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Numbers ... Again :-)

News Team 24. Dec 2008

Again here are the download numbers, from download.opensuse.org. If you don’t know, in the first 30 hours after the release we are redirecting the traffic to akamai instead...

openSUSE-Education 1.0 for SLE10 and 11.1

News Team 22. Dec 2008

The first version of the openSUSE-Education Add-on is drawing to a close. By releasing the final version for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 and the first Release Candidate for 11...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 51

News Team 20. Dec 2008

Issue #51 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE 11.1 out Lee Matheson: NEWBIES - Suse-11.1 Pre-installation Joe B...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.1: KDE in openSUSE 11.1

News Team 18. Dec 2008

openSUSE 11.1 continues a long history of shipping a well-polished KDE. This release includes not just one, but two choices of KDE. You can choose from the leading edge of ...

openSUSE 11.1 Released!

News Team 18. Dec 2008

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 11.1. The openSUSE 11.1 release includes more than 230 new features, improvements to YaST, major updates t...

Release Tomorrow, and More Good Signs ...

News Team 17. Dec 2008

Tomorrow is the big day! So some might wonder what exactly will happen … Basically we turn on the headless chicken mode and waiting that our servers will melt away :-) Not...

Get Going. openSUSE:Contrib ready!

Henne Vogelsang 17. Dec 2008

It’s alive! In an effort to bring another joy of contributing to the openSUSE distribution a new team, process and package repository just recently saw the light of day: op...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.1: The Latest GNOME Desktop

News Team 16. Dec 2008

In our continuing series of Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.1, we’re introducing the newest version of the GNOME desktop into openSUSE. openSUSE 11.1 will contain the latest ver...

A Good Sign ...

News Team 16. Dec 2008

We have it! :-)

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 50

News Team 13. Dec 2008

Issue #50 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Pre-order openSUSE 11.1 Wanted: Tester from SUSE Studio Password Protect f...

SSL Certificate for *.opensuse.org Has Expired

News Team 13. Dec 2008

On Saturday, 13th December, the SSL certificate used by iChain for secure login to *.opensuse.org sites (like openSUSE Forums, Build Service, Wiki and others) has expired. ...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.1: Improved Installation, Easier Administration

News Team 13. Dec 2008

Welcome to the first in a series of Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.1! With less than a week to go until the release of openSUSE 11.1,we’ll be talking about the great new innova...

Release Party In Nuremberg

News Team 10. Dec 2008

[![img_2048.jpg](//farm4.static.flickr.com/3216/3098241900_e149efed6d_m.jpg)](//www.flickr.com/photos/notlocalhorst/3098241900/) Just a reminder, we will have a par...

Infrastructure Maintenance Thursday

News Team 10. Dec 2008

Some parts of the openSUSE Project’s infrastructure will be down briefly for maintenance tomorrow, December 11th, starting at 10:00 UTC (11:00 CET / 05:00 EST). This should...

Pre-order openSUSE 11.1

News Team 9. Dec 2008

openSUSE 11.1 is gold, and available for pre-order! The release date is still the 18th of December, just in time to have some fun over the holidays … So what do you get fo...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 49

News Team 7. Dec 2008

Issue #49 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Andreas Jaeger: openSUSE 11.1 Goes RC2 Joe Brockmeier: Mounting remote directories u...

openSUSE-Education: Live-CD, CD-Cover and 1.0 Beta2 for openSUSE 11.1

News Team 4. Dec 2008

Here are the first results of the great last Meeting of the openSUSE-Education Team two weeks ago… We are proud to announce the first openSUSE Live-CD containing applicati...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 48

News Team 30. Nov 2008

Issue #48 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 RC 1 Now Available Joe Brockmeier: YaST Mascot Wi...

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 RC 1 Now Available

News Team 27. Nov 2008

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that openSUSE 11.1 RC 1 is now available. If all goes well, this will be the last testing release before the final 11.1 public rel...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 47

News Team 23. Nov 2008

Issue #47 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5.1 for PowerPC Released Fresh Factory Live-CDs People ...

YaST Mascot Winner Chosen! Say Hello to Yastie!

News Team 21. Nov 2008

The openSUSE Project and YaST team are happy to announce the winner of the YaST Mascot Contest. After extensive deliberation, the judges have chosen the Aardvark concept, s...

