 war. Es wurden nicht nur Dateisysteme wie Ext4 und Btrfs verbessert, der Linux 3.1 Kernel bringt etliche Performance-Verbesserungen der Speicherverwaltung und der Datenverarbeitung. Natürlich enthält er auch eine Reihe von Treibern zur Unterstützung neuer Hardware, einschließlich externer Geräte wie z.B. Microsofts Kinect, Apple iSight Webcam und den Nintento Wii Controller als auch für interne Hardware wie die neuen AMD Llano Fusion APUs und Intels Ivy Bridge & Cedal Trail CPUs, eine Vielfalt an WLAN- und Grafikkarten und vieles mehr. Was noch neu im openSUSE Kernel ist, können Sie auf den KernelNewbies Seiten [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_39 Linux 2.6.39], [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.0 Linux 3.0] and [http://kernelnewbies.orgWilliams/Linux_3.1 Linux 3.1] erfahren.<br />
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====systemd and other system-wide changes====<br />
System boot is now handled by the new '''systemd''' init tool, controlling and speeding up the boot process. Developed in close cooperation with fellow Linux distribution Fedora, systemd is especially interesting for system administrators due to it's powerful socket- and bus activated service system which improves parallelization and resource usage. It also works closely with Linux' cgroups providing better security and control over the processes.<br />
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If for some reason, systemd does not work for you, you can still '''use the old sysV-init''' by pressing F5 in the bootloader. If you want to permanently use the old init, just do zypper rm systemd-sysvinit<br />
We also again provide '''grub2''' as an optional bootloader. While we are still not satisfied with Grub2 as a replacement for the current Grub, we encourage users to try it out, and want to make sure it's available for developers.<br />
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A number of smaller changes includes:<br />
*the '''util-linux''' tool version 2.20 introduces the first major changes to the dmesg logging tool in 18 years, bringing a number of options to bring human readable prefixes and timestamps to the output or clean it up, only showing important messages or messages coming from either kernel- or userspace.<br />
*'''LightDM 1.0''' is the first stable release of this faster, extensible Display Manager. LightDM aims to replace the myriad of different DM's with a single [http://xkcd.com/927/ new standard].<br />
*the '''syslog-ng 3.3''' release adds multithreading, JSON and mongodb output to this system logging tool.<br />
*The [http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.0 rpm 4.9] release brings a number of stability and performance improvements to this package manager.<br />
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==== First to ship Google Go, LLVM v3 and CLANG v3 ====<br />
openSUSE is proud to be the first major distribution to ship [http://golang.org/ '''Google's new Go programming language'''] as part of our release. Go is a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language. Go makes it easy to work with multi-core and networked machines and offers flexible and modular program construction mechanisms. While it compiles (quickly) to machine code it has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. Learn more on the [http://golang.org/ Go language website].<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 also comes with the just-released [http://llvm.org/ '''LLVM3 compiler tool'''] and [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], the C/C++ compiler building upon LLVM. LLVM, a set of flexible and performant compiler tools, offers powerful code generation which is used by Mesa for its software based OpenGL "Gallium" graphics driver architecture. It is also employed by the open source ATI and NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers and thus forms an integral part of a high-performance graphics stack on Linux.<br />
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[http://clang.llvm.org/ '''Clang'''] takes advantage of LLVM to provide an fast and memory-efficient GCC-compatible C/C++ code compiler. Clang in openSUSE 12.1 comes with enabled ARM code generation support, in the spirit of the recently started [http://opensuse.org/opensuse:ARMopenSUSE ARMs project]!<br />
Aside from Go and LLVM, openSUSE offers a large number of the latest compilers and tools. openSUSE 12.1 is build with [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''], which has [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_fx4100_gcc&num=1 shown to offer significant performance improvements] over the previous 4.5 version. This release also introduces initial support for the Ada 2012 programming language as well as experimental support for the latest C++11 standard (status can be found [http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/cxx0x_status.html here]).<br />
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This release of GCC, combined with the latest '''binutils 2.21.1''', has allowed us to enable [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''link-time optimization'''] in a number of packages, bringing an additional performance improvement.<br />
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=== Localization ===<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 has been [http://i18n.opensuse.org translated into many languages] - currently about 30 are over 90% complete and no less than 66 languages are in the process of being finished. This openSUSE release has added five Cyrillic fonts. Two of them (PT Sans and PT Serif) beside standard Western, Central European and Cyrillic code pages contain characters of all title languages of Russian Federation that make them unique and a very important tool of modern digital communications.}}<br />
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===Repository changes and third party support for openSUSE 12.1===<br />
Via the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service installation on build.opensuse.org] openSUSE hosts over 160.000 packages created by more than 30.000 individual contributors. These are available to openSUSE users as well as users from other Linux Distributions. But outside of this infrastructure, other projects like VLC and Packman offer their own OBS instance with packages for openSUSE! We highlight a few important projects from build.opensuse.org and third parties.<br />
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====Tumbleweed====<br />
'''Tumbleweed''', the unique [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed|rolling release repository for openSUSE]], can be considered 'complete' at the time of this release. Covering almost all of the openSUSE 12.1 packages, Tumbleweed offers newer versions as soon as they are deemed stable. Instead of making you wait for a new release of openSUSE, Tumbleweed lessens the significance and change impact of major releases by updating systems continuously. By enabling Tumbleweed you are always up to date with the '''latest software'''. And you won’t have to install newer versions of openSUSE as you’ll be running them already by the time they get released!<br />
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Tumbleweed will require its current users to make one manual change to the repositories upon the 12.1 release. Besides the Tumbleweed repository, users are required to have the latest stable openSUSE repositories enabled, currently for most users set at openSUSE 11.4. With the 12.1 release, these will thus have to change. The openSUSE sysadmins have ensured however that this will be the first and last time this has to be changed. From now on there will be a link to the latest stable release, for the convenience of Tumbleweed users. Upon a new release the openSUSE servers will automatically handle the required changes, transparent to the users. For instructions to make these changes, [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed_12.1change|please see here]].<br />
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Find more information [[:en:Tumbleweed|about Tumbleweed here]].<br />
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====Packman====<br />
[[Image:Packman.png|256px|link=|Features]]The well-known third-party [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] repositories for openSUSE already offer openSUSE 12.1 support. '''Packman''' provides four different repositories each offering a targeted selection of software, in addition to the larger common repository. Additional to packages for openSUSE 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, Factory and SLE 11, an essential set of Packman packages is provided for Tumbleweed. Find more information on the [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman website] and [[Paket_Repositorys#Packman| find out how to get software from Packman on the openSUSE wiki]].<br />
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====SUSE Studio====<br />
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[[Portal:SUSE_Studio|SUSE Studio]] is a project from openSUSE sponsor SUSE(TM) which builds upon the Free and Open Source openSUSE tools like '''KIWI''' and offers a convenient web interface for easy building of openSUSE and SLE based custom operating systems (appliances).<br />
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[http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] users can expect availability of openSUSE 12.1 right from the release date, and support for upgrading existing appliances shortly after. This means it will be possible to easily create your own versions of openSUSE 12.1 with '''custom package selections''', '''artwork''', '''scripts''' and any other properties and download them as USB or disk images, Live CDs and a variety of popular virtual formats. You can share your appliance or also browse other’s shared appliances on [http://susestudio.com/browse SUSE Gallery].<br />
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====Contrib retired====<br />
The [[:en:openSUSE:Contrib|Contrib]] repository for third-party packages was once a community-driven extension of the main repository. The vast majority of these packages have since been integrated in the main repository or in one of the central additional repositories like the official [[KDE_Repositorys|KDE]] and [[GNOME_Repositorys|GNOME]] repositories. These provide newer versions of the software in the main repositories as well as new or experimental software not yet available in openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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====Packages on the Open Build Service====<br />
If you can not find an application in openSUSE 12.1 you can use the search functionality on [http://software.opensuse.org software.opensuse.org]. If you enable searching in users home projects (under advanced) you can choose from the 160.000 packages provided by our 30.000 packagers using the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service instance on build.opensuse.org].<br />
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====VLC====<br />
The VideoLAN organization continues their robust support for openSUSE, with a 1-click install of the VLC universal media player already available for openSUSE 12.1 at [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html this page].<br />
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=== Latest Free Desktops ===<br />
openSUSE offers both major Free Software desktops as well as a number of community-supported desktops, all with a high level of polish and support. openSUSE 12.1 is the first release to introduce the new '''GNOME Shell''' user interface, part of GNOME 3.2. GNOME Shell brings a vastly refined user experience with a smooth, natural workflow. The default openSUSE desktop, the '''KDE Plasma Desktop''', brings color management and much improved performance as well as the new 'Akonadi' based Kontact2 groupware solution. Current releases of both XFCE and LXDE include minor improvements on the road to their next big releases.<br />
For the first time, the openSUSE community openly selected artwork for openSUSE 12.1; the preferred 'upwind' theme reflects in our new splash, boot and background images . GNOME users will notice that the art team has maintained the trend of providing a time-sensitive set of themed wallpapers.<br />
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==== KDE Plasma Workspaces and applications 4.7 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Workspaces] 4.7 and is the first major Linux distribution to ship the new [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos Color Management Service]. Oyranos and its associated tools add [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management color management] to KDE applications, making sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens. Another major new addition is Apper, an easy to use software management tool replacing KPackageKit. There are also improvements to network management, the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop tool and Activities. In total, this release fixed over 12.000 bugs and contains hundreds of smaller and larger performance improvements.<br />
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The innovative new Tablet project from the KDE community, Plasma Active, is not an integral part of the openSUSE 12.1 release as it depends on functionality not available in the released KDE Platform yet and conflicts with the Desktop and Netbook workspaces. However, tablet users can install Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 and we work on integrating it in the next openSUSE release.<br />
Read on for a more extensive view on what's new in the Desktop, Netbook and application area as well as to learn more about Plasma Active One!<br />
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=====Plasma Workspaces bring improved visuals with Oyranos CMS=====<br />
openSUSE is the '''first major Linux distribution to ship [http://www.oyranos.org/about/ Oyranos CMS]''' integrated in the KDE applications and workspaces. Oyranos is is an operating system level [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Color Management System], matching input device colors to output device colors across supported applications. Oyranos makes use of the ICC color management standard and is integrated in the KDE Workspaces and applications through the new KolorManager application. The KolorManager application makes sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens.<br />
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Users can now configure their ICC profiles and settings in one central place. It brings as well a set of command line tools like oyranos-policy for handling policy configuration files and oyranos-profiles for installation of ICC profiles. KDE users can install the KolorManager package. This Oyranos front end adds a system settings control panel for individual settings adaption. Most systems will run fine with Oyranos defaults. [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ read more about color management in openSUSE 12.1 on the oyranos website]<br />
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'''Visual improvements'''<br />
On the visual side, KDE's Plasma workspaces provides '''better integration with GTK/GNOME applications''' with a port of KDE's Oxygen style to GTK. The Oxygen icons have been improved and the Plasma panel offers a more consistent look with changes to the icons and the clock. The new Shadow support in window manager '''KWin''' gives a better look on older hardware and performs better all around. KWin also can now disable compositing when a full-screen application calls for it, increasing performance for OpenGL games and GPU accelerated video playback.<br />
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Plasma's Activities have seen many improvements. The '''Activity Manager''' now takes a more prominent place in the default panel in Plasma Desktop. Activities enhance the users' workflows by providing smart ways of grouping applications, widgets and documents.<br />
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Navigating through applications and recent files is easier with the '''addition of breadcrumbs''' to the Kickoff application launcher, helping users to see where they are and quickly back up to higher menu levels. Many other usability and functionality improvements have been made to the Workspaces. For example, '''Konsole''' no longer blocks the removal of USB storage devices and '''KMix''' has improved PulseAudio support. <br />
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'''Network management, multimedia and Nepomuk'''<br />
The Plasma Workspaces now also offer '''much improved network management''', including support for NetworkManager 0.9 as well as Bluetooth tethering, 3G, VPN, MAC spoofing and other advanced networking options.<br />
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Thanks to [http://dot.kde.org/2011/09/21/nepomuk-stability-and-performance generous donations from the community], the Semantic Desktop technology '''Nepomuk has seen extensive bugfixing''', improving stability and performance as well as making it easier to use. Strigi analyzers now read meta-data in their own process, resolving over 35 crash-related bugs in Dolphin and Konqueror.<br />
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The latest version of '''Phonon''', our media framework, has seen work on the backends. The VLC-based back-end is now considered stable and is the preferred back-end for multiplatform use, while the back-end based on GStreamer is now also considered stable on Linux platforms. The xine back-end is no longer maintained.<br />
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=====KDE Applications suite 4.7 features many refinements=====<br />
The latest version of KPackageKit - now renamed '''Apper''' - (developed by [http://dantti.wordpress.com Daniel Nicoletti] ) is now included with Plasma Desktop. This brings significant improvements to the KDE's PackageKit front end and makes it possible to list Applications instead of listing only Packages. This makes openSUSE a lot more user-friendly and closer to Grandma compattible.<br />
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'''Dolphin''', KDE’s file manager, has a cleaner default appearance. The menu bar is hidden, but easy to reach and restore. The file searching interface has been improved. In addition, Dolphin now has much deeper integration with source code management systems, including the ability to create and clone repositories, push and pull changes, view diffs and much more.<br />
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Dolphin and Konqueror both benefit from a new plugin that provides a '''rating and an annotation menu action''' for files and folders, leveraging Nepomuk capabilities. <br />
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Image management has become easier with '''Gwenview''', the KDE image viewer, now offering the ability to compare two or more pictures side by side. From the browse mode, select two or more pictures, and then switch to the view mode or to the full-screen mode. In the view mode, you can add more pictures from the thumbnail bar.<br />
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Comic fans will be pleased that Okular, the universal file viewer, gains support for reading a directory as a comicbook.<br />
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'''KStars''', the essential KDE application for stargazers around the world, has gained a feature to predict a star hopping route and dynamic switching between its OpenGL and native rendering backends. Labels can now be assigned to points on celestial lines; comet trails are rendered in OpenGL mode. Mathematicians and scientists can now explore higher order functions in Kalgebra and get information on oxidation states for elements in Kalzium. <br />
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'''KDM''', the display manager, has gained ''GRUB2'' support. A user with multiple operating systems in their GRUB2 menu can now choose which one to reboot to in the shutdown dialog by holding down the mouse button on their reboot choice. <br />
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'''Marble''', the virtual globe application, has gained many improvements over the past eight months. It now has voice navigation support, a map creation wizard, and new plug-ins. Following the Voice of Marble contest, '''voice navigation''' is now available in several languages, with voices provided by the KDE community. For more details, see Marble's [http://edu.kde.org/marble/current_1.2.php visual changelog]. <br />
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Other applications such as Kate, Kalzium, KAlgebra, KStars, and KDevelop have also been updated in this release. Changes and improvements to some other major applications from the KDE community can be found in the [Product_highlights#New_and_updated_applications|applications section].<br />
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Find more information on what is new in the Plasma Workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Platform in the [http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.7/ announcement by KDE].<br />
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<gallery><br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-dolphin.png|KDE Dateimanager: Dolphin<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-gwenview.png|Bildbetrachter: gwenview<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-kaffeine.png|Video Player: Kaffeine<br />
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=====Plasma Active One is optionally available=====<br />
The fresh and innovative [http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active Plasma Active] interface for tablets and mobile devices is available for openSUSE 12.1. It is not an integral part of this release as it still depends on a number of unreleased technologies but we plan to have Plasma Active as part of openSUSE 12.2.<br />
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'''Plasma Active'''<br />
Plasma Active aims at creating a cross-device user experience for emerging devices such as tablet computers, media centers, smartphones, and more. It builds on the Linux stack with X11, Qt and the KDE libraries. The user interface is designed using Plasma Quick, a declarative markup language allowing for organic user interface design based on Qt Quick.<br />
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The first release, [http://kde.org/announcements/plasma-active-one/ Plasma Active One] fully focuses on tablet computers. Plasma Active Tablet's user experience is designed around the web, social networks and multimedia content. Packages for openSUSE are offered in the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=KDE%3AActive Plasma Active] repository.<br />
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==== GNOME 3.2 ====<br />
After shipping a technical preview of [http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ GNOME 3] with 11.4, openSUSE 12.1 replaces the GNOME 2.x series with the latest GNOME 3.2 desktop to the openSUSE GNOME users. With many improvements based on the feedback of the openSUSE community and the wider Free Software community, numerous usability and application changes have been incorporated.<br />
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'''GNOME Shell''' brings a fresh user-interface that is designed from the scratch to satisfy the needs of today's users. The interface focuses on getting out of the way and providing unobtrusive yet powerful notifications and deep integration of calendar, chat and other technologies. The UI elements and workflows are designed to be touch-friendly for use on tablets or desktops with a touch screen. By using the 3D acceleration capabilities provided by most of the computers these days, pleasing animations are used to give users an aesthetic look and feel and a much easier way of switching between applications. Read on for more details on what's new in GNOME 3.2.<br />
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===== What's new in GNOME Shell 3.2 =====<br />
Various minor tweaks and major features are incorporated into this release based on user feedback. openSUSE 12.1 ships the alt-status-menu extension to make various computer operations easily accessible. Some examples:<br />
*It is now easier to resize windows and titlebars, buttons and other controls are a bit less tall, making GNOME easier to use on small screens.<br />
* Notifications now include a counter so you can see how many mails or chats messages are waiting for you and Shell now also shows media device notifications.<br />
* The focus-follows-mouse feature has been improved and while it's not perfect yet, it will suffice for most usecases.<br />
* The System Settings have been improved, showing links to other relevant settings and has integrated color management<br />
* GNOME Shell battery power status now shows how much power you have left<br />
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===== Communication in GNOME Shell =====<br />
Compared to any prior release of GNOME, the instant messaging workflow is much improved in GNOME Shell 3.2. You can receive chats, reply to messages, approve / deny friendship requests, call requests, all without having to launch the IM application explicitly. You can change the status of your machine from a centralized place so that all the IM accounts reflect the status change. Error and new message notifications are so well integrated in GNOME shell so that you won't have focus stealing popups but only unobtrusive animations notifying you what is going on.<br />
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A new "Online Accounts" feature enables users to create online accounts. Accounts created will be seamlessly available for various applications throughout the desktop experience. For example, if you create a Google Account, your Google Docs documents will be available in the new Document browser, your Google contacts will be available in empathy for IM, and the calendar shows your appointments. http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/gnome-documents-google.png.en<br />
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[http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2]<br />
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===== What's new in the GNOME 3.2 Applications =====<br />
The new GNOME 3 libraries bring many improvements to GNOME 3 applications. Some examples:<br />
* File open dialogs in applications now show a list of recent files and directories<br />
* Better performance and a new theme<br />
* A redesigned Font chooser dialog<br />
* A new on-screen keyboard and a number of other accessibility enhancements<br />
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Moreover, the individual applications have seen many features and bugfixes, read on for a quick overview.<br />
A new people-focused '''Contacts"' application is shipped which can work with Evolution and Empathy in the background, providing you with a unified addressbook for your desktop. <br />
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'''Empathy''', the GNOME IM application has got a lot of improvements. You can easily search your logs visually filtering on various parameters such as Who, When.<br />
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http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/empathy-log.png.en NetworkManager-gnome version 0.9 provides fast user switching, improved WiFi roaming, WiMAX support, flexible permissions and centralized storage of network connection information.<br />
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Not to be left out of the party, GNOME 3.2 includes robust color management support as well, including the new GNOME Color Manager wizard for calibrating displays using either ICC profiles or a Huey hardware colorimeter. [http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-color-manager/screenshots.html]<br />
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File manager '''Nautilus''' has seen a major overhaul for GNOME 3, with an improved Places sidebar, a new ''Connect to server'' dialog and a quick preview function which can be triggered by 'space'.<br />
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Many smaller improvements include new and configurable effects in the Webcam application '''Cheese''', bookmark support in PDF viewer '''Evince''', plugins for image viewer '''Eye of GNOME''' and improved streaming support for video and audio in media player Totem.<br />
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Read more about [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2 in the official announcement] and find more GNOME applications in the sections below.<br />
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<gallery><br />
File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME desktop.png|Desktop Shell<br />
File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME activities.png|GNOME Shell:<br> Aktivitäten<br />
File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME eog.png|Bildbetrachter:<br> GNOME Eye<br />
File:OpenSUSE_12.1_GNOME_nautilus.png|Datei Manager:<br> Nautilus<br />
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==== LXDE 0.5 ====<br />
This release of openSUSE comes with LXDE 0.5. There have been no major updates to this lightweight desktop for a while but minor improvements and bugfixes have been integrated.<br />
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Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_desktop_menu.png|LXDE Desktop und Menü<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_control_center.png|LXDE Kontrollzentrum<br />
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==== Xfce 4.8 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships ''''Xfce 4.8''''. All Xfce components have been updated to the latest bugfix releases. The desktop has been polished further in terms of integration and branding. LightDM is now the default display manager reducing the dependencies on core GNOME components. The functionality provided in the default install should now be on par with GNOME/KDE desktops.<br />
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File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Desktop.png|Desktop<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Main_Menu.png|Haupt Menue<br />
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=== New and updated applications ===<br />
On top of the kernel and other low-level tools, openSUSE provides a huge variety of console and graphical applications. These applications have been updated to the latest versions bringing many improvements in terms of features and bugfixes.<br />
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====Web browsers====<br />
The web is important for modern computer users, and openSUSE has you covered with a selection of browsers Free Software has to offer. We ship a much faster Firefox, an innovative Opera, a well integrated Epiphany and a more stable Rekonq. New is Chromium, the fast and easy to use browser from Google. These browsers provide a wide range of rendering engines supporting the latest web standards. Read on to find out what is new in these browsers since we brought to you in openSUSE 11.4!<br />
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'''Firefox 7'''<br /><br />
Since Firefox 4.0 in openSUSE 11.4, the project has moved to a more rapid release schedule and thus we present you with Mozilla's latest Firefox 7.0.1. Firefox has introduced support for new privacy features like do-not-track and much improved developer tools in the new 'web developer' menu. End users will appreciate the many smaller and larger usability improvements like the URL bar highlighting the website domain and hiding the prefix. Last but not least, each subsequent Firefox release brought better performance, from faster loading of tabs to the large memory management improvements in Firefox 7 and of course support for the latest web standards.<br />
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'''Chromium 16'''<br /><br />
Chromium, meet openSUSE 12.1 users. Users, meet Chromium. This venerable WebKit based web browser from Google is quickly gaining popularity and thus had to become part of the openSUSE distribution. With its simplified interface, great integration with Google services, separate processes so a crashing site can not take down the browser and the fastest JavaScript engine in the world, it will impress you with it's speed and ease of use. The rapid release cycle of Chromium is hard to track - we ensure the latest is always available on your system so you don't have to worry about security or not being able to work with the latest websites.<br />
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'''Opera 11.52'''<br /><br />
Opera 11.52 brings much improved Opera Link to sync your passwords between system and a better Speed Dial which now supports extensions, small webpages embedded in your Speed Dial. Another new feature is the Location support on websites like Google Maps. Opera also uses far less memory now and became a fair bit more stable. Of course this release supports the latest HTML 5 and CSS 3 standards and features a faster JavaScript engine and smoother graphics.<br />
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'''Rekonq 0.8'''<br /><br />
With Rekonq 0.8, openSUSE ships a second WebKit based browser. Build on Qt and the KDE Platform this new release takes advantage of the many improvements in QtWebKit 2.2, bringing better stability and performance. New features include the Do-Not-Track feature, availability of history in restored tabs, and Third Party rule support in AdBlock. usability has been given attention with much improved drag'n'drop support, an new SSL UI, optional VI-style navigation and improved URL bar handling.<br />
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'''Epiphany from GNOME 3.2'''<br /><br />
The third WebKit based browser, this time from the GNOME community, Epiphany, allows you to create Web Application links. These Web Applications show up in the application view of GNOME Shell and act very much like real applications, opening links in new web browser windows and not showing a navigation bar or tabs. They also run in a process separate from the browser, so that crashes of Epiphany do not affect your web applications.<br />
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====Office and desktop publishing applications====<br />
openSUSE helps you get work done by providing a stable base and up to date productivity tools. The latest LibreOffice brings new features in most components as well as speed and stability improvements to this enterprise ready office suite. While Abiword, Gnumeric and KOffice are still at their latest stable versions, our additional repositories offer the innovative Calligra application suite as a choice.<br />
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'''Libreoffice 3.4.3'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://XXXX.org '''Libreoffice'''] release brings a large number of small additions and improvements like the ability to add and remove color charts, a named range as data source and supporting an unlimited number of fields in the DataPilot (now named Pivot Table), Greek Character mode for numbering in Writer and much more. As usual, much performance work was done decreasing the size of LibreOffice and improving startup speed. Text rendering and theming have received a major overhaul, making LibreOffice fitting better in your desktop.<br />
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'''Scribus 1.4'''<br /><br />
[http://www.scribus.net '''Scribus'''] is the major Open Source Desktop Publishing tool available for Linux. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation. openSUSE ships a release candidate of Scribus 1.4 which has a large number of stability fixes over the release in openSUSE 11.4.<br />
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'''Calligra 2.4 beta 3'''<br /><br />
The new [http://www.calligra-suite.org/ Calligra Suite], the successor of KOffice in openSUSE is not yet part of this release. However most users report the current beta's to be of '''better quality than the latest KOffice release''' and the openSUSE packagers have thus committed to provide a repository which will offer the latest Calligra releases.<br />
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Specifically '''targeting students and academic users''' with the productivity part, Calligra brings much improved text handling and rendering, state of the art '''import support for the Microsoft XML formats''' and many stability and usability improvements to all applications. Words introduces handling of citations and bibliographies and an automatically updating Table of Content, better text tables, footer- and header support and much more. Presentation application Stage has a new slide sorter and easier editing of notes with slides. Project Management application Plan introduces many new chart printing options and improved import from external data sources. Tables has improved support for large tables, rotated text, many new formulas, improved Microsoft Excel file support and much faster loading.<br />
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Calligra also introduces two new applications: <br />
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*Flow is a diagramming and flowcharting application in the spirit of Visio.<br />
*Braindump is a note taking application that builds on the Calligra core and uses the full power of the openDocument Format to allow for text, images and even multimedia in the notes.<br />
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Find a [http://www.calligra-suite.org/news/calligra-2-4-snapshot-1-tour/ Calligra Tour here].<br />
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You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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====Communication and groupware====<br />
Of course, openSUSE ships a wide variety of groupware and Personal Information Management (PIM) solutions like email clients, chat applications, calendar tools and more.<br />
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'''KDE PIM'''<br /><br />
Kontact, KDE’s groupware solution, has most components now ported to Akonadi. Once the initial bugs are ironed out, this will offer increased stability and performance, better connection to new services and sharing of communication information between more applications. The biggest change is the introduction of KMail 2. This application has the familiar interface, while under the surface, all mail storage and retrieval has been ported to use the powerful Akonadi cache.<br />
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The openSUSE KDE team has put '''significant efforts''' in ensuring a smooth upgrade to KMail 2 but this is a significant change and the team will keep an eye out for further issues. Bugfixes will be provided through updates and users are encouraged to report problems and update their systems frequently.<br />
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It should be noted that the move from KMail1 to KMail2 requires the '''import/conversion of email data to Akonadi'''. This process can take considerable time, measuring up to a day on slow systems with multiple gigabyte-sized mailboxes. It is possible to, instead of doing a migration, doing a clean start by moving the current data from the ~.kde4/share/apps/kmail to a backup location. If you have your data stored on a server and it is only cached locally this should not cause you to loose data. In case of a downloading POP mail account, however, you will have to use the conversion process or import your mail separately.<br />
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Also note that '''Akonadi is a cache''', not a permanent storage system. This means that your mail should remain where it is - be it on a server or in a local folder. Akonadi will store a '''copy''' in its database, as well as extra information like ratings and the like, for fast search and retrieval. This essentially replaces the internal cache KMail1 employed for this purpose. Due to this design, Akonadi is very unlikely to lose user data as it normally operates on a copy of it. Of course, actions like moving or removing mails are synced back to the original mail storage!<br />
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'''Evolution 3.2.1'''<br /><br />
Evolution provides integrated mail, address book and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop. Version 3.2.1 has been ported over to the GNOME 3 infrastructure and offers a number of small improvements and bugfixes over the previous release. Also new in the openSUSE 12.1 Evolution is the Exchange Connector for Evolution, compatible with Exchange 2007 and later, allowing Evolution to work with Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010. Evolution also works with the Google contacts, calendar and mail services.<br />
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'''Thunderbird 7.0.1'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird] email client shipped with openSUSE brings delivers faster performance, safer email experience, and a new add-ons manager. With over 390improvements and performance enhancements, Thunderbird is more responsive, starts faster and is easier to use than ever.<br />
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For example, the interface improvements like the improved RSS feeds and better Attachment management make handling your news and mail easier. Tabs can now be re-ordered or dragged into a new window and Thunderbird gives you control over the look and functionality of your email client with a gallery of hundreds of add-ons. The new Add-ons manager allows you to search the gallery in Thunderbird to install, remove, and manage the Add-ons. This release also adds support for technologies that make it easier for developers to build some of these amazing Add-ons, such as the Lightning Calendar, Conversation View, and Open Search.<br />
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====Multimedia====<br />
openSUSE comes with a number of prominent multimedia applications like the Amarok, Banshee and Rythmbox music players, DigiKam and Shotwell photo managers and the Marble virtual globe. Each of those has seen new releases with new features and bugfixes.<br />
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=====Music Players=====<br />
openSUSE comes with a large number of music players, from the well known Rythmbox, Banshee and Amarok to the less prominent like Juk, Totem, KMplayer, Dragon and Bangarang.<br />
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'''Banshee 2.2'''<br /><br />
The new [http://banshee.fm '''Banshee'''] comes with with lots of new extensions like an alarmclock, albumart writer, ampache, duplicated sound detector, jamendo, karaoke, live radio, lyrics and more. Other improvements include the ability to not only queue songs but also artists and albums and having the ability to play a queued song immediately after the current. There has been a number of UI improvements like putting the search next to the volume button, smaller icons in the source list, hidden counts for the libraries, named group separators and a resizable seek slider and search entry. Podcasts episodes are now shown in a grid, with several lines of description shown to help you find an appealing episode to enjoy.<br />
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'''Amarok 2.4.3 and Clementine 0.7.3'''<br /><br />
[http://amarok.kde.org '''Amarok'''] introduces improved Dynamic Playlists and Internet Services including integration with Gpodder.net. The user interface has been improved with better drag and drop, automatic scrolling in the lyrics applet and the ability to scrobble the composer as artist to last.fm. Otherwise, many bugs have been crushed and performance has improved a bit. For those not fond of the direction Amarok took with the 2.0 release, openSUSE ships [http://www.clementine-player.org '''Clementine 0.7.3'''] which in this version brings a new edit tag dialog which offers autocompletion and automatic music identification and missing-tag-fetching. CUE sheets are now supported, detected automatically and tracks will show up separately. Album covers are shown in the Library tab, deleted songs greyed out and much more.<br />
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=====Photo managers, editors and painting applications=====<br />
openSUSE ships with a large number of graphics and painting applications. There have been major versions of DigiKam and Blender as well as minor improvements to most of the other applications. openSUSE 12.1 also comes with lots of ICC color management Profiles ready to go.<br />
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'''DigiKam 2.2'''<br />
openSUSE 12.1 features the release of '''DigiKam''', the result of more than a year of hard work since the DigiKam version in openSUSE 11.4. This version features long awaited technologies like face detection and recognition, image versioning support, XMP metadata sidecar files support, big improvements in tagging and marking photos, reversed geotagging and many other improvements, including a total of 258 fixed bugs.<br />
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Close companion Kipi-plugins is released along with DigiKam 2.2. This release features new export tools to three web services - Yandex.Fotki, MediaWiki and Rajce. The GPSSync plugin now has the ability to do reverse-geocoding. Also new is a plugin which is dedicated to creating photo album-like layouts. Finally, there has been extensive bugfixing.<br />
Find out more about DigiKam and read articles with tips and tricks [http://www.digikam.org/ on the DigiKam website].<br />
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'''Inkscape 4.8.2'''<br />
[http://inkscape.org Inkscape] is a powerful vector graphics editor using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. It supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. The latest stable 4.8.2 version introduces a number of critical bugfixes and improvements to openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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This release is feature complete, offering the powerful UI, animation tools, rigging, modeling, shading, physics and particle tools and everything else Blender is known for.<br />
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'''Shotwell 0.11.5'''<br />
The [http://yorba.org/shotwell/ '''Shotwell'' photo organizer handles pictures based on a timeline. It also offers tagging and rating features and a host of image editing functions like rotating, cropping and adjustment of exposure, saturation and more. It can import photos from most cameras and from folders and publish photos and videos to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, and YouTube. The latest release introduces hierarchical trees for the tags, a new plugin framework, improved printing, a new crop tool and a new search bar as well as many smaller improvements to the user interface. New is also support for paired JPEG and RAW images, BMP, TIFF and other formats, and improved rendering of RAW files. This release also does automatic backups of the database and allows you to save searches.<br />
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'''F-spot 0.8.2-14'''<br />
The easy to use '''F-spot''' photo manager features a very simple interface combined with powerful search, import, browse and edit functionality. Advanced capabilities are exporting EXIF and XMP metadata to your images, versioning of changes in the image editor and quite complete import functionality. This release does not introduce major new features or improvements.<br />
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'''GIMP 2.6.11'''<br />
[http://www.gimp.org/ '''GIMP'''] is a versatile graphics manipulation package offering a customizable interface and a large number of plugins to modify and improve photos. It can work with a huge variety of fileformats. 2.6.11 brings bugfixes for this popular photo manipulation program as well as some minor usability and performance improvements.<br />
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'''Krita and Karbon 2.4 Beta3'''<br />
Two applications, part of the upcoming [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4] release, should not be missed in this overview. While they are not included in the standard openSUSE repositories, they offer some unique benefits many people will apreciate.<br />
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[http://krita.org '''Krita'''] is a sketching and painting tool, offering an end–to–end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters. Fields of painting that Krita explicitly supports are concept art, creation of comics and textures for rendering. Modelled on existing real-world painting materials and workflows, Krita supports creative working by getting out of the way and with snappy response. Developed in close collaboration with a number of artists Krita 2.4 brings many user interface improvements as well as much better performance. New functionality like the ability to share patterns, gradients and brushes over the web and the huge number of unique brushes solidify Krita's position as the '''premier Free Software sketching and drawing application'''.<br />
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The Karbon vector graphics application, also part of [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4], has much better '''support for the SVG standard''' and introduces many new filters and effects while improving on its stability.<br />
You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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=====Video editors and 3D modelling=====<br />
Out of the box, openSUSE does not ship multimedia support due to legal and patent worries in a number of countries. However, if it is legal for you to play your music and video's you can find information on the [http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia openSUSE-community Multimedia] and [http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats Restricted formats] pages on how to obtain the needed codecs. The [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] project which offers the codecs also packages a number of related applications like the excellent [http://www.kdenlive.org/ Kdenlive] and [http://www.openshotvideo.com/ openshot] video editors.<br />
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'''Kdenlive 0.8.2'''<br />
'''Kdenlive''' claims to be the most advanced video editor available on Linux today. It supports virtually any camera and codec thanks to the [http://www.ffmpeg.org/ FFMPEG] and [http://www.mltframework.org/ MLT] frameworks it builds upon. It is a multitrack editor with a timeline and an unlimited number of video and audio tracks. Thanks to the [http://www.piksel.org/frei0r Frei0r] framework Kdenlive offers a large number of effects and transitions and lets you add your own. It renders videos in a separate thread while you keep working and allows you to pause, stop and restart rendering. The latest 0.8.2 version fixes over 140 stability issues and introduces an automated backup feature to avoid the loss of any data. Check the [http://www.kdenlive.org/users/j-b-m/kdenlive-082-released announcement] for more information.<br />
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'''OpenShot 1.4'''<br />
The '''OpenShot''' video editor has a more easy to use interface and offers features like 3D animations, HD video support as well as Clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, and cutting, Video transitions with real-time previews, Compositing, image overlays, watermarks, Title templates, title creation, sub-titles and support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences. [http://vimeo.com/29465427 watch the video of the 1.4 release] or [http://www.openshot.org/features/ check out the openshot features] online.<br />
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'''Audacity 1.3.13'''<br />
For audio editing, '''Audacity''' offers a powerful set of features. Audacity lets you record live audio or convert existing music into digital data. It can also edit files, mixing the music or changing it with a variety of effects. These include echo, a fase changer, equalization, normalization and a number of effects to clean up hiss, noise and other mess. Additional plugins are availble with the VST and LADSPA plug-ins compatibility. Recording up to 96Khz, 32 bit is available with high quality sample rate conversion and there is a number of spectrum analysis tools for your viewing pleasure.<br />
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This release, while part of the beta series, is quite stable. Compared to the 1.3.12 version in the previous openSUSE release there has been a number of improvements to the effects, a new Device Toolbar showing all input and output devices has been introduced and the new "Sync-lock Tracks" feature allows groups of audio and/or label tracks to retain synchronisation when the track length changes. There has also been a fair number of bugfixes and some other smaller improvements.<br />
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'''PiTiVi 0.15'''<br />
openSUSE does ship the simple [http://www.pitivi.org/ '''PiTiVi''' video editor in the main repositories. PiTiVi is more intuitive and easy to use video editor compared to OpenShot and Kdenlive but does not offer the depth of in- and output formats, camera support and effects the others do.<br />
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'''Blender 2.59'''<br />
The well known [http://www.blender.org Blender] 3D content creation suite (3D modeller and video editor) is also part of openSUSE 12.1 with the stable 2.59 version. This third stable release in the 2.5 series brings big improvements in stability with many hundreds of bugs fixed. There is also a number of new features, including 3D mouse support and many UI improvements like the custom keymaps support and the camera locking. Sculpting, the warp modifier and the node editor have also been heavily improved.<br />
The biggest changes in the addons include:<br />
*the new Ivy Generator can grow curves over an existing mesh, <br />
*the Sapling addon generates trees<br />
*Mesh inset can inset individual faces or a selected region.<br />
*Grease scatter can scatter objects along predefined lines<br />
*much, much more. <br />
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openSUSE of course delivers far more multimedia applications to you, from the GStreamer framework to less known music players and a myriad of tools.<br />
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====Security and administration tools====<br />
openSUSE has always been a powertool for system adminstrators around the world and openSUSE 12.1 builds on this strong foundation. It is not only the powerful YaST which is appreciated but also the many tools available with openSUSE. This release brings major improvements to AppArmor, the new Shorewall gateway/firewall configuration application, a big update to the Performance Co-Pilot tool, an extended WebYaST and much more.<br />
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'''AppArmor 2.7 rc1'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships with the latest available [http://apparmor.net AppArmor] to ensure sys admins can easily secure their servers. [http://www.suse.com/support/security/apparmor/ Initially developed by SUSE], AppArmor is part of the Linux kernel now and openSUSE has the userspace components available. It is only in these userspace components that AppArmor ships changes compared to the previous release in openSUSE 11.4. Major features since AppArmor 2.5 include a working desktop notifier and automatic profile update for samba shares. And of course many other profile updates, bugfixes and better performance.<br />
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'''Shorewall 4.4.24'''<br /><br />
New in openSUSE from the Open Build Service is the [http://shorewall.net/Introduction.html Shoreline Firewall configuration tool]. This application offers a very powerful but still rather high-level interface to configure Netfilter through editing a series of configuration files. Upon starting Shorewall, it will read the files and with help of the iptables and other security utils configure Netfilter and the Linux networking subsystem to match your requirements, building a firewal, router or gateway. Find a list of [http://www.shorewall.net/4.4/shorewall_features.htm features of Shorewall here].<br />
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[[Image:WebYaST_Screenshot.png|thumb|250px||WebYast in action]]<br />
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'''Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) 3.5.8 and the PCP GUI charting tools.'''<br /><br />
The [http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/ performance co-pilot] is a heavy-duty performance monitoring tool. It is specifically build to find the harder type of system-level performance problems. It is capable of correlating end-user quality of service with platform activity and diagnosing complex interactions between resource demands on single or multiple systems in dynamic environments. This release is a significant upgrade over what was shipped in openSUSE 11.4, bringing a host of new features and improvements like support for distributed event tracing, transparent support for compressed archives in the client tools, Integrated pmieconf and pmlogconf utilities for automating management of pmie/pmlogger configuration files, Linux kernel control group metrics, per-node CPU metrics, XFS btree metrics and some Postfix updates.<br />
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'''WebYaST'''<br /><br />
The latest version of WebYaST has many improvements regarding speed, memory usage, usability and developing environment. Due a new caching mechanism the startup time of each module has been decreased to a maximum of 1-2 seconds. Former versions of WebYaST were split into a service and into an UI part. Each part has run in a own HTTP server. We have decided to bring these parts together in order to save one HTTP server which halves the memory usage.<br />
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====Virtualization, Cloud and web applications====<br />
openSUSE is an excellent guest OS for the cloud, as anyone who ever uses [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] can agree with. Nowhere is it as easy to build a cloud solution and openSUSE is now ready for the '''Amazon EC2 cloud''' by having a special EC2 kernel and suse-ami-tools in the default repositories.<br />
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But openSUSE can also be an excellent host and contains a fair number of virtualization and cloud tools. Most prominent is OwnCloud, which is shipped with unique desktop integration in openSUSE. What is not available in the default repositories can be found in the special [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualization and Cloud repository], where openSUSE contributors package and maintain '''Eucalyptus''', '''OpenNebula''' and '''OpenStack''' for openSUSE 12.1. <br />
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'''OwnCloud 2'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 delivers OwnCloud, the web-based storage application. OwnCloud is different from solutions like Google Docs, Dropbox or Ubuntu One in that it lets '''you own the data'''. With version 2, the ownCloud team has improved the basic service and added valuable features:<br />
* Secure file sharing<br />
* Improved web access including the ability to play music<br />
* Synchronization with other web application tools<br />
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openSUSE ships OwnCloud with a unique system tray based tool which can:<br />
* Install a new ownCloud locally or in a webspace<br />
* Connect your system to an existing ownCloud<br />
* give you assistance to set up mirrored folders<br />
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There is also basic Dolphin integration which XXXXXXXX<br />
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'''virtualization technologies'''<br /><br />
The new '''Xen 4.1''' release brings support for large systems (>255 processors and 1GB/2MB super page support), CPU Pools for advanced partitioning, prototype credit2 scheduler designed for latency-sensitive workloads and very large systems, a re-architected XL toolstack that is functionally nearly equivalent to XM/XEND, support for x86 Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX), new Memory Access API enabling integration of 3rd party security solutions into Xen virtualized environments and even better stability through the new automated regression tests.<br />
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The lastest version of '''KVM''' provides live migration from one host to another, guest swapping, paravirtualized networking and block devices and PCI-Express passthrough.<br />
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The new 4.1 series '''VirtualBox''' release brings new features like VM cloning, enhanced wizard for creating and copying virtual disks, raised memory limit to 1TB for 64 bit hosts and a couple of experimental featuers like PCI passthrough or SATA hard disk hot-plugging.<br />
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'''Virtualization tools'''<br /><br />
The latest release of '''virt-manager''' (supported by libvirt) brings new VM features including new VM wizard support for LCX guests, remote serial console access and remote URL guest installs.<br />
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The recent version of '''open-vm-tools''' provides integration (shared folders, drag and drop, clipboard sharing, automatic guest resolution resizing, etc.) with the VMware tools.<br />
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'''Horde 4.0.8'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the latest Horde 4 groupware server and framework! Horde 4 is the first release in over 6 years and brings major improvements to all applications of the suite as well as to the framework itself. <br />
Some of the more significant changes from Horde 3 to 4 include a requirement for PHP 5.2 or higher, a new Ajax interface and a new test suite. The complete framework has been modernized and cleaned up and the libraries are better separated and Unit tested.<br />
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The most important things users will notice are the e improved setup and upgrade processes, an Ajax interface for the calendar, and an improved interface for the complete application stack.<br />
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Horde offers a large number of web applications including a webmail tool (part of the Horde Groupware Webmail Edition) complete with WYSIWYG HTML editor, IMAP and POP3 support, message search and filtering, spell check, attachment viewer, encryption and signing, keyboard navigation, threaded view and previews, downloading of attachments in a ZIP file and much more.<br />
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There is now basic social media support with Facebook and Twitter integration and there is an Active Sync server component which can synchronize with iPhones and Android devices. The existing SyncML support already took care of most Nokia phones. The last missing piece is CalDAV support for calendar sharing, which is planned for the future.<br />
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== Entwicklungs-Werkzeuge und Platformen (GNOME/GTK, KDE/Qt,..., etc) ==<br />
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===IDEs und Werkzeugsätze===<br />
openSUSE bietet eine komplette und produktive Umgebung für Entwickler und Paketbauer. Mit stabilen Werkzeugen und aktualisierten Bibliotheken, durch [http://build.opensuse.org OBS] ermöglicht, können Entwickler leicht unter Verwendung mehrerer Programmiersprachen entwickeln und Pakete für mehrere Distributionen erstellen.<br />
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====KDevelop====<br />
Für Software-Entwickler: KDevelop hat zunehmende Unterstützung für [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style indentation styles] erhalten und der Python-Interpreter verwendet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kross_%28KDE%29 Kross]. Ein verbessertes Python mit auto-completion und Unterstützung für [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_%28software%29 lex/yacc] - Dateierweiterungen sind ebenso in dieser Ausgabe enthalten.<br />
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====Kate====<br />
KDE’s fortschrittlicher Text Editor Kate hat eine ganze Menge Verbesserungen erhalten, die folgendes enthalten:<br />
* Ein neues Such-Plugin mit der Fähigkeit in Dateien auf der Festplatte oder in geöffneten Dateien zu suchen<br />
* Plugin-Verbesserung: Build Plugin, GDB Plugin <br />
* Kate’s tab bar Plugins erhielten verschiedene neue Funktionen<br />
* Swap Dateien: Wenn verlorene Daten gefunden werden, werden die Dokumente als read-only markiert<br />
* Weitere bemerkenswerte Änderungen: Verbessertes Drucken, Änderung des Zeilenendes, das ein modifiziertes flag triggert, gelöste Shortcut-Aufgaben, gelöstes Popup für Auto-Komplettierung und mehr.<br />
Mehr Informationen finden Sie auf [http://kate-editor.org/2011/07/09/kate-in-kde-4-7/ diesem Blog].<br />
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===KDE Plattform===<br />
openSUSE 12.1 liefert die neueste stabile '''Qt 4.7.4''' und die '''KDE Plattform 4.7.2''' aus. Sie geben Entwicklern das Beste dieser leistungsfähigen Cross-Plattform-Entwicklungs-Bibliotheken. <br />
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'''KDE Plattform 4.7 '''<br /><br />
Diese Ausgabe von KDE's Entwicklungs-Plattform ist eine vorwärts zählende Ausgabe, die viele Fehlerbereinigungen und kleine Verbesserungen bei folgenden Technologien wie die eingebaute Browser-Maschine WebKit, System weite Proxy-Unterstützung und die Phonon-Multimedia-Maschine mitbringt.<br />
Für Entwickler sichtbare Änderungen sind:<br />
* Verbesserungen zu Komponenten des Semantic Desktop, die eine reiche API für Anwendungen bieten<br />
* Die Option um in KWin Compositing zu verschieben, wenn immer eine Anwendung danach ruft, um die Leistung in OpenGL-Spielen und GPU-beschleunigten Video-Playback zu verbessern.<br />
Details zur Ausgabe der KDE Plattform 4.7 lesen Sie bitte [http://kde.org/announcements/4.7/platform.php die KDE Plattform Release Notizen].<br />
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'''Qt 4.7 führt QtQuick ein'''<br /><br />
Qt 4.7.4 ist ein '''Bugfix-Release''' das mit openSUSE 11.4 ausgeliefert wurde. <br />
Wie auch immer, es führt einige leistungsfähige Funktionen ein, einschließlich dem Release von [http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/01/qt-quick-is-here QtQuick], einer neuen Funktion innerhalb Qt, die es leicht macht, Leichtgewichts-Apps und UIs zu kreieren. Es enthält die neue Sprache QML, einer einfach zu lernenden deklaratorischen Sprache, um dynamische und flüssige Schnittstellen zu bauen, das Qt Declarative-Modul und neue Werkzeugbereitstellung, um leicht Apps zu bauen. <br />
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QtQuick 1.1 bringt Right-to-Left Unterstützung, verbessertes Caching und Texteingabe und eine deklaratorische API zur Handhabung von Berührungs-Eingaben. Es gibt ebenso ein neues QML Sharders Plugin, das es Entwicklern eingebettete deklaratorische OpenGL Sharder Effekte in QML Apps erlaubt.<br />
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=== GNOME-Plattform-Verbesserungen ===<br />
Weitere Details, siehe: [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2 Release-Notizen].<br />
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==== Neue Funktionen und Funktionsweisen ====<br />
In openSUSE 12.1 ist die neueste GNOME-Entwickler-Plattform enthalten. Das besteht aus einem Satz aus API- und ABI-stabilen Bibliotheken, die unter der GNU LGPL stehen. Diese können für die Entwicklung von Cross-Plattform-Anwendungen verwendet werden.<br />
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Informationen zur Entwicklung mit GNOME finden Sie im [http://developer.gnome.org GNOME Entwicklungs-Zentrum].<br />
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'''GLib 2.30'''<br /><br />
GNOME's low-level software utility library GLib has seen various improvements, some of which are:<br />
* GApplication can now be used for non-unique applications.<br />
* GDBus supports the 'object manager' pattern with a number of new interfaces and has a code generator: gdbus-codegen.<br />
* An interface for certificate and key lookup has been added: GTlsDatabase. An implementation is provided by glib-networking.<br />
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'''GTK+ 3.2'''<br /><br />
GTK+ 3.2 is the latest release of the GTK+ toolkit, which is at the heart of GNOME. GTK+ 3.2 includes new features for developers, as well as extensive bug fixes. <br />
* Many more widgets support height-for-width geometry management. It is important to set reasonable sizes on labels and check window sizes.<br />
* New widgets include GtkLockButton for privileged operations, GtkOverlay for floating controls over a content area, the new GtkFontChooserDialog and more.<br />
* There is also improved CSS theming support and the HTML backend Broadway, which renders a GTK3 application in a browser. It is still experimental and requires compiling with --enable-broadway-backend and environment varialbe GDK_BACKEND at runtime.<br />
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'''Clutter 1.8'''<br /><br />
GNOME's graphics library for hardware-accelerated user interfaces Clutter provides, among other things, the following improvements: <br />
* New actions including Gesture and swipe detection, creating drop actors and long-press support for ClutterClickAction. <br />
* ClutterState transitions can be bound to object signals when creating a scene in ClutterScript. <br />
* Cogl, the GPU programming interface used by Clutter, is exposed as a separate library. <br />
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'''Use of Deprecated Libraries'''<br /><br />
Further progress has been made in the continuous work of replacing outdated technologies with superior facilities. Some examples:<br />
* GConf now uses D-Bus. As a consequence, the deprecated libraries ORBit2 and libIDL have been removed from GNOME. Many applications using GConf have been ported to gsettings.<br />
* GNOME core modules now only depend on introspection-based Python bindings (pygobject-3) and hence pygtk, gnome-python and gnome-python-desktop are not required anymore.<br />
* Several packages, such as the Epiphany web browser, have been converted from using dbus-glib to GDBus and from libunique to G(tk)Application.<br />
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'''Miscellaneous Developer Updates'''<br /><br />
Other GNOME Platform improvements in GNOME 3.2 include: <br />
* GNOME's build tool JHBuild does not build a module anymore if the version installed on your system is recent enough. If you start to build GNOME from scratch with a recent distribution, this can easily drop 50 modules from the list of modules to compile.<br />
* Tracker version 0.12 provides support for Firefox ≥ 4.0, Thunderbird ≥ 5.0, MeeGoTouch, several additional SPARQL parameters, extracting information from EPub files, and local XDG directories for desktop files. <br />
* NetworkManager version 0.9 provides introspection support and a simplified D-Bus API. Information how to port applications from NetworkManager 0.8 to 0.9 is available.<br />
* GtkSourceView now supports syntax highlighting of Markdown and Standard ML files.<br />
* libfolks now includes an Evolution-Data-Server backend, which is used by the new Contacts application.<br />
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== Und mehr ==<br />
Die obigen Abschnitte über Änderungen und Verbesserungen in openSUSE 12.1 sind natürlich unvollständig aber geben Vorgeschmack auf das, was neu ist. Wir hoffen Sie hatte Spaß beim Lesen.<br />
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*[http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/12.1/RELEASE-NOTES.de.html openSUSE 12.1 Release Notes]<br />
*[[In_der_Presse| openSUSE 12.1 in der Presse]]<br />
* [[Portal:Installation|Installation]]<br />
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Mein Name ist Christian Wansart und zurzeit bin ich Informatikstudent. Ich nutze Linux seit fast 10 Jahren, jedoch muss ich zugeben, dass ich anfangs echte Schwierigkeiten hatte von Windows auf Linux zu wechseln und ich teilweise Linux immer wieder gelöscht habe.<br />
Mittlerweile sieht das Ganze anders aus: Linux ist mein Hauptbetriebssystem und auf einer zweiten Festplatte, die aber nur 160 GB groß ist, schlummert ein Windows-System. Das schläft aber die meiste Zeit, da ich es nicht zum Arbeiten, sondern nur zum Spielen verwende.<br />
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==Meine Linux-Geschichte==<br />
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SuSE Linux 9.0 war die erste Linux-Distribution die ich auf meinem PC ans Laufen gebracht habe. Damals hatte ich auch durch meinen Stief-Vater eine Red Had Box, welche jedoch nicht auf meinem PC lief. Wieso weiß ich leider nicht und die Box, um es auszuprobieren habe ich leider auch nicht mehr.<br />
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Ich habe auf meinem Weg zu openSUSE 11.4 einige Distributionen durchgetestet. Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Mandriva, Fedora, Arch und enige mehr. Debian hatte ich recht lange, aber es war frustrierend da aufgrund der Protokolländerungen bei ICQ/AOL die Verbindung mit GAIM (zu der Zeit gab es schon Pidgin) nicht mehr möglich war. Außerdem störte es mich, dass die Firefox-Version so veraltet war, da einige gute Features erst mit späteren Versionen eingeführt wurden. Danach habe ich einmal Gentoo ausprobiert, jedoch mit einem schrecklichen Ergebnis: Ich vergaß die USE-Flag für Grafiken zu setzen, was bedeutet hätte, dass ich so ziemlich alles hätte neu bauen dürfen. Auf meinem damaligen PC hätte das einige Ewigkeit gedauert.<br />
Also bin ich zur nächsten Distribution, das war Arch, die ich durch einen Bekannten gefunden habe. Arch hatte für meine damaligen Prioritäten alles was ich brauchte: Sie war ziemlich schnell, hatte vorkompilierte Pakete und man konnte viel mit der CLI machen, wodurch ich größtenteils den Umgang mit der CLI gelernt habe. (Aber um fair zu bleiben, ich hatte auch schon einiges mit der CLI unter Debian gemacht... dpkg und apt* sind aber echte Zumutungen... Ein hoch auf zypper und rpm!) Ich fand das Prinzip von Arch auch nicht schlecht, dass es möglichst zentrale Konfigurationen bot, z.B. die ''/etc/rc.conf''.<br />
Jedoch waren mit die Abhängigkeiten einfach zu viel und ich wollte mehr Kontrolle also versuchte ich Slackware aus. Nach einem fehlgeschlagenen Versuch, als Slackware noch den 2.4er-Kernel hatte, irgendwann als ich bei Debian war, versuchte ich es dann erneut. Erst hielt ich Slackware für ziemlich schlecht dokumentiert, aber nur weil auf der Webseite nicht so viel rauszuholen ist, wie aus anderen Seiten. Dafür enthielt die DVD alles was man braucht. Dokumentationen, Software, Quellcode, usw. Ich habe darauf hin einige Zeit mit Slackware gearbeitet und war unheimlich zufrieden; und falls Software fehlte schaute ich auf [http://slackbuilds.org/ SlackBuilds.org] und falls es dort nicht vorhanden war, baute ich mir eigene Pakete mit dem das Slackware-Paketmanagement umgehen konnte. In der Zeit habe ich wirklich viel über Linux im Allgemeinen gelernt. Aber aufgrund eines Softwarefehlers in Mumble, der sich komischerweise in virtuellen Maschinen nicht nachvollziehen ließ, installierte ich irgendwann openSUSE 11.4 – eigentlich nur testweise. Jedoch lief openSUSE so gut dass ich dabei blieb. Ich entschloss mich dann auch etwas beizutragen und wollte bei dem Wiki anfangen.<br />
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==openSUSE und ich==<br />
Nun versuche ich hier im Wiki beizutragen und ich helfe ebenfalls bei [http://www.open-slx.de open-slx] im Wiki, Forum und im Newsteam.<br />
Wenn es zeitlich machbar ist, will ich mich eventuell noch etwas stärker bei SUSE/openSUSE/open-slx engagieren.<br />
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==Meine Fähigkeiten==<br />
Meine Fähigkeiten beschränken sich nicht nur auf Texte schreiben, Korrigieren und Systemkonfiguration und -Wartung, ich beherrsche außerdem auch einige Programmier- und Skriptsprachen. Ich bin Webmaster von ein paar Webseiten und mache Gelegentlich auch etwas Webdesign. Ich möchte aber lieber zu richtiger Programmierung wechseln, mit Programmen die auf dem PC und nicht im Browser laufen. Mein Interessengebiet ist vor allem der Kernel und Bibliotheken, alles das, was man so nicht sieht, aber ohne aufgeschmissen wäre. Zurzeit fehlt mir aber leider noch das Knowhow und die Zeit (dank des Studiums) dazu. Aber ich lese fleißig in den passenden Mailinglisten mit und hoffe vielleicht in ein paar Jahren ebenfalls zum Kernel oder vielleicht zu KDE beitragen zu können.<br />
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* Jabber: Per [http://forums.opensuse.org/private.php?do=newpm&u=57006 PM im Forum] zu erfragen<br />
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Mein Name ist Christian Wansart und zurzeit bin ich Informatikstudent. Ich nutze Linux seit fast 10 Jahren, jedoch muss ich zugeben, dass ich anfangs echte Schwierigkeiten hatte von Windows auf Linux zu wechseln und ich teilweise Linux immer wieder gelöscht habe.<br />
Mittlerweile sieht das Ganze anders aus: Linux ist mein Hauptbetriebssystem und auf einer zweiten Festplatte, die aber nur 160 GB groß ist, schlummert ein Windows-System. Das schläft aber die meiste Zeit, da ich es nicht zum Arbeiten, sondern nur zum Spielen verwende.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Meine Linux-Geschichte==<br />
<br />
SuSE Linux 9.0 war die erste Linux-Distribution die ich auf meinem PC ans Laufen gebracht habe. Damals hatte ich auch durch meinen Stief-Vater eine Red Had Box, welche jedoch nicht auf meinem PC lief. Wieso weiß ich leider nicht und die Box, um es auszuprobieren habe ich leider auch nicht mehr.<br />
<br />
Ich habe auf meinem Weg zu openSUSE 11.4 einige Distributionen durchgetestet. Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Mandriva, Fedora, Arch und enige mehr. Debian hatte ich recht lange, aber es war frustrierend da aufgrund der Protokolländerungen bei ICQ/AOL die Verbindung mit GAIM (zu der Zeit gab es schon Pidgin) nicht mehr möglich war. Außerdem störte es mich, dass die Firefox-Version so veraltet war, da einige gute Features erst mit späteren Versionen eingeführt wurden. Danach habe ich einmal Gentoo ausprobiert, jedoch mit einem schrecklichen Ergebnis: Ich vergaß die USE-Flag für Grafiken zu setzen, was bedeutet hätte, dass ich so ziemlich alles hätte neu bauen dürfen. Auf meinem damaligen PC hätte das einige Ewigkeit gedauert.<br />
Also bin ich zur nächsten Distribution, das war Arch, die ich durch einen Bekannten gefunden habe. Arch hatte für meine damaligen Prioritäten alles was ich brauchte: Sie war ziemlich schnell, hatte vorkompilierte Pakete und man konnte viel mit der CLI machen, wodurch ich größtenteils den Umgang mit der CLI gelernt habe. (Aber um fair zu bleiben, ich hatte auch schon einiges mit der CLI unter Debian gemacht... dpkg und apt* sind aber echte Zumutungen... Ein hoch auf zypper und rpm!) Ich fand das Prinzip von Arch auch nicht schlecht, dass es möglichst zentrale Konfigurationen bot, z.B. die ''/etc/rc.conf''.<br />
Jedoch waren mit die Abhängigkeiten einfach zu viel und ich wollte mehr Kontrolle also versuchte ich Slackware aus. Nach einem fehlgeschlagenen Versuch, als Slackware noch den 2.4er-Kernel hatte, irgendwann als ich bei Debian war, versuchte ich es dann erneut. Erst hielt ich Slackware für ziemlich schlecht dokumentiert, aber nur weil auf der Webseite nicht so viel rauszuholen ist, wie aus anderen Seiten. Dafür enthielt die DVD alles was man braucht. Dokumentationen, Software, Quellcode, usw. Ich habe darauf hin einige Zeit mit Slackware gearbeitet und war unheimlich zufrieden; und falls Software fehlte schaute ich auf [http://slackbuilds.org/ SlackBuilds.org] und falls es dort nicht vorhanden war, baute ich mir eigene Pakete mit dem das Slackware-Paketmanagement umgehen konnte. In der Zeit habe ich wirklich viel über Linux im Allgemeinen gelernt. Aber aufgrund eines Softwarefehlers in Mumble, der sich komischerweise in virtuellen Maschinen nicht nachvollziehen ließ, installierte ich irgendwann openSUSE 11.4 – eigentlich nur testweise. Jedoch lief openSUSE so gut dass ich dabei blieb. Ich entschloss mich dann auch etwas beizutragen und wollte bei dem Wiki anfangen.<br />
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==openSUSE und ich==<br />
Nun versuche ich hier im Wiki beizutragen und ich helfe ebenfalls bei [http://www.open-slx.de open-slx] im Wiki, Forum und im Newsteam.<br />
Wenn es zeitlich machbar ist, will ich mich eventuell noch etwas stärker bei SUSE/openSUSE/open-slx engagieren.<br />
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==Meine Fähigkeiten==<br />
Meine Fähigkeiten beschränken sich nicht nur auf Texte schreiben, Korrigieren und Systemkonfiguration und -Wartung, ich beherrsche außerdem auch einige Programmier- und Skriptsprachen. Ich bin Webmaster von ein paar Webseiten und mache Gelegentlich auch etwas Webdesign. Ich möchte aber lieber zu richtiger Programmierung wechseln, mit Programmen die auf dem PC und nicht im Browser laufen. Mein Interessengebiet ist vor allem der Kernel und Bibliotheken, alles das, was man so nicht sieht, aber ohne aufgeschmissen wäre. Zurzeit fehlt mir aber leider noch das Knowhow und die Zeit (dank des Studiums) dazu. Aber ich lese fleißig in den passenden Mailinglisten mit und hoffe vielleicht in ein paar Jahren ebenfalls zum Kernel oder vielleicht zu KDE beitragen zu können.<br />
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Mein Name ist Christian Wansart und zurzeit bin ich Informatikstudent. Ich nutze Linux seit fast 10 Jahren, jedoch muss ich zugeben, dass ich anfangs echte Schwierigkeiten hatte von Windows auf Linux zu wechseln und ich teilweise Linux immer wieder gelöscht habe.<br />
Mittlerweile sieht das Ganze anders aus: Linux ist mein Hauptbetriebssystem und auf einer zweiten Festplatte, die aber nur 160 GB groß ist, schlummert ein Windows-System. Das schläft aber die meiste Zeit, da ich es nicht zum Arbeiten, sondern nur zum Spielen verwende.<br />
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==Meine Linux-Geschichte==<br />
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SuSE Linux 9.0 war die erste Linux-Distribution die ich auf meinem PC ans Laufen gebracht habe. Damals hatte ich auch durch meinen Stief-Vater eine Red Had Box, welche jedoch nicht auf meinem PC lief. Wieso weiß ich leider nicht und die Box, um es auszuprobieren habe ich leider auch nicht mehr.<br />
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Ich habe auf meinem Weg zu openSUSE 11.4 einige Distributionen durchgetestet. Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Mandriva, Fedora, Arch und enige mehr. Debian hatte ich recht lange, aber es war frustrierend da aufgrund der Protokolländerungen bei ICQ/AOL die Verbindung mit GAIM (zu der Zeit gab es schon Pidgin) nicht mehr möglich war. Außerdem störte es mich, dass die Firefox-Version so veraltet war, da einige gute Features erst mit späteren Versionen eingeführt wurden. Danach habe ich einmal Gentoo ausprobiert, jedoch mit einem schrecklichen Ergebnis: Ich vergaß die USE-Flag für Grafiken zu setzen, was bedeutet hätte, dass ich so ziemlich alles hätte neu bauen dürfen. Auf meinem damaligen PC hätte das einige Ewigkeit gedauert.<br />
Also bin ich zur nächsten Distribution, das war Arch, die ich durch einen Bekannten gefunden habe. Arch hatte für meine damaligen Prioritäten alles was ich brauchte: Sie war ziemlich schnell, hatte vorkompilierte Pakete und man konnte viel mit der CLI machen, wodurch ich größtenteils den Umgang mit der CLI gelernt habe. (Aber um fair zu bleiben, ich hatte auch schon einiges mit der CLI unter Debian gemacht... dpkg und apt* sind aber echte Zumutungen... Ein hoch auf zypper und rpm!) Ich fand das Prinzip von Arch auch nicht schlecht, dass es möglichst zentrale Konfigurationen bot, z.B. die ''/etc/rc.conf''.<br />
Jedoch waren mit die Abhängigkeiten einfach zu viel und ich wollte mehr Kontrolle also versuchte ich Slackware aus. Nach einem fehlgeschlagenen Versuch, als Slackware noch den 2.4er-Kernel hatte, irgendwann als ich bei Debian war, versuchte ich es dann erneut. Erst hielt ich Slackware für ziemlich schlecht dokumentiert, aber nur weil auf der Webseite nicht so viel rauszuholen ist, wie aus anderen Seiten. Dafür enthielt die DVD alles was man braucht. Dokumentationen, Software, Quellcode, usw. Ich habe darauf hin einige Zeit mit Slackware gearbeitet und war unheimlich zufrieden; und falls Software fehlte schaute ich auf [http://slackbuilds.org/ SlackBuilds.org] und falls es dort nicht vorhanden war, baute ich mir eigene Pakete mit dem das Slackware-Paketmanagement umgehen konnte. In der Zeit habe ich wirklich viel über Linux im Allgemeinen gelernt. Aber aufgrund eines Softwarefehlers in Mumble, der sich komischerweise in virtuellen Maschinen nicht nachvollziehen ließ, installierte ich irgendwann openSUSE 11.4 – eigentlich nur testweise. Jedoch lief openSUSE so gut dass ich dabei blieb. Ich entschloss mich dann auch etwas beizutragen und wollte bei dem Wiki anfangen.<br />
<br />
==openSUSE und ich==<br />
Nun versuche ich hier im Wiki beizutragen und ich helfe ebenfalls bei [http://www.open-slx.de open-slx] im Wiki, Forum und im Newsteam.<br />
Wenn es zeitlich machbar ist, will ich mich eventuell noch etwas stärker bei SUSE/openSUSE/open-slx engagieren.<br />
<br />
==Meine Fähigkeiten==<br />
Meine Fähigkeiten beschränken sich nicht nur auf Texte schreiben, Korrigieren und Systemkonfiguration und -Wartung, ich beherrsche außerdem auch einige Programmier- und Skriptsprachen. Ich bin Webmaster von ein paar Webseiten und mache Gelegentlich auch etwas Webdesign. Ich möchte aber lieber zu richtiger Programmierung wechseln, mit Programmen die auf dem PC und nicht im Browser laufen. Mein Interessengebiet ist vor allem der Kernel und Bibliotheken, alles das, was man so nicht sieht, aber ohne aufgeschmissen wäre. Zurzeit fehlt mir aber leider noch das Knowhow und die Zeit (dank des Studiums) dazu. Aber ich lese fleißig in den passenden Mailinglisten mit und hoffe vielleicht in ein paar Jahren ebenfalls zum Kernel oder vielleicht zu KDE beitragen zu können.<br />
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* Jabber: Per [http://forums.opensuse.org/private.php?do=newpm&u=57006 PM im Forum] zu erfragen<br />
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Mein Name ist Christian Wansart und zurzeit bin ich Informatikstudent. Ich nutze Linux seit fast 10 Jahren, jedoch muss ich zugeben, dass ich anfangs echte Schwierigkeiten hatte von Windows auf Linux zu wechseln und ich teilweise Linux immer wieder gelöscht habe.<br />
Mittlerweile sieht das Ganze anders aus: Linux ist mein Hauptbetriebssystem und auf einer zweiten Festplatte, die aber nur 160 GB groß ist, schlummert ein Windows-System. Das schläft aber die meiste Zeit, da ich es nicht zum Arbeiten, sondern nur zum Spielen verwende.<br />
<br />
==Meine Linux-Geschichte==<br />
<br />
SuSE Linux 9.0 war die erste Linux-Distribution die ich auf meinem PC ans Laufen gebracht habe. Damals hatte ich auch durch meinen Stief-Vater eine Red Had Box, welche jedoch nicht auf meinem PC lief. Wieso weiß ich leider nicht und die Box, um es auszuprobieren habe ich leider auch nicht mehr.<br />
<br />
Ich habe auf meinem Weg zu openSUSE 11.4 einige Distributionen durchgetestet. Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Mandriva, Fedora, Arch und enige mehr. Debian hatte ich recht lange, aber es war frustrierend da aufgrund der Protokolländerungen bei ICQ/AOL die Verbindung mit GAIM (zu der Zeit gab es schon Pidgin) nicht mehr möglich war. Außerdem störte es mich, dass die Firefox-Version so veraltet war, da einige gute Features erst mit späteren Versionen eingeführt wurden. Danach habe ich einmal Gentoo ausprobiert, jedoch mit einem schrecklichen Ergebnis: Ich vergaß die USE-Flag für Grafiken zu setzen, was bedeutet hätte, dass ich so ziemlich alles hätte neu bauen dürfen. Auf meinem damaligen PC hätte das einige Ewigkeit gedauert.<br />
Also bin ich zur nächsten Distribution, das war Arch, die ich durch einen Bekannten gefunden habe. Arch hatte für meine damaligen Prioritäten alles was ich brauchte: Sie war ziemlich schnell, hatte vorkompilierte Pakete und man konnte viel mit der CLI machen, wodurch ich größtenteils den Umgang mit der CLI gelernt habe. (Aber um fair zu bleiben, ich hatte auch schon einiges mit der CLI unter Debian gemacht... dpkg und apt* sind aber echte Zumutungen... Ein hoch auf zypper und rpm!) Ich fand das Prinzip von Arch auch nicht schlecht, dass es möglichst zentrale Konfigurationen bot, z.B. die ''/etc/rc.conf''.<br />
