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People of openSUSE: Rajko Matovic

News Team 28. Dec 2007

Before 2007 ends you can read Rajko Matovic interview. Rajko is an openSUSE community member contributing largely on the Wiki side being a member of the Wiki team, and havi...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday!

admin 22. Dec 2007

We’d like to take this opportunity to wish all openSUSE users and contributors a very merry Christmas and an enjoyable holiday! Thank you all for the great work you’ve done...

People of openSUSE: Marcus Meissner

News Team 21. Dec 2007

As a Christmas gift we present you Marcus Meissner - the teamlead of the SUSE Security Team, Wine and gPhoto coder and also packager. Keep reading! The ‘People of openSUSE...

openSUSE Build Service Version 0.5 (Poinsettia) Available

News Team 21. Dec 2007

The openSUSE project releases the version 0.5 of the openSUSE Build Service. This code drop does provide the functionality as provided on build.opensuse.org the first time...

Another Step in Connecting the Worlds of Users And Developers

News Team 18. Dec 2007

As you know for sure ;), the openSUSE Build Service (OBS) shall connect the complete different worlds of End-Users and developers/packager. This does of course already work...

People of openSUSE: James Ogley

News Team 14. Dec 2007

The Planet SUSE sysadmin, James Ogley, was interviewed by us. Apart from managing the biggest openSUSE blog aggregator, he is also part of the openSUSE GNOME team packaging...

Software for Millions

admin 13. Dec 2007

Klaas wrote an article about the openSUSE Build Service that got published in the german edition of Linux Magazin. Everyone able to read german go here. It covers general ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 3

News Team 12. Dec 2007

The third issue of openSUSE Weekly News is out! You can read it in: English, German. In this issue: openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 0 KDE Four Live 0.8, KDE 4.0 RC...

Results From openSUSE Contributor Survey

News Team 12. Dec 2007

281 contributors from the openSUSE community participated in a survey last month. The survey was part of a research project on the topic of firm-sponsored open source com...

People of openSUSE: JP Rosevear

News Team 7. Dec 2007

Here goes another ‘People of openSUSE’ interview, this time with a Canadian Novell employee and GNOME hacker - JP Rosevear. Besides his GNOME code contribution, he is the d...

Novell Open Audio: Fixing Security Problems in Linux

News Team 7. Dec 2007

For the last issue of their openSUSE release series, Novell Open Audio has talked to Marcus Meißner, team lead of the SUSE security team, to learn about the processes tri...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Alpha0

News Team 6. Dec 2007

We’d like to kick start the development of openSUSE 11.0 by releasing the current state of Factory as an Alpha0 release. Since the release of 10.3, we checked in 2187 packa...

Indonesian openSUSE Community Annual Meeting

News Team 6. Dec 2007

Masim informs us that the Indonesian openSUSE Community’s (OpenSUSE-ID) Annual Meeting will be held in Jakarta on 8th December 2007. This is their monthly meeting that beco...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 2

News Team 5. Dec 2007

The second issue of openSUSE Weekly News is out! You can read it in: English, German. In this issue: ATI RadeonHD Driver: First Release! YaST Gets Port...

People of openSUSE: Keith Kastorff

News Team 30. Nov 2007

The ‘People of openSUSE’ publishes this week one more interesting interview, one of the most active openSUSE community members - Keith Kastorff - the man who has his own Be...

ATI RadeonHD Driver: First Release!

News Team 30. Nov 2007

The X Window System developer team at SUSE has released version 1.0.0 of the ATI Radeon R5xx and R6xx chipset driver it has been developing over the past few months for Nov...

Novell Open Audio: AutoBuild/Build Service

News Team 29. Nov 2007

As part of their openSUSE release series, Novell Open Audio has talked to Michael Schröder and Andreas Bauer about the openSUSE Build Service, our powerful cross-distribu...

Annual Desktop Linux Survey by The Linux Foundation - 3 Days Left for Participation

admin 28. Nov 2007

The survey is designed to pinpoint areas of user need in order to focus development efforts and accelerate the global adoption of Linux desktops and clients. It will be con...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 1

News Team 28. Nov 2007

We are very glad to be able to announce the first ever issue of the openSUSE Weekly News newsletter. The aim of the newsletter is to summarise all the finer details occur...

openSUSE Education: First Milestones Reached!