People of openSUSE: Vincent Untz

News Team 20. Nov 2008

Continuing the last ‘People of openSUSE’’ interviews with people involved in the openSUSE Board Elections Committee, today we introduce you another member - Vincent Untz. V...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 46

News Team 15. Nov 2008

Issue #46 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5 Released Updated Build Service Roadmap KDE’s Composit...

openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5.1 for PowerPC Released

Andreas Jaeger 14. Nov 2008

The Beta5 DVD and NET ISO images for PowerPC have just been replaced by Beta5.1 ISO images.  The only change is the way the ISOs are created - now they are bootable media. ...

Banshee 1.4 Released

News Team 14. Nov 2008

Aaron Bockover has announced that the 1.4 release of Banshee is now available. The new release includes support for Android G1, better device support, a new track editor, t...

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5 Now Available

News Team 13. Nov 2008

Greetings, openSUSE fans! We have another development release ready for your testing pleasure. openSUSE 11.1 beta 5 is now available for immediate download and testing. Yo...

People of openSUSE: Claes Backstrom

News Team 10. Nov 2008

This week on ‘People of openSUSE’ we have interviewed openSUSE Election Committee member, Senior Linux Trainer and VMware Trainer Claes Backstrom. Besides all these titles ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 45

News Team 8. Nov 2008

Issue #45 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Lukas Ocilka: YaST-Mascot Contest-How to submit your ideas openSUSE News: OpenOffice...

Get Your openSUSE 11.1 Countdown Button Here

News Team 6. Nov 2008

Yes, you too can have a beautiful openSUSE countdown button just like the one you see in this post. The banners have been updated, and as Pascal Bleser reports, we have ...

OpenOffice.org Fix for openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4

News Team 5. Nov 2008

Good news, everybody! One of the most annoying bugs from openSUSE 11.1 beta 4 has a fix. A problem starting OpenOffice.org was found too late to fix for the beta, but we do...

Feature Testing on Thursday

News Team 5. Nov 2008

We will have tomorrow an extensive feature testing of openSUSE 11.1 beta4. If you want to join, and we would really appreciate it if we get some help on this, please join u...

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4 Now Available

News Team 3. Nov 2008

Hot on the heels of openSUSE 11.1 beta 3, the openSUSE Project is happy to announce the availability of openSUSE 11.1 beta 4. This release includes a number of important b...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 44

News Team 1. Nov 2008

Issue #44 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Less than 50 days to openSUSE 11.1 Results of the 1st openSUSE Board Election ...

Status Update for openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4

News Team 31. Oct 2008

After work on the remaining show-stopper bugs we found this week, we have solved the blocker bugs, but were unable to generate all the necessary media and have it propagate...

openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4 Slip

News Team 30. Oct 2008

Just a quick note. The 11.1 release is slipping by at least one day due to a few major problems with the DVDs found during testing. Specifically: The network is b...

Results of the 1st openSUSE Board Election

News Team 27. Oct 2008

So the polls are closed now and all votes have been accounted for and confirmed valid, and we are now proud to announce the election results! The openSUSE project would lik...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 43

News Team 25. Oct 2008

Issue #43 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE Build Service Webclient Survey Started Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 B...

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 3 Now Available

News Team 22. Oct 2008

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the availability of beta 3 of the 11.1 release. It’s a few days late, but much better for the delay. Beta 3 is now available for i...

YaST Mascot Contest

News Team 21. Oct 2008

Because not everybody was aware of the contest and wondered a little bit about the reminder mail, we extended the deadline for the YaST mascot contest. The new deadline for...

Status Update: openSUSE 11.1 beta 3

News Team 19. Oct 2008

A quick status update on openSUSE 11.1 beta 3. The DVD installation ISOs were not complete by Friday night, and only the x86 live CDs have built correctly – the x86_64 imag...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 42

News Team 18. Oct 2008

Issue #42 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Power Outage of most openSUSE servers Retiring from the openSUSE Board Sta...

