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Now that we've talked about a few of the features that we can find in openSUSE and the fact that we're going to talk about some of the more of these features later on as we go through the course, I also want to talk about cross-platform integration and value that you get from using the SUSE operating systems. OpenSUSE is basically interoperable with a wide variety of hardware and software and other systems. It can integrate with, uh, any applications that you have, network-based applications and it can integrate with a lot of the things that you do in your business, uh, or at home, for that matter. OpenSUSE adheres to open standards. Uh, not only the Linux-standards based, which we discussed earlier, but also other standards such as the IEEE standards and the IETF standards. So basically, any kind of standards-based application or system or protocol, uh, can be used in conjunction with openSUSE. Another value-added aspect of openSUSE is because of Novell's involvement, because they acquired openSUSE, a lot of Novell networking products are integrated in both openSUSE and its professional versions, such as SLED and SLES. An example would be eDirectory and other networking products, uh, have been integrated into SUSE at some form or another. Now, openSUSE works well in a wide variety of environments. It can function very well as a standalone workstation, um, with a single user or it can function fairly, uh, well in a small business type of workgroup. It even works in, uh, larger networks and distributed, uh, directory services such as, uh, Windows active directory of any other, uh, LDAP-based, uh, directory standards. You'll find that openSUSE is compatible with most standard file and media formats, so it's, uh, easy to work in documents that have been created on another platform or with another application and actually, you can easily exchange document files, uh, and other things between Windows and openSUSE. OpenSUSE is basically a very superior application and network-security feature-rich operating system. Uh, in addition to the normal, uh, Linux, uh, security features that you would normally expect to find in any Linux distro, it has other security features built in that are configurable by the user, uh, and very, very good at keeping your work, uh, and your private data files secure. One good aspect, of course, about Linux in general, but openSUSE in particular is that it costs significantly less than any commercial OS. OpenSUSE is free, after all. It can be freely downloaded and used by anyone, but even if you migrate to the professional versions of SUSE, such as SLED or SLES, um, this is, there's a significant cost reduction there. They cost significantly less than other commercial software, uh, applications or operating systems such as Windows and Windows-based applications. If you are using openSUSE and you decide to upgrade to the these professional commercial distros, such as SLED or SLES, it's a much easier upgrade path you've already got the hardware set up and you already got the, uh, the configuration set up that makes it much easier to migrate to these operating systems. All in all, openSUSE is a very professional, superior operating system, so you shouldn't consider it just a alternative on the side from Windows or any other operating system. It should be one of your first choices when looking at selecting an operating system for home use or for business use. As we go through the course, you're going to see how, uh, openSUSE can benefit you, uh, at home or at work and you're going to see a lot of its features that it has built in.