The openSUSE Project has announced the release of the final version of openSUSE 11.3 today. openSUSE 11.3 includes a number of changes, updates and  improvements  over openSUSE 11.2 which was released in November last year.

openSUSE 11.3 is based on Linux kernel 2.6.34 and has KDE Software Compilation 4.4.4 as the  default desktop environment. A GNOME version is also available and it uses GNOME 2.30.1. In terms of the default applications, it comes with Thunderbird 3.0.5, Firefox 3.6.4 and OpenOffice 3.2.1 to name a few. openSUSE 11.3 also gives the user the choice of using Btrfs during installation.

You can view the complete changelog here ^[1] or read the release note. A screenshot tour of openSUSE 11.3 ^[2] have also been put up.

openSUSE is widely regarded as one of the best KDE based Linux distros. So, if you want to give openSUSE 11.3 a go, you can download it from here -> Download openSUSE 11.3. ^[3]