After eight months of hard work, the development team behind the openSUSE distribution has finalized the new release, which brings lots of improvements, updated packages, a new Linux kernel, as well as support for new Linux technologies. For users, openSUSE 13.1, which is distributed as separate KDE and GNOME editions, brings the power and freedom of the KDE Software Compilation desktop environment and the simplicity and beauty of the GNOME 3 desktop environment.