Jedoch waren mit die Abhängigkeiten einfach zu viel und ich wollte mehr Kontrolle also versuchte ich Slackware aus. Nach einem fehlgeschlagenen Versuch, als Slackware noch den 2.4er-Kernel hatte, irgendwann als ich bei Debian war, versuchte ich es dann erneut. Erst hielt ich Slackware für ziemlich schlecht dokumentiert, aber nur weil auf der Webseite nicht so viel rauszuholen ist, wie aus anderen Seiten. Dafür enthielt die DVD alles was man braucht. Dokumentationen, Software, Quellcode, usw. Ich habe darauf hin einige Zeit mit Slackware gearbeitet und war unheimlich zufrieden; und falls Software fehlte schaute ich auf [http://slackbuilds.org/ SlackBuilds.org] und falls es dort nicht vorhanden war, baute ich mir eigene Pakete mit dem das Slackware-Paketmanagement umgehen konnte. In der Zeit habe ich wirklich viel über Linux im Allgemeinen gelernt. Aber aufgrund eines Softwarefehlers in Mumble, der sich komischerweise in virtuellen Maschinen nicht nachvollziehen ließ, installierte ich irgendwann openSUSE 11.4 – eigentlich nur testweise. Jedoch lief openSUSE so gut dass ich dabei blieb. Ich entschloss mich dann auch etwas beizutragen und wollte bei dem Wiki anfangen.<br />
<br />
==openSUSE und ich==<br />
Nun versuche ich hier im Wiki beizutragen und ich helfe ebenfalls bei [http://www.open-slx.de open-slx] im Wiki, Forum und im Newsteam.<br />
Wenn es zeitlich machbar ist, will ich mich eventuell noch etwas stärker bei SUSE/openSUSE/open-slx engagieren.<br />
<br />
==Meine Fähigkeiten==<br />
Meine Fähigkeiten beschränken sich nicht nur auf Texte schreiben, Korrigieren und Systemkonfiguration und -Wartung, ich beherrsche außerdem auch einige Programmier- und Skriptsprachen. Ich bin Webmaster von ein paar Webseiten und mache Gelegentlich auch etwas Webdesign. Ich möchte aber lieber zu richtiger Programmierung wechseln, mit Programmen die auf dem PC und nicht im Browser laufen. Mein Interessengebiet ist vor allem der Kernel und Bibliotheken, alles das, was man so nicht sieht, aber ohne aufgeschmissen wäre. Zurzeit fehlt mir aber leider noch das Knowhow und die Zeit (dank des Studiums) dazu. Aber ich lese fleißig in den passenden Mailinglisten mit und hoffe vielleicht in ein paar Jahren ebenfalls zum Kernel oder vielleicht zu KDE beitragen zu können.<br />
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* Jabber: Per [http://forums.opensuse.org/private.php?do=newpm&u=57006 PM im Forum] zu erfragen<br />
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Mein Name ist Christian Wansart und zurzeit bin ich Informatikstudent.<br />
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==Meine Linux-Geschichte==<br />
<br />
SuSE Linux 9.0 war die erste Linux-Distribution die ich auf meinem PC ans Laufen gebracht habe. Damals hatte ich auch durch meinen Stief-Vater eine Red Had Box, welche jedoch nicht auf meinem PC lief. Wieso weiß ich leider nicht und die Box, um es auszuprobieren habe ich leider auch nicht mehr.<br />
<br />
Ich habe auf meinem Weg zu openSUSE 11.4 einige Distributionen durchgetestet. Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Mandriva, Fedora, Arch und enige mehr. Debian hatte ich recht lange, aber es war frustrierend da aufgrund der Protokolländerungen bei ICQ/AOL die Verbindung mit GAIM (zu der Zeit gab es schon Pidgin) nicht mehr möglich war. Außerdem störte es mich, dass die Firefox-Version so veraltet war, da einige gute Features erst mit späteren Versionen eingeführt wurden. Danach habe ich einmal Gentoo ausprobiert, jedoch mit einem schrecklichen Ergebnis: Ich vergaß die USE-Flag für Grafiken zu setzen, was bedeutet hätte, dass ich so ziemlich alles hätte neu bauen dürfen. Auf meinem damaligen PC hätte das einige Ewigkeit gedauert.<br />
Also bin ich zur nächsten Distribution, das war Arch, die ich durch einen Bekannten gefunden habe. Arch hatte für meine damaligen Prioritäten alles was ich brauchte: Sie war ziemlich schnell, hatte vorkompilierte Pakete und man konnte viel mit der CLI machen, wodurch ich größtenteils den Umgang mit der CLI gelernt habe. (Aber um fair zu bleiben, ich hatte auch schon einiges mit der CLI unter Debian gemacht... dpkg und apt* sind aber echte Zumutungen... Ein hoch auf zypper und rpm!) Ich fand das Prinzip von Arch auch nicht schlecht, dass es möglichst zentrale Konfigurationen bot, z.B. die ''/etc/rc.conf''.<br />
Jedoch waren mit die Abhängigkeiten einfach zu viel und ich wollte mehr Kontrolle also versuchte ich Slackware aus. Nach einem fehlgeschlagenen Versuch, als Slackware noch den 2.4er-Kernel hatte, irgendwann als ich bei Debian war, versuchte ich es dann erneut. Erst hielt ich Slackware für ziemlich schlecht dokumentiert, aber nur weil auf der Webseite nicht so viel rauszuholen ist, wie aus anderen Seiten. Dafür enthielt die DVD alles was man braucht. Dokumentationen, Software, Quellcode, usw. Ich habe darauf hin einige Zeit mit Slackware gearbeitet und war unheimlich zufrieden; und falls Software fehlte schaute ich auf [http://slackbuilds.org/ SlackBuilds.org] und falls es dort nicht vorhanden war, baute ich mir eigene Pakete mit dem das Slackware-Paketmanagement umgehen konnte. In der Zeit habe ich wirklich viel über Linux im Allgemeinen gelernt. Aber aufgrund eines Softwarefehlers in Mumble, der sich komischerweise in virtuellen Maschinen nicht nachvollziehen ließ, installierte ich irgendwann openSUSE 11.4 – eigentlich nur testweise. Jedoch lief openSUSE so gut dass ich dabei blieb. Ich entschloss mich dann auch etwas beizutragen und wollte bei dem Wiki anfangen.<br />
<br />
==openSUSE und ich==<br />
Nun versuche ich hier im Wiki beizutragen und ich helfe ebenfalls bei [http://www.open-slx.de open-slx] im Wiki, Forum und im Newsteam.<br />
Wenn es zeitlich machbar ist, will ich mich eventuell noch etwas stärker bei SUSE/openSUSE/open-slx engagieren.<br />
<br />
==Meine Fähigkeiten==<br />
Meine Fähigkeiten beschränken sich nicht nur auf Texte schreiben, Korrigieren und Systemkonfiguration und -Wartung, ich beherrsche außerdem auch einige Programmier- und Skriptsprachen. Ich bin Webmaster von ein paar Webseiten und mache Gelegentlich auch etwas Webdesign. Ich möchte aber lieber zu richtiger Programmierung wechseln, mit Programmen die auf dem PC und nicht im Browser laufen. Mein Interessengebiet ist vor allem der Kernel und Bibliotheken, alles das, was man so nicht sieht, aber ohne aufgeschmissen wäre. Zurzeit fehlt mir aber leider noch das Knowhow und die Zeit (dank des Studiums) dazu. Aber ich lese fleißig in den passenden Mailinglisten mit und hoffe vielleicht in ein paar Jahren ebenfalls zum Kernel oder vielleicht zu KDE beitragen zu können.<br />
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* Jabber: Per [http://forums.opensuse.org/private.php?do=newpm&u=57006 PM im Forum] zu erfragen<br />
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Mein Name ist Christian Wansart und mein Nickname ist Ctwx, den ich von meinem ''vollständigen'' Namen ableite. Zurzeit bin ich Informatikstudent.<br />
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SuSE Linux 9.0 war die erste Linux-Distribution die ich auf meinem PC ans Laufen gebracht habe. Damals hatte ich auch durch meinen Stief-Vater eine Red Had Box, welche jedoch nicht auf meinem PC lief. Wieso weiß ich leider nicht und die Box, um es auszuprobieren habe ich leider auch nicht mehr.<br />
<br />
Ich habe auf meinem Weg zu openSUSE 11.4 einige Distributionen durchgetestet. Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Mandriva, Fedora, Arch und enige mehr. Debian hatte ich recht lange, aber es war frustrierend da aufgrund der Protokolländerungen bei ICQ/AOL die Verbindung mit GAIM (zu der Zeit gab es schon Pidgin) nicht mehr möglich war. Außerdem störte es mich, dass die Firefox-Version so veraltet war, da einige gute Features erst mit späteren Versionen eingeführt wurden. Danach habe ich einmal Gentoo ausprobiert, jedoch mit einem schrecklichen Ergebnis: Ich vergaß die USE-Flag für Grafiken zu setzen, was bedeutet hätte, dass ich so ziemlich alles hätte neu bauen dürfen. Auf meinem damaligen PC hätte das einige Ewigkeit gedauert.<br />
Also bin ich zur nächsten Distribution, das war Arch, die ich durch einen Bekannten gefunden habe. Arch hatte für meine damaligen Prioritäten alles was ich brauchte: Sie war ziemlich schnell, hatte vorkompilierte Pakete und man konnte viel mit der CLI machen, wodurch ich größtenteils den Umgang mit der CLI gelernt habe. (Aber um fair zu bleiben, ich hatte auch schon einiges mit der CLI unter Debian gemacht... dpkg und apt* sind aber echte Zumutungen... Ein hoch auf zypper und rpm!) Ich fand das Prinzip von Arch auch nicht schlecht, dass es möglichst zentrale Konfigurationen bot, z.B. die ''/etc/rc.conf''.<br />
Jedoch waren mit die Abhängigkeiten einfach zu viel und ich wollte mehr Kontrolle also versuchte ich Slackware aus. Nach einem fehlgeschlagenen Versuch, als Slackware noch den 2.4er-Kernel hatte, irgendwann als ich bei Debian war, versuchte ich es dann erneut. Erst hielt ich Slackware für ziemlich schlecht dokumentiert, aber nur weil auf der Webseite nicht so viel rauszuholen ist, wie aus anderen Seiten. Dafür enthielt die DVD alles was man braucht. Dokumentationen, Software, Quellcode, usw. Ich habe darauf hin einige Zeit mit Slackware gearbeitet und war unheimlich zufrieden; und falls Software fehlte schaute ich auf [http://slackbuilds.org/ SlackBuilds.org] und falls es dort nicht vorhanden war, baute ich mir eigene Pakete mit dem das Slackware-Paketmanagement umgehen konnte. In der Zeit habe ich wirklich viel über Linux im Allgemeinen gelernt. Aber aufgrund eines Softwarefehlers in Mumble, der sich komischerweise in virtuellen Maschinen nicht nachvollziehen ließ, installierte ich irgendwann openSUSE 11.4 – eigentlich nur testweise. Jedoch lief openSUSE so gut dass ich dabei blieb. Ich entschloss mich dann auch etwas beizutragen und wollte bei dem Wiki anfangen.<br />
<br />
Nun versuche ich hier im Wiki beizutragen und ich helfe ebenfalls bei [http://www.open-slx.de open-slx] im Wiki, Forum und im Newsteam.<br />
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Meine Fähigkeiten beschränken sich aber nicht nur auf Texte schreiben, Korrigieren und Systemkonfiguration, sondern beherrsche ich auch einige Programmier- und Skriptsprachen. Ich bin Webmaster von ein paar Webseiten und mache Gelegentlich auch etwas Webdesign. Ich möchte aber lieber zu richtiger Programmierung wechseln. Mein Interessensgebiet ist vor allem der Kernel und Bibliotheken, alles das, was man so nicht sieht, aber ohne aufgeschmissen wäre. Zurzeit fehlt mir aber leider noch das KnowHow und die Zeit (dank des Studiums) dazu. Aber ich lese fleißig in den passenden Mailinglisten mit und hoffe vielleicht in ein paar Jahren ebenfalls zum Kernel oder vielleicht zu KDE beitragen zu können.<br />
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* Jabber: Per [http://forums.opensuse.org/private.php?do=newpm&u=57006 PM im Forum] zu erfragen<br />
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[[Kategorie:Benutzer]]</div>Ctwxhttps://de.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Archive_Talk:Produktbesonderheiten_12.1&diff=20325Archive Talk:Produktbesonderheiten 12.12011-11-12T14:08:44Z<p>Ctwx: </p>
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<div>Hallo Team,<br />
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ich fange dann mal mit dem Übersetzen an. Ich gehe immer Abschnittsweise vor.<br />
Achtung: Bitte nicht mehrere Leute gleichzeitig an einem Text arbeiten. Dann gehen nicht gesicherte Daten verloren!!!! Auch wenn man sie gerade sichern möchte!<br />
--[[Benutzer:Slughorn|Slughorn]] 05:22, 11. Nov. 2011 (MST)<br />
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Hallo,<br />
ich wollte wohl mithelfen beim Übersetzen. Gibt es spezielle Abschnitte die noch nicht zugeteilt wurden, die ich übersetzen kann?<br />
--[[Benutzer:Ctwx|Ctwx]] 05:31, 11. Nov. 2011 (MST)<br />
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{{Notiz|Setzt doch bitte einen Link des betreffenden Kapitels welches ihr übersetzt, so weiß der nächste welches Kapitel jener anfangen kann. --[[Benutzer:Linuxsusefan|Linuxsusefan]] 09:32, 11. Nov. 2011 (MST)}}<br />
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Ich habe Jetzt Kapitel 1 bis einschließlich 1.3.3. fertig. Mache jetzt mit [[Produktbesonderheiten#Development tools and platforms (GNOME/GTK, KDE/Qt,..., etc)]] weiter und arbeite mich dann nach oben. --[[Benutzer:Slughorn|Slughorn]] 06:22, 12. Nov. 2011 (MST)<br />
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Ich mache heute Abend auch noch etwas weiter wo ich aufgehört habe, jedoch muss ich heute noch einiges für die Uni fertigmachen.<br />
--[[Benutzer:Ctwx|Ctwx]] 07:08, 12. Nov. 2011 (MST)</div>Ctwxhttps://de.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Archive:Produktbesonderheiten_12.1&diff=20279Archive:Produktbesonderheiten 12.12011-11-11T21:31:26Z<p>Ctwx: informale in formale Anrede geändert</p>
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==openSUSE 12.1 - die neueste freie Software in einer stabilen und leichten Version==<br />
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Liebe Nutzer, Mitwirkende, Fans und Freunde,<br />Wir sind stolz, Ihnen die neueste Ausgabe von openSUSE zu präsentieren! Es ist das Ergebnis von 8 Monaten harter Arbeit der openSUSE Gemeinschaft. Sie erlaubt es Ihnen, sich darüber zu freuen, was die neueste freie Software zu bieten hat, mit dem einzigartigen openSUSE-Touch - stabil, freundlich, unterhaltsam.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 bringt Ihnen Aktualisierungen zur neuesten Freien Software als Desktop- und Servertechnologie, ebenso einzigartige Funktionen, wie das neueste Snapper-Werkzeug, Datei-Änderungs-Monitoring und Rollback-Funktionalität. <br />
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===Die neuesten Freien Desktops bringen Farb-Management, GNOME Shell und mehr===<br />
openSUSE bietet Ihnen die Auswahl aus 4 offiziell unterstützten Freien Desktops, alle auf hohem Niveau von Verfeinerung und Unterstützung. Bemerkenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste große Linux-Distribution ist, die Farb-Management-Werkzeuge sowohl für KDE als auch GNOME Desktops mitbringt! <br />
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====KDE führt Oyranos, Apper und Plasma Active ein====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 bringt den [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Arbeitsplatz] 4.7 als Standard-Desktop mit und ist die erste große Linux-Distribution, die auch den neuen [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Farb-Management]-Werkzeuge ausliefert. Eine andere große neue Änderung ist der Ersatz von KPackageKit durch Apper. Apper vereinfacht die Installation und das Entfernen von Anwendungen. <br />
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Das innovative Projekt der KDE-Gemeinschaft, die Tablet-Oberfläche Plasma Active, ist noch kein integraler Bestandteil des openSUSE 12.1 Release. Aber die Nutzer der Tablet-Oberfläche können Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 installieren. Wir arbeiten an der Integration bis zum nächsten Release.<br />
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====GNOME Shell - verbessert und verfeinert====<br />
Wir stellen Ihnen '''GNOME 3.2''' vor, eine verbesserte und verfeinerte Version der GNOME Shell, die in GNOME 3 eingeführt wurde. openSUSE liefert ebenso viele verbesserte GNOME-Anwendungen aus, die in die GNOME-Shell integriert sind.<br />
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Haupt-Verbesserungen im Vergleich zur GNOME 3-Vorschau in openSUSE 11.4 schließen einen besseren Umgang mit kleinen Bildschirmen und Multi-Bildschirm-Einrichtungen ein, bessere Ausführungsmeldungen und eine zentralisierte Konfiguration von <em>Online-Benutzerkonten</em>. Dieses Release bring Ihnen ebenso einen neuen Dokumentenmanager. Dieses Release bringt auch einen neuen Dokumenten-Manager, ein erweitertes Farb-Management und eine automatische Rotation für Touch-Screen-Geräte mit. [[:en:openSUSE:Product_highlights_12.1#GNOME_3.2|Hier finden Sie weitere Details über GNOME 3.2]]<br />
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====Die anderen Desktops====<br />
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Beide Desktops '''XFCE''' und '''LXDE''' habe keine größeren Funktionsuptates seit dem letzten openSUSE Release erhalten. Aber kleine Verbesserungen wurden durchgeführt und sind im Release enthalten. Das schließt bessere Themen- und Desktop-Integration ein und ebenso eine verbesserte Auswahl von Anwendungen, Teil der Standard-Auswahl für jeden Desktop. openSUSE stellt auch wieder KDE 3 Pakete zur Verfügung.<br />
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===openSUSE bietet die neuesten Web- und Wolken-Technologien an===<br />
Dieses openSUSE Release liefert die neuesten Web-Browser, das Groupware-Framework [http://www.horde.org/ Horde 4] und aktualisierte Wolken- und Virtualisierungs-Technologien.<br />
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====Web surfing and serving====<br />
On the client side, openSUSE 12.1 introduces '''Chromium 16''' to the standard repositories. This WebKit based web browser from google offers a convenient UI and incredibly fast browsing. The default openSUSE browser is '''Firefox 7''', the latest from the Mozilla labs.<br />
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On the server side, the '''WebYaST''' remote system management tool offers a much improved web interface to administer openSUSE systems remotely with new modules and better performance. The introduction of the Groupware framework '''Horde 4''' brings a powerful set of applications including a modern Webmail client and a PHP based framework on which it is all build.<br />
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====Supporting Cloud technologies====<br />
openSUSE is an excellent guest OS for the cloud as can be experienced building solutions on [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio]. With a new kernel, openSUSE is now ready to run directly on the '''Amazon EC2 cloud'''. On the host side, the latest virtualization technologies including '''Xen 4.1''', '''KVM''' and '''Virtual Box''' can be managed with the latest '''virt-manager''' and '''open-vm-tools'''. Last but not least, openSUSE is the first Linux distribution to ship OwnCloud integrated into the desktop. And the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualization and Cloud repository] for openSUSE 12.1 offers the latest versions of '''Eucalyptus''', '''OpenNebula''' and '''OpenStack''' for openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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[[:en:Product_highlights#Security_and_administration_tools|read more about the administration and cloud tools in openSUSE 12.1]]<br />
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===Improved distribution technology===<br />
openSUSE introduces a number of improvements and innovations in the underlying technology of the distribution. This includes the unique Snapper tool offering file versioning, the systemd init system and Google's Go language.<br />
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====Snapper rolls back changes====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 is the first Linux distribution taking advantage of the snapshot functionality in the upcoming Linux file system Btrfs. These snapshots of the file system are using copy-on-write, making them very space efficient. openSUSE 12.1 debuts [[:en:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] which allows the user to interface with this technology.<br />
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The command line and GUI Snapper tools allow users to view older versions of files and revert changes. The unique integration in the zypper package manager of openSUSE allows users to roll back entire upgrades or software installations with the accompanying configuration changes.<br />
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====systemd boots your system====<br />
systemd is the new init tool in openSUSE, controlling and speeding up the boot process. Developed in close cooperation with fellow Linux Distribution Fedora, systemd is especially interesting for system administrators due to it's powerful socket- and bus activated service system. It also works closely with the cgroups kernel feature providing better security and control over the processes.<br />
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====Write in '''go''', compile with Clang or GCC====<br />
openSUSE is proud to be the first major distribution to ship [http://golang.org/ '''Google's new Go programming language'''] as part of our release. Go is a fast, easy language good in handling mulit-core, networked machines with the convenience of garbage collection and run-time reflection.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 also comes with the just-released [http://llvm.org/ '''LLVM3 compiler tool'''] and [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], the C/C++ compiler building upon LLVM. LLVM is employed by the open source ATI and NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers and thus forms an integral part of a high-performance graphics stack on Linux.<br />
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Lastly, this openSUSE release is build with [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''link-time optimization'''], improving the overall performance of the software.<br />
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==Mehr Details über openSUSE 12.1==<br />
Die folgenden Seiten zeigen auf, was neu in dieser openSUSE Version ist.<br />
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===Unter der Haube===<br />
Obwohl die meisten offensichtlichen Verbesserungen von openSUSE 12.1 an der Oberfläche zu sehen sind, haben wir ebenfalls eine Menge an Verbesserungen „unter der Haube” gemacht. Darunter verbessertes Starten (boot), Hardware Management und Systemkonfiguration. The Startprozedur von openSUSE wird nun von systemd übernommen (und SysVInit ist aber noch als Notlösung vorhanden); das neue Snapper Werkzeug hält überwacht automatisch die Systemkonfiguration und andere Dateiänderungen (und lässt es auf Wunsch zurücksetzen); YaST hat einige ganze Reihe an Verbesserungen erhalten; SAX kehrt in Form von SAX3 wieder zurück, ein openSUSE GSOC Projekt; und wir unterstützen natürlich die aktuelleste Version von jeder Kern-Komponente, z.B. Linux 3.1 Kernel, syslog-ng 3.3, GCC 4.6 und LLVM v3. Ebenfalls erwähnenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste Haupt-Distribution ist, die [http://golang.org Googles neue Go Programmiersprache] ausliefert.<br />
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====openSUSE Technologie Verbesserungen====<br />
openSUSE, als eine Linux-Distribution macht mehr als nur Pakete dritter anzubieten. Wir haben unsere eigenen Werkzeuge, mit dem Sie Ihr System konfigurieren, Software managen und vieles mehr können.<br />
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=====Snapper=====<br />
[[Image:openSUSE_12.1_Snapper.png|thumb|250px||Snapper YaST GUI in Aktion]]<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ist die erste Linux-Distribution die Vorteile aus der Schnappschuss-Funktion des kommenden Linux-Dateisystems Btrfs macht. Diese Schnappschüsse (engl.: Snapshots) vom Dateisystem benutzen „copy-on-write“ (Kopieren-beim-Schreiben), was das ganze sehr Platzsparend macht. openSUSE 12.1 führt [[:de:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] ein, welches dem Benutzer eine Schnittstelle zu dieser Technologie bietet.<br />
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Das Kommandozeilen- und GUI Snapper-Werkzeug erlaubt dem Benutzer ältere Versionen von Dateien anzuzeigen und Änderungen rückgängig zu machen. Die einzigartige Integration in den zypper-Paketmanager von openSUSE erlaubt dem Nutzer ganze Aktualisierungen oder Softwareinstallationen samt den dazugehörigen Konfigurationsänderungen rückgängig zu machen.<br />
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Beachte dass Snapper und das Zurückrollen (Rollback) zurzeit nur für btrfs Dateisysteme zur Verfügung steht! Arbeiten werden diese Funktionen auch für das ältere Ext4 Dateisystem verfügbar machen. Jedoch wird das nicht vor der nächsten openSUSE Version geschehen.<br />
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Sie können [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/04/01/introducing-snapper/ eine Einführung von Snapper hier lesen].<br />
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[http://www.youtube.com/susevideo#p/a/u/0/9H7e6BcI5Fo Greg K-H führt Snapper bei Brainshare vor].<br />
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=====SAX3=====<br />
Als Xorg sich über die xorg.conf hinaus zur neuen xorg.conf.d Struktur entwickelt, ging unser geliebtes X Konfigurationswerkzeug SAX2 ebenfalls. Dank der Mühen Manu Guptas [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/07/05/people-of-opensuse-manu-gupta/ während Googles Summer of Code] erhielt openSUSE wieder ein neues elegantes grafisches Werkzeug um die X Konfiguration anzupassen: SAX3. Nun haben openSUSE-Nutzer wieder die Möglichkeit einfach ihre Tastatur-, Maus-, Monitor und Touchpadeinstellungen in einer praktischen Oberfläche zu optimieren. Machen Sie sich keine Sorgen falls Sie Probleme mit Ihrer X-Konfiguration haben: Wie üblich für YaST-Module löst SAX3 das Huhn-Ei-Problem indem es eine ncurses Text-, als auch GTK und QT Grafikoberflächen integriert hat. Bitte beachten Sie, dass SAX3 in der OSS-Softwarequelle nicht ordnungsgemäß in 12.1 funktioniert. Ein kommendes Update wird das Problem lösen. Dieses ist bereits verfügbar in der [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=X11%3Asax X11:SAX-Softwarequelle].<br />
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=====YaST=====<br />
Neben der Unterstützung von Snapper und der Rückkehr von SAX3 erhielt YaST2 eine Anzahl an Bugfixes und kleineren Verbesserungen. Die YaST-Entwickler sind froh zu berichten, dass sie nach den letzten Korrekturen zuversichtlich sind, dass YaST nicht wieder versehentlich benutzer-modifizierte Konfigurationsdateien überschreiben wie es in den „frühen Tagen“ der Fall war. Zusammen mit den zypp-Paketmanagement-Leistungsverbesserungen in der 11er-openSUSE-Serie wurde dem Mythos das YaST langsam sei und Dateien überschreibt ein Ende gesetzt. Eine stärker sichtbare Änderung ist das neue Design was dank der [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/10/24/new-style-for-yast2/ CSS-basierten Themen für YaST ermöglicht wurde]. WebYaST entwickelt sich ebenfalls weiterhin gut; beinhaltet mittlerweile mehr Module als je zuvor um eine Web-basierte Administration von openSUSE zur unterstützen.<br />
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=====OBS, openQA und andere Werkzeuge=====<br />
openSUSE hat eine Reihe an mächtigen Werkzeugen, welche wir zum Bauen unserer Distribution, welche ebenfalls für Andere zum Bauen von Paketen oder Software-Testen verfügbar sind, entwickelt. Diese Werkzeuge beinhaltet den plattformübergreifenden [http://openbuildservice.org Open Build Service], das allmächtige [http://openqa.opensuse.org openQA], das flexible [[Portal:KIWI|KIWI]] und viele weitere.<br />
Von jedem kamen in den letzte 8 Monaten neue, verbesserte Versionen raus. Das beinhaltet die [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/10/11/opensuse-announces-first-public-release-of-openqa/ erste Freigabe von openQA] and der [http://news.opensuse.org/2010/10/19/the-opensuse-build-service-2-1-released/2.1 Freigabe des Open Build Service] für welches [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=openSUSE%3ATools Pakete für openSUSE 12.1 verfügbar sind].<br />
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====Linux Kernel 3.1====<br />
The new Linux 3.1 Kernel is a substantial improvement over the 2.6.38 kernel which was part of openSUSE 11.4. Not only have filesystems like Ext4 and Btrfs been improved, the Linux 3.1 Kernel specifically brings a number of performance improvements to memory management and data handling. Of course there is the usual slab of new hardware support including external devices like Microsoft's Kinect, Apple iSight webcam and the Nintendo Wii controller as well as internal hardware like the new AMD Llano Fusion APU's and Intel's Ivy Bridge & Cedar Trail CPU's, a variety of wireless and graphics cards and much more. Find more details about what's new in the openSUSE kernel on the [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_39 Linux 2.6.39], [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.0 Linux 3.0] and [http://kernelnewbies.orgWilliams/Linux_3.1 Linux 3.1] KernelNewbies pages.<br />
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====systemd and other system-wide changes====<br />
System boot is now handled by the new '''systemd''' init tool, controlling and speeding up the boot process. Developed in close cooperation with fellow Linux distribution Fedora, systemd is especially interesting for system administrators due to it's powerful socket- and bus activated service system which improves parallelization and resource usage. It also works closely with Linux' cgroups providing better security and control over the processes.<br />
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If for some reason, systemd does not work for you, you can still '''use the old sysV-init''' by pressing F5 in the bootloader. If you want to permanently use the old init, just do zypper rm systemd-sysvinit<br />
We also again provide '''grub2''' as an optional bootloader. While we are still not satisfied with Grub2 as a replacement for the current Grub, we encourage users to try it out, and want to make sure it's available for developers.<br />
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A number of smaller changes includes:<br />
*the '''util-linux''' tool version 2.20 introduces the first major changes to the dmesg logging tool in 18 years, bringing a number of options to bring human readable prefixes and timestamps to the output or clean it up, only showing important messages or messages coming from either kernel- or userspace.<br />
*'''LightDM 1.0''' is the first stable release of this faster, extensible Display Manager. LightDM aims to replace the myriad of different DM's with a single [http://xkcd.com/927/ new standard].<br />
*the '''syslog-ng 3.3''' release adds multithreading, JSON and mongodb output to this system logging tool.<br />
*The [http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.0 rpm 4.9] release brings a number of stability and performance improvements to this package manager.<br />
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==== First to ship Google Go, LLVM v3 and CLANG v3 ====<br />
openSUSE is proud to be the first major distribution to ship [http://golang.org/ '''Google's new Go programming language'''] as part of our release. Go is a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language. Go makes it easy to work with multi-core and networked machines and offers flexible and modular program construction mechanisms. While it compiles (quickly) to machine code it has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. Learn more on the [http://golang.org/ Go language website].<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 also comes with the just-released [http://llvm.org/ '''LLVM3 compiler tool'''] and [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], the C/C++ compiler building upon LLVM. LLVM, a set of flexible and performant compiler tools, offers powerful code generation which is used by Mesa for its software based OpenGL "Gallium" graphics driver architecture. It is also employed by the open source ATI and NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers and thus forms an integral part of a high-performance graphics stack on Linux.<br />
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[http://clang.llvm.org/ '''Clang'''] takes advantage of LLVM to provide an fast and memory-efficient GCC-compatible C/C++ code compiler. Clang in openSUSE 12.1 comes with enabled ARM code generation support, in the spirit of the recently started [http://opensuse.org/opensuse:ARMopenSUSE ARMs project]!<br />
Aside from Go and LLVM, openSUSE offers a large number of the latest compilers and tools. openSUSE 12.1 is build with [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''], which has [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_fx4100_gcc&num=1 shown to offer significant performance improvements] over the previous 4.5 version. This release also introduces initial support for the Ada 2012 programming language as well as experimental support for the latest C++11 standard (status can be found [http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/cxx0x_status.html here]).<br />
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This release of GCC, combined with the latest '''binutils 2.21.1''', has allowed us to enable [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''link-time optimization'''] in a number of packages, bringing an additional performance improvement.<br />
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=== Localization ===<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 has been [http://i18n.opensuse.org translated into many languages] - currently about 30 are over 90% complete and no less than 66 languages are in the process of being finished. This openSUSE release has added five Cyrillic fonts. Two of them (PT Sans and PT Serif) beside standard Western, Central European and Cyrillic code pages contain characters of all title languages of Russian Federation that make them unique and a very important tool of modern digital communications.}}<br />
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===Repository changes and third party support for openSUSE 12.1===<br />
Via the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service installation on build.opensuse.org] openSUSE hosts over 160.000 packages created by more than 30.000 individual contributors. These are available to openSUSE users as well as users from other Linux Distributions. But outside of this infrastructure, other projects like VLC and Packman offer their own OBS instance with packages for openSUSE! We highlight a few important projects from build.opensuse.org and third parties.<br />
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====Tumbleweed====<br />
'''Tumbleweed''', the unique [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed|rolling release repository for openSUSE]], can be considered 'complete' at the time of this release. Covering almost all of the openSUSE 12.1 packages, Tumbleweed offers newer versions as soon as they are deemed stable. Instead of making you wait for a new release of openSUSE, Tumbleweed lessens the significance and change impact of major releases by updating systems continuously. By enabling Tumbleweed you are always up to date with the '''latest software'''. And you won’t have to install newer versions of openSUSE as you’ll be running them already by the time they get released!<br />
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Tumbleweed will require its current users to make one manual change to the repositories upon the 12.1 release. Besides the Tumbleweed repository, users are required to have the latest stable openSUSE repositories enabled, currently for most users set at openSUSE 11.4. With the 12.1 release, these will thus have to change. The openSUSE sysadmins have ensured however that this will be the first and last time this has to be changed. From now on there will be a link to the latest stable release, for the convenience of Tumbleweed users. Upon a new release the openSUSE servers will automatically handle the required changes, transparent to the users. For instructions to make these changes, [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed_12.1change|please see here]].<br />
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Find more information [[:en:Tumbleweed|about Tumbleweed here]].<br />
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====Packman====<br />
[[Image:Packman.png|256px|link=|Features]]The well-known third-party [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] repositories for openSUSE already offer openSUSE 12.1 support. '''Packman''' provides four different repositories each offering a targeted selection of software, in addition to the larger common repository. Additional to packages for openSUSE 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, Factory and SLE 11, an essential set of Packman packages is provided for Tumbleweed. Find more information on the [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman website] and [[Paket_Repositorys#Packman| find out how to get software from Packman on the openSUSE wiki]].<br />
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====SUSE Studio====<br />
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'''SUSE Studio''' is a project from openSUSE sponsor SUSE(TM) which builds upon the Free and Open Source openSUSE tools like '''KIWI''' and offers a convenient web interface for easy building of openSUSE and SLE based custom operating systems (appliances).<br />
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[http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] users can expect availability of openSUSE 12.1 right from the release date, and support for upgrading existing appliances shortly after. This means it will be possible to easily create your own versions of openSUSE 12.1 with '''custom package selections''', '''artwork''', '''scripts''' and any other properties and download them as USB or disk images, Live CDs and a variety of popular virtual formats. You can share your appliance or also browse other’s shared appliances on [http://susestudio.com/browse SUSE Gallery].<br />
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====Contrib retired====<br />
The [[:en:openSUSE:Contrib|Contrib]] repository for third-party packages was once a community-driven extension of the main repository. The vast majority of these packages have since been integrated in the main repository or in one of the central additional repositories like the official [[KDE_Repositorys|KDE]] and [[GNOME_Repositorys|GNOME]] repositories. These provide newer versions of the software in the main repositories as well as new or experimental software not yet available in openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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====Packages on the Open Build Service====<br />
If you can not find an application in openSUSE 12.1 you can use the search functionality on [http://software.opensuse.org software.opensuse.org]. If you enable searching in users home projects (under advanced) you can choose from the 160.000 packages provided by our 30.000 packagers using the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service instance on build.opensuse.org].<br />
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====VLC====<br />
The VideoLAN organization continues their robust support for openSUSE, with a 1-click install of the VLC universal media player already available for openSUSE 12.1 at [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html this page].<br />
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=== Latest Free Desktops ===<br />
openSUSE offers both major Free Software desktops as well as a number of community-supported desktops, all with a high level of polish and support. openSUSE 12.1 is the first release to introduce the new '''GNOME Shell''' user interface, part of GNOME 3.2. GNOME Shell brings a vastly refined user experience with a smooth, natural workflow. The default openSUSE desktop, the '''KDE Plasma Desktop''', brings color management and much improved performance as well as the new 'Akonadi' based Kontact2 groupware solution. Current releases of both XFCE and LXDE include minor improvements on the road to their next big releases.<br />
For the first time, the openSUSE community openly selected artwork for openSUSE 12.1; the preferred 'upwind' theme reflects in our new splash, boot and background images . GNOME users will notice that the art team has maintained the trend of providing a time-sensitive set of themed wallpapers.<br />
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==== KDE Plasma Workspaces and applications 4.7 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Workspaces] 4.7 and is the first major Linux distribution to ship the new [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos Color Management Service]. Oyranos and its associated tools add [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management color management] to KDE applications, making sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens. Another major new addition is Apper, an easy to use software management tool replacing KPackageKit. There are also improvements to network management, the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop tool and Activities. In total, this release fixed over 12.000 bugs and contains hundreds of smaller and larger performance improvements.<br />
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The innovative new Tablet project from the KDE community, Plasma Active, is not an integral part of the openSUSE 12.1 release as it depends on functionality not available in the released KDE Platform yet and conflicts with the Desktop and Netbook workspaces. However, tablet users can install Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 and we work on integrating it in the next openSUSE release.<br />
Read on for a more extensive view on what's new in the Desktop, Netbook and application area as well as to learn more about Plasma Active One!<br />
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|[[Image:OpenSUSE114Ksysguard.png|thumb|250px|alt=Plasma Desktop|Plasma Desktop]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114KWin.png|thumb|250px|alt=KDE's KWin window manager features compositing|KWin compositing]]<br />
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=====Plasma Workspaces bring improved visuals with Oyranos CMS=====<br />
openSUSE is the '''first major Linux distribution to ship [http://www.oyranos.org/about/ Oyranos CMS]''' integrated in the KDE applications and workspaces. Oyranos is is an operating system level [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Color Management System], matching input device colors to output device colors across supported applications. Oyranos makes use of the ICC color management standard and is integrated in the KDE Workspaces and applications through the new KolorManager application. The KolorManager application makes sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens.<br />
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Users can now configure their ICC profiles and settings in one central place. It brings as well a set of command line tools like oyranos-policy for handling policy configuration files and oyranos-profiles for installation of ICC profiles. KDE users can install the KolorManager package. This Oyranos front end adds a system settings control panel for individual settings adaption. Most systems will run fine with Oyranos defaults. [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ read more about color management in openSUSE 12.1 on the oyranos website]<br />
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'''Visual improvements'''<br />
On the visual side, KDE's Plasma workspaces provides '''better integration with GTK/GNOME applications''' with a port of KDE's Oxygen style to GTK. The Oxygen icons have been improved and the Plasma panel offers a more consistent look with changes to the icons and the clock. The new Shadow support in window manager '''KWin''' gives a better look on older hardware and performs better all around. KWin also can now disable compositing when a full-screen application calls for it, increasing performance for OpenGL games and GPU accelerated video playback.<br />
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Plasma's Activities have seen many improvements. The '''Activity Manager''' now takes a more prominent place in the default panel in Plasma Desktop. Activities enhance the users' workflows by providing smart ways of grouping applications, widgets and documents.<br />
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Navigating through applications and recent files is easier with the '''addition of breadcrumbs''' to the Kickoff application launcher, helping users to see where they are and quickly back up to higher menu levels. Many other usability and functionality improvements have been made to the Workspaces. For example, '''Konsole''' no longer blocks the removal of USB storage devices and '''KMix''' has improved PulseAudio support. <br />
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'''Network management, multimedia and Nepomuk'''<br />
The Plasma Workspaces now also offer '''much improved network management''', including support for NetworkManager 0.9 as well as Bluetooth tethering, 3G, VPN, MAC spoofing and other advanced networking options.<br />
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Thanks to [http://dot.kde.org/2011/09/21/nepomuk-stability-and-performance generous donations from the community], the Semantic Desktop technology '''Nepomuk has seen extensive bugfixing''', improving stability and performance as well as making it easier to use. Strigi analyzers now read meta-data in their own process, resolving over 35 crash-related bugs in Dolphin and Konqueror.<br />
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The latest version of '''Phonon''', our media framework, has seen work on the backends. The VLC-based back-end is now considered stable and is the preferred back-end for multiplatform use, while the back-end based on GStreamer is now also considered stable on Linux platforms. The xine back-end is no longer maintained.<br />
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=====KDE Applications suite 4.7 features many refinements=====<br />
The latest version of KPackageKit - now renamed '''Apper''' - (developed by [http://dantti.wordpress.com Daniel Nicoletti] ) is now included with Plasma Desktop. This brings significant improvements to the KDE's PackageKit front end and makes it possible to list Applications instead of listing only Packages. This makes openSUSE a lot more user-friendly and closer to Grandma compattible.<br />
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'''Dolphin''', KDE’s file manager, has a cleaner default appearance. The menu bar is hidden, but easy to reach and restore. The file searching interface has been improved. In addition, Dolphin now has much deeper integration with source code management systems, including the ability to create and clone repositories, push and pull changes, view diffs and much more.<br />
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Dolphin and Konqueror both benefit from a new plugin that provides a '''rating and an annotation menu action''' for files and folders, leveraging Nepomuk capabilities. <br />
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Image management has become easier with '''Gwenview''', the KDE image viewer, now offering the ability to compare two or more pictures side by side. From the browse mode, select two or more pictures, and then switch to the view mode or to the full-screen mode. In the view mode, you can add more pictures from the thumbnail bar.<br />
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Comic fans will be pleased that Okular, the universal file viewer, gains support for reading a directory as a comicbook.<br />
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'''KStars''', the essential KDE application for stargazers around the world, has gained a feature to predict a star hopping route and dynamic switching between its OpenGL and native rendering backends. Labels can now be assigned to points on celestial lines; comet trails are rendered in OpenGL mode. Mathematicians and scientists can now explore higher order functions in Kalgebra and get information on oxidation states for elements in Kalzium. <br />
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'''KDM''', the display manager, has gained ''GRUB2'' support. A user with multiple operating systems in their GRUB2 menu can now choose which one to reboot to in the shutdown dialog by holding down the mouse button on their reboot choice. <br />
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'''Marble''', the virtual globe application, has gained many improvements over the past eight months. It now has voice navigation support, a map creation wizard, and new plug-ins. Following the Voice of Marble contest, '''voice navigation''' is now available in several languages, with voices provided by the KDE community. For more details, see Marble's [http://edu.kde.org/marble/current_1.2.php visual changelog]. <br />
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Other applications such as Kate, Kalzium, KAlgebra, KStars, and KDevelop have also been updated in this release. Changes and improvements to some other major applications from the KDE community can be found in the [Product_highlights#New_and_updated_applications|applications section].<br />
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Find more information on what is new in the Plasma Workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Platform in the [http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.7/ announcement by KDE].<br />
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|[[Image:OpenSUSE114KDENetbookPages.png|thumb|250px|alt=KDE Netbook features scrollable widget pages|Plasma Netbook widgets]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114kdeNetbookSAL.png|thumb|250px|alt=Search and Launch interface in Plasma Netbook|Plasma Netbook search and launch interface]]<br />
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=====Plasma Active One is optionally available=====<br />
The fresh and innovative [http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active Plasma Active] interface for tablets and mobile devices is available for openSUSE 12.1. It is not an integral part of this release as it still depends on a number of unreleased technologies but we plan to have Plasma Active as part of openSUSE 12.2.<br />
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'''Plasma Active'''<br />
Plasma Active aims at creating a cross-device user experience for emerging devices such as tablet computers, media centers, smartphones, and more. It builds on the Linux stack with X11, Qt and the KDE libraries. The user interface is designed using Plasma Quick, a declarative markup language allowing for organic user interface design based on Qt Quick.<br />
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The first release, [http://kde.org/announcements/plasma-active-one/ Plasma Active One] fully focuses on tablet computers. Plasma Active Tablet's user experience is designed around the web, social networks and multimedia content. Packages for openSUSE are offered in the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=KDE%3AActive Plasma Active] repository.<br />
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==== GNOME 3.2 ====<br />
After shipping a technical preview of [http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ GNOME 3] with 11.4, openSUSE 12.1 replaces the GNOME 2.x series with the latest GNOME 3.2 desktop to the openSUSE GNOME users. With many improvements based on the feedback of the openSUSE community and the wider Free Software community, numerous usability and application changes have been incorporated.<br />
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'''GNOME Shell''' brings a fresh user-interface that is designed from the scratch to satisfy the needs of today's users. The interface focuses on getting out of the way and providing unobtrusive yet powerful notifications and deep integration of calendar, chat and other technologies. The UI elements and workflows are designed to be touch-friendly for use on tablets or desktops with a touch screen. By using the 3D acceleration capabilities provided by most of the computers these days, pleasing animations are used to give users an aesthetic look and feel and a much easier way of switching between applications. Read on for more details on what's new in GNOME 3.2.<br />
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===== What's new in GNOME Shell 3.2 =====<br />
Various minor tweaks and major features are incorporated into this release based on user feedback. openSUSE 12.1 ships the alt-status-menu extension to make various computer operations easily accessible. Some examples:<br />
*It is now easier to resize windows and titlebars, buttons and other controls are a bit less tall, making GNOME easier to use on small screens.<br />
* Notifications now include a counter so you can see how many mails or chats messages are waiting for you and Shell now also shows media device notifications.<br />
* The focus-follows-mouse feature has been improved and while it's not perfect yet, it will suffice for most usecases.<br />
* The System Settings have been improved, showing links to other relevant settings and has integrated color management<br />
* GNOME Shell battery power status now shows how much power you have left<br />
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===== Communication in GNOME Shell =====<br />
Compared to any prior release of GNOME, the instant messaging workflow is much improved in GNOME Shell 3.2. You can receive chats, reply to messages, approve / deny friendship requests, call requests, all without having to launch the IM application explicitly. You can change the status of your machine from a centralized place so that all the IM accounts reflect the status change. Error and new message notifications are so well integrated in GNOME shell so that you won't have focus stealing popups but only unobtrusive animations notifying you what is going on.<br />
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A new "Online Accounts" feature enables users to create online accounts. Accounts created will be seamlessly available for various applications throughout the desktop experience. For example, if you create a Google Account, your Google Docs documents will be available in the new Document browser, your Google contacts will be available in empathy for IM, and the calendar shows your appointments. http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/gnome-documents-google.png.en<br />
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[[Image:114_screenshots_gnome_desktop_generic.png|thumb|250px||The GNOME 2.32 Desktop]]<br />
[http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2] <br />
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===== What's new in the GNOME 3.2 Applications =====<br />
The new GNOME 3 libraries bring many improvements to GNOME 3 applications. Some examples:<br />
* File open dialogs in applications now show a list of recent files and directories<br />
* Better performance and a new theme<br />
* A redesigned Font chooser dialog<br />
* A new on-screen keyboard and a number of other accessibility enhancements<br />
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Moreover, the individual applications have seen many features and bugfixes, read on for a quick overview.<br />
A new people-focused '''Contacts"' application is shipped which can work with Evolution and Empathy in the background, providing you with a unified addressbook for your desktop. <br />
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'''Empathy''', the GNOME IM application has got a lot of improvements. You can easily search your logs visually filtering on various parameters such as Who, When.<br />
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http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/empathy-log.png.en NetworkManager-gnome version 0.9 provides fast user switching, improved WiFi roaming, WiMAX support, flexible permissions and centralized storage of network connection information.<br />
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Not to be left out of the party, GNOME 3.2 includes robust color management support as well, including the new GNOME Color Manager wizard for calibrating displays using either ICC profiles or a Huey hardware colorimeter. [http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-color-manager/screenshots.html]<br />
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File manager '''Nautilus''' has seen a major overhaul for GNOME 3, with an improved Places sidebar, a new ''Connect to server'' dialog and a quick preview function which can be triggered by 'space'.<br />
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Many smaller improvements include new and configurable effects in the Webcam application '''Cheese''', bookmark support in PDF viewer '''Evince''', plugins for image viewer '''Eye of GNOME''' and improved streaming support for video and audio in media player Totem.<br />
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Read more about [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2 in the official announcement] and find more GNOME applications in the sections below.<br />
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|[[Image:openSUSE114GNOME3Shell.png|thumb|200px|A blank GNOME Shell workspace]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114gnome3_windows.png|thumb|200px|Shell managing your windows]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114GNOME3Search.png|thumb|200px|GNOME Shell integrates search]]<br />
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==== LXDE 0.5 ====<br />
This release of openSUSE comes with LXDE 0.5. There have been no major updates to this lightweight desktop for a while but minor improvements and bugfixes have been integrated.<br />
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|[[Image:114_screenshots_lxde_menu.png|thumb|200px|LXDE Menu]]<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_lxde_filemanager_configuration.png|thumb|200px|LXDE File Manager & Configuration]]<br />
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==== Xfce 4.8 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships ''''Xfce 4.8''''. All Xfce components have been updated to the latest bugfix releases. The desktop has been polished further in terms of integration and branding. LightDM is now the default display manager reducing the dependencies on core GNOME components. The functionality provided in the default install should now be on par with GNOME/KDE desktops.<br />
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|[[Image:114_screenshots_xfce_menu.png|thumb|250px|The Xfce Desktop and the menu]]<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_xfce_filemanager_configuration.png|thumb|250px|The Tunar filemanager and XFCE configuration]]<br />
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Please use up-to-date screenshot from http://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots_12.1#Xfce_4.8<br />
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=== New and updated applications ===<br />
On top of the kernel and other low-level tools, openSUSE provides a huge variety of console and graphical applications. These applications have been updated to the latest versions bringing many improvements in terms of features and bugfixes.<br />
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====Web browsers====<br />
The web is important for modern computer users, and openSUSE has you covered with a selection of browsers Free Software has to offer. We ship a much faster Firefox, an innovative Opera, a well integrated Epiphany and a more stable Rekonq. New is Chromium, the fast and easy to use browser from Google. These browsers provide a wide range of rendering engines supporting the latest web standards. Read on to find out what is new in these browsers since we brought to you in openSUSE 11.4!<br />
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'''Firefox 7'''<br /><br />
Since Firefox 4.0 in openSUSE 11.4, the project has moved to a more rapid release schedule and thus we present you with Mozilla's latest Firefox 7.0.1. Firefox has introduced support for new privacy features like do-not-track and much improved developer tools in the new 'web developer' menu. End users will appreciate the many smaller and larger usability improvements like the URL bar highlighting the website domain and hiding the prefix. Last but not least, each subsequent Firefox release brought better performance, from faster loading of tabs to the large memory management improvements in Firefox 7 and of course support for the latest web standards.<br />
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'''Chromium 16'''<br /><br />
Chromium, meet openSUSE 12.1 users. Users, meet Chromium. This venerable WebKit based web browser from Google is quickly gaining popularity and thus had to become part of the openSUSE distribution. With its simplified interface, great integration with Google services, separate processes so a crashing site can not take down the browser and the fastest JavaScript engine in the world, it will impress you with it's speed and ease of use. The rapid release cycle of Chromium is hard to track - we ensure the latest is always available on your system so you don't have to worry about security or not being able to work with the latest websites.<br />
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'''Opera 11.52'''<br /><br />
Opera 11.52 brings much improved Opera Link to sync your passwords between system and a better Speed Dial which now supports extensions, small webpages embedded in your Speed Dial. Another new feature is the Location support on websites like Google Maps. Opera also uses far less memory now and became a fair bit more stable. Of course this release supports the latest HTML 5 and CSS 3 standards and features a faster JavaScript engine and smoother graphics.<br />
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'''Rekonq 0.8'''<br /><br />
With Rekonq 0.8, openSUSE ships a second WebKit based browser. Build on Qt and the KDE Platform this new release takes advantage of the many improvements in QtWebKit 2.2, bringing better stability and performance. New features include the Do-Not-Track feature, availability of history in restored tabs, and Third Party rule support in AdBlock. usability has been given attention with much improved drag'n'drop support, an new SSL UI, optional VI-style navigation and improved URL bar handling.<br />
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'''Epiphany from GNOME 3.2'''<br /><br />
The third WebKit based browser, this time from the GNOME community, Epiphany, allows you to create Web Application links. These Web Applications show up in the application view of GNOME Shell and act very much like real applications, opening links in new web browser windows and not showing a navigation bar or tabs. They also run in a process separate from the browser, so that crashes of Epiphany do not affect your web applications.<br />
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====Office and desktop publishing applications====<br />
openSUSE helps you get work done by providing a stable base and up to date productivity tools. The latest LibreOffice brings new features in most components as well as speed and stability improvements to this enterprise ready office suite. While Abiword, Gnumeric and KOffice are still at their latest stable versions, our additional repositories offer the innovative Calligra application suite as a choice.<br />
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'''Libreoffice 3.4.3'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://XXXX.org '''Libreoffice'''] release brings a large number of small additions and improvements like the ability to add and remove color charts, a named range as data source and supporting an unlimited number of fields in the DataPilot (now named Pivot Table), Greek Character mode for numbering in Writer and much more. As usual, much performance work was done decreasing the size of LibreOffice and improving startup speed. Text rendering and theming have received a major overhaul, making LibreOffice fitting better in your desktop.<br />
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'''Scribus 1.4'''<br /><br />
[http://www.scribus.net '''Scribus'''] is the major Open Source Desktop Publishing tool available for Linux. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation. openSUSE ships a release candidate of Scribus 1.4 which has a large number of stability fixes over the release in openSUSE 11.4.<br />
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'''Calligra 2.4 beta 3'''<br /><br />
The new [http://www.calligra-suite.org/ Calligra Suite], the successor of KOffice in openSUSE is not yet part of this release. However most users report the current beta's to be of '''better quality than the latest KOffice release''' and the openSUSE packagers have thus committed to provide a repository which will offer the latest Calligra releases.<br />
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Specifically '''targeting students and academic users''' with the productivity part, Calligra brings much improved text handling and rendering, state of the art '''import support for the Microsoft XML formats''' and many stability and usability improvements to all applications. Words introduces handling of citations and bibliographies and an automatically updating Table of Content, better text tables, footer- and header support and much more. Presentation application Stage has a new slide sorter and easier editing of notes with slides. Project Management application Plan introduces many new chart printing options and improved import from external data sources. Tables has improved support for large tables, rotated text, many new formulas, improved Microsoft Excel file support and much faster loading.<br />
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Calligra also introduces two new applications: <br />
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*Flow is a diagramming and flowcharting application in the spirit of Visio.<br />
*Braindump is a note taking application that builds on the Calligra core and uses the full power of the openDocument Format to allow for text, images and even multimedia in the notes.<br />
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Find a [http://www.calligra-suite.org/news/calligra-2-4-snapshot-1-tour/ Calligra Tour here].<br />
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You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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====Communication and groupware====<br />
Of course, openSUSE ships a wide variety of groupware and Personal Information Management (PIM) solutions like email clients, chat applications, calendar tools and more.<br />
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'''KDE PIM'''<br /><br />
Kontact, KDE’s groupware solution, has most components now ported to Akonadi. Once the initial bugs are ironed out, this will offer increased stability and performance, better connection to new services and sharing of communication information between more applications. The biggest change is the introduction of KMail 2. This application has the familiar interface, while under the surface, all mail storage and retrieval has been ported to use the powerful Akonadi cache.<br />
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The openSUSE KDE team has put '''significant efforts''' in ensuring a smooth upgrade to KMail 2 but this is a significant change and the team will keep an eye out for further issues. Bugfixes will be provided through updates and users are encouraged to report problems and update their systems frequently.<br />
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It should be noted that the move from KMail1 to KMail2 requires the '''import/conversion of email data to Akonadi'''. This process can take considerable time, measuring up to a day on slow systems with multiple gigabyte-sized mailboxes. It is possible to, instead of doing a migration, doing a clean start by moving the current data from the ~.kde4/share/apps/kmail to a backup location. If you have your data stored on a server and it is only cached locally this should not cause you to loose data. In case of a downloading POP mail account, however, you will have to use the conversion process or import your mail separately.<br />
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Also note that '''Akonadi is a cache''', not a permanent storage system. This means that your mail should remain where it is - be it on a server or in a local folder. Akonadi will store a '''copy''' in its database, as well as extra information like ratings and the like, for fast search and retrieval. This essentially replaces the internal cache KMail1 employed for this purpose. Due to this design, Akonadi is very unlikely to lose user data as it normally operates on a copy of it. Of course, actions like moving or removing mails are synced back to the original mail storage!<br />
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'''Evolution 3.2.1'''<br /><br />
Evolution provides integrated mail, address book and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop. Version 3.2.1 has been ported over to the GNOME 3 infrastructure and offers a number of small improvements and bugfixes over the previous release. Also new in the openSUSE 12.1 Evolution is the Exchange Connector for Evolution, compatible with Exchange 2007 and later, allowing Evolution to work with Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010. Evolution also works with the Google contacts, calendar and mail services.<br />
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'''Thunderbird 7.0.1'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird] email client shipped with openSUSE brings delivers faster performance, safer email experience, and a new add-ons manager. With over 390improvements and performance enhancements, Thunderbird is more responsive, starts faster and is easier to use than ever.<br />
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For example, the interface improvements like the improved RSS feeds and better Attachment management make handling your news and mail easier. Tabs can now be re-ordered or dragged into a new window and Thunderbird gives you control over the look and functionality of your email client with a gallery of hundreds of add-ons. The new Add-ons manager allows you to search the gallery in Thunderbird to install, remove, and manage the Add-ons. This release also adds support for technologies that make it easier for developers to build some of these amazing Add-ons, such as the Lightning Calendar, Conversation View, and Open Search.<br />
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====Multimedia====<br />
openSUSE comes with a number of prominent multimedia applications like the Amarok, Banshee and Rythmbox music players, DigiKam and Shotwell photo managers and the Marble virtual globe. Each of those has seen new releases with new features and bugfixes.<br />
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=====Music Players=====<br />
openSUSE comes with a large number of music players, from the well known Rythmbox, Banshee and Amarok to the less prominent like Juk, Totem, KMplayer, Dragon and Bangarang.<br />
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'''Banshee 2.2'''<br /><br />
The new [http://banshee.fm '''Banshee'''] comes with with lots of new extensions like an alarmclock, albumart writer, ampache, duplicated sound detector, jamendo, karaoke, live radio, lyrics and more. Other improvements include the ability to not only queue songs but also artists and albums and having the ability to play a queued song immediately after the current. There has been a number of UI improvements like putting the search next to the volume button, smaller icons in the source list, hidden counts for the libraries, named group separators and a resizable seek slider and search entry. Podcasts episodes are now shown in a grid, with several lines of description shown to help you find an appealing episode to enjoy.<br />
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'''Amarok 2.4.3 and Clementine 0.7.3'''<br /><br />
[http://amarok.kde.org '''Amarok'''] introduces improved Dynamic Playlists and Internet Services including integration with Gpodder.net. The user interface has been improved with better drag and drop, automatic scrolling in the lyrics applet and the ability to scrobble the composer as artist to last.fm. Otherwise, many bugs have been crushed and performance has improved a bit. For those not fond of the direction Amarok took with the 2.0 release, openSUSE ships [http://www.clementine-player.org '''Clementine 0.7.3'''] which in this version brings a new edit tag dialog which offers autocompletion and automatic music identification and missing-tag-fetching. CUE sheets are now supported, detected automatically and tracks will show up separately. Album covers are shown in the Library tab, deleted songs greyed out and much more.<br />
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=====Photo managers, editors and painting applications=====<br />
openSUSE ships with a large number of graphics and painting applications. There have been major versions of DigiKam and Blender as well as minor improvements to most of the other applications. openSUSE 12.1 also comes with lots of ICC color management Profiles ready to go.<br />
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'''DigiKam 2.2'''<br />
openSUSE 12.1 features the release of '''DigiKam''', the result of more than a year of hard work since the DigiKam version in openSUSE 11.4. This version features long awaited technologies like face detection and recognition, image versioning support, XMP metadata sidecar files support, big improvements in tagging and marking photos, reversed geotagging and many other improvements, including a total of 258 fixed bugs.<br />
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Close companion Kipi-plugins is released along with DigiKam 2.2. This release features new export tools to three web services - Yandex.Fotki, MediaWiki and Rajce. The GPSSync plugin now has the ability to do reverse-geocoding. Also new is a plugin which is dedicated to creating photo album-like layouts. Finally, there has been extensive bugfixing.<br />
Find out more about DigiKam and read articles with tips and tricks [http://www.digikam.org/ on the DigiKam website].<br />
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'''Inkscape 4.8.2'''<br />
[http://inkscape.org Inkscape] is a powerful vector graphics editor using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. It supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. The latest stable 4.8.2 version introduces a number of critical bugfixes and improvements to openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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This release is feature complete, offering the powerful UI, animation tools, rigging, modeling, shading, physics and particle tools and everything else Blender is known for.<br />
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'''Shotwell 0.11.5'''<br />
The [http://yorba.org/shotwell/ '''Shotwell'' photo organizer handles pictures based on a timeline. It also offers tagging and rating features and a host of image editing functions like rotating, cropping and adjustment of exposure, saturation and more. It can import photos from most cameras and from folders and publish photos and videos to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, and YouTube. The latest release introduces hierarchical trees for the tags, a new plugin framework, improved printing, a new crop tool and a new search bar as well as many smaller improvements to the user interface. New is also support for paired JPEG and RAW images, BMP, TIFF and other formats, and improved rendering of RAW files. This release also does automatic backups of the database and allows you to save searches.<br />
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'''F-spot 0.8.2-14'''<br />
The easy to use '''F-spot''' photo manager features a very simple interface combined with powerful search, import, browse and edit functionality. Advanced capabilities are exporting EXIF and XMP metadata to your images, versioning of changes in the image editor and quite complete import functionality. This release does not introduce major new features or improvements.<br />
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'''GIMP 2.6.11'''<br />
[http://www.gimp.org/ '''GIMP'''] is a versatile graphics manipulation package offering a customizable interface and a large number of plugins to modify and improve photos. It can work with a huge variety of fileformats. 2.6.11 brings bugfixes for this popular photo manipulation program as well as some minor usability and performance improvements.<br />
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'''Krita and Karbon 2.4 Beta3'''<br />
Two applications, part of the upcoming [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4] release, should not be missed in this overview. While they are not included in the standard openSUSE repositories, they offer some unique benefits many people will apreciate.<br />
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[http://krita.org '''Krita'''] is a sketching and painting tool, offering an end–to–end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters. Fields of painting that Krita explicitly supports are concept art, creation of comics and textures for rendering. Modelled on existing real-world painting materials and workflows, Krita supports creative working by getting out of the way and with snappy response. Developed in close collaboration with a number of artists Krita 2.4 brings many user interface improvements as well as much better performance. New functionality like the ability to share patterns, gradients and brushes over the web and the huge number of unique brushes solidify Krita's position as the '''premier Free Software sketching and drawing application'''.<br />
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The Karbon vector graphics application, also part of [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4], has much better '''support for the SVG standard''' and introduces many new filters and effects while improving on its stability.<br />
You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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=====Video editors and 3D modelling=====<br />
Out of the box, openSUSE does not ship multimedia support due to legal and patent worries in a number of countries. However, if it is legal for you to play your music and video's you can find information on the [http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia openSUSE-community Multimedia] and [http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats Restricted formats] pages on how to obtain the needed codecs. The [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] project which offers the codecs also packages a number of related applications like the excellent [http://www.kdenlive.org/ Kdenlive] and [http://www.openshotvideo.com/ openshot] video editors.<br />
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'''Kdenlive 0.8.2'''<br />
'''Kdenlive''' claims to be the most advanced video editor available on Linux today. It supports virtually any camera and codec thanks to the [http://www.ffmpeg.org/ FFMPEG] and [http://www.mltframework.org/ MLT] frameworks it builds upon. It is a multitrack editor with a timeline and an unlimited number of video and audio tracks. Thanks to the [http://www.piksel.org/frei0r Frei0r] framework Kdenlive offers a large number of effects and transitions and lets you add your own. It renders videos in a separate thread while you keep working and allows you to pause, stop and restart rendering. The latest 0.8.2 version fixes over 140 stability issues and introduces an automated backup feature to avoid the loss of any data. Check the [http://www.kdenlive.org/users/j-b-m/kdenlive-082-released announcement] for more information.<br />
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'''OpenShot 1.4'''<br />
The '''OpenShot''' video editor has a more easy to use interface and offers features like 3D animations, HD video support as well as Clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, and cutting, Video transitions with real-time previews, Compositing, image overlays, watermarks, Title templates, title creation, sub-titles and support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences. [http://vimeo.com/29465427 watch the video of the 1.4 release] or [http://www.openshot.org/features/ check out the openshot features] online.<br />
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'''Audacity 1.3.13'''<br />
For audio editing, '''Audacity''' offers a powerful set of features. Audacity lets you record live audio or convert existing music into digital data. It can also edit files, mixing the music or changing it with a variety of effects. These include echo, a fase changer, equalization, normalization and a number of effects to clean up hiss, noise and other mess. Additional plugins are availble with the VST and LADSPA plug-ins compatibility. Recording up to 96Khz, 32 bit is available with high quality sample rate conversion and there is a number of spectrum analysis tools for your viewing pleasure.<br />
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This release, while part of the beta series, is quite stable. Compared to the 1.3.12 version in the previous openSUSE release there has been a number of improvements to the effects, a new Device Toolbar showing all input and output devices has been introduced and the new "Sync-lock Tracks" feature allows groups of audio and/or label tracks to retain synchronisation when the track length changes. There has also been a fair number of bugfixes and some other smaller improvements.<br />
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'''PiTiVi 0.15'''<br />
openSUSE does ship the simple [http://www.pitivi.org/ '''PiTiVi''' video editor in the main repositories. PiTiVi is more intuitive and easy to use video editor compared to OpenShot and Kdenlive but does not offer the depth of in- and output formats, camera support and effects the others do.<br />
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'''Blender 2.59'''<br />
The well known [http://www.blender.org Blender] 3D content creation suite (3D modeller and video editor) is also part of openSUSE 12.1 with the stable 2.59 version. This third stable release in the 2.5 series brings big improvements in stability with many hundreds of bugs fixed. There is also a number of new features, including 3D mouse support and many UI improvements like the custom keymaps support and the camera locking. Sculpting, the warp modifier and the node editor have also been heavily improved.<br />
The biggest changes in the addons include:<br />
*the new Ivy Generator can grow curves over an existing mesh, <br />
*the Sapling addon generates trees<br />
*Mesh inset can inset individual faces or a selected region.<br />
*Grease scatter can scatter objects along predefined lines<br />
*much, much more. <br />
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openSUSE of course delivers far more multimedia applications to you, from the GStreamer framework to less known music players and a myriad of tools.<br />
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====Security and administration tools====<br />
openSUSE has always been a powertool for system adminstrators around the world and openSUSE 12.1 builds on this strong foundation. It is not only the powerful YaST which is appreciated but also the many tools available with openSUSE. This release brings major improvements to AppArmor, the new Shorewall gateway/firewall configuration application, a big update to the Performance Co-Pilot tool, an extended WebYaST and much more.<br />
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'''AppArmor 2.7 rc1'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships with the latest available [http://apparmor.net AppArmor] to ensure sys admins can easily secure their servers. [http://www.suse.com/support/security/apparmor/ Initially developed by SUSE], AppArmor is part of the Linux kernel now and openSUSE has the userspace components available. It is only in these userspace components that AppArmor ships changes compared to the previous release in openSUSE 11.4. Major features since AppArmor 2.5 include a working desktop notifier and automatic profile update for samba shares. And of course many other profile updates, bugfixes and better performance.<br />
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'''Shorewall 4.4.24'''<br /><br />
New in openSUSE from the Open Build Service is the [http://shorewall.net/Introduction.html Shoreline Firewall configuration tool]. This application offers a very powerful but still rather high-level interface to configure Netfilter through editing a series of configuration files. Upon starting Shorewall, it will read the files and with help of the iptables and other security utils configure Netfilter and the Linux networking subsystem to match your requirements, building a firewal, router or gateway. Find a list of [http://www.shorewall.net/4.4/shorewall_features.htm features of Shorewall here].<br />
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[[Image:WebYaST_Screenshot.png|thumb|250px||WebYast in action]]<br />
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'''Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) 3.5.8 and the PCP GUI charting tools.'''<br /><br />
The [http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/ performance co-pilot] is a heavy-duty performance monitoring tool. It is specifically build to find the harder type of system-level performance problems. It is capable of correlating end-user quality of service with platform activity and diagnosing complex interactions between resource demands on single or multiple systems in dynamic environments. This release is a significant upgrade over what was shipped in openSUSE 11.4, bringing a host of new features and improvements like support for distributed event tracing, transparent support for compressed archives in the client tools, Integrated pmieconf and pmlogconf utilities for automating management of pmie/pmlogger configuration files, Linux kernel control group metrics, per-node CPU metrics, XFS btree metrics and some Postfix updates.<br />
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'''WebYaST'''<br /><br />
The latest version of WebYaST has many improvements regarding speed, memory usage, usability and developing environment. Due a new caching mechanism the startup time of each module has been decreased to a maximum of 1-2 seconds. Former versions of WebYaST were split into a service and into an UI part. Each part has run in a own HTTP server. We have decided to bring these parts together in order to save one HTTP server which halves the memory usage.<br />
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====Virtualization, Cloud and web applications====<br />
openSUSE is an excellent guest OS for the cloud, as anyone who ever uses [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] can agree with. Nowhere is it as easy to build a cloud solution and openSUSE is now ready for the '''Amazon EC2 cloud''' by having a special EC2 kernel and suse-ami-tools in the default repositories.<br />
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But openSUSE can also be an excellent host and contains a fair number of virtualization and cloud tools. Most prominent is OwnCloud, which is shipped with unique desktop integration in openSUSE. What is not available in the default repositories can be found in the special [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualization and Cloud repository], where openSUSE contributors package and maintain '''Eucalyptus''', '''OpenNebula''' and '''OpenStack''' for openSUSE 12.1. <br />
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'''OwnCloud 2'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 delivers OwnCloud, the web-based storage application. OwnCloud is different from solutions like Google Docs, Dropbox or Ubuntu One in that it lets '''you own the data'''. With version 2, the ownCloud team has improved the basic service and added valuable features:<br />
* Secure file sharing<br />
* Improved web access including the ability to play music<br />
* Synchronization with other web application tools<br />
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openSUSE ships OwnCloud with a unique system tray based tool which can:<br />
* Install a new ownCloud locally or in a webspace<br />
* Connect your system to an existing ownCloud<br />
* give you assistance to set up mirrored folders<br />
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'''virtualization technologies'''<br /><br />
The new '''Xen 4.1''' release brings support for large systems (>255 processors and 1GB/2MB super page support), CPU Pools for advanced partitioning, prototype credit2 scheduler designed for latency-sensitive workloads and very large systems, a re-architected XL toolstack that is functionally nearly equivalent to XM/XEND, support for x86 Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX), new Memory Access API enabling integration of 3rd party security solutions into Xen virtualized environments and even better stability through the new automated regression tests.<br />
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The lastest version of '''KVM''' provides live migration from one host to another, guest swapping, paravirtualized networking and block devices and PCI-Express passthrough.<br />
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The new 4.1 series '''VirtualBox''' release brings new features like VM cloning, enhanced wizard for creating and copying virtual disks, raised memory limit to 1TB for 64 bit hosts and a couple of experimental featuers like PCI passthrough or SATA hard disk hot-plugging.<br />
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'''Virtualization tools'''<br /><br />
