The openSUSE project is a community program sponsored by Novell. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, this program provides free, easy access to openSUSE, a complete Linux distribution. The openSUSE project has three main goals: make openSUSE the easiest Linux for anyone to obtain and the most widely used Linux distribution; leverage open source collaboration to make openSUSE the world's most usable Linux distribution and desktop environment for new and experienced Linux users; dramatically simplify and open the development and packaging processes to make openSUSE the platform of choice for Linux developers and software vendors.
The Gnome 2.32 interface is meant to be the last major release in the 2.x series, only maintenance updates will be available in this series with the impending release of Gnome 3. Many applications have new features and there are a lot of bug fixes in this release. Some users reported problems with drivers and hardware immediately after the launch, but things seem to have stabilized nicely in my opinion. If you want to know more about the new server features offered in OpenSUSE 11.4 I will be covering that very soon.