Hot on the heels of the news that the Google Chromebook runs openSUSE (even made slashdot) and following the closing of the openSUSE Conference in Prague, Dirk Müller let the ARM team know that RC2 is about ready to go and this will be the final before the release of openSUSE for ARM! Read on to find out some details of this exciting release.
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openSUSE ARM RC2 needs testing!
October 29th, 2012 by Jos PoortvlietLearn More About Free Software Next Week in Prague
October 11th, 2012 by Helen South
The openSUSE Conference 2012 takes place next week from October 20th to 23rd in Prague, Czech Republic.
When you first step into the world of Free Software, it isn’t always easy: to paraphrase Richard Stallman, we are used to “trading freedom for convenience”. Understanding why you are using Free/Libre/OpenSource Software and seeing it at work can be inspiring – you might well find yourself on the path to be a Free/Libre Open Source Software contributor or advocate. Seeing how the principles of FLOSS are applied to things other than software can be equally inspiring and like Free Software, it is a revolution you can contribute to! You’ll find this and more inspiration in the Future Media track at this year’s conference.
This track aimed specifically at bringing a wider scope to the conference and with talks by people like Georg Greve, founder of the Free Software Foundation Europe, Lydia Pintscher from the WikiMedia Foundation and Bas van Abel from the FabLab movement, the sessions will you a proper knowledge base on the why and what of the ‘open’ movement.
We spoke with a number of the speakers to give you an idea what they will talk about. (more…)
First openSUSE Conference Sneak Peek
October 8th, 2012 by Helen South
Less than two weeks from now the openSUSE Conference will start. The location itself is almost enough reason to attend: the openSUSE Conference 2012 is in the beautiful, historic city of Prague. For those jaded by gothic beauty, the conference program will provide all the motivation you need!
If you’re new to the world of Linux and software conferences, you might think that you’ll be out of your depth, especially when you recognize some of the leading lights in Free Software development and culture among the speakers. But there’s plenty at the openSUSE conference for the Linux newbie – in fact, it’s the perfect way to dive into the world of open source. Held in context with the local Linux Days and incorporating also SUSE Labs and a Gentoo miniconference, this openSUSE conference has something for everyone.
Read on to get a taste of the contents of the conference, with video and text interviews! (more…)
openSUSE Factory Moving: Milestone 0 Ready for Feedback!
October 3rd, 2012 by Jos Poortvliet
Good news! openSUSE Milestone 0 of openSUSE 12.3 is out! While we’re still discussing the schedule and won’t be deciding anything before the openSUSE Conference in Prague later this month, development is picking up steam. (more…)
Announcing openSUSE on ARM Release Candidate 1
October 1st, 2012 by Jos Poortvliet
After 11 months of grueling work, openSUSE is pleased to announce the first Release Candidate for openSUSE 12.2 on the ARM architecture. After discussing ARM first at the openSUSE Conference in 2011, the openSUSE ARM team has managed to bring up openSUSE from nowhere to being a truly usable and functional distribution on the ARM version 7 architecture in time for the new openSUSE Conference in Prague next month! (more…)
openSUSE KDE Team Meeting
September 24th, 2012 by Will Stephenson| September 26, 2012 | ||
| 19:30 | to | 21:00 |
“Le Grand Reboot”
Wednesday 6th, 1730 UTC, in your timezone
Further items are appreciated; please add them and your IRC nick to http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_Meetings The meeting will happen in #opensuse-kde IRC channel on irc.freenode.net (feel free to add yourself to the list of people who should be notified before the meeting, at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_meetings_ping_list). Everyone is welcome to join in and participate!
Agenda so far:
1) Team organization.
- Election of an Overal Team Coordinator
- Election of a responsible person per repository
2) KDE repositories
- What do want to achieve and how
- development workflow for new openSUSE releases
- Targetted KDE version for openSUSE 12.3
- Improvement points for KDE in openSUSE 12.3
3) Status, Q&A etc
openSUSE 12.2: Green Means Go!