The latest release of '''virt-manager''' (supported by libvirt) brings new VM features including new VM wizard support for LCX guests, remote serial console access and remote URL guest installs.<br />
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The recent version of '''open-vm-tools''' provides integration (shared folders, drag and drop, clipboard sharing, automatic guest resolution resizing, etc.) with the VMware tools.<br />
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'''Horde 4.0.8'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the latest Horde 4 groupware server and framework! Horde 4 is the first release in over 6 years and brings major improvements to all applications of the suite as well as to the framework itself. <br />
Some of the more significant changes from Horde 3 to 4 include a requirement for PHP 5.2 or higher, a new Ajax interface and a new test suite. The complete framework has been modernized and cleaned up and the libraries are better separated and Unit tested.<br />
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The most important things users will notice are the e improved setup and upgrade processes, an Ajax interface for the calendar, and an improved interface for the complete application stack.<br />
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Horde offers a large number of web applications including a webmail tool (part of the Horde Groupware Webmail Edition) complete with WYSIWYG HTML editor, IMAP and POP3 support, message search and filtering, spell check, attachment viewer, encryption and signing, keyboard navigation, threaded view and previews, downloading of attachments in a ZIP file and much more.<br />
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There is now basic social media support with Facebook and Twitter integration and there is an Active Sync server component which can synchronize with iPhones and Android devices. The existing SyncML support already took care of most Nokia phones. The last missing piece is CalDAV support for calendar sharing, which is planned for the future.<br />
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== Development tools and platforms (GNOME/GTK, KDE/Qt,..., etc) ==<br />
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===IDEs and toolchain===<br />
openSUSE offers a complete and productive environment for developers and packagers. With stable tools and updated libraries available through [http://build.opensuse.org OBS], developers can easily develop using multiple programming languages and create packages for multiple distributions.<br />
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====KDevelop====<br />
For software developers, KDevelop has gained support for predefined indentation styles and a Python interpreter using Kross. Improved Python auto-completion and support for lex/yacc file extensions are also included in this release.<br />
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====Kate====<br />
KDE’s Advanced Text Editor, Kate has seen quite a number of improvements, including:<br />
* New Search Plugin with the ability to search in files on disk or opened files <br />
* Plugin improvements: Build Plugin, GDB Plugin<br />
* Kate’s tab bar plugins gained several new features<br />
* Swap files: If lost data is found, documents are marked as read-only<br />
* Further noteworthy changes: Improved printing, change of line ending triggers modified flag, fixed shortcut issues, fixed auto completion popup, and more.<br />
For more information, see [http://kate-editor.org/2011/07/09/kate-in-kde-4-7/ this blog].<br />
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===KDE Platform===<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships with the latest stable '''Qt 4.7.4''' and the '''KDE Platform 4.7.2''', giving developers the best from these powerful cross-platform development libraries.<br />
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'''KDE Platform 4.7 '''<br /><br />
This release of KDE's development platform is an incremental release, bringing many bugfixes and small improvements to technologies like the build-in WebKit browser engine, system wide Proxy support and the Phonon Multimedia engine. Developer-visible changes include:<br />
* Improvements to the Semantic Desktop components offering a richer API for applications<br />
* The option to suspend compositing in KWin whenever an application calls for it to improve performance in OpenGL games and GPU-accelerated video playback.<br />
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For details on the KDE Platform 4.7 release see [http://kde.org/announcements/4.7/platform.php the KDE platform release notes].<br />
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'''Qt 4.7 introduces QtQuick'''<br /><br />
Qt 4.7.4 is a '''bugfix release''' over the release shipped with openSUSE 11.4. <br />
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However, it does introduce some powerful features including the official release of [http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/01/qt-quick-is-here QtQuick], a new feature within Qt that makes it easy to create light-weight apps and UIs. It contains the new QML language, a simple to learn declarative language for building dynamic and fluid interfaces, the Qt Declarative module and new tooling in Qt Creator to easily build apps.<br />
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QtQuick 1.1 brings Right-to-Left support, improved caching and text input and a declarative API for handling touch input. There is also the new QML Sharders plugin which allows developers to embed OpenGL sharder effects in QML apps.<br />
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=== GNOME platform improvements ===<br />
For further details, seee [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ the GNOME 3.2 release notes].<br />
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==== New features and functionality ====<br />
Included in openSUSE 12.1 is the latest release of the GNOME Developer Platform. This consists of a set of API- and ABI-stable libraries available under the GNU LGPL that can be used for the development of cross-platform applications.<br />
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For information on developing with GNOME please visit the [http://developer.gnome.org GNOME Developer Center].<br />
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'''GLib 2.30'''<br /><br />
GNOME's low-level software utility library GLib has seen various improvements, some of which are:<br />
* GApplication can now be used for non-unique applications.<br />
* GDBus supports the 'object manager' pattern with a number of new interfaces and has a code generator: gdbus-codegen.<br />
* An interface for certificate and key lookup has been added: GTlsDatabase. An implementation is provided by glib-networking.<br />
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'''GTK+ 3.2'''<br /><br />
GTK+ 3.2 is the latest release of the GTK+ toolkit, which is at the heart of GNOME. GTK+ 3.2 includes new features for developers, as well as extensive bug fixes. <br />
* Many more widgets support height-for-width geometry management. It is important to set reasonable sizes on labels and check window sizes.<br />
* New widgets include GtkLockButton for privileged operations, GtkOverlay for floating controls over a content area, the new GtkFontChooserDialog and more.<br />
* There is also improved CSS theming support and the HTML backend Broadway, which renders a GTK3 application in a browser. It is still experimental and requires compiling with --enable-broadway-backend and environment varialbe GDK_BACKEND at runtime.<br />
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'''Clutter 1.8'''<br /><br />
GNOME's graphics library for hardware-accelerated user interfaces Clutter provides, among other things, the following improvements: <br />
* New actions including Gesture and swipe detection, creating drop actors and long-press support for ClutterClickAction. <br />
* ClutterState transitions can be bound to object signals when creating a scene in ClutterScript. <br />
* Cogl, the GPU programming interface used by Clutter, is exposed as a separate library. <br />
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'''Use of Deprecated Libraries'''<br /><br />
Further progress has been made in the continuous work of replacing outdated technologies with superior facilities. Some examples:<br />
* GConf now uses D-Bus. As a consequence, the deprecated libraries ORBit2 and libIDL have been removed from GNOME. Many applications using GConf have been ported to gsettings.<br />
* GNOME core modules now only depend on introspection-based Python bindings (pygobject-3) and hence pygtk, gnome-python and gnome-python-desktop are not required anymore.<br />
* Several packages, such as the Epiphany web browser, have been converted from using dbus-glib to GDBus and from libunique to G(tk)Application.<br />
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'''Miscellaneous Developer Updates'''<br /><br />
Other GNOME Platform improvements in GNOME 3.2 include: <br />
* GNOME's build tool JHBuild does not build a module anymore if the version installed on your system is recent enough. If you start to build GNOME from scratch with a recent distribution, this can easily drop 50 modules from the list of modules to compile.<br />
* Tracker version 0.12 provides support for Firefox ≥ 4.0, Thunderbird ≥ 5.0, MeeGoTouch, several additional SPARQL parameters, extracting information from EPub files, and local XDG directories for desktop files. <br />
* NetworkManager version 0.9 provides introspection support and a simplified D-Bus API. Information how to port applications from NetworkManager 0.8 to 0.9 is available.<br />
* GtkSourceView now supports syntax highlighting of Markdown and Standard ML files.<br />
* libfolks now includes an Evolution-Data-Server backend, which is used by the new Contacts application.<br />
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== And more ==<br />
The above selection of changes and improvements in openSUSE 12.1 is still far from complete but gives a taste of what is new. We hope you enjoyed reading it!<br />
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* [[openSUSE kaufen|Verkaufsversion]]: Doppellagige DVD für 32bit und 64 bit, gedrucktes Handbuch, kostenlose Installationsunterstützung<br />
* [[Produktlebensdauer|18 Monate Lebensdauer]]<br />
*[http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/12.1/RELEASE-NOTES.de.html openSUSE 12.1 Release Notes]<br />
*[[In_der_Presse| openSUSE 12.1 in der Presse]]<br />
* [[Portal:Installation|Installation]]<br />
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==openSUSE 12.1 - die neueste freie Software in einer stabilen und leichten Version==<br />
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Liebe Nutzer, Mitwirkende, Fans und Freunde,<br />Wir sind stolz, Ihnen die neueste Ausgabe von openSUSE zu präsentieren! Es ist das Ergebnis von 8 Monaten harter Arbeit der openSUSE Gemeinschaft. Sie erlaubt es Ihnen, sich darüber zu freuen, was die neueste freie Software zu bieten hat, mit dem einzigartigen openSUSE-Touch - stabil, freundlich, unterhaltsam.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 bringt Ihnen Aktualisierungen zur neuesten Freien Software als Desktop- und Servertechnologie, ebenso einzigartige Funktionen, wie das neueste Snapper-Werkzeug, Datei-Änderungs-Monitoring und Rollback-Funktionalität. <br />
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===Die neuesten Freien Desktops bringen Farb-Management, GNOME Shell und mehr===<br />
openSUSE bietet Ihnen die Auswahl aus 4 offiziell unterstützten Freien Desktops, alle auf hohem Niveau von Verfeinerung und Unterstützung. Bemerkenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste große Linux-Distribution ist, die Farb-Management-Werkzeuge sowohl für KDE als auch GNOME Desktops mitbringt! <br />
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====KDE führt Oyranos, Apper und Plasma Active ein====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 bringt den [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Arbeitsplatz] 4.7 als Standard-Desktop mit und ist die erste große Linux-Distribution, die auch den neuen [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Farb-Management]-Werkzeuge ausliefert. Eine andere große neue Änderung ist der Ersatz von KPackageKit durch Apper. Apper vereinfacht die Installation und das Entfernen von Anwendungen. <br />
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Das innovative Projekt der KDE-Gemeinschaft, die Tablet-Oberfläche Plasma Active, ist noch kein integraler Bestandteil des openSUSE 12.1 Release. Aber die Nutzer der Tablet-Oberfläche können Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 installieren. Wir arbeiten an der Integration bis zum nächsten Release.<br />
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====GNOME Shell - verbessert und verfeinert====<br />
Wir stellen Ihnen '''GNOME 3.2''' vor, eine verbesserte und verfeinerte Version der GNOME Shell, die in GNOME 3 eingeführt wurde. openSUSE liefert ebenso viele verbesserte GNOME-Anwendungen aus, die in die GNOME-Shell integriert sind.<br />
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Haupt-Verbesserungen im Vergleich zur GNOME 3-Vorschau in openSUSE 11.4 schließen einen besseren Umgang mit kleinen Bildschirmen und Multi-Bildschirm-Einrichtungen ein, bessere Ausführungsmeldungen und eine zentralisierte Konfiguration von <em>Online-Benutzerkonten</em>. Dieses Release bring Ihnen ebenso einen neuen Dokumentenmanager. Dieses Release bringt auch einen neuen Dokumenten-Manager, ein erweitertes Farb-Management und eine automatische Rotation für Touch-Screen-Geräte mit. [[:en:openSUSE:Product_highlights_12.1#GNOME_3.2|Hier finden Sie weitere Details über GNOME 3.2]]<br />
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====Die anderen Desktops====<br />
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Beide Desktops '''XFCE''' und '''LXDE''' habe keine größeren Funktionsuptates seit dem letzten openSUSE Release erhalten. Aber kleine Verbesserungen wurden durchgeführt und sind im Release enthalten. Das schließt bessere Themen- und Desktop-Integration ein und ebenso eine verbesserte Auswahl von Anwendungen, Teil der Standard-Auswahl für jeden Desktop. openSUSE stellt auch wieder KDE 3 Pakete zur Verfügung.<br />
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===openSUSE bietet die neuesten Web- und Wolken-Technologien an===<br />
Dieses openSUSE Release liefert die neuesten Web-Browser, das Groupware-Framework [http://www.horde.org/ Horde 4] und aktualisierte Wolken- und Virtualisierungs-Technologien.<br />
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====Web surfing and serving====<br />
On the client side, openSUSE 12.1 introduces '''Chromium 16''' to the standard repositories. This WebKit based web browser from google offers a convenient UI and incredibly fast browsing. The default openSUSE browser is '''Firefox 7''', the latest from the Mozilla labs.<br />
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On the server side, the '''WebYaST''' remote system management tool offers a much improved web interface to administer openSUSE systems remotely with new modules and better performance. The introduction of the Groupware framework '''Horde 4''' brings a powerful set of applications including a modern Webmail client and a PHP based framework on which it is all build.<br />
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====Supporting Cloud technologies====<br />
openSUSE is an excellent guest OS for the cloud as can be experienced building solutions on [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio]. With a new kernel, openSUSE is now ready to run directly on the '''Amazon EC2 cloud'''. On the host side, the latest virtualization technologies including '''Xen 4.1''', '''KVM''' and '''Virtual Box''' can be managed with the latest '''virt-manager''' and '''open-vm-tools'''. Last but not least, openSUSE is the first Linux distribution to ship OwnCloud integrated into the desktop. And the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualization and Cloud repository] for openSUSE 12.1 offers the latest versions of '''Eucalyptus''', '''OpenNebula''' and '''OpenStack''' for openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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[[:en:Product_highlights#Security_and_administration_tools|read more about the administration and cloud tools in openSUSE 12.1]]<br />
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===Improved distribution technology===<br />
openSUSE introduces a number of improvements and innovations in the underlying technology of the distribution. This includes the unique Snapper tool offering file versioning, the systemd init system and Google's Go language.<br />
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====Snapper rolls back changes====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 is the first Linux distribution taking advantage of the snapshot functionality in the upcoming Linux file system Btrfs. These snapshots of the file system are using copy-on-write, making them very space efficient. openSUSE 12.1 debuts [[:en:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] which allows the user to interface with this technology.<br />
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The command line and GUI Snapper tools allow users to view older versions of files and revert changes. The unique integration in the zypper package manager of openSUSE allows users to roll back entire upgrades or software installations with the accompanying configuration changes.<br />
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====systemd boots your system====<br />
systemd is the new init tool in openSUSE, controlling and speeding up the boot process. Developed in close cooperation with fellow Linux Distribution Fedora, systemd is especially interesting for system administrators due to it's powerful socket- and bus activated service system. It also works closely with the cgroups kernel feature providing better security and control over the processes.<br />
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====Write in '''go''', compile with Clang or GCC====<br />
openSUSE is proud to be the first major distribution to ship [http://golang.org/ '''Google's new Go programming language'''] as part of our release. Go is a fast, easy language good in handling mulit-core, networked machines with the convenience of garbage collection and run-time reflection.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 also comes with the just-released [http://llvm.org/ '''LLVM3 compiler tool'''] and [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], the C/C++ compiler building upon LLVM. LLVM is employed by the open source ATI and NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers and thus forms an integral part of a high-performance graphics stack on Linux.<br />
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Lastly, this openSUSE release is build with [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''link-time optimization'''], improving the overall performance of the software.<br />
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==Mehr Details über openSUSE 12.1==<br />
Die folgenden Seiten zeigen auf, was neu in dieser openSUSE Version ist.<br />
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===Unter der Haube===<br />
Obwohl die meisten offensichtlichen Verbesserungen von openSUSE 12.1 an der Oberfläche zu sehen sind, haben wir ebenfalls eine Menge an Verbesserungen „unter der Haube” gemacht. Darunter verbessertes Starten (boot), Hardware Management und Systemkonfiguration. The Startprozedur von openSUSE wird nun von systemd übernommen (und SysVInit ist aber noch als Notlösung vorhanden); das neue Snapper Werkzeug hält überwacht automatisch die Systemkonfiguration und andere Dateiänderungen (und lässt es auf Wunsch zurücksetzen); YaST hat einige ganze Reihe an Verbesserungen erhalten; SAX kehrt in Form von SAX3 wieder zurück, ein openSUSE GSOC Projekt; und wir unterstützen natürlich die aktuelleste Version von jeder Kern-Komponente, z.B. Linux 3.1 Kernel, syslog-ng 3.3, GCC 4.6 und LLVM v3. Ebenfalls erwähnenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste Haupt-Distribution ist, die [http://golang.org Googles neue Go Programmiersprache] ausliefert.<br />
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====openSUSE Technologie Verbesserungen====<br />
openSUSE, als eine Linux-Distribution macht mehr als nur Pakete dritter anzubieten. Wir haben unsere eigenen Werkzeuge, mit dem man sein System konfigurieren, Software managen und vieles mehr kann.<br />
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=====Snapper=====<br />
[[Image:openSUSE_12.1_Snapper.png|thumb|250px||Snapper YaST GUI in Aktion]]<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ist die erste Linux-Distribution die Vorteile aus der Schnappschuss-Funktion des kommenden Linux-Dateisystems Btrfs macht. Diese Schnappschüsse (engl.: Snapshots) vom Dateisystem benutzen „copy-on-write“ (Kopieren-beim-Schreiben), was das ganze sehr Platzsparend macht. openSUSE 12.1 führt [[:de:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] ein, welches dem Benutzer eine Schnittstelle zu dieser Technologie bietet.<br />
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Das Kommandozeilen- und GUI Snapper-Werkzeug erlaubt dem Benutzer ältere Versionen von Dateien anzuzeigen und Änderungen rückgängig zu machen. Die einzigartige Integration in den zypper-Paketmanager von openSUSE erlaubt dem Nutzer ganze Aktualisierungen oder Softwareinstallationen samt den dazugehörigen Konfigurationsänderungen rückgängig zu machen.<br />
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Beachte dass Snapper und das Zurückrollen (Rollback) zurzeit nur für btrfs Dateisysteme zur Verfügung steht! Arbeiten werden diese Funktionen auch für das ältere Ext4 Dateisystem verfügbar machen. Jedoch wird das nicht vor der nächsten openSUSE Version geschehen.<br />
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Du kannst [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/04/01/introducing-snapper/ eine Einführung von Snapper hier lesen].<br />
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[http://www.youtube.com/susevideo#p/a/u/0/9H7e6BcI5Fo Greg K-H führt Snapper bei Brainshare vor].<br />
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=====SAX3=====<br />
Als Xorg sich über die xorg.conf hinaus zur neuen xorg.conf.d Struktur entwickelt, ging unser geliebtes X Konfigurationswerkzeug SAX2 ebenfalls. Dank der Mühen Manu Guptas [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/07/05/people-of-opensuse-manu-gupta/ während Googles Summer of Code] erhielt openSUSE wieder ein neues elegantes grafisches Werkzeug um die X Konfiguration anzupassen: SAX3. Nun haben openSUSE-Nutzer wieder die Möglichkeit einfach ihre Tastatur-, Maus-, Monitor und Touchpadeinstellungen in einer praktischen Oberfläche zu optimieren. Mach dir keine Sorgen falls du Probleme mit deiner X-Konfiguration hast: Wie üblich für YaST-Module löst SAX3 das Huhn-Ei-Problem indem es eine ncurses Text-, als auch GTK und QT Grafikoberflächen integriert hat. Bitte beachte, dass SAX3 in der OSS-Softwarequelle nicht ordnungsgemäß in 12.1 funktioniert. Ein kommendes Update wird das Problem lösen. Dieses ist bereits verfügbar in der [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=X11%3Asax X11:SAX-Softwarequelle].<br />
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=====YaST=====<br />
Neben der Unterstützung von Snapper und der Rückkehr von SAX3 erhielt YaST2 eine Anzahl an Bugfixes und kleineren Verbesserungen. Die YaST-Entwickler sind froh zu berichten, dass sie nach den letzten Korrekturen zuversichtlich sind, dass YaST nicht wieder versehentlich benutzer-modifizierte Konfigurationsdateien überschreiben wie es in den „frühen Tagen“ der Fall war. Zusammen mit den zypp-Paketmanagement-Leistungsverbesserungen in der 11er-openSUSE-Serie wurde dem Mythos das YaST langsam sei und Dateien überschreibt ein Ende gesetzt. Eine stärker sichtbare Änderung ist das neue Design was dank der [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/10/24/new-style-for-yast2/ CSS-basierten Themen für YaST ermöglicht wurde]. WebYaST entwickelt sich ebenfalls weiterhin gut; beinhaltet mittlerweile mehr Module als je zuvor um eine Web-basierte Administration von openSUSE zur unterstützen.<br />
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=====OBS, openQA und andere Werkzeuge=====<br />
openSUSE hat eine Reihe an mächtigen Werkzeugen, welche wir zum Bauen unserer Distribution, welche ebenfalls für Andere zum Bauen von Paketen oder Software-Testen verfügbar sind, entwickelt. Diese Werkzeuge beinhaltet den plattformübergreifenden [http://openbuildservice.org Open Build Service], das allmächtige [http://openqa.opensuse.org openQA], das flexible [[Portal:KIWI|KIWI]] und viele weitere.<br />
Von jedem kamen in den letzte 8 Monaten neue, verbesserte Versionen raus. Das beinhaltet die [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/10/11/opensuse-announces-first-public-release-of-openqa/ erste Freigabe von openQA] and der [http://news.opensuse.org/2010/10/19/the-opensuse-build-service-2-1-released/2.1 Freigabe des Open Build Service] für welches [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=openSUSE%3ATools Pakete für openSUSE 12.1 verfügbar sind].<br />
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====Linux Kernel 3.1====<br />
The new Linux 3.1 Kernel is a substantial improvement over the 2.6.38 kernel which was part of openSUSE 11.4. Not only have filesystems like Ext4 and Btrfs been improved, the Linux 3.1 Kernel specifically brings a number of performance improvements to memory management and data handling. Of course there is the usual slab of new hardware support including external devices like Microsoft's Kinect, Apple iSight webcam and the Nintendo Wii controller as well as internal hardware like the new AMD Llano Fusion APU's and Intel's Ivy Bridge & Cedar Trail CPU's, a variety of wireless and graphics cards and much more. Find more details about what's new in the openSUSE kernel on the [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_39 Linux 2.6.39], [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.0 Linux 3.0] and [http://kernelnewbies.orgWilliams/Linux_3.1 Linux 3.1] KernelNewbies pages.<br />
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====systemd and other system-wide changes====<br />
System boot is now handled by the new '''systemd''' init tool, controlling and speeding up the boot process. Developed in close cooperation with fellow Linux distribution Fedora, systemd is especially interesting for system administrators due to it's powerful socket- and bus activated service system which improves parallelization and resource usage. It also works closely with Linux' cgroups providing better security and control over the processes.<br />
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If for some reason, systemd does not work for you, you can still '''use the old sysV-init''' by pressing F5 in the bootloader. If you want to permanently use the old init, just do zypper rm systemd-sysvinit<br />
We also again provide '''grub2''' as an optional bootloader. While we are still not satisfied with Grub2 as a replacement for the current Grub, we encourage users to try it out, and want to make sure it's available for developers.<br />
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A number of smaller changes includes:<br />
*the '''util-linux''' tool version 2.20 introduces the first major changes to the dmesg logging tool in 18 years, bringing a number of options to bring human readable prefixes and timestamps to the output or clean it up, only showing important messages or messages coming from either kernel- or userspace.<br />
*'''LightDM 1.0''' is the first stable release of this faster, extensible Display Manager. LightDM aims to replace the myriad of different DM's with a single [http://xkcd.com/927/ new standard].<br />
*the '''syslog-ng 3.3''' release adds multithreading, JSON and mongodb output to this system logging tool.<br />
*The [http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.0 rpm 4.9] release brings a number of stability and performance improvements to this package manager.<br />
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==== First to ship Google Go, LLVM v3 and CLANG v3 ====<br />
openSUSE is proud to be the first major distribution to ship [http://golang.org/ '''Google's new Go programming language'''] as part of our release. Go is a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language. Go makes it easy to work with multi-core and networked machines and offers flexible and modular program construction mechanisms. While it compiles (quickly) to machine code it has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. Learn more on the [http://golang.org/ Go language website].<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 also comes with the just-released [http://llvm.org/ '''LLVM3 compiler tool'''] and [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], the C/C++ compiler building upon LLVM. LLVM, a set of flexible and performant compiler tools, offers powerful code generation which is used by Mesa for its software based OpenGL "Gallium" graphics driver architecture. It is also employed by the open source ATI and NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers and thus forms an integral part of a high-performance graphics stack on Linux.<br />
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[http://clang.llvm.org/ '''Clang'''] takes advantage of LLVM to provide an fast and memory-efficient GCC-compatible C/C++ code compiler. Clang in openSUSE 12.1 comes with enabled ARM code generation support, in the spirit of the recently started [http://opensuse.org/opensuse:ARMopenSUSE ARMs project]!<br />
Aside from Go and LLVM, openSUSE offers a large number of the latest compilers and tools. openSUSE 12.1 is build with [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''], which has [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_fx4100_gcc&num=1 shown to offer significant performance improvements] over the previous 4.5 version. This release also introduces initial support for the Ada 2012 programming language as well as experimental support for the latest C++11 standard (status can be found [http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/cxx0x_status.html here]).<br />
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This release of GCC, combined with the latest '''binutils 2.21.1''', has allowed us to enable [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''link-time optimization'''] in a number of packages, bringing an additional performance improvement.<br />
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=== Localization ===<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 has been [http://i18n.opensuse.org translated into many languages] - currently about 30 are over 90% complete and no less than 66 languages are in the process of being finished. This openSUSE release has added five Cyrillic fonts. Two of them (PT Sans and PT Serif) beside standard Western, Central European and Cyrillic code pages contain characters of all title languages of Russian Federation that make them unique and a very important tool of modern digital communications.}}<br />
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===Repository changes and third party support for openSUSE 12.1===<br />
Via the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service installation on build.opensuse.org] openSUSE hosts over 160.000 packages created by more than 30.000 individual contributors. These are available to openSUSE users as well as users from other Linux Distributions. But outside of this infrastructure, other projects like VLC and Packman offer their own OBS instance with packages for openSUSE! We highlight a few important projects from build.opensuse.org and third parties.<br />
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====Tumbleweed====<br />
'''Tumbleweed''', the unique [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed|rolling release repository for openSUSE]], can be considered 'complete' at the time of this release. Covering almost all of the openSUSE 12.1 packages, Tumbleweed offers newer versions as soon as they are deemed stable. Instead of making you wait for a new release of openSUSE, Tumbleweed lessens the significance and change impact of major releases by updating systems continuously. By enabling Tumbleweed you are always up to date with the '''latest software'''. And you won’t have to install newer versions of openSUSE as you’ll be running them already by the time they get released!<br />
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Tumbleweed will require its current users to make one manual change to the repositories upon the 12.1 release. Besides the Tumbleweed repository, users are required to have the latest stable openSUSE repositories enabled, currently for most users set at openSUSE 11.4. With the 12.1 release, these will thus have to change. The openSUSE sysadmins have ensured however that this will be the first and last time this has to be changed. From now on there will be a link to the latest stable release, for the convenience of Tumbleweed users. Upon a new release the openSUSE servers will automatically handle the required changes, transparent to the users. For instructions to make these changes, [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed_12.1change|please see here]].<br />
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Find more information [[:en:Tumbleweed|about Tumbleweed here]].<br />
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====Packman====<br />
[[Image:Packman.png|256px|link=|Features]]The well-known third-party [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] repositories for openSUSE already offer openSUSE 12.1 support. '''Packman''' provides four different repositories each offering a targeted selection of software, in addition to the larger common repository. Additional to packages for openSUSE 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, Factory and SLE 11, an essential set of Packman packages is provided for Tumbleweed. Find more information on the [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman website] and [[Paket_Repositorys#Packman| find out how to get software from Packman on the openSUSE wiki]].<br />
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====SUSE Studio====<br />
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[http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] users can expect availability of openSUSE 12.1 right from the release date, and support for upgrading existing appliances shortly after. This means it will be possible to easily create your own versions of openSUSE 12.1 with '''custom package selections''', '''artwork''', '''scripts''' and any other properties and download them as USB or disk images, Live CDs and a variety of popular virtual formats. You can share your appliance or also browse other’s shared appliances on [http://susestudio.com/browse SUSE Gallery].<br />
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====Contrib retired====<br />
The [[:en:openSUSE:Contrib|Contrib]] repository for third-party packages was once a community-driven extension of the main repository. The vast majority of these packages have since been integrated in the main repository or in one of the central additional repositories like the official [[KDE_Repositorys|KDE]] and [[GNOME_Repositorys|GNOME]] repositories. These provide newer versions of the software in the main repositories as well as new or experimental software not yet available in openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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====Packages on the Open Build Service====<br />
If you can not find an application in openSUSE 12.1 you can use the search functionality on [http://software.opensuse.org software.opensuse.org]. If you enable searching in users home projects (under advanced) you can choose from the 160.000 packages provided by our 30.000 packagers using the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service instance on build.opensuse.org].<br />
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====VLC====<br />
The VideoLAN organization continues their robust support for openSUSE, with a 1-click install of the VLC universal media player already available for openSUSE 12.1 at [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html this page].<br />
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=== Latest Free Desktops ===<br />
openSUSE offers both major Free Software desktops as well as a number of community-supported desktops, all with a high level of polish and support. openSUSE 12.1 is the first release to introduce the new '''GNOME Shell''' user interface, part of GNOME 3.2. GNOME Shell brings a vastly refined user experience with a smooth, natural workflow. The default openSUSE desktop, the '''KDE Plasma Desktop''', brings color management and much improved performance as well as the new 'Akonadi' based Kontact2 groupware solution. Current releases of both XFCE and LXDE include minor improvements on the road to their next big releases.<br />
For the first time, the openSUSE community openly selected artwork for openSUSE 12.1; the preferred 'upwind' theme reflects in our new splash, boot and background images . GNOME users will notice that the art team has maintained the trend of providing a time-sensitive set of themed wallpapers.<br />
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==== KDE Plasma Workspaces and applications 4.7 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Workspaces] 4.7 and is the first major Linux distribution to ship the new [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos Color Management Service]. Oyranos and its associated tools add [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management color management] to KDE applications, making sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens. Another major new addition is Apper, an easy to use software management tool replacing KPackageKit. There are also improvements to network management, the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop tool and Activities. In total, this release fixed over 12.000 bugs and contains hundreds of smaller and larger performance improvements.<br />
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The innovative new Tablet project from the KDE community, Plasma Active, is not an integral part of the openSUSE 12.1 release as it depends on functionality not available in the released KDE Platform yet and conflicts with the Desktop and Netbook workspaces. However, tablet users can install Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 and we work on integrating it in the next openSUSE release.<br />
Read on for a more extensive view on what's new in the Desktop, Netbook and application area as well as to learn more about Plasma Active One!<br />
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=====Plasma Workspaces bring improved visuals with Oyranos CMS=====<br />
openSUSE is the '''first major Linux distribution to ship [http://www.oyranos.org/about/ Oyranos CMS]''' integrated in the KDE applications and workspaces. Oyranos is is an operating system level [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Color Management System], matching input device colors to output device colors across supported applications. Oyranos makes use of the ICC color management standard and is integrated in the KDE Workspaces and applications through the new KolorManager application. The KolorManager application makes sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens.<br />
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Users can now configure their ICC profiles and settings in one central place. It brings as well a set of command line tools like oyranos-policy for handling policy configuration files and oyranos-profiles for installation of ICC profiles. KDE users can install the KolorManager package. This Oyranos front end adds a system settings control panel for individual settings adaption. Most systems will run fine with Oyranos defaults. [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ read more about color management in openSUSE 12.1 on the oyranos website]<br />
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'''Visual improvements'''<br />
On the visual side, KDE's Plasma workspaces provides '''better integration with GTK/GNOME applications''' with a port of KDE's Oxygen style to GTK. The Oxygen icons have been improved and the Plasma panel offers a more consistent look with changes to the icons and the clock. The new Shadow support in window manager '''KWin''' gives a better look on older hardware and performs better all around. KWin also can now disable compositing when a full-screen application calls for it, increasing performance for OpenGL games and GPU accelerated video playback.<br />
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Plasma's Activities have seen many improvements. The '''Activity Manager''' now takes a more prominent place in the default panel in Plasma Desktop. Activities enhance the users' workflows by providing smart ways of grouping applications, widgets and documents.<br />
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Navigating through applications and recent files is easier with the '''addition of breadcrumbs''' to the Kickoff application launcher, helping users to see where they are and quickly back up to higher menu levels. Many other usability and functionality improvements have been made to the Workspaces. For example, '''Konsole''' no longer blocks the removal of USB storage devices and '''KMix''' has improved PulseAudio support. <br />
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'''Network management, multimedia and Nepomuk'''<br />
The Plasma Workspaces now also offer '''much improved network management''', including support for NetworkManager 0.9 as well as Bluetooth tethering, 3G, VPN, MAC spoofing and other advanced networking options.<br />
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Thanks to [http://dot.kde.org/2011/09/21/nepomuk-stability-and-performance generous donations from the community], the Semantic Desktop technology '''Nepomuk has seen extensive bugfixing''', improving stability and performance as well as making it easier to use. Strigi analyzers now read meta-data in their own process, resolving over 35 crash-related bugs in Dolphin and Konqueror.<br />
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The latest version of '''Phonon''', our media framework, has seen work on the backends. The VLC-based back-end is now considered stable and is the preferred back-end for multiplatform use, while the back-end based on GStreamer is now also considered stable on Linux platforms. The xine back-end is no longer maintained.<br />
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=====KDE Applications suite 4.7 features many refinements=====<br />
The latest version of KPackageKit - now renamed '''Apper''' - (developed by [http://dantti.wordpress.com Daniel Nicoletti] ) is now included with Plasma Desktop. This brings significant improvements to the KDE's PackageKit front end and makes it possible to list Applications instead of listing only Packages. This makes openSUSE a lot more user-friendly and closer to Grandma compattible.<br />
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'''Dolphin''', KDE’s file manager, has a cleaner default appearance. The menu bar is hidden, but easy to reach and restore. The file searching interface has been improved. In addition, Dolphin now has much deeper integration with source code management systems, including the ability to create and clone repositories, push and pull changes, view diffs and much more.<br />
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Dolphin and Konqueror both benefit from a new plugin that provides a '''rating and an annotation menu action''' for files and folders, leveraging Nepomuk capabilities. <br />
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Image management has become easier with '''Gwenview''', the KDE image viewer, now offering the ability to compare two or more pictures side by side. From the browse mode, select two or more pictures, and then switch to the view mode or to the full-screen mode. In the view mode, you can add more pictures from the thumbnail bar.<br />
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Comic fans will be pleased that Okular, the universal file viewer, gains support for reading a directory as a comicbook.<br />
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'''KStars''', the essential KDE application for stargazers around the world, has gained a feature to predict a star hopping route and dynamic switching between its OpenGL and native rendering backends. Labels can now be assigned to points on celestial lines; comet trails are rendered in OpenGL mode. Mathematicians and scientists can now explore higher order functions in Kalgebra and get information on oxidation states for elements in Kalzium. <br />
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'''KDM''', the display manager, has gained ''GRUB2'' support. A user with multiple operating systems in their GRUB2 menu can now choose which one to reboot to in the shutdown dialog by holding down the mouse button on their reboot choice. <br />
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'''Marble''', the virtual globe application, has gained many improvements over the past eight months. It now has voice navigation support, a map creation wizard, and new plug-ins. Following the Voice of Marble contest, '''voice navigation''' is now available in several languages, with voices provided by the KDE community. For more details, see Marble's [http://edu.kde.org/marble/current_1.2.php visual changelog]. <br />
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Other applications such as Kate, Kalzium, KAlgebra, KStars, and KDevelop have also been updated in this release. Changes and improvements to some other major applications from the KDE community can be found in the [Product_highlights#New_and_updated_applications|applications section].<br />
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Find more information on what is new in the Plasma Workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Platform in the [http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.7/ announcement by KDE].<br />
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=====Plasma Active One is optionally available=====<br />
The fresh and innovative [http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active Plasma Active] interface for tablets and mobile devices is available for openSUSE 12.1. It is not an integral part of this release as it still depends on a number of unreleased technologies but we plan to have Plasma Active as part of openSUSE 12.2.<br />
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'''Plasma Active'''<br />
Plasma Active aims at creating a cross-device user experience for emerging devices such as tablet computers, media centers, smartphones, and more. It builds on the Linux stack with X11, Qt and the KDE libraries. The user interface is designed using Plasma Quick, a declarative markup language allowing for organic user interface design based on Qt Quick.<br />
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The first release, [http://kde.org/announcements/plasma-active-one/ Plasma Active One] fully focuses on tablet computers. Plasma Active Tablet's user experience is designed around the web, social networks and multimedia content. Packages for openSUSE are offered in the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=KDE%3AActive Plasma Active] repository.<br />
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==== GNOME 3.2 ====<br />
After shipping a technical preview of [http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ GNOME 3] with 11.4, openSUSE 12.1 replaces the GNOME 2.x series with the latest GNOME 3.2 desktop to the openSUSE GNOME users. With many improvements based on the feedback of the openSUSE community and the wider Free Software community, numerous usability and application changes have been incorporated.<br />
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'''GNOME Shell''' brings a fresh user-interface that is designed from the scratch to satisfy the needs of today's users. The interface focuses on getting out of the way and providing unobtrusive yet powerful notifications and deep integration of calendar, chat and other technologies. The UI elements and workflows are designed to be touch-friendly for use on tablets or desktops with a touch screen. By using the 3D acceleration capabilities provided by most of the computers these days, pleasing animations are used to give users an aesthetic look and feel and a much easier way of switching between applications. Read on for more details on what's new in GNOME 3.2.<br />
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===== What's new in GNOME Shell 3.2 =====<br />
Various minor tweaks and major features are incorporated into this release based on user feedback. openSUSE 12.1 ships the alt-status-menu extension to make various computer operations easily accessible. Some examples:<br />
*It is now easier to resize windows and titlebars, buttons and other controls are a bit less tall, making GNOME easier to use on small screens.<br />
* Notifications now include a counter so you can see how many mails or chats messages are waiting for you and Shell now also shows media device notifications.<br />
* The focus-follows-mouse feature has been improved and while it's not perfect yet, it will suffice for most usecases.<br />
* The System Settings have been improved, showing links to other relevant settings and has integrated color management<br />
* GNOME Shell battery power status now shows how much power you have left<br />
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===== Communication in GNOME Shell =====<br />
Compared to any prior release of GNOME, the instant messaging workflow is much improved in GNOME Shell 3.2. You can receive chats, reply to messages, approve / deny friendship requests, call requests, all without having to launch the IM application explicitly. You can change the status of your machine from a centralized place so that all the IM accounts reflect the status change. Error and new message notifications are so well integrated in GNOME shell so that you won't have focus stealing popups but only unobtrusive animations notifying you what is going on.<br />
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A new "Online Accounts" feature enables users to create online accounts. Accounts created will be seamlessly available for various applications throughout the desktop experience. For example, if you create a Google Account, your Google Docs documents will be available in the new Document browser, your Google contacts will be available in empathy for IM, and the calendar shows your appointments. http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/gnome-documents-google.png.en<br />
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[[Image:114_screenshots_gnome_desktop_generic.png|thumb|250px||The GNOME 2.32 Desktop]]<br />
[http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2] <br />
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===== What's new in the GNOME 3.2 Applications =====<br />
The new GNOME 3 libraries bring many improvements to GNOME 3 applications. Some examples:<br />
* File open dialogs in applications now show a list of recent files and directories<br />
* Better performance and a new theme<br />
* A redesigned Font chooser dialog<br />
* A new on-screen keyboard and a number of other accessibility enhancements<br />
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Moreover, the individual applications have seen many features and bugfixes, read on for a quick overview.<br />
A new people-focused '''Contacts"' application is shipped which can work with Evolution and Empathy in the background, providing you with a unified addressbook for your desktop. <br />
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'''Empathy''', the GNOME IM application has got a lot of improvements. You can easily search your logs visually filtering on various parameters such as Who, When.<br />
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http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/empathy-log.png.en NetworkManager-gnome version 0.9 provides fast user switching, improved WiFi roaming, WiMAX support, flexible permissions and centralized storage of network connection information.<br />
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Not to be left out of the party, GNOME 3.2 includes robust color management support as well, including the new GNOME Color Manager wizard for calibrating displays using either ICC profiles or a Huey hardware colorimeter. [http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-color-manager/screenshots.html]<br />
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File manager '''Nautilus''' has seen a major overhaul for GNOME 3, with an improved Places sidebar, a new ''Connect to server'' dialog and a quick preview function which can be triggered by 'space'.<br />
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Many smaller improvements include new and configurable effects in the Webcam application '''Cheese''', bookmark support in PDF viewer '''Evince''', plugins for image viewer '''Eye of GNOME''' and improved streaming support for video and audio in media player Totem.<br />
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Read more about [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2 in the official announcement] and find more GNOME applications in the sections below.<br />
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{|<br />
|[[Image:openSUSE114GNOME3Shell.png|thumb|200px|A blank GNOME Shell workspace]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114gnome3_windows.png|thumb|200px|Shell managing your windows]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114GNOME3Search.png|thumb|200px|GNOME Shell integrates search]]<br />
|}<br />
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==== LXDE 0.5 ====<br />
This release of openSUSE comes with LXDE 0.5. There have been no major updates to this lightweight desktop for a while but minor improvements and bugfixes have been integrated.<br />
{|<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_lxde_menu.png|thumb|200px|LXDE Menu]]<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_lxde_filemanager_configuration.png|thumb|200px|LXDE File Manager & Configuration]]<br />
|}<br />
==== Xfce 4.8 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships ''''Xfce 4.8''''. All Xfce components have been updated to the latest bugfix releases. The desktop has been polished further in terms of integration and branding. LightDM is now the default display manager reducing the dependencies on core GNOME components. The functionality provided in the default install should now be on par with GNOME/KDE desktops.<br />
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{|<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_xfce_menu.png|thumb|250px|The Xfce Desktop and the menu]]<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_xfce_filemanager_configuration.png|thumb|250px|The Tunar filemanager and XFCE configuration]]<br />
|}<br />
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Please use up-to-date screenshot from http://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots_12.1#Xfce_4.8<br />
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=== New and updated applications ===<br />
On top of the kernel and other low-level tools, openSUSE provides a huge variety of console and graphical applications. These applications have been updated to the latest versions bringing many improvements in terms of features and bugfixes.<br />
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====Web browsers====<br />
The web is important for modern computer users, and openSUSE has you covered with a selection of browsers Free Software has to offer. We ship a much faster Firefox, an innovative Opera, a well integrated Epiphany and a more stable Rekonq. New is Chromium, the fast and easy to use browser from Google. These browsers provide a wide range of rendering engines supporting the latest web standards. Read on to find out what is new in these browsers since we brought to you in openSUSE 11.4!<br />
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'''Firefox 7'''<br /><br />
Since Firefox 4.0 in openSUSE 11.4, the project has moved to a more rapid release schedule and thus we present you with Mozilla's latest Firefox 7.0.1. Firefox has introduced support for new privacy features like do-not-track and much improved developer tools in the new 'web developer' menu. End users will appreciate the many smaller and larger usability improvements like the URL bar highlighting the website domain and hiding the prefix. Last but not least, each subsequent Firefox release brought better performance, from faster loading of tabs to the large memory management improvements in Firefox 7 and of course support for the latest web standards.<br />
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'''Chromium 16'''<br /><br />
Chromium, meet openSUSE 12.1 users. Users, meet Chromium. This venerable WebKit based web browser from Google is quickly gaining popularity and thus had to become part of the openSUSE distribution. With its simplified interface, great integration with Google services, separate processes so a crashing site can not take down the browser and the fastest JavaScript engine in the world, it will impress you with it's speed and ease of use. The rapid release cycle of Chromium is hard to track - we ensure the latest is always available on your system so you don't have to worry about security or not being able to work with the latest websites.<br />
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'''Opera 11.52'''<br /><br />
Opera 11.52 brings much improved Opera Link to sync your passwords between system and a better Speed Dial which now supports extensions, small webpages embedded in your Speed Dial. Another new feature is the Location support on websites like Google Maps. Opera also uses far less memory now and became a fair bit more stable. Of course this release supports the latest HTML 5 and CSS 3 standards and features a faster JavaScript engine and smoother graphics.<br />
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'''Rekonq 0.8'''<br /><br />
With Rekonq 0.8, openSUSE ships a second WebKit based browser. Build on Qt and the KDE Platform this new release takes advantage of the many improvements in QtWebKit 2.2, bringing better stability and performance. New features include the Do-Not-Track feature, availability of history in restored tabs, and Third Party rule support in AdBlock. usability has been given attention with much improved drag'n'drop support, an new SSL UI, optional VI-style navigation and improved URL bar handling.<br />
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'''Epiphany from GNOME 3.2'''<br /><br />
The third WebKit based browser, this time from the GNOME community, Epiphany, allows you to create Web Application links. These Web Applications show up in the application view of GNOME Shell and act very much like real applications, opening links in new web browser windows and not showing a navigation bar or tabs. They also run in a process separate from the browser, so that crashes of Epiphany do not affect your web applications.<br />
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====Office and desktop publishing applications====<br />
openSUSE helps you get work done by providing a stable base and up to date productivity tools. The latest LibreOffice brings new features in most components as well as speed and stability improvements to this enterprise ready office suite. While Abiword, Gnumeric and KOffice are still at their latest stable versions, our additional repositories offer the innovative Calligra application suite as a choice.<br />
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'''Libreoffice 3.4.3'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://XXXX.org '''Libreoffice'''] release brings a large number of small additions and improvements like the ability to add and remove color charts, a named range as data source and supporting an unlimited number of fields in the DataPilot (now named Pivot Table), Greek Character mode for numbering in Writer and much more. As usual, much performance work was done decreasing the size of LibreOffice and improving startup speed. Text rendering and theming have received a major overhaul, making LibreOffice fitting better in your desktop.<br />
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'''Scribus 1.4'''<br /><br />
[http://www.scribus.net '''Scribus'''] is the major Open Source Desktop Publishing tool available for Linux. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation. openSUSE ships a release candidate of Scribus 1.4 which has a large number of stability fixes over the release in openSUSE 11.4.<br />
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'''Calligra 2.4 beta 3'''<br /><br />
The new [http://www.calligra-suite.org/ Calligra Suite], the successor of KOffice in openSUSE is not yet part of this release. However most users report the current beta's to be of '''better quality than the latest KOffice release''' and the openSUSE packagers have thus committed to provide a repository which will offer the latest Calligra releases.<br />
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Specifically '''targeting students and academic users''' with the productivity part, Calligra brings much improved text handling and rendering, state of the art '''import support for the Microsoft XML formats''' and many stability and usability improvements to all applications. Words introduces handling of citations and bibliographies and an automatically updating Table of Content, better text tables, footer- and header support and much more. Presentation application Stage has a new slide sorter and easier editing of notes with slides. Project Management application Plan introduces many new chart printing options and improved import from external data sources. Tables has improved support for large tables, rotated text, many new formulas, improved Microsoft Excel file support and much faster loading.<br />
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Calligra also introduces two new applications: <br />
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*Flow is a diagramming and flowcharting application in the spirit of Visio.<br />
*Braindump is a note taking application that builds on the Calligra core and uses the full power of the openDocument Format to allow for text, images and even multimedia in the notes.<br />
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Find a [http://www.calligra-suite.org/news/calligra-2-4-snapshot-1-tour/ Calligra Tour here].<br />
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You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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====Communication and groupware====<br />
Of course, openSUSE ships a wide variety of groupware and Personal Information Management (PIM) solutions like email clients, chat applications, calendar tools and more.<br />
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'''KDE PIM'''<br /><br />
Kontact, KDE’s groupware solution, has most components now ported to Akonadi. Once the initial bugs are ironed out, this will offer increased stability and performance, better connection to new services and sharing of communication information between more applications. The biggest change is the introduction of KMail 2. This application has the familiar interface, while under the surface, all mail storage and retrieval has been ported to use the powerful Akonadi cache.<br />
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The openSUSE KDE team has put '''significant efforts''' in ensuring a smooth upgrade to KMail 2 but this is a significant change and the team will keep an eye out for further issues. Bugfixes will be provided through updates and users are encouraged to report problems and update their systems frequently.<br />
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It should be noted that the move from KMail1 to KMail2 requires the '''import/conversion of email data to Akonadi'''. This process can take considerable time, measuring up to a day on slow systems with multiple gigabyte-sized mailboxes. It is possible to, instead of doing a migration, doing a clean start by moving the current data from the ~.kde4/share/apps/kmail to a backup location. If you have your data stored on a server and it is only cached locally this should not cause you to loose data. In case of a downloading POP mail account, however, you will have to use the conversion process or import your mail separately.<br />
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Also note that '''Akonadi is a cache''', not a permanent storage system. This means that your mail should remain where it is - be it on a server or in a local folder. Akonadi will store a '''copy''' in its database, as well as extra information like ratings and the like, for fast search and retrieval. This essentially replaces the internal cache KMail1 employed for this purpose. Due to this design, Akonadi is very unlikely to lose user data as it normally operates on a copy of it. Of course, actions like moving or removing mails are synced back to the original mail storage!<br />
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'''Evolution 3.2.1'''<br /><br />
Evolution provides integrated mail, address book and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop. Version 3.2.1 has been ported over to the GNOME 3 infrastructure and offers a number of small improvements and bugfixes over the previous release. Also new in the openSUSE 12.1 Evolution is the Exchange Connector for Evolution, compatible with Exchange 2007 and later, allowing Evolution to work with Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010. Evolution also works with the Google contacts, calendar and mail services.<br />
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'''Thunderbird 7.0.1'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird] email client shipped with openSUSE brings delivers faster performance, safer email experience, and a new add-ons manager. With over 390improvements and performance enhancements, Thunderbird is more responsive, starts faster and is easier to use than ever.<br />
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For example, the interface improvements like the improved RSS feeds and better Attachment management make handling your news and mail easier. Tabs can now be re-ordered or dragged into a new window and Thunderbird gives you control over the look and functionality of your email client with a gallery of hundreds of add-ons. The new Add-ons manager allows you to search the gallery in Thunderbird to install, remove, and manage the Add-ons. This release also adds support for technologies that make it easier for developers to build some of these amazing Add-ons, such as the Lightning Calendar, Conversation View, and Open Search.<br />
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====Multimedia====<br />
openSUSE comes with a number of prominent multimedia applications like the Amarok, Banshee and Rythmbox music players, DigiKam and Shotwell photo managers and the Marble virtual globe. Each of those has seen new releases with new features and bugfixes.<br />
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=====Music Players=====<br />
openSUSE comes with a large number of music players, from the well known Rythmbox, Banshee and Amarok to the less prominent like Juk, Totem, KMplayer, Dragon and Bangarang.<br />
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'''Banshee 2.2'''<br /><br />
The new [http://banshee.fm '''Banshee'''] comes with with lots of new extensions like an alarmclock, albumart writer, ampache, duplicated sound detector, jamendo, karaoke, live radio, lyrics and more. Other improvements include the ability to not only queue songs but also artists and albums and having the ability to play a queued song immediately after the current. There has been a number of UI improvements like putting the search next to the volume button, smaller icons in the source list, hidden counts for the libraries, named group separators and a resizable seek slider and search entry. Podcasts episodes are now shown in a grid, with several lines of description shown to help you find an appealing episode to enjoy.<br />
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'''Amarok 2.4.3 and Clementine 0.7.3'''<br /><br />
[http://amarok.kde.org '''Amarok'''] introduces improved Dynamic Playlists and Internet Services including integration with Gpodder.net. The user interface has been improved with better drag and drop, automatic scrolling in the lyrics applet and the ability to scrobble the composer as artist to last.fm. Otherwise, many bugs have been crushed and performance has improved a bit. For those not fond of the direction Amarok took with the 2.0 release, openSUSE ships [http://www.clementine-player.org '''Clementine 0.7.3'''] which in this version brings a new edit tag dialog which offers autocompletion and automatic music identification and missing-tag-fetching. CUE sheets are now supported, detected automatically and tracks will show up separately. Album covers are shown in the Library tab, deleted songs greyed out and much more.<br />
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=====Photo managers, editors and painting applications=====<br />
openSUSE ships with a large number of graphics and painting applications. There have been major versions of DigiKam and Blender as well as minor improvements to most of the other applications. openSUSE 12.1 also comes with lots of ICC color management Profiles ready to go.<br />
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'''DigiKam 2.2'''<br />
openSUSE 12.1 features the release of '''DigiKam''', the result of more than a year of hard work since the DigiKam version in openSUSE 11.4. This version features long awaited technologies like face detection and recognition, image versioning support, XMP metadata sidecar files support, big improvements in tagging and marking photos, reversed geotagging and many other improvements, including a total of 258 fixed bugs.<br />
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Close companion Kipi-plugins is released along with DigiKam 2.2. This release features new export tools to three web services - Yandex.Fotki, MediaWiki and Rajce. The GPSSync plugin now has the ability to do reverse-geocoding. Also new is a plugin which is dedicated to creating photo album-like layouts. Finally, there has been extensive bugfixing.<br />
Find out more about DigiKam and read articles with tips and tricks [http://www.digikam.org/ on the DigiKam website].<br />
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'''Inkscape 4.8.2'''<br />
[http://inkscape.org Inkscape] is a powerful vector graphics editor using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. It supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. The latest stable 4.8.2 version introduces a number of critical bugfixes and improvements to openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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This release is feature complete, offering the powerful UI, animation tools, rigging, modeling, shading, physics and particle tools and everything else Blender is known for.<br />
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'''Shotwell 0.11.5'''<br />
The [http://yorba.org/shotwell/ '''Shotwell'' photo organizer handles pictures based on a timeline. It also offers tagging and rating features and a host of image editing functions like rotating, cropping and adjustment of exposure, saturation and more. It can import photos from most cameras and from folders and publish photos and videos to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, and YouTube. The latest release introduces hierarchical trees for the tags, a new plugin framework, improved printing, a new crop tool and a new search bar as well as many smaller improvements to the user interface. New is also support for paired JPEG and RAW images, BMP, TIFF and other formats, and improved rendering of RAW files. This release also does automatic backups of the database and allows you to save searches.<br />
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'''F-spot 0.8.2-14'''<br />
The easy to use '''F-spot''' photo manager features a very simple interface combined with powerful search, import, browse and edit functionality. Advanced capabilities are exporting EXIF and XMP metadata to your images, versioning of changes in the image editor and quite complete import functionality. This release does not introduce major new features or improvements.<br />
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'''GIMP 2.6.11'''<br />
[http://www.gimp.org/ '''GIMP'''] is a versatile graphics manipulation package offering a customizable interface and a large number of plugins to modify and improve photos. It can work with a huge variety of fileformats. 2.6.11 brings bugfixes for this popular photo manipulation program as well as some minor usability and performance improvements.<br />
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'''Krita and Karbon 2.4 Beta3'''<br />
Two applications, part of the upcoming [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4] release, should not be missed in this overview. While they are not included in the standard openSUSE repositories, they offer some unique benefits many people will apreciate.<br />
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[http://krita.org '''Krita'''] is a sketching and painting tool, offering an end–to–end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters. Fields of painting that Krita explicitly supports are concept art, creation of comics and textures for rendering. Modelled on existing real-world painting materials and workflows, Krita supports creative working by getting out of the way and with snappy response. Developed in close collaboration with a number of artists Krita 2.4 brings many user interface improvements as well as much better performance. New functionality like the ability to share patterns, gradients and brushes over the web and the huge number of unique brushes solidify Krita's position as the '''premier Free Software sketching and drawing application'''.<br />
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The Karbon vector graphics application, also part of [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4], has much better '''support for the SVG standard''' and introduces many new filters and effects while improving on its stability.<br />
You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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=====Video editors and 3D modelling=====<br />
Out of the box, openSUSE does not ship multimedia support due to legal and patent worries in a number of countries. However, if it is legal for you to play your music and video's you can find information on the [http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia openSUSE-community Multimedia] and [http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats Restricted formats] pages on how to obtain the needed codecs. The [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] project which offers the codecs also packages a number of related applications like the excellent [http://www.kdenlive.org/ Kdenlive] and [http://www.openshotvideo.com/ openshot] video editors.<br />
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'''Kdenlive 0.8.2'''<br />
'''Kdenlive''' claims to be the most advanced video editor available on Linux today. It supports virtually any camera and codec thanks to the [http://www.ffmpeg.org/ FFMPEG] and [http://www.mltframework.org/ MLT] frameworks it builds upon. It is a multitrack editor with a timeline and an unlimited number of video and audio tracks. Thanks to the [http://www.piksel.org/frei0r Frei0r] framework Kdenlive offers a large number of effects and transitions and lets you add your own. It renders videos in a separate thread while you keep working and allows you to pause, stop and restart rendering. The latest 0.8.2 version fixes over 140 stability issues and introduces an automated backup feature to avoid the loss of any data. Check the [http://www.kdenlive.org/users/j-b-m/kdenlive-082-released announcement] for more information.<br />
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'''OpenShot 1.4'''<br />
The '''OpenShot''' video editor has a more easy to use interface and offers features like 3D animations, HD video support as well as Clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, and cutting, Video transitions with real-time previews, Compositing, image overlays, watermarks, Title templates, title creation, sub-titles and support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences. [http://vimeo.com/29465427 watch the video of the 1.4 release] or [http://www.openshot.org/features/ check out the openshot features] online.<br />
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'''Audacity 1.3.13'''<br />
For audio editing, '''Audacity''' offers a powerful set of features. Audacity lets you record live audio or convert existing music into digital data. It can also edit files, mixing the music or changing it with a variety of effects. These include echo, a fase changer, equalization, normalization and a number of effects to clean up hiss, noise and other mess. Additional plugins are availble with the VST and LADSPA plug-ins compatibility. Recording up to 96Khz, 32 bit is available with high quality sample rate conversion and there is a number of spectrum analysis tools for your viewing pleasure.<br />
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This release, while part of the beta series, is quite stable. Compared to the 1.3.12 version in the previous openSUSE release there has been a number of improvements to the effects, a new Device Toolbar showing all input and output devices has been introduced and the new "Sync-lock Tracks" feature allows groups of audio and/or label tracks to retain synchronisation when the track length changes. There has also been a fair number of bugfixes and some other smaller improvements.<br />
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'''PiTiVi 0.15'''<br />
openSUSE does ship the simple [http://www.pitivi.org/ '''PiTiVi''' video editor in the main repositories. PiTiVi is more intuitive and easy to use video editor compared to OpenShot and Kdenlive but does not offer the depth of in- and output formats, camera support and effects the others do.<br />
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'''Blender 2.59'''<br />
The well known [http://www.blender.org Blender] 3D content creation suite (3D modeller and video editor) is also part of openSUSE 12.1 with the stable 2.59 version. This third stable release in the 2.5 series brings big improvements in stability with many hundreds of bugs fixed. There is also a number of new features, including 3D mouse support and many UI improvements like the custom keymaps support and the camera locking. Sculpting, the warp modifier and the node editor have also been heavily improved.<br />
The biggest changes in the addons include:<br />
*the new Ivy Generator can grow curves over an existing mesh, <br />
*the Sapling addon generates trees<br />
*Mesh inset can inset individual faces or a selected region.<br />
*Grease scatter can scatter objects along predefined lines<br />
*much, much more. <br />
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openSUSE of course delivers far more multimedia applications to you, from the GStreamer framework to less known music players and a myriad of tools.<br />
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====Security and administration tools====<br />
openSUSE has always been a powertool for system adminstrators around the world and openSUSE 12.1 builds on this strong foundation. It is not only the powerful YaST which is appreciated but also the many tools available with openSUSE. This release brings major improvements to AppArmor, the new Shorewall gateway/firewall configuration application, a big update to the Performance Co-Pilot tool, an extended WebYaST and much more.<br />
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'''AppArmor 2.7 rc1'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships with the latest available [http://apparmor.net AppArmor] to ensure sys admins can easily secure their servers. [http://www.suse.com/support/security/apparmor/ Initially developed by SUSE], AppArmor is part of the Linux kernel now and openSUSE has the userspace components available. It is only in these userspace components that AppArmor ships changes compared to the previous release in openSUSE 11.4. Major features since AppArmor 2.5 include a working desktop notifier and automatic profile update for samba shares. And of course many other profile updates, bugfixes and better performance.<br />
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'''Shorewall 4.4.24'''<br /><br />
New in openSUSE from the Open Build Service is the [http://shorewall.net/Introduction.html Shoreline Firewall configuration tool]. This application offers a very powerful but still rather high-level interface to configure Netfilter through editing a series of configuration files. Upon starting Shorewall, it will read the files and with help of the iptables and other security utils configure Netfilter and the Linux networking subsystem to match your requirements, building a firewal, router or gateway. Find a list of [http://www.shorewall.net/4.4/shorewall_features.htm features of Shorewall here].<br />
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[[Image:WebYaST_Screenshot.png|thumb|250px||WebYast in action]]<br />
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'''Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) 3.5.8 and the PCP GUI charting tools.'''<br /><br />
The [http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/ performance co-pilot] is a heavy-duty performance monitoring tool. It is specifically build to find the harder type of system-level performance problems. It is capable of correlating end-user quality of service with platform activity and diagnosing complex interactions between resource demands on single or multiple systems in dynamic environments. This release is a significant upgrade over what was shipped in openSUSE 11.4, bringing a host of new features and improvements like support for distributed event tracing, transparent support for compressed archives in the client tools, Integrated pmieconf and pmlogconf utilities for automating management of pmie/pmlogger configuration files, Linux kernel control group metrics, per-node CPU metrics, XFS btree metrics and some Postfix updates.<br />
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'''WebYaST'''<br /><br />
The latest version of WebYaST has many improvements regarding speed, memory usage, usability and developing environment. Due a new caching mechanism the startup time of each module has been decreased to a maximum of 1-2 seconds. Former versions of WebYaST were split into a service and into an UI part. Each part has run in a own HTTP server. We have decided to bring these parts together in order to save one HTTP server which halves the memory usage.<br />
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====Virtualization, Cloud and web applications====<br />
openSUSE is an excellent guest OS for the cloud, as anyone who ever uses [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] can agree with. Nowhere is it as easy to build a cloud solution and openSUSE is now ready for the '''Amazon EC2 cloud''' by having a special EC2 kernel and suse-ami-tools in the default repositories.<br />
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But openSUSE can also be an excellent host and contains a fair number of virtualization and cloud tools. Most prominent is OwnCloud, which is shipped with unique desktop integration in openSUSE. What is not available in the default repositories can be found in the special [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualization and Cloud repository], where openSUSE contributors package and maintain '''Eucalyptus''', '''OpenNebula''' and '''OpenStack''' for openSUSE 12.1. <br />
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'''OwnCloud 2'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 delivers OwnCloud, the web-based storage application. OwnCloud is different from solutions like Google Docs, Dropbox or Ubuntu One in that it lets '''you own the data'''. With version 2, the ownCloud team has improved the basic service and added valuable features:<br />
* Secure file sharing<br />
* Improved web access including the ability to play music<br />
* Synchronization with other web application tools<br />
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openSUSE ships OwnCloud with a unique system tray based tool which can:<br />
* Install a new ownCloud locally or in a webspace<br />
* Connect your system to an existing ownCloud<br />
* give you assistance to set up mirrored folders<br />
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'''virtualization technologies'''<br /><br />
The new '''Xen 4.1''' release brings support for large systems (>255 processors and 1GB/2MB super page support), CPU Pools for advanced partitioning, prototype credit2 scheduler designed for latency-sensitive workloads and very large systems, a re-architected XL toolstack that is functionally nearly equivalent to XM/XEND, support for x86 Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX), new Memory Access API enabling integration of 3rd party security solutions into Xen virtualized environments and even better stability through the new automated regression tests.<br />
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The lastest version of '''KVM''' provides live migration from one host to another, guest swapping, paravirtualized networking and block devices and PCI-Express passthrough.<br />
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The new 4.1 series '''VirtualBox''' release brings new features like VM cloning, enhanced wizard for creating and copying virtual disks, raised memory limit to 1TB for 64 bit hosts and a couple of experimental featuers like PCI passthrough or SATA hard disk hot-plugging.<br />
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'''Virtualization tools'''<br /><br />
The latest release of '''virt-manager''' (supported by libvirt) brings new VM features including new VM wizard support for LCX guests, remote serial console access and remote URL guest installs.<br />
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The recent version of '''open-vm-tools''' provides integration (shared folders, drag and drop, clipboard sharing, automatic guest resolution resizing, etc.) with the VMware tools.<br />
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'''Horde 4.0.8'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the latest Horde 4 groupware server and framework! Horde 4 is the first release in over 6 years and brings major improvements to all applications of the suite as well as to the framework itself. <br />
Some of the more significant changes from Horde 3 to 4 include a requirement for PHP 5.2 or higher, a new Ajax interface and a new test suite. The complete framework has been modernized and cleaned up and the libraries are better separated and Unit tested.<br />
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The most important things users will notice are the e improved setup and upgrade processes, an Ajax interface for the calendar, and an improved interface for the complete application stack.<br />
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Horde offers a large number of web applications including a webmail tool (part of the Horde Groupware Webmail Edition) complete with WYSIWYG HTML editor, IMAP and POP3 support, message search and filtering, spell check, attachment viewer, encryption and signing, keyboard navigation, threaded view and previews, downloading of attachments in a ZIP file and much more.<br />
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There is now basic social media support with Facebook and Twitter integration and there is an Active Sync server component which can synchronize with iPhones and Android devices. The existing SyncML support already took care of most Nokia phones. The last missing piece is CalDAV support for calendar sharing, which is planned for the future.<br />
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== Development tools and platforms (GNOME/GTK, KDE/Qt,..., etc) ==<br />
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===IDEs and toolchain===<br />
openSUSE offers a complete and productive environment for developers and packagers. With stable tools and updated libraries available through [http://build.opensuse.org OBS], developers can easily develop using multiple programming languages and create packages for multiple distributions.<br />
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====KDevelop====<br />
For software developers, KDevelop has gained support for predefined indentation styles and a Python interpreter using Kross. Improved Python auto-completion and support for lex/yacc file extensions are also included in this release.<br />
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====Kate====<br />
KDE’s Advanced Text Editor, Kate has seen quite a number of improvements, including:<br />
* New Search Plugin with the ability to search in files on disk or opened files <br />