News Team 26. Nov 2007

The openSUSE-Education project has been setup to support schools and universities using openSUSE. The project will create additional software packages, additional install...

People of openSUSE: Klaas Freitag

News Team 24. Nov 2007

The ‘People of openSUSE’ team had the pleasure to interview Klaas Freitag - a Novell employee working as an architect in the department responsible for the Build Service, a...

New openSUSE Packages: KDE 4.0 RC1, KOffice 2 Alpha5, Firefox 3.0 Beta

News Team 24. Nov 2007

The release of KDE 4.0 RC1, KOffice 2 Alpha 5, and Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 were all announced in the last week. As always, openSUSE packages are available in the openSUSE Build ...

openSUSE KDE/GNOME Packaging Day: 30th November / 1st December

News Team 21. Nov 2007

The GNOME and KDE teams have teamed up to provide two packaging days, from November 30th until December 1st (from any timezone to any timezone). It will take place on IRC...

Status Mail Highlights

News Team 21. Nov 2007

The highlights of this week’s status mails, for your convenience as a news article! We are working on a new LiveCD with updated packages (beta version here). ...

YaST Survey Finished

Andreas Jaeger 17. Nov 2007

The YaST survey has now been closed. More than 11,000 individuals participated in it. Thanks to everybody! A PDF of the results is now available.

People of openSUSE: Federico Mena-Quintero

News Team 16. Nov 2007

Federico Mena-Quintero, the last member of the first openSUSE Board being interviewed on the ‘People of openSUSE’, is a full time GNOME ‘bug-fixing’ hacker, and one of the ...

Open Source Event in Chile, Valparaíso

News Team 16. Nov 2007

openSUSE developer and Novell employee Cristian Rodríguez will perform 3 talks during an event entitled “Opensource : mas cerca del código” that will take place on Valparaí...

Novell Open Audio: Creating Custom Distributions Based on openSUSE 10.3 and Telephony with Asterisk

News Team 11. Nov 2007

As part of their openSUSE release series, Novell Open Audio has talked to Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel and Stephan Kulow about KIWI, openSUSE’s operating system imaging sol...

People of openSUSE: Jigish Gohil

News Team 9. Nov 2007

We caught up with Jigish Gohil - a Compiz Fusion developer, openSUSE packager, and also a true openSUSE evangelist, for one more ‘People of openSUSE’ interview. ...

Announcing the First openSUSE Board

admin 8. Nov 2007

The openSUSE board has been setup to lead the overall project. The board will: act as a central point of contact, help resolve conflicts, communicate community interests to...

openSUSE Guiding Principles Take Effect

admin 8. Nov 2007

It’s official: the openSUSE project Guiding Principles are now in force. The Guiding Principles are a framework for the project and give everyone a clear view of who we are...

IP Exchange Sponsors openSUSE Project

admin 7. Nov 2007

IP Exchange, a major german Internet Service Provider, is sponsoring the openSUSE project with internet connectivity. They provide a mirror server in their location with...

Novell Open Audio: YaST Improvements and 1-Click-Install

News Team 5. Nov 2007

As part of their openSUSE series over the next coming weeks, Novell Open Audio is taking a look at the YaST Improvements and 1-Click-Install in openSUSE 10.3. It features...

Free openSUSE 10.3 Boxes Shipped

Andreas Jaeger 5. Nov 2007

The openSUSE release is not only available for free download but also as separate boxed product to buy from retail shops and internet shops. The box product contains two ...

openSUSE 10.3 Live Version Available

admin 2. Nov 2007

The live version of openSUSE 10.3 is now available as a GNOME or KDE CD. Both contain the same software as the 1 CD installation versions would provide you with, but as a l...

YaST Tools for Creating Installation Media and Appliances

Andreas Jaeger 1. Nov 2007

The casual reader of news.opensuse.org knows that openSUSE 10.3 contains a YaST tool for creating images using KIWI. However, it is not that known fact that openSUSE 10.3 ...

People of openSUSE: Stephan Binner

News Team 26. Oct 2007

On this ‘People of openSUSE’ week we interviewed the greatest openSUSE and KDE addict yet. He is also one of the administrators who takes care of both English and German op...

Participate in openSUSE Contributor Survey!

News Team 26. Oct 2007

A masters student from the University of Oslo (yours truly) is currently doing a research project on firm-sponsored open-source communities. openSUSE is the main case of st...