People of openSUSE: Henne Vogelsang

News Team 17. Oct 2008

After a long summer holiday season ‘People of openSUSE’ is back! This week we caught up one of the many people responsible for the success of the openSUSE project maintain...

openSUSE Webclient Survey Started

Andreas Jaeger 17. Oct 2008

Today we started an openSUSE Build Service Webclient online survey. We want to get more informations about the openSUSE Build Service Webclient users, the used hard and sof...

openSUSE 11.1 Beta3 Delayed

News Team 16. Oct 2008

openSUSE 11.1 beta 3 will be delayed by several days. We originally scheduled the release for today (October 16) but the power outage last Friday left us unable to check in...

openSUSE Board Election Extension

News Team 16. Oct 2008

Due to the unforeseen circumstances of last week the Board Election Committee have agreed that for fairness and transparency the Election deadline will be extended. The ne...

Intel e1000e Corruption Fixed – Already in openSUSE 11.1 Beta2 (with exception of Debug, Vanilla Kernels)

Andreas Jaeger 16. Oct 2008

The patches we did for the Intel e1000e network card for Beta2 protect the chip so that the NVRAM could not get corrupted anymore and we indeed did not receive any new bug ...

Hack Week III Winners

News Team 15. Oct 2008

After very careful deliberation, we’ve chosen the winners from Hack Week III. The categories were: Best Cross-Pollination Team, First Penguin Awards, and the Best Overall P...

Power Outage: Nearly All Systems are Running Again

Andreas Jaeger 11. Oct 2008

Our admins and developers - in Nuernberg, Provo and from home offices - worked hard today to get all openSUSE services up and running again.  Thanks a lot to all of them! ...

Power Outage in Area where most openSUSE Servers are Located

Andreas Jaeger 10. Oct 2008

Just a quick note: We have a power outage in the part of the city of Nürnberg where the Novell office and the main server room is.  This means that many of our servers are ...

openSUSE at Indiana Linuxfest and Ohio Linuxfest This Weekend

News Team 9. Oct 2008

The openSUSE Project is going to have a presence at the Indiana Linuxfest and Ohio Linuxfests this weekend. Friday, the Indiana Linuxfest is taking place in Bloomington, I...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 41

News Team 5. Oct 2008

Issue #41 ofopenSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Advance notice of discontinuation of openSUSE 10.2 openSUSE-Education 1.0 for 11.0 is...

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 2 Now Available

News Team 3. Oct 2008

The first beta release for 11.1 was so popular, we’ve decided to do it again! The openSUSE Project is happy to announce the release of openSUSE 11.1 beta 2, available for i...

Status of the e1000e Issue

News Team 3. Oct 2008

This is an update on the status of the e1000e issue. Our openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 release contained a bug that would cause the non-volatile memory (NVM) of the e1000e controlle...

openSUSE-Education 1.0 for 11.0 is Ready

News Team 28. Sep 2008

The openSUSE-Education Add On for openSUSE 11.0 is ready! Big steps compared to the 10.3 release: Better LTSP integration: now Easy-LTSP helps you to configure you...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 40

News Team 27. Sep 2008

Issue #40 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 Now Available Serious e1000e Driver Issue in SLE 11 Beta 1 and ...

Upcoming Factory Changes

News Team 23. Sep 2008

The openSUSE Factory distribution is our permanent moving target, this is the place where all Alpha and Beta versions are mastered from. We are currently in the process of ...

Serious e1000e Driver Issue in SLE 11 Beta 1 and openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1

News Team 22. Sep 2008

We have an important announcement regarding openSUSE 11.1 beta 1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 beta 1: The Intel e1000e driver on openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 and SUSE Linux Enterp...

openSUSE Build Service Did It!

News Team 22. Sep 2008

The openSUSE 11.1 beta 1 release marks a significant change for openSUSE. For the first time in 11 years, a SUSE release was not built in the SUSE internal AutoBuild servi...

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 Now Available

News Team 20. Sep 2008

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce the first beta release of openSUSE 11.1. openSUSE 11.1 includes quite a few improvements and new features over the 11.0 release, i...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 39

News Team 18. Sep 2008

Issue #39 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Board election OpenOffice_org 3.0rc1 available Call for SUSE Linux Enterpr...

Reminder: Call for openSUSE Board Candidates and Members

News Team 17. Sep 2008

The openSUSE Project is looking for a few good leaders, and voters! As announced by AJ, the board founded the election committee for the first openSUSE board election. The ...