* Plugin improvements: Build Plugin, GDB Plugin<br />
* Kate’s tab bar plugins gained several new features<br />
* Swap files: If lost data is found, documents are marked as read-only<br />
* Further noteworthy changes: Improved printing, change of line ending triggers modified flag, fixed shortcut issues, fixed auto completion popup, and more.<br />
For more information, see [http://kate-editor.org/2011/07/09/kate-in-kde-4-7/ this blog].<br />
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===KDE Platform===<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships with the latest stable '''Qt 4.7.4''' and the '''KDE Platform 4.7.2''', giving developers the best from these powerful cross-platform development libraries.<br />
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'''KDE Platform 4.7 '''<br /><br />
This release of KDE's development platform is an incremental release, bringing many bugfixes and small improvements to technologies like the build-in WebKit browser engine, system wide Proxy support and the Phonon Multimedia engine. Developer-visible changes include:<br />
* Improvements to the Semantic Desktop components offering a richer API for applications<br />
* The option to suspend compositing in KWin whenever an application calls for it to improve performance in OpenGL games and GPU-accelerated video playback.<br />
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For details on the KDE Platform 4.7 release see [http://kde.org/announcements/4.7/platform.php the KDE platform release notes].<br />
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'''Qt 4.7 introduces QtQuick'''<br /><br />
Qt 4.7.4 is a '''bugfix release''' over the release shipped with openSUSE 11.4. <br />
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However, it does introduce some powerful features including the official release of [http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/01/qt-quick-is-here QtQuick], a new feature within Qt that makes it easy to create light-weight apps and UIs. It contains the new QML language, a simple to learn declarative language for building dynamic and fluid interfaces, the Qt Declarative module and new tooling in Qt Creator to easily build apps.<br />
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QtQuick 1.1 brings Right-to-Left support, improved caching and text input and a declarative API for handling touch input. There is also the new QML Sharders plugin which allows developers to embed OpenGL sharder effects in QML apps.<br />
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=== GNOME platform improvements ===<br />
For further details, seee [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ the GNOME 3.2 release notes].<br />
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==== New features and functionality ====<br />
Included in openSUSE 12.1 is the latest release of the GNOME Developer Platform. This consists of a set of API- and ABI-stable libraries available under the GNU LGPL that can be used for the development of cross-platform applications.<br />
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For information on developing with GNOME please visit the [http://developer.gnome.org GNOME Developer Center].<br />
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'''GLib 2.30'''<br /><br />
GNOME's low-level software utility library GLib has seen various improvements, some of which are:<br />
* GApplication can now be used for non-unique applications.<br />
* GDBus supports the 'object manager' pattern with a number of new interfaces and has a code generator: gdbus-codegen.<br />
* An interface for certificate and key lookup has been added: GTlsDatabase. An implementation is provided by glib-networking.<br />
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'''GTK+ 3.2'''<br /><br />
GTK+ 3.2 is the latest release of the GTK+ toolkit, which is at the heart of GNOME. GTK+ 3.2 includes new features for developers, as well as extensive bug fixes. <br />
* Many more widgets support height-for-width geometry management. It is important to set reasonable sizes on labels and check window sizes.<br />
* New widgets include GtkLockButton for privileged operations, GtkOverlay for floating controls over a content area, the new GtkFontChooserDialog and more.<br />
* There is also improved CSS theming support and the HTML backend Broadway, which renders a GTK3 application in a browser. It is still experimental and requires compiling with --enable-broadway-backend and environment varialbe GDK_BACKEND at runtime.<br />
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'''Clutter 1.8'''<br /><br />
GNOME's graphics library for hardware-accelerated user interfaces Clutter provides, among other things, the following improvements: <br />
* New actions including Gesture and swipe detection, creating drop actors and long-press support for ClutterClickAction. <br />
* ClutterState transitions can be bound to object signals when creating a scene in ClutterScript. <br />
* Cogl, the GPU programming interface used by Clutter, is exposed as a separate library. <br />
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'''Use of Deprecated Libraries'''<br /><br />
Further progress has been made in the continuous work of replacing outdated technologies with superior facilities. Some examples:<br />
* GConf now uses D-Bus. As a consequence, the deprecated libraries ORBit2 and libIDL have been removed from GNOME. Many applications using GConf have been ported to gsettings.<br />
* GNOME core modules now only depend on introspection-based Python bindings (pygobject-3) and hence pygtk, gnome-python and gnome-python-desktop are not required anymore.<br />
* Several packages, such as the Epiphany web browser, have been converted from using dbus-glib to GDBus and from libunique to G(tk)Application.<br />
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'''Miscellaneous Developer Updates'''<br /><br />
Other GNOME Platform improvements in GNOME 3.2 include: <br />
* GNOME's build tool JHBuild does not build a module anymore if the version installed on your system is recent enough. If you start to build GNOME from scratch with a recent distribution, this can easily drop 50 modules from the list of modules to compile.<br />
* Tracker version 0.12 provides support for Firefox ≥ 4.0, Thunderbird ≥ 5.0, MeeGoTouch, several additional SPARQL parameters, extracting information from EPub files, and local XDG directories for desktop files. <br />
* NetworkManager version 0.9 provides introspection support and a simplified D-Bus API. Information how to port applications from NetworkManager 0.8 to 0.9 is available.<br />
* GtkSourceView now supports syntax highlighting of Markdown and Standard ML files.<br />
* libfolks now includes an Evolution-Data-Server backend, which is used by the new Contacts application.<br />
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== And more ==<br />
The above selection of changes and improvements in openSUSE 12.1 is still far from complete but gives a taste of what is new. We hope you enjoyed reading it!<br />
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===Mehr Infos===<br />
* Verfügbar für die Architekturen i386 und x86_64<br />
* [[Bildschirmfotos]] und [[Ankündigung]] über openSUSE 12.1<br />
* [[Medienaufteilung]]<br />
* [[openSUSE kaufen|Verkaufsversion]]: Doppellagige DVD für 32bit und 64 bit, gedrucktes Handbuch, kostenlose Installationsunterstützung<br />
* [[Produktlebensdauer|18 Monate Lebensdauer]]<br />
*[http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/12.1/RELEASE-NOTES.de.html openSUSE 12.1 Release Notes]<br />
*[[In_der_Presse| openSUSE 12.1 in der Presse]]<br />
* [[Portal:Installation|Installation]]<br />
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==openSUSE 12.1 - die neueste freie Software in einer stabilen und leichten Version==<br />
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Liebe Nutzer, Mitwirkende, Fans und Freunde,<br />Wir sind stolz, Ihnen die neueste Ausgabe von openSUSE zu präsentieren! Es ist das Ergebnis von 8 Monaten harter Arbeit der openSUSE Gemeinschaft. Sie erlaubt es Ihnen, sich darüber zu freuen, was die neueste freie Software zu bieten hat, mit dem einzigartigen openSUSE-Touch - stabil, freundlich, unterhaltsam.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 bringt Ihnen Aktualisierungen zur neuesten Freien Software als Desktop- und Servertechnologie, ebenso einzigartige Funktionen, wie das neueste Snapper-Werkzeug, Datei-Änderungs-Monitoring und Rollback-Funktionalität. <br />
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===Die neuesten Freien Desktops bringen Farb-Management, GNOME Shell und mehr===<br />
openSUSE bietet Ihnen die Auswahl aus 4 offiziell unterstützten Freien Desktops, alle auf hohem Niveau von Verfeinerung und Unterstützung. Bemerkenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste große Linux-Distribution ist, die Farb-Management-Werkzeuge sowohl für KDE als auch GNOME Desktops mitbringt! <br />
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====KDE führt Oyranos, Apper und Plasma Active ein====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 bringt den [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Arbeitsplatz] 4.7 als Standard-Desktop mit und ist die erste große Linux-Distribution, die auch den neuen [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Farb-Management]-Werkzeuge ausliefert. Eine andere große neue Änderung ist der Ersatz von KPackageKit durch Apper. Apper vereinfacht die Installation und das Entfernen von Anwendungen. <br />
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Das innovative Projekt der KDE-Gemeinschaft, die Tablet-Oberfläche Plasma Active, ist noch kein integraler Bestandteil des openSUSE 12.1 Release. Aber die Nutzer der Tablet-Oberfläche können Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 installieren. Wir arbeiten an der Integration bis zum nächsten Release.<br />
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====GNOME Shell - verbessert und verfeinert====<br />
Wir stellen Ihnen '''GNOME 3.2''' vor, eine verbesserte und verfeinerte Version der GNOME Shell, die in GNOME 3 eingeführt wurde. openSUSE liefert ebenso viele verbesserte GNOME-Anwendungen aus, die in die GNOME-Shell integriert sind.<br />
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Haupt-Verbesserungen im Vergleich zur GNOME 3-Vorschau in openSUSE 11.4 schließen einen besseren Umgang mit kleinen Bildschirmen und Multi-Bildschirm-Einrichtungen ein, bessere Ausführungsmeldungen und eine zentralisierte Konfiguration von <em>Online-Benutzerkonten</em>. Dieses Release bring Ihnen ebenso einen neuen Dokumentenmanager. Dieses Release bringt auch einen neuen Dokumenten-Manager, ein erweitertes Farb-Management und eine automatische Rotation für Touch-Screen-Geräte mit. [[:en:openSUSE:Product_highlights_12.1#GNOME_3.2|Hier finden Sie weitere Details über GNOME 3.2]]<br />
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====Die anderen Desktops====<br />
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Beide Desktops '''XFCE''' und '''LXDE''' habe keine größeren Funktionsuptates seit dem letzten openSUSE Release erhalten. Aber kleine Verbesserungen wurden durchgeführt und sind im Release enthalten. Das schließt bessere Themen- und Desktop-Integration ein und ebenso eine verbesserte Auswahl von Anwendungen, Teil der Standard-Auswahl für jeden Desktop. openSUSE stellt auch wieder KDE 3 Pakete zur Verfügung.<br />
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===openSUSE bietet die neuesten Web- und Wolken-Technologien an===<br />
Dieses openSUSE Release liefert die neuesten Web-Browser, das Groupware-Framework [http://www.horde.org/ Horde 4] und aktualisierte Wolken- und Virtualisierungs-Technologien.<br />
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====Web surfing and serving====<br />
On the client side, openSUSE 12.1 introduces '''Chromium 16''' to the standard repositories. This WebKit based web browser from google offers a convenient UI and incredibly fast browsing. The default openSUSE browser is '''Firefox 7''', the latest from the Mozilla labs.<br />
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On the server side, the '''WebYaST''' remote system management tool offers a much improved web interface to administer openSUSE systems remotely with new modules and better performance. The introduction of the Groupware framework '''Horde 4''' brings a powerful set of applications including a modern Webmail client and a PHP based framework on which it is all build.<br />
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====Supporting Cloud technologies====<br />
openSUSE is an excellent guest OS for the cloud as can be experienced building solutions on [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio]. With a new kernel, openSUSE is now ready to run directly on the '''Amazon EC2 cloud'''. On the host side, the latest virtualization technologies including '''Xen 4.1''', '''KVM''' and '''Virtual Box''' can be managed with the latest '''virt-manager''' and '''open-vm-tools'''. Last but not least, openSUSE is the first Linux distribution to ship OwnCloud integrated into the desktop. And the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualization and Cloud repository] for openSUSE 12.1 offers the latest versions of '''Eucalyptus''', '''OpenNebula''' and '''OpenStack''' for openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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[[:en:Product_highlights#Security_and_administration_tools|read more about the administration and cloud tools in openSUSE 12.1]]<br />
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===Improved distribution technology===<br />
openSUSE introduces a number of improvements and innovations in the underlying technology of the distribution. This includes the unique Snapper tool offering file versioning, the systemd init system and Google's Go language.<br />
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====Snapper rolls back changes====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 is the first Linux distribution taking advantage of the snapshot functionality in the upcoming Linux file system Btrfs. These snapshots of the file system are using copy-on-write, making them very space efficient. openSUSE 12.1 debuts [[:en:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] which allows the user to interface with this technology.<br />
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The command line and GUI Snapper tools allow users to view older versions of files and revert changes. The unique integration in the zypper package manager of openSUSE allows users to roll back entire upgrades or software installations with the accompanying configuration changes.<br />
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====systemd boots your system====<br />
systemd is the new init tool in openSUSE, controlling and speeding up the boot process. Developed in close cooperation with fellow Linux Distribution Fedora, systemd is especially interesting for system administrators due to it's powerful socket- and bus activated service system. It also works closely with the cgroups kernel feature providing better security and control over the processes.<br />
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====Write in '''go''', compile with Clang or GCC====<br />
openSUSE is proud to be the first major distribution to ship [http://golang.org/ '''Google's new Go programming language'''] as part of our release. Go is a fast, easy language good in handling mulit-core, networked machines with the convenience of garbage collection and run-time reflection.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 also comes with the just-released [http://llvm.org/ '''LLVM3 compiler tool'''] and [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], the C/C++ compiler building upon LLVM. LLVM is employed by the open source ATI and NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers and thus forms an integral part of a high-performance graphics stack on Linux.<br />
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Lastly, this openSUSE release is build with [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''link-time optimization'''], improving the overall performance of the software.<br />
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==Mehr Details über openSUSE 12.1==<br />
Die folgenden Seiten zeigen auf, was neu in dieser openSUSE Version ist.<br />
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===Unter der Haube===<br />
Obwohl die meisten offensichtlichen Verbesserungen von openSUSE 12.1 an der Oberfläche zu sehen sind, haben wir ebenfalls eine Menge an Verbesserungen „unter der Haube” gemacht. Darunter verbessertes Starten (boot), Hardware Management und Systemkonfiguration. The Startprozedur von openSUSE wird nun von systemd übernommen (und SysVInit ist aber noch als Notlösung vorhanden); das neue Snapper Werkzeug hält überwacht automatisch die Systemkonfiguration und andere Dateiänderungen (und lässt es auf Wunsch zurücksetzen); YaST hat einige ganze Reihe an Verbesserungen erhalten; SAX kehrt in Form von SAX3 wieder zurück, ein openSUSE GSOC Projekt; und wir unterstützen natürlich die aktuelleste Version von jeder Kern-Komponente, z.B. Linux 3.1 Kernel, syslog-ng 3.3, GCC 4.6 und LLVM v3. Ebenfalls erwähnenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste Haupt-Distribution ist, die [http://golang.org Googles neue Go Programmiersprache] ausliefert.<br />
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====openSUSE Technologie Verbesserungen====<br />
openSUSE, als eine Linux-Distribution macht mehr als nur Pakete dritter anzubieten. Wir haben unsere eigenen Werkzeuge, mit dem man sein System konfigurieren, Software managen und vieles mehr kann.<br />
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=====Snapper=====<br />
[[Image:openSUSE_12.1_Snapper.png|thumb|250px||Snapper YaST GUI in Aktion]]<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ist die erste Linux-Distribution die Vorteile aus der Schnappschuss-Funktion des kommenden Linux-Dateisystems Btrfs macht. Diese Schnappschüsse (engl.: Snapshots) vom Dateisystem benutzen „copy-on-write“ (Kopieren-beim-Schreiben), was das ganze sehr Platzsparend macht. openSUSE 12.1 führt [[:de:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] ein, welches dem Benutzer eine Schnittstelle zu dieser Technologie bietet.<br />
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Das Kommandozeilen- und GUI Snapper-Werkzeug erlaubt dem Benutzer ältere Versionen von Dateien anzuzeigen und Änderungen rückgängig zu machen. Die einzigartige Integration in den zypper-Paketmanager von openSUSE erlaubt dem Nutzer ganze Aktualisierungen oder Softwareinstallationen samt den dazugehörigen Konfigurationsänderungen rückgängig zu machen.<br />
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Beachte dass Snapper und das Zurückrollen (Rollback) zurzeit nur für btrfs Dateisysteme zur Verfügung steht! Arbeiten werden diese Funktionen auch für das ältere Ext4 Dateisystem verfügbar machen. Jedoch wird das nicht vor der nächsten openSUSE Version geschehen.<br />
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Du kannst [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/04/01/introducing-snapper/ eine Einführung von Snapper hier lesen].<br />
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[http://www.youtube.com/susevideo#p/a/u/0/9H7e6BcI5Fo Greg K-H führt Snapper bei Brainshare vor].<br />
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=====SAX3=====<br />
Als Xorg sich über die xorg.conf hinaus zur neuen xorg.conf.d Struktur entwickelt, ging unser geliebtes X Konfigurationswerkzeug SAX2 ebenfalls. Dank der Mühen Manu Guptas [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/07/05/people-of-opensuse-manu-gupta/ während Googles Summer of Code] erhielt openSUSE wieder ein neues elegantes grafisches Werkzeug um die X Konfiguration anzupassen: SAX3. Nun haben openSUSE-Nutzer wieder die Möglichkeit einfach ihre Tastatur-, Maus-, Monitor und Touchpadeinstellungen in einer praktischen Oberfläche zu optimieren. Mach dir keine Sorgen falls du Probleme mit deiner X-Konfiguration hast: Wie üblich für YaST-Module löst SAX3 das Huhn-Ei-Problem indem es eine ncurses Text-, als auch GTK und QT Grafikoberflächen integriert hat. Bitte beachte, dass SAX3 in der OSS-Softwarequelle nicht ordnungsgemäß in 12.1 funktioniert. Ein kommendes Update wird das Problem lösen. Dieses ist bereits verfügbar in der [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=X11%3Asax X11:SAX-Softwarequelle].<br />
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=====YaST=====<br />
Neben der Unterstützung von Snapper und der Rückkehr von SAX3 erhielt YaST2 eine Anzahl an Bugfixes und kleineren Verbesserungen. Die YaST-Entwickler sind froh zu berichten, dass sie nach den letzten Korrekturen zuversichtlich sind, dass YaST nicht wieder versehentlich benutzer-modifizierte Konfigurationsdateien überschreiben wie es in den „frühen Tagen“ der Fall war. Zusammen mit den zypp-Paketmanagement-Leistungsverbesserungen in der 11er-openSUSE-Serie wurde dem Mythos das YaST langsam sei und Dateien überschreibt ein Ende gesetzt. Eine stärker sichtbare Änderung ist das neue Design was dank der [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/10/24/new-style-for-yast2/ CSS-basierten Themen für YaST ermöglicht wurde]. WebYaST entwickelt sich ebenfalls weiterhin gut; beinhaltet mittlerweile mehr Module als je zuvor um eine Web-basierte Administration von openSUSE zur unterstützen.<br />
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=====OBS, openQA and other tools=====<br />
openSUSE has developed a number of powerful tools which we use to build our distribution and which are also available for others to build packages or test software with. These tools include the cross-platform [http://openbuildservice.org Open Build Service], the omnipotent [http://openqa.opensuse.org openQA], the flexible [[Portal:KIWI|KIWI]] and much more. Each of those has seen releases with improvements in the last 8 months. This includes the [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/10/11/opensuse-announces-first-public-release-of-openqa/ first release of openQA] and the [http://news.opensuse.org/2010/10/19/the-opensuse-build-service-2-1-released/2.1 release of the Open Build Service] which has [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=openSUSE%3ATools packages available for openSUSE 12.1].<br />
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====Linux Kernel 3.1====<br />
The new Linux 3.1 Kernel is a substantial improvement over the 2.6.38 kernel which was part of openSUSE 11.4. Not only have filesystems like Ext4 and Btrfs been improved, the Linux 3.1 Kernel specifically brings a number of performance improvements to memory management and data handling. Of course there is the usual slab of new hardware support including external devices like Microsoft's Kinect, Apple iSight webcam and the Nintendo Wii controller as well as internal hardware like the new AMD Llano Fusion APU's and Intel's Ivy Bridge & Cedar Trail CPU's, a variety of wireless and graphics cards and much more. Find more details about what's new in the openSUSE kernel on the [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_39 Linux 2.6.39], [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.0 Linux 3.0] and [http://kernelnewbies.orgWilliams/Linux_3.1 Linux 3.1] KernelNewbies pages.<br />
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====systemd and other system-wide changes====<br />
System boot is now handled by the new '''systemd''' init tool, controlling and speeding up the boot process. Developed in close cooperation with fellow Linux distribution Fedora, systemd is especially interesting for system administrators due to it's powerful socket- and bus activated service system which improves parallelization and resource usage. It also works closely with Linux' cgroups providing better security and control over the processes.<br />
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If for some reason, systemd does not work for you, you can still '''use the old sysV-init''' by pressing F5 in the bootloader. If you want to permanently use the old init, just do zypper rm systemd-sysvinit<br />
We also again provide '''grub2''' as an optional bootloader. While we are still not satisfied with Grub2 as a replacement for the current Grub, we encourage users to try it out, and want to make sure it's available for developers.<br />
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A number of smaller changes includes:<br />
*the '''util-linux''' tool version 2.20 introduces the first major changes to the dmesg logging tool in 18 years, bringing a number of options to bring human readable prefixes and timestamps to the output or clean it up, only showing important messages or messages coming from either kernel- or userspace.<br />
*'''LightDM 1.0''' is the first stable release of this faster, extensible Display Manager. LightDM aims to replace the myriad of different DM's with a single [http://xkcd.com/927/ new standard].<br />
*the '''syslog-ng 3.3''' release adds multithreading, JSON and mongodb output to this system logging tool.<br />
*The [http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.0 rpm 4.9] release brings a number of stability and performance improvements to this package manager.<br />
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==== First to ship Google Go, LLVM v3 and CLANG v3 ====<br />
openSUSE is proud to be the first major distribution to ship [http://golang.org/ '''Google's new Go programming language'''] as part of our release. Go is a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language. Go makes it easy to work with multi-core and networked machines and offers flexible and modular program construction mechanisms. While it compiles (quickly) to machine code it has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. Learn more on the [http://golang.org/ Go language website].<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 also comes with the just-released [http://llvm.org/ '''LLVM3 compiler tool'''] and [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], the C/C++ compiler building upon LLVM. LLVM, a set of flexible and performant compiler tools, offers powerful code generation which is used by Mesa for its software based OpenGL "Gallium" graphics driver architecture. It is also employed by the open source ATI and NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers and thus forms an integral part of a high-performance graphics stack on Linux.<br />
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[http://clang.llvm.org/ '''Clang'''] takes advantage of LLVM to provide an fast and memory-efficient GCC-compatible C/C++ code compiler. Clang in openSUSE 12.1 comes with enabled ARM code generation support, in the spirit of the recently started [http://opensuse.org/opensuse:ARMopenSUSE ARMs project]!<br />
Aside from Go and LLVM, openSUSE offers a large number of the latest compilers and tools. openSUSE 12.1 is build with [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''], which has [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_fx4100_gcc&num=1 shown to offer significant performance improvements] over the previous 4.5 version. This release also introduces initial support for the Ada 2012 programming language as well as experimental support for the latest C++11 standard (status can be found [http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/cxx0x_status.html here]).<br />
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This release of GCC, combined with the latest '''binutils 2.21.1''', has allowed us to enable [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''link-time optimization'''] in a number of packages, bringing an additional performance improvement.<br />
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=== Localization ===<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 has been [http://i18n.opensuse.org translated into many languages] - currently about 30 are over 90% complete and no less than 66 languages are in the process of being finished. This openSUSE release has added five Cyrillic fonts. Two of them (PT Sans and PT Serif) beside standard Western, Central European and Cyrillic code pages contain characters of all title languages of Russian Federation that make them unique and a very important tool of modern digital communications.}}<br />
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===Repository changes and third party support for openSUSE 12.1===<br />
Via the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service installation on build.opensuse.org] openSUSE hosts over 160.000 packages created by more than 30.000 individual contributors. These are available to openSUSE users as well as users from other Linux Distributions. But outside of this infrastructure, other projects like VLC and Packman offer their own OBS instance with packages for openSUSE! We highlight a few important projects from build.opensuse.org and third parties.<br />
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====Tumbleweed====<br />
'''Tumbleweed''', the unique [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed|rolling release repository for openSUSE]], can be considered 'complete' at the time of this release. Covering almost all of the openSUSE 12.1 packages, Tumbleweed offers newer versions as soon as they are deemed stable. Instead of making you wait for a new release of openSUSE, Tumbleweed lessens the significance and change impact of major releases by updating systems continuously. By enabling Tumbleweed you are always up to date with the '''latest software'''. And you won’t have to install newer versions of openSUSE as you’ll be running them already by the time they get released!<br />
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Tumbleweed will require its current users to make one manual change to the repositories upon the 12.1 release. Besides the Tumbleweed repository, users are required to have the latest stable openSUSE repositories enabled, currently for most users set at openSUSE 11.4. With the 12.1 release, these will thus have to change. The openSUSE sysadmins have ensured however that this will be the first and last time this has to be changed. From now on there will be a link to the latest stable release, for the convenience of Tumbleweed users. Upon a new release the openSUSE servers will automatically handle the required changes, transparent to the users. For instructions to make these changes, [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed_12.1change|please see here]].<br />
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Find more information [[:en:Tumbleweed|about Tumbleweed here]].<br />
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====Packman====<br />
[[Image:Packman.png|256px|link=|Features]]The well-known third-party [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] repositories for openSUSE already offer openSUSE 12.1 support. '''Packman''' provides four different repositories each offering a targeted selection of software, in addition to the larger common repository. Additional to packages for openSUSE 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, Factory and SLE 11, an essential set of Packman packages is provided for Tumbleweed. Find more information on the [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman website] and [[Paket_Repositorys#Packman| find out how to get software from Packman on the openSUSE wiki]].<br />
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====SUSE Studio====<br />
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'''SUSE Studio''' is a project from openSUSE sponsor SUSE(TM) which builds upon the Free and Open Source openSUSE tools like '''KIWI''' and offers a convenient web interface for easy building of openSUSE and SLE based custom operating systems (appliances).<br />
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[http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] users can expect availability of openSUSE 12.1 right from the release date, and support for upgrading existing appliances shortly after. This means it will be possible to easily create your own versions of openSUSE 12.1 with '''custom package selections''', '''artwork''', '''scripts''' and any other properties and download them as USB or disk images, Live CDs and a variety of popular virtual formats. You can share your appliance or also browse other’s shared appliances on [http://susestudio.com/browse SUSE Gallery].<br />
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====Contrib retired====<br />
The [[:en:openSUSE:Contrib|Contrib]] repository for third-party packages was once a community-driven extension of the main repository. The vast majority of these packages have since been integrated in the main repository or in one of the central additional repositories like the official [[KDE_Repositorys|KDE]] and [[GNOME_Repositorys|GNOME]] repositories. These provide newer versions of the software in the main repositories as well as new or experimental software not yet available in openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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====Packages on the Open Build Service====<br />
If you can not find an application in openSUSE 12.1 you can use the search functionality on [http://software.opensuse.org software.opensuse.org]. If you enable searching in users home projects (under advanced) you can choose from the 160.000 packages provided by our 30.000 packagers using the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service instance on build.opensuse.org].<br />
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====VLC====<br />
The VideoLAN organization continues their robust support for openSUSE, with a 1-click install of the VLC universal media player already available for openSUSE 12.1 at [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html this page].<br />
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=== Latest Free Desktops ===<br />
openSUSE offers both major Free Software desktops as well as a number of community-supported desktops, all with a high level of polish and support. openSUSE 12.1 is the first release to introduce the new '''GNOME Shell''' user interface, part of GNOME 3.2. GNOME Shell brings a vastly refined user experience with a smooth, natural workflow. The default openSUSE desktop, the '''KDE Plasma Desktop''', brings color management and much improved performance as well as the new 'Akonadi' based Kontact2 groupware solution. Current releases of both XFCE and LXDE include minor improvements on the road to their next big releases.<br />
For the first time, the openSUSE community openly selected artwork for openSUSE 12.1; the preferred 'upwind' theme reflects in our new splash, boot and background images . GNOME users will notice that the art team has maintained the trend of providing a time-sensitive set of themed wallpapers.<br />
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==== KDE Plasma Workspaces and applications 4.7 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Workspaces] 4.7 and is the first major Linux distribution to ship the new [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos Color Management Service]. Oyranos and its associated tools add [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management color management] to KDE applications, making sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens. Another major new addition is Apper, an easy to use software management tool replacing KPackageKit. There are also improvements to network management, the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop tool and Activities. In total, this release fixed over 12.000 bugs and contains hundreds of smaller and larger performance improvements.<br />
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The innovative new Tablet project from the KDE community, Plasma Active, is not an integral part of the openSUSE 12.1 release as it depends on functionality not available in the released KDE Platform yet and conflicts with the Desktop and Netbook workspaces. However, tablet users can install Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 and we work on integrating it in the next openSUSE release.<br />
Read on for a more extensive view on what's new in the Desktop, Netbook and application area as well as to learn more about Plasma Active One!<br />
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|[[Image:OpenSUSE114Ksysguard.png|thumb|250px|alt=Plasma Desktop|Plasma Desktop]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114KWin.png|thumb|250px|alt=KDE's KWin window manager features compositing|KWin compositing]]<br />
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=====Plasma Workspaces bring improved visuals with Oyranos CMS=====<br />
openSUSE is the '''first major Linux distribution to ship [http://www.oyranos.org/about/ Oyranos CMS]''' integrated in the KDE applications and workspaces. Oyranos is is an operating system level [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Color Management System], matching input device colors to output device colors across supported applications. Oyranos makes use of the ICC color management standard and is integrated in the KDE Workspaces and applications through the new KolorManager application. The KolorManager application makes sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens.<br />
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Users can now configure their ICC profiles and settings in one central place. It brings as well a set of command line tools like oyranos-policy for handling policy configuration files and oyranos-profiles for installation of ICC profiles. KDE users can install the KolorManager package. This Oyranos front end adds a system settings control panel for individual settings adaption. Most systems will run fine with Oyranos defaults. [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ read more about color management in openSUSE 12.1 on the oyranos website]<br />
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'''Visual improvements'''<br />
On the visual side, KDE's Plasma workspaces provides '''better integration with GTK/GNOME applications''' with a port of KDE's Oxygen style to GTK. The Oxygen icons have been improved and the Plasma panel offers a more consistent look with changes to the icons and the clock. The new Shadow support in window manager '''KWin''' gives a better look on older hardware and performs better all around. KWin also can now disable compositing when a full-screen application calls for it, increasing performance for OpenGL games and GPU accelerated video playback.<br />
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Plasma's Activities have seen many improvements. The '''Activity Manager''' now takes a more prominent place in the default panel in Plasma Desktop. Activities enhance the users' workflows by providing smart ways of grouping applications, widgets and documents.<br />
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Navigating through applications and recent files is easier with the '''addition of breadcrumbs''' to the Kickoff application launcher, helping users to see where they are and quickly back up to higher menu levels. Many other usability and functionality improvements have been made to the Workspaces. For example, '''Konsole''' no longer blocks the removal of USB storage devices and '''KMix''' has improved PulseAudio support. <br />
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'''Network management, multimedia and Nepomuk'''<br />
The Plasma Workspaces now also offer '''much improved network management''', including support for NetworkManager 0.9 as well as Bluetooth tethering, 3G, VPN, MAC spoofing and other advanced networking options.<br />
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Thanks to [http://dot.kde.org/2011/09/21/nepomuk-stability-and-performance generous donations from the community], the Semantic Desktop technology '''Nepomuk has seen extensive bugfixing''', improving stability and performance as well as making it easier to use. Strigi analyzers now read meta-data in their own process, resolving over 35 crash-related bugs in Dolphin and Konqueror.<br />
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The latest version of '''Phonon''', our media framework, has seen work on the backends. The VLC-based back-end is now considered stable and is the preferred back-end for multiplatform use, while the back-end based on GStreamer is now also considered stable on Linux platforms. The xine back-end is no longer maintained.<br />
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=====KDE Applications suite 4.7 features many refinements=====<br />
The latest version of KPackageKit - now renamed '''Apper''' - (developed by [http://dantti.wordpress.com Daniel Nicoletti] ) is now included with Plasma Desktop. This brings significant improvements to the KDE's PackageKit front end and makes it possible to list Applications instead of listing only Packages. This makes openSUSE a lot more user-friendly and closer to Grandma compattible.<br />
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'''Dolphin''', KDE’s file manager, has a cleaner default appearance. The menu bar is hidden, but easy to reach and restore. The file searching interface has been improved. In addition, Dolphin now has much deeper integration with source code management systems, including the ability to create and clone repositories, push and pull changes, view diffs and much more.<br />
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Dolphin and Konqueror both benefit from a new plugin that provides a '''rating and an annotation menu action''' for files and folders, leveraging Nepomuk capabilities. <br />
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Image management has become easier with '''Gwenview''', the KDE image viewer, now offering the ability to compare two or more pictures side by side. From the browse mode, select two or more pictures, and then switch to the view mode or to the full-screen mode. In the view mode, you can add more pictures from the thumbnail bar.<br />
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Comic fans will be pleased that Okular, the universal file viewer, gains support for reading a directory as a comicbook.<br />
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'''KStars''', the essential KDE application for stargazers around the world, has gained a feature to predict a star hopping route and dynamic switching between its OpenGL and native rendering backends. Labels can now be assigned to points on celestial lines; comet trails are rendered in OpenGL mode. Mathematicians and scientists can now explore higher order functions in Kalgebra and get information on oxidation states for elements in Kalzium. <br />
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'''KDM''', the display manager, has gained ''GRUB2'' support. A user with multiple operating systems in their GRUB2 menu can now choose which one to reboot to in the shutdown dialog by holding down the mouse button on their reboot choice. <br />
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'''Marble''', the virtual globe application, has gained many improvements over the past eight months. It now has voice navigation support, a map creation wizard, and new plug-ins. Following the Voice of Marble contest, '''voice navigation''' is now available in several languages, with voices provided by the KDE community. For more details, see Marble's [http://edu.kde.org/marble/current_1.2.php visual changelog]. <br />
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Other applications such as Kate, Kalzium, KAlgebra, KStars, and KDevelop have also been updated in this release. Changes and improvements to some other major applications from the KDE community can be found in the [Product_highlights#New_and_updated_applications|applications section].<br />
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Find more information on what is new in the Plasma Workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Platform in the [http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.7/ announcement by KDE].<br />
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|[[Image:OpenSUSE114kdeNetbookSAL.png|thumb|250px|alt=Search and Launch interface in Plasma Netbook|Plasma Netbook search and launch interface]]<br />
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=====Plasma Active One is optionally available=====<br />
The fresh and innovative [http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active Plasma Active] interface for tablets and mobile devices is available for openSUSE 12.1. It is not an integral part of this release as it still depends on a number of unreleased technologies but we plan to have Plasma Active as part of openSUSE 12.2.<br />
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'''Plasma Active'''<br />
Plasma Active aims at creating a cross-device user experience for emerging devices such as tablet computers, media centers, smartphones, and more. It builds on the Linux stack with X11, Qt and the KDE libraries. The user interface is designed using Plasma Quick, a declarative markup language allowing for organic user interface design based on Qt Quick.<br />
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The first release, [http://kde.org/announcements/plasma-active-one/ Plasma Active One] fully focuses on tablet computers. Plasma Active Tablet's user experience is designed around the web, social networks and multimedia content. Packages for openSUSE are offered in the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=KDE%3AActive Plasma Active] repository.<br />
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==== GNOME 3.2 ====<br />
After shipping a technical preview of [http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ GNOME 3] with 11.4, openSUSE 12.1 replaces the GNOME 2.x series with the latest GNOME 3.2 desktop to the openSUSE GNOME users. With many improvements based on the feedback of the openSUSE community and the wider Free Software community, numerous usability and application changes have been incorporated.<br />
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'''GNOME Shell''' brings a fresh user-interface that is designed from the scratch to satisfy the needs of today's users. The interface focuses on getting out of the way and providing unobtrusive yet powerful notifications and deep integration of calendar, chat and other technologies. The UI elements and workflows are designed to be touch-friendly for use on tablets or desktops with a touch screen. By using the 3D acceleration capabilities provided by most of the computers these days, pleasing animations are used to give users an aesthetic look and feel and a much easier way of switching between applications. Read on for more details on what's new in GNOME 3.2.<br />
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===== What's new in GNOME Shell 3.2 =====<br />
Various minor tweaks and major features are incorporated into this release based on user feedback. openSUSE 12.1 ships the alt-status-menu extension to make various computer operations easily accessible. Some examples:<br />
*It is now easier to resize windows and titlebars, buttons and other controls are a bit less tall, making GNOME easier to use on small screens.<br />
* Notifications now include a counter so you can see how many mails or chats messages are waiting for you and Shell now also shows media device notifications.<br />
* The focus-follows-mouse feature has been improved and while it's not perfect yet, it will suffice for most usecases.<br />
* The System Settings have been improved, showing links to other relevant settings and has integrated color management<br />
* GNOME Shell battery power status now shows how much power you have left<br />
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===== Communication in GNOME Shell =====<br />
Compared to any prior release of GNOME, the instant messaging workflow is much improved in GNOME Shell 3.2. You can receive chats, reply to messages, approve / deny friendship requests, call requests, all without having to launch the IM application explicitly. You can change the status of your machine from a centralized place so that all the IM accounts reflect the status change. Error and new message notifications are so well integrated in GNOME shell so that you won't have focus stealing popups but only unobtrusive animations notifying you what is going on.<br />
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A new "Online Accounts" feature enables users to create online accounts. Accounts created will be seamlessly available for various applications throughout the desktop experience. For example, if you create a Google Account, your Google Docs documents will be available in the new Document browser, your Google contacts will be available in empathy for IM, and the calendar shows your appointments. http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/gnome-documents-google.png.en<br />
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[[Image:114_screenshots_gnome_desktop_generic.png|thumb|250px||The GNOME 2.32 Desktop]]<br />
[http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2] <br />
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===== What's new in the GNOME 3.2 Applications =====<br />
The new GNOME 3 libraries bring many improvements to GNOME 3 applications. Some examples:<br />
* File open dialogs in applications now show a list of recent files and directories<br />
* Better performance and a new theme<br />
* A redesigned Font chooser dialog<br />
* A new on-screen keyboard and a number of other accessibility enhancements<br />
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Moreover, the individual applications have seen many features and bugfixes, read on for a quick overview.<br />
A new people-focused '''Contacts"' application is shipped which can work with Evolution and Empathy in the background, providing you with a unified addressbook for your desktop. <br />
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'''Empathy''', the GNOME IM application has got a lot of improvements. You can easily search your logs visually filtering on various parameters such as Who, When.<br />
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http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/empathy-log.png.en NetworkManager-gnome version 0.9 provides fast user switching, improved WiFi roaming, WiMAX support, flexible permissions and centralized storage of network connection information.<br />
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Not to be left out of the party, GNOME 3.2 includes robust color management support as well, including the new GNOME Color Manager wizard for calibrating displays using either ICC profiles or a Huey hardware colorimeter. [http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-color-manager/screenshots.html]<br />
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File manager '''Nautilus''' has seen a major overhaul for GNOME 3, with an improved Places sidebar, a new ''Connect to server'' dialog and a quick preview function which can be triggered by 'space'.<br />
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Many smaller improvements include new and configurable effects in the Webcam application '''Cheese''', bookmark support in PDF viewer '''Evince''', plugins for image viewer '''Eye of GNOME''' and improved streaming support for video and audio in media player Totem.<br />
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Read more about [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2 in the official announcement] and find more GNOME applications in the sections below.<br />
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|[[Image:openSUSE114GNOME3Shell.png|thumb|200px|A blank GNOME Shell workspace]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114gnome3_windows.png|thumb|200px|Shell managing your windows]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114GNOME3Search.png|thumb|200px|GNOME Shell integrates search]]<br />
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==== LXDE 0.5 ====<br />
This release of openSUSE comes with LXDE 0.5. There have been no major updates to this lightweight desktop for a while but minor improvements and bugfixes have been integrated.<br />
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|[[Image:114_screenshots_lxde_menu.png|thumb|200px|LXDE Menu]]<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_lxde_filemanager_configuration.png|thumb|200px|LXDE File Manager & Configuration]]<br />
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==== Xfce 4.8 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships ''''Xfce 4.8''''. All Xfce components have been updated to the latest bugfix releases. The desktop has been polished further in terms of integration and branding. LightDM is now the default display manager reducing the dependencies on core GNOME components. The functionality provided in the default install should now be on par with GNOME/KDE desktops.<br />
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|[[Image:114_screenshots_xfce_menu.png|thumb|250px|The Xfce Desktop and the menu]]<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_xfce_filemanager_configuration.png|thumb|250px|The Tunar filemanager and XFCE configuration]]<br />
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Please use up-to-date screenshot from http://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots_12.1#Xfce_4.8<br />
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=== New and updated applications ===<br />
On top of the kernel and other low-level tools, openSUSE provides a huge variety of console and graphical applications. These applications have been updated to the latest versions bringing many improvements in terms of features and bugfixes.<br />
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====Web browsers====<br />
The web is important for modern computer users, and openSUSE has you covered with a selection of browsers Free Software has to offer. We ship a much faster Firefox, an innovative Opera, a well integrated Epiphany and a more stable Rekonq. New is Chromium, the fast and easy to use browser from Google. These browsers provide a wide range of rendering engines supporting the latest web standards. Read on to find out what is new in these browsers since we brought to you in openSUSE 11.4!<br />
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'''Firefox 7'''<br /><br />
Since Firefox 4.0 in openSUSE 11.4, the project has moved to a more rapid release schedule and thus we present you with Mozilla's latest Firefox 7.0.1. Firefox has introduced support for new privacy features like do-not-track and much improved developer tools in the new 'web developer' menu. End users will appreciate the many smaller and larger usability improvements like the URL bar highlighting the website domain and hiding the prefix. Last but not least, each subsequent Firefox release brought better performance, from faster loading of tabs to the large memory management improvements in Firefox 7 and of course support for the latest web standards.<br />
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'''Chromium 16'''<br /><br />
Chromium, meet openSUSE 12.1 users. Users, meet Chromium. This venerable WebKit based web browser from Google is quickly gaining popularity and thus had to become part of the openSUSE distribution. With its simplified interface, great integration with Google services, separate processes so a crashing site can not take down the browser and the fastest JavaScript engine in the world, it will impress you with it's speed and ease of use. The rapid release cycle of Chromium is hard to track - we ensure the latest is always available on your system so you don't have to worry about security or not being able to work with the latest websites.<br />
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'''Opera 11.52'''<br /><br />
Opera 11.52 brings much improved Opera Link to sync your passwords between system and a better Speed Dial which now supports extensions, small webpages embedded in your Speed Dial. Another new feature is the Location support on websites like Google Maps. Opera also uses far less memory now and became a fair bit more stable. Of course this release supports the latest HTML 5 and CSS 3 standards and features a faster JavaScript engine and smoother graphics.<br />
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'''Rekonq 0.8'''<br /><br />
With Rekonq 0.8, openSUSE ships a second WebKit based browser. Build on Qt and the KDE Platform this new release takes advantage of the many improvements in QtWebKit 2.2, bringing better stability and performance. New features include the Do-Not-Track feature, availability of history in restored tabs, and Third Party rule support in AdBlock. usability has been given attention with much improved drag'n'drop support, an new SSL UI, optional VI-style navigation and improved URL bar handling.<br />
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'''Epiphany from GNOME 3.2'''<br /><br />
The third WebKit based browser, this time from the GNOME community, Epiphany, allows you to create Web Application links. These Web Applications show up in the application view of GNOME Shell and act very much like real applications, opening links in new web browser windows and not showing a navigation bar or tabs. They also run in a process separate from the browser, so that crashes of Epiphany do not affect your web applications.<br />
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====Office and desktop publishing applications====<br />
openSUSE helps you get work done by providing a stable base and up to date productivity tools. The latest LibreOffice brings new features in most components as well as speed and stability improvements to this enterprise ready office suite. While Abiword, Gnumeric and KOffice are still at their latest stable versions, our additional repositories offer the innovative Calligra application suite as a choice.<br />
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'''Libreoffice 3.4.3'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://XXXX.org '''Libreoffice'''] release brings a large number of small additions and improvements like the ability to add and remove color charts, a named range as data source and supporting an unlimited number of fields in the DataPilot (now named Pivot Table), Greek Character mode for numbering in Writer and much more. As usual, much performance work was done decreasing the size of LibreOffice and improving startup speed. Text rendering and theming have received a major overhaul, making LibreOffice fitting better in your desktop.<br />
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'''Scribus 1.4'''<br /><br />
[http://www.scribus.net '''Scribus'''] is the major Open Source Desktop Publishing tool available for Linux. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation. openSUSE ships a release candidate of Scribus 1.4 which has a large number of stability fixes over the release in openSUSE 11.4.<br />
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'''Calligra 2.4 beta 3'''<br /><br />
The new [http://www.calligra-suite.org/ Calligra Suite], the successor of KOffice in openSUSE is not yet part of this release. However most users report the current beta's to be of '''better quality than the latest KOffice release''' and the openSUSE packagers have thus committed to provide a repository which will offer the latest Calligra releases.<br />
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Specifically '''targeting students and academic users''' with the productivity part, Calligra brings much improved text handling and rendering, state of the art '''import support for the Microsoft XML formats''' and many stability and usability improvements to all applications. Words introduces handling of citations and bibliographies and an automatically updating Table of Content, better text tables, footer- and header support and much more. Presentation application Stage has a new slide sorter and easier editing of notes with slides. Project Management application Plan introduces many new chart printing options and improved import from external data sources. Tables has improved support for large tables, rotated text, many new formulas, improved Microsoft Excel file support and much faster loading.<br />
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Calligra also introduces two new applications: <br />
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*Flow is a diagramming and flowcharting application in the spirit of Visio.<br />
*Braindump is a note taking application that builds on the Calligra core and uses the full power of the openDocument Format to allow for text, images and even multimedia in the notes.<br />
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Find a [http://www.calligra-suite.org/news/calligra-2-4-snapshot-1-tour/ Calligra Tour here].<br />
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You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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====Communication and groupware====<br />
Of course, openSUSE ships a wide variety of groupware and Personal Information Management (PIM) solutions like email clients, chat applications, calendar tools and more.<br />
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'''KDE PIM'''<br /><br />
Kontact, KDE’s groupware solution, has most components now ported to Akonadi. Once the initial bugs are ironed out, this will offer increased stability and performance, better connection to new services and sharing of communication information between more applications. The biggest change is the introduction of KMail 2. This application has the familiar interface, while under the surface, all mail storage and retrieval has been ported to use the powerful Akonadi cache.<br />
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The openSUSE KDE team has put '''significant efforts''' in ensuring a smooth upgrade to KMail 2 but this is a significant change and the team will keep an eye out for further issues. Bugfixes will be provided through updates and users are encouraged to report problems and update their systems frequently.<br />
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It should be noted that the move from KMail1 to KMail2 requires the '''import/conversion of email data to Akonadi'''. This process can take considerable time, measuring up to a day on slow systems with multiple gigabyte-sized mailboxes. It is possible to, instead of doing a migration, doing a clean start by moving the current data from the ~.kde4/share/apps/kmail to a backup location. If you have your data stored on a server and it is only cached locally this should not cause you to loose data. In case of a downloading POP mail account, however, you will have to use the conversion process or import your mail separately.<br />
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Also note that '''Akonadi is a cache''', not a permanent storage system. This means that your mail should remain where it is - be it on a server or in a local folder. Akonadi will store a '''copy''' in its database, as well as extra information like ratings and the like, for fast search and retrieval. This essentially replaces the internal cache KMail1 employed for this purpose. Due to this design, Akonadi is very unlikely to lose user data as it normally operates on a copy of it. Of course, actions like moving or removing mails are synced back to the original mail storage!<br />
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'''Evolution 3.2.1'''<br /><br />
Evolution provides integrated mail, address book and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop. Version 3.2.1 has been ported over to the GNOME 3 infrastructure and offers a number of small improvements and bugfixes over the previous release. Also new in the openSUSE 12.1 Evolution is the Exchange Connector for Evolution, compatible with Exchange 2007 and later, allowing Evolution to work with Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010. Evolution also works with the Google contacts, calendar and mail services.<br />
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'''Thunderbird 7.0.1'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird] email client shipped with openSUSE brings delivers faster performance, safer email experience, and a new add-ons manager. With over 390improvements and performance enhancements, Thunderbird is more responsive, starts faster and is easier to use than ever.<br />
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For example, the interface improvements like the improved RSS feeds and better Attachment management make handling your news and mail easier. Tabs can now be re-ordered or dragged into a new window and Thunderbird gives you control over the look and functionality of your email client with a gallery of hundreds of add-ons. The new Add-ons manager allows you to search the gallery in Thunderbird to install, remove, and manage the Add-ons. This release also adds support for technologies that make it easier for developers to build some of these amazing Add-ons, such as the Lightning Calendar, Conversation View, and Open Search.<br />
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====Multimedia====<br />
openSUSE comes with a number of prominent multimedia applications like the Amarok, Banshee and Rythmbox music players, DigiKam and Shotwell photo managers and the Marble virtual globe. Each of those has seen new releases with new features and bugfixes.<br />
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=====Music Players=====<br />
openSUSE comes with a large number of music players, from the well known Rythmbox, Banshee and Amarok to the less prominent like Juk, Totem, KMplayer, Dragon and Bangarang.<br />
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'''Banshee 2.2'''<br /><br />
The new [http://banshee.fm '''Banshee'''] comes with with lots of new extensions like an alarmclock, albumart writer, ampache, duplicated sound detector, jamendo, karaoke, live radio, lyrics and more. Other improvements include the ability to not only queue songs but also artists and albums and having the ability to play a queued song immediately after the current. There has been a number of UI improvements like putting the search next to the volume button, smaller icons in the source list, hidden counts for the libraries, named group separators and a resizable seek slider and search entry. Podcasts episodes are now shown in a grid, with several lines of description shown to help you find an appealing episode to enjoy.<br />
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'''Amarok 2.4.3 and Clementine 0.7.3'''<br /><br />
[http://amarok.kde.org '''Amarok'''] introduces improved Dynamic Playlists and Internet Services including integration with Gpodder.net. The user interface has been improved with better drag and drop, automatic scrolling in the lyrics applet and the ability to scrobble the composer as artist to last.fm. Otherwise, many bugs have been crushed and performance has improved a bit. For those not fond of the direction Amarok took with the 2.0 release, openSUSE ships [http://www.clementine-player.org '''Clementine 0.7.3'''] which in this version brings a new edit tag dialog which offers autocompletion and automatic music identification and missing-tag-fetching. CUE sheets are now supported, detected automatically and tracks will show up separately. Album covers are shown in the Library tab, deleted songs greyed out and much more.<br />
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=====Photo managers, editors and painting applications=====<br />
openSUSE ships with a large number of graphics and painting applications. There have been major versions of DigiKam and Blender as well as minor improvements to most of the other applications. openSUSE 12.1 also comes with lots of ICC color management Profiles ready to go.<br />
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'''DigiKam 2.2'''<br />
openSUSE 12.1 features the release of '''DigiKam''', the result of more than a year of hard work since the DigiKam version in openSUSE 11.4. This version features long awaited technologies like face detection and recognition, image versioning support, XMP metadata sidecar files support, big improvements in tagging and marking photos, reversed geotagging and many other improvements, including a total of 258 fixed bugs.<br />
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Close companion Kipi-plugins is released along with DigiKam 2.2. This release features new export tools to three web services - Yandex.Fotki, MediaWiki and Rajce. The GPSSync plugin now has the ability to do reverse-geocoding. Also new is a plugin which is dedicated to creating photo album-like layouts. Finally, there has been extensive bugfixing.<br />
Find out more about DigiKam and read articles with tips and tricks [http://www.digikam.org/ on the DigiKam website].<br />
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'''Inkscape 4.8.2'''<br />
[http://inkscape.org Inkscape] is a powerful vector graphics editor using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. It supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. The latest stable 4.8.2 version introduces a number of critical bugfixes and improvements to openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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This release is feature complete, offering the powerful UI, animation tools, rigging, modeling, shading, physics and particle tools and everything else Blender is known for.<br />
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'''Shotwell 0.11.5'''<br />
The [http://yorba.org/shotwell/ '''Shotwell'' photo organizer handles pictures based on a timeline. It also offers tagging and rating features and a host of image editing functions like rotating, cropping and adjustment of exposure, saturation and more. It can import photos from most cameras and from folders and publish photos and videos to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, and YouTube. The latest release introduces hierarchical trees for the tags, a new plugin framework, improved printing, a new crop tool and a new search bar as well as many smaller improvements to the user interface. New is also support for paired JPEG and RAW images, BMP, TIFF and other formats, and improved rendering of RAW files. This release also does automatic backups of the database and allows you to save searches.<br />
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'''F-spot 0.8.2-14'''<br />
The easy to use '''F-spot''' photo manager features a very simple interface combined with powerful search, import, browse and edit functionality. Advanced capabilities are exporting EXIF and XMP metadata to your images, versioning of changes in the image editor and quite complete import functionality. This release does not introduce major new features or improvements.<br />
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'''GIMP 2.6.11'''<br />
[http://www.gimp.org/ '''GIMP'''] is a versatile graphics manipulation package offering a customizable interface and a large number of plugins to modify and improve photos. It can work with a huge variety of fileformats. 2.6.11 brings bugfixes for this popular photo manipulation program as well as some minor usability and performance improvements.<br />
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'''Krita and Karbon 2.4 Beta3'''<br />
Two applications, part of the upcoming [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4] release, should not be missed in this overview. While they are not included in the standard openSUSE repositories, they offer some unique benefits many people will apreciate.<br />
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[http://krita.org '''Krita'''] is a sketching and painting tool, offering an end–to–end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters. Fields of painting that Krita explicitly supports are concept art, creation of comics and textures for rendering. Modelled on existing real-world painting materials and workflows, Krita supports creative working by getting out of the way and with snappy response. Developed in close collaboration with a number of artists Krita 2.4 brings many user interface improvements as well as much better performance. New functionality like the ability to share patterns, gradients and brushes over the web and the huge number of unique brushes solidify Krita's position as the '''premier Free Software sketching and drawing application'''.<br />
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The Karbon vector graphics application, also part of [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4], has much better '''support for the SVG standard''' and introduces many new filters and effects while improving on its stability.<br />
You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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=====Video editors and 3D modelling=====<br />
Out of the box, openSUSE does not ship multimedia support due to legal and patent worries in a number of countries. However, if it is legal for you to play your music and video's you can find information on the [http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia openSUSE-community Multimedia] and [http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats Restricted formats] pages on how to obtain the needed codecs. The [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] project which offers the codecs also packages a number of related applications like the excellent [http://www.kdenlive.org/ Kdenlive] and [http://www.openshotvideo.com/ openshot] video editors.<br />
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'''Kdenlive 0.8.2'''<br />
'''Kdenlive''' claims to be the most advanced video editor available on Linux today. It supports virtually any camera and codec thanks to the [http://www.ffmpeg.org/ FFMPEG] and [http://www.mltframework.org/ MLT] frameworks it builds upon. It is a multitrack editor with a timeline and an unlimited number of video and audio tracks. Thanks to the [http://www.piksel.org/frei0r Frei0r] framework Kdenlive offers a large number of effects and transitions and lets you add your own. It renders videos in a separate thread while you keep working and allows you to pause, stop and restart rendering. The latest 0.8.2 version fixes over 140 stability issues and introduces an automated backup feature to avoid the loss of any data. Check the [http://www.kdenlive.org/users/j-b-m/kdenlive-082-released announcement] for more information.<br />
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'''OpenShot 1.4'''<br />
The '''OpenShot''' video editor has a more easy to use interface and offers features like 3D animations, HD video support as well as Clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, and cutting, Video transitions with real-time previews, Compositing, image overlays, watermarks, Title templates, title creation, sub-titles and support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences. [http://vimeo.com/29465427 watch the video of the 1.4 release] or [http://www.openshot.org/features/ check out the openshot features] online.<br />
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'''Audacity 1.3.13'''<br />
For audio editing, '''Audacity''' offers a powerful set of features. Audacity lets you record live audio or convert existing music into digital data. It can also edit files, mixing the music or changing it with a variety of effects. These include echo, a fase changer, equalization, normalization and a number of effects to clean up hiss, noise and other mess. Additional plugins are availble with the VST and LADSPA plug-ins compatibility. Recording up to 96Khz, 32 bit is available with high quality sample rate conversion and there is a number of spectrum analysis tools for your viewing pleasure.<br />
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This release, while part of the beta series, is quite stable. Compared to the 1.3.12 version in the previous openSUSE release there has been a number of improvements to the effects, a new Device Toolbar showing all input and output devices has been introduced and the new "Sync-lock Tracks" feature allows groups of audio and/or label tracks to retain synchronisation when the track length changes. There has also been a fair number of bugfixes and some other smaller improvements.<br />
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'''PiTiVi 0.15'''<br />
openSUSE does ship the simple [http://www.pitivi.org/ '''PiTiVi''' video editor in the main repositories. PiTiVi is more intuitive and easy to use video editor compared to OpenShot and Kdenlive but does not offer the depth of in- and output formats, camera support and effects the others do.<br />
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'''Blender 2.59'''<br />
The well known [http://www.blender.org Blender] 3D content creation suite (3D modeller and video editor) is also part of openSUSE 12.1 with the stable 2.59 version. This third stable release in the 2.5 series brings big improvements in stability with many hundreds of bugs fixed. There is also a number of new features, including 3D mouse support and many UI improvements like the custom keymaps support and the camera locking. Sculpting, the warp modifier and the node editor have also been heavily improved.<br />
The biggest changes in the addons include:<br />
*the new Ivy Generator can grow curves over an existing mesh, <br />
*the Sapling addon generates trees<br />
*Mesh inset can inset individual faces or a selected region.<br />
*Grease scatter can scatter objects along predefined lines<br />
*much, much more. <br />
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openSUSE of course delivers far more multimedia applications to you, from the GStreamer framework to less known music players and a myriad of tools.<br />
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====Security and administration tools====<br />
openSUSE has always been a powertool for system adminstrators around the world and openSUSE 12.1 builds on this strong foundation. It is not only the powerful YaST which is appreciated but also the many tools available with openSUSE. This release brings major improvements to AppArmor, the new Shorewall gateway/firewall configuration application, a big update to the Performance Co-Pilot tool, an extended WebYaST and much more.<br />
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'''AppArmor 2.7 rc1'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships with the latest available [http://apparmor.net AppArmor] to ensure sys admins can easily secure their servers. [http://www.suse.com/support/security/apparmor/ Initially developed by SUSE], AppArmor is part of the Linux kernel now and openSUSE has the userspace components available. It is only in these userspace components that AppArmor ships changes compared to the previous release in openSUSE 11.4. Major features since AppArmor 2.5 include a working desktop notifier and automatic profile update for samba shares. And of course many other profile updates, bugfixes and better performance.<br />
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'''Shorewall 4.4.24'''<br /><br />
New in openSUSE from the Open Build Service is the [http://shorewall.net/Introduction.html Shoreline Firewall configuration tool]. This application offers a very powerful but still rather high-level interface to configure Netfilter through editing a series of configuration files. Upon starting Shorewall, it will read the files and with help of the iptables and other security utils configure Netfilter and the Linux networking subsystem to match your requirements, building a firewal, router or gateway. Find a list of [http://www.shorewall.net/4.4/shorewall_features.htm features of Shorewall here].<br />
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[[Image:WebYaST_Screenshot.png|thumb|250px||WebYast in action]]<br />
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'''Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) 3.5.8 and the PCP GUI charting tools.'''<br /><br />
The [http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/ performance co-pilot] is a heavy-duty performance monitoring tool. It is specifically build to find the harder type of system-level performance problems. It is capable of correlating end-user quality of service with platform activity and diagnosing complex interactions between resource demands on single or multiple systems in dynamic environments. This release is a significant upgrade over what was shipped in openSUSE 11.4, bringing a host of new features and improvements like support for distributed event tracing, transparent support for compressed archives in the client tools, Integrated pmieconf and pmlogconf utilities for automating management of pmie/pmlogger configuration files, Linux kernel control group metrics, per-node CPU metrics, XFS btree metrics and some Postfix updates.<br />
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'''WebYaST'''<br /><br />
The latest version of WebYaST has many improvements regarding speed, memory usage, usability and developing environment. Due a new caching mechanism the startup time of each module has been decreased to a maximum of 1-2 seconds. Former versions of WebYaST were split into a service and into an UI part. Each part has run in a own HTTP server. We have decided to bring these parts together in order to save one HTTP server which halves the memory usage.<br />
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====Virtualization, Cloud and web applications====<br />
openSUSE is an excellent guest OS for the cloud, as anyone who ever uses [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] can agree with. Nowhere is it as easy to build a cloud solution and openSUSE is now ready for the '''Amazon EC2 cloud''' by having a special EC2 kernel and suse-ami-tools in the default repositories.<br />
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But openSUSE can also be an excellent host and contains a fair number of virtualization and cloud tools. Most prominent is OwnCloud, which is shipped with unique desktop integration in openSUSE. What is not available in the default repositories can be found in the special [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualization and Cloud repository], where openSUSE contributors package and maintain '''Eucalyptus''', '''OpenNebula''' and '''OpenStack''' for openSUSE 12.1. <br />
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'''OwnCloud 2'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 delivers OwnCloud, the web-based storage application. OwnCloud is different from solutions like Google Docs, Dropbox or Ubuntu One in that it lets '''you own the data'''. With version 2, the ownCloud team has improved the basic service and added valuable features:<br />
* Secure file sharing<br />
* Improved web access including the ability to play music<br />
* Synchronization with other web application tools<br />
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openSUSE ships OwnCloud with a unique system tray based tool which can:<br />
* Install a new ownCloud locally or in a webspace<br />
* Connect your system to an existing ownCloud<br />
* give you assistance to set up mirrored folders<br />
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There is also basic Dolphin integration which XXXXXXXX<br />
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'''virtualization technologies'''<br /><br />
The new '''Xen 4.1''' release brings support for large systems (>255 processors and 1GB/2MB super page support), CPU Pools for advanced partitioning, prototype credit2 scheduler designed for latency-sensitive workloads and very large systems, a re-architected XL toolstack that is functionally nearly equivalent to XM/XEND, support for x86 Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX), new Memory Access API enabling integration of 3rd party security solutions into Xen virtualized environments and even better stability through the new automated regression tests.<br />
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The lastest version of '''KVM''' provides live migration from one host to another, guest swapping, paravirtualized networking and block devices and PCI-Express passthrough.<br />
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The new 4.1 series '''VirtualBox''' release brings new features like VM cloning, enhanced wizard for creating and copying virtual disks, raised memory limit to 1TB for 64 bit hosts and a couple of experimental featuers like PCI passthrough or SATA hard disk hot-plugging.<br />
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'''Virtualization tools'''<br /><br />
The latest release of '''virt-manager''' (supported by libvirt) brings new VM features including new VM wizard support for LCX guests, remote serial console access and remote URL guest installs.<br />
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The recent version of '''open-vm-tools''' provides integration (shared folders, drag and drop, clipboard sharing, automatic guest resolution resizing, etc.) with the VMware tools.<br />
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'''Horde 4.0.8'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the latest Horde 4 groupware server and framework! Horde 4 is the first release in over 6 years and brings major improvements to all applications of the suite as well as to the framework itself. <br />
Some of the more significant changes from Horde 3 to 4 include a requirement for PHP 5.2 or higher, a new Ajax interface and a new test suite. The complete framework has been modernized and cleaned up and the libraries are better separated and Unit tested.<br />
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The most important things users will notice are the e improved setup and upgrade processes, an Ajax interface for the calendar, and an improved interface for the complete application stack.<br />
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Horde offers a large number of web applications including a webmail tool (part of the Horde Groupware Webmail Edition) complete with WYSIWYG HTML editor, IMAP and POP3 support, message search and filtering, spell check, attachment viewer, encryption and signing, keyboard navigation, threaded view and previews, downloading of attachments in a ZIP file and much more.<br />
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There is now basic social media support with Facebook and Twitter integration and there is an Active Sync server component which can synchronize with iPhones and Android devices. The existing SyncML support already took care of most Nokia phones. The last missing piece is CalDAV support for calendar sharing, which is planned for the future.<br />
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== Development tools and platforms (GNOME/GTK, KDE/Qt,..., etc) ==<br />
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===IDEs and toolchain===<br />
openSUSE offers a complete and productive environment for developers and packagers. With stable tools and updated libraries available through [http://build.opensuse.org OBS], developers can easily develop using multiple programming languages and create packages for multiple distributions.<br />
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====KDevelop====<br />
For software developers, KDevelop has gained support for predefined indentation styles and a Python interpreter using Kross. Improved Python auto-completion and support for lex/yacc file extensions are also included in this release.<br />
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====Kate====<br />
KDE’s Advanced Text Editor, Kate has seen quite a number of improvements, including:<br />
* New Search Plugin with the ability to search in files on disk or opened files <br />
* Plugin improvements: Build Plugin, GDB Plugin<br />
* Kate’s tab bar plugins gained several new features<br />
* Swap files: If lost data is found, documents are marked as read-only<br />
* Further noteworthy changes: Improved printing, change of line ending triggers modified flag, fixed shortcut issues, fixed auto completion popup, and more.<br />
For more information, see [http://kate-editor.org/2011/07/09/kate-in-kde-4-7/ this blog].<br />
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===KDE Platform===<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships with the latest stable '''Qt 4.7.4''' and the '''KDE Platform 4.7.2''', giving developers the best from these powerful cross-platform development libraries.<br />
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'''KDE Platform 4.7 '''<br /><br />
This release of KDE's development platform is an incremental release, bringing many bugfixes and small improvements to technologies like the build-in WebKit browser engine, system wide Proxy support and the Phonon Multimedia engine. Developer-visible changes include:<br />
* Improvements to the Semantic Desktop components offering a richer API for applications<br />
* The option to suspend compositing in KWin whenever an application calls for it to improve performance in OpenGL games and GPU-accelerated video playback.<br />
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For details on the KDE Platform 4.7 release see [http://kde.org/announcements/4.7/platform.php the KDE platform release notes].<br />
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'''Qt 4.7 introduces QtQuick'''<br /><br />
Qt 4.7.4 is a '''bugfix release''' over the release shipped with openSUSE 11.4. <br />