Quickies: Installation Videos, KDE 4.0 Beta 3+ Live-CD, Build Service Notification RFC

News Team 25. Oct 2007

A small team has created videos of the openSUSE 10.3 installation with commentary and plans to create further ones. — A Live-CD based on openSUSE 10.3 with the KDE 4.0 Beta...

YaST IRC Channel and Workshop Results

Andreas Jaeger 22. Oct 2007

The YaST team had last week a workshop and the participants are now updating the openSUSE wiki with their slides and comments. Lukas announced that the YaST team is openin...

Compiz Fusion 0.6.0 Out With openSUSE Packages

News Team 22. Oct 2007

The Compiz Fusion team announced the release of 0.6.0, the first stable release after six months of hard work from the community. The new version contains many fixes, new...

KDE 4 Hack Week, KDE IRC-Meeting, KDE 3.5.8

News Team 16. Oct 2007

As part of the KDE 4 hack week, which the KDE desktop team and KDE people working for SUSE are doing this week, we will do an informal and spontaneous openSUSE KDE IRC meet...

Updated Build Service Roadmap Published

News Team 16. Oct 2007

An updated Roadmap for the openSUSE Build Service has been published. It outlines the development targets until the fourth quarter of 2008. Please understand the dates as t...

openSUSE 10.3 in Review: A Solid Linux Desktop

News Team 13. Oct 2007

As the first reviews start to roll in, TuxMachines have just released one of the first comprehensive reviews of openSUSE 10.3, concluding that it is a mature, stable, free ...

People of openSUSE: Martin Lasarsch

News Team 12. Oct 2007

Martin Lasarsch, the well-known openSUSE evangelist, gave us the great opportunity to let us know a little bit more about himself. You can’t miss this ‘People of openSUSE’ ...

More openSUSE 10.3 Numbers

News Team 11. Oct 2007

Last week we released openSUSE 10.3, and we want to keep you updated on its very successful launch. I finally got some more numbers: During the first 30 hours we changed t...

People of openSUSE: Christian Boltz

News Team 8. Oct 2007

This week we interviewed Christian Boltz, one of the most active openSUSE development testers and bug reporters. ![christian_boltz.jpg](//news.opensuse.o...

openSUSE 10.3 on PS3 and Other PowerPC Hardware

Andreas Jaeger 6. Oct 2007

The spicy power team concentrated for openSUSE 10.3 on supporting the Sony Playstation PS3, the major changes are: openSUSE 10.3 is fully installable with YaST on ...

Release Day - All Hell Breaks Loose

News Team 5. Oct 2007

Yesterday we released openSUSE 10.3, and we are pretty impressed what happened. Some rough numbers: Our download for the iso images peaked at 14Gbit/s, the average was 12...

Novell Open Audio: openSUSE 10.3

News Team 5. Oct 2007

As part of a Novell Open Audio series on openSUSE, they will be interviewing various openSUSE developers to find out more about the project, particular involvements and new...

Announcing openSUSE 10.3 GM

News Team 4. Oct 2007

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, the openSUSE project provides free, easy access to the world’s m...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: A Plethora of Improvements

News Team 2. Oct 2007

With this last article the Sneak Peeks series comes to an end for this release. But don’t worry: it’s tightly packed with an extra share of information on the latest openSU...

YaST Survey Started

Andreas Jaeger 1. Oct 2007

We have just published a survey on YaST, our systems management and installation framework. If you use any of the distributions openSUSE, SUSE Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise...

Quickies: Goldmaster, oS 10.3 RC 1 Report, Bug Reporter Statistics, Reinforced Linux Drivers Project

News Team 29. Sep 2007

openSUSE 10.3 has been declared Gold and will now be uploaded to the mirrors and available for download on October 4th - the boxed version can be pre-ordered for delivery s...

openSUSE is Looking for a Chief Linux Evangelist

admin 28. Sep 2007

To strengthen the openSUSE project we’re looking for an enthusiastic Chief Evangelist to: promote and spread the adoption of openSUSE be a public face fo...

People of openSUSE: Carlos Gonçalves

News Team 28. Sep 2007

Here is another ‘People of openSUSE’ interview, this time with Carlos Gonçalves, a very active member of our Portuguese community and founder of ENOS. By the way Carlos jo...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: Virtualisation

News Team 27. Sep 2007

Some changes in openSUSE 10.3 have ensured that if you are interested in just about any type of popular virtualisation, then openSUSE is the operating system to be on. From...

