The open source operating system includes four desktop options - GNOME 3.2, KDE, Xfce and LXDE - with the first two heavyweight desktop environments now coming with colour management tools. KDE also comes with the options Oyranos, Apper and Plasma Active, the latter being a tablet computer project.

Web surfing and the cloud are also top of the agenda, with client side support for Chromium 17 and Firefox 7 installed as default. Server side there is Webyast and Horde 4, and OpenSUSE can now run directly on Amazon's EC2 cloud servers.