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However, it does introduce some powerful features including the official release of [http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/01/qt-quick-is-here QtQuick], a new feature within Qt that makes it easy to create light-weight apps and UIs. It contains the new QML language, a simple to learn declarative language for building dynamic and fluid interfaces, the Qt Declarative module and new tooling in Qt Creator to easily build apps.<br />
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QtQuick 1.1 brings Right-to-Left support, improved caching and text input and a declarative API for handling touch input. There is also the new QML Sharders plugin which allows developers to embed OpenGL sharder effects in QML apps.<br />
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=== GNOME platform improvements ===<br />
For further details, seee [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ the GNOME 3.2 release notes].<br />
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==== New features and functionality ====<br />
Included in openSUSE 12.1 is the latest release of the GNOME Developer Platform. This consists of a set of API- and ABI-stable libraries available under the GNU LGPL that can be used for the development of cross-platform applications.<br />
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For information on developing with GNOME please visit the [http://developer.gnome.org GNOME Developer Center].<br />
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'''GLib 2.30'''<br /><br />
GNOME's low-level software utility library GLib has seen various improvements, some of which are:<br />
* GApplication can now be used for non-unique applications.<br />
* GDBus supports the 'object manager' pattern with a number of new interfaces and has a code generator: gdbus-codegen.<br />
* An interface for certificate and key lookup has been added: GTlsDatabase. An implementation is provided by glib-networking.<br />
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'''GTK+ 3.2'''<br /><br />
GTK+ 3.2 is the latest release of the GTK+ toolkit, which is at the heart of GNOME. GTK+ 3.2 includes new features for developers, as well as extensive bug fixes. <br />
* Many more widgets support height-for-width geometry management. It is important to set reasonable sizes on labels and check window sizes.<br />
* New widgets include GtkLockButton for privileged operations, GtkOverlay for floating controls over a content area, the new GtkFontChooserDialog and more.<br />
* There is also improved CSS theming support and the HTML backend Broadway, which renders a GTK3 application in a browser. It is still experimental and requires compiling with --enable-broadway-backend and environment varialbe GDK_BACKEND at runtime.<br />
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'''Clutter 1.8'''<br /><br />
GNOME's graphics library for hardware-accelerated user interfaces Clutter provides, among other things, the following improvements: <br />
* New actions including Gesture and swipe detection, creating drop actors and long-press support for ClutterClickAction. <br />
* ClutterState transitions can be bound to object signals when creating a scene in ClutterScript. <br />
* Cogl, the GPU programming interface used by Clutter, is exposed as a separate library. <br />
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'''Use of Deprecated Libraries'''<br /><br />
Further progress has been made in the continuous work of replacing outdated technologies with superior facilities. Some examples:<br />
* GConf now uses D-Bus. As a consequence, the deprecated libraries ORBit2 and libIDL have been removed from GNOME. Many applications using GConf have been ported to gsettings.<br />
* GNOME core modules now only depend on introspection-based Python bindings (pygobject-3) and hence pygtk, gnome-python and gnome-python-desktop are not required anymore.<br />
* Several packages, such as the Epiphany web browser, have been converted from using dbus-glib to GDBus and from libunique to G(tk)Application.<br />
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'''Miscellaneous Developer Updates'''<br /><br />
Other GNOME Platform improvements in GNOME 3.2 include: <br />
* GNOME's build tool JHBuild does not build a module anymore if the version installed on your system is recent enough. If you start to build GNOME from scratch with a recent distribution, this can easily drop 50 modules from the list of modules to compile.<br />
* Tracker version 0.12 provides support for Firefox ≥ 4.0, Thunderbird ≥ 5.0, MeeGoTouch, several additional SPARQL parameters, extracting information from EPub files, and local XDG directories for desktop files. <br />
* NetworkManager version 0.9 provides introspection support and a simplified D-Bus API. Information how to port applications from NetworkManager 0.8 to 0.9 is available.<br />
* GtkSourceView now supports syntax highlighting of Markdown and Standard ML files.<br />
* libfolks now includes an Evolution-Data-Server backend, which is used by the new Contacts application.<br />
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== And more ==<br />
The above selection of changes and improvements in openSUSE 12.1 is still far from complete but gives a taste of what is new. We hope you enjoyed reading it!<br />
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===Mehr Infos===<br />
* Verfügbar für die Architekturen i386 und x86_64<br />
* [[Bildschirmfotos]] und [[Ankündigung]] über openSUSE 12.1<br />
* [[Medienaufteilung]]<br />
* [[openSUSE kaufen|Verkaufsversion]]: Doppellagige DVD für 32bit und 64 bit, gedrucktes Handbuch, kostenlose Installationsunterstützung<br />
* [[Produktlebensdauer|18 Monate Lebensdauer]]<br />
*[http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/12.1/RELEASE-NOTES.de.html openSUSE 12.1 Release Notes]<br />
*[[In_der_Presse| openSUSE 12.1 in der Presse]]<br />
* [[Portal:Installation|Installation]]<br />
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==openSUSE 12.1 - die neueste freie Software in einer stabilen und leichten Version==<br />
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Liebe Nutzer, Mitwirkende, Fans und Freunde,<br />Wir sind stolz, Ihnen die neueste Ausgabe von openSUSE zu präsentieren! Es ist das Ergebnis von 8 Monaten harter Arbeit der openSUSE Gemeinschaft. Sie erlaubt es Ihnen, sich darüber zu freuen, was die neueste freie Software zu bieten hat, mit dem einzigartigen openSUSE-Touch - stabil, freundlich, unterhaltsam.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 bringt Ihnen Aktualisierungen zur neuesten Freien Software als Desktop- und Servertechnologie, ebenso einzigartige Funktionen, wie das neueste Snapper-Werkzeug, Datei-Änderungs-Monitoring und Rollback-Funktionalität. <br />
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===Die neuesten Freien Desktops bringen Farb-Management, GNOME Shell und mehr===<br />
openSUSE bietet Ihnen die Auswahl aus 4 offiziell unterstützten Freien Desktops, alle auf hohem Niveau von Verfeinerung und Unterstützung. Bemerkenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste große Linux-Distribution ist, die Farb-Management-Werkzeuge sowohl für KDE als auch GNOME Desktops mitbringt! <br />
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====KDE führt Oyranos, Apper und Plasma Active ein====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 bringt den [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Arbeitsplatz] 4.7 als Standard-Desktop mit und ist die erste große Linux-Distribution, die auch den neuen [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Farb-Management]-Werkzeuge ausliefert. Eine andere große neue Änderung ist der Ersatz von KPackageKit durch Apper. Apper vereinfacht die Installation und das Entfernen von Anwendungen. <br />
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Das innovative Projekt der KDE-Gemeinschaft, die Tablet-Oberfläche Plasma Active, ist noch kein integraler Bestandteil des openSUSE 12.1 Release. Aber die Nutzer der Tablet-Oberfläche können Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 installieren. Wir arbeiten an der Integration bis zum nächsten Release.<br />
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====GNOME Shell - verbessert und verfeinert====<br />
Wir stellen Ihnen '''GNOME 3.2''' vor, eine verbesserte und verfeinerte Version der GNOME Shell, die in GNOME 3 eingeführt wurde. openSUSE liefert ebenso viele verbesserte GNOME-Anwendungen aus, die in die GNOME-Shell integriert sind.<br />
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Haupt-Verbesserungen im Vergleich zur GNOME 3-Vorschau in openSUSE 11.4 schließen einen besseren Umgang mit kleinen Bildschirmen und Multi-Bildschirm-Einrichtungen ein, bessere Ausführungsmeldungen und eine zentralisierte Konfiguration von <em>Online-Benutzerkonten</em>. Dieses Release bring Ihnen ebenso einen neuen Dokumentenmanager. Dieses Release bringt auch einen neuen Dokumenten-Manager, ein erweitertes Farb-Management und eine automatische Rotation für Touch-Screen-Geräte mit. [[:en:openSUSE:Product_highlights_12.1#GNOME_3.2|Hier finden Sie weitere Details über GNOME 3.2]]<br />
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====Die anderen Desktops====<br />
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Beide Desktops '''XFCE''' und '''LXDE''' habe keine größeren Funktionsuptates seit dem letzten openSUSE Release erhalten. Aber kleine Verbesserungen wurden durchgeführt und sind im Release enthalten. Das schließt bessere Themen- und Desktop-Integration ein und ebenso eine verbesserte Auswahl von Anwendungen, Teil der Standard-Auswahl für jeden Desktop. openSUSE stellt auch wieder KDE 3 Pakete zur Verfügung.<br />
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===openSUSE bietet die neuesten Web- und Wolken-Technologien an===<br />
Dieses openSUSE Release liefert die neuesten Web-Browser, das Groupware-Framework [http://www.horde.org/ Horde 4] und aktualisierte Wolken- und Virtualisierungs-Technologien.<br />
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====Web surfing and serving====<br />
On the client side, openSUSE 12.1 introduces '''Chromium 16''' to the standard repositories. This WebKit based web browser from google offers a convenient UI and incredibly fast browsing. The default openSUSE browser is '''Firefox 7''', the latest from the Mozilla labs.<br />
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On the server side, the '''WebYaST''' remote system management tool offers a much improved web interface to administer openSUSE systems remotely with new modules and better performance. The introduction of the Groupware framework '''Horde 4''' brings a powerful set of applications including a modern Webmail client and a PHP based framework on which it is all build.<br />
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====Supporting Cloud technologies====<br />
openSUSE is an excellent guest OS for the cloud as can be experienced building solutions on [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio]. With a new kernel, openSUSE is now ready to run directly on the '''Amazon EC2 cloud'''. On the host side, the latest virtualization technologies including '''Xen 4.1''', '''KVM''' and '''Virtual Box''' can be managed with the latest '''virt-manager''' and '''open-vm-tools'''. Last but not least, openSUSE is the first Linux distribution to ship OwnCloud integrated into the desktop. And the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualization and Cloud repository] for openSUSE 12.1 offers the latest versions of '''Eucalyptus''', '''OpenNebula''' and '''OpenStack''' for openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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[[:en:Product_highlights#Security_and_administration_tools|read more about the administration and cloud tools in openSUSE 12.1]]<br />
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===Improved distribution technology===<br />
openSUSE introduces a number of improvements and innovations in the underlying technology of the distribution. This includes the unique Snapper tool offering file versioning, the systemd init system and Google's Go language.<br />
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====Snapper rolls back changes====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 is the first Linux distribution taking advantage of the snapshot functionality in the upcoming Linux file system Btrfs. These snapshots of the file system are using copy-on-write, making them very space efficient. openSUSE 12.1 debuts [[:en:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] which allows the user to interface with this technology.<br />
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The command line and GUI Snapper tools allow users to view older versions of files and revert changes. The unique integration in the zypper package manager of openSUSE allows users to roll back entire upgrades or software installations with the accompanying configuration changes.<br />
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====systemd boots your system====<br />
systemd is the new init tool in openSUSE, controlling and speeding up the boot process. Developed in close cooperation with fellow Linux Distribution Fedora, systemd is especially interesting for system administrators due to it's powerful socket- and bus activated service system. It also works closely with the cgroups kernel feature providing better security and control over the processes.<br />
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====Write in '''go''', compile with Clang or GCC====<br />
openSUSE is proud to be the first major distribution to ship [http://golang.org/ '''Google's new Go programming language'''] as part of our release. Go is a fast, easy language good in handling mulit-core, networked machines with the convenience of garbage collection and run-time reflection.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 also comes with the just-released [http://llvm.org/ '''LLVM3 compiler tool'''] and [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], the C/C++ compiler building upon LLVM. LLVM is employed by the open source ATI and NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers and thus forms an integral part of a high-performance graphics stack on Linux.<br />
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Lastly, this openSUSE release is build with [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''link-time optimization'''], improving the overall performance of the software.<br />
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==Mehr Details über openSUSE 12.1==<br />
Die folgenden Seiten zeigen auf, was neu in dieser openSUSE Version ist.<br />
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===Unter der Haube===<br />
Obwohl die meisten offensichtlichen Verbesserungen von openSUSE 12.1 an der Oberfläche zu sehen sind, haben wir ebenfalls eine Menge an Verbesserungen „unter der Haube” gemacht. Darunter verbessertes Starten (boot), Hardware Management und Systemkonfiguration. The Startprozedur von openSUSE wird nun von systemd übernommen (und SysVInit ist aber noch als Notlösung vorhanden); das neue Snapper Werkzeug hält überwacht automatisch die Systemkonfiguration und andere Dateiänderungen (und lässt es auf Wunsch zurücksetzen); YaST hat einige ganze Reihe an Verbesserungen erhalten; SAX kehrt in Form von SAX3 wieder zurück, ein openSUSE GSOC Projekt; und wir unterstützen natürlich die aktuelleste Version von jeder Kern-Komponente, z.B. Linux 3.1 Kernel, syslog-ng 3.3, GCC 4.6 und LLVM v3. Ebenfalls erwähnenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste Haupt-Distribution ist, die [http://golang.org Googles neue Go Programmiersprache] ausliefert.<br />
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====openSUSE Technologie Verbesserungen====<br />
openSUSE, als eine Linux-Distribution macht mehr als nur Pakete dritter anzubieten. Wir haben unsere eigenen Werkzeuge, mit dem man sein System konfigurieren, Software managen und vieles mehr kann.<br />
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=====Snapper=====<br />
[[Image:openSUSE_12.1_Snapper.png|thumb|250px||Snapper YaST GUI in Aktion]]<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ist die erste Linux-Distribution die Vorteile aus der Schnappschuss-Funktion des kommenden Linux-Dateisystems Btrfs macht. Diese Schnappschüsse (engl.: Snapshots) vom Dateisystem benutzen „copy-on-write“ (Kopieren-beim-Schreiben), was das ganze sehr Platzsparend macht. openSUSE 12.1 führt [[:de:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] ein, welches dem Benutzer eine Schnittstelle zu dieser Technologie bietet.<br />
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Das Kommandozeilen- und GUI Snapper-Werkzeug erlaubt dem Benutzer ältere Versionen von Dateien anzuzeigen und Änderungen rückgängig zu machen. Die einzigartige Integration in den zypper-Paketmanager von openSUSE erlaubt dem Nutzer ganze Aktualisierungen oder Softwareinstallationen samt den dazugehörigen Konfigurationsänderungen rückgängig zu machen.<br />
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Beachte dass Snapper und das Zurückrollen (Rollback) zurzeit nur für btrfs Dateisysteme zur Verfügung steht! Arbeiten werden diese Funktionen auch für das ältere Ext4 Dateisystem verfügbar machen. Jedoch wird das nicht vor der nächsten openSUSE Version geschehen.<br />
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Du kannst [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/04/01/introducing-snapper/ eine Einführung von Snapper hier lesen].<br />
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[http://www.youtube.com/susevideo#p/a/u/0/9H7e6BcI5Fo Greg K-H führt Snapper bei Brainshare vor].<br />
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=====SAX3=====<br />
Als Xorg sich über die xorg.conf hinaus zur neuen xorg.conf.d Struktur entwickelt, ging unser geliebtes X Konfigurationswerkzeug SAX2 ebenfalls. Dank der Mühen Manu Guptas [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/07/05/people-of-opensuse-manu-gupta/ während Googles Summer of Code] erhielt openSUSE wieder ein neues elegantes grafisches Werkzeug um die X Konfiguration anzupassen: SAX3. Nun haben openSUSE-Nutzer wieder die Möglichkeit einfach ihre Tastatur-, Maus-, Monitor und Touchpadeinstellungen in einer praktischen Oberfläche zu optimieren. Mach dir keine Sorgen falls du Probleme mit deiner X-Konfiguration hast: Wie üblich für YaST-Module löst SAX3 das Huhn-Ei-Problem indem es eine ncurses Text-, als auch GTK und QT Grafikoberflächen integriert hat. Bitte beachte, dass SAX3 in der OSS-Softwarequelle nicht ordnungsgemäß in 12.1 funktioniert. Ein kommendes Update wird das Problem lösen. Dieses ist bereits verfügbar in der [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=X11%3Asax X11:SAX-Softwarequelle].<br />
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=====YaST=====<br />
Aside from the new Snapper support, and the return of SAX3, openSUSE's YaST2 received a number of bugfixes and small improvements. The YaST maintainers are happy to report that after the last few fixes they are now confident that YaST will not accidentally overwrite user modified configuration files like it used to in 'the early days'. And together with the zypp package management performance improvements in the openSUSE 11 series, the myth YaST is slow and overwrites files can be finally put to rest now. A more visible change is the new style which is possible thanks to the new [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/10/24/new-style-for-yast2/ CSS based themes available for YaST]. WebYaST continues to evolve as well, including more modules than ever to aid in web-based administration of your openSUSE machines.<br />
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=====OBS, openQA and other tools=====<br />
openSUSE has developed a number of powerful tools which we use to build our distribution and which are also available for others to build packages or test software with. These tools include the cross-platform [http://openbuildservice.org Open Build Service], the omnipotent [http://openqa.opensuse.org openQA], the flexible [[Portal:KIWI|KIWI]] and much more. Each of those has seen releases with improvements in the last 8 months. This includes the [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/10/11/opensuse-announces-first-public-release-of-openqa/ first release of openQA] and the [http://news.opensuse.org/2010/10/19/the-opensuse-build-service-2-1-released/2.1 release of the Open Build Service] which has [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=openSUSE%3ATools packages available for openSUSE 12.1].<br />
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====Linux Kernel 3.1====<br />
The new Linux 3.1 Kernel is a substantial improvement over the 2.6.38 kernel which was part of openSUSE 11.4. Not only have filesystems like Ext4 and Btrfs been improved, the Linux 3.1 Kernel specifically brings a number of performance improvements to memory management and data handling. Of course there is the usual slab of new hardware support including external devices like Microsoft's Kinect, Apple iSight webcam and the Nintendo Wii controller as well as internal hardware like the new AMD Llano Fusion APU's and Intel's Ivy Bridge & Cedar Trail CPU's, a variety of wireless and graphics cards and much more. Find more details about what's new in the openSUSE kernel on the [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_39 Linux 2.6.39], [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.0 Linux 3.0] and [http://kernelnewbies.orgWilliams/Linux_3.1 Linux 3.1] KernelNewbies pages.<br />
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====systemd and other system-wide changes====<br />
System boot is now handled by the new '''systemd''' init tool, controlling and speeding up the boot process. Developed in close cooperation with fellow Linux distribution Fedora, systemd is especially interesting for system administrators due to it's powerful socket- and bus activated service system which improves parallelization and resource usage. It also works closely with Linux' cgroups providing better security and control over the processes.<br />
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If for some reason, systemd does not work for you, you can still '''use the old sysV-init''' by pressing F5 in the bootloader. If you want to permanently use the old init, just do zypper rm systemd-sysvinit<br />
We also again provide '''grub2''' as an optional bootloader. While we are still not satisfied with Grub2 as a replacement for the current Grub, we encourage users to try it out, and want to make sure it's available for developers.<br />
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A number of smaller changes includes:<br />
*the '''util-linux''' tool version 2.20 introduces the first major changes to the dmesg logging tool in 18 years, bringing a number of options to bring human readable prefixes and timestamps to the output or clean it up, only showing important messages or messages coming from either kernel- or userspace.<br />
*'''LightDM 1.0''' is the first stable release of this faster, extensible Display Manager. LightDM aims to replace the myriad of different DM's with a single [http://xkcd.com/927/ new standard].<br />
*the '''syslog-ng 3.3''' release adds multithreading, JSON and mongodb output to this system logging tool.<br />
*The [http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.0 rpm 4.9] release brings a number of stability and performance improvements to this package manager.<br />
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==== First to ship Google Go, LLVM v3 and CLANG v3 ====<br />
openSUSE is proud to be the first major distribution to ship [http://golang.org/ '''Google's new Go programming language'''] as part of our release. Go is a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language. Go makes it easy to work with multi-core and networked machines and offers flexible and modular program construction mechanisms. While it compiles (quickly) to machine code it has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. Learn more on the [http://golang.org/ Go language website].<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 also comes with the just-released [http://llvm.org/ '''LLVM3 compiler tool'''] and [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], the C/C++ compiler building upon LLVM. LLVM, a set of flexible and performant compiler tools, offers powerful code generation which is used by Mesa for its software based OpenGL "Gallium" graphics driver architecture. It is also employed by the open source ATI and NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers and thus forms an integral part of a high-performance graphics stack on Linux.<br />
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[http://clang.llvm.org/ '''Clang'''] takes advantage of LLVM to provide an fast and memory-efficient GCC-compatible C/C++ code compiler. Clang in openSUSE 12.1 comes with enabled ARM code generation support, in the spirit of the recently started [http://opensuse.org/opensuse:ARMopenSUSE ARMs project]!<br />
Aside from Go and LLVM, openSUSE offers a large number of the latest compilers and tools. openSUSE 12.1 is build with [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''], which has [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_fx4100_gcc&num=1 shown to offer significant performance improvements] over the previous 4.5 version. This release also introduces initial support for the Ada 2012 programming language as well as experimental support for the latest C++11 standard (status can be found [http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/cxx0x_status.html here]).<br />
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This release of GCC, combined with the latest '''binutils 2.21.1''', has allowed us to enable [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''link-time optimization'''] in a number of packages, bringing an additional performance improvement.<br />
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=== Localization ===<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 has been [http://i18n.opensuse.org translated into many languages] - currently about 30 are over 90% complete and no less than 66 languages are in the process of being finished. This openSUSE release has added five Cyrillic fonts. Two of them (PT Sans and PT Serif) beside standard Western, Central European and Cyrillic code pages contain characters of all title languages of Russian Federation that make them unique and a very important tool of modern digital communications.}}<br />
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===Repository changes and third party support for openSUSE 12.1===<br />
Via the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service installation on build.opensuse.org] openSUSE hosts over 160.000 packages created by more than 30.000 individual contributors. These are available to openSUSE users as well as users from other Linux Distributions. But outside of this infrastructure, other projects like VLC and Packman offer their own OBS instance with packages for openSUSE! We highlight a few important projects from build.opensuse.org and third parties.<br />
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====Tumbleweed====<br />
'''Tumbleweed''', the unique [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed|rolling release repository for openSUSE]], can be considered 'complete' at the time of this release. Covering almost all of the openSUSE 12.1 packages, Tumbleweed offers newer versions as soon as they are deemed stable. Instead of making you wait for a new release of openSUSE, Tumbleweed lessens the significance and change impact of major releases by updating systems continuously. By enabling Tumbleweed you are always up to date with the '''latest software'''. And you won’t have to install newer versions of openSUSE as you’ll be running them already by the time they get released!<br />
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Tumbleweed will require its current users to make one manual change to the repositories upon the 12.1 release. Besides the Tumbleweed repository, users are required to have the latest stable openSUSE repositories enabled, currently for most users set at openSUSE 11.4. With the 12.1 release, these will thus have to change. The openSUSE sysadmins have ensured however that this will be the first and last time this has to be changed. From now on there will be a link to the latest stable release, for the convenience of Tumbleweed users. Upon a new release the openSUSE servers will automatically handle the required changes, transparent to the users. For instructions to make these changes, [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed_12.1change|please see here]].<br />
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Find more information [[:en:Tumbleweed|about Tumbleweed here]].<br />
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====Packman====<br />
[[Image:Packman.png|256px|link=|Features]]The well-known third-party [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] repositories for openSUSE already offer openSUSE 12.1 support. '''Packman''' provides four different repositories each offering a targeted selection of software, in addition to the larger common repository. Additional to packages for openSUSE 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, Factory and SLE 11, an essential set of Packman packages is provided for Tumbleweed. Find more information on the [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman website] and [[Paket_Repositorys#Packman| find out how to get software from Packman on the openSUSE wiki]].<br />
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====SUSE Studio====<br />
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'''SUSE Studio''' is a project from openSUSE sponsor SUSE(TM) which builds upon the Free and Open Source openSUSE tools like '''KIWI''' and offers a convenient web interface for easy building of openSUSE and SLE based custom operating systems (appliances).<br />
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[http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] users can expect availability of openSUSE 12.1 right from the release date, and support for upgrading existing appliances shortly after. This means it will be possible to easily create your own versions of openSUSE 12.1 with '''custom package selections''', '''artwork''', '''scripts''' and any other properties and download them as USB or disk images, Live CDs and a variety of popular virtual formats. You can share your appliance or also browse other’s shared appliances on [http://susestudio.com/browse SUSE Gallery].<br />
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====Contrib retired====<br />
The [[:en:openSUSE:Contrib|Contrib]] repository for third-party packages was once a community-driven extension of the main repository. The vast majority of these packages have since been integrated in the main repository or in one of the central additional repositories like the official [[KDE_Repositorys|KDE]] and [[GNOME_Repositorys|GNOME]] repositories. These provide newer versions of the software in the main repositories as well as new or experimental software not yet available in openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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====Packages on the Open Build Service====<br />
If you can not find an application in openSUSE 12.1 you can use the search functionality on [http://software.opensuse.org software.opensuse.org]. If you enable searching in users home projects (under advanced) you can choose from the 160.000 packages provided by our 30.000 packagers using the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service instance on build.opensuse.org].<br />
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====VLC====<br />
The VideoLAN organization continues their robust support for openSUSE, with a 1-click install of the VLC universal media player already available for openSUSE 12.1 at [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html this page].<br />
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=== Latest Free Desktops ===<br />
openSUSE offers both major Free Software desktops as well as a number of community-supported desktops, all with a high level of polish and support. openSUSE 12.1 is the first release to introduce the new '''GNOME Shell''' user interface, part of GNOME 3.2. GNOME Shell brings a vastly refined user experience with a smooth, natural workflow. The default openSUSE desktop, the '''KDE Plasma Desktop''', brings color management and much improved performance as well as the new 'Akonadi' based Kontact2 groupware solution. Current releases of both XFCE and LXDE include minor improvements on the road to their next big releases.<br />
For the first time, the openSUSE community openly selected artwork for openSUSE 12.1; the preferred 'upwind' theme reflects in our new splash, boot and background images . GNOME users will notice that the art team has maintained the trend of providing a time-sensitive set of themed wallpapers.<br />
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==== KDE Plasma Workspaces and applications 4.7 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Workspaces] 4.7 and is the first major Linux distribution to ship the new [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos Color Management Service]. Oyranos and its associated tools add [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management color management] to KDE applications, making sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens. Another major new addition is Apper, an easy to use software management tool replacing KPackageKit. There are also improvements to network management, the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop tool and Activities. In total, this release fixed over 12.000 bugs and contains hundreds of smaller and larger performance improvements.<br />
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The innovative new Tablet project from the KDE community, Plasma Active, is not an integral part of the openSUSE 12.1 release as it depends on functionality not available in the released KDE Platform yet and conflicts with the Desktop and Netbook workspaces. However, tablet users can install Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 and we work on integrating it in the next openSUSE release.<br />
Read on for a more extensive view on what's new in the Desktop, Netbook and application area as well as to learn more about Plasma Active One!<br />
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{|<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114Ksysguard.png|thumb|250px|alt=Plasma Desktop|Plasma Desktop]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114KWin.png|thumb|250px|alt=KDE's KWin window manager features compositing|KWin compositing]]<br />
|}<br />
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=====Plasma Workspaces bring improved visuals with Oyranos CMS=====<br />
openSUSE is the '''first major Linux distribution to ship [http://www.oyranos.org/about/ Oyranos CMS]''' integrated in the KDE applications and workspaces. Oyranos is is an operating system level [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Color Management System], matching input device colors to output device colors across supported applications. Oyranos makes use of the ICC color management standard and is integrated in the KDE Workspaces and applications through the new KolorManager application. The KolorManager application makes sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens.<br />
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Users can now configure their ICC profiles and settings in one central place. It brings as well a set of command line tools like oyranos-policy for handling policy configuration files and oyranos-profiles for installation of ICC profiles. KDE users can install the KolorManager package. This Oyranos front end adds a system settings control panel for individual settings adaption. Most systems will run fine with Oyranos defaults. [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ read more about color management in openSUSE 12.1 on the oyranos website]<br />
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'''Visual improvements'''<br />
On the visual side, KDE's Plasma workspaces provides '''better integration with GTK/GNOME applications''' with a port of KDE's Oxygen style to GTK. The Oxygen icons have been improved and the Plasma panel offers a more consistent look with changes to the icons and the clock. The new Shadow support in window manager '''KWin''' gives a better look on older hardware and performs better all around. KWin also can now disable compositing when a full-screen application calls for it, increasing performance for OpenGL games and GPU accelerated video playback.<br />
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Plasma's Activities have seen many improvements. The '''Activity Manager''' now takes a more prominent place in the default panel in Plasma Desktop. Activities enhance the users' workflows by providing smart ways of grouping applications, widgets and documents.<br />
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Navigating through applications and recent files is easier with the '''addition of breadcrumbs''' to the Kickoff application launcher, helping users to see where they are and quickly back up to higher menu levels. Many other usability and functionality improvements have been made to the Workspaces. For example, '''Konsole''' no longer blocks the removal of USB storage devices and '''KMix''' has improved PulseAudio support. <br />
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'''Network management, multimedia and Nepomuk'''<br />
The Plasma Workspaces now also offer '''much improved network management''', including support for NetworkManager 0.9 as well as Bluetooth tethering, 3G, VPN, MAC spoofing and other advanced networking options.<br />
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Thanks to [http://dot.kde.org/2011/09/21/nepomuk-stability-and-performance generous donations from the community], the Semantic Desktop technology '''Nepomuk has seen extensive bugfixing''', improving stability and performance as well as making it easier to use. Strigi analyzers now read meta-data in their own process, resolving over 35 crash-related bugs in Dolphin and Konqueror.<br />
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The latest version of '''Phonon''', our media framework, has seen work on the backends. The VLC-based back-end is now considered stable and is the preferred back-end for multiplatform use, while the back-end based on GStreamer is now also considered stable on Linux platforms. The xine back-end is no longer maintained.<br />
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=====KDE Applications suite 4.7 features many refinements=====<br />
The latest version of KPackageKit - now renamed '''Apper''' - (developed by [http://dantti.wordpress.com Daniel Nicoletti] ) is now included with Plasma Desktop. This brings significant improvements to the KDE's PackageKit front end and makes it possible to list Applications instead of listing only Packages. This makes openSUSE a lot more user-friendly and closer to Grandma compattible.<br />
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'''Dolphin''', KDE’s file manager, has a cleaner default appearance. The menu bar is hidden, but easy to reach and restore. The file searching interface has been improved. In addition, Dolphin now has much deeper integration with source code management systems, including the ability to create and clone repositories, push and pull changes, view diffs and much more.<br />
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Dolphin and Konqueror both benefit from a new plugin that provides a '''rating and an annotation menu action''' for files and folders, leveraging Nepomuk capabilities. <br />
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Image management has become easier with '''Gwenview''', the KDE image viewer, now offering the ability to compare two or more pictures side by side. From the browse mode, select two or more pictures, and then switch to the view mode or to the full-screen mode. In the view mode, you can add more pictures from the thumbnail bar.<br />
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Comic fans will be pleased that Okular, the universal file viewer, gains support for reading a directory as a comicbook.<br />
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'''KStars''', the essential KDE application for stargazers around the world, has gained a feature to predict a star hopping route and dynamic switching between its OpenGL and native rendering backends. Labels can now be assigned to points on celestial lines; comet trails are rendered in OpenGL mode. Mathematicians and scientists can now explore higher order functions in Kalgebra and get information on oxidation states for elements in Kalzium. <br />
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'''KDM''', the display manager, has gained ''GRUB2'' support. A user with multiple operating systems in their GRUB2 menu can now choose which one to reboot to in the shutdown dialog by holding down the mouse button on their reboot choice. <br />
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'''Marble''', the virtual globe application, has gained many improvements over the past eight months. It now has voice navigation support, a map creation wizard, and new plug-ins. Following the Voice of Marble contest, '''voice navigation''' is now available in several languages, with voices provided by the KDE community. For more details, see Marble's [http://edu.kde.org/marble/current_1.2.php visual changelog]. <br />
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Other applications such as Kate, Kalzium, KAlgebra, KStars, and KDevelop have also been updated in this release. Changes and improvements to some other major applications from the KDE community can be found in the [Product_highlights#New_and_updated_applications|applications section].<br />
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Find more information on what is new in the Plasma Workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Platform in the [http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.7/ announcement by KDE].<br />
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|[[Image:OpenSUSE114KDENetbookPages.png|thumb|250px|alt=KDE Netbook features scrollable widget pages|Plasma Netbook widgets]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114kdeNetbookSAL.png|thumb|250px|alt=Search and Launch interface in Plasma Netbook|Plasma Netbook search and launch interface]]<br />
|}<br />
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=====Plasma Active One is optionally available=====<br />
The fresh and innovative [http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active Plasma Active] interface for tablets and mobile devices is available for openSUSE 12.1. It is not an integral part of this release as it still depends on a number of unreleased technologies but we plan to have Plasma Active as part of openSUSE 12.2.<br />
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'''Plasma Active'''<br />
Plasma Active aims at creating a cross-device user experience for emerging devices such as tablet computers, media centers, smartphones, and more. It builds on the Linux stack with X11, Qt and the KDE libraries. The user interface is designed using Plasma Quick, a declarative markup language allowing for organic user interface design based on Qt Quick.<br />
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The first release, [http://kde.org/announcements/plasma-active-one/ Plasma Active One] fully focuses on tablet computers. Plasma Active Tablet's user experience is designed around the web, social networks and multimedia content. Packages for openSUSE are offered in the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=KDE%3AActive Plasma Active] repository.<br />
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==== GNOME 3.2 ====<br />
After shipping a technical preview of [http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ GNOME 3] with 11.4, openSUSE 12.1 replaces the GNOME 2.x series with the latest GNOME 3.2 desktop to the openSUSE GNOME users. With many improvements based on the feedback of the openSUSE community and the wider Free Software community, numerous usability and application changes have been incorporated.<br />
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'''GNOME Shell''' brings a fresh user-interface that is designed from the scratch to satisfy the needs of today's users. The interface focuses on getting out of the way and providing unobtrusive yet powerful notifications and deep integration of calendar, chat and other technologies. The UI elements and workflows are designed to be touch-friendly for use on tablets or desktops with a touch screen. By using the 3D acceleration capabilities provided by most of the computers these days, pleasing animations are used to give users an aesthetic look and feel and a much easier way of switching between applications. Read on for more details on what's new in GNOME 3.2.<br />
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===== What's new in GNOME Shell 3.2 =====<br />
Various minor tweaks and major features are incorporated into this release based on user feedback. openSUSE 12.1 ships the alt-status-menu extension to make various computer operations easily accessible. Some examples:<br />
*It is now easier to resize windows and titlebars, buttons and other controls are a bit less tall, making GNOME easier to use on small screens.<br />
* Notifications now include a counter so you can see how many mails or chats messages are waiting for you and Shell now also shows media device notifications.<br />
* The focus-follows-mouse feature has been improved and while it's not perfect yet, it will suffice for most usecases.<br />
* The System Settings have been improved, showing links to other relevant settings and has integrated color management<br />
* GNOME Shell battery power status now shows how much power you have left<br />
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===== Communication in GNOME Shell =====<br />
Compared to any prior release of GNOME, the instant messaging workflow is much improved in GNOME Shell 3.2. You can receive chats, reply to messages, approve / deny friendship requests, call requests, all without having to launch the IM application explicitly. You can change the status of your machine from a centralized place so that all the IM accounts reflect the status change. Error and new message notifications are so well integrated in GNOME shell so that you won't have focus stealing popups but only unobtrusive animations notifying you what is going on.<br />
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A new "Online Accounts" feature enables users to create online accounts. Accounts created will be seamlessly available for various applications throughout the desktop experience. For example, if you create a Google Account, your Google Docs documents will be available in the new Document browser, your Google contacts will be available in empathy for IM, and the calendar shows your appointments. http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/gnome-documents-google.png.en<br />
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[[Image:114_screenshots_gnome_desktop_generic.png|thumb|250px||The GNOME 2.32 Desktop]]<br />
[http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2] <br />
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===== What's new in the GNOME 3.2 Applications =====<br />
The new GNOME 3 libraries bring many improvements to GNOME 3 applications. Some examples:<br />
* File open dialogs in applications now show a list of recent files and directories<br />
* Better performance and a new theme<br />
* A redesigned Font chooser dialog<br />
* A new on-screen keyboard and a number of other accessibility enhancements<br />
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Moreover, the individual applications have seen many features and bugfixes, read on for a quick overview.<br />
A new people-focused '''Contacts"' application is shipped which can work with Evolution and Empathy in the background, providing you with a unified addressbook for your desktop. <br />
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'''Empathy''', the GNOME IM application has got a lot of improvements. You can easily search your logs visually filtering on various parameters such as Who, When.<br />
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http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/empathy-log.png.en NetworkManager-gnome version 0.9 provides fast user switching, improved WiFi roaming, WiMAX support, flexible permissions and centralized storage of network connection information.<br />
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Not to be left out of the party, GNOME 3.2 includes robust color management support as well, including the new GNOME Color Manager wizard for calibrating displays using either ICC profiles or a Huey hardware colorimeter. [http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-color-manager/screenshots.html]<br />
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File manager '''Nautilus''' has seen a major overhaul for GNOME 3, with an improved Places sidebar, a new ''Connect to server'' dialog and a quick preview function which can be triggered by 'space'.<br />
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Many smaller improvements include new and configurable effects in the Webcam application '''Cheese''', bookmark support in PDF viewer '''Evince''', plugins for image viewer '''Eye of GNOME''' and improved streaming support for video and audio in media player Totem.<br />
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Read more about [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2 in the official announcement] and find more GNOME applications in the sections below.<br />
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{|<br />
|[[Image:openSUSE114GNOME3Shell.png|thumb|200px|A blank GNOME Shell workspace]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114gnome3_windows.png|thumb|200px|Shell managing your windows]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114GNOME3Search.png|thumb|200px|GNOME Shell integrates search]]<br />
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==== LXDE 0.5 ====<br />
This release of openSUSE comes with LXDE 0.5. There have been no major updates to this lightweight desktop for a while but minor improvements and bugfixes have been integrated.<br />
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|[[Image:114_screenshots_lxde_menu.png|thumb|200px|LXDE Menu]]<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_lxde_filemanager_configuration.png|thumb|200px|LXDE File Manager & Configuration]]<br />
|}<br />
==== Xfce 4.8 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships ''''Xfce 4.8''''. All Xfce components have been updated to the latest bugfix releases. The desktop has been polished further in terms of integration and branding. LightDM is now the default display manager reducing the dependencies on core GNOME components. The functionality provided in the default install should now be on par with GNOME/KDE desktops.<br />
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{|<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_xfce_menu.png|thumb|250px|The Xfce Desktop and the menu]]<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_xfce_filemanager_configuration.png|thumb|250px|The Tunar filemanager and XFCE configuration]]<br />
|}<br />
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Please use up-to-date screenshot from http://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots_12.1#Xfce_4.8<br />
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=== New and updated applications ===<br />
On top of the kernel and other low-level tools, openSUSE provides a huge variety of console and graphical applications. These applications have been updated to the latest versions bringing many improvements in terms of features and bugfixes.<br />
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====Web browsers====<br />
The web is important for modern computer users, and openSUSE has you covered with a selection of browsers Free Software has to offer. We ship a much faster Firefox, an innovative Opera, a well integrated Epiphany and a more stable Rekonq. New is Chromium, the fast and easy to use browser from Google. These browsers provide a wide range of rendering engines supporting the latest web standards. Read on to find out what is new in these browsers since we brought to you in openSUSE 11.4!<br />
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'''Firefox 7'''<br /><br />
Since Firefox 4.0 in openSUSE 11.4, the project has moved to a more rapid release schedule and thus we present you with Mozilla's latest Firefox 7.0.1. Firefox has introduced support for new privacy features like do-not-track and much improved developer tools in the new 'web developer' menu. End users will appreciate the many smaller and larger usability improvements like the URL bar highlighting the website domain and hiding the prefix. Last but not least, each subsequent Firefox release brought better performance, from faster loading of tabs to the large memory management improvements in Firefox 7 and of course support for the latest web standards.<br />
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'''Chromium 16'''<br /><br />
Chromium, meet openSUSE 12.1 users. Users, meet Chromium. This venerable WebKit based web browser from Google is quickly gaining popularity and thus had to become part of the openSUSE distribution. With its simplified interface, great integration with Google services, separate processes so a crashing site can not take down the browser and the fastest JavaScript engine in the world, it will impress you with it's speed and ease of use. The rapid release cycle of Chromium is hard to track - we ensure the latest is always available on your system so you don't have to worry about security or not being able to work with the latest websites.<br />
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'''Opera 11.52'''<br /><br />
Opera 11.52 brings much improved Opera Link to sync your passwords between system and a better Speed Dial which now supports extensions, small webpages embedded in your Speed Dial. Another new feature is the Location support on websites like Google Maps. Opera also uses far less memory now and became a fair bit more stable. Of course this release supports the latest HTML 5 and CSS 3 standards and features a faster JavaScript engine and smoother graphics.<br />
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'''Rekonq 0.8'''<br /><br />
With Rekonq 0.8, openSUSE ships a second WebKit based browser. Build on Qt and the KDE Platform this new release takes advantage of the many improvements in QtWebKit 2.2, bringing better stability and performance. New features include the Do-Not-Track feature, availability of history in restored tabs, and Third Party rule support in AdBlock. usability has been given attention with much improved drag'n'drop support, an new SSL UI, optional VI-style navigation and improved URL bar handling.<br />
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'''Epiphany from GNOME 3.2'''<br /><br />
The third WebKit based browser, this time from the GNOME community, Epiphany, allows you to create Web Application links. These Web Applications show up in the application view of GNOME Shell and act very much like real applications, opening links in new web browser windows and not showing a navigation bar or tabs. They also run in a process separate from the browser, so that crashes of Epiphany do not affect your web applications.<br />
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====Office and desktop publishing applications====<br />
openSUSE helps you get work done by providing a stable base and up to date productivity tools. The latest LibreOffice brings new features in most components as well as speed and stability improvements to this enterprise ready office suite. While Abiword, Gnumeric and KOffice are still at their latest stable versions, our additional repositories offer the innovative Calligra application suite as a choice.<br />
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'''Libreoffice 3.4.3'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://XXXX.org '''Libreoffice'''] release brings a large number of small additions and improvements like the ability to add and remove color charts, a named range as data source and supporting an unlimited number of fields in the DataPilot (now named Pivot Table), Greek Character mode for numbering in Writer and much more. As usual, much performance work was done decreasing the size of LibreOffice and improving startup speed. Text rendering and theming have received a major overhaul, making LibreOffice fitting better in your desktop.<br />
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'''Scribus 1.4'''<br /><br />
[http://www.scribus.net '''Scribus'''] is the major Open Source Desktop Publishing tool available for Linux. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation. openSUSE ships a release candidate of Scribus 1.4 which has a large number of stability fixes over the release in openSUSE 11.4.<br />
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'''Calligra 2.4 beta 3'''<br /><br />
The new [http://www.calligra-suite.org/ Calligra Suite], the successor of KOffice in openSUSE is not yet part of this release. However most users report the current beta's to be of '''better quality than the latest KOffice release''' and the openSUSE packagers have thus committed to provide a repository which will offer the latest Calligra releases.<br />
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Specifically '''targeting students and academic users''' with the productivity part, Calligra brings much improved text handling and rendering, state of the art '''import support for the Microsoft XML formats''' and many stability and usability improvements to all applications. Words introduces handling of citations and bibliographies and an automatically updating Table of Content, better text tables, footer- and header support and much more. Presentation application Stage has a new slide sorter and easier editing of notes with slides. Project Management application Plan introduces many new chart printing options and improved import from external data sources. Tables has improved support for large tables, rotated text, many new formulas, improved Microsoft Excel file support and much faster loading.<br />
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Calligra also introduces two new applications: <br />
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*Flow is a diagramming and flowcharting application in the spirit of Visio.<br />
*Braindump is a note taking application that builds on the Calligra core and uses the full power of the openDocument Format to allow for text, images and even multimedia in the notes.<br />
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Find a [http://www.calligra-suite.org/news/calligra-2-4-snapshot-1-tour/ Calligra Tour here].<br />
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You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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====Communication and groupware====<br />
Of course, openSUSE ships a wide variety of groupware and Personal Information Management (PIM) solutions like email clients, chat applications, calendar tools and more.<br />
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'''KDE PIM'''<br /><br />
Kontact, KDE’s groupware solution, has most components now ported to Akonadi. Once the initial bugs are ironed out, this will offer increased stability and performance, better connection to new services and sharing of communication information between more applications. The biggest change is the introduction of KMail 2. This application has the familiar interface, while under the surface, all mail storage and retrieval has been ported to use the powerful Akonadi cache.<br />
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The openSUSE KDE team has put '''significant efforts''' in ensuring a smooth upgrade to KMail 2 but this is a significant change and the team will keep an eye out for further issues. Bugfixes will be provided through updates and users are encouraged to report problems and update their systems frequently.<br />
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It should be noted that the move from KMail1 to KMail2 requires the '''import/conversion of email data to Akonadi'''. This process can take considerable time, measuring up to a day on slow systems with multiple gigabyte-sized mailboxes. It is possible to, instead of doing a migration, doing a clean start by moving the current data from the ~.kde4/share/apps/kmail to a backup location. If you have your data stored on a server and it is only cached locally this should not cause you to loose data. In case of a downloading POP mail account, however, you will have to use the conversion process or import your mail separately.<br />
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Also note that '''Akonadi is a cache''', not a permanent storage system. This means that your mail should remain where it is - be it on a server or in a local folder. Akonadi will store a '''copy''' in its database, as well as extra information like ratings and the like, for fast search and retrieval. This essentially replaces the internal cache KMail1 employed for this purpose. Due to this design, Akonadi is very unlikely to lose user data as it normally operates on a copy of it. Of course, actions like moving or removing mails are synced back to the original mail storage!<br />
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'''Evolution 3.2.1'''<br /><br />
Evolution provides integrated mail, address book and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop. Version 3.2.1 has been ported over to the GNOME 3 infrastructure and offers a number of small improvements and bugfixes over the previous release. Also new in the openSUSE 12.1 Evolution is the Exchange Connector for Evolution, compatible with Exchange 2007 and later, allowing Evolution to work with Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010. Evolution also works with the Google contacts, calendar and mail services.<br />
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'''Thunderbird 7.0.1'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird] email client shipped with openSUSE brings delivers faster performance, safer email experience, and a new add-ons manager. With over 390improvements and performance enhancements, Thunderbird is more responsive, starts faster and is easier to use than ever.<br />
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For example, the interface improvements like the improved RSS feeds and better Attachment management make handling your news and mail easier. Tabs can now be re-ordered or dragged into a new window and Thunderbird gives you control over the look and functionality of your email client with a gallery of hundreds of add-ons. The new Add-ons manager allows you to search the gallery in Thunderbird to install, remove, and manage the Add-ons. This release also adds support for technologies that make it easier for developers to build some of these amazing Add-ons, such as the Lightning Calendar, Conversation View, and Open Search.<br />
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====Multimedia====<br />
openSUSE comes with a number of prominent multimedia applications like the Amarok, Banshee and Rythmbox music players, DigiKam and Shotwell photo managers and the Marble virtual globe. Each of those has seen new releases with new features and bugfixes.<br />
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=====Music Players=====<br />
openSUSE comes with a large number of music players, from the well known Rythmbox, Banshee and Amarok to the less prominent like Juk, Totem, KMplayer, Dragon and Bangarang.<br />
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'''Banshee 2.2'''<br /><br />
The new [http://banshee.fm '''Banshee'''] comes with with lots of new extensions like an alarmclock, albumart writer, ampache, duplicated sound detector, jamendo, karaoke, live radio, lyrics and more. Other improvements include the ability to not only queue songs but also artists and albums and having the ability to play a queued song immediately after the current. There has been a number of UI improvements like putting the search next to the volume button, smaller icons in the source list, hidden counts for the libraries, named group separators and a resizable seek slider and search entry. Podcasts episodes are now shown in a grid, with several lines of description shown to help you find an appealing episode to enjoy.<br />
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'''Amarok 2.4.3 and Clementine 0.7.3'''<br /><br />
[http://amarok.kde.org '''Amarok'''] introduces improved Dynamic Playlists and Internet Services including integration with Gpodder.net. The user interface has been improved with better drag and drop, automatic scrolling in the lyrics applet and the ability to scrobble the composer as artist to last.fm. Otherwise, many bugs have been crushed and performance has improved a bit. For those not fond of the direction Amarok took with the 2.0 release, openSUSE ships [http://www.clementine-player.org '''Clementine 0.7.3'''] which in this version brings a new edit tag dialog which offers autocompletion and automatic music identification and missing-tag-fetching. CUE sheets are now supported, detected automatically and tracks will show up separately. Album covers are shown in the Library tab, deleted songs greyed out and much more.<br />
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=====Photo managers, editors and painting applications=====<br />
openSUSE ships with a large number of graphics and painting applications. There have been major versions of DigiKam and Blender as well as minor improvements to most of the other applications. openSUSE 12.1 also comes with lots of ICC color management Profiles ready to go.<br />
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'''DigiKam 2.2'''<br />
openSUSE 12.1 features the release of '''DigiKam''', the result of more than a year of hard work since the DigiKam version in openSUSE 11.4. This version features long awaited technologies like face detection and recognition, image versioning support, XMP metadata sidecar files support, big improvements in tagging and marking photos, reversed geotagging and many other improvements, including a total of 258 fixed bugs.<br />
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Close companion Kipi-plugins is released along with DigiKam 2.2. This release features new export tools to three web services - Yandex.Fotki, MediaWiki and Rajce. The GPSSync plugin now has the ability to do reverse-geocoding. Also new is a plugin which is dedicated to creating photo album-like layouts. Finally, there has been extensive bugfixing.<br />
Find out more about DigiKam and read articles with tips and tricks [http://www.digikam.org/ on the DigiKam website].<br />
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'''Inkscape 4.8.2'''<br />
[http://inkscape.org Inkscape] is a powerful vector graphics editor using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. It supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. The latest stable 4.8.2 version introduces a number of critical bugfixes and improvements to openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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This release is feature complete, offering the powerful UI, animation tools, rigging, modeling, shading, physics and particle tools and everything else Blender is known for.<br />
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'''Shotwell 0.11.5'''<br />
The [http://yorba.org/shotwell/ '''Shotwell'' photo organizer handles pictures based on a timeline. It also offers tagging and rating features and a host of image editing functions like rotating, cropping and adjustment of exposure, saturation and more. It can import photos from most cameras and from folders and publish photos and videos to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, and YouTube. The latest release introduces hierarchical trees for the tags, a new plugin framework, improved printing, a new crop tool and a new search bar as well as many smaller improvements to the user interface. New is also support for paired JPEG and RAW images, BMP, TIFF and other formats, and improved rendering of RAW files. This release also does automatic backups of the database and allows you to save searches.<br />
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'''F-spot 0.8.2-14'''<br />
The easy to use '''F-spot''' photo manager features a very simple interface combined with powerful search, import, browse and edit functionality. Advanced capabilities are exporting EXIF and XMP metadata to your images, versioning of changes in the image editor and quite complete import functionality. This release does not introduce major new features or improvements.<br />
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'''GIMP 2.6.11'''<br />
[http://www.gimp.org/ '''GIMP'''] is a versatile graphics manipulation package offering a customizable interface and a large number of plugins to modify and improve photos. It can work with a huge variety of fileformats. 2.6.11 brings bugfixes for this popular photo manipulation program as well as some minor usability and performance improvements.<br />
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'''Krita and Karbon 2.4 Beta3'''<br />
Two applications, part of the upcoming [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4] release, should not be missed in this overview. While they are not included in the standard openSUSE repositories, they offer some unique benefits many people will apreciate.<br />
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[http://krita.org '''Krita'''] is a sketching and painting tool, offering an end–to–end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters. Fields of painting that Krita explicitly supports are concept art, creation of comics and textures for rendering. Modelled on existing real-world painting materials and workflows, Krita supports creative working by getting out of the way and with snappy response. Developed in close collaboration with a number of artists Krita 2.4 brings many user interface improvements as well as much better performance. New functionality like the ability to share patterns, gradients and brushes over the web and the huge number of unique brushes solidify Krita's position as the '''premier Free Software sketching and drawing application'''.<br />
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The Karbon vector graphics application, also part of [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4], has much better '''support for the SVG standard''' and introduces many new filters and effects while improving on its stability.<br />
You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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=====Video editors and 3D modelling=====<br />
Out of the box, openSUSE does not ship multimedia support due to legal and patent worries in a number of countries. However, if it is legal for you to play your music and video's you can find information on the [http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia openSUSE-community Multimedia] and [http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats Restricted formats] pages on how to obtain the needed codecs. The [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] project which offers the codecs also packages a number of related applications like the excellent [http://www.kdenlive.org/ Kdenlive] and [http://www.openshotvideo.com/ openshot] video editors.<br />
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'''Kdenlive 0.8.2'''<br />
'''Kdenlive''' claims to be the most advanced video editor available on Linux today. It supports virtually any camera and codec thanks to the [http://www.ffmpeg.org/ FFMPEG] and [http://www.mltframework.org/ MLT] frameworks it builds upon. It is a multitrack editor with a timeline and an unlimited number of video and audio tracks. Thanks to the [http://www.piksel.org/frei0r Frei0r] framework Kdenlive offers a large number of effects and transitions and lets you add your own. It renders videos in a separate thread while you keep working and allows you to pause, stop and restart rendering. The latest 0.8.2 version fixes over 140 stability issues and introduces an automated backup feature to avoid the loss of any data. Check the [http://www.kdenlive.org/users/j-b-m/kdenlive-082-released announcement] for more information.<br />
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'''OpenShot 1.4'''<br />
The '''OpenShot''' video editor has a more easy to use interface and offers features like 3D animations, HD video support as well as Clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, and cutting, Video transitions with real-time previews, Compositing, image overlays, watermarks, Title templates, title creation, sub-titles and support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences. [http://vimeo.com/29465427 watch the video of the 1.4 release] or [http://www.openshot.org/features/ check out the openshot features] online.<br />
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'''Audacity 1.3.13'''<br />
For audio editing, '''Audacity''' offers a powerful set of features. Audacity lets you record live audio or convert existing music into digital data. It can also edit files, mixing the music or changing it with a variety of effects. These include echo, a fase changer, equalization, normalization and a number of effects to clean up hiss, noise and other mess. Additional plugins are availble with the VST and LADSPA plug-ins compatibility. Recording up to 96Khz, 32 bit is available with high quality sample rate conversion and there is a number of spectrum analysis tools for your viewing pleasure.<br />
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This release, while part of the beta series, is quite stable. Compared to the 1.3.12 version in the previous openSUSE release there has been a number of improvements to the effects, a new Device Toolbar showing all input and output devices has been introduced and the new "Sync-lock Tracks" feature allows groups of audio and/or label tracks to retain synchronisation when the track length changes. There has also been a fair number of bugfixes and some other smaller improvements.<br />
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'''PiTiVi 0.15'''<br />
openSUSE does ship the simple [http://www.pitivi.org/ '''PiTiVi''' video editor in the main repositories. PiTiVi is more intuitive and easy to use video editor compared to OpenShot and Kdenlive but does not offer the depth of in- and output formats, camera support and effects the others do.<br />
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'''Blender 2.59'''<br />
The well known [http://www.blender.org Blender] 3D content creation suite (3D modeller and video editor) is also part of openSUSE 12.1 with the stable 2.59 version. This third stable release in the 2.5 series brings big improvements in stability with many hundreds of bugs fixed. There is also a number of new features, including 3D mouse support and many UI improvements like the custom keymaps support and the camera locking. Sculpting, the warp modifier and the node editor have also been heavily improved.<br />
The biggest changes in the addons include:<br />
*the new Ivy Generator can grow curves over an existing mesh, <br />
*the Sapling addon generates trees<br />
*Mesh inset can inset individual faces or a selected region.<br />
*Grease scatter can scatter objects along predefined lines<br />
*much, much more. <br />
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openSUSE of course delivers far more multimedia applications to you, from the GStreamer framework to less known music players and a myriad of tools.<br />
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====Security and administration tools====<br />
openSUSE has always been a powertool for system adminstrators around the world and openSUSE 12.1 builds on this strong foundation. It is not only the powerful YaST which is appreciated but also the many tools available with openSUSE. This release brings major improvements to AppArmor, the new Shorewall gateway/firewall configuration application, a big update to the Performance Co-Pilot tool, an extended WebYaST and much more.<br />
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'''AppArmor 2.7 rc1'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships with the latest available [http://apparmor.net AppArmor] to ensure sys admins can easily secure their servers. [http://www.suse.com/support/security/apparmor/ Initially developed by SUSE], AppArmor is part of the Linux kernel now and openSUSE has the userspace components available. It is only in these userspace components that AppArmor ships changes compared to the previous release in openSUSE 11.4. Major features since AppArmor 2.5 include a working desktop notifier and automatic profile update for samba shares. And of course many other profile updates, bugfixes and better performance.<br />
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'''Shorewall 4.4.24'''<br /><br />
New in openSUSE from the Open Build Service is the [http://shorewall.net/Introduction.html Shoreline Firewall configuration tool]. This application offers a very powerful but still rather high-level interface to configure Netfilter through editing a series of configuration files. Upon starting Shorewall, it will read the files and with help of the iptables and other security utils configure Netfilter and the Linux networking subsystem to match your requirements, building a firewal, router or gateway. Find a list of [http://www.shorewall.net/4.4/shorewall_features.htm features of Shorewall here].<br />
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[[Image:WebYaST_Screenshot.png|thumb|250px||WebYast in action]]<br />
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'''Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) 3.5.8 and the PCP GUI charting tools.'''<br /><br />
The [http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/ performance co-pilot] is a heavy-duty performance monitoring tool. It is specifically build to find the harder type of system-level performance problems. It is capable of correlating end-user quality of service with platform activity and diagnosing complex interactions between resource demands on single or multiple systems in dynamic environments. This release is a significant upgrade over what was shipped in openSUSE 11.4, bringing a host of new features and improvements like support for distributed event tracing, transparent support for compressed archives in the client tools, Integrated pmieconf and pmlogconf utilities for automating management of pmie/pmlogger configuration files, Linux kernel control group metrics, per-node CPU metrics, XFS btree metrics and some Postfix updates.<br />
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'''WebYaST'''<br /><br />
The latest version of WebYaST has many improvements regarding speed, memory usage, usability and developing environment. Due a new caching mechanism the startup time of each module has been decreased to a maximum of 1-2 seconds. Former versions of WebYaST were split into a service and into an UI part. Each part has run in a own HTTP server. We have decided to bring these parts together in order to save one HTTP server which halves the memory usage.<br />
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====Virtualization, Cloud and web applications====<br />
openSUSE is an excellent guest OS for the cloud, as anyone who ever uses [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] can agree with. Nowhere is it as easy to build a cloud solution and openSUSE is now ready for the '''Amazon EC2 cloud''' by having a special EC2 kernel and suse-ami-tools in the default repositories.<br />
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But openSUSE can also be an excellent host and contains a fair number of virtualization and cloud tools. Most prominent is OwnCloud, which is shipped with unique desktop integration in openSUSE. What is not available in the default repositories can be found in the special [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualization and Cloud repository], where openSUSE contributors package and maintain '''Eucalyptus''', '''OpenNebula''' and '''OpenStack''' for openSUSE 12.1. <br />
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'''OwnCloud 2'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 delivers OwnCloud, the web-based storage application. OwnCloud is different from solutions like Google Docs, Dropbox or Ubuntu One in that it lets '''you own the data'''. With version 2, the ownCloud team has improved the basic service and added valuable features:<br />
* Secure file sharing<br />
* Improved web access including the ability to play music<br />
* Synchronization with other web application tools<br />
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openSUSE ships OwnCloud with a unique system tray based tool which can:<br />
* Install a new ownCloud locally or in a webspace<br />
* Connect your system to an existing ownCloud<br />
* give you assistance to set up mirrored folders<br />
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'''virtualization technologies'''<br /><br />
The new '''Xen 4.1''' release brings support for large systems (>255 processors and 1GB/2MB super page support), CPU Pools for advanced partitioning, prototype credit2 scheduler designed for latency-sensitive workloads and very large systems, a re-architected XL toolstack that is functionally nearly equivalent to XM/XEND, support for x86 Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX), new Memory Access API enabling integration of 3rd party security solutions into Xen virtualized environments and even better stability through the new automated regression tests.<br />
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The lastest version of '''KVM''' provides live migration from one host to another, guest swapping, paravirtualized networking and block devices and PCI-Express passthrough.<br />
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The new 4.1 series '''VirtualBox''' release brings new features like VM cloning, enhanced wizard for creating and copying virtual disks, raised memory limit to 1TB for 64 bit hosts and a couple of experimental featuers like PCI passthrough or SATA hard disk hot-plugging.<br />
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'''Virtualization tools'''<br /><br />
The latest release of '''virt-manager''' (supported by libvirt) brings new VM features including new VM wizard support for LCX guests, remote serial console access and remote URL guest installs.<br />
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The recent version of '''open-vm-tools''' provides integration (shared folders, drag and drop, clipboard sharing, automatic guest resolution resizing, etc.) with the VMware tools.<br />
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'''Horde 4.0.8'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the latest Horde 4 groupware server and framework! Horde 4 is the first release in over 6 years and brings major improvements to all applications of the suite as well as to the framework itself. <br />
Some of the more significant changes from Horde 3 to 4 include a requirement for PHP 5.2 or higher, a new Ajax interface and a new test suite. The complete framework has been modernized and cleaned up and the libraries are better separated and Unit tested.<br />
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The most important things users will notice are the e improved setup and upgrade processes, an Ajax interface for the calendar, and an improved interface for the complete application stack.<br />
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Horde offers a large number of web applications including a webmail tool (part of the Horde Groupware Webmail Edition) complete with WYSIWYG HTML editor, IMAP and POP3 support, message search and filtering, spell check, attachment viewer, encryption and signing, keyboard navigation, threaded view and previews, downloading of attachments in a ZIP file and much more.<br />
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There is now basic social media support with Facebook and Twitter integration and there is an Active Sync server component which can synchronize with iPhones and Android devices. The existing SyncML support already took care of most Nokia phones. The last missing piece is CalDAV support for calendar sharing, which is planned for the future.<br />
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== Development tools and platforms (GNOME/GTK, KDE/Qt,..., etc) ==<br />
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===IDEs and toolchain===<br />
openSUSE offers a complete and productive environment for developers and packagers. With stable tools and updated libraries available through [http://build.opensuse.org OBS], developers can easily develop using multiple programming languages and create packages for multiple distributions.<br />
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====KDevelop====<br />
For software developers, KDevelop has gained support for predefined indentation styles and a Python interpreter using Kross. Improved Python auto-completion and support for lex/yacc file extensions are also included in this release.<br />
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====Kate====<br />
KDE’s Advanced Text Editor, Kate has seen quite a number of improvements, including:<br />
* New Search Plugin with the ability to search in files on disk or opened files <br />
* Plugin improvements: Build Plugin, GDB Plugin<br />
* Kate’s tab bar plugins gained several new features<br />
* Swap files: If lost data is found, documents are marked as read-only<br />
* Further noteworthy changes: Improved printing, change of line ending triggers modified flag, fixed shortcut issues, fixed auto completion popup, and more.<br />
For more information, see [http://kate-editor.org/2011/07/09/kate-in-kde-4-7/ this blog].<br />
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===KDE Platform===<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships with the latest stable '''Qt 4.7.4''' and the '''KDE Platform 4.7.2''', giving developers the best from these powerful cross-platform development libraries.<br />
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'''KDE Platform 4.7 '''<br /><br />
This release of KDE's development platform is an incremental release, bringing many bugfixes and small improvements to technologies like the build-in WebKit browser engine, system wide Proxy support and the Phonon Multimedia engine. Developer-visible changes include:<br />
* Improvements to the Semantic Desktop components offering a richer API for applications<br />
* The option to suspend compositing in KWin whenever an application calls for it to improve performance in OpenGL games and GPU-accelerated video playback.<br />
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For details on the KDE Platform 4.7 release see [http://kde.org/announcements/4.7/platform.php the KDE platform release notes].<br />
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'''Qt 4.7 introduces QtQuick'''<br /><br />
Qt 4.7.4 is a '''bugfix release''' over the release shipped with openSUSE 11.4. <br />
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However, it does introduce some powerful features including the official release of [http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/01/qt-quick-is-here QtQuick], a new feature within Qt that makes it easy to create light-weight apps and UIs. It contains the new QML language, a simple to learn declarative language for building dynamic and fluid interfaces, the Qt Declarative module and new tooling in Qt Creator to easily build apps.<br />
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QtQuick 1.1 brings Right-to-Left support, improved caching and text input and a declarative API for handling touch input. There is also the new QML Sharders plugin which allows developers to embed OpenGL sharder effects in QML apps.<br />
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=== GNOME platform improvements ===<br />
For further details, seee [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ the GNOME 3.2 release notes].<br />
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==== New features and functionality ====<br />
Included in openSUSE 12.1 is the latest release of the GNOME Developer Platform. This consists of a set of API- and ABI-stable libraries available under the GNU LGPL that can be used for the development of cross-platform applications.<br />
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For information on developing with GNOME please visit the [http://developer.gnome.org GNOME Developer Center].<br />
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'''GLib 2.30'''<br /><br />
GNOME's low-level software utility library GLib has seen various improvements, some of which are:<br />
* GApplication can now be used for non-unique applications.<br />
* GDBus supports the 'object manager' pattern with a number of new interfaces and has a code generator: gdbus-codegen.<br />
* An interface for certificate and key lookup has been added: GTlsDatabase. An implementation is provided by glib-networking.<br />
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'''GTK+ 3.2'''<br /><br />