Quickies: openSUSE 10.3 RC 2 Live-CDs, SUSE Linux 10.0 Soon Discontinued, And More

News Team 26. Sep 2007

Stephan Kulow has announced openSUSE 10.3 Live CDs based on Release Candidate 2 which also got synced out - its live installer should still be considered Alpha. The securit...

New Design for openSUSE.org

News Team 26. Sep 2007

We launched the new shiny design for the wiki on Monday. It was a little rough but we sorted out most of the bugs, even the newsfeed is working again :-). Now we have a mor...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: 1-CD Installation & Multimedia support

News Team 25. Sep 2007

openSUSE 10.3 has seen a lot of changes with the media selection; the most prominent one being the new 1-CD installation for KDE, and 1-CD installation for GNOME. Multimedi...

First GNOME Team Meeting

News Team 24. Sep 2007

The GNOME team will hold its first public meeting this Thursday at noon EDT/18:00 CST/1600 GMT. In general we will follow the meeting guidelines outlined for the openSUSE ...

People of openSUSE: Seth Arnold

News Team 21. Sep 2007

Today you can read which answers to the ‘People of openSUSE’ questions the AppArmor developer Seth Arnold provides. ![seth_arnold.jpg](//news.opensuse.or...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: SUSE-Polished GNOME 2.20

News Team 20. Sep 2007

openSUSE has been driving innovation on the Linux desktop, and in today’s serial we’ll be discovering just what has been happening on the GNOME front. Among other things, o...

Call for Testing of openSUSE 10.3 Update Stack

Andreas Jaeger 20. Sep 2007

If you want to help testing our standard test cases, please coordinate with others and subscribe to opensuse-testing@opensuse.org (subscribe)! I’d like to do a special cal...

Announcing openSUSE 10.3 RC1

News Team 20. Sep 2007

After quite a few rebuilds and testing, the openSUSE team is happy to announce that RC1 looks brilliant and is now available for download. We consider this release to be fe...

Open Source Driver for ATI Radeon R5xx/R6xx

Andreas Jaeger 18. Sep 2007

AMD has recently released register specifications for the ATI Radeon R5xx and R6xx graphic devices. Engineers from Novell have now released a first alpha quality Open ...

JPackage in openSUSE - Get Involved!

Andreas Jaeger 17. Sep 2007

The JPackage project aims to provide rpm packages with lots of Java programs and libraries. The main focus is on free and open source software. Currently there are about 45...

KIWI-LTSP for openSUSE 10.3

Andreas Jaeger 17. Sep 2007

KIWI-LTSP team is very happy to announce the new project on Novell Forge. The project aims to  combine the Linux Terminal Server and openSUSE KIWI imaging technologies. LT...

JackLab Project Announces its First Public Release

News Team 17. Sep 2007

The technical manager of the JackLab project, Oliver Bengs, released the final 1.0 version of the JackLab Audio Distribution (JAD) today after a development period of over...

Quickies: openSUSE 10.3 Beta3+ Live-CDs, 10.3 Beta 3 Report, oSC Changes, KDE 4.0 Beta 2

News Team 16. Sep 2007

Stephan Kulow has announced Live-CD builds (GNOME, KDE ISOs) based on the openSUSE 10.3 Beta3plus packages. tuxmachines.org published their report on and screenshots of ope...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: KDE 4

News Team 14. Sep 2007

openSUSE 10.3 will see the first small parts of KDE 4 creeping into the distribution. KDE 3 will still be the default KDE session for openSUSE 10.3, but KDE 4 will be makin...

People of openSUSE: Edith Parzefall

News Team 12. Sep 2007

Here are Edith Parzefall’s answers to the ‘People of openSUSE’ questions. Have a lot of fun… ![edith_parzefall.jpg](//news.opensuse.org/wp-content/uploa...

