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The openSUSE Project Turns Two
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It happened again. Another year passed (flew by). Happy Birthday openSUSE!
Read on for a look back and some things to come.
There are tons of things we achieved…
In the past 365 days we successfully released openSUSE 10.2 with numerous improvements and new features. Up until now it has been installed hundreds of thousands of times. We brought the Build Service to a broader audience as an open source project with cool features like release management, build monitoring package tags, statistics, an ever improving command line client, patterns and one click installations. This must have impressed AMD because they quickly became a Platinum Sponsor. The software/download page was completely rewritten and relaunched. Several other sites appeared, including but not limited to opensuse-community.org, suse-art.org to share your openSUSE artwork, the Localization Portal to help bring openSUSE to your language, Benji’s package search tool, our own idea pool, several localized openSUSE wikis, and not to forget this site here.
We also made huge progress on other means of communication. For instance, we migrated about 40 mailing lists with 40,000 individual subscribers to the new mailing list server. In the meantime we have a bunch of new mailing lists, that’s over 50 now with 44,000 individual subscribers. We had nearly 30 meetings in our irc channels and also attended several successful fairs like FOSDEM or Linuxtag and, at the moment, the Linuxworld Expo. 34,000 people told us their view on topics such as openSUSE in general, network settings or proprietary software in our surveys. We opened up our Styleguides and our own cookbook-style book project for the openSUSE distribution: Lessons for Lizards.
While we are at the topic of opening up. The YaST, Limal and Zypp developers completely moved everything under the hood of openSUSE. We launched our own SVN server and are trying to bring the various package repositories together into one software portal. We also had some fascinating ideas implemented during our Hackweek, for instance a Build Service project that recompiles Debian packages or Giver for easy file sharing. The first versions of KIWI, our imaging technology, appeared which helps everybody to deploy their own versions of openSUSE . Everything is completely in the open. To manifest this spirit we worked together on some guiding principles for everyone to adhere to. All this in the light of our motto: openSUSE - Linux for open minds.
… and even more things to come!
Today the first beta release of openSUSE 10.3 with lots of new features arrives. The final release is only 2 months away! The localization project has taken over all the translations for 10.3. This weekend we will try to slash as many bugs as we can. We are working vigorously on building the distribution inside the Build Service and implementing a framework for contributions. The Software Portal is coming on, and more and more people are joining the openSUSE packagers team. There are more openSUSE images built with KIWI coming; the latest addition is an image for USB sticks. We will have weekly interviews here under the category People of openSUSE. The final draft of the guiding principles was just released and we have to form the openSUSE Board. Also in the pipe are various re-designs of our web pages. The splash on www.opensuse.org and the download/software pages will be followed by the wikis and the Build Service. And this won’t be everything that is coming in the next year, we promise!
So enjoy this day and have some cake or a drink on openSUSE.
Happy birthday Geeko !
\o/
two years old, but looking far more mature, thanks for all the great work everyone, and thank you for what I consider to be the best linux distro out there.
Happy birthday to everyone who make this excelent distro!
A BIG thank you for your great work!
English: HAPPY BIRTHDAY openSUSE and thank you for everything!
Portuguese: Parabéns openSUSE e obrigado por tudo!
Feliz Cumpleaños!!
Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday dear openSUSE.
Happy Birthday to yooooou.
…and many more.
Happy Birthday community ;^) Thanks for making such an excellent distro ;^)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY OPENSUSE!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Birthday openSuse community
so where is my 10.3 Beta-1
On a FTP server near you, but *psst* until it’s announced.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY OPENSUSE
we wait open suse 10.3
It just blows my mind how sweet SUSE makes me feel. Here is a list of reasons I won’t be leaving anytime soon:
- Yast and Sax
- CompizFusion binary packages are out!
- 1 click install!
- Easier download, don’t have to guide my family through the jungle that was the downloads page.
- Giver (a wonderful little app!)
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday openSUSE!!!
And thank you guys who make of this one, the best distro out there!
P.D. We are desperate to get 10.3!!!
FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS OPENSUSE Y QUE SEAN MUCHOS MAS
¡¡FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS OPENSUSE”. Y QUE CUMPLAS MUCHOS, MUCHOS, MUCHOS …………..MAS.