GTK+ 3.2 is the latest release of the GTK+ toolkit, which is at the heart of GNOME. GTK+ 3.2 includes new features for developers, as well as extensive bug fixes. <br />
* Many more widgets support height-for-width geometry management. It is important to set reasonable sizes on labels and check window sizes.<br />
* New widgets include GtkLockButton for privileged operations, GtkOverlay for floating controls over a content area, the new GtkFontChooserDialog and more.<br />
* There is also improved CSS theming support and the HTML backend Broadway, which renders a GTK3 application in a browser. It is still experimental and requires compiling with --enable-broadway-backend and environment varialbe GDK_BACKEND at runtime.<br />
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'''Clutter 1.8'''<br /><br />
GNOME's graphics library for hardware-accelerated user interfaces Clutter provides, among other things, the following improvements: <br />
* New actions including Gesture and swipe detection, creating drop actors and long-press support for ClutterClickAction. <br />
* ClutterState transitions can be bound to object signals when creating a scene in ClutterScript. <br />
* Cogl, the GPU programming interface used by Clutter, is exposed as a separate library. <br />
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'''Use of Deprecated Libraries'''<br /><br />
Further progress has been made in the continuous work of replacing outdated technologies with superior facilities. Some examples:<br />
* GConf now uses D-Bus. As a consequence, the deprecated libraries ORBit2 and libIDL have been removed from GNOME. Many applications using GConf have been ported to gsettings.<br />
* GNOME core modules now only depend on introspection-based Python bindings (pygobject-3) and hence pygtk, gnome-python and gnome-python-desktop are not required anymore.<br />
* Several packages, such as the Epiphany web browser, have been converted from using dbus-glib to GDBus and from libunique to G(tk)Application.<br />
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'''Miscellaneous Developer Updates'''<br /><br />
Other GNOME Platform improvements in GNOME 3.2 include: <br />
* GNOME's build tool JHBuild does not build a module anymore if the version installed on your system is recent enough. If you start to build GNOME from scratch with a recent distribution, this can easily drop 50 modules from the list of modules to compile.<br />
* Tracker version 0.12 provides support for Firefox ≥ 4.0, Thunderbird ≥ 5.0, MeeGoTouch, several additional SPARQL parameters, extracting information from EPub files, and local XDG directories for desktop files. <br />
* NetworkManager version 0.9 provides introspection support and a simplified D-Bus API. Information how to port applications from NetworkManager 0.8 to 0.9 is available.<br />
* GtkSourceView now supports syntax highlighting of Markdown and Standard ML files.<br />
* libfolks now includes an Evolution-Data-Server backend, which is used by the new Contacts application.<br />
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== And more ==<br />
The above selection of changes and improvements in openSUSE 12.1 is still far from complete but gives a taste of what is new. We hope you enjoyed reading it!<br />
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* [[Produktlebensdauer|18 Monate Lebensdauer]]<br />
*[http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/12.1/RELEASE-NOTES.de.html openSUSE 12.1 Release Notes]<br />
*[[In_der_Presse| openSUSE 12.1 in der Presse]]<br />
* [[Portal:Installation|Installation]]<br />
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==openSUSE 12.1 - die neueste freie Software in einer stabilen und leichten Version==<br />
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Liebe Nutzer, Mitwirkende, Fans und Freunde,<br />Wir sind stolz, Ihnen die neueste Ausgabe von openSUSE zu präsentieren! Es ist das Ergebnis von 8 Monaten harter Arbeit der openSUSE Gemeinschaft. Sie erlaubt es Ihnen, sich darüber zu freuen, was die neueste freie Software zu bieten hat, mit dem einzigartigen openSUSE-Touch - stabil, freundlich, unterhaltsam.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 bringt Ihnen Aktualisierungen zur neuesten Freien Software als Desktop- und Servertechnologie, ebenso einzigartige Funktionen, wie das neueste Snapper-Werkzeug, Datei-Änderungs-Monitoring und Rollback-Funktionalität. <br />
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===Die neuesten Freien Desktops bringen Farb-Management, GNOME Shell und mehr===<br />
openSUSE bietet Ihnen die Auswahl aus 4 offiziell unterstützten Freien Desktops, alle auf hohem Niveau von Verfeinerung und Unterstützung. Bemerkenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste große Linux-Distribution ist, die Farb-Management-Werkzeuge sowohl für KDE als auch GNOME Desktops mitbringt! <br />
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====KDE führt Oyranos, Apper und Plasma Active ein====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 bringt den [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Arbeitsplatz] 4.7 als Standard-Desktop mit und ist die erste große Linux-Distribution, die auch den neuen [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Farb-Management]-Werkzeuge ausliefert. Eine andere große neue Änderung ist der Ersatz von KPackageKit durch Apper. Apper vereinfacht die Installation und das Entfernen von Anwendungen. <br />
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Das innovative Projekt der KDE-Gemeinschaft, die Tablet-Oberfläche Plasma Active, ist noch kein integraler Bestandteil des openSUSE 12.1 Release. Aber die Nutzer der Tablet-Oberfläche können Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 installieren. Wir arbeiten an der Integration bis zum nächsten Release.<br />
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====GNOME Shell - verbessert und verfeinert====<br />
Wir stellen Ihnen '''GNOME 3.2''' vor, eine verbesserte und verfeinerte Version der GNOME Shell, die in GNOME 3 eingeführt wurde. openSUSE liefert ebenso viele verbesserte GNOME-Anwendungen aus, die in die GNOME-Shell integriert sind.<br />
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Haupt-Verbesserungen im Vergleich zur GNOME 3-Vorschau in openSUSE 11.4 schließen einen besseren Umgang mit kleinen Bildschirmen und Multi-Bildschirm-Einrichtungen ein, bessere Ausführungsmeldungen und eine zentralisierte Konfiguration von <em>Online-Benutzerkonten</em>. Dieses Release bring Ihnen ebenso einen neuen Dokumentenmanager. Dieses Release bringt auch einen neuen Dokumenten-Manager, ein erweitertes Farb-Management und eine automatische Rotation für Touch-Screen-Geräte mit. [[:en:openSUSE:Product_highlights_12.1#GNOME_3.2|Hier finden Sie weitere Details über GNOME 3.2]]<br />
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====Die anderen Desktops====<br />
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Beide Desktops '''XFCE''' und '''LXDE''' habe keine größeren Funktionsuptates seit dem letzten openSUSE Release erhalten. Aber kleine Verbesserungen wurden durchgeführt und sind im Release enthalten. Das schließt bessere Themen- und Desktop-Integration ein und ebenso eine verbesserte Auswahl von Anwendungen, Teil der Standard-Auswahl für jeden Desktop. openSUSE stellt auch wieder KDE 3 Pakete zur Verfügung.<br />
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===openSUSE bietet die neuesten Web- und Wolken-Technologien an===<br />
Dieses openSUSE Release liefert die neuesten Web-Browser, das Groupware-Framework [http://www.horde.org/ Horde 4] und aktualisierte Wolken- und Virtualisierungs-Technologien.<br />
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====Web surfing and serving====<br />
On the client side, openSUSE 12.1 introduces '''Chromium 16''' to the standard repositories. This WebKit based web browser from google offers a convenient UI and incredibly fast browsing. The default openSUSE browser is '''Firefox 7''', the latest from the Mozilla labs.<br />
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On the server side, the '''WebYaST''' remote system management tool offers a much improved web interface to administer openSUSE systems remotely with new modules and better performance. The introduction of the Groupware framework '''Horde 4''' brings a powerful set of applications including a modern Webmail client and a PHP based framework on which it is all build.<br />
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====Supporting Cloud technologies====<br />
openSUSE is an excellent guest OS for the cloud as can be experienced building solutions on [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio]. With a new kernel, openSUSE is now ready to run directly on the '''Amazon EC2 cloud'''. On the host side, the latest virtualization technologies including '''Xen 4.1''', '''KVM''' and '''Virtual Box''' can be managed with the latest '''virt-manager''' and '''open-vm-tools'''. Last but not least, openSUSE is the first Linux distribution to ship OwnCloud integrated into the desktop. And the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualization and Cloud repository] for openSUSE 12.1 offers the latest versions of '''Eucalyptus''', '''OpenNebula''' and '''OpenStack''' for openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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[[:en:Product_highlights#Security_and_administration_tools|read more about the administration and cloud tools in openSUSE 12.1]]<br />
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===Improved distribution technology===<br />
openSUSE introduces a number of improvements and innovations in the underlying technology of the distribution. This includes the unique Snapper tool offering file versioning, the systemd init system and Google's Go language.<br />
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====Snapper rolls back changes====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 is the first Linux distribution taking advantage of the snapshot functionality in the upcoming Linux file system Btrfs. These snapshots of the file system are using copy-on-write, making them very space efficient. openSUSE 12.1 debuts [[:en:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] which allows the user to interface with this technology.<br />
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The command line and GUI Snapper tools allow users to view older versions of files and revert changes. The unique integration in the zypper package manager of openSUSE allows users to roll back entire upgrades or software installations with the accompanying configuration changes.<br />
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====systemd boots your system====<br />
systemd is the new init tool in openSUSE, controlling and speeding up the boot process. Developed in close cooperation with fellow Linux Distribution Fedora, systemd is especially interesting for system administrators due to it's powerful socket- and bus activated service system. It also works closely with the cgroups kernel feature providing better security and control over the processes.<br />
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====Write in '''go''', compile with Clang or GCC====<br />
openSUSE is proud to be the first major distribution to ship [http://golang.org/ '''Google's new Go programming language'''] as part of our release. Go is a fast, easy language good in handling mulit-core, networked machines with the convenience of garbage collection and run-time reflection.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 also comes with the just-released [http://llvm.org/ '''LLVM3 compiler tool'''] and [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], the C/C++ compiler building upon LLVM. LLVM is employed by the open source ATI and NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers and thus forms an integral part of a high-performance graphics stack on Linux.<br />
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Lastly, this openSUSE release is build with [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''link-time optimization'''], improving the overall performance of the software.<br />
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==Mehr Details über openSUSE 12.1==<br />
Die folgenden Seiten zeigen auf, was neu in dieser openSUSE Version ist.<br />
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===Unter der Haube===<br />
Obwohl die meisten offensichtlichen Verbesserungen von openSUSE 12.1 an der Oberfläche zu sehen sind, haben wir ebenfalls eine Menge an Verbesserungen „unter der Haube” gemacht. Darunter verbessertes Starten (boot), Hardware Management und Systemkonfiguration. The Startprozedur von openSUSE wird nun von systemd übernommen (und SysVInit ist aber noch als Notlösung vorhanden); das neue Snapper Werkzeug hält überwacht automatisch die Systemkonfiguration und andere Dateiänderungen (und lässt es auf Wunsch zurücksetzen); YaST hat einige ganze Reihe an Verbesserungen erhalten; SAX kehrt in Form von SAX3 wieder zurück, ein openSUSE GSOC Projekt; und wir unterstützen natürlich die aktuelleste Version von jeder Kern-Komponente, z.B. Linux 3.1 Kernel, syslog-ng 3.3, GCC 4.6 und LLVM v3. Ebenfalls erwähnenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste Haupt-Distribution ist, die [http://golang.org Googles neue Go Programmiersprache] ausliefert.<br />
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====openSUSE Technologie Verbesserungen====<br />
openSUSE, als eine Linux-Distribution macht mehr als nur Pakete dritter anzubieten. Wir haben unsere eigenen Werkzeuge, mit dem man sein System konfigurieren, Software managen und vieles mehr kann.<br />
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=====Snapper=====<br />
[[Image:openSUSE_12.1_Snapper.png|thumb|250px||Snapper YaST GUI in Aktion]]<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ist die erste Linux-Distribution die Vorteile aus der Schnappschuss-Funktion des kommenden Linux-Dateisystems Btrfs macht. Diese Schnappschüsse (engl.: Snapshots) vom Dateisystem benutzen „copy-on-write“ (Kopieren-beim-Schreiben), was das ganze sehr Platzsparend macht. openSUSE 12.1 führt [[:de:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] ein, welches dem Benutzer eine Schnittstelle zu dieser Technologie bietet.<br />
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Das Kommandozeilen- und GUI Snapper-Werkzeug erlaubt dem Benutzer ältere Versionen von Dateien anzuzeigen und Änderungen rückgängig zu machen. Die einzigartige Integration in den zypper-Paketmanager von openSUSE erlaubt dem Nutzer ganze Aktualisierungen oder Softwareinstallationen samt den dazugehörigen Konfigurationsänderungen rückgängig zu machen.<br />
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Beachte dass Snapper und das Zurückrollen (Rollback) zurzeit nur für btrfs Dateisysteme zur Verfügung steht! Arbeiten werden diese Funktionen auch für das ältere Ext4 Dateisystem verfügbar machen. Jedoch wird das nicht vor der nächsten openSUSE Version geschehen.<br />
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Du kannst [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/04/01/introducing-snapper/ eine Einführung von Snapper hier lesen].<br />
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[http://www.youtube.com/susevideo#p/a/u/0/9H7e6BcI5Fo Greg K-H führt Snapper bei Brainshare vor].<br />
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=====SAX3=====<br />
When Xorg evolved beyond xorg.conf, to the new xorg.conf.d structure, our beloved X configuration tool SAX2 went away as well. Thanks to the efforts of Manu Gupta [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/07/05/people-of-opensuse-manu-gupta/ during Google's Summer of Code], openSUSE again has an elegant GUI for customizing your X configuration: SAX3. Now openSUSE users may once again easily tweak their keyboard, mouse, monitor, and touchpad settings in one convenient interface. Don't worry if you're having trouble with your X configuration: as is usual for YaST modules, SAX3 solves that chicken-and-egg problem by including an ncurses text interface as well as GTK & QT graphical interfaces.Please note that sax3 on the oss repo does not work properly for 12.1 but an update will soon follow but is already available at [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=X11%3Asax X11:sax repo].<br />
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=====YaST=====<br />
Aside from the new Snapper support, and the return of SAX3, openSUSE's YaST2 received a number of bugfixes and small improvements. The YaST maintainers are happy to report that after the last few fixes they are now confident that YaST will not accidentally overwrite user modified configuration files like it used to in 'the early days'. And together with the zypp package management performance improvements in the openSUSE 11 series, the myth YaST is slow and overwrites files can be finally put to rest now. A more visible change is the new style which is possible thanks to the new [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/10/24/new-style-for-yast2/ CSS based themes available for YaST]. WebYaST continues to evolve as well, including more modules than ever to aid in web-based administration of your openSUSE machines.<br />
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=====OBS, openQA and other tools=====<br />
openSUSE has developed a number of powerful tools which we use to build our distribution and which are also available for others to build packages or test software with. These tools include the cross-platform [http://openbuildservice.org Open Build Service], the omnipotent [http://openqa.opensuse.org openQA], the flexible [[Portal:KIWI|KIWI]] and much more. Each of those has seen releases with improvements in the last 8 months. This includes the [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/10/11/opensuse-announces-first-public-release-of-openqa/ first release of openQA] and the [http://news.opensuse.org/2010/10/19/the-opensuse-build-service-2-1-released/2.1 release of the Open Build Service] which has [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=openSUSE%3ATools packages available for openSUSE 12.1].<br />
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====Linux Kernel 3.1====<br />
The new Linux 3.1 Kernel is a substantial improvement over the 2.6.38 kernel which was part of openSUSE 11.4. Not only have filesystems like Ext4 and Btrfs been improved, the Linux 3.1 Kernel specifically brings a number of performance improvements to memory management and data handling. Of course there is the usual slab of new hardware support including external devices like Microsoft's Kinect, Apple iSight webcam and the Nintendo Wii controller as well as internal hardware like the new AMD Llano Fusion APU's and Intel's Ivy Bridge & Cedar Trail CPU's, a variety of wireless and graphics cards and much more. Find more details about what's new in the openSUSE kernel on the [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_39 Linux 2.6.39], [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.0 Linux 3.0] and [http://kernelnewbies.orgWilliams/Linux_3.1 Linux 3.1] KernelNewbies pages.<br />
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====systemd and other system-wide changes====<br />
System boot is now handled by the new '''systemd''' init tool, controlling and speeding up the boot process. Developed in close cooperation with fellow Linux distribution Fedora, systemd is especially interesting for system administrators due to it's powerful socket- and bus activated service system which improves parallelization and resource usage. It also works closely with Linux' cgroups providing better security and control over the processes.<br />
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If for some reason, systemd does not work for you, you can still '''use the old sysV-init''' by pressing F5 in the bootloader. If you want to permanently use the old init, just do zypper rm systemd-sysvinit<br />
We also again provide '''grub2''' as an optional bootloader. While we are still not satisfied with Grub2 as a replacement for the current Grub, we encourage users to try it out, and want to make sure it's available for developers.<br />
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A number of smaller changes includes:<br />
*the '''util-linux''' tool version 2.20 introduces the first major changes to the dmesg logging tool in 18 years, bringing a number of options to bring human readable prefixes and timestamps to the output or clean it up, only showing important messages or messages coming from either kernel- or userspace.<br />
*'''LightDM 1.0''' is the first stable release of this faster, extensible Display Manager. LightDM aims to replace the myriad of different DM's with a single [http://xkcd.com/927/ new standard].<br />
*the '''syslog-ng 3.3''' release adds multithreading, JSON and mongodb output to this system logging tool.<br />
*The [http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.0 rpm 4.9] release brings a number of stability and performance improvements to this package manager.<br />
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==== First to ship Google Go, LLVM v3 and CLANG v3 ====<br />
openSUSE is proud to be the first major distribution to ship [http://golang.org/ '''Google's new Go programming language'''] as part of our release. Go is a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language. Go makes it easy to work with multi-core and networked machines and offers flexible and modular program construction mechanisms. While it compiles (quickly) to machine code it has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. Learn more on the [http://golang.org/ Go language website].<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 also comes with the just-released [http://llvm.org/ '''LLVM3 compiler tool'''] and [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], the C/C++ compiler building upon LLVM. LLVM, a set of flexible and performant compiler tools, offers powerful code generation which is used by Mesa for its software based OpenGL "Gallium" graphics driver architecture. It is also employed by the open source ATI and NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers and thus forms an integral part of a high-performance graphics stack on Linux.<br />
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[http://clang.llvm.org/ '''Clang'''] takes advantage of LLVM to provide an fast and memory-efficient GCC-compatible C/C++ code compiler. Clang in openSUSE 12.1 comes with enabled ARM code generation support, in the spirit of the recently started [http://opensuse.org/opensuse:ARMopenSUSE ARMs project]!<br />
Aside from Go and LLVM, openSUSE offers a large number of the latest compilers and tools. openSUSE 12.1 is build with [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''], which has [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_fx4100_gcc&num=1 shown to offer significant performance improvements] over the previous 4.5 version. This release also introduces initial support for the Ada 2012 programming language as well as experimental support for the latest C++11 standard (status can be found [http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/cxx0x_status.html here]).<br />
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This release of GCC, combined with the latest '''binutils 2.21.1''', has allowed us to enable [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''link-time optimization'''] in a number of packages, bringing an additional performance improvement.<br />
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=== Localization ===<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 has been [http://i18n.opensuse.org translated into many languages] - currently about 30 are over 90% complete and no less than 66 languages are in the process of being finished. This openSUSE release has added five Cyrillic fonts. Two of them (PT Sans and PT Serif) beside standard Western, Central European and Cyrillic code pages contain characters of all title languages of Russian Federation that make them unique and a very important tool of modern digital communications.}}<br />
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===Repository changes and third party support for openSUSE 12.1===<br />
Via the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service installation on build.opensuse.org] openSUSE hosts over 160.000 packages created by more than 30.000 individual contributors. These are available to openSUSE users as well as users from other Linux Distributions. But outside of this infrastructure, other projects like VLC and Packman offer their own OBS instance with packages for openSUSE! We highlight a few important projects from build.opensuse.org and third parties.<br />
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====Tumbleweed====<br />
'''Tumbleweed''', the unique [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed|rolling release repository for openSUSE]], can be considered 'complete' at the time of this release. Covering almost all of the openSUSE 12.1 packages, Tumbleweed offers newer versions as soon as they are deemed stable. Instead of making you wait for a new release of openSUSE, Tumbleweed lessens the significance and change impact of major releases by updating systems continuously. By enabling Tumbleweed you are always up to date with the '''latest software'''. And you won’t have to install newer versions of openSUSE as you’ll be running them already by the time they get released!<br />
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Tumbleweed will require its current users to make one manual change to the repositories upon the 12.1 release. Besides the Tumbleweed repository, users are required to have the latest stable openSUSE repositories enabled, currently for most users set at openSUSE 11.4. With the 12.1 release, these will thus have to change. The openSUSE sysadmins have ensured however that this will be the first and last time this has to be changed. From now on there will be a link to the latest stable release, for the convenience of Tumbleweed users. Upon a new release the openSUSE servers will automatically handle the required changes, transparent to the users. For instructions to make these changes, [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed_12.1change|please see here]].<br />
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Find more information [[:en:Tumbleweed|about Tumbleweed here]].<br />
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====Packman====<br />
[[Image:Packman.png|256px|link=|Features]]The well-known third-party [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] repositories for openSUSE already offer openSUSE 12.1 support. '''Packman''' provides four different repositories each offering a targeted selection of software, in addition to the larger common repository. Additional to packages for openSUSE 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, Factory and SLE 11, an essential set of Packman packages is provided for Tumbleweed. Find more information on the [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman website] and [[Paket_Repositorys#Packman| find out how to get software from Packman on the openSUSE wiki]].<br />
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====SUSE Studio====<br />
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'''SUSE Studio''' is a project from openSUSE sponsor SUSE(TM) which builds upon the Free and Open Source openSUSE tools like '''KIWI''' and offers a convenient web interface for easy building of openSUSE and SLE based custom operating systems (appliances).<br />
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[http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] users can expect availability of openSUSE 12.1 right from the release date, and support for upgrading existing appliances shortly after. This means it will be possible to easily create your own versions of openSUSE 12.1 with '''custom package selections''', '''artwork''', '''scripts''' and any other properties and download them as USB or disk images, Live CDs and a variety of popular virtual formats. You can share your appliance or also browse other’s shared appliances on [http://susestudio.com/browse SUSE Gallery].<br />
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====Contrib retired====<br />
The [[:en:openSUSE:Contrib|Contrib]] repository for third-party packages was once a community-driven extension of the main repository. The vast majority of these packages have since been integrated in the main repository or in one of the central additional repositories like the official [[KDE_Repositorys|KDE]] and [[GNOME_Repositorys|GNOME]] repositories. These provide newer versions of the software in the main repositories as well as new or experimental software not yet available in openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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====Packages on the Open Build Service====<br />
If you can not find an application in openSUSE 12.1 you can use the search functionality on [http://software.opensuse.org software.opensuse.org]. If you enable searching in users home projects (under advanced) you can choose from the 160.000 packages provided by our 30.000 packagers using the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service instance on build.opensuse.org].<br />
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====VLC====<br />
The VideoLAN organization continues their robust support for openSUSE, with a 1-click install of the VLC universal media player already available for openSUSE 12.1 at [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html this page].<br />
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=== Latest Free Desktops ===<br />
openSUSE offers both major Free Software desktops as well as a number of community-supported desktops, all with a high level of polish and support. openSUSE 12.1 is the first release to introduce the new '''GNOME Shell''' user interface, part of GNOME 3.2. GNOME Shell brings a vastly refined user experience with a smooth, natural workflow. The default openSUSE desktop, the '''KDE Plasma Desktop''', brings color management and much improved performance as well as the new 'Akonadi' based Kontact2 groupware solution. Current releases of both XFCE and LXDE include minor improvements on the road to their next big releases.<br />
For the first time, the openSUSE community openly selected artwork for openSUSE 12.1; the preferred 'upwind' theme reflects in our new splash, boot and background images . GNOME users will notice that the art team has maintained the trend of providing a time-sensitive set of themed wallpapers.<br />
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==== KDE Plasma Workspaces and applications 4.7 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Workspaces] 4.7 and is the first major Linux distribution to ship the new [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos Color Management Service]. Oyranos and its associated tools add [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management color management] to KDE applications, making sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens. Another major new addition is Apper, an easy to use software management tool replacing KPackageKit. There are also improvements to network management, the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop tool and Activities. In total, this release fixed over 12.000 bugs and contains hundreds of smaller and larger performance improvements.<br />
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The innovative new Tablet project from the KDE community, Plasma Active, is not an integral part of the openSUSE 12.1 release as it depends on functionality not available in the released KDE Platform yet and conflicts with the Desktop and Netbook workspaces. However, tablet users can install Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 and we work on integrating it in the next openSUSE release.<br />
Read on for a more extensive view on what's new in the Desktop, Netbook and application area as well as to learn more about Plasma Active One!<br />
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=====Plasma Workspaces bring improved visuals with Oyranos CMS=====<br />
openSUSE is the '''first major Linux distribution to ship [http://www.oyranos.org/about/ Oyranos CMS]''' integrated in the KDE applications and workspaces. Oyranos is is an operating system level [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Color Management System], matching input device colors to output device colors across supported applications. Oyranos makes use of the ICC color management standard and is integrated in the KDE Workspaces and applications through the new KolorManager application. The KolorManager application makes sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens.<br />
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Users can now configure their ICC profiles and settings in one central place. It brings as well a set of command line tools like oyranos-policy for handling policy configuration files and oyranos-profiles for installation of ICC profiles. KDE users can install the KolorManager package. This Oyranos front end adds a system settings control panel for individual settings adaption. Most systems will run fine with Oyranos defaults. [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ read more about color management in openSUSE 12.1 on the oyranos website]<br />
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'''Visual improvements'''<br />
On the visual side, KDE's Plasma workspaces provides '''better integration with GTK/GNOME applications''' with a port of KDE's Oxygen style to GTK. The Oxygen icons have been improved and the Plasma panel offers a more consistent look with changes to the icons and the clock. The new Shadow support in window manager '''KWin''' gives a better look on older hardware and performs better all around. KWin also can now disable compositing when a full-screen application calls for it, increasing performance for OpenGL games and GPU accelerated video playback.<br />
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Plasma's Activities have seen many improvements. The '''Activity Manager''' now takes a more prominent place in the default panel in Plasma Desktop. Activities enhance the users' workflows by providing smart ways of grouping applications, widgets and documents.<br />
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Navigating through applications and recent files is easier with the '''addition of breadcrumbs''' to the Kickoff application launcher, helping users to see where they are and quickly back up to higher menu levels. Many other usability and functionality improvements have been made to the Workspaces. For example, '''Konsole''' no longer blocks the removal of USB storage devices and '''KMix''' has improved PulseAudio support. <br />
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'''Network management, multimedia and Nepomuk'''<br />
The Plasma Workspaces now also offer '''much improved network management''', including support for NetworkManager 0.9 as well as Bluetooth tethering, 3G, VPN, MAC spoofing and other advanced networking options.<br />
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Thanks to [http://dot.kde.org/2011/09/21/nepomuk-stability-and-performance generous donations from the community], the Semantic Desktop technology '''Nepomuk has seen extensive bugfixing''', improving stability and performance as well as making it easier to use. Strigi analyzers now read meta-data in their own process, resolving over 35 crash-related bugs in Dolphin and Konqueror.<br />
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The latest version of '''Phonon''', our media framework, has seen work on the backends. The VLC-based back-end is now considered stable and is the preferred back-end for multiplatform use, while the back-end based on GStreamer is now also considered stable on Linux platforms. The xine back-end is no longer maintained.<br />
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=====KDE Applications suite 4.7 features many refinements=====<br />
The latest version of KPackageKit - now renamed '''Apper''' - (developed by [http://dantti.wordpress.com Daniel Nicoletti] ) is now included with Plasma Desktop. This brings significant improvements to the KDE's PackageKit front end and makes it possible to list Applications instead of listing only Packages. This makes openSUSE a lot more user-friendly and closer to Grandma compattible.<br />
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'''Dolphin''', KDE’s file manager, has a cleaner default appearance. The menu bar is hidden, but easy to reach and restore. The file searching interface has been improved. In addition, Dolphin now has much deeper integration with source code management systems, including the ability to create and clone repositories, push and pull changes, view diffs and much more.<br />
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Dolphin and Konqueror both benefit from a new plugin that provides a '''rating and an annotation menu action''' for files and folders, leveraging Nepomuk capabilities. <br />
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Image management has become easier with '''Gwenview''', the KDE image viewer, now offering the ability to compare two or more pictures side by side. From the browse mode, select two or more pictures, and then switch to the view mode or to the full-screen mode. In the view mode, you can add more pictures from the thumbnail bar.<br />
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Comic fans will be pleased that Okular, the universal file viewer, gains support for reading a directory as a comicbook.<br />
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'''KStars''', the essential KDE application for stargazers around the world, has gained a feature to predict a star hopping route and dynamic switching between its OpenGL and native rendering backends. Labels can now be assigned to points on celestial lines; comet trails are rendered in OpenGL mode. Mathematicians and scientists can now explore higher order functions in Kalgebra and get information on oxidation states for elements in Kalzium. <br />
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'''KDM''', the display manager, has gained ''GRUB2'' support. A user with multiple operating systems in their GRUB2 menu can now choose which one to reboot to in the shutdown dialog by holding down the mouse button on their reboot choice. <br />
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'''Marble''', the virtual globe application, has gained many improvements over the past eight months. It now has voice navigation support, a map creation wizard, and new plug-ins. Following the Voice of Marble contest, '''voice navigation''' is now available in several languages, with voices provided by the KDE community. For more details, see Marble's [http://edu.kde.org/marble/current_1.2.php visual changelog]. <br />
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Other applications such as Kate, Kalzium, KAlgebra, KStars, and KDevelop have also been updated in this release. Changes and improvements to some other major applications from the KDE community can be found in the [Product_highlights#New_and_updated_applications|applications section].<br />
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Find more information on what is new in the Plasma Workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Platform in the [http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.7/ announcement by KDE].<br />
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=====Plasma Active One is optionally available=====<br />
The fresh and innovative [http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active Plasma Active] interface for tablets and mobile devices is available for openSUSE 12.1. It is not an integral part of this release as it still depends on a number of unreleased technologies but we plan to have Plasma Active as part of openSUSE 12.2.<br />
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'''Plasma Active'''<br />
Plasma Active aims at creating a cross-device user experience for emerging devices such as tablet computers, media centers, smartphones, and more. It builds on the Linux stack with X11, Qt and the KDE libraries. The user interface is designed using Plasma Quick, a declarative markup language allowing for organic user interface design based on Qt Quick.<br />
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The first release, [http://kde.org/announcements/plasma-active-one/ Plasma Active One] fully focuses on tablet computers. Plasma Active Tablet's user experience is designed around the web, social networks and multimedia content. Packages for openSUSE are offered in the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=KDE%3AActive Plasma Active] repository.<br />
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==== GNOME 3.2 ====<br />
After shipping a technical preview of [http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ GNOME 3] with 11.4, openSUSE 12.1 replaces the GNOME 2.x series with the latest GNOME 3.2 desktop to the openSUSE GNOME users. With many improvements based on the feedback of the openSUSE community and the wider Free Software community, numerous usability and application changes have been incorporated.<br />
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'''GNOME Shell''' brings a fresh user-interface that is designed from the scratch to satisfy the needs of today's users. The interface focuses on getting out of the way and providing unobtrusive yet powerful notifications and deep integration of calendar, chat and other technologies. The UI elements and workflows are designed to be touch-friendly for use on tablets or desktops with a touch screen. By using the 3D acceleration capabilities provided by most of the computers these days, pleasing animations are used to give users an aesthetic look and feel and a much easier way of switching between applications. Read on for more details on what's new in GNOME 3.2.<br />
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===== What's new in GNOME Shell 3.2 =====<br />
Various minor tweaks and major features are incorporated into this release based on user feedback. openSUSE 12.1 ships the alt-status-menu extension to make various computer operations easily accessible. Some examples:<br />
*It is now easier to resize windows and titlebars, buttons and other controls are a bit less tall, making GNOME easier to use on small screens.<br />
* Notifications now include a counter so you can see how many mails or chats messages are waiting for you and Shell now also shows media device notifications.<br />
* The focus-follows-mouse feature has been improved and while it's not perfect yet, it will suffice for most usecases.<br />
* The System Settings have been improved, showing links to other relevant settings and has integrated color management<br />
* GNOME Shell battery power status now shows how much power you have left<br />
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===== Communication in GNOME Shell =====<br />
Compared to any prior release of GNOME, the instant messaging workflow is much improved in GNOME Shell 3.2. You can receive chats, reply to messages, approve / deny friendship requests, call requests, all without having to launch the IM application explicitly. You can change the status of your machine from a centralized place so that all the IM accounts reflect the status change. Error and new message notifications are so well integrated in GNOME shell so that you won't have focus stealing popups but only unobtrusive animations notifying you what is going on.<br />
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A new "Online Accounts" feature enables users to create online accounts. Accounts created will be seamlessly available for various applications throughout the desktop experience. For example, if you create a Google Account, your Google Docs documents will be available in the new Document browser, your Google contacts will be available in empathy for IM, and the calendar shows your appointments. http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/gnome-documents-google.png.en<br />
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[[Image:114_screenshots_gnome_desktop_generic.png|thumb|250px||The GNOME 2.32 Desktop]]<br />
[http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2] <br />
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===== What's new in the GNOME 3.2 Applications =====<br />
The new GNOME 3 libraries bring many improvements to GNOME 3 applications. Some examples:<br />
* File open dialogs in applications now show a list of recent files and directories<br />
* Better performance and a new theme<br />
* A redesigned Font chooser dialog<br />
* A new on-screen keyboard and a number of other accessibility enhancements<br />
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Moreover, the individual applications have seen many features and bugfixes, read on for a quick overview.<br />
A new people-focused '''Contacts"' application is shipped which can work with Evolution and Empathy in the background, providing you with a unified addressbook for your desktop. <br />
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'''Empathy''', the GNOME IM application has got a lot of improvements. You can easily search your logs visually filtering on various parameters such as Who, When.<br />
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http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/empathy-log.png.en NetworkManager-gnome version 0.9 provides fast user switching, improved WiFi roaming, WiMAX support, flexible permissions and centralized storage of network connection information.<br />
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Not to be left out of the party, GNOME 3.2 includes robust color management support as well, including the new GNOME Color Manager wizard for calibrating displays using either ICC profiles or a Huey hardware colorimeter. [http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-color-manager/screenshots.html]<br />
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File manager '''Nautilus''' has seen a major overhaul for GNOME 3, with an improved Places sidebar, a new ''Connect to server'' dialog and a quick preview function which can be triggered by 'space'.<br />
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Many smaller improvements include new and configurable effects in the Webcam application '''Cheese''', bookmark support in PDF viewer '''Evince''', plugins for image viewer '''Eye of GNOME''' and improved streaming support for video and audio in media player Totem.<br />
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Read more about [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2 in the official announcement] and find more GNOME applications in the sections below.<br />
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{|<br />
|[[Image:openSUSE114GNOME3Shell.png|thumb|200px|A blank GNOME Shell workspace]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114gnome3_windows.png|thumb|200px|Shell managing your windows]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114GNOME3Search.png|thumb|200px|GNOME Shell integrates search]]<br />
|}<br />
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==== LXDE 0.5 ====<br />
This release of openSUSE comes with LXDE 0.5. There have been no major updates to this lightweight desktop for a while but minor improvements and bugfixes have been integrated.<br />
{|<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_lxde_menu.png|thumb|200px|LXDE Menu]]<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_lxde_filemanager_configuration.png|thumb|200px|LXDE File Manager & Configuration]]<br />
|}<br />
==== Xfce 4.8 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships ''''Xfce 4.8''''. All Xfce components have been updated to the latest bugfix releases. The desktop has been polished further in terms of integration and branding. LightDM is now the default display manager reducing the dependencies on core GNOME components. The functionality provided in the default install should now be on par with GNOME/KDE desktops.<br />
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{|<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_xfce_menu.png|thumb|250px|The Xfce Desktop and the menu]]<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_xfce_filemanager_configuration.png|thumb|250px|The Tunar filemanager and XFCE configuration]]<br />
|}<br />
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Please use up-to-date screenshot from http://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots_12.1#Xfce_4.8<br />
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=== New and updated applications ===<br />
On top of the kernel and other low-level tools, openSUSE provides a huge variety of console and graphical applications. These applications have been updated to the latest versions bringing many improvements in terms of features and bugfixes.<br />
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====Web browsers====<br />
The web is important for modern computer users, and openSUSE has you covered with a selection of browsers Free Software has to offer. We ship a much faster Firefox, an innovative Opera, a well integrated Epiphany and a more stable Rekonq. New is Chromium, the fast and easy to use browser from Google. These browsers provide a wide range of rendering engines supporting the latest web standards. Read on to find out what is new in these browsers since we brought to you in openSUSE 11.4!<br />
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'''Firefox 7'''<br /><br />
Since Firefox 4.0 in openSUSE 11.4, the project has moved to a more rapid release schedule and thus we present you with Mozilla's latest Firefox 7.0.1. Firefox has introduced support for new privacy features like do-not-track and much improved developer tools in the new 'web developer' menu. End users will appreciate the many smaller and larger usability improvements like the URL bar highlighting the website domain and hiding the prefix. Last but not least, each subsequent Firefox release brought better performance, from faster loading of tabs to the large memory management improvements in Firefox 7 and of course support for the latest web standards.<br />
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'''Chromium 16'''<br /><br />
Chromium, meet openSUSE 12.1 users. Users, meet Chromium. This venerable WebKit based web browser from Google is quickly gaining popularity and thus had to become part of the openSUSE distribution. With its simplified interface, great integration with Google services, separate processes so a crashing site can not take down the browser and the fastest JavaScript engine in the world, it will impress you with it's speed and ease of use. The rapid release cycle of Chromium is hard to track - we ensure the latest is always available on your system so you don't have to worry about security or not being able to work with the latest websites.<br />
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'''Opera 11.52'''<br /><br />
Opera 11.52 brings much improved Opera Link to sync your passwords between system and a better Speed Dial which now supports extensions, small webpages embedded in your Speed Dial. Another new feature is the Location support on websites like Google Maps. Opera also uses far less memory now and became a fair bit more stable. Of course this release supports the latest HTML 5 and CSS 3 standards and features a faster JavaScript engine and smoother graphics.<br />
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'''Rekonq 0.8'''<br /><br />
With Rekonq 0.8, openSUSE ships a second WebKit based browser. Build on Qt and the KDE Platform this new release takes advantage of the many improvements in QtWebKit 2.2, bringing better stability and performance. New features include the Do-Not-Track feature, availability of history in restored tabs, and Third Party rule support in AdBlock. usability has been given attention with much improved drag'n'drop support, an new SSL UI, optional VI-style navigation and improved URL bar handling.<br />
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'''Epiphany from GNOME 3.2'''<br /><br />
The third WebKit based browser, this time from the GNOME community, Epiphany, allows you to create Web Application links. These Web Applications show up in the application view of GNOME Shell and act very much like real applications, opening links in new web browser windows and not showing a navigation bar or tabs. They also run in a process separate from the browser, so that crashes of Epiphany do not affect your web applications.<br />
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====Office and desktop publishing applications====<br />
openSUSE helps you get work done by providing a stable base and up to date productivity tools. The latest LibreOffice brings new features in most components as well as speed and stability improvements to this enterprise ready office suite. While Abiword, Gnumeric and KOffice are still at their latest stable versions, our additional repositories offer the innovative Calligra application suite as a choice.<br />
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'''Libreoffice 3.4.3'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://XXXX.org '''Libreoffice'''] release brings a large number of small additions and improvements like the ability to add and remove color charts, a named range as data source and supporting an unlimited number of fields in the DataPilot (now named Pivot Table), Greek Character mode for numbering in Writer and much more. As usual, much performance work was done decreasing the size of LibreOffice and improving startup speed. Text rendering and theming have received a major overhaul, making LibreOffice fitting better in your desktop.<br />
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'''Scribus 1.4'''<br /><br />
[http://www.scribus.net '''Scribus'''] is the major Open Source Desktop Publishing tool available for Linux. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation. openSUSE ships a release candidate of Scribus 1.4 which has a large number of stability fixes over the release in openSUSE 11.4.<br />
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'''Calligra 2.4 beta 3'''<br /><br />
The new [http://www.calligra-suite.org/ Calligra Suite], the successor of KOffice in openSUSE is not yet part of this release. However most users report the current beta's to be of '''better quality than the latest KOffice release''' and the openSUSE packagers have thus committed to provide a repository which will offer the latest Calligra releases.<br />
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Specifically '''targeting students and academic users''' with the productivity part, Calligra brings much improved text handling and rendering, state of the art '''import support for the Microsoft XML formats''' and many stability and usability improvements to all applications. Words introduces handling of citations and bibliographies and an automatically updating Table of Content, better text tables, footer- and header support and much more. Presentation application Stage has a new slide sorter and easier editing of notes with slides. Project Management application Plan introduces many new chart printing options and improved import from external data sources. Tables has improved support for large tables, rotated text, many new formulas, improved Microsoft Excel file support and much faster loading.<br />
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Calligra also introduces two new applications: <br />
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*Flow is a diagramming and flowcharting application in the spirit of Visio.<br />
*Braindump is a note taking application that builds on the Calligra core and uses the full power of the openDocument Format to allow for text, images and even multimedia in the notes.<br />
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Find a [http://www.calligra-suite.org/news/calligra-2-4-snapshot-1-tour/ Calligra Tour here].<br />
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You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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====Communication and groupware====<br />
Of course, openSUSE ships a wide variety of groupware and Personal Information Management (PIM) solutions like email clients, chat applications, calendar tools and more.<br />
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'''KDE PIM'''<br /><br />
Kontact, KDE’s groupware solution, has most components now ported to Akonadi. Once the initial bugs are ironed out, this will offer increased stability and performance, better connection to new services and sharing of communication information between more applications. The biggest change is the introduction of KMail 2. This application has the familiar interface, while under the surface, all mail storage and retrieval has been ported to use the powerful Akonadi cache.<br />
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The openSUSE KDE team has put '''significant efforts''' in ensuring a smooth upgrade to KMail 2 but this is a significant change and the team will keep an eye out for further issues. Bugfixes will be provided through updates and users are encouraged to report problems and update their systems frequently.<br />
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It should be noted that the move from KMail1 to KMail2 requires the '''import/conversion of email data to Akonadi'''. This process can take considerable time, measuring up to a day on slow systems with multiple gigabyte-sized mailboxes. It is possible to, instead of doing a migration, doing a clean start by moving the current data from the ~.kde4/share/apps/kmail to a backup location. If you have your data stored on a server and it is only cached locally this should not cause you to loose data. In case of a downloading POP mail account, however, you will have to use the conversion process or import your mail separately.<br />
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Also note that '''Akonadi is a cache''', not a permanent storage system. This means that your mail should remain where it is - be it on a server or in a local folder. Akonadi will store a '''copy''' in its database, as well as extra information like ratings and the like, for fast search and retrieval. This essentially replaces the internal cache KMail1 employed for this purpose. Due to this design, Akonadi is very unlikely to lose user data as it normally operates on a copy of it. Of course, actions like moving or removing mails are synced back to the original mail storage!<br />
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'''Evolution 3.2.1'''<br /><br />
Evolution provides integrated mail, address book and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop. Version 3.2.1 has been ported over to the GNOME 3 infrastructure and offers a number of small improvements and bugfixes over the previous release. Also new in the openSUSE 12.1 Evolution is the Exchange Connector for Evolution, compatible with Exchange 2007 and later, allowing Evolution to work with Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010. Evolution also works with the Google contacts, calendar and mail services.<br />
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'''Thunderbird 7.0.1'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird] email client shipped with openSUSE brings delivers faster performance, safer email experience, and a new add-ons manager. With over 390improvements and performance enhancements, Thunderbird is more responsive, starts faster and is easier to use than ever.<br />
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For example, the interface improvements like the improved RSS feeds and better Attachment management make handling your news and mail easier. Tabs can now be re-ordered or dragged into a new window and Thunderbird gives you control over the look and functionality of your email client with a gallery of hundreds of add-ons. The new Add-ons manager allows you to search the gallery in Thunderbird to install, remove, and manage the Add-ons. This release also adds support for technologies that make it easier for developers to build some of these amazing Add-ons, such as the Lightning Calendar, Conversation View, and Open Search.<br />
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====Multimedia====<br />
openSUSE comes with a number of prominent multimedia applications like the Amarok, Banshee and Rythmbox music players, DigiKam and Shotwell photo managers and the Marble virtual globe. Each of those has seen new releases with new features and bugfixes.<br />
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=====Music Players=====<br />
openSUSE comes with a large number of music players, from the well known Rythmbox, Banshee and Amarok to the less prominent like Juk, Totem, KMplayer, Dragon and Bangarang.<br />
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'''Banshee 2.2'''<br /><br />
The new [http://banshee.fm '''Banshee'''] comes with with lots of new extensions like an alarmclock, albumart writer, ampache, duplicated sound detector, jamendo, karaoke, live radio, lyrics and more. Other improvements include the ability to not only queue songs but also artists and albums and having the ability to play a queued song immediately after the current. There has been a number of UI improvements like putting the search next to the volume button, smaller icons in the source list, hidden counts for the libraries, named group separators and a resizable seek slider and search entry. Podcasts episodes are now shown in a grid, with several lines of description shown to help you find an appealing episode to enjoy.<br />
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'''Amarok 2.4.3 and Clementine 0.7.3'''<br /><br />
[http://amarok.kde.org '''Amarok'''] introduces improved Dynamic Playlists and Internet Services including integration with Gpodder.net. The user interface has been improved with better drag and drop, automatic scrolling in the lyrics applet and the ability to scrobble the composer as artist to last.fm. Otherwise, many bugs have been crushed and performance has improved a bit. For those not fond of the direction Amarok took with the 2.0 release, openSUSE ships [http://www.clementine-player.org '''Clementine 0.7.3'''] which in this version brings a new edit tag dialog which offers autocompletion and automatic music identification and missing-tag-fetching. CUE sheets are now supported, detected automatically and tracks will show up separately. Album covers are shown in the Library tab, deleted songs greyed out and much more.<br />
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=====Photo managers, editors and painting applications=====<br />
openSUSE ships with a large number of graphics and painting applications. There have been major versions of DigiKam and Blender as well as minor improvements to most of the other applications. openSUSE 12.1 also comes with lots of ICC color management Profiles ready to go.<br />
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'''DigiKam 2.2'''<br />
openSUSE 12.1 features the release of '''DigiKam''', the result of more than a year of hard work since the DigiKam version in openSUSE 11.4. This version features long awaited technologies like face detection and recognition, image versioning support, XMP metadata sidecar files support, big improvements in tagging and marking photos, reversed geotagging and many other improvements, including a total of 258 fixed bugs.<br />
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Close companion Kipi-plugins is released along with DigiKam 2.2. This release features new export tools to three web services - Yandex.Fotki, MediaWiki and Rajce. The GPSSync plugin now has the ability to do reverse-geocoding. Also new is a plugin which is dedicated to creating photo album-like layouts. Finally, there has been extensive bugfixing.<br />
Find out more about DigiKam and read articles with tips and tricks [http://www.digikam.org/ on the DigiKam website].<br />
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'''Inkscape 4.8.2'''<br />
[http://inkscape.org Inkscape] is a powerful vector graphics editor using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. It supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. The latest stable 4.8.2 version introduces a number of critical bugfixes and improvements to openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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This release is feature complete, offering the powerful UI, animation tools, rigging, modeling, shading, physics and particle tools and everything else Blender is known for.<br />
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'''Shotwell 0.11.5'''<br />
The [http://yorba.org/shotwell/ '''Shotwell'' photo organizer handles pictures based on a timeline. It also offers tagging and rating features and a host of image editing functions like rotating, cropping and adjustment of exposure, saturation and more. It can import photos from most cameras and from folders and publish photos and videos to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, and YouTube. The latest release introduces hierarchical trees for the tags, a new plugin framework, improved printing, a new crop tool and a new search bar as well as many smaller improvements to the user interface. New is also support for paired JPEG and RAW images, BMP, TIFF and other formats, and improved rendering of RAW files. This release also does automatic backups of the database and allows you to save searches.<br />
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'''F-spot 0.8.2-14'''<br />
The easy to use '''F-spot''' photo manager features a very simple interface combined with powerful search, import, browse and edit functionality. Advanced capabilities are exporting EXIF and XMP metadata to your images, versioning of changes in the image editor and quite complete import functionality. This release does not introduce major new features or improvements.<br />
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'''GIMP 2.6.11'''<br />
[http://www.gimp.org/ '''GIMP'''] is a versatile graphics manipulation package offering a customizable interface and a large number of plugins to modify and improve photos. It can work with a huge variety of fileformats. 2.6.11 brings bugfixes for this popular photo manipulation program as well as some minor usability and performance improvements.<br />
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'''Krita and Karbon 2.4 Beta3'''<br />
Two applications, part of the upcoming [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4] release, should not be missed in this overview. While they are not included in the standard openSUSE repositories, they offer some unique benefits many people will apreciate.<br />
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[http://krita.org '''Krita'''] is a sketching and painting tool, offering an end–to–end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters. Fields of painting that Krita explicitly supports are concept art, creation of comics and textures for rendering. Modelled on existing real-world painting materials and workflows, Krita supports creative working by getting out of the way and with snappy response. Developed in close collaboration with a number of artists Krita 2.4 brings many user interface improvements as well as much better performance. New functionality like the ability to share patterns, gradients and brushes over the web and the huge number of unique brushes solidify Krita's position as the '''premier Free Software sketching and drawing application'''.<br />
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The Karbon vector graphics application, also part of [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4], has much better '''support for the SVG standard''' and introduces many new filters and effects while improving on its stability.<br />
You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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=====Video editors and 3D modelling=====<br />
Out of the box, openSUSE does not ship multimedia support due to legal and patent worries in a number of countries. However, if it is legal for you to play your music and video's you can find information on the [http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia openSUSE-community Multimedia] and [http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats Restricted formats] pages on how to obtain the needed codecs. The [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] project which offers the codecs also packages a number of related applications like the excellent [http://www.kdenlive.org/ Kdenlive] and [http://www.openshotvideo.com/ openshot] video editors.<br />
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'''Kdenlive 0.8.2'''<br />
'''Kdenlive''' claims to be the most advanced video editor available on Linux today. It supports virtually any camera and codec thanks to the [http://www.ffmpeg.org/ FFMPEG] and [http://www.mltframework.org/ MLT] frameworks it builds upon. It is a multitrack editor with a timeline and an unlimited number of video and audio tracks. Thanks to the [http://www.piksel.org/frei0r Frei0r] framework Kdenlive offers a large number of effects and transitions and lets you add your own. It renders videos in a separate thread while you keep working and allows you to pause, stop and restart rendering. The latest 0.8.2 version fixes over 140 stability issues and introduces an automated backup feature to avoid the loss of any data. Check the [http://www.kdenlive.org/users/j-b-m/kdenlive-082-released announcement] for more information.<br />
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'''OpenShot 1.4'''<br />
The '''OpenShot''' video editor has a more easy to use interface and offers features like 3D animations, HD video support as well as Clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, and cutting, Video transitions with real-time previews, Compositing, image overlays, watermarks, Title templates, title creation, sub-titles and support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences. [http://vimeo.com/29465427 watch the video of the 1.4 release] or [http://www.openshot.org/features/ check out the openshot features] online.<br />
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'''Audacity 1.3.13'''<br />
For audio editing, '''Audacity''' offers a powerful set of features. Audacity lets you record live audio or convert existing music into digital data. It can also edit files, mixing the music or changing it with a variety of effects. These include echo, a fase changer, equalization, normalization and a number of effects to clean up hiss, noise and other mess. Additional plugins are availble with the VST and LADSPA plug-ins compatibility. Recording up to 96Khz, 32 bit is available with high quality sample rate conversion and there is a number of spectrum analysis tools for your viewing pleasure.<br />
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This release, while part of the beta series, is quite stable. Compared to the 1.3.12 version in the previous openSUSE release there has been a number of improvements to the effects, a new Device Toolbar showing all input and output devices has been introduced and the new "Sync-lock Tracks" feature allows groups of audio and/or label tracks to retain synchronisation when the track length changes. There has also been a fair number of bugfixes and some other smaller improvements.<br />
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'''PiTiVi 0.15'''<br />
openSUSE does ship the simple [http://www.pitivi.org/ '''PiTiVi''' video editor in the main repositories. PiTiVi is more intuitive and easy to use video editor compared to OpenShot and Kdenlive but does not offer the depth of in- and output formats, camera support and effects the others do.<br />
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'''Blender 2.59'''<br />
The well known [http://www.blender.org Blender] 3D content creation suite (3D modeller and video editor) is also part of openSUSE 12.1 with the stable 2.59 version. This third stable release in the 2.5 series brings big improvements in stability with many hundreds of bugs fixed. There is also a number of new features, including 3D mouse support and many UI improvements like the custom keymaps support and the camera locking. Sculpting, the warp modifier and the node editor have also been heavily improved.<br />
The biggest changes in the addons include:<br />
*the new Ivy Generator can grow curves over an existing mesh, <br />
*the Sapling addon generates trees<br />
*Mesh inset can inset individual faces or a selected region.<br />
*Grease scatter can scatter objects along predefined lines<br />
*much, much more. <br />
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openSUSE of course delivers far more multimedia applications to you, from the GStreamer framework to less known music players and a myriad of tools.<br />
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====Security and administration tools====<br />
openSUSE has always been a powertool for system adminstrators around the world and openSUSE 12.1 builds on this strong foundation. It is not only the powerful YaST which is appreciated but also the many tools available with openSUSE. This release brings major improvements to AppArmor, the new Shorewall gateway/firewall configuration application, a big update to the Performance Co-Pilot tool, an extended WebYaST and much more.<br />
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'''AppArmor 2.7 rc1'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships with the latest available [http://apparmor.net AppArmor] to ensure sys admins can easily secure their servers. [http://www.suse.com/support/security/apparmor/ Initially developed by SUSE], AppArmor is part of the Linux kernel now and openSUSE has the userspace components available. It is only in these userspace components that AppArmor ships changes compared to the previous release in openSUSE 11.4. Major features since AppArmor 2.5 include a working desktop notifier and automatic profile update for samba shares. And of course many other profile updates, bugfixes and better performance.<br />
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'''Shorewall 4.4.24'''<br /><br />
New in openSUSE from the Open Build Service is the [http://shorewall.net/Introduction.html Shoreline Firewall configuration tool]. This application offers a very powerful but still rather high-level interface to configure Netfilter through editing a series of configuration files. Upon starting Shorewall, it will read the files and with help of the iptables and other security utils configure Netfilter and the Linux networking subsystem to match your requirements, building a firewal, router or gateway. Find a list of [http://www.shorewall.net/4.4/shorewall_features.htm features of Shorewall here].<br />
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[[Image:WebYaST_Screenshot.png|thumb|250px||WebYast in action]]<br />
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'''Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) 3.5.8 and the PCP GUI charting tools.'''<br /><br />
The [http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/ performance co-pilot] is a heavy-duty performance monitoring tool. It is specifically build to find the harder type of system-level performance problems. It is capable of correlating end-user quality of service with platform activity and diagnosing complex interactions between resource demands on single or multiple systems in dynamic environments. This release is a significant upgrade over what was shipped in openSUSE 11.4, bringing a host of new features and improvements like support for distributed event tracing, transparent support for compressed archives in the client tools, Integrated pmieconf and pmlogconf utilities for automating management of pmie/pmlogger configuration files, Linux kernel control group metrics, per-node CPU metrics, XFS btree metrics and some Postfix updates.<br />
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'''WebYaST'''<br /><br />
The latest version of WebYaST has many improvements regarding speed, memory usage, usability and developing environment. Due a new caching mechanism the startup time of each module has been decreased to a maximum of 1-2 seconds. Former versions of WebYaST were split into a service and into an UI part. Each part has run in a own HTTP server. We have decided to bring these parts together in order to save one HTTP server which halves the memory usage.<br />
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====Virtualization, Cloud and web applications====<br />
openSUSE is an excellent guest OS for the cloud, as anyone who ever uses [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] can agree with. Nowhere is it as easy to build a cloud solution and openSUSE is now ready for the '''Amazon EC2 cloud''' by having a special EC2 kernel and suse-ami-tools in the default repositories.<br />
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But openSUSE can also be an excellent host and contains a fair number of virtualization and cloud tools. Most prominent is OwnCloud, which is shipped with unique desktop integration in openSUSE. What is not available in the default repositories can be found in the special [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualization and Cloud repository], where openSUSE contributors package and maintain '''Eucalyptus''', '''OpenNebula''' and '''OpenStack''' for openSUSE 12.1. <br />
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'''OwnCloud 2'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 delivers OwnCloud, the web-based storage application. OwnCloud is different from solutions like Google Docs, Dropbox or Ubuntu One in that it lets '''you own the data'''. With version 2, the ownCloud team has improved the basic service and added valuable features:<br />
* Secure file sharing<br />
* Improved web access including the ability to play music<br />
* Synchronization with other web application tools<br />
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openSUSE ships OwnCloud with a unique system tray based tool which can:<br />
* Install a new ownCloud locally or in a webspace<br />
* Connect your system to an existing ownCloud<br />
* give you assistance to set up mirrored folders<br />
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'''virtualization technologies'''<br /><br />
The new '''Xen 4.1''' release brings support for large systems (>255 processors and 1GB/2MB super page support), CPU Pools for advanced partitioning, prototype credit2 scheduler designed for latency-sensitive workloads and very large systems, a re-architected XL toolstack that is functionally nearly equivalent to XM/XEND, support for x86 Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX), new Memory Access API enabling integration of 3rd party security solutions into Xen virtualized environments and even better stability through the new automated regression tests.<br />
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The lastest version of '''KVM''' provides live migration from one host to another, guest swapping, paravirtualized networking and block devices and PCI-Express passthrough.<br />
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The new 4.1 series '''VirtualBox''' release brings new features like VM cloning, enhanced wizard for creating and copying virtual disks, raised memory limit to 1TB for 64 bit hosts and a couple of experimental featuers like PCI passthrough or SATA hard disk hot-plugging.<br />
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'''Virtualization tools'''<br /><br />
The latest release of '''virt-manager''' (supported by libvirt) brings new VM features including new VM wizard support for LCX guests, remote serial console access and remote URL guest installs.<br />
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The recent version of '''open-vm-tools''' provides integration (shared folders, drag and drop, clipboard sharing, automatic guest resolution resizing, etc.) with the VMware tools.<br />
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'''Horde 4.0.8'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the latest Horde 4 groupware server and framework! Horde 4 is the first release in over 6 years and brings major improvements to all applications of the suite as well as to the framework itself. <br />
Some of the more significant changes from Horde 3 to 4 include a requirement for PHP 5.2 or higher, a new Ajax interface and a new test suite. The complete framework has been modernized and cleaned up and the libraries are better separated and Unit tested.<br />
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The most important things users will notice are the e improved setup and upgrade processes, an Ajax interface for the calendar, and an improved interface for the complete application stack.<br />
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Horde offers a large number of web applications including a webmail tool (part of the Horde Groupware Webmail Edition) complete with WYSIWYG HTML editor, IMAP and POP3 support, message search and filtering, spell check, attachment viewer, encryption and signing, keyboard navigation, threaded view and previews, downloading of attachments in a ZIP file and much more.<br />
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There is now basic social media support with Facebook and Twitter integration and there is an Active Sync server component which can synchronize with iPhones and Android devices. The existing SyncML support already took care of most Nokia phones. The last missing piece is CalDAV support for calendar sharing, which is planned for the future.<br />
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== Development tools and platforms (GNOME/GTK, KDE/Qt,..., etc) ==<br />
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===IDEs and toolchain===<br />
openSUSE offers a complete and productive environment for developers and packagers. With stable tools and updated libraries available through [http://build.opensuse.org OBS], developers can easily develop using multiple programming languages and create packages for multiple distributions.<br />
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====KDevelop====<br />
For software developers, KDevelop has gained support for predefined indentation styles and a Python interpreter using Kross. Improved Python auto-completion and support for lex/yacc file extensions are also included in this release.<br />
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====Kate====<br />
KDE’s Advanced Text Editor, Kate has seen quite a number of improvements, including:<br />
* New Search Plugin with the ability to search in files on disk or opened files <br />
* Plugin improvements: Build Plugin, GDB Plugin<br />
* Kate’s tab bar plugins gained several new features<br />
* Swap files: If lost data is found, documents are marked as read-only<br />
* Further noteworthy changes: Improved printing, change of line ending triggers modified flag, fixed shortcut issues, fixed auto completion popup, and more.<br />
For more information, see [http://kate-editor.org/2011/07/09/kate-in-kde-4-7/ this blog].<br />
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===KDE Platform===<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships with the latest stable '''Qt 4.7.4''' and the '''KDE Platform 4.7.2''', giving developers the best from these powerful cross-platform development libraries.<br />
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'''KDE Platform 4.7 '''<br /><br />
This release of KDE's development platform is an incremental release, bringing many bugfixes and small improvements to technologies like the build-in WebKit browser engine, system wide Proxy support and the Phonon Multimedia engine. Developer-visible changes include:<br />
* Improvements to the Semantic Desktop components offering a richer API for applications<br />
* The option to suspend compositing in KWin whenever an application calls for it to improve performance in OpenGL games and GPU-accelerated video playback.<br />
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For details on the KDE Platform 4.7 release see [http://kde.org/announcements/4.7/platform.php the KDE platform release notes].<br />
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'''Qt 4.7 introduces QtQuick'''<br /><br />
Qt 4.7.4 is a '''bugfix release''' over the release shipped with openSUSE 11.4. <br />
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However, it does introduce some powerful features including the official release of [http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/01/qt-quick-is-here QtQuick], a new feature within Qt that makes it easy to create light-weight apps and UIs. It contains the new QML language, a simple to learn declarative language for building dynamic and fluid interfaces, the Qt Declarative module and new tooling in Qt Creator to easily build apps.<br />
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QtQuick 1.1 brings Right-to-Left support, improved caching and text input and a declarative API for handling touch input. There is also the new QML Sharders plugin which allows developers to embed OpenGL sharder effects in QML apps.<br />
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=== GNOME platform improvements ===<br />
For further details, seee [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ the GNOME 3.2 release notes].<br />
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==== New features and functionality ====<br />
Included in openSUSE 12.1 is the latest release of the GNOME Developer Platform. This consists of a set of API- and ABI-stable libraries available under the GNU LGPL that can be used for the development of cross-platform applications.<br />
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For information on developing with GNOME please visit the [http://developer.gnome.org GNOME Developer Center].<br />
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'''GLib 2.30'''<br /><br />
GNOME's low-level software utility library GLib has seen various improvements, some of which are:<br />
* GApplication can now be used for non-unique applications.<br />
* GDBus supports the 'object manager' pattern with a number of new interfaces and has a code generator: gdbus-codegen.<br />
* An interface for certificate and key lookup has been added: GTlsDatabase. An implementation is provided by glib-networking.<br />
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'''GTK+ 3.2'''<br /><br />
GTK+ 3.2 is the latest release of the GTK+ toolkit, which is at the heart of GNOME. GTK+ 3.2 includes new features for developers, as well as extensive bug fixes. <br />
* Many more widgets support height-for-width geometry management. It is important to set reasonable sizes on labels and check window sizes.<br />
* New widgets include GtkLockButton for privileged operations, GtkOverlay for floating controls over a content area, the new GtkFontChooserDialog and more.<br />
* There is also improved CSS theming support and the HTML backend Broadway, which renders a GTK3 application in a browser. It is still experimental and requires compiling with --enable-broadway-backend and environment varialbe GDK_BACKEND at runtime.<br />
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'''Clutter 1.8'''<br /><br />
GNOME's graphics library for hardware-accelerated user interfaces Clutter provides, among other things, the following improvements: <br />
* New actions including Gesture and swipe detection, creating drop actors and long-press support for ClutterClickAction. <br />
* ClutterState transitions can be bound to object signals when creating a scene in ClutterScript. <br />
* Cogl, the GPU programming interface used by Clutter, is exposed as a separate library. <br />
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'''Use of Deprecated Libraries'''<br /><br />
Further progress has been made in the continuous work of replacing outdated technologies with superior facilities. Some examples:<br />
* GConf now uses D-Bus. As a consequence, the deprecated libraries ORBit2 and libIDL have been removed from GNOME. Many applications using GConf have been ported to gsettings.<br />
* GNOME core modules now only depend on introspection-based Python bindings (pygobject-3) and hence pygtk, gnome-python and gnome-python-desktop are not required anymore.<br />
* Several packages, such as the Epiphany web browser, have been converted from using dbus-glib to GDBus and from libunique to G(tk)Application.<br />
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'''Miscellaneous Developer Updates'''<br /><br />
Other GNOME Platform improvements in GNOME 3.2 include: <br />
* GNOME's build tool JHBuild does not build a module anymore if the version installed on your system is recent enough. If you start to build GNOME from scratch with a recent distribution, this can easily drop 50 modules from the list of modules to compile.<br />
* Tracker version 0.12 provides support for Firefox ≥ 4.0, Thunderbird ≥ 5.0, MeeGoTouch, several additional SPARQL parameters, extracting information from EPub files, and local XDG directories for desktop files. <br />
* NetworkManager version 0.9 provides introspection support and a simplified D-Bus API. Information how to port applications from NetworkManager 0.8 to 0.9 is available.<br />
* GtkSourceView now supports syntax highlighting of Markdown and Standard ML files.<br />
* libfolks now includes an Evolution-Data-Server backend, which is used by the new Contacts application.<br />
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== And more ==<br />