Quickies: Weekly Status Reports, Build Service Architect, Shuttle Preload, Silverlight for Linux

News Team 7. Sep 2007

Weekly status reports from the different areas of the openSUSE project are now posted to the mailing lists and get linked on the IRC meeting wiki pages (current) - the bi-w...

openSUSE 10.3 Beta 3 Has Been Released

News Team 6. Sep 2007

The openSUSE Team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3 Beta 3. Though this release should not be used on any production machines, everyone can help shape this ...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: Compiz and Compiz Fusion

News Team 4. Sep 2007

Compiz and Xgl are two classic examples of where SUSE engineers have revolutionised the Linux desktop. openSUSE 10.3 will contain the latest Compiz 0.5.4 installed by defau...

People of openSUSE: Benjamin Weber

News Team 3. Sep 2007

Today you can read which answers to the ‘People of openSUSE’ questions Benji Weber provides. Moreover it is possible now to make suggestions for future interview partners ...

National openSUSE Portuguese Meeting (ENOS) is Over

News Team 3. Sep 2007

The acronym ENOS stands for ‘Encontro Nacional de openSUSE’, a Portuguese expression which can be translated as ‘National openSUSE Meeting’, an event meant to unite the Po...

Utah Open Source Conference

News Team 30. Aug 2007

Stephen Shaw from Novell sent us some information about the upcoming Utah Open Source Conference! Thanks Stephen Utah Open Source Conference 2007 The Convergence… Septe...

YaST Independence From YCP

Andreas Jaeger 29. Aug 2007

The openSUSE 10.3 Beta 2 release brought down another major obstacle in developing YaST: the famous YCP language is not strictly needed for the YaST development anymore. A ...

People of openSUSE: Andreas Jaeger

News Team 28. Aug 2007

Today we present the interview with Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform/openSUSE and also the very first person who came up with the idea to launch the project ‘People of ope...

Quickies: Beta 2 Report, i18n Stats, AppArmor Features, openSUSE-Education, Brazilian IRC Merger

News Team 27. Aug 2007

tuxmachines.org provides again a report about the latest openSUSE Beta releases - more screenshot galleries are linked on the “In the Press” wiki page. Rune has announced a...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: New Package Management

News Team 26. Aug 2007

openSUSE 10.3 is set to contain a new, significantly improved and more mature package management stack by default. ZMD, the package management component causing problems in...

2007 Desktop Linux Survey Results Revealed

admin 24. Aug 2007

Some interesting data on the dektop usage of Linux. What’s striking is that popularity of openSUSE almost doubled form roughly 10% in 2006 to close to 20% in 2007 survey.

openSUSE 10.3 Beta 2 Has Been Released

News Team 23. Aug 2007

The openSUSE Team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3 Beta 2. Though this release should not be used on any production machines, everyone can help shape this ...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: 1-Click Install

News Team 21. Aug 2007

Today we are taking a look at the new One-Click Install technology which aims to simplify package management for users. We will see how this is integrated into the openSUSE...

People of openSUSE: Martin Schlander

News Team 16. Aug 2007

Here is the interview with Martin Schlander, also known as ‘cb400f’, from Denmark. Have fun reading it! ![martin_schlander.jpg](//news.opensuse.org/wp-...

OpenOffice.org Build Service Repositories Restructured

News Team 15. Aug 2007

Petr Mladek has announced three openSUSE Build Service projects for SUSE Linux 10.1 to openSUSE 10.3 and SLED 10 which obsolete the older OpenOffice.org project: OpenOffice...

Testing the Current Upstream Linux Kernel

Andreas Jaeger 15. Aug 2007

Andrew Morton has spoken at different occasions about testing of the Linux kernel and asked users to test the current development version and report their findings.  For ou...

Quickies: LWE Announcements, Coolo Interviewed, Israeli openSUSE Portal, Art SVN, SCO

News Team 13. Aug 2007

Again time to sum up news that didn’t make it to an own story here: At LinuxWorld San Francisco it was announced that SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, which is based on the o...

Bug Slashing/Hunting Weekend is Over

News Team 13. Aug 2007

The Bug Slashing Weekend has come to an end, and we are happy to report that it was a huge success! Countless old bugs were slashed, updated, and looked over, though for th...

openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1 Live CDs

News Team 12. Aug 2007

Stephan Kulow has created and uploaded Live CDs of the 1-CD installations for your pleasure: GNOME Live ISO, KDE Live ISO. He writes: “Please put ‘live CD’ into the summary...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: Greatly Improved Boot Time

News Team 12. Aug 2007

openSUSE 10.3 is going to be filled with new improvements and exciting technologies. To allow you to discover exactly what the developers have been working hard on behind t...

openSUSE Bug Slashing This Weekend!