Call for SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Beta Testers

Andreas Jaeger 15. Sep 2008

In the “old days” SuSE had a closed list of beta testers that would help with SuSE Linux testing and try to help SuSE ensure the best possible Linux distribution. Many beta...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 38

News Team 12. Sep 2008

Issue #38 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Last Call for openSUSE Board Candidates openSUSE KDE Bug Squashing Days (20-21 Septe...

openSUSE KDE Bug Squashing Days (20-21 September)

News Team 11. Sep 2008

The openSUSE KDE team wants to dedicate some time on KDE bugs before openSUSE 11.1 gets released, focusing on reported KDE bugs on bugzilla.novell.com inviting the commun...

openSUSE 11.0 Survey Results

admin 11. Sep 2008

The openSUSE survey results are out now. The survey we made in July/August time frame attracted over 12,000 participants. Here is a short summary on changes compared to the...

Announcing RC1 of openSUSE-Education for 11.0

News Team 11. Sep 2008

It is nearly done… As announced on our roadmap, I’m happy to announce the first release candidate for our openSUSE-Education add on for openSUSE 11.0! We’ve produced an Ad...

Last Call for openSUSE Board Candidates

News Team 10. Sep 2008

The openSUSE Project is looking for a few good leaders, and voters! As already announced by AJ, the board founded the election committee for the first openSUSE board electi...

KDE in openSUSE 11.1 and Beyond

News Team 9. Sep 2008

After receiving a great deal of feedback on the issue of KDE 3.5 inclusion in openSUSE 11.1, the KDE team has decided to take the following course of action. KDE 3...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 37

News Team 6. Sep 2008

Issue #37 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Hack Week III Judging Novell OpenPR Blog: Zonker Blogs Board election ...

openSUSE's MirrorBrain and a New Lizard in China

News Team 29. Aug 2008

Do you know openSUSE’s MirrorBrain?  I have been working on it for over a year now. It is a mirror framework which is open source and can be used by anyone. The other day,...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 36

News Team 28. Aug 2008

Issue #36 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Hack Week III openSUSE Election Committee Founded openSUSE at Utah Open So...

openSUSE at Utah Open Source Conference

News Team 25. Aug 2008

See the openSUSE Project at the Utah Open Source Conference this week! The Utah Open Source Conference is going on August 28 through August 30 at the Salt Lake Community C...

openSUSE Election Committee Founded

Andreas Jaeger 24. Aug 2008

We now have founded an openSUSE Election Committee consisting of: Claes Backstrom (Community) Andrew Wafaa (Community) Marko Jung (Novell) ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 35

News Team 22. Aug 2008

Issue #35 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha2 is available Hack Week III is almost here! openSUSE...

Hack Week III is almost upon us!

News Team 22. Aug 2008

Hack Week III is almost upon us! Novell is once again sponsoring Hack Week, from August 25th through August 29th, and we want the openSUSE community to be in on it! What’s...

Last Call for openSUSE Survey

admin 21. Aug 2008

Don’t miss to participate at this year’s openSUSE survey and tell us how you use openSUSE, what’s good or not so good about it or what you’d like to see in future releases...

openSUSE to Add SELinux Basic Enablement in 11.1

Andreas Jaeger 20. Aug 2008

We have exciting news for security enthusiasts, experts, and paranoid people! Beginning with openSUSE 11.1, SUSE users will have an additional option regarding security fr...

openSUSE at FrOSCon!

News Team 18. Aug 2008

Join the openSUSE Project this weekend, Saturday August 23, and Sunday August 24, at third annual FrOSCon. FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source,...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 34

News Team 18. Aug 2008

Issue #34 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Announcing ENOS 2008 Join the openSUSE Proofreading Team Announcing Hack...

Announcing ENOS 2008

News Team 11. Aug 2008

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 P...

LWE 2008

News Team 10. Aug 2008

Another show is over, it was a good one with some annoying stuff … But first the good stuff: We gave away a lot of openSUSE PromoDVDs, so much that we ran out quite soon. B...

Join the openSUSE Proofreading Team

admin 7. Aug 2008

We are about to establish a new openSUSE team - the Proofreading Team. This team wants to check new software strings before translator will start there work. If you are in...

Report from the YaST Workshop

News Team 7. Aug 2008

The YaST teams met in Nürnberg recently in the SUSE offices to work on several projects. The team had a number of ideas and projects to tackle, but had to prioritize and t...