The above selection of changes and improvements in openSUSE 12.1 is still far from complete but gives a taste of what is new. We hope you enjoyed reading it!<br />
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* [[Medienaufteilung]]<br />
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* [[Produktlebensdauer|18 Monate Lebensdauer]]<br />
*[http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/12.1/RELEASE-NOTES.de.html openSUSE 12.1 Release Notes]<br />
*[[In_der_Presse| openSUSE 12.1 in der Presse]]<br />
* [[Portal:Installation|Installation]]<br />
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==openSUSE 12.1 - die neueste freie Software in einer stabilen und leichten Version==<br />
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Liebe Nutzer, Mitwirkende, Fans und Freunde,<br />Wir sind stolz, Ihnen die neueste Ausgabe von openSUSE zu präsentieren! Es ist das Ergebnis von 8 Monaten harter Arbeit der openSUSE Gemeinschaft. Sie erlaubt es Ihnen, sich darüber zu freuen, was die neueste freie Software zu bieten hat, mit dem einzigartigen openSUSE-Touch - stabil, freundlich, unterhaltsam.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 bringt Ihnen Aktualisierungen zur neuesten Freien Software als Desktop- und Servertechnologie, ebenso einzigartige Funktionen, wie das neueste Snapper-Werkzeug, Datei-Änderungs-Monitoring und Rollback-Funktionalität. <br />
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===Die neuesten Freien Desktops bringen Farb-Management, GNOME Shell und mehr===<br />
openSUSE bietet Ihnen die Auswahl aus 4 offiziell unterstützten Freien Desktops, alle auf hohem Niveau von Verfeinerung und Unterstützung. Bemerkenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste große Linux-Distribution ist, die Farb-Management-Werkzeuge sowohl für KDE als auch GNOME Desktops mitbringt! <br />
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====KDE führt Oyranos, Apper und Plasma Active ein====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 bringt den [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Arbeitsplatz] 4.7 als Standard-Desktop mit und ist die erste große Linux-Distribution, die auch den neuen [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Farb-Management]-Werkzeuge ausliefert. Eine andere große neue Änderung ist der Ersatz von KPackageKit durch Apper. Apper vereinfacht die Installation und das Entfernen von Anwendungen. <br />
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Das innovative Projekt der KDE-Gemeinschaft, die Tablet-Oberfläche Plasma Active, ist noch kein integraler Bestandteil des openSUSE 12.1 Release. Aber die Nutzer der Tablet-Oberfläche können Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 installieren. Wir arbeiten an der Integration bis zum nächsten Release.<br />
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====GNOME Shell - verbessert und verfeinert====<br />
Wir stellen Ihnen '''GNOME 3.2''' vor, eine verbesserte und verfeinerte Version der GNOME Shell, die in GNOME 3 eingeführt wurde. openSUSE liefert ebenso viele verbesserte GNOME-Anwendungen aus, die in die GNOME-Shell integriert sind.<br />
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Haupt-Verbesserungen im Vergleich zur GNOME 3-Vorschau in openSUSE 11.4 schließen einen besseren Umgang mit kleinen Bildschirmen und Multi-Bildschirm-Einrichtungen ein, bessere Ausführungsmeldungen und eine zentralisierte Konfiguration von <em>Online-Benutzerkonten</em>. Dieses Release bring Ihnen ebenso einen neuen Dokumentenmanager. Dieses Release bringt auch einen neuen Dokumenten-Manager, ein erweitertes Farb-Management und eine automatische Rotation für Touch-Screen-Geräte mit. [[:en:openSUSE:Product_highlights_12.1#GNOME_3.2|Hier finden Sie weitere Details über GNOME 3.2]]<br />
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====Die anderen Desktops====<br />
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Beide Desktops '''XFCE''' und '''LXDE''' habe keine größeren Funktionsuptates seit dem letzten openSUSE Release erhalten. Aber kleine Verbesserungen wurden durchgeführt und sind im Release enthalten. Das schließt bessere Themen- und Desktop-Integration ein und ebenso eine verbesserte Auswahl von Anwendungen, Teil der Standard-Auswahl für jeden Desktop. openSUSE stellt auch wieder KDE 3 Pakete zur Verfügung.<br />
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===openSUSE bietet die neuesten Web- und Wolken-Technologien an===<br />
Dieses openSUSE Release liefert die neuesten Web-Browser, das Groupware-Framework [http://www.horde.org/ Horde 4] und aktualisierte Wolken- und Virtualisierungs-Technologien.<br />
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====Web surfing and serving====<br />
On the client side, openSUSE 12.1 introduces '''Chromium 16''' to the standard repositories. This WebKit based web browser from google offers a convenient UI and incredibly fast browsing. The default openSUSE browser is '''Firefox 7''', the latest from the Mozilla labs.<br />
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On the server side, the '''WebYaST''' remote system management tool offers a much improved web interface to administer openSUSE systems remotely with new modules and better performance. The introduction of the Groupware framework '''Horde 4''' brings a powerful set of applications including a modern Webmail client and a PHP based framework on which it is all build.<br />
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====Supporting Cloud technologies====<br />
openSUSE is an excellent guest OS for the cloud as can be experienced building solutions on [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio]. With a new kernel, openSUSE is now ready to run directly on the '''Amazon EC2 cloud'''. On the host side, the latest virtualization technologies including '''Xen 4.1''', '''KVM''' and '''Virtual Box''' can be managed with the latest '''virt-manager''' and '''open-vm-tools'''. Last but not least, openSUSE is the first Linux distribution to ship OwnCloud integrated into the desktop. And the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualization and Cloud repository] for openSUSE 12.1 offers the latest versions of '''Eucalyptus''', '''OpenNebula''' and '''OpenStack''' for openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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[[:en:Product_highlights#Security_and_administration_tools|read more about the administration and cloud tools in openSUSE 12.1]]<br />
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===Improved distribution technology===<br />
openSUSE introduces a number of improvements and innovations in the underlying technology of the distribution. This includes the unique Snapper tool offering file versioning, the systemd init system and Google's Go language.<br />
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====Snapper rolls back changes====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 is the first Linux distribution taking advantage of the snapshot functionality in the upcoming Linux file system Btrfs. These snapshots of the file system are using copy-on-write, making them very space efficient. openSUSE 12.1 debuts [[:en:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] which allows the user to interface with this technology.<br />
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The command line and GUI Snapper tools allow users to view older versions of files and revert changes. The unique integration in the zypper package manager of openSUSE allows users to roll back entire upgrades or software installations with the accompanying configuration changes.<br />
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====systemd boots your system====<br />
systemd is the new init tool in openSUSE, controlling and speeding up the boot process. Developed in close cooperation with fellow Linux Distribution Fedora, systemd is especially interesting for system administrators due to it's powerful socket- and bus activated service system. It also works closely with the cgroups kernel feature providing better security and control over the processes.<br />
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====Write in '''go''', compile with Clang or GCC====<br />
openSUSE is proud to be the first major distribution to ship [http://golang.org/ '''Google's new Go programming language'''] as part of our release. Go is a fast, easy language good in handling mulit-core, networked machines with the convenience of garbage collection and run-time reflection.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 also comes with the just-released [http://llvm.org/ '''LLVM3 compiler tool'''] and [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], the C/C++ compiler building upon LLVM. LLVM is employed by the open source ATI and NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers and thus forms an integral part of a high-performance graphics stack on Linux.<br />
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Lastly, this openSUSE release is build with [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''link-time optimization'''], improving the overall performance of the software.<br />
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==Mehr Details über openSUSE 12.1==<br />
Die folgenden Seiten zeigen auf, was neu in dieser openSUSE Version ist.<br />
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===Under the hood===<br />
Although the most obvious improvements to openSUSE 12.1 may be on the surface, we've made a slew of improvements under the hood as well to improve booting, hardware management, and system configuration. The boot procedure of openSUSE is now handled by systemd (with sysvinit still available as backup); the new Snapper tool automatically tracks system configuration and other file changes (and lets you roll them back); YaST received a variety of improvements crushing the demons of setups past; SAX makes its return in the form of SAX3, an openSUSE GSOC project; and of course we're supporting the freshest versions of every core system component, such as the Linux 3.1 Kernel, syslog-ng 3.3, GCC 4.6 and LLVM v3. Also notable is the fact that openSUSE is the first major Linux distribution to ship [http://golang.org Google's new Go programming language].<br />
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====openSUSE Technology improvements====<br />
openSUSE, as a Linux Distribution, does more than package third party software. We have our own tools to configure your system, manage software and more.<br />
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=====Snapper=====<br />
[[Image:openSUSE_12.1_Snapper.png|thumb|250px||Snapper YaST GUI in action]]<br />
openSUSE 12.1 is the first Linux distribution taking advantage of the snapshot functionality in the upcoming Linux filesystem Btrfs. These snapshots of the file system are using copy-on-write, making them very space efficient. openSUSE 12.1 debuts [[:en:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] which allows the user to interface with this technology.<br />
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The command line and GUI Snapper tools allow users to view older versions of files and revert changes. The unique integration in the zypper package manager of openSUSE allows users to roll back entire upgrades or software installations with the accompanying configuration changes.<br />
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Note that Snapper and the rollback functionality currently is only available for the btrfs filesystem! Work is going on to enable it for the older Ext4 filesystem as well but this will not be possible before the next openSUSE release.<br />
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You can read [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/04/01/introducing-snapper/ an introduction to snapper here].<br />
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[http://www.youtube.com/susevideo#p/a/u/0/9H7e6BcI5Fo Greg K-H demoing Snapper at Brainshare].<br />
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=====SAX3=====<br />
When Xorg evolved beyond xorg.conf, to the new xorg.conf.d structure, our beloved X configuration tool SAX2 went away as well. Thanks to the efforts of Manu Gupta [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/07/05/people-of-opensuse-manu-gupta/ during Google's Summer of Code], openSUSE again has an elegant GUI for customizing your X configuration: SAX3. Now openSUSE users may once again easily tweak their keyboard, mouse, monitor, and touchpad settings in one convenient interface. Don't worry if you're having trouble with your X configuration: as is usual for YaST modules, SAX3 solves that chicken-and-egg problem by including an ncurses text interface as well as GTK & QT graphical interfaces.Please note that sax3 on the oss repo does not work properly for 12.1 but an update will soon follow but is already available at [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=X11%3Asax X11:sax repo].<br />
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=====YaST=====<br />
Aside from the new Snapper support, and the return of SAX3, openSUSE's YaST2 received a number of bugfixes and small improvements. The YaST maintainers are happy to report that after the last few fixes they are now confident that YaST will not accidentally overwrite user modified configuration files like it used to in 'the early days'. And together with the zypp package management performance improvements in the openSUSE 11 series, the myth YaST is slow and overwrites files can be finally put to rest now. A more visible change is the new style which is possible thanks to the new [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/10/24/new-style-for-yast2/ CSS based themes available for YaST]. WebYaST continues to evolve as well, including more modules than ever to aid in web-based administration of your openSUSE machines.<br />
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=====OBS, openQA and other tools=====<br />
openSUSE has developed a number of powerful tools which we use to build our distribution and which are also available for others to build packages or test software with. These tools include the cross-platform [http://openbuildservice.org Open Build Service], the omnipotent [http://openqa.opensuse.org openQA], the flexible [[Portal:KIWI|KIWI]] and much more. Each of those has seen releases with improvements in the last 8 months. This includes the [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/10/11/opensuse-announces-first-public-release-of-openqa/ first release of openQA] and the [http://news.opensuse.org/2010/10/19/the-opensuse-build-service-2-1-released/2.1 release of the Open Build Service] which has [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=openSUSE%3ATools packages available for openSUSE 12.1].<br />
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====Linux Kernel 3.1====<br />
The new Linux 3.1 Kernel is a substantial improvement over the 2.6.38 kernel which was part of openSUSE 11.4. Not only have filesystems like Ext4 and Btrfs been improved, the Linux 3.1 Kernel specifically brings a number of performance improvements to memory management and data handling. Of course there is the usual slab of new hardware support including external devices like Microsoft's Kinect, Apple iSight webcam and the Nintendo Wii controller as well as internal hardware like the new AMD Llano Fusion APU's and Intel's Ivy Bridge & Cedar Trail CPU's, a variety of wireless and graphics cards and much more. Find more details about what's new in the openSUSE kernel on the [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_39 Linux 2.6.39], [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.0 Linux 3.0] and [http://kernelnewbies.orgWilliams/Linux_3.1 Linux 3.1] KernelNewbies pages.<br />
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====systemd and other system-wide changes====<br />
System boot is now handled by the new '''systemd''' init tool, controlling and speeding up the boot process. Developed in close cooperation with fellow Linux distribution Fedora, systemd is especially interesting for system administrators due to it's powerful socket- and bus activated service system which improves parallelization and resource usage. It also works closely with Linux' cgroups providing better security and control over the processes.<br />
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If for some reason, systemd does not work for you, you can still '''use the old sysV-init''' by pressing F5 in the bootloader. If you want to permanently use the old init, just do zypper rm systemd-sysvinit<br />
We also again provide '''grub2''' as an optional bootloader. While we are still not satisfied with Grub2 as a replacement for the current Grub, we encourage users to try it out, and want to make sure it's available for developers.<br />
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A number of smaller changes includes:<br />
*the '''util-linux''' tool version 2.20 introduces the first major changes to the dmesg logging tool in 18 years, bringing a number of options to bring human readable prefixes and timestamps to the output or clean it up, only showing important messages or messages coming from either kernel- or userspace.<br />
*'''LightDM 1.0''' is the first stable release of this faster, extensible Display Manager. LightDM aims to replace the myriad of different DM's with a single [http://xkcd.com/927/ new standard].<br />
*the '''syslog-ng 3.3''' release adds multithreading, JSON and mongodb output to this system logging tool.<br />
*The [http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.0 rpm 4.9] release brings a number of stability and performance improvements to this package manager.<br />
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==== First to ship Google Go, LLVM v3 and CLANG v3 ====<br />
openSUSE is proud to be the first major distribution to ship [http://golang.org/ '''Google's new Go programming language'''] as part of our release. Go is a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language. Go makes it easy to work with multi-core and networked machines and offers flexible and modular program construction mechanisms. While it compiles (quickly) to machine code it has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. Learn more on the [http://golang.org/ Go language website].<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 also comes with the just-released [http://llvm.org/ '''LLVM3 compiler tool'''] and [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], the C/C++ compiler building upon LLVM. LLVM, a set of flexible and performant compiler tools, offers powerful code generation which is used by Mesa for its software based OpenGL "Gallium" graphics driver architecture. It is also employed by the open source ATI and NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers and thus forms an integral part of a high-performance graphics stack on Linux.<br />
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[http://clang.llvm.org/ '''Clang'''] takes advantage of LLVM to provide an fast and memory-efficient GCC-compatible C/C++ code compiler. Clang in openSUSE 12.1 comes with enabled ARM code generation support, in the spirit of the recently started [http://opensuse.org/opensuse:ARMopenSUSE ARMs project]!<br />
Aside from Go and LLVM, openSUSE offers a large number of the latest compilers and tools. openSUSE 12.1 is build with [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''], which has [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_fx4100_gcc&num=1 shown to offer significant performance improvements] over the previous 4.5 version. This release also introduces initial support for the Ada 2012 programming language as well as experimental support for the latest C++11 standard (status can be found [http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/cxx0x_status.html here]).<br />
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This release of GCC, combined with the latest '''binutils 2.21.1''', has allowed us to enable [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''link-time optimization'''] in a number of packages, bringing an additional performance improvement.<br />
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=== Localization ===<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 has been [http://i18n.opensuse.org translated into many languages] - currently about 30 are over 90% complete and no less than 66 languages are in the process of being finished. This openSUSE release has added five Cyrillic fonts. Two of them (PT Sans and PT Serif) beside standard Western, Central European and Cyrillic code pages contain characters of all title languages of Russian Federation that make them unique and a very important tool of modern digital communications.}}<br />
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===Repository changes and third party support for openSUSE 12.1===<br />
Via the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service installation on build.opensuse.org] openSUSE hosts over 160.000 packages created by more than 30.000 individual contributors. These are available to openSUSE users as well as users from other Linux Distributions. But outside of this infrastructure, other projects like VLC and Packman offer their own OBS instance with packages for openSUSE! We highlight a few important projects from build.opensuse.org and third parties.<br />
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====Tumbleweed====<br />
'''Tumbleweed''', the unique [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed|rolling release repository for openSUSE]], can be considered 'complete' at the time of this release. Covering almost all of the openSUSE 12.1 packages, Tumbleweed offers newer versions as soon as they are deemed stable. Instead of making you wait for a new release of openSUSE, Tumbleweed lessens the significance and change impact of major releases by updating systems continuously. By enabling Tumbleweed you are always up to date with the '''latest software'''. And you won’t have to install newer versions of openSUSE as you’ll be running them already by the time they get released!<br />
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Tumbleweed will require its current users to make one manual change to the repositories upon the 12.1 release. Besides the Tumbleweed repository, users are required to have the latest stable openSUSE repositories enabled, currently for most users set at openSUSE 11.4. With the 12.1 release, these will thus have to change. The openSUSE sysadmins have ensured however that this will be the first and last time this has to be changed. From now on there will be a link to the latest stable release, for the convenience of Tumbleweed users. Upon a new release the openSUSE servers will automatically handle the required changes, transparent to the users. For instructions to make these changes, [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed_12.1change|please see here]].<br />
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Find more information [[:en:Tumbleweed|about Tumbleweed here]].<br />
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====Packman====<br />
[[Image:Packman.png|256px|link=|Features]]The well-known third-party [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] repositories for openSUSE already offer openSUSE 12.1 support. '''Packman''' provides four different repositories each offering a targeted selection of software, in addition to the larger common repository. Additional to packages for openSUSE 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, Factory and SLE 11, an essential set of Packman packages is provided for Tumbleweed. Find more information on the [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman website] and [[Paket_Repositorys#Packman| find out how to get software from Packman on the openSUSE wiki]].<br />
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====SUSE Studio====<br />
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'''SUSE Studio''' is a project from openSUSE sponsor SUSE(TM) which builds upon the Free and Open Source openSUSE tools like '''KIWI''' and offers a convenient web interface for easy building of openSUSE and SLE based custom operating systems (appliances).<br />
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[http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] users can expect availability of openSUSE 12.1 right from the release date, and support for upgrading existing appliances shortly after. This means it will be possible to easily create your own versions of openSUSE 12.1 with '''custom package selections''', '''artwork''', '''scripts''' and any other properties and download them as USB or disk images, Live CDs and a variety of popular virtual formats. You can share your appliance or also browse other’s shared appliances on [http://susestudio.com/browse SUSE Gallery].<br />
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====Contrib retired====<br />
The [[:en:openSUSE:Contrib|Contrib]] repository for third-party packages was once a community-driven extension of the main repository. The vast majority of these packages have since been integrated in the main repository or in one of the central additional repositories like the official [[KDE_Repositorys|KDE]] and [[GNOME_Repositorys|GNOME]] repositories. These provide newer versions of the software in the main repositories as well as new or experimental software not yet available in openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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====Packages on the Open Build Service====<br />
If you can not find an application in openSUSE 12.1 you can use the search functionality on [http://software.opensuse.org software.opensuse.org]. If you enable searching in users home projects (under advanced) you can choose from the 160.000 packages provided by our 30.000 packagers using the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service instance on build.opensuse.org].<br />
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====VLC====<br />
The VideoLAN organization continues their robust support for openSUSE, with a 1-click install of the VLC universal media player already available for openSUSE 12.1 at [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html this page].<br />
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=== Latest Free Desktops ===<br />
openSUSE offers both major Free Software desktops as well as a number of community-supported desktops, all with a high level of polish and support. openSUSE 12.1 is the first release to introduce the new '''GNOME Shell''' user interface, part of GNOME 3.2. GNOME Shell brings a vastly refined user experience with a smooth, natural workflow. The default openSUSE desktop, the '''KDE Plasma Desktop''', brings color management and much improved performance as well as the new 'Akonadi' based Kontact2 groupware solution. Current releases of both XFCE and LXDE include minor improvements on the road to their next big releases.<br />
For the first time, the openSUSE community openly selected artwork for openSUSE 12.1; the preferred 'upwind' theme reflects in our new splash, boot and background images . GNOME users will notice that the art team has maintained the trend of providing a time-sensitive set of themed wallpapers.<br />
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==== KDE Plasma Workspaces and applications 4.7 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Workspaces] 4.7 and is the first major Linux distribution to ship the new [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos Color Management Service]. Oyranos and its associated tools add [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management color management] to KDE applications, making sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens. Another major new addition is Apper, an easy to use software management tool replacing KPackageKit. There are also improvements to network management, the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop tool and Activities. In total, this release fixed over 12.000 bugs and contains hundreds of smaller and larger performance improvements.<br />
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The innovative new Tablet project from the KDE community, Plasma Active, is not an integral part of the openSUSE 12.1 release as it depends on functionality not available in the released KDE Platform yet and conflicts with the Desktop and Netbook workspaces. However, tablet users can install Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 and we work on integrating it in the next openSUSE release.<br />
Read on for a more extensive view on what's new in the Desktop, Netbook and application area as well as to learn more about Plasma Active One!<br />
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|[[Image:OpenSUSE114Ksysguard.png|thumb|250px|alt=Plasma Desktop|Plasma Desktop]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114KWin.png|thumb|250px|alt=KDE's KWin window manager features compositing|KWin compositing]]<br />
|}<br />
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=====Plasma Workspaces bring improved visuals with Oyranos CMS=====<br />
openSUSE is the '''first major Linux distribution to ship [http://www.oyranos.org/about/ Oyranos CMS]''' integrated in the KDE applications and workspaces. Oyranos is is an operating system level [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Color Management System], matching input device colors to output device colors across supported applications. Oyranos makes use of the ICC color management standard and is integrated in the KDE Workspaces and applications through the new KolorManager application. The KolorManager application makes sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens.<br />
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Users can now configure their ICC profiles and settings in one central place. It brings as well a set of command line tools like oyranos-policy for handling policy configuration files and oyranos-profiles for installation of ICC profiles. KDE users can install the KolorManager package. This Oyranos front end adds a system settings control panel for individual settings adaption. Most systems will run fine with Oyranos defaults. [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ read more about color management in openSUSE 12.1 on the oyranos website]<br />
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'''Visual improvements'''<br />
On the visual side, KDE's Plasma workspaces provides '''better integration with GTK/GNOME applications''' with a port of KDE's Oxygen style to GTK. The Oxygen icons have been improved and the Plasma panel offers a more consistent look with changes to the icons and the clock. The new Shadow support in window manager '''KWin''' gives a better look on older hardware and performs better all around. KWin also can now disable compositing when a full-screen application calls for it, increasing performance for OpenGL games and GPU accelerated video playback.<br />
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Plasma's Activities have seen many improvements. The '''Activity Manager''' now takes a more prominent place in the default panel in Plasma Desktop. Activities enhance the users' workflows by providing smart ways of grouping applications, widgets and documents.<br />
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Navigating through applications and recent files is easier with the '''addition of breadcrumbs''' to the Kickoff application launcher, helping users to see where they are and quickly back up to higher menu levels. Many other usability and functionality improvements have been made to the Workspaces. For example, '''Konsole''' no longer blocks the removal of USB storage devices and '''KMix''' has improved PulseAudio support. <br />
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'''Network management, multimedia and Nepomuk'''<br />
The Plasma Workspaces now also offer '''much improved network management''', including support for NetworkManager 0.9 as well as Bluetooth tethering, 3G, VPN, MAC spoofing and other advanced networking options.<br />
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Thanks to [http://dot.kde.org/2011/09/21/nepomuk-stability-and-performance generous donations from the community], the Semantic Desktop technology '''Nepomuk has seen extensive bugfixing''', improving stability and performance as well as making it easier to use. Strigi analyzers now read meta-data in their own process, resolving over 35 crash-related bugs in Dolphin and Konqueror.<br />
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The latest version of '''Phonon''', our media framework, has seen work on the backends. The VLC-based back-end is now considered stable and is the preferred back-end for multiplatform use, while the back-end based on GStreamer is now also considered stable on Linux platforms. The xine back-end is no longer maintained.<br />
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=====KDE Applications suite 4.7 features many refinements=====<br />
The latest version of KPackageKit - now renamed '''Apper''' - (developed by [http://dantti.wordpress.com Daniel Nicoletti] ) is now included with Plasma Desktop. This brings significant improvements to the KDE's PackageKit front end and makes it possible to list Applications instead of listing only Packages. This makes openSUSE a lot more user-friendly and closer to Grandma compattible.<br />
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'''Dolphin''', KDE’s file manager, has a cleaner default appearance. The menu bar is hidden, but easy to reach and restore. The file searching interface has been improved. In addition, Dolphin now has much deeper integration with source code management systems, including the ability to create and clone repositories, push and pull changes, view diffs and much more.<br />
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Dolphin and Konqueror both benefit from a new plugin that provides a '''rating and an annotation menu action''' for files and folders, leveraging Nepomuk capabilities. <br />
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Image management has become easier with '''Gwenview''', the KDE image viewer, now offering the ability to compare two or more pictures side by side. From the browse mode, select two or more pictures, and then switch to the view mode or to the full-screen mode. In the view mode, you can add more pictures from the thumbnail bar.<br />
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Comic fans will be pleased that Okular, the universal file viewer, gains support for reading a directory as a comicbook.<br />
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'''KStars''', the essential KDE application for stargazers around the world, has gained a feature to predict a star hopping route and dynamic switching between its OpenGL and native rendering backends. Labels can now be assigned to points on celestial lines; comet trails are rendered in OpenGL mode. Mathematicians and scientists can now explore higher order functions in Kalgebra and get information on oxidation states for elements in Kalzium. <br />
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'''KDM''', the display manager, has gained ''GRUB2'' support. A user with multiple operating systems in their GRUB2 menu can now choose which one to reboot to in the shutdown dialog by holding down the mouse button on their reboot choice. <br />
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'''Marble''', the virtual globe application, has gained many improvements over the past eight months. It now has voice navigation support, a map creation wizard, and new plug-ins. Following the Voice of Marble contest, '''voice navigation''' is now available in several languages, with voices provided by the KDE community. For more details, see Marble's [http://edu.kde.org/marble/current_1.2.php visual changelog]. <br />
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Other applications such as Kate, Kalzium, KAlgebra, KStars, and KDevelop have also been updated in this release. Changes and improvements to some other major applications from the KDE community can be found in the [Product_highlights#New_and_updated_applications|applications section].<br />
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Find more information on what is new in the Plasma Workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Platform in the [http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.7/ announcement by KDE].<br />
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|[[Image:OpenSUSE114KDENetbookPages.png|thumb|250px|alt=KDE Netbook features scrollable widget pages|Plasma Netbook widgets]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114kdeNetbookSAL.png|thumb|250px|alt=Search and Launch interface in Plasma Netbook|Plasma Netbook search and launch interface]]<br />
|}<br />
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=====Plasma Active One is optionally available=====<br />
The fresh and innovative [http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active Plasma Active] interface for tablets and mobile devices is available for openSUSE 12.1. It is not an integral part of this release as it still depends on a number of unreleased technologies but we plan to have Plasma Active as part of openSUSE 12.2.<br />
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'''Plasma Active'''<br />
Plasma Active aims at creating a cross-device user experience for emerging devices such as tablet computers, media centers, smartphones, and more. It builds on the Linux stack with X11, Qt and the KDE libraries. The user interface is designed using Plasma Quick, a declarative markup language allowing for organic user interface design based on Qt Quick.<br />
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The first release, [http://kde.org/announcements/plasma-active-one/ Plasma Active One] fully focuses on tablet computers. Plasma Active Tablet's user experience is designed around the web, social networks and multimedia content. Packages for openSUSE are offered in the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=KDE%3AActive Plasma Active] repository.<br />
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==== GNOME 3.2 ====<br />
After shipping a technical preview of [http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ GNOME 3] with 11.4, openSUSE 12.1 replaces the GNOME 2.x series with the latest GNOME 3.2 desktop to the openSUSE GNOME users. With many improvements based on the feedback of the openSUSE community and the wider Free Software community, numerous usability and application changes have been incorporated.<br />
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'''GNOME Shell''' brings a fresh user-interface that is designed from the scratch to satisfy the needs of today's users. The interface focuses on getting out of the way and providing unobtrusive yet powerful notifications and deep integration of calendar, chat and other technologies. The UI elements and workflows are designed to be touch-friendly for use on tablets or desktops with a touch screen. By using the 3D acceleration capabilities provided by most of the computers these days, pleasing animations are used to give users an aesthetic look and feel and a much easier way of switching between applications. Read on for more details on what's new in GNOME 3.2.<br />
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===== What's new in GNOME Shell 3.2 =====<br />
Various minor tweaks and major features are incorporated into this release based on user feedback. openSUSE 12.1 ships the alt-status-menu extension to make various computer operations easily accessible. Some examples:<br />
*It is now easier to resize windows and titlebars, buttons and other controls are a bit less tall, making GNOME easier to use on small screens.<br />
* Notifications now include a counter so you can see how many mails or chats messages are waiting for you and Shell now also shows media device notifications.<br />
* The focus-follows-mouse feature has been improved and while it's not perfect yet, it will suffice for most usecases.<br />
* The System Settings have been improved, showing links to other relevant settings and has integrated color management<br />
* GNOME Shell battery power status now shows how much power you have left<br />
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===== Communication in GNOME Shell =====<br />
Compared to any prior release of GNOME, the instant messaging workflow is much improved in GNOME Shell 3.2. You can receive chats, reply to messages, approve / deny friendship requests, call requests, all without having to launch the IM application explicitly. You can change the status of your machine from a centralized place so that all the IM accounts reflect the status change. Error and new message notifications are so well integrated in GNOME shell so that you won't have focus stealing popups but only unobtrusive animations notifying you what is going on.<br />
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A new "Online Accounts" feature enables users to create online accounts. Accounts created will be seamlessly available for various applications throughout the desktop experience. For example, if you create a Google Account, your Google Docs documents will be available in the new Document browser, your Google contacts will be available in empathy for IM, and the calendar shows your appointments. http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/gnome-documents-google.png.en<br />
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[[Image:114_screenshots_gnome_desktop_generic.png|thumb|250px||The GNOME 2.32 Desktop]]<br />
[http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2] <br />
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===== What's new in the GNOME 3.2 Applications =====<br />
The new GNOME 3 libraries bring many improvements to GNOME 3 applications. Some examples:<br />
* File open dialogs in applications now show a list of recent files and directories<br />
* Better performance and a new theme<br />
* A redesigned Font chooser dialog<br />
* A new on-screen keyboard and a number of other accessibility enhancements<br />
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Moreover, the individual applications have seen many features and bugfixes, read on for a quick overview.<br />
A new people-focused '''Contacts"' application is shipped which can work with Evolution and Empathy in the background, providing you with a unified addressbook for your desktop. <br />
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'''Empathy''', the GNOME IM application has got a lot of improvements. You can easily search your logs visually filtering on various parameters such as Who, When.<br />
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http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/empathy-log.png.en NetworkManager-gnome version 0.9 provides fast user switching, improved WiFi roaming, WiMAX support, flexible permissions and centralized storage of network connection information.<br />
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Not to be left out of the party, GNOME 3.2 includes robust color management support as well, including the new GNOME Color Manager wizard for calibrating displays using either ICC profiles or a Huey hardware colorimeter. [http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-color-manager/screenshots.html]<br />
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File manager '''Nautilus''' has seen a major overhaul for GNOME 3, with an improved Places sidebar, a new ''Connect to server'' dialog and a quick preview function which can be triggered by 'space'.<br />
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Many smaller improvements include new and configurable effects in the Webcam application '''Cheese''', bookmark support in PDF viewer '''Evince''', plugins for image viewer '''Eye of GNOME''' and improved streaming support for video and audio in media player Totem.<br />
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Read more about [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2 in the official announcement] and find more GNOME applications in the sections below.<br />
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|[[Image:openSUSE114GNOME3Shell.png|thumb|200px|A blank GNOME Shell workspace]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114gnome3_windows.png|thumb|200px|Shell managing your windows]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114GNOME3Search.png|thumb|200px|GNOME Shell integrates search]]<br />
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==== LXDE 0.5 ====<br />
This release of openSUSE comes with LXDE 0.5. There have been no major updates to this lightweight desktop for a while but minor improvements and bugfixes have been integrated.<br />
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|[[Image:114_screenshots_lxde_menu.png|thumb|200px|LXDE Menu]]<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_lxde_filemanager_configuration.png|thumb|200px|LXDE File Manager & Configuration]]<br />
|}<br />
==== Xfce 4.8 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships ''''Xfce 4.8''''. All Xfce components have been updated to the latest bugfix releases. The desktop has been polished further in terms of integration and branding. LightDM is now the default display manager reducing the dependencies on core GNOME components. The functionality provided in the default install should now be on par with GNOME/KDE desktops.<br />
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{|<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_xfce_menu.png|thumb|250px|The Xfce Desktop and the menu]]<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_xfce_filemanager_configuration.png|thumb|250px|The Tunar filemanager and XFCE configuration]]<br />
|}<br />
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Please use up-to-date screenshot from http://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots_12.1#Xfce_4.8<br />
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=== New and updated applications ===<br />
On top of the kernel and other low-level tools, openSUSE provides a huge variety of console and graphical applications. These applications have been updated to the latest versions bringing many improvements in terms of features and bugfixes.<br />
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====Web browsers====<br />
The web is important for modern computer users, and openSUSE has you covered with a selection of browsers Free Software has to offer. We ship a much faster Firefox, an innovative Opera, a well integrated Epiphany and a more stable Rekonq. New is Chromium, the fast and easy to use browser from Google. These browsers provide a wide range of rendering engines supporting the latest web standards. Read on to find out what is new in these browsers since we brought to you in openSUSE 11.4!<br />
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'''Firefox 7'''<br /><br />
Since Firefox 4.0 in openSUSE 11.4, the project has moved to a more rapid release schedule and thus we present you with Mozilla's latest Firefox 7.0.1. Firefox has introduced support for new privacy features like do-not-track and much improved developer tools in the new 'web developer' menu. End users will appreciate the many smaller and larger usability improvements like the URL bar highlighting the website domain and hiding the prefix. Last but not least, each subsequent Firefox release brought better performance, from faster loading of tabs to the large memory management improvements in Firefox 7 and of course support for the latest web standards.<br />
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'''Chromium 16'''<br /><br />
Chromium, meet openSUSE 12.1 users. Users, meet Chromium. This venerable WebKit based web browser from Google is quickly gaining popularity and thus had to become part of the openSUSE distribution. With its simplified interface, great integration with Google services, separate processes so a crashing site can not take down the browser and the fastest JavaScript engine in the world, it will impress you with it's speed and ease of use. The rapid release cycle of Chromium is hard to track - we ensure the latest is always available on your system so you don't have to worry about security or not being able to work with the latest websites.<br />
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'''Opera 11.52'''<br /><br />
Opera 11.52 brings much improved Opera Link to sync your passwords between system and a better Speed Dial which now supports extensions, small webpages embedded in your Speed Dial. Another new feature is the Location support on websites like Google Maps. Opera also uses far less memory now and became a fair bit more stable. Of course this release supports the latest HTML 5 and CSS 3 standards and features a faster JavaScript engine and smoother graphics.<br />
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'''Rekonq 0.8'''<br /><br />
With Rekonq 0.8, openSUSE ships a second WebKit based browser. Build on Qt and the KDE Platform this new release takes advantage of the many improvements in QtWebKit 2.2, bringing better stability and performance. New features include the Do-Not-Track feature, availability of history in restored tabs, and Third Party rule support in AdBlock. usability has been given attention with much improved drag'n'drop support, an new SSL UI, optional VI-style navigation and improved URL bar handling.<br />
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'''Epiphany from GNOME 3.2'''<br /><br />
The third WebKit based browser, this time from the GNOME community, Epiphany, allows you to create Web Application links. These Web Applications show up in the application view of GNOME Shell and act very much like real applications, opening links in new web browser windows and not showing a navigation bar or tabs. They also run in a process separate from the browser, so that crashes of Epiphany do not affect your web applications.<br />
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====Office and desktop publishing applications====<br />
openSUSE helps you get work done by providing a stable base and up to date productivity tools. The latest LibreOffice brings new features in most components as well as speed and stability improvements to this enterprise ready office suite. While Abiword, Gnumeric and KOffice are still at their latest stable versions, our additional repositories offer the innovative Calligra application suite as a choice.<br />
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'''Libreoffice 3.4.3'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://XXXX.org '''Libreoffice'''] release brings a large number of small additions and improvements like the ability to add and remove color charts, a named range as data source and supporting an unlimited number of fields in the DataPilot (now named Pivot Table), Greek Character mode for numbering in Writer and much more. As usual, much performance work was done decreasing the size of LibreOffice and improving startup speed. Text rendering and theming have received a major overhaul, making LibreOffice fitting better in your desktop.<br />
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'''Scribus 1.4'''<br /><br />
[http://www.scribus.net '''Scribus'''] is the major Open Source Desktop Publishing tool available for Linux. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation. openSUSE ships a release candidate of Scribus 1.4 which has a large number of stability fixes over the release in openSUSE 11.4.<br />
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'''Calligra 2.4 beta 3'''<br /><br />
The new [http://www.calligra-suite.org/ Calligra Suite], the successor of KOffice in openSUSE is not yet part of this release. However most users report the current beta's to be of '''better quality than the latest KOffice release''' and the openSUSE packagers have thus committed to provide a repository which will offer the latest Calligra releases.<br />
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Specifically '''targeting students and academic users''' with the productivity part, Calligra brings much improved text handling and rendering, state of the art '''import support for the Microsoft XML formats''' and many stability and usability improvements to all applications. Words introduces handling of citations and bibliographies and an automatically updating Table of Content, better text tables, footer- and header support and much more. Presentation application Stage has a new slide sorter and easier editing of notes with slides. Project Management application Plan introduces many new chart printing options and improved import from external data sources. Tables has improved support for large tables, rotated text, many new formulas, improved Microsoft Excel file support and much faster loading.<br />
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Calligra also introduces two new applications: <br />
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*Flow is a diagramming and flowcharting application in the spirit of Visio.<br />
*Braindump is a note taking application that builds on the Calligra core and uses the full power of the openDocument Format to allow for text, images and even multimedia in the notes.<br />
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Find a [http://www.calligra-suite.org/news/calligra-2-4-snapshot-1-tour/ Calligra Tour here].<br />
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You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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====Communication and groupware====<br />
Of course, openSUSE ships a wide variety of groupware and Personal Information Management (PIM) solutions like email clients, chat applications, calendar tools and more.<br />
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'''KDE PIM'''<br /><br />
Kontact, KDE’s groupware solution, has most components now ported to Akonadi. Once the initial bugs are ironed out, this will offer increased stability and performance, better connection to new services and sharing of communication information between more applications. The biggest change is the introduction of KMail 2. This application has the familiar interface, while under the surface, all mail storage and retrieval has been ported to use the powerful Akonadi cache.<br />
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The openSUSE KDE team has put '''significant efforts''' in ensuring a smooth upgrade to KMail 2 but this is a significant change and the team will keep an eye out for further issues. Bugfixes will be provided through updates and users are encouraged to report problems and update their systems frequently.<br />
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It should be noted that the move from KMail1 to KMail2 requires the '''import/conversion of email data to Akonadi'''. This process can take considerable time, measuring up to a day on slow systems with multiple gigabyte-sized mailboxes. It is possible to, instead of doing a migration, doing a clean start by moving the current data from the ~.kde4/share/apps/kmail to a backup location. If you have your data stored on a server and it is only cached locally this should not cause you to loose data. In case of a downloading POP mail account, however, you will have to use the conversion process or import your mail separately.<br />
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Also note that '''Akonadi is a cache''', not a permanent storage system. This means that your mail should remain where it is - be it on a server or in a local folder. Akonadi will store a '''copy''' in its database, as well as extra information like ratings and the like, for fast search and retrieval. This essentially replaces the internal cache KMail1 employed for this purpose. Due to this design, Akonadi is very unlikely to lose user data as it normally operates on a copy of it. Of course, actions like moving or removing mails are synced back to the original mail storage!<br />
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'''Evolution 3.2.1'''<br /><br />
Evolution provides integrated mail, address book and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop. Version 3.2.1 has been ported over to the GNOME 3 infrastructure and offers a number of small improvements and bugfixes over the previous release. Also new in the openSUSE 12.1 Evolution is the Exchange Connector for Evolution, compatible with Exchange 2007 and later, allowing Evolution to work with Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010. Evolution also works with the Google contacts, calendar and mail services.<br />
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'''Thunderbird 7.0.1'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird] email client shipped with openSUSE brings delivers faster performance, safer email experience, and a new add-ons manager. With over 390improvements and performance enhancements, Thunderbird is more responsive, starts faster and is easier to use than ever.<br />
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For example, the interface improvements like the improved RSS feeds and better Attachment management make handling your news and mail easier. Tabs can now be re-ordered or dragged into a new window and Thunderbird gives you control over the look and functionality of your email client with a gallery of hundreds of add-ons. The new Add-ons manager allows you to search the gallery in Thunderbird to install, remove, and manage the Add-ons. This release also adds support for technologies that make it easier for developers to build some of these amazing Add-ons, such as the Lightning Calendar, Conversation View, and Open Search.<br />
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====Multimedia====<br />
openSUSE comes with a number of prominent multimedia applications like the Amarok, Banshee and Rythmbox music players, DigiKam and Shotwell photo managers and the Marble virtual globe. Each of those has seen new releases with new features and bugfixes.<br />
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=====Music Players=====<br />
openSUSE comes with a large number of music players, from the well known Rythmbox, Banshee and Amarok to the less prominent like Juk, Totem, KMplayer, Dragon and Bangarang.<br />
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'''Banshee 2.2'''<br /><br />
The new [http://banshee.fm '''Banshee'''] comes with with lots of new extensions like an alarmclock, albumart writer, ampache, duplicated sound detector, jamendo, karaoke, live radio, lyrics and more. Other improvements include the ability to not only queue songs but also artists and albums and having the ability to play a queued song immediately after the current. There has been a number of UI improvements like putting the search next to the volume button, smaller icons in the source list, hidden counts for the libraries, named group separators and a resizable seek slider and search entry. Podcasts episodes are now shown in a grid, with several lines of description shown to help you find an appealing episode to enjoy.<br />
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'''Amarok 2.4.3 and Clementine 0.7.3'''<br /><br />
[http://amarok.kde.org '''Amarok'''] introduces improved Dynamic Playlists and Internet Services including integration with Gpodder.net. The user interface has been improved with better drag and drop, automatic scrolling in the lyrics applet and the ability to scrobble the composer as artist to last.fm. Otherwise, many bugs have been crushed and performance has improved a bit. For those not fond of the direction Amarok took with the 2.0 release, openSUSE ships [http://www.clementine-player.org '''Clementine 0.7.3'''] which in this version brings a new edit tag dialog which offers autocompletion and automatic music identification and missing-tag-fetching. CUE sheets are now supported, detected automatically and tracks will show up separately. Album covers are shown in the Library tab, deleted songs greyed out and much more.<br />
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=====Photo managers, editors and painting applications=====<br />
openSUSE ships with a large number of graphics and painting applications. There have been major versions of DigiKam and Blender as well as minor improvements to most of the other applications. openSUSE 12.1 also comes with lots of ICC color management Profiles ready to go.<br />
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'''DigiKam 2.2'''<br />
openSUSE 12.1 features the release of '''DigiKam''', the result of more than a year of hard work since the DigiKam version in openSUSE 11.4. This version features long awaited technologies like face detection and recognition, image versioning support, XMP metadata sidecar files support, big improvements in tagging and marking photos, reversed geotagging and many other improvements, including a total of 258 fixed bugs.<br />
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Close companion Kipi-plugins is released along with DigiKam 2.2. This release features new export tools to three web services - Yandex.Fotki, MediaWiki and Rajce. The GPSSync plugin now has the ability to do reverse-geocoding. Also new is a plugin which is dedicated to creating photo album-like layouts. Finally, there has been extensive bugfixing.<br />
Find out more about DigiKam and read articles with tips and tricks [http://www.digikam.org/ on the DigiKam website].<br />
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'''Inkscape 4.8.2'''<br />
[http://inkscape.org Inkscape] is a powerful vector graphics editor using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. It supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. The latest stable 4.8.2 version introduces a number of critical bugfixes and improvements to openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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This release is feature complete, offering the powerful UI, animation tools, rigging, modeling, shading, physics and particle tools and everything else Blender is known for.<br />
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'''Shotwell 0.11.5'''<br />
The [http://yorba.org/shotwell/ '''Shotwell'' photo organizer handles pictures based on a timeline. It also offers tagging and rating features and a host of image editing functions like rotating, cropping and adjustment of exposure, saturation and more. It can import photos from most cameras and from folders and publish photos and videos to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, and YouTube. The latest release introduces hierarchical trees for the tags, a new plugin framework, improved printing, a new crop tool and a new search bar as well as many smaller improvements to the user interface. New is also support for paired JPEG and RAW images, BMP, TIFF and other formats, and improved rendering of RAW files. This release also does automatic backups of the database and allows you to save searches.<br />
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'''F-spot 0.8.2-14'''<br />
The easy to use '''F-spot''' photo manager features a very simple interface combined with powerful search, import, browse and edit functionality. Advanced capabilities are exporting EXIF and XMP metadata to your images, versioning of changes in the image editor and quite complete import functionality. This release does not introduce major new features or improvements.<br />
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'''GIMP 2.6.11'''<br />
[http://www.gimp.org/ '''GIMP'''] is a versatile graphics manipulation package offering a customizable interface and a large number of plugins to modify and improve photos. It can work with a huge variety of fileformats. 2.6.11 brings bugfixes for this popular photo manipulation program as well as some minor usability and performance improvements.<br />
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'''Krita and Karbon 2.4 Beta3'''<br />
Two applications, part of the upcoming [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4] release, should not be missed in this overview. While they are not included in the standard openSUSE repositories, they offer some unique benefits many people will apreciate.<br />
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[http://krita.org '''Krita'''] is a sketching and painting tool, offering an end–to–end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters. Fields of painting that Krita explicitly supports are concept art, creation of comics and textures for rendering. Modelled on existing real-world painting materials and workflows, Krita supports creative working by getting out of the way and with snappy response. Developed in close collaboration with a number of artists Krita 2.4 brings many user interface improvements as well as much better performance. New functionality like the ability to share patterns, gradients and brushes over the web and the huge number of unique brushes solidify Krita's position as the '''premier Free Software sketching and drawing application'''.<br />
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The Karbon vector graphics application, also part of [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4], has much better '''support for the SVG standard''' and introduces many new filters and effects while improving on its stability.<br />
You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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=====Video editors and 3D modelling=====<br />
Out of the box, openSUSE does not ship multimedia support due to legal and patent worries in a number of countries. However, if it is legal for you to play your music and video's you can find information on the [http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia openSUSE-community Multimedia] and [http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats Restricted formats] pages on how to obtain the needed codecs. The [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] project which offers the codecs also packages a number of related applications like the excellent [http://www.kdenlive.org/ Kdenlive] and [http://www.openshotvideo.com/ openshot] video editors.<br />
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'''Kdenlive 0.8.2'''<br />
'''Kdenlive''' claims to be the most advanced video editor available on Linux today. It supports virtually any camera and codec thanks to the [http://www.ffmpeg.org/ FFMPEG] and [http://www.mltframework.org/ MLT] frameworks it builds upon. It is a multitrack editor with a timeline and an unlimited number of video and audio tracks. Thanks to the [http://www.piksel.org/frei0r Frei0r] framework Kdenlive offers a large number of effects and transitions and lets you add your own. It renders videos in a separate thread while you keep working and allows you to pause, stop and restart rendering. The latest 0.8.2 version fixes over 140 stability issues and introduces an automated backup feature to avoid the loss of any data. Check the [http://www.kdenlive.org/users/j-b-m/kdenlive-082-released announcement] for more information.<br />
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'''OpenShot 1.4'''<br />
The '''OpenShot''' video editor has a more easy to use interface and offers features like 3D animations, HD video support as well as Clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, and cutting, Video transitions with real-time previews, Compositing, image overlays, watermarks, Title templates, title creation, sub-titles and support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences. [http://vimeo.com/29465427 watch the video of the 1.4 release] or [http://www.openshot.org/features/ check out the openshot features] online.<br />
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'''Audacity 1.3.13'''<br />
For audio editing, '''Audacity''' offers a powerful set of features. Audacity lets you record live audio or convert existing music into digital data. It can also edit files, mixing the music or changing it with a variety of effects. These include echo, a fase changer, equalization, normalization and a number of effects to clean up hiss, noise and other mess. Additional plugins are availble with the VST and LADSPA plug-ins compatibility. Recording up to 96Khz, 32 bit is available with high quality sample rate conversion and there is a number of spectrum analysis tools for your viewing pleasure.<br />
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This release, while part of the beta series, is quite stable. Compared to the 1.3.12 version in the previous openSUSE release there has been a number of improvements to the effects, a new Device Toolbar showing all input and output devices has been introduced and the new "Sync-lock Tracks" feature allows groups of audio and/or label tracks to retain synchronisation when the track length changes. There has also been a fair number of bugfixes and some other smaller improvements.<br />
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'''PiTiVi 0.15'''<br />
openSUSE does ship the simple [http://www.pitivi.org/ '''PiTiVi''' video editor in the main repositories. PiTiVi is more intuitive and easy to use video editor compared to OpenShot and Kdenlive but does not offer the depth of in- and output formats, camera support and effects the others do.<br />
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'''Blender 2.59'''<br />
The well known [http://www.blender.org Blender] 3D content creation suite (3D modeller and video editor) is also part of openSUSE 12.1 with the stable 2.59 version. This third stable release in the 2.5 series brings big improvements in stability with many hundreds of bugs fixed. There is also a number of new features, including 3D mouse support and many UI improvements like the custom keymaps support and the camera locking. Sculpting, the warp modifier and the node editor have also been heavily improved.<br />
The biggest changes in the addons include:<br />
*the new Ivy Generator can grow curves over an existing mesh, <br />
*the Sapling addon generates trees<br />
*Mesh inset can inset individual faces or a selected region.<br />
*Grease scatter can scatter objects along predefined lines<br />
*much, much more. <br />
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openSUSE of course delivers far more multimedia applications to you, from the GStreamer framework to less known music players and a myriad of tools.<br />
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====Security and administration tools====<br />
openSUSE has always been a powertool for system adminstrators around the world and openSUSE 12.1 builds on this strong foundation. It is not only the powerful YaST which is appreciated but also the many tools available with openSUSE. This release brings major improvements to AppArmor, the new Shorewall gateway/firewall configuration application, a big update to the Performance Co-Pilot tool, an extended WebYaST and much more.<br />
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'''AppArmor 2.7 rc1'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships with the latest available [http://apparmor.net AppArmor] to ensure sys admins can easily secure their servers. [http://www.suse.com/support/security/apparmor/ Initially developed by SUSE], AppArmor is part of the Linux kernel now and openSUSE has the userspace components available. It is only in these userspace components that AppArmor ships changes compared to the previous release in openSUSE 11.4. Major features since AppArmor 2.5 include a working desktop notifier and automatic profile update for samba shares. And of course many other profile updates, bugfixes and better performance.<br />
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'''Shorewall 4.4.24'''<br /><br />
New in openSUSE from the Open Build Service is the [http://shorewall.net/Introduction.html Shoreline Firewall configuration tool]. This application offers a very powerful but still rather high-level interface to configure Netfilter through editing a series of configuration files. Upon starting Shorewall, it will read the files and with help of the iptables and other security utils configure Netfilter and the Linux networking subsystem to match your requirements, building a firewal, router or gateway. Find a list of [http://www.shorewall.net/4.4/shorewall_features.htm features of Shorewall here].<br />
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[[Image:WebYaST_Screenshot.png|thumb|250px||WebYast in action]]<br />
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'''Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) 3.5.8 and the PCP GUI charting tools.'''<br /><br />
The [http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/ performance co-pilot] is a heavy-duty performance monitoring tool. It is specifically build to find the harder type of system-level performance problems. It is capable of correlating end-user quality of service with platform activity and diagnosing complex interactions between resource demands on single or multiple systems in dynamic environments. This release is a significant upgrade over what was shipped in openSUSE 11.4, bringing a host of new features and improvements like support for distributed event tracing, transparent support for compressed archives in the client tools, Integrated pmieconf and pmlogconf utilities for automating management of pmie/pmlogger configuration files, Linux kernel control group metrics, per-node CPU metrics, XFS btree metrics and some Postfix updates.<br />
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'''WebYaST'''<br /><br />
The latest version of WebYaST has many improvements regarding speed, memory usage, usability and developing environment. Due a new caching mechanism the startup time of each module has been decreased to a maximum of 1-2 seconds. Former versions of WebYaST were split into a service and into an UI part. Each part has run in a own HTTP server. We have decided to bring these parts together in order to save one HTTP server which halves the memory usage.<br />
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====Virtualization, Cloud and web applications====<br />
openSUSE is an excellent guest OS for the cloud, as anyone who ever uses [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] can agree with. Nowhere is it as easy to build a cloud solution and openSUSE is now ready for the '''Amazon EC2 cloud''' by having a special EC2 kernel and suse-ami-tools in the default repositories.<br />
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But openSUSE can also be an excellent host and contains a fair number of virtualization and cloud tools. Most prominent is OwnCloud, which is shipped with unique desktop integration in openSUSE. What is not available in the default repositories can be found in the special [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualization and Cloud repository], where openSUSE contributors package and maintain '''Eucalyptus''', '''OpenNebula''' and '''OpenStack''' for openSUSE 12.1. <br />
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'''OwnCloud 2'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 delivers OwnCloud, the web-based storage application. OwnCloud is different from solutions like Google Docs, Dropbox or Ubuntu One in that it lets '''you own the data'''. With version 2, the ownCloud team has improved the basic service and added valuable features:<br />
* Secure file sharing<br />
* Improved web access including the ability to play music<br />
* Synchronization with other web application tools<br />
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openSUSE ships OwnCloud with a unique system tray based tool which can:<br />
* Install a new ownCloud locally or in a webspace<br />
* Connect your system to an existing ownCloud<br />
* give you assistance to set up mirrored folders<br />
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'''virtualization technologies'''<br /><br />
The new '''Xen 4.1''' release brings support for large systems (>255 processors and 1GB/2MB super page support), CPU Pools for advanced partitioning, prototype credit2 scheduler designed for latency-sensitive workloads and very large systems, a re-architected XL toolstack that is functionally nearly equivalent to XM/XEND, support for x86 Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX), new Memory Access API enabling integration of 3rd party security solutions into Xen virtualized environments and even better stability through the new automated regression tests.<br />
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The lastest version of '''KVM''' provides live migration from one host to another, guest swapping, paravirtualized networking and block devices and PCI-Express passthrough.<br />
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The new 4.1 series '''VirtualBox''' release brings new features like VM cloning, enhanced wizard for creating and copying virtual disks, raised memory limit to 1TB for 64 bit hosts and a couple of experimental featuers like PCI passthrough or SATA hard disk hot-plugging.<br />
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'''Virtualization tools'''<br /><br />
The latest release of '''virt-manager''' (supported by libvirt) brings new VM features including new VM wizard support for LCX guests, remote serial console access and remote URL guest installs.<br />
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The recent version of '''open-vm-tools''' provides integration (shared folders, drag and drop, clipboard sharing, automatic guest resolution resizing, etc.) with the VMware tools.<br />
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'''Horde 4.0.8'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the latest Horde 4 groupware server and framework! Horde 4 is the first release in over 6 years and brings major improvements to all applications of the suite as well as to the framework itself. <br />
Some of the more significant changes from Horde 3 to 4 include a requirement for PHP 5.2 or higher, a new Ajax interface and a new test suite. The complete framework has been modernized and cleaned up and the libraries are better separated and Unit tested.<br />
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The most important things users will notice are the e improved setup and upgrade processes, an Ajax interface for the calendar, and an improved interface for the complete application stack.<br />
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Horde offers a large number of web applications including a webmail tool (part of the Horde Groupware Webmail Edition) complete with WYSIWYG HTML editor, IMAP and POP3 support, message search and filtering, spell check, attachment viewer, encryption and signing, keyboard navigation, threaded view and previews, downloading of attachments in a ZIP file and much more.<br />
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There is now basic social media support with Facebook and Twitter integration and there is an Active Sync server component which can synchronize with iPhones and Android devices. The existing SyncML support already took care of most Nokia phones. The last missing piece is CalDAV support for calendar sharing, which is planned for the future.<br />
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== Development tools and platforms (GNOME/GTK, KDE/Qt,..., etc) ==<br />
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===IDEs and toolchain===<br />
openSUSE offers a complete and productive environment for developers and packagers. With stable tools and updated libraries available through [http://build.opensuse.org OBS], developers can easily develop using multiple programming languages and create packages for multiple distributions.<br />
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====KDevelop====<br />
For software developers, KDevelop has gained support for predefined indentation styles and a Python interpreter using Kross. Improved Python auto-completion and support for lex/yacc file extensions are also included in this release.<br />
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====Kate====<br />
KDE’s Advanced Text Editor, Kate has seen quite a number of improvements, including:<br />
* New Search Plugin with the ability to search in files on disk or opened files <br />
* Plugin improvements: Build Plugin, GDB Plugin<br />
* Kate’s tab bar plugins gained several new features<br />
* Swap files: If lost data is found, documents are marked as read-only<br />
* Further noteworthy changes: Improved printing, change of line ending triggers modified flag, fixed shortcut issues, fixed auto completion popup, and more.<br />
For more information, see [http://kate-editor.org/2011/07/09/kate-in-kde-4-7/ this blog].<br />
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===KDE Platform===<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships with the latest stable '''Qt 4.7.4''' and the '''KDE Platform 4.7.2''', giving developers the best from these powerful cross-platform development libraries.<br />
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'''KDE Platform 4.7 '''<br /><br />
This release of KDE's development platform is an incremental release, bringing many bugfixes and small improvements to technologies like the build-in WebKit browser engine, system wide Proxy support and the Phonon Multimedia engine. Developer-visible changes include:<br />
* Improvements to the Semantic Desktop components offering a richer API for applications<br />
* The option to suspend compositing in KWin whenever an application calls for it to improve performance in OpenGL games and GPU-accelerated video playback.<br />
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For details on the KDE Platform 4.7 release see [http://kde.org/announcements/4.7/platform.php the KDE platform release notes].<br />
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'''Qt 4.7 introduces QtQuick'''<br /><br />
Qt 4.7.4 is a '''bugfix release''' over the release shipped with openSUSE 11.4. <br />
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However, it does introduce some powerful features including the official release of [http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/01/qt-quick-is-here QtQuick], a new feature within Qt that makes it easy to create light-weight apps and UIs. It contains the new QML language, a simple to learn declarative language for building dynamic and fluid interfaces, the Qt Declarative module and new tooling in Qt Creator to easily build apps.<br />
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QtQuick 1.1 brings Right-to-Left support, improved caching and text input and a declarative API for handling touch input. There is also the new QML Sharders plugin which allows developers to embed OpenGL sharder effects in QML apps.<br />
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=== GNOME platform improvements ===<br />
For further details, seee [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ the GNOME 3.2 release notes].<br />
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==== New features and functionality ====<br />
Included in openSUSE 12.1 is the latest release of the GNOME Developer Platform. This consists of a set of API- and ABI-stable libraries available under the GNU LGPL that can be used for the development of cross-platform applications.<br />
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For information on developing with GNOME please visit the [http://developer.gnome.org GNOME Developer Center].<br />
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'''GLib 2.30'''<br /><br />
GNOME's low-level software utility library GLib has seen various improvements, some of which are:<br />
* GApplication can now be used for non-unique applications.<br />
* GDBus supports the 'object manager' pattern with a number of new interfaces and has a code generator: gdbus-codegen.<br />
* An interface for certificate and key lookup has been added: GTlsDatabase. An implementation is provided by glib-networking.<br />
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'''GTK+ 3.2'''<br /><br />
GTK+ 3.2 is the latest release of the GTK+ toolkit, which is at the heart of GNOME. GTK+ 3.2 includes new features for developers, as well as extensive bug fixes. <br />
* Many more widgets support height-for-width geometry management. It is important to set reasonable sizes on labels and check window sizes.<br />
* New widgets include GtkLockButton for privileged operations, GtkOverlay for floating controls over a content area, the new GtkFontChooserDialog and more.<br />
* There is also improved CSS theming support and the HTML backend Broadway, which renders a GTK3 application in a browser. It is still experimental and requires compiling with --enable-broadway-backend and environment varialbe GDK_BACKEND at runtime.<br />
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'''Clutter 1.8'''<br /><br />
GNOME's graphics library for hardware-accelerated user interfaces Clutter provides, among other things, the following improvements: <br />
* New actions including Gesture and swipe detection, creating drop actors and long-press support for ClutterClickAction. <br />
* ClutterState transitions can be bound to object signals when creating a scene in ClutterScript. <br />
* Cogl, the GPU programming interface used by Clutter, is exposed as a separate library. <br />
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'''Use of Deprecated Libraries'''<br /><br />
Further progress has been made in the continuous work of replacing outdated technologies with superior facilities. Some examples:<br />
* GConf now uses D-Bus. As a consequence, the deprecated libraries ORBit2 and libIDL have been removed from GNOME. Many applications using GConf have been ported to gsettings.<br />
* GNOME core modules now only depend on introspection-based Python bindings (pygobject-3) and hence pygtk, gnome-python and gnome-python-desktop are not required anymore.<br />
* Several packages, such as the Epiphany web browser, have been converted from using dbus-glib to GDBus and from libunique to G(tk)Application.<br />
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'''Miscellaneous Developer Updates'''<br /><br />
Other GNOME Platform improvements in GNOME 3.2 include: <br />
* GNOME's build tool JHBuild does not build a module anymore if the version installed on your system is recent enough. If you start to build GNOME from scratch with a recent distribution, this can easily drop 50 modules from the list of modules to compile.<br />
* Tracker version 0.12 provides support for Firefox ≥ 4.0, Thunderbird ≥ 5.0, MeeGoTouch, several additional SPARQL parameters, extracting information from EPub files, and local XDG directories for desktop files. <br />
* NetworkManager version 0.9 provides introspection support and a simplified D-Bus API. Information how to port applications from NetworkManager 0.8 to 0.9 is available.<br />
* GtkSourceView now supports syntax highlighting of Markdown and Standard ML files.<br />
* libfolks now includes an Evolution-Data-Server backend, which is used by the new Contacts application.<br />
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== And more ==<br />
The above selection of changes and improvements in openSUSE 12.1 is still far from complete but gives a taste of what is new. We hope you enjoyed reading it!<br />
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==openSUSE 12.1 - die neueste freie Software in einer stabilen und leichten Version==<br />
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Liebe Nutzer, Mitwirkende, Fans und Freunde,<br />Wir sind stolz, Ihnen die neueste Ausgabe von openSUSE zu präsentieren! Es ist das Ergebnis von 8 Monaten harter Arbeit der openSUSE Gemeinschaft. Sie erlaubt es Ihnen, sich darüber zu freuen, was die neueste freie Software zu bieten hat, mit dem einzigartigen openSUSE-Touch - stabil, freundlich, unterhaltsam.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 bringt Ihnen Aktualisierungen zur neuesten Freien Software als Desktop- und Servertechnologie, ebenso einzigartige Funktionen, wie das neueste Snapper-Werkzeug, Datei-Änderungs-Monitoring und Rollback-Funktionalität. <br />
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===Die neuesten Freien Desktops bringen Farb-Management, GNOME Shell und mehr===<br />
openSUSE bietet Ihnen die Auswahl aus 4 offiziell unterstützten Freien Desktops, alle auf hohem Niveau von Verfeinerung und Unterstützung. Bemerkenswert ist die Tatsache, dass openSUSE die erste große Linux-Distribution ist, die Farb-Management-Werkzeuge sowohl für KDE als auch GNOME Desktops mitbringt! <br />
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====KDE führt Oyranos, Apper und Plasma Active ein====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 bringt den [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Arbeitsplatz] 4.7 als Standard-Desktop mit und ist die erste große Linux-Distribution, die auch den neuen [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Farb-Management]-Werkzeuge ausliefert. Eine andere große neue Änderung ist der Ersatz von KPackageKit durch Apper. Apper vereinfacht die Installation und das Entfernen von Anwendungen. <br />
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Das innovative Projekt der KDE-Gemeinschaft, die Tablet-Oberfläche Plasma Active, ist noch kein integraler Bestandteil des openSUSE 12.1 Release. Aber die Nutzer der Tablet-Oberfläche können Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 installieren. Wir arbeiten an der Integration bis zum nächsten Release.<br />
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====GNOME Shell - verbessert und verfeinert====<br />
Wir stellen Ihnen '''GNOME 3.2''' vor, eine verbesserte und verfeinerte Version der GNOME Shell, die in GNOME 3 eingeführt wurde. openSUSE liefert ebenso viele verbesserte GNOME-Anwendungen aus, die in die GNOME-Shell integriert sind.<br />
