Targeting administrators and developers, OpenSUSE 11.4 ships the latest virtualization and Web server stacks along with "all the major development languages, platforms and associated IDEs," the project says. Included among the additions, for example, are Xen 4.0.2, VirtualBox 4.0.4 and KVM 0.14 for virtualization and Apache 2.2.17, Lighttpd 1.4.26 and Ngninx 0.8.54 on the Web server side.

Version 9.0.3 of PostgreSQL, the MySQL 5.1.53 community edition and the MariaDB 5.1 fork are also included.

5. The Freedom of Linux

Last but definitely not least are all the myriad benefits you get when you use most any version of Linux, including the freedom to modify the software to suit your business, the freedom from vendor lock-in, the freedom from rampant and the freedom from exorbitant costs.

Did I mention that openSUSE is free? It's now available for at no cost, but can also be purchased for $71.50 as a retail version with 90-day installation support, physical media and a printed Getting Started guide. Whichever route you take, there's no better time to take openSUSE for a .