Announcing Hack Week III

News Team 7. Aug 2008

Novell is once again sponsoring Hack Week – and we want you to be in on it! Hack Week III (HW3) runs from August 25th through August 29th. What’s Hack Week? Hack Week is a...

openSUSE Jobs

Andreas Jaeger 5. Aug 2008

We have some open student positions for the next few months to work on various aspects of the openSUSE infrastructure.  If you’re interested, please apply at jobs@suse.de. ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 33

News Team 3. Aug 2008

Issue #33 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: KDE 4.1 Released With openSUSE Packages and Live CD Help Create the Artwork for op...

Reminder: openSUSE Day at LinuxWorld Expo

News Team 31. Jul 2008

Join the openSUSE Project for a day of fun and FOSS at the LinuxWorld Expo! On Wednesday, August 6th, the openSUSE Project will be holding its first “openSUSE Day” in North...

Help Create the Artwork for openSUSE 11.1

Andreas Jaeger 30. Jul 2008

Now with openSUSE 11.0 out the door, and Alpha 1 of openSUSE 11.1 just released, it’s time to start thinking about the look of openSUSE 11.1! Once again this year the Pixel...

KDE 4.1 Released With openSUSE Packages and Live CD

News Team 29. Jul 2008

The KDE team today released KDE 4.1. The KDE developers, including the openSUSE KDE Team, have been working on it for the last six months. Lots of feedback from people tryi...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 32

News Team 26. Jul 2008

Issue #32 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE 11.0 Survey openSUSE 11.0 PromoDVD openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1 is Avai...

openSUSE 11.0 PromoDVD

News Team 23. Jul 2008

Again we have some nice, new and shiny PromoDVDs, now with openSUSE 11.0. The main goal is to spread them. Some examples: you organize or take part of an event you wa...

Bugzilla: Changed Definitions

Andreas Jaeger 22. Jul 2008

We are standardizing now on the definitions given at //en.opensuse.org/Bugs/Definitions. The severity definitions are now the same as in most other open source projects, so...

Kernel Bug Squashing Day on Wednesday, July 30

News Team 21. Jul 2008

The kernel team is going to be hosting a kernel bug squashing day on Wednesday, July 30th. The goals of the bug squashing day are to: Reduce the number of kernel b...

One Year of openSUSE News

News Team 19. Jul 2008

Exactly one year ago the openSUSE News site went live to provide users with the latest news and an event calendar. 19 authors posting under their own names and some one-tim...

People of openSUSE: Frank Sundermeyer

News Team 18. Jul 2008

Former webservers administrator and presales consultant at S.u.S.E. he is currently working as a technical writer contributing to the openSUSE documentation and openSUSE we...

openSUSE 11.0 Survey

News Team 18. Jul 2008

Survey time again! After nearly a month of the openSUSE 11.0 release we want to know what you think about it, how you use it and about openSUSE.org in general. As usual we ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 31

News Team 17. Jul 2008

Issue #31 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Next Helping Hands Event www.opensuse-tutorials.com Hubert Mantel: openS...

People of openSUSE: Bryen Yunashko

News Team 12. Jul 2008

Bryen Yunashko, a openSUSE member, is a recent acquisition to the openSUSE project who is involved in the openSUSE-GNOME and Marketing teams, coordinating the Helping Hands...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 30

News Team 10. Jul 2008

Issue #30 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE Build Service 1.0 Released Announcing openSUSE Day at LinuxWorld Expo ...

Announcing openSUSE Day at LinuxWorld Expo

News Team 9. Jul 2008

Join the openSUSE Project for a day of fun and FOSS at the LinuxWorld Expo! On Wednesday, August 6th, the openSUSE Project will be holding its first “openSUSE Day” in North...

openSUSE Build Service 1.0 Released

News Team 9. Jul 2008

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.0 release of the openSUSE Build Service. The 1.0 release provides all the features necessary to support building openSUSE in...

People of openSUSE: Joe Brockmeier

News Team 5. Jul 2008

For those who have been waiting for a ‘People of openSUSE’ interview with our openSUSE Community Manager and long time Linux and open source journalist Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockme...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 29

News Team 3. Jul 2008

Issue #29 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE 11.1 Roadmap Novell Client for Linux Public Beta for openSUSE 10.3 ...

openSUSE 11.1 Roadmap

Andreas Jaeger 2. Jul 2008

With openSUSE 11.0 out the door, it’s time to start thinking about openSUSE 11.1. The public release of openSUSE 11.1 is scheduled for December 18, 2008, six months after t...