September 5th, 2012 by Jos Poortvliet
Dear users, developers, and Geekos around the world – openSUSE 12.2 is ready for you! Two months of extra stabilization work have resulted into a stellar release, chock-full of goodies, yet stable as you all like it.
(In other languages: cs de es fr it nl pt ru tr zh zh-tw)
The latest release of the world’s most powerful and flexible Linux Distribution brings you speed-ups across the board with a faster storage layer in Linux 3.4 and accelerated functions in glibc and Qt, giving a more fluid and responsive desktop. The infrastructure below openSUSE has evolved, bringing in mature new technologies like GRUB2 and Plymouth and the first steps in the direction of a revised and simplified UNIX file system hierarchy. Users will also notice the added polish to existing features bringing an improved user experience all over. The novel Btrfs file system comes with improved error handling and recovery tools, GNOME 3.4, developing rapidly, brings smooth scrolling to all applications and features a reworked System Settings and Contacts manager while XFCE has an enhanced application finder. (more…)
Sneak Peek: GNOME in openSUSE 12.2
September 4th, 2012 by Will Stephenson
Sneak Peek: openSUSE 12.2 and KDE
September 4th, 2012 by Jos PoortvlietopenSUSE comes with the 4.8 series of the KDE workspaces, applications and platform. This release, as you can read in the announcements is mostly focused on improving the user experience.
Starting up
Booting up openSUSE, you notice the nice new splash screen as well as the short boot times, courtesy of Plymouth and an improved systemd. But you’ll notice speed everywhere: this openSUSE release ships with Linux 3.4.6, a kernel release with a nice number of improvements to the storage layer. Moreover, openSUSE is build with GCC 4.7 and glibc 2.15, bringing speedups all over the system. You’ll notice this especially in the performance of low-level tools like the command line and GUI versions of zypper, our package manager. Especially relevant for the desktop is the inclusion of Qt 4.8.1 which makes your applications noticeably more responsive. The version of KWin part of KDE 4.8 comes with its own share of optimizations, with much more efficient painting. In short, boot up in openSUSE 12.2 and feel the speed! (more…)
openSUSE 12.2 Release Publicity: Call for contributions
August 27th, 2012 by Will Stephenson
As we enter the final straight towards the release of openSUSE 12.2, the openSUSE Team is busy preparing the release publicity. And this is where you, the openSUSE community come in. There are lots of ways you can help us share the workload. If you want to take on one of these jobs, mail the opensuse-project list to announce your contribution.
Screenshots
Look at the feature list, and if there is a feature there that you are familiar with and that looks good, snapshot it (according to the guidelines) and add them to the feature list or upload it to the openSUSE wiki page for general 12.2 screenshots.
Release Parties
This is probably the easiest way to contribute. Throw a release party with your friendly penguins and show them what’s cool about openSUSE 12.2
Social Media
We need a plan for announcing the 12.2 release on social media. If you’re a social animal, volunteer to lead this for 12.2 on the Project list.
Sneak Peeks
People with detailed knowledge of specific areas of openSUSE are encouraged to help us write in-depth Sneak Peek articles. The following topics are suggested:
- KDE
- GNOME
- XFCE
- Creative applications
- Developer applications
- Merging /usr/bin and /bin
- Your idea!
Release Article Translations
Translate any of the above articles, the feature list (if you’re feeling tough), the product highlights into your language and promote them to your local blogs and news sites.
Bug Days
Organising a bug review and triage day for a specific area of openSUSE is one of the most effective ways to build a good team, increase their skills and familiarity with the technical side of our distribution. Everyone can spot a bug, right? Look at ten bugs and everyone can perceive a pattern close the duplicates, and or spot the simi
Upgrade Instructions
The Support Database article on upgrading between openSUSE versions was last updated for openSUSE 11.4! This would be easy to update, but keep in mind that for 12.2 the online update repositories have been split between Free and proprietary software, so both need to be added.
