My Tryst with Linux takes me to openSUSE 11.4/GNOME 3.0

Salient features of Gnome 3.0

==>No more start menu
==>Huge icons everwhere
==>OS looks more like a mobile computing device like iphone
==>It is written in javascript(yep you heard it right ,javascript)
==>To shutdown you need to press "ALT" to toggle suspend to "poweroff".It
seems Gnome developers never shutdown their machines

Visit gnome3.org to know more