Novell Client for Linux Public Beta for openSUSE 10.3

News Team 30. Jun 2008

We’re pleased to announce the public beta of the Novell Client for openSUSE 10.3. Novell released the packages for the Novell Client for Linux 2.0 SP1 public beta today. A...

People of openSUSE: Jan-Simon Möller

News Team 28. Jun 2008

Weekly News writer and openSUSE member Jan-Simon Möller accepted ‘People of openSUSE’ interview request and shared with us some information about himself. Jan is also the m...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 28

News Team 26. Jun 2008

Issue #28 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: GNOME Helping Hands Project Launches People of openSUSE: Tanja Roth Masi...

YaST Workshop in Nuremberg, June 30 through July 4

News Team 25. Jun 2008

Now that openSUSE 11.0 is out the door, the YaST team is looking to get together and improve YaST even more. Next week the YaST team will be meeting in Nuremberg, Monday t...

Numbers?

News Team 24. Jun 2008

Let me share some numbers for the openSUSE 11.0 release. Do you remember the 10.3 release? Again we used akamai for distribution of the images. Again for 30 hours, and yes,...

People of openSUSE: Tanja Roth

News Team 21. Jun 2008

How important is documentation to you and people around you? Certainly it is a lot! Then good news because openSUSE has a team focused on manuals for the SUSE Linux/openSUS...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 GM

News Team 19. Jun 2008

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 11.0 – everything you need to get started with Linux on the desktop and on the server. Promoting the use o...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.0: A Plethora of Improvements

News Team 19. Jun 2008

In this final Sneak Peeks article we will be taking a look at some of the other improvements making their way into openSUSE 11.0. Firefox 3.0 openSUSE features the new ...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.0: Talking GNOME with Vincent Untz

News Team 18. Jun 2008

Just a few hours before openSUSE 11.0 is officially released! Here we’ll take a look at GNOME in openSUSE 11.0, and talk to Vincent Untz, openSUSE developer and a member of...

Announcing openSUSE-Education for 10.3

News Team 18. Jun 2008

Good things come to those who wait: I think we’ve waited long enough to release the first openSUSE-Education version for openSUSE 10.3. Just use the YaST2 “Add-On Product”...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 27

News Team 18. Jun 2008

Issue #27 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: HOT! Upcoming o p e n S U S E 1 1 . 0 People of openSUSE: Rupert Horstkötter ...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.0: KDE with Stephan Binner

News Team 17. Jun 2008

With openSUSE 11.0 just a few days away, it’s time to look at one of the stars of the show: KDE. In openSUSE 11.0, you get two KDEs for the price of one. Here we’ll take a ...

People of openSUSE: Rupert Horstkötter

News Team 14. Jun 2008

This week the openSUSE Project announced the launch of forums.opensuse.org, a merger of the three largest openSUSE forums. Continuing the openSUSE Forums euphoria we presen...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 26

News Team 13. Jun 2008

Issue #26 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE Launches Merged Forums Announcing the openSUSE Marketing Team P...

Recorded Presentations Available From openSUSE Day at LinuxTag

admin 12. Jun 2008

The presentations held at LinuxTag, Berlin during the openSUSE day are now available as video and partly as slides as well. Beside of Zonker’s part in the project presentat...

openSUSE Build Service 1.0 RC 1 released

News Team 11. Jun 2008

The openSUSE Project has released the first release candidate of the openSUSE Build Service 1.0. With the release candidate, all the features are now in place to support ex...

Banshee 1.0 Released!

News Team 10. Jun 2008

The Banshee team has released version 1.0! This release will be found in openSUSE 11.0, and includes tons of new features and improvements over the previous Banshee release...

openSUSE Launches Merged Forums

News Team 10. Jun 2008

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the launch of forums.opensuse.org, a merger of the openSUSE Novell support forums, suseforums.net, and suselinuxsupport.de - the t...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.0: Compiz, with Dennis Kasprzyk

News Team 7. Jun 2008

There have been several changes with the Compiz setup in openSUSE 11.0, including both exciting and new features in Compiz Fusion, and extra developments behind-the-scenes ...