ESPERAMOS IMPACIENTE LA 10.3.
“ENHORABUENA A TODOS”.
Dear openSUSE,
First of all I would like to congratulate you with your second anniversary. Secondly I would like to thank you for being such a wonderful operating system. You have given me lots of fun and opportunities.
Yours Sincerely,
Herbert Kruitbosch
Of course, in dutch: Hartelijk Gefeliciteerd met je tweede verjaardag!
happy birthday allz \o/
i have spent a great time with suse specially 10.2 and now m waiting for the new thunder i.e.10.3…….
and of-course a very happy birthday to opensuse project[:)]
I’m just downloading 10.3 beta1, but the important things come first:
Happy birthday, openSUSE!
Happy Birthday…! OpenSUSE is the best Linux distribution.
Feliz cumple años openSUSE
Heartely Happy birth day!!! Congratulations for making user friendely distro for novice as it is very easy to understand and use. hope feature of Linux will continue shining with more attractive and user friendly distro form Opensuse. Pls make something by which user can play Mpeg,MP3,and All media file by default in distro and if possible add some 3d games for youngsters as they are user of the century.
Again congratulations and wishing all the best.
let whole world be open!!!!!!!!
I can forgive the MS deal, as long as openSUSE continues on the same way it always has (I’m only kidding). Happy Birthday SUSE. To the developers, you’ve worked so long, worked so hard, and you deserve a great thanks. To the users, continue to post bugs, add to the Wiki, and spread the word that openSUSE is the best disto out there!
Felipe
And in Chinese: 生日快乐!
С днём рождения!!!
Great Work “ART of OS”
Happy Birth Day Of OpenSuse 10.2
Thanks to All, how work hard & contributed to the community’s.
Happy Birth Day Of OpenSuse!!!
Have a nice and rich future!!!
thanks for the best distribution
Happy Birthday ! Keep up the great Work !
And get the installer up to handle LUNs > 2 TB !!
dan
Cool openSUSE - Thankyou people for this great work, and Happy Birthday!!!
I enjoy the distro. Cool! Great! Yeah! ;))))))))))
Bye,
Andreas
Happy birthday openSUSE, I really like the distro. Muchas felicidades openSUSE, deberìamos festejarlos con una piñata. Saludos desde Mèxico
Χρόνια πολλά!
να την χαιρόμαστε
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!!
happy birthday!
just can´t wait for opensuse 10.3!
Wunderbar!! Hoffentlich, und ich ünsche das, zeigt MS daß es auch anders geht!!
GRATULATION
Happy Birthday!
Mögen noch viele weitere openSuse Distris folgen!
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag an alle Beteiligten rund um openSUSE und weiter so.
feliz cumpleaños openSUSE, debemos apoyar el software libre y este gran proyecto llamado opensSUSE, estoy a la espera de la version 10.3…yuhuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy birthday! You’ve made a great system and still continue to make it even better, thats so great! THANK YOU!
Happy Birthday openSuse.
Thank You for being the best operating system out there. You have made all the time I spend worth it.
And here is to you the wonderful community that is openSUSE.
Best of luck in all future endeavours.
Await openSUSE 10.3.
Rohan Lawrence D’souza.
From Bangalore India’s Silicon Valley, a very content & satisfied openSUSE user
Happz Birthday OPENSUSE!
Alles Gute fuer die Zukunft!!! (Und hoffetnlich keine MS-DEALS MEHR)
VIELEN DANK FUER DIESE HERVORRAGENDE DISTRO
SB
-H-A-P-P-Y- -B-I-R-T-H-D-A-Y- !!!!!
… to everyone who worked on this project …
OpenSuSE changed my life & feel and i’m happy that i can help to make it better and very very happy that there ist no software from MS on my systems anymore !
I tried many “big” distros, but SuSE is the best by far, ’cause YAST, SAX, KDE+CompizFusion running perfect and the nicest community i’ve ever seen …
Ich liebe euch dafür !!!
Andy K. aka Connedy
openSUSE might only be 2 years old but it has the feel on an OS worthy of being 20 yeas in the making. Keep up the good work.
