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openSUSE 12.3 featuring GNOME 3.8: Screenshot Gallery edit
Default desktop
Activities Overview Mode
App Selection Menu
File Browser
Video Player
Installation
GNOME is fully supported in openSUSE as one of the top two most popular desktop arrangements. You can install it from a live CD, or select it as your preferred desktop during installation from the DVD. Download the DVD image or the Live GNOME CD/USB image from the openSUSE download page. NOTE: openSUSE 12.3 shipped with GNOME 3.6.3. Upgrading to GNOME 3.8 is quick and easy and is explained on [GNOME Repo Listing]
A stable, usable, localised working environment
A key focus of the GNOME project has been its usability, resulting in high quality, consistent GUI based applications throughout the environment. The desktop itself, as well as the applications included in it are thoroughly tested for stability and have low memory footprints. Additionally GNOME offers support for more than 50 languages with at least 80 percent of strings translated, including the user and administration manuals for many languages. Along with great unicode support, this makes the GNOME interface truly international!
Accessible
Free Software is about enabling software freedom for everyone, including users and developers with disabilities. GNOME's Accessibility framework is the result of several years of effort, and makes GNOME the most accessible desktop for any Unix platform.
Applications for the everyday user
The GNOME environment in openSUSE provides all of the common tools computer users expect of a modern desktop environment, such as e-mail, groupware, web browsing, social networking, file management, multimedia, and games. In other words, anyone with standard demands of a desktop should find GNOME very comfortable, and easy to use.
- Browse your documents and directories with Nautilus
- For browsing websites and more use the Firefox web browser
- A complete email client and planner in Evolution
- Social and instant messaging and IRC through Empathy
- For the complete multimedia experience - Banshee and Totem
- CD/DVD burning with Brasero
- Photo browsing and editing with Shotwell
- Read your subscribed feeds and news with Liferea
- The best free image editor there is - GIMP
- Advanced text editing using Gedit
- To meet all your word processing and office needs LibreOffice
and so much more!
[edit] See also
- GNOME Portal for lots more about GNOME in openSUSE, including documentation and information about the GNOME community within openSUSE
- GNOME repositories is useful if you want to learn what repositories can be combined and what should not be mixed at all.
[edit] External links
- GNOME: The Free Software Desktop Project
- GNOME on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.