1 of 12 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop Gets Major Update: What You'll Find by Sean Michael Kerner

2 of 12 Download Requires Users to Sign Up for 30-Day Trial As a supported enterprise product, SLED 12 requires potential users to sign up before they can download the operating system.

3 of 12 SLED 12 Provides Multiple Desktop Choices SLED 12 provides users with a number of choices for the desktop user interface, including GNOME 3, GNOME Classic, and a SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) Classic that melds the best of GNOME 3 and classic interfaces.

4 of 12 GNOME 3 Focuses on Activities The GNOME 3 desktop choice provides navigation options at the top of the screen and has an Activities menu as the primary button for users to move around the desktop.

5 of 12 GNOME Classic Puts Places on Top The GNOME Classic interface puts the main navigation at the top of the screen and provides users with the Places navigation item.

6 of 12 SLE Classic Puts Navigation on the Bottom One of the biggest user-facing differences that the SLE Classic mode offers is that the main navigation is now at the bottom of the screen.

7 of 12 Firefox Is the Default Browser The open-source Mozilla Firefox Web browser is the default browser in the SLED 12 release.

8 of 12 LibreOffice Provides Office Functionality LibreOffice is the default office productivity application suite in SLED 12, providing document, spreadsheet and presentation applications.

9 of 12 Snapper Provides an Interface for Btrfs System Rollbacks As part of SLED 12, the btrfs file system is included, enabling snapshots and system rollback functionality. The SUSE-built snapper tool provides a graphical user interface to easily take advantage of btrfs's capabilities.

10 of 12 AppArmor Provides Mandatory Access Controls AppArmor is an open-source mandatory access control technology that is part of SUSE Linux that enables users to have fine-grained access control over system and application processes.

11 of 12 Windows Interoperability Is a Key Feature On the desktop as on the server, the ability to work in a heterogeneous environment, with both Linux and Windows, is a supported feature.