[CCID News] Novell plans to launch a new version of an open source operating system for desktop in early November.
The company said that the upcoming SUSE Linux Professional 9.2 operating system supports 32-bit microprocessors and AMD Athlon64-bit chips and Intel extended storage 64-bit chips. The new operating system is built on the Linux 2.6.8 kernel and has Bluetooth technical support, switching features between wireless LANs and other networks, and more powerful power management and hardware support.
Novell indicates that the operating system is designed to meet the use of "technology mad people" while meeting ordinary users.
This will be the second-time operating system upgrade version of this year, open source software providers such as Novell and Red Hat has greatly accelerated the update for ordinary user products, trying to win more favorable status in the counter-powers of Microsoft Window operating systems. .
Novell Vice President Marcus Rex said in the statement that "We have reason to believe that there will be more home users to turn to the SUSE Linux Professional 9.2 operating system, they can use it with confidence."
SUSE Linux Professional 9.2 Bundles some development platforms such as KDevelop, Eclipse, and Mono, mainly meeting open source users to develop interest and cross-platform applications for Linux. Other functions include system installation, automatic activation of firewalls, which makes the system safer, and KDE 3.3 and GNOME 2.6 graphic desktop environment.
The new operating system is priced at $ 89.95 and has 90 days of installation support. The upgraded version of existing users and the student version of $ 59.95.
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