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Haupt-Verbesserungen im Vergleich zur GNOME 3-Vorschau in openSUSE 11.4 schließen einen besseren Umgang mit kleinen Bildschirmen und Multi-Bildschirm-Einrichtungen ein, bessere Ausführungsmeldungen und eine zentralisierte Konfiguration von <em>Online-Benutzerkonten</em>. Dieses Release bring Ihnen ebenso einen neuen Dokumentenmanager. Dieses Release bringt auch einen neuen Dokumenten-Manager, ein erweitertes Farb-Management und eine automatische Rotation für Touch-Screen-Geräte mit. [[:en:openSUSE:Product_highlights_12.1#GNOME_3.2|Hier finden Sie weitere Details über GNOME 3.2]]<br />
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====Die anderen Desktops====<br />
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Beide Desktops '''XFCE''' und '''LXDE''' habe keine größeren Funktionsuptates seit dem letzten openSUSE Release erhalten. Aber kleine Verbesserungen wurden durchgeführt und sind im Release enthalten. Das schließt bessere Themen- und Desktop-Integration ein und ebenso eine verbesserte Auswahl von Anwendungen, Teil der Standard-Auswahl für jeden Desktop. openSUSE stellt auch wieder KDE 3 Pakete zur Verfügung.<br />
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===openSUSE bietet die neuesten Web- und Wolken-Technologien an===<br />
Dieses openSUSE Release liefert die neuesten Web-Browser, das Groupware-Framework [http://www.horde.org/ Horde 4] und aktualisierte Wolken- und Virtualisierungs-Technologien.<br />
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====Web surfing and serving====<br />
On the client side, openSUSE 12.1 introduces '''Chromium 16''' to the standard repositories. This WebKit based web browser from google offers a convenient UI and incredibly fast browsing. The default openSUSE browser is '''Firefox 7''', the latest from the Mozilla labs.<br />
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On the server side, the '''WebYaST''' remote system management tool offers a much improved web interface to administer openSUSE systems remotely with new modules and better performance. The introduction of the Groupware framework '''Horde 4''' brings a powerful set of applications including a modern Webmail client and a PHP based framework on which it is all build.<br />
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====Supporting Cloud technologies====<br />
openSUSE is an excellent guest OS for the cloud as can be experienced building solutions on [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio]. With a new kernel, openSUSE is now ready to run directly on the '''Amazon EC2 cloud'''. On the host side, the latest virtualization technologies including '''Xen 4.1''', '''KVM''' and '''Virtual Box''' can be managed with the latest '''virt-manager''' and '''open-vm-tools'''. Last but not least, openSUSE is the first Linux distribution to ship OwnCloud integrated into the desktop. And the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualization and Cloud repository] for openSUSE 12.1 offers the latest versions of '''Eucalyptus''', '''OpenNebula''' and '''OpenStack''' for openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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[[:en:Product_highlights#Security_and_administration_tools|read more about the administration and cloud tools in openSUSE 12.1]]<br />
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===Improved distribution technology===<br />
openSUSE introduces a number of improvements and innovations in the underlying technology of the distribution. This includes the unique Snapper tool offering file versioning, the systemd init system and Google's Go language.<br />
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====Snapper rolls back changes====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 is the first Linux distribution taking advantage of the snapshot functionality in the upcoming Linux file system Btrfs. These snapshots of the file system are using copy-on-write, making them very space efficient. openSUSE 12.1 debuts [[:en:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] which allows the user to interface with this technology.<br />
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The command line and GUI Snapper tools allow users to view older versions of files and revert changes. The unique integration in the zypper package manager of openSUSE allows users to roll back entire upgrades or software installations with the accompanying configuration changes.<br />
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====systemd boots your system====<br />
systemd is the new init tool in openSUSE, controlling and speeding up the boot process. Developed in close cooperation with fellow Linux Distribution Fedora, systemd is especially interesting for system administrators due to it's powerful socket- and bus activated service system. It also works closely with the cgroups kernel feature providing better security and control over the processes.<br />
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====Write in '''go''', compile with Clang or GCC====<br />
openSUSE is proud to be the first major distribution to ship [http://golang.org/ '''Google's new Go programming language'''] as part of our release. Go is a fast, easy language good in handling mulit-core, networked machines with the convenience of garbage collection and run-time reflection.<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 also comes with the just-released [http://llvm.org/ '''LLVM3 compiler tool'''] and [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], the C/C++ compiler building upon LLVM. LLVM is employed by the open source ATI and NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers and thus forms an integral part of a high-performance graphics stack on Linux.<br />
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Lastly, this openSUSE release is build with [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''link-time optimization'''], improving the overall performance of the software.<br />
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==More details on openSUSE 12.1==<br />
The following pages go into more detail on what is new in this openSUSE release.<br />
Die folgenden Seiten zeigen auf, was neu in dieser openSUSE Version ist.<br />
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===Under the hood===<br />
Although the most obvious improvements to openSUSE 12.1 may be on the surface, we've made a slew of improvements under the hood as well to improve booting, hardware management, and system configuration. The boot procedure of openSUSE is now handled by systemd (with sysvinit still available as backup); the new Snapper tool automatically tracks system configuration and other file changes (and lets you roll them back); YaST received a variety of improvements crushing the demons of setups past; SAX makes its return in the form of SAX3, an openSUSE GSOC project; and of course we're supporting the freshest versions of every core system component, such as the Linux 3.1 Kernel, syslog-ng 3.3, GCC 4.6 and LLVM v3. Also notable is the fact that openSUSE is the first major Linux distribution to ship [http://golang.org Google's new Go programming language].<br />
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====openSUSE Technology improvements====<br />
openSUSE, as a Linux Distribution, does more than package third party software. We have our own tools to configure your system, manage software and more.<br />
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=====Snapper=====<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 is the first Linux distribution taking advantage of the snapshot functionality in the upcoming Linux filesystem Btrfs. These snapshots of the file system are using copy-on-write, making them very space efficient. openSUSE 12.1 debuts [[:en:Portal:Snapper|Snapper]] which allows the user to interface with this technology.<br />
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The command line and GUI Snapper tools allow users to view older versions of files and revert changes. The unique integration in the zypper package manager of openSUSE allows users to roll back entire upgrades or software installations with the accompanying configuration changes.<br />
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Note that Snapper and the rollback functionality currently is only available for the btrfs filesystem! Work is going on to enable it for the older Ext4 filesystem as well but this will not be possible before the next openSUSE release.<br />
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You can read [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/04/01/introducing-snapper/ an introduction to snapper here].<br />
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[http://www.youtube.com/susevideo#p/a/u/0/9H7e6BcI5Fo Greg K-H demoing Snapper at Brainshare].<br />
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=====SAX3=====<br />
When Xorg evolved beyond xorg.conf, to the new xorg.conf.d structure, our beloved X configuration tool SAX2 went away as well. Thanks to the efforts of Manu Gupta [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/07/05/people-of-opensuse-manu-gupta/ during Google's Summer of Code], openSUSE again has an elegant GUI for customizing your X configuration: SAX3. Now openSUSE users may once again easily tweak their keyboard, mouse, monitor, and touchpad settings in one convenient interface. Don't worry if you're having trouble with your X configuration: as is usual for YaST modules, SAX3 solves that chicken-and-egg problem by including an ncurses text interface as well as GTK & QT graphical interfaces.Please note that sax3 on the oss repo does not work properly for 12.1 but an update will soon follow but is already available at [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=X11%3Asax X11:sax repo].<br />
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=====YaST=====<br />
Aside from the new Snapper support, and the return of SAX3, openSUSE's YaST2 received a number of bugfixes and small improvements. The YaST maintainers are happy to report that after the last few fixes they are now confident that YaST will not accidentally overwrite user modified configuration files like it used to in 'the early days'. And together with the zypp package management performance improvements in the openSUSE 11 series, the myth YaST is slow and overwrites files can be finally put to rest now. A more visible change is the new style which is possible thanks to the new [http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/10/24/new-style-for-yast2/ CSS based themes available for YaST]. WebYaST continues to evolve as well, including more modules than ever to aid in web-based administration of your openSUSE machines.<br />
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=====OBS, openQA and other tools=====<br />
openSUSE has developed a number of powerful tools which we use to build our distribution and which are also available for others to build packages or test software with. These tools include the cross-platform [http://openbuildservice.org Open Build Service], the omnipotent [http://openqa.opensuse.org openQA], the flexible [[Portal:KIWI|KIWI]] and much more. Each of those has seen releases with improvements in the last 8 months. This includes the [http://news.opensuse.org/2011/10/11/opensuse-announces-first-public-release-of-openqa/ first release of openQA] and the [http://news.opensuse.org/2010/10/19/the-opensuse-build-service-2-1-released/2.1 release of the Open Build Service] which has [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=openSUSE%3ATools packages available for openSUSE 12.1].<br />
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====Linux Kernel 3.1====<br />
The new Linux 3.1 Kernel is a substantial improvement over the 2.6.38 kernel which was part of openSUSE 11.4. Not only have filesystems like Ext4 and Btrfs been improved, the Linux 3.1 Kernel specifically brings a number of performance improvements to memory management and data handling. Of course there is the usual slab of new hardware support including external devices like Microsoft's Kinect, Apple iSight webcam and the Nintendo Wii controller as well as internal hardware like the new AMD Llano Fusion APU's and Intel's Ivy Bridge & Cedar Trail CPU's, a variety of wireless and graphics cards and much more. Find more details about what's new in the openSUSE kernel on the [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_39 Linux 2.6.39], [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.0 Linux 3.0] and [http://kernelnewbies.orgWilliams/Linux_3.1 Linux 3.1] KernelNewbies pages.<br />
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====systemd and other system-wide changes====<br />
System boot is now handled by the new '''systemd''' init tool, controlling and speeding up the boot process. Developed in close cooperation with fellow Linux distribution Fedora, systemd is especially interesting for system administrators due to it's powerful socket- and bus activated service system which improves parallelization and resource usage. It also works closely with Linux' cgroups providing better security and control over the processes.<br />
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If for some reason, systemd does not work for you, you can still '''use the old sysV-init''' by pressing F5 in the bootloader. If you want to permanently use the old init, just do zypper rm systemd-sysvinit<br />
We also again provide '''grub2''' as an optional bootloader. While we are still not satisfied with Grub2 as a replacement for the current Grub, we encourage users to try it out, and want to make sure it's available for developers.<br />
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A number of smaller changes includes:<br />
*the '''util-linux''' tool version 2.20 introduces the first major changes to the dmesg logging tool in 18 years, bringing a number of options to bring human readable prefixes and timestamps to the output or clean it up, only showing important messages or messages coming from either kernel- or userspace.<br />
*'''LightDM 1.0''' is the first stable release of this faster, extensible Display Manager. LightDM aims to replace the myriad of different DM's with a single [http://xkcd.com/927/ new standard].<br />
*the '''syslog-ng 3.3''' release adds multithreading, JSON and mongodb output to this system logging tool.<br />
*The [http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.0 rpm 4.9] release brings a number of stability and performance improvements to this package manager.<br />
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==== First to ship Google Go, LLVM v3 and CLANG v3 ====<br />
openSUSE is proud to be the first major distribution to ship [http://golang.org/ '''Google's new Go programming language'''] as part of our release. Go is a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language. Go makes it easy to work with multi-core and networked machines and offers flexible and modular program construction mechanisms. While it compiles (quickly) to machine code it has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. Learn more on the [http://golang.org/ Go language website].<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 also comes with the just-released [http://llvm.org/ '''LLVM3 compiler tool'''] and [http://clang.llvm.org/ clang], the C/C++ compiler building upon LLVM. LLVM, a set of flexible and performant compiler tools, offers powerful code generation which is used by Mesa for its software based OpenGL "Gallium" graphics driver architecture. It is also employed by the open source ATI and NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers and thus forms an integral part of a high-performance graphics stack on Linux.<br />
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[http://clang.llvm.org/ '''Clang'''] takes advantage of LLVM to provide an fast and memory-efficient GCC-compatible C/C++ code compiler. Clang in openSUSE 12.1 comes with enabled ARM code generation support, in the spirit of the recently started [http://opensuse.org/opensuse:ARMopenSUSE ARMs project]!<br />
Aside from Go and LLVM, openSUSE offers a large number of the latest compilers and tools. openSUSE 12.1 is build with [http://gcc.gnu.org '''GCC 4.6.2'''], which has [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_fx4100_gcc&num=1 shown to offer significant performance improvements] over the previous 4.5 version. This release also introduces initial support for the Ada 2012 programming language as well as experimental support for the latest C++11 standard (status can be found [http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/cxx0x_status.html here]).<br />
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This release of GCC, combined with the latest '''binutils 2.21.1''', has allowed us to enable [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-time_optimization '''link-time optimization'''] in a number of packages, bringing an additional performance improvement.<br />
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=== Localization ===<br />
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openSUSE 12.1 has been [http://i18n.opensuse.org translated into many languages] - currently about 30 are over 90% complete and no less than 66 languages are in the process of being finished. This openSUSE release has added five Cyrillic fonts. Two of them (PT Sans and PT Serif) beside standard Western, Central European and Cyrillic code pages contain characters of all title languages of Russian Federation that make them unique and a very important tool of modern digital communications.}}<br />
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===Repository changes and third party support for openSUSE 12.1===<br />
Via the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service installation on build.opensuse.org] openSUSE hosts over 160.000 packages created by more than 30.000 individual contributors. These are available to openSUSE users as well as users from other Linux Distributions. But outside of this infrastructure, other projects like VLC and Packman offer their own OBS instance with packages for openSUSE! We highlight a few important projects from build.opensuse.org and third parties.<br />
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====Tumbleweed====<br />
'''Tumbleweed''', the unique [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed|rolling release repository for openSUSE]], can be considered 'complete' at the time of this release. Covering almost all of the openSUSE 12.1 packages, Tumbleweed offers newer versions as soon as they are deemed stable. Instead of making you wait for a new release of openSUSE, Tumbleweed lessens the significance and change impact of major releases by updating systems continuously. By enabling Tumbleweed you are always up to date with the '''latest software'''. And you won’t have to install newer versions of openSUSE as you’ll be running them already by the time they get released!<br />
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Tumbleweed will require its current users to make one manual change to the repositories upon the 12.1 release. Besides the Tumbleweed repository, users are required to have the latest stable openSUSE repositories enabled, currently for most users set at openSUSE 11.4. With the 12.1 release, these will thus have to change. The openSUSE sysadmins have ensured however that this will be the first and last time this has to be changed. From now on there will be a link to the latest stable release, for the convenience of Tumbleweed users. Upon a new release the openSUSE servers will automatically handle the required changes, transparent to the users. For instructions to make these changes, [[:en:openSUSE:Tumbleweed_12.1change|please see here]].<br />
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Find more information [[:en:Tumbleweed|about Tumbleweed here]].<br />
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====Packman====<br />
[[Image:Packman.png|256px|link=|Features]]The well-known third-party [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] repositories for openSUSE already offer openSUSE 12.1 support. '''Packman''' provides four different repositories each offering a targeted selection of software, in addition to the larger common repository. Additional to packages for openSUSE 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, Factory and SLE 11, an essential set of Packman packages is provided for Tumbleweed. Find more information on the [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman website] and [[Paket_Repositorys#Packman| find out how to get software from Packman on the openSUSE wiki]].<br />
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====SUSE Studio====<br />
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[http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] users can expect availability of openSUSE 12.1 right from the release date, and support for upgrading existing appliances shortly after. This means it will be possible to easily create your own versions of openSUSE 12.1 with '''custom package selections''', '''artwork''', '''scripts''' and any other properties and download them as USB or disk images, Live CDs and a variety of popular virtual formats. You can share your appliance or also browse other’s shared appliances on [http://susestudio.com/browse SUSE Gallery].<br />
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====Contrib retired====<br />
The [[:en:openSUSE:Contrib|Contrib]] repository for third-party packages was once a community-driven extension of the main repository. The vast majority of these packages have since been integrated in the main repository or in one of the central additional repositories like the official [[KDE_Repositorys|KDE]] and [[GNOME_Repositorys|GNOME]] repositories. These provide newer versions of the software in the main repositories as well as new or experimental software not yet available in openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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====Packages on the Open Build Service====<br />
If you can not find an application in openSUSE 12.1 you can use the search functionality on [http://software.opensuse.org software.opensuse.org]. If you enable searching in users home projects (under advanced) you can choose from the 160.000 packages provided by our 30.000 packagers using the [http://build.opensuse.org Open Build Service instance on build.opensuse.org].<br />
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====VLC====<br />
The VideoLAN organization continues their robust support for openSUSE, with a 1-click install of the VLC universal media player already available for openSUSE 12.1 at [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html this page].<br />
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=== Latest Free Desktops ===<br />
openSUSE offers both major Free Software desktops as well as a number of community-supported desktops, all with a high level of polish and support. openSUSE 12.1 is the first release to introduce the new '''GNOME Shell''' user interface, part of GNOME 3.2. GNOME Shell brings a vastly refined user experience with a smooth, natural workflow. The default openSUSE desktop, the '''KDE Plasma Desktop''', brings color management and much improved performance as well as the new 'Akonadi' based Kontact2 groupware solution. Current releases of both XFCE and LXDE include minor improvements on the road to their next big releases.<br />
For the first time, the openSUSE community openly selected artwork for openSUSE 12.1; the preferred 'upwind' theme reflects in our new splash, boot and background images . GNOME users will notice that the art team has maintained the trend of providing a time-sensitive set of themed wallpapers.<br />
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==== KDE Plasma Workspaces and applications 4.7 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the [http://kde.org/workspaces KDE Plasma Workspaces] 4.7 and is the first major Linux distribution to ship the new [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ KolorManager + Oyranos Color Management Service]. Oyranos and its associated tools add [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management color management] to KDE applications, making sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens. Another major new addition is Apper, an easy to use software management tool replacing KPackageKit. There are also improvements to network management, the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop tool and Activities. In total, this release fixed over 12.000 bugs and contains hundreds of smaller and larger performance improvements.<br />
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The innovative new Tablet project from the KDE community, Plasma Active, is not an integral part of the openSUSE 12.1 release as it depends on functionality not available in the released KDE Platform yet and conflicts with the Desktop and Netbook workspaces. However, tablet users can install Plasma Active in openSUSE 12.1 and we work on integrating it in the next openSUSE release.<br />
Read on for a more extensive view on what's new in the Desktop, Netbook and application area as well as to learn more about Plasma Active One!<br />
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=====Plasma Workspaces bring improved visuals with Oyranos CMS=====<br />
openSUSE is the '''first major Linux distribution to ship [http://www.oyranos.org/about/ Oyranos CMS]''' integrated in the KDE applications and workspaces. Oyranos is is an operating system level [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Color Management System], matching input device colors to output device colors across supported applications. Oyranos makes use of the ICC color management standard and is integrated in the KDE Workspaces and applications through the new KolorManager application. The KolorManager application makes sure graphics and video look uniform between input and output devices like screens.<br />
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Users can now configure their ICC profiles and settings in one central place. It brings as well a set of command line tools like oyranos-policy for handling policy configuration files and oyranos-profiles for installation of ICC profiles. KDE users can install the KolorManager package. This Oyranos front end adds a system settings control panel for individual settings adaption. Most systems will run fine with Oyranos defaults. [http://www.oyranos.org/2011/11/colour-management-in-opensuse-12-1/ read more about color management in openSUSE 12.1 on the oyranos website]<br />
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'''Visual improvements'''<br />
On the visual side, KDE's Plasma workspaces provides '''better integration with GTK/GNOME applications''' with a port of KDE's Oxygen style to GTK. The Oxygen icons have been improved and the Plasma panel offers a more consistent look with changes to the icons and the clock. The new Shadow support in window manager '''KWin''' gives a better look on older hardware and performs better all around. KWin also can now disable compositing when a full-screen application calls for it, increasing performance for OpenGL games and GPU accelerated video playback.<br />
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Plasma's Activities have seen many improvements. The '''Activity Manager''' now takes a more prominent place in the default panel in Plasma Desktop. Activities enhance the users' workflows by providing smart ways of grouping applications, widgets and documents.<br />
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Navigating through applications and recent files is easier with the '''addition of breadcrumbs''' to the Kickoff application launcher, helping users to see where they are and quickly back up to higher menu levels. Many other usability and functionality improvements have been made to the Workspaces. For example, '''Konsole''' no longer blocks the removal of USB storage devices and '''KMix''' has improved PulseAudio support. <br />
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'''Network management, multimedia and Nepomuk'''<br />
The Plasma Workspaces now also offer '''much improved network management''', including support for NetworkManager 0.9 as well as Bluetooth tethering, 3G, VPN, MAC spoofing and other advanced networking options.<br />
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Thanks to [http://dot.kde.org/2011/09/21/nepomuk-stability-and-performance generous donations from the community], the Semantic Desktop technology '''Nepomuk has seen extensive bugfixing''', improving stability and performance as well as making it easier to use. Strigi analyzers now read meta-data in their own process, resolving over 35 crash-related bugs in Dolphin and Konqueror.<br />
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The latest version of '''Phonon''', our media framework, has seen work on the backends. The VLC-based back-end is now considered stable and is the preferred back-end for multiplatform use, while the back-end based on GStreamer is now also considered stable on Linux platforms. The xine back-end is no longer maintained.<br />
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=====KDE Applications suite 4.7 features many refinements=====<br />
The latest version of KPackageKit - now renamed '''Apper''' - (developed by [http://dantti.wordpress.com Daniel Nicoletti] ) is now included with Plasma Desktop. This brings significant improvements to the KDE's PackageKit front end and makes it possible to list Applications instead of listing only Packages. This makes openSUSE a lot more user-friendly and closer to Grandma compattible.<br />
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'''Dolphin''', KDE’s file manager, has a cleaner default appearance. The menu bar is hidden, but easy to reach and restore. The file searching interface has been improved. In addition, Dolphin now has much deeper integration with source code management systems, including the ability to create and clone repositories, push and pull changes, view diffs and much more.<br />
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Dolphin and Konqueror both benefit from a new plugin that provides a '''rating and an annotation menu action''' for files and folders, leveraging Nepomuk capabilities. <br />
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Image management has become easier with '''Gwenview''', the KDE image viewer, now offering the ability to compare two or more pictures side by side. From the browse mode, select two or more pictures, and then switch to the view mode or to the full-screen mode. In the view mode, you can add more pictures from the thumbnail bar.<br />
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Comic fans will be pleased that Okular, the universal file viewer, gains support for reading a directory as a comicbook.<br />
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'''KStars''', the essential KDE application for stargazers around the world, has gained a feature to predict a star hopping route and dynamic switching between its OpenGL and native rendering backends. Labels can now be assigned to points on celestial lines; comet trails are rendered in OpenGL mode. Mathematicians and scientists can now explore higher order functions in Kalgebra and get information on oxidation states for elements in Kalzium. <br />
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'''KDM''', the display manager, has gained ''GRUB2'' support. A user with multiple operating systems in their GRUB2 menu can now choose which one to reboot to in the shutdown dialog by holding down the mouse button on their reboot choice. <br />
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'''Marble''', the virtual globe application, has gained many improvements over the past eight months. It now has voice navigation support, a map creation wizard, and new plug-ins. Following the Voice of Marble contest, '''voice navigation''' is now available in several languages, with voices provided by the KDE community. For more details, see Marble's [http://edu.kde.org/marble/current_1.2.php visual changelog]. <br />
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Other applications such as Kate, Kalzium, KAlgebra, KStars, and KDevelop have also been updated in this release. Changes and improvements to some other major applications from the KDE community can be found in the [Product_highlights#New_and_updated_applications|applications section].<br />
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Find more information on what is new in the Plasma Workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Platform in the [http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.7/ announcement by KDE].<br />
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|[[Image:OpenSUSE114KDENetbookPages.png|thumb|250px|alt=KDE Netbook features scrollable widget pages|Plasma Netbook widgets]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114kdeNetbookSAL.png|thumb|250px|alt=Search and Launch interface in Plasma Netbook|Plasma Netbook search and launch interface]]<br />
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=====Plasma Active One is optionally available=====<br />
The fresh and innovative [http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active Plasma Active] interface for tablets and mobile devices is available for openSUSE 12.1. It is not an integral part of this release as it still depends on a number of unreleased technologies but we plan to have Plasma Active as part of openSUSE 12.2.<br />
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'''Plasma Active'''<br />
Plasma Active aims at creating a cross-device user experience for emerging devices such as tablet computers, media centers, smartphones, and more. It builds on the Linux stack with X11, Qt and the KDE libraries. The user interface is designed using Plasma Quick, a declarative markup language allowing for organic user interface design based on Qt Quick.<br />
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The first release, [http://kde.org/announcements/plasma-active-one/ Plasma Active One] fully focuses on tablet computers. Plasma Active Tablet's user experience is designed around the web, social networks and multimedia content. Packages for openSUSE are offered in the [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=KDE%3AActive Plasma Active] repository.<br />
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==== GNOME 3.2 ====<br />
After shipping a technical preview of [http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ GNOME 3] with 11.4, openSUSE 12.1 replaces the GNOME 2.x series with the latest GNOME 3.2 desktop to the openSUSE GNOME users. With many improvements based on the feedback of the openSUSE community and the wider Free Software community, numerous usability and application changes have been incorporated.<br />
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'''GNOME Shell''' brings a fresh user-interface that is designed from the scratch to satisfy the needs of today's users. The interface focuses on getting out of the way and providing unobtrusive yet powerful notifications and deep integration of calendar, chat and other technologies. The UI elements and workflows are designed to be touch-friendly for use on tablets or desktops with a touch screen. By using the 3D acceleration capabilities provided by most of the computers these days, pleasing animations are used to give users an aesthetic look and feel and a much easier way of switching between applications. Read on for more details on what's new in GNOME 3.2.<br />
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===== What's new in GNOME Shell 3.2 =====<br />
Various minor tweaks and major features are incorporated into this release based on user feedback. openSUSE 12.1 ships the alt-status-menu extension to make various computer operations easily accessible. Some examples:<br />
*It is now easier to resize windows and titlebars, buttons and other controls are a bit less tall, making GNOME easier to use on small screens.<br />
* Notifications now include a counter so you can see how many mails or chats messages are waiting for you and Shell now also shows media device notifications.<br />
* The focus-follows-mouse feature has been improved and while it's not perfect yet, it will suffice for most usecases.<br />
* The System Settings have been improved, showing links to other relevant settings and has integrated color management<br />
* GNOME Shell battery power status now shows how much power you have left<br />
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===== Communication in GNOME Shell =====<br />
Compared to any prior release of GNOME, the instant messaging workflow is much improved in GNOME Shell 3.2. You can receive chats, reply to messages, approve / deny friendship requests, call requests, all without having to launch the IM application explicitly. You can change the status of your machine from a centralized place so that all the IM accounts reflect the status change. Error and new message notifications are so well integrated in GNOME shell so that you won't have focus stealing popups but only unobtrusive animations notifying you what is going on.<br />
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A new "Online Accounts" feature enables users to create online accounts. Accounts created will be seamlessly available for various applications throughout the desktop experience. For example, if you create a Google Account, your Google Docs documents will be available in the new Document browser, your Google contacts will be available in empathy for IM, and the calendar shows your appointments. http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/gnome-documents-google.png.en<br />
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[[Image:114_screenshots_gnome_desktop_generic.png|thumb|250px||The GNOME 2.32 Desktop]]<br />
[http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2] <br />
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===== What's new in the GNOME 3.2 Applications =====<br />
The new GNOME 3 libraries bring many improvements to GNOME 3 applications. Some examples:<br />
* File open dialogs in applications now show a list of recent files and directories<br />
* Better performance and a new theme<br />
* A redesigned Font chooser dialog<br />
* A new on-screen keyboard and a number of other accessibility enhancements<br />
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Moreover, the individual applications have seen many features and bugfixes, read on for a quick overview.<br />
A new people-focused '''Contacts"' application is shipped which can work with Evolution and Empathy in the background, providing you with a unified addressbook for your desktop. <br />
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'''Empathy''', the GNOME IM application has got a lot of improvements. You can easily search your logs visually filtering on various parameters such as Who, When.<br />
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http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/empathy-log.png.en NetworkManager-gnome version 0.9 provides fast user switching, improved WiFi roaming, WiMAX support, flexible permissions and centralized storage of network connection information.<br />
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Not to be left out of the party, GNOME 3.2 includes robust color management support as well, including the new GNOME Color Manager wizard for calibrating displays using either ICC profiles or a Huey hardware colorimeter. [http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-color-manager/screenshots.html]<br />
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File manager '''Nautilus''' has seen a major overhaul for GNOME 3, with an improved Places sidebar, a new ''Connect to server'' dialog and a quick preview function which can be triggered by 'space'.<br />
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Many smaller improvements include new and configurable effects in the Webcam application '''Cheese''', bookmark support in PDF viewer '''Evince''', plugins for image viewer '''Eye of GNOME''' and improved streaming support for video and audio in media player Totem.<br />
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Read more about [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ GNOME 3.2 in the official announcement] and find more GNOME applications in the sections below.<br />
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{|<br />
|[[Image:openSUSE114GNOME3Shell.png|thumb|200px|A blank GNOME Shell workspace]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114gnome3_windows.png|thumb|200px|Shell managing your windows]]<br />
|[[Image:OpenSUSE114GNOME3Search.png|thumb|200px|GNOME Shell integrates search]]<br />
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==== LXDE 0.5 ====<br />
This release of openSUSE comes with LXDE 0.5. There have been no major updates to this lightweight desktop for a while but minor improvements and bugfixes have been integrated.<br />
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|[[Image:114_screenshots_lxde_menu.png|thumb|200px|LXDE Menu]]<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_lxde_filemanager_configuration.png|thumb|200px|LXDE File Manager & Configuration]]<br />
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==== Xfce 4.8 ====<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships ''''Xfce 4.8''''. All Xfce components have been updated to the latest bugfix releases. The desktop has been polished further in terms of integration and branding. LightDM is now the default display manager reducing the dependencies on core GNOME components. The functionality provided in the default install should now be on par with GNOME/KDE desktops.<br />
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{|<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_xfce_menu.png|thumb|250px|The Xfce Desktop and the menu]]<br />
|[[Image:114_screenshots_xfce_filemanager_configuration.png|thumb|250px|The Tunar filemanager and XFCE configuration]]<br />
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Please use up-to-date screenshot from http://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots_12.1#Xfce_4.8<br />
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=== New and updated applications ===<br />
On top of the kernel and other low-level tools, openSUSE provides a huge variety of console and graphical applications. These applications have been updated to the latest versions bringing many improvements in terms of features and bugfixes.<br />
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====Web browsers====<br />
The web is important for modern computer users, and openSUSE has you covered with a selection of browsers Free Software has to offer. We ship a much faster Firefox, an innovative Opera, a well integrated Epiphany and a more stable Rekonq. New is Chromium, the fast and easy to use browser from Google. These browsers provide a wide range of rendering engines supporting the latest web standards. Read on to find out what is new in these browsers since we brought to you in openSUSE 11.4!<br />
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'''Firefox 7'''<br /><br />
Since Firefox 4.0 in openSUSE 11.4, the project has moved to a more rapid release schedule and thus we present you with Mozilla's latest Firefox 7.0.1. Firefox has introduced support for new privacy features like do-not-track and much improved developer tools in the new 'web developer' menu. End users will appreciate the many smaller and larger usability improvements like the URL bar highlighting the website domain and hiding the prefix. Last but not least, each subsequent Firefox release brought better performance, from faster loading of tabs to the large memory management improvements in Firefox 7 and of course support for the latest web standards.<br />
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'''Chromium 16'''<br /><br />
Chromium, meet openSUSE 12.1 users. Users, meet Chromium. This venerable WebKit based web browser from Google is quickly gaining popularity and thus had to become part of the openSUSE distribution. With its simplified interface, great integration with Google services, separate processes so a crashing site can not take down the browser and the fastest JavaScript engine in the world, it will impress you with it's speed and ease of use. The rapid release cycle of Chromium is hard to track - we ensure the latest is always available on your system so you don't have to worry about security or not being able to work with the latest websites.<br />
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'''Opera 11.52'''<br /><br />
Opera 11.52 brings much improved Opera Link to sync your passwords between system and a better Speed Dial which now supports extensions, small webpages embedded in your Speed Dial. Another new feature is the Location support on websites like Google Maps. Opera also uses far less memory now and became a fair bit more stable. Of course this release supports the latest HTML 5 and CSS 3 standards and features a faster JavaScript engine and smoother graphics.<br />
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'''Rekonq 0.8'''<br /><br />
With Rekonq 0.8, openSUSE ships a second WebKit based browser. Build on Qt and the KDE Platform this new release takes advantage of the many improvements in QtWebKit 2.2, bringing better stability and performance. New features include the Do-Not-Track feature, availability of history in restored tabs, and Third Party rule support in AdBlock. usability has been given attention with much improved drag'n'drop support, an new SSL UI, optional VI-style navigation and improved URL bar handling.<br />
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'''Epiphany from GNOME 3.2'''<br /><br />
The third WebKit based browser, this time from the GNOME community, Epiphany, allows you to create Web Application links. These Web Applications show up in the application view of GNOME Shell and act very much like real applications, opening links in new web browser windows and not showing a navigation bar or tabs. They also run in a process separate from the browser, so that crashes of Epiphany do not affect your web applications.<br />
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====Office and desktop publishing applications====<br />
openSUSE helps you get work done by providing a stable base and up to date productivity tools. The latest LibreOffice brings new features in most components as well as speed and stability improvements to this enterprise ready office suite. While Abiword, Gnumeric and KOffice are still at their latest stable versions, our additional repositories offer the innovative Calligra application suite as a choice.<br />
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'''Libreoffice 3.4.3'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://XXXX.org '''Libreoffice'''] release brings a large number of small additions and improvements like the ability to add and remove color charts, a named range as data source and supporting an unlimited number of fields in the DataPilot (now named Pivot Table), Greek Character mode for numbering in Writer and much more. As usual, much performance work was done decreasing the size of LibreOffice and improving startup speed. Text rendering and theming have received a major overhaul, making LibreOffice fitting better in your desktop.<br />
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'''Scribus 1.4'''<br /><br />
[http://www.scribus.net '''Scribus'''] is the major Open Source Desktop Publishing tool available for Linux. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation. openSUSE ships a release candidate of Scribus 1.4 which has a large number of stability fixes over the release in openSUSE 11.4.<br />
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'''Calligra 2.4 beta 3'''<br /><br />
The new [http://www.calligra-suite.org/ Calligra Suite], the successor of KOffice in openSUSE is not yet part of this release. However most users report the current beta's to be of '''better quality than the latest KOffice release''' and the openSUSE packagers have thus committed to provide a repository which will offer the latest Calligra releases.<br />
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Specifically '''targeting students and academic users''' with the productivity part, Calligra brings much improved text handling and rendering, state of the art '''import support for the Microsoft XML formats''' and many stability and usability improvements to all applications. Words introduces handling of citations and bibliographies and an automatically updating Table of Content, better text tables, footer- and header support and much more. Presentation application Stage has a new slide sorter and easier editing of notes with slides. Project Management application Plan introduces many new chart printing options and improved import from external data sources. Tables has improved support for large tables, rotated text, many new formulas, improved Microsoft Excel file support and much faster loading.<br />
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Calligra also introduces two new applications: <br />
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*Flow is a diagramming and flowcharting application in the spirit of Visio.<br />
*Braindump is a note taking application that builds on the Calligra core and uses the full power of the openDocument Format to allow for text, images and even multimedia in the notes.<br />
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Find a [http://www.calligra-suite.org/news/calligra-2-4-snapshot-1-tour/ Calligra Tour here].<br />
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You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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====Communication and groupware====<br />
Of course, openSUSE ships a wide variety of groupware and Personal Information Management (PIM) solutions like email clients, chat applications, calendar tools and more.<br />
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'''KDE PIM'''<br /><br />
Kontact, KDE’s groupware solution, has most components now ported to Akonadi. Once the initial bugs are ironed out, this will offer increased stability and performance, better connection to new services and sharing of communication information between more applications. The biggest change is the introduction of KMail 2. This application has the familiar interface, while under the surface, all mail storage and retrieval has been ported to use the powerful Akonadi cache.<br />
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The openSUSE KDE team has put '''significant efforts''' in ensuring a smooth upgrade to KMail 2 but this is a significant change and the team will keep an eye out for further issues. Bugfixes will be provided through updates and users are encouraged to report problems and update their systems frequently.<br />
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It should be noted that the move from KMail1 to KMail2 requires the '''import/conversion of email data to Akonadi'''. This process can take considerable time, measuring up to a day on slow systems with multiple gigabyte-sized mailboxes. It is possible to, instead of doing a migration, doing a clean start by moving the current data from the ~.kde4/share/apps/kmail to a backup location. If you have your data stored on a server and it is only cached locally this should not cause you to loose data. In case of a downloading POP mail account, however, you will have to use the conversion process or import your mail separately.<br />
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Also note that '''Akonadi is a cache''', not a permanent storage system. This means that your mail should remain where it is - be it on a server or in a local folder. Akonadi will store a '''copy''' in its database, as well as extra information like ratings and the like, for fast search and retrieval. This essentially replaces the internal cache KMail1 employed for this purpose. Due to this design, Akonadi is very unlikely to lose user data as it normally operates on a copy of it. Of course, actions like moving or removing mails are synced back to the original mail storage!<br />
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'''Evolution 3.2.1'''<br /><br />
Evolution provides integrated mail, address book and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop. Version 3.2.1 has been ported over to the GNOME 3 infrastructure and offers a number of small improvements and bugfixes over the previous release. Also new in the openSUSE 12.1 Evolution is the Exchange Connector for Evolution, compatible with Exchange 2007 and later, allowing Evolution to work with Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010. Evolution also works with the Google contacts, calendar and mail services.<br />
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'''Thunderbird 7.0.1'''<br /><br />
The latest [http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird] email client shipped with openSUSE brings delivers faster performance, safer email experience, and a new add-ons manager. With over 390improvements and performance enhancements, Thunderbird is more responsive, starts faster and is easier to use than ever.<br />
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For example, the interface improvements like the improved RSS feeds and better Attachment management make handling your news and mail easier. Tabs can now be re-ordered or dragged into a new window and Thunderbird gives you control over the look and functionality of your email client with a gallery of hundreds of add-ons. The new Add-ons manager allows you to search the gallery in Thunderbird to install, remove, and manage the Add-ons. This release also adds support for technologies that make it easier for developers to build some of these amazing Add-ons, such as the Lightning Calendar, Conversation View, and Open Search.<br />
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====Multimedia====<br />
openSUSE comes with a number of prominent multimedia applications like the Amarok, Banshee and Rythmbox music players, DigiKam and Shotwell photo managers and the Marble virtual globe. Each of those has seen new releases with new features and bugfixes.<br />
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=====Music Players=====<br />
openSUSE comes with a large number of music players, from the well known Rythmbox, Banshee and Amarok to the less prominent like Juk, Totem, KMplayer, Dragon and Bangarang.<br />
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'''Banshee 2.2'''<br /><br />
The new [http://banshee.fm '''Banshee'''] comes with with lots of new extensions like an alarmclock, albumart writer, ampache, duplicated sound detector, jamendo, karaoke, live radio, lyrics and more. Other improvements include the ability to not only queue songs but also artists and albums and having the ability to play a queued song immediately after the current. There has been a number of UI improvements like putting the search next to the volume button, smaller icons in the source list, hidden counts for the libraries, named group separators and a resizable seek slider and search entry. Podcasts episodes are now shown in a grid, with several lines of description shown to help you find an appealing episode to enjoy.<br />
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'''Amarok 2.4.3 and Clementine 0.7.3'''<br /><br />
[http://amarok.kde.org '''Amarok'''] introduces improved Dynamic Playlists and Internet Services including integration with Gpodder.net. The user interface has been improved with better drag and drop, automatic scrolling in the lyrics applet and the ability to scrobble the composer as artist to last.fm. Otherwise, many bugs have been crushed and performance has improved a bit. For those not fond of the direction Amarok took with the 2.0 release, openSUSE ships [http://www.clementine-player.org '''Clementine 0.7.3'''] which in this version brings a new edit tag dialog which offers autocompletion and automatic music identification and missing-tag-fetching. CUE sheets are now supported, detected automatically and tracks will show up separately. Album covers are shown in the Library tab, deleted songs greyed out and much more.<br />
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=====Photo managers, editors and painting applications=====<br />
openSUSE ships with a large number of graphics and painting applications. There have been major versions of DigiKam and Blender as well as minor improvements to most of the other applications. openSUSE 12.1 also comes with lots of ICC color management Profiles ready to go.<br />
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'''DigiKam 2.2'''<br />
openSUSE 12.1 features the release of '''DigiKam''', the result of more than a year of hard work since the DigiKam version in openSUSE 11.4. This version features long awaited technologies like face detection and recognition, image versioning support, XMP metadata sidecar files support, big improvements in tagging and marking photos, reversed geotagging and many other improvements, including a total of 258 fixed bugs.<br />
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Close companion Kipi-plugins is released along with DigiKam 2.2. This release features new export tools to three web services - Yandex.Fotki, MediaWiki and Rajce. The GPSSync plugin now has the ability to do reverse-geocoding. Also new is a plugin which is dedicated to creating photo album-like layouts. Finally, there has been extensive bugfixing.<br />
Find out more about DigiKam and read articles with tips and tricks [http://www.digikam.org/ on the DigiKam website].<br />
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'''Inkscape 4.8.2'''<br />
[http://inkscape.org Inkscape] is a powerful vector graphics editor using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. It supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. The latest stable 4.8.2 version introduces a number of critical bugfixes and improvements to openSUSE 12.1.<br />
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This release is feature complete, offering the powerful UI, animation tools, rigging, modeling, shading, physics and particle tools and everything else Blender is known for.<br />
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'''Shotwell 0.11.5'''<br />
The [http://yorba.org/shotwell/ '''Shotwell'' photo organizer handles pictures based on a timeline. It also offers tagging and rating features and a host of image editing functions like rotating, cropping and adjustment of exposure, saturation and more. It can import photos from most cameras and from folders and publish photos and videos to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, and YouTube. The latest release introduces hierarchical trees for the tags, a new plugin framework, improved printing, a new crop tool and a new search bar as well as many smaller improvements to the user interface. New is also support for paired JPEG and RAW images, BMP, TIFF and other formats, and improved rendering of RAW files. This release also does automatic backups of the database and allows you to save searches.<br />
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'''F-spot 0.8.2-14'''<br />
The easy to use '''F-spot''' photo manager features a very simple interface combined with powerful search, import, browse and edit functionality. Advanced capabilities are exporting EXIF and XMP metadata to your images, versioning of changes in the image editor and quite complete import functionality. This release does not introduce major new features or improvements.<br />
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'''GIMP 2.6.11'''<br />
[http://www.gimp.org/ '''GIMP'''] is a versatile graphics manipulation package offering a customizable interface and a large number of plugins to modify and improve photos. It can work with a huge variety of fileformats. 2.6.11 brings bugfixes for this popular photo manipulation program as well as some minor usability and performance improvements.<br />
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'''Krita and Karbon 2.4 Beta3'''<br />
Two applications, part of the upcoming [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4] release, should not be missed in this overview. While they are not included in the standard openSUSE repositories, they offer some unique benefits many people will apreciate.<br />
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[http://krita.org '''Krita'''] is a sketching and painting tool, offering an end–to–end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters. Fields of painting that Krita explicitly supports are concept art, creation of comics and textures for rendering. Modelled on existing real-world painting materials and workflows, Krita supports creative working by getting out of the way and with snappy response. Developed in close collaboration with a number of artists Krita 2.4 brings many user interface improvements as well as much better performance. New functionality like the ability to share patterns, gradients and brushes over the web and the huge number of unique brushes solidify Krita's position as the '''premier Free Software sketching and drawing application'''.<br />
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The Karbon vector graphics application, also part of [http://www.calligra-suite.org Calligra 2.4], has much better '''support for the SVG standard''' and introduces many new filters and effects while improving on its stability.<br />
You can find the latest Calligra in the KDE teams [http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only updated applications repository under Unstable]. Note that these applications are NOT up to the usual openSUSE standards yet!<br />
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=====Video editors and 3D modelling=====<br />
Out of the box, openSUSE does not ship multimedia support due to legal and patent worries in a number of countries. However, if it is legal for you to play your music and video's you can find information on the [http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia openSUSE-community Multimedia] and [http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats Restricted formats] pages on how to obtain the needed codecs. The [http://packman.links2linux.de/ Packman] project which offers the codecs also packages a number of related applications like the excellent [http://www.kdenlive.org/ Kdenlive] and [http://www.openshotvideo.com/ openshot] video editors.<br />
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'''Kdenlive 0.8.2'''<br />
'''Kdenlive''' claims to be the most advanced video editor available on Linux today. It supports virtually any camera and codec thanks to the [http://www.ffmpeg.org/ FFMPEG] and [http://www.mltframework.org/ MLT] frameworks it builds upon. It is a multitrack editor with a timeline and an unlimited number of video and audio tracks. Thanks to the [http://www.piksel.org/frei0r Frei0r] framework Kdenlive offers a large number of effects and transitions and lets you add your own. It renders videos in a separate thread while you keep working and allows you to pause, stop and restart rendering. The latest 0.8.2 version fixes over 140 stability issues and introduces an automated backup feature to avoid the loss of any data. Check the [http://www.kdenlive.org/users/j-b-m/kdenlive-082-released announcement] for more information.<br />
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'''OpenShot 1.4'''<br />
The '''OpenShot''' video editor has a more easy to use interface and offers features like 3D animations, HD video support as well as Clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, and cutting, Video transitions with real-time previews, Compositing, image overlays, watermarks, Title templates, title creation, sub-titles and support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences. [http://vimeo.com/29465427 watch the video of the 1.4 release] or [http://www.openshot.org/features/ check out the openshot features] online.<br />
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'''Audacity 1.3.13'''<br />
For audio editing, '''Audacity''' offers a powerful set of features. Audacity lets you record live audio or convert existing music into digital data. It can also edit files, mixing the music or changing it with a variety of effects. These include echo, a fase changer, equalization, normalization and a number of effects to clean up hiss, noise and other mess. Additional plugins are availble with the VST and LADSPA plug-ins compatibility. Recording up to 96Khz, 32 bit is available with high quality sample rate conversion and there is a number of spectrum analysis tools for your viewing pleasure.<br />
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This release, while part of the beta series, is quite stable. Compared to the 1.3.12 version in the previous openSUSE release there has been a number of improvements to the effects, a new Device Toolbar showing all input and output devices has been introduced and the new "Sync-lock Tracks" feature allows groups of audio and/or label tracks to retain synchronisation when the track length changes. There has also been a fair number of bugfixes and some other smaller improvements.<br />
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'''PiTiVi 0.15'''<br />
openSUSE does ship the simple [http://www.pitivi.org/ '''PiTiVi''' video editor in the main repositories. PiTiVi is more intuitive and easy to use video editor compared to OpenShot and Kdenlive but does not offer the depth of in- and output formats, camera support and effects the others do.<br />
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'''Blender 2.59'''<br />
The well known [http://www.blender.org Blender] 3D content creation suite (3D modeller and video editor) is also part of openSUSE 12.1 with the stable 2.59 version. This third stable release in the 2.5 series brings big improvements in stability with many hundreds of bugs fixed. There is also a number of new features, including 3D mouse support and many UI improvements like the custom keymaps support and the camera locking. Sculpting, the warp modifier and the node editor have also been heavily improved.<br />
The biggest changes in the addons include:<br />
*the new Ivy Generator can grow curves over an existing mesh, <br />
*the Sapling addon generates trees<br />
*Mesh inset can inset individual faces or a selected region.<br />
*Grease scatter can scatter objects along predefined lines<br />
*much, much more. <br />
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openSUSE of course delivers far more multimedia applications to you, from the GStreamer framework to less known music players and a myriad of tools.<br />
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====Security and administration tools====<br />
openSUSE has always been a powertool for system adminstrators around the world and openSUSE 12.1 builds on this strong foundation. It is not only the powerful YaST which is appreciated but also the many tools available with openSUSE. This release brings major improvements to AppArmor, the new Shorewall gateway/firewall configuration application, a big update to the Performance Co-Pilot tool, an extended WebYaST and much more.<br />
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'''AppArmor 2.7 rc1'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships with the latest available [http://apparmor.net AppArmor] to ensure sys admins can easily secure their servers. [http://www.suse.com/support/security/apparmor/ Initially developed by SUSE], AppArmor is part of the Linux kernel now and openSUSE has the userspace components available. It is only in these userspace components that AppArmor ships changes compared to the previous release in openSUSE 11.4. Major features since AppArmor 2.5 include a working desktop notifier and automatic profile update for samba shares. And of course many other profile updates, bugfixes and better performance.<br />
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'''Shorewall 4.4.24'''<br /><br />
New in openSUSE from the Open Build Service is the [http://shorewall.net/Introduction.html Shoreline Firewall configuration tool]. This application offers a very powerful but still rather high-level interface to configure Netfilter through editing a series of configuration files. Upon starting Shorewall, it will read the files and with help of the iptables and other security utils configure Netfilter and the Linux networking subsystem to match your requirements, building a firewal, router or gateway. Find a list of [http://www.shorewall.net/4.4/shorewall_features.htm features of Shorewall here].<br />
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[[Image:WebYaST_Screenshot.png|thumb|250px||WebYast in action]]<br />
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'''Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) 3.5.8 and the PCP GUI charting tools.'''<br /><br />
The [http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/ performance co-pilot] is a heavy-duty performance monitoring tool. It is specifically build to find the harder type of system-level performance problems. It is capable of correlating end-user quality of service with platform activity and diagnosing complex interactions between resource demands on single or multiple systems in dynamic environments. This release is a significant upgrade over what was shipped in openSUSE 11.4, bringing a host of new features and improvements like support for distributed event tracing, transparent support for compressed archives in the client tools, Integrated pmieconf and pmlogconf utilities for automating management of pmie/pmlogger configuration files, Linux kernel control group metrics, per-node CPU metrics, XFS btree metrics and some Postfix updates.<br />
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'''WebYaST'''<br /><br />
The latest version of WebYaST has many improvements regarding speed, memory usage, usability and developing environment. Due a new caching mechanism the startup time of each module has been decreased to a maximum of 1-2 seconds. Former versions of WebYaST were split into a service and into an UI part. Each part has run in a own HTTP server. We have decided to bring these parts together in order to save one HTTP server which halves the memory usage.<br />
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====Virtualization, Cloud and web applications====<br />
openSUSE is an excellent guest OS for the cloud, as anyone who ever uses [http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio] can agree with. Nowhere is it as easy to build a cloud solution and openSUSE is now ready for the '''Amazon EC2 cloud''' by having a special EC2 kernel and suse-ami-tools in the default repositories.<br />
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But openSUSE can also be an excellent host and contains a fair number of virtualization and cloud tools. Most prominent is OwnCloud, which is shipped with unique desktop integration in openSUSE. What is not available in the default repositories can be found in the special [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Virtualization%3ACloud openSUSE Virtualization and Cloud repository], where openSUSE contributors package and maintain '''Eucalyptus''', '''OpenNebula''' and '''OpenStack''' for openSUSE 12.1. <br />
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'''OwnCloud 2'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 delivers OwnCloud, the web-based storage application. OwnCloud is different from solutions like Google Docs, Dropbox or Ubuntu One in that it lets '''you own the data'''. With version 2, the ownCloud team has improved the basic service and added valuable features:<br />
* Secure file sharing<br />
* Improved web access including the ability to play music<br />
* Synchronization with other web application tools<br />
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openSUSE ships OwnCloud with a unique system tray based tool which can:<br />
* Install a new ownCloud locally or in a webspace<br />
* Connect your system to an existing ownCloud<br />
* give you assistance to set up mirrored folders<br />
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There is also basic Dolphin integration which XXXXXXXX<br />
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'''virtualization technologies'''<br /><br />
The new '''Xen 4.1''' release brings support for large systems (>255 processors and 1GB/2MB super page support), CPU Pools for advanced partitioning, prototype credit2 scheduler designed for latency-sensitive workloads and very large systems, a re-architected XL toolstack that is functionally nearly equivalent to XM/XEND, support for x86 Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX), new Memory Access API enabling integration of 3rd party security solutions into Xen virtualized environments and even better stability through the new automated regression tests.<br />
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The lastest version of '''KVM''' provides live migration from one host to another, guest swapping, paravirtualized networking and block devices and PCI-Express passthrough.<br />
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The new 4.1 series '''VirtualBox''' release brings new features like VM cloning, enhanced wizard for creating and copying virtual disks, raised memory limit to 1TB for 64 bit hosts and a couple of experimental featuers like PCI passthrough or SATA hard disk hot-plugging.<br />
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'''Virtualization tools'''<br /><br />
The latest release of '''virt-manager''' (supported by libvirt) brings new VM features including new VM wizard support for LCX guests, remote serial console access and remote URL guest installs.<br />
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The recent version of '''open-vm-tools''' provides integration (shared folders, drag and drop, clipboard sharing, automatic guest resolution resizing, etc.) with the VMware tools.<br />
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'''Horde 4.0.8'''<br /><br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships the latest Horde 4 groupware server and framework! Horde 4 is the first release in over 6 years and brings major improvements to all applications of the suite as well as to the framework itself. <br />
Some of the more significant changes from Horde 3 to 4 include a requirement for PHP 5.2 or higher, a new Ajax interface and a new test suite. The complete framework has been modernized and cleaned up and the libraries are better separated and Unit tested.<br />
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The most important things users will notice are the e improved setup and upgrade processes, an Ajax interface for the calendar, and an improved interface for the complete application stack.<br />
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Horde offers a large number of web applications including a webmail tool (part of the Horde Groupware Webmail Edition) complete with WYSIWYG HTML editor, IMAP and POP3 support, message search and filtering, spell check, attachment viewer, encryption and signing, keyboard navigation, threaded view and previews, downloading of attachments in a ZIP file and much more.<br />
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There is now basic social media support with Facebook and Twitter integration and there is an Active Sync server component which can synchronize with iPhones and Android devices. The existing SyncML support already took care of most Nokia phones. The last missing piece is CalDAV support for calendar sharing, which is planned for the future.<br />
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== Development tools and platforms (GNOME/GTK, KDE/Qt,..., etc) ==<br />
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===IDEs and toolchain===<br />
openSUSE offers a complete and productive environment for developers and packagers. With stable tools and updated libraries available through [http://build.opensuse.org OBS], developers can easily develop using multiple programming languages and create packages for multiple distributions.<br />
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====KDevelop====<br />
For software developers, KDevelop has gained support for predefined indentation styles and a Python interpreter using Kross. Improved Python auto-completion and support for lex/yacc file extensions are also included in this release.<br />
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====Kate====<br />
KDE’s Advanced Text Editor, Kate has seen quite a number of improvements, including:<br />
* New Search Plugin with the ability to search in files on disk or opened files <br />
* Plugin improvements: Build Plugin, GDB Plugin<br />
* Kate’s tab bar plugins gained several new features<br />
* Swap files: If lost data is found, documents are marked as read-only<br />
* Further noteworthy changes: Improved printing, change of line ending triggers modified flag, fixed shortcut issues, fixed auto completion popup, and more.<br />
For more information, see [http://kate-editor.org/2011/07/09/kate-in-kde-4-7/ this blog].<br />
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===KDE Platform===<br />
openSUSE 12.1 ships with the latest stable '''Qt 4.7.4''' and the '''KDE Platform 4.7.2''', giving developers the best from these powerful cross-platform development libraries.<br />
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'''KDE Platform 4.7 '''<br /><br />
This release of KDE's development platform is an incremental release, bringing many bugfixes and small improvements to technologies like the build-in WebKit browser engine, system wide Proxy support and the Phonon Multimedia engine. Developer-visible changes include:<br />
* Improvements to the Semantic Desktop components offering a richer API for applications<br />
* The option to suspend compositing in KWin whenever an application calls for it to improve performance in OpenGL games and GPU-accelerated video playback.<br />
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For details on the KDE Platform 4.7 release see [http://kde.org/announcements/4.7/platform.php the KDE platform release notes].<br />
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'''Qt 4.7 introduces QtQuick'''<br /><br />
Qt 4.7.4 is a '''bugfix release''' over the release shipped with openSUSE 11.4. <br />
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However, it does introduce some powerful features including the official release of [http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/01/qt-quick-is-here QtQuick], a new feature within Qt that makes it easy to create light-weight apps and UIs. It contains the new QML language, a simple to learn declarative language for building dynamic and fluid interfaces, the Qt Declarative module and new tooling in Qt Creator to easily build apps.<br />
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QtQuick 1.1 brings Right-to-Left support, improved caching and text input and a declarative API for handling touch input. There is also the new QML Sharders plugin which allows developers to embed OpenGL sharder effects in QML apps.<br />
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=== GNOME platform improvements ===<br />
For further details, seee [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/ the GNOME 3.2 release notes].<br />
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==== New features and functionality ====<br />
Included in openSUSE 12.1 is the latest release of the GNOME Developer Platform. This consists of a set of API- and ABI-stable libraries available under the GNU LGPL that can be used for the development of cross-platform applications.<br />
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For information on developing with GNOME please visit the [http://developer.gnome.org GNOME Developer Center].<br />
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'''GLib 2.30'''<br /><br />
GNOME's low-level software utility library GLib has seen various improvements, some of which are:<br />
* GApplication can now be used for non-unique applications.<br />
* GDBus supports the 'object manager' pattern with a number of new interfaces and has a code generator: gdbus-codegen.<br />
* An interface for certificate and key lookup has been added: GTlsDatabase. An implementation is provided by glib-networking.<br />
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'''GTK+ 3.2'''<br /><br />
GTK+ 3.2 is the latest release of the GTK+ toolkit, which is at the heart of GNOME. GTK+ 3.2 includes new features for developers, as well as extensive bug fixes. <br />
* Many more widgets support height-for-width geometry management. It is important to set reasonable sizes on labels and check window sizes.<br />
* New widgets include GtkLockButton for privileged operations, GtkOverlay for floating controls over a content area, the new GtkFontChooserDialog and more.<br />
* There is also improved CSS theming support and the HTML backend Broadway, which renders a GTK3 application in a browser. It is still experimental and requires compiling with --enable-broadway-backend and environment varialbe GDK_BACKEND at runtime.<br />
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'''Clutter 1.8'''<br /><br />
GNOME's graphics library for hardware-accelerated user interfaces Clutter provides, among other things, the following improvements: <br />
* New actions including Gesture and swipe detection, creating drop actors and long-press support for ClutterClickAction. <br />
* ClutterState transitions can be bound to object signals when creating a scene in ClutterScript. <br />
* Cogl, the GPU programming interface used by Clutter, is exposed as a separate library. <br />
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'''Use of Deprecated Libraries'''<br /><br />
Further progress has been made in the continuous work of replacing outdated technologies with superior facilities. Some examples:<br />
* GConf now uses D-Bus. As a consequence, the deprecated libraries ORBit2 and libIDL have been removed from GNOME. Many applications using GConf have been ported to gsettings.<br />
* GNOME core modules now only depend on introspection-based Python bindings (pygobject-3) and hence pygtk, gnome-python and gnome-python-desktop are not required anymore.<br />
* Several packages, such as the Epiphany web browser, have been converted from using dbus-glib to GDBus and from libunique to G(tk)Application.<br />
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'''Miscellaneous Developer Updates'''<br /><br />
Other GNOME Platform improvements in GNOME 3.2 include: <br />
* GNOME's build tool JHBuild does not build a module anymore if the version installed on your system is recent enough. If you start to build GNOME from scratch with a recent distribution, this can easily drop 50 modules from the list of modules to compile.<br />
* Tracker version 0.12 provides support for Firefox ≥ 4.0, Thunderbird ≥ 5.0, MeeGoTouch, several additional SPARQL parameters, extracting information from EPub files, and local XDG directories for desktop files. <br />
* NetworkManager version 0.9 provides introspection support and a simplified D-Bus API. Information how to port applications from NetworkManager 0.8 to 0.9 is available.<br />
* GtkSourceView now supports syntax highlighting of Markdown and Standard ML files.<br />
* libfolks now includes an Evolution-Data-Server backend, which is used by the new Contacts application.<br />
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== And more ==<br />
The above selection of changes and improvements in openSUSE 12.1 is still far from complete but gives a taste of what is new. We hope you enjoyed reading it!<br />
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<div>Hallo Team,<br />
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ich fange dann mal mit dem Übersetzen an. Ich gehe immer Abschnittsweise vor.<br />
Achtung: Bitte nicht mehrere Leute gleichzeitig an einem Text arbeiten. Dann gehen nicht gesicherte Daten verloren!!!! Auch wenn man sie gerade sichern möchte!<br />
--[[Benutzer:Slughorn|Slughorn]] 05:22, 11. Nov. 2011 (MST)<br />
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Hallo,<br />
ich wollte wohl mithelfen beim Übersetzen. Gibt es spezielle Abschnitte die noch nicht zugeteilt wurden, die ich übersetzen kann?<br />
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Bild:Oss12.1-GNOME3.2-LiveInstall4.png|Lizenzbedingungen<br />
Bild:Oss12.1-GNOME3.2-LiveInstall5.png|Zeitzone<br />
Bild:Oss12.1-GNOME3.2-LiveInstall6.png|Partitionieren<br />
Bild:Oss12.1-GNOME3.2-LiveInstall7.png|Nutzerverwaltung<br />
Bild:Oss12.1-GNOME3.2-LiveInstall-Übersicht.png|Installation Übersicht<br />
Bild:Oss12.1-GNOME3.2-LiveInstall9.png|Installation<br />
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Datei:Oss12.1-GNOME3.2-LiveInstall3.png|Bootsplash<br> Bootscreen eingeblendet<br />
Bild:OS12_1_kde_live_17.png|Bootsplash:<br> Bootscreen ausgeblendet<br />
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==KDE Plasma Desktop==<br />
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File:opensuse-12.1-de-kdm.png|Login Manager: KDM<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-activities.png|KDE Aktivitäten<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-desktop.png|KDE Desktop<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-widgets.png|Widgets<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-dolphin.png|KDE Dateimanager: Dolphin<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-dolphin-preview.png|Dolphin Vorschaubilder<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-gwenview.png|Bildbetrachter: gwenview<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-digiKam.png|Foto Manager: digiKam<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-kaffeine.png|Video Player: Kaffeine<br />
File:opensuse-12.1-de-kde-firefox.png|Webbrowser: Firefox<br />
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==GNOME 3.2==<br />
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Bild:Oss12.1-GNOME3.2.1-GDM.png|GNOME 3.2:<br> Loggin Manager GDM <br />
Bild:OSS-12.1-GNOME3.2.png|GNOME Shell:<br> Aktivitäten (Live Betrieb)<br />
File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME desktop.png|Desktop Shell<br />
File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME activities.png|GNOME Shell:<br> Aktivitäten<br />
File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME eog.png|Bildbetrachter:<br> GNOME Eye<br />
File:OpenSUSE_12.1_GNOME_nautilus.png|Datei Manager:<br> Nautilus<br />
File:OpenSUSE_12.1_GNOME_shotwell.png|Photo Manager:<br> Shotwell<br />
File:OpenSUSE_12.1_GNOME_totem.png|Video Player:<br> Totem<br />
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==Xfce 4.8==<br />
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File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Login_Manager.png|Login Manager<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Desktop.png|Desktop<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Main_Menu.png|Haupt Menue<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Update_Notifier.png|New Update Notifier<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_File_Manager_Image_Viewer.png|Datei Manager & Image Betrachter<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Dictionary_Office.png|Dictionary & LibreOffice<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Email_Client_Notes.png|Email Client & Note Taking Application<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Calendar.png|Calendar<br />
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==LXDE 0.5==<br />
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Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_login.png|LXDM Login-Manager<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_desktop_menu.png|LXDE Desktop und Menü<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_control_center.png|LXDE Kontrollzentrum<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_file_manager_image_viewer.png|Dateimanager PCManFM<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_config.png|Konfiguration<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_browser.png|Firefox<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_terminal_taskmanager.png|Terminal und Taskmanager<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_logoff.png|Abmeldebild<br />
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File:OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME eog.png|'''GNOME-3'''<br> Bildbetrachter: Eye<br />
File:OpenSUSE_12.1_GNOME_nautilus.png|'''GNOME-3'''<br> Datei Manager: Nautilus<br />
File:OpenSUSE_12.1_GNOME_shotwell.png|'''GNOME-3'''<br> Photo Manager: Shotwell<br />
File:OpenSUSE_12.1_GNOME_totem.png|'''GNOME-3'''<br> Video Player: Totem<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_control_center.png|'''LXDE'''<br> Kontrollzentrum<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_file_manager_image_viewer.png|'''LXDE'''<br>Dateimanager PCManFM<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_config.png|'''LXDE'''<br>Konfiguration<br />
Bild:openSUSE_12.1_lxde_browser.png|'''LXDE'''<br>Firefox<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_File_Manager_Image_Viewer.png|'''Xfce'''<br>Datei Manager & Image Betrachter<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Dictionary_Office.png|'''Xfce'''<br>Dictionary & LibreOffice<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Email_Client_Notes.png|'''Xfce'''<br>Email Client & Note Taking Application<br />
File:openSUSE_12.1_Xfce_Calendar.png|'''Xfce'''<br>Calendar<br />
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