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Let's talk about a few of the general features of openSUSE and all these features we're going to go over more in depth as we go through the course, but this is just kind of an overview of, uh, some of the features, some of the things that openSUSE can do for you. OpenSUSE is an extremely feature-rich distro. It has many different things it can do. It's capable of, uh, and it's used in a wide variety of scenarios; both from a basic user-level desktop to a high-end server. In order to do some of those things, it offers some extremely good features. Uh, it has high-quality graphics capabilities. I can be used to produce high-quality graphics and multi-media products. It has professional-level productivity software installed in by default, such as OpenOffice, but there's a wide variety of other software out there available that can enhance productivity in an office environment. It also has some built-in application-level security software that some distros don't have. It's called AppArmor and basically it's a kind of akin to the SA Linux and other distros such as Red Hat that you'll find. As we mentioned before, there's probably thousands of software titles of open source and commercial proprietary, uh, in any category you can think of that are available for openSUSE. So it can support, uh, a wide variety of titles out there. One of the biggest things about, uh, openSUSE or any other Linux distro, for that matter, is the developer community out there worldwide that help ensure that the highest quality of operation and performance, uh, comes from open source, uh, operating systems and software. So you've got a support based out there with openSUSE that's just about unrivaled, uh, in the Windows community, at least. But you've got folks out there who can develop drivers, codex and other software and help you support, uh, what you do on a day-to-day basis. This is in addition to the professional support that Novell offers. Some of the server-level capabilities that, uh, openSUSE can offer include very simple services such as file sharing and so forth to very advanced servers. Some of the examples I could give you for server-level capabilities include networking services, for example, such as a domain name server or a DHCP server, uh, which could, uh, resolve Internet names to IP addresses and provide IP addressing information on networks and an openSUSE server can provide those services. It can also serve as a file server itself and it can use Samba to connect to Windows-based file services or it can use NFS, for example, to provide simple file-sharing services. There, uh, also provides the capability in openSUSE to use it as a firewall itself or even as an intrusion-detection system. There are many open source software packages such as Snort that you can install in openSUSE to make it a standalone security appliance or a security appliance that sits in your, uh, demilitarized zone on your network to help protect your network. There's also a wide variety of application servers that can be used in openSUSE, such as an email server, for example, or even a media server. You can use openSUSE for these types of services as well. Now, there's many other functions available and most of them we'll go over when we talk about openSUSE as we go through this course, uh, so just, uh, understand that just about anything you can think of that you want to do from a network or an enterprise or user-level perspective, openSUSE can accomplish. So anything you can think of that you've been doing with Windows boxes, uh, you can do with openSUSE pretty much. Uh, the great thing about openSUSE 2 is it can be fully customized to suit whatever needs you have. You can, uh, regen the kernel just like you do in other Linux distros or you can install a specific application for your business or for your personal use. You can basically do anything you want with it. Now, openSUSE has a very flexible configuration, uh, in that you can do it the traditional way in traditional text files like you do with most Linuxes. Text files normally control configuration settings for programs and hardware and such. Uh, or you can do it through the graphical user interface. So you have the command line available to you and the GUI for, uh, basic through advanced users and having said that, if you're a Windows user, even if you've never used Linux before, there's a very easy learning curve for Windows users. Uh, when we look at, uh, some of the features available in the openSUSE graphical user interface that, and desktops such as GNOME and KDE, you're going to find that it's very familiar to you, that all the methods that you use to open and run programs and accomplish tasks are very similar to Windows. All in all, I think you're going to find that openSUSE has many features that, uh, will make it a very satisfying experience to use.