People of openSUSE: Cornelius Schumacher

News Team 7. Jun 2008

Before openSUSE 11.0 GM get released next Thursday, we have the chance to meet Cornelius Schumacher - member of the incubation team, former Build Service developer, KDE vic...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.0: Package Management, with Duncan Mac-Vicar

News Team 6. Jun 2008

In this article we will be covering all of the changes in and around the package management stack in the upcoming openSUSE 11.0. There have been a plethora of both visual a...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.0: New Installer, with Stephan Kulow

News Team 5. Jun 2008

I’m glad to announce the beginning of the Sneak Peaks at openSUSE 11.0 series! Over the next few weeks we will be taking a look at all of the exciting changes and improveme...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 25

News Team 4. Jun 2008

Issue #25 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: People of openSUSE: Matthias Fehring Interview: KDevelop and the openSUSE Build Se...

KDevelop and the openSUSE Build Service

News Team 4. Jun 2008

Building packages for multiple distros can be a major pain – which is why we provide the openSUSE Build Service. One of the Build Service’s many features is the ability to ...

People of openSUSE: Matthias Fehring

News Team 30. May 2008

‘People of openSUSE’ caught up the man behind the great effort done on the German openSUSE wiki - Matthias Fehring. He is one of the system operatores of the de.opensuse.o...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 RC 1

News Team 29. May 2008

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the openSUSE 11.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). The good news is that we’re closing in on the final release of 11.0, but it’s not tim...

Linuxtag - Day 2

News Team 29. May 2008

Second day on the Linuxtag, i tried to post yesterday but the Network was not working that good. Anyway, we are in Berlin! On the first pic you see the car i have, the...

Linuxtag ... T-2

News Team 26. May 2008

Well, for me and some other openSUSE guys it’s T-1, we going tomorrow to set up the booth. (actually the picture is from last year .. :-)). So why should you come to Ber...

Thesis on openSUSE Published

News Team 24. May 2008

A year’s research on Novell and the openSUSE project is now published as a master’s thesis at the University of Oslo. “Managing Firm-Sponsored Open Source Communities” deta...

People of openSUSE: Klaus Kämpf

News Team 23. May 2008

Long time openSUSE developer Klaus Kämpf joined former S.u.S.E nine years ago and since then never looked back being committed to his System Management Architect job at No...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 23

News Team 22. May 2008

Issue #23 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3 People of openSUSE: Wolfgang Koller Stat...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting on May 21, 16:00 UTC

News Team 20. May 2008

A quick reminder, we have an openSUSE Project Meeting coming up on Wednesday, May 21, at 16:00 UTC, to discuss the latest developments in openSUSE. For a listing of this w...

openSUSE Wants Your Vote (on Bugs)

News Team 19. May 2008

Attention openSUSE users and contributors! It’s time to exercise your vote and help the openSUSE team identify the bugs that need to be squashed prior to the openSUSE 11.0 ...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3

admin 16. May 2008

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the last Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! Over 700 bugs has been fixed since Beta 2. This means we’re on the home stretch for openSUSE ...

People of openSUSE: Wolfgang Koller

News Team 16. May 2008

While some are preparing their fly to Austria to attend EURO 2008, ‘People of openSUSE’ already flew but rather to meet Wolfgang Koller - founder of SuSELinuxSupport commun...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 22

News Team 15. May 2008

Issue #22 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Linuxtag 2008 - latest information People of openSUSE: Marcus Hüwe Upcom...

Another Kind of open SUSE: Prague SUSE Office Opens its Doors

Andreas Jaeger 12. May 2008

The Novell/SUSE development offices in Prague, Czech Republic have on the 15th an event called “otevreneSUSE” which means “openSUSE” in Czech. This event is for local peop...

People of openSUSE: Marcus Hüwe

News Team 10. May 2008

Despite being a openSUSE member and a platinum member of the PackMan team packaging several widely-used applications he also helps the Build Service team with osc code cont...

LinuxTag 2008

News Team 8. May 2008

Please don’t forget the biggest Linux event in Germany, just a few weeks away! For the second time it will be in Berlin, from 28-31.05.2008. The location is slightly differ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 21

News Team 7. May 2008

Issue #21 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE 11.0 Beta 2 People of openSUSE: Greg Kroah-Hartman Jigish Gohil...