As operating system is SUSE of course several years more mature than as open project.
Happy Birthday openSuse
Thanks all great work,
Happy Birthday!
Thank you for great OS!!
happy birthday
in Arabic: عيد ميلاد سعيد
happy birthday~~~~
and in Malay Language : Selamat Hari Jadi
Great OS, Excellent Distro, good Jobs…
Happy Birthday from Guayaquil - Ecuador
can’t wait for 10.3 to come
Happy birthday to all open SuSE worker
Happy to you SuSE and be the best distro
happy happy happy new year as new way to world….
Thank You for 10.3! I enjoyed the alphas, and I think, it will be a GREAT distro, as all “.3″s
And most important: It´s green again!
Happy birthday to all openSuSE worker!!!
Happy birthday to openSuSE!!!
openSuSE was, is and will be the best distro
Be more green
In Lithuanian: Su Gimtadieniu, buk geriausiai ir toliau.
Happy Birthday, and I’ll hope that OpenSuse 10.3 comes soon. I am working with 10.2, and I have tried some Alpha versions, and the Beta1, and it looks fine. Only trouble with the update engine in 10.3, but it’s just a beta. Maybe a hint of the makers of OpenSuse and also for the KDE team. There isn’t any good working programm for OCR. Maybe there’s someone who can write such a programm.
I’m using OpenSuse now just 1 1/2 year, and I’m very happy with it. It works good, and it looks good. Also for soundrecording it works very good.Playing movies and soundfiles works also good, and there isn’t any reason to go back to Windows.
Let’s go to OpenSuse 10.3, and KDE 4.
Kudos and congratulations to all at the openSuSE project and at Novell’s Enterprise Linux systems team.
You have our continued gratitude and support!
Aiman A.
eid milad saeed عيد ميلاد سعيد
Happy Birthday openSuse!!!!
Feliz Cumpleaños (Spanish)
Animo y para adelante
La mejor distribucion de Linux en el mercado
Happy Birthday to openSUSE projet ..
Selamat Ulang Tahun…(in indonesia) ^-^
Glückwunsch zur reifen Leistung und weiter so.
Die Redmonder sollen sich schwarz ärgern.
OPENSuSE thank you for all !
You are the best Distri !
Many happy returns openSUSE!
openSUSE now lives on every computer I own and without SuSE 5.2 I doubt I would ever have “discovered” Linux at all.
Thanks very much to all the hard working developers out there who dedicate their time and effort in making openSUSE the most refined Linux distro out there!
Να ζήσεις OpenSUSE
και χρόνια πολλά
μεγάλη να γίνεις
με προγράμματα καλά
παντού να σκορπίζεις
του FLOSS το φως
και όλoi να λένε μια να ένα καλό OS
transalation from G(r)eek
Live long OpenSUSE
for many year
get older
with many Good projects
spread all over
the light of FLOSS
and may everybody say thats a good OS
happy birthday openSuse. keep up the great work everyone
Happy birthday openSuSE.
Suse changed my life….and i try to change suse in order to give more and more performance for end users.
Thanks again suse for everything…
Moitas grazas dende Galiza, OpenSUSE. Longa vida a todos os que traballan no software libre.
Felicidades OpenSUSE, realmente la mejor distribución de Linux que he tenido, espero sigan adelante y por mucho tiempo mas.
Felicidades Geeko! \|_|
Happy Birthday! \|_|
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! YOU ARE THE BEST!!!
We are very happy!! suse linux is the best.
Feliz cumple suse !!! we hope to have suse for hundreds of years!!
Two years? Wow time goes by fast!
I’m use OpenSUSE almost a year ago, I find it in a magazine with 2 DVDs and a complete guide to install. I’m already other Linux distribution but i had red comments about the ease of use and great software packages… I love it! many thing that I made manually now are get automated.
Thanks OpenSUSE team for an oustanding Linux distribution. I hope be able to give back to you a little part of that you have give me: a complete free software Linux distribution, in 2 two weeks finally I gonna have Internet at my home to join you to develop free software.
Happy birthday and many more.
祝suse生日快乐，越做越好～～！！