News Team 10. Aug 2007

So openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1 has now been released and it’s looking great. A long-discussed topic on the opensuse-project@opensuse.org (subscribe) mailing list was the suggesti...

LWE 2007 is Over...

News Team 10. Aug 2007

First I have to praise 10.3 Alpha 7. We had it running on our demo laptops all day, and beside the Konqueror/flash bug and the bug of the all black splash screen when start...

Announcing openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1

News Team 9. Aug 2007

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the first Beta release of openSUSE 10.3. There are many exciting enhancements and features in the new release. Among these are a whol...

People of openSUSE: Stephan Kulow

News Team 9. Aug 2007

Today you can also read the ‘People of openSUSE’ interview with Stephan Kulow, the release manager of the openSUSE distribution. Read on to see which answers he provides. ...

People of openSUSE: Pascal Bleser

News Team 9. Aug 2007

Today ‘People of openSUSE’ starts. This project aims to make the people behind the openSUSE project and the distribution more visible. Therefore there will be several inter...

The openSUSE Project Turns Two

Henne Vogelsang 9. Aug 2007

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 th...

openSUSE Build Service Gains Momentum with AMD Sponsorship

News Team 7. Aug 2007

As announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, AMD has been unveiled as a Platinum Sponsor of openSUSE providing it with powerful infrastructure upon which the openS...

New Software Interface with 1-Click Installation Online

News Team 7. Aug 2007

Software.opensuse.org got a completely new face which improves the downloading of the desired openSUSE distribution a lot. It comes with the new look and feel following ww...

Final Draft of openSUSE Guiding Principles

News Team 6. Aug 2007

Cornelius has posted the final draft of the openSUSE Guiding Principles to the opensuse-project mailing list. The openSUSE Guiding Principles are addressing the openSUSE c...

Quickies: openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 7 Report, Finnish Wiki, Swedish Forum

News Team 4. Aug 2007

Susan from tuxmachines.org has been one of the most constant testers of openSUSE releases for quite some time and for openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 7 she wrote again a detailed repor...

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 7 Has Been Released

News Team 2. Aug 2007

The openSUSE Team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 7. Though this release should not be used on any production machines, everyone can help shape this...

KDE 4.0 Beta 1 and KOffice 2.0 Alpha 2 Packages

News Team 2. Aug 2007

KDE 4.0 Beta 1 has been released which marks the beginning of the integration process which will bring the powerful new technologies included in the now frozen KDE 4 libra...

Benji's "One-Click-Install" Gets Supported by openSUSE Build Service

News Team 1. Aug 2007

The openSUSE Build Service generates .ymp files from now on, which can be used with Benjamin Weber’s One Click Install YaST Module. This module takes care that all require...

Linux Kernel Development List for openSUSE

Andreas Jaeger 31. Jul 2007

We have a new mailing list: opensuse-kernel (subscribe via lists.opensuse.org). This list is dedicated to the discussion of the openSUSE kernel development (Factory et al)...

openSUSE at LWE San Francisco

News Team 31. Jul 2007

Just a short/last reminder … We, Seth Arnold and /me, will be at LWE in San Francisco next week (06-09.08). You can find us at the .org pavilion, booth 20. If you are inter...

Novell Open Audio: Hack Week in Review and Preview of KDE 4.0

News Team 28. Jul 2007

Novell Open Audio in its current episode features a retrospection of Hack Week including development site visit reports, awarded and other selected projects including this ...

Call for openSUSE Translations

Andreas Jaeger 27. Jul 2007

There have been several requests from community members on the mailing lists to join language teams for the languages Brazilian Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Japanes...

Quickies: Alpha 7 Planned, Linux Foundation CTO, Homepage Relaunch

News Team 26. Jul 2007

As quickies we combine news not worthy of an own story: Next week, a public openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 7 will be released which previously was planned as internal Alpha 6+. SUSE v...

SUSE-Art.org: Eye Candy for openSUSE

News Team 21. Jul 2007

SUSE-Art.org, part of the openDesktop.org network which evolved around the original KDE-Look.org site, went online recently after the Hack Week during which Frank Karlitsch...

