openSUSE 11.0 is a major change from openSUSE 10.3. Lot of improvements and changes have goine in from the initial Alpha release until now. Some of the highlighting features in openSUSE 11.0 includes
Linux Kernel 2.6.25 is default kernel
KDE 4.0.3 takes the centre stage from KDE 3.x as the default KDE Desktop Environment
For Gnome Desktop environment, GNOME 2.22.1 is the default
Changes to Installation workflow and themed installation is used. DVD installation uses images to speed up installation
RPM payload switch to lzma (results in smaller rpm packages)
libzypp uses a new much faster solver
German language support on CD media
Sax2 and YaST Qt frontend are ported to Qt4
Other interesting features include,
Xen 3.2.1 RC1 is included
Apache 2.2.8 is the default apache web server
compiz 0.7.4 is included
Firefox Beta 5 is included
OpenOffice 2.4 is included OpenOffice version
For a more detailed list of changes to included applications, click here