Ars Technica: Novell Hack Week - An Experiment in Innovation

News Team 20. Jul 2007

Ars Technica features a four-page story about the recent Hack Week in the Novell Open Platform Solutions business unit (where most of Novell’s openSUSE contributors are emp...

Announcing openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6

News Team 19. Jul 2007

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6 has been released to the public today. Read more about it .

Komunitas OpenSUSE Indonesia

News Team 19. Jul 2007

Vavai wrote me today about some great new web site about openSUSE The openSUSE Community in Indonesia has released their blog. This blog will contain everything about Open...

News.openSUSE.org Goes Live

Andreas Jaeger 19. Jul 2007

We are happy to announce our new news.opensuse.org website. This news portal will provide the latest openSUSE news. We will continue to send important announcements to the...

Nice Trick to Use api.opensuse.org Native With KDE Apps

News Team 18. Jul 2007

People who are using curl and some editor to download files from api.opensuse.org, edit them and upload them again via curl should have a look on the simple kwrite applicat...

New Project Manager for the Distribution

Andreas Jaeger 18. Jul 2007

I’m glad to announce that I have given over my responsibilities for the openSUSE distribution to Stephan Kulow coolo@suse.de. As from now on Stephan is project manager for ...

Release Management Support for openSUSE Build Service

News Team 18. Jul 2007

The openSUSE Build Service allows from now on more control about what to do with built packages. You can for example switch of the publishing of packages to the ftp server ...

Announcing ENOS 2007

News Team 12. Jul 2007

The acronym ENOS stands for ‘Encontro Nacional de openSUSE’, a Portuguese expression which can be translated to ‘National openSUSE Meeting’, an event meant to unite the Por...

Hack Week Award Winners

News Team 9. Jul 2007

The winners of Novell’s Hack Week have been announced. The main purpose of Hack Week was for everone to follow his passion, and the awards are really just a “bonus.” Noneth...

KDE 4.0 Alpha 2 Released

News Team 4. Jul 2007

KDE 4.0 Alpha 2 has been released during Akademy 2007 where also was announced that Novell has become a “Patron of KDE”. Unofficial packages for openSUSE 10.2 are available...

Announcing Hack Week

News Team 24. Jun 2007

At Novell we’ve been planning a special internal event that will run this week, from June 25th to 29th. We’re calling it Hack Week. During Hack Week, our entire Linux engi...

Results of Survey on Use of Proprietary Software

News Team 20. Jun 2007

The results of the survey we did on proprietary software has been published: It shows that we ship on the media some software which is hardly used (e.g. PlanMaker, SEPsesam...

SUSE Linux 9.3 Security Support Discontinued

News Team 18. Jun 2007

With todays release of the CUPS bugfix/security fix update we have released the last security update or SUSE Linux 9.3. It is now officially discontinued and out of support...

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 5

News Team 14. Jun 2007

The fifth Alpha release of openSUSE 10.3 has been released. First time two one installation media are offered: a GNOME CD and a KDE CD. Some annoying bugs were already disc...

Survey on Use of Proprietary Software

News Team 5. Jun 2007

We like to know a bit more about the usage of proprietary software we ship on some versions of our openSUSE distribution. Therefore we created a 16 question survey and ask...

New Mailing List opensuse-softwaremgmt

News Team 22. May 2007

We have a new mailing list opensuse-softwaremgmt. It’s meant to bring the people involved in different projects having to do with package management together. Related chec...

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 4

News Team 16. May 2007

The fourth Alpha release of openSUSE 10.3 has been released. Some annoying bugs were already discovered. With its latest updates, the company warns it may phone tracker c...

openSUSE 10.3 Roadmap Published

News Team 9. May 2007

Andreas Jaeger announced the final roadmap for openSUSE 10.3. openSUSE 10.3 is the next release that incorporates new features from both the community and Novell internal d...

openSUSE Survey Results Now Online

News Team 4. May 2007

The openSUSE survey results are now online. The survey was live for almost 3 months and more than 27,000 user participated and gave us feeback how they use openSUSE what’s ...

New Mailing List opensuse-artwork

News Team 25. Apr 2007

We have a new mailing list opensuse-artwork. It’s meant for discussing issues related to the distribution styling and branding. Please read the general style guidelines bef...

Ancient openSUSE News Items

News Team 24. Apr 2007

News items which are older than this site are archived on this wiki page.

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