Blogging Platform for openSUSE Launched

Andreas Jaeger 7. May 2008

Today we are officially launching a new website: lizards.opensuse.org! This site offers blog hosting for openSUSE members. The blogs should be focused on the openSUSE proj...

Hard Disk Configuration Survey

News Team 6. May 2008

In order to optimize the YaST partitioner module for openSUSE users the user experience team decided to conduct a small survey to figure out how you deal with hard disk con...

People of openSUSE: Greg Kroah-Hartman

News Team 3. May 2008

This weekend ‘People of openSUSE’ brings to light long time Kernel hacker and Novell employee Greg Kroah-Hartman interview. Greg KH today’s working full time on Linux Drive...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Beta 2

News Team 3. May 2008

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the second Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! New changes include countless bug fixes, as well as the import of the new openSUSE 11.0 art...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 20

News Team 1. May 2008

Issue #20 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE Google Summer of Code projects announced People of openSUSE: Michael Löff...

Games in the openSUSE Build Service

News Team 30. Apr 2008

Hello avid gamers and game developers! We decided to restructure and cleanup the games projects in the openSUSE Build Service. Before the change we had 8 projects for e...

Java Development Updates for openSUSE

News Team 30. Apr 2008

Michal Vyskocil has requested a new mailing list around Java topics. You can subscribe to it or browse the newly created archive. This nicely fits our other Java changes, w...

Packman: Building for openSUSE 11.0 and 10.0 Package Removal

News Team 29. Apr 2008

As SUSE Linux 10.0 has reached its end of life in November last year, the Packman team will be removing all SUSE Linux 10.0 packages from its repository end of this week. I...

Orbit IEX - 20-23.05.2008

News Team 29. Apr 2008

Thanks to the Switzerland Novell colleagues openSUSE is again on the biggest computer event in Switzerland. I will be there on a openSUSE demopoint at the Novell booth, sho...

People of openSUSE: Michael Löffler

News Team 25. Apr 2008

This week ‘People of openSUSE’ scope out openSUSE Product Manager Michael Löffler known for his great work in helping setting up the openSUSE Project, bridge between Novell...

openSUSE Google Summer of Code Projects Announced

News Team 24. Apr 2008

Google have announced the openSUSE projects and students taking part in this year’s Google Summer of Code. The projects include: LTSP GUI Management for openSUSE b...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 19

News Team 24. Apr 2008

Issue #19 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: OpenOffice_org 2.4 available 11.0 feature by feature: All you ever wanted to know!...

Blast the bugs out of YaST on April 25: Operation YaST Smash

News Team 21. Apr 2008

The openSUSE Project is going Bug Smashing on April 25, and we want you to join us! We’re looking for openSUSE users and contributors who have some time to help triage YaST...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1

News Team 18. Apr 2008

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the first Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! There are many exciting enhancements and features in the new release. Among these is the inc...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 18

News Team 16. Apr 2008

Issue #18 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE Project Releases Major Update to openSUSE Build Service Counting down to ...

Counting Down to 11.0 – Get Your Counter Here!

News Team 16. Apr 2008

You can help spread the word for openSUSE 11.0 before it’s released! The openSUSE project now has countdown banners that display the number of days before the next openSUS...

openSUSE Project Releases Major Update to openSUSE Build Service

News Team 16. Apr 2008

The openSUSE team is proud to announce another major release of the openSUSE Build Service (OBS). This release brings a new level to OBS scalability by adding the ability f...

New Mailing Lists Available

Henne Vogelsang 16. Apr 2008

Hey ho, we have a few new mailing lists available. To discuss openSUSE usage on the different virtualization products like Qemu/KVM, XEN or VirtualBox subscribe to opensus...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 17

News Team 9. Apr 2008

Issue 17 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE-Education 1.0 RC2 for openSUSE 10.3 is Ready Tips and Tricks: Quick host-t...

openSUSE-Education 1.0 RC2 for openSUSE 10.3 is Ready

News Team 6. Apr 2008

With RC2 for openSUSE 10.3 the openSUSE-Education project starts the last testing phase before we release the final version of openSUSE-Education 1.0 for openSUSE 10.3. A...

People of openSUSE: Jakub Steiner

News Team 4. Apr 2008

Independently of how many new application features and fixes a distribution release, doesn’t matter much if the distribution doesn’t look great, and users know it for sure!...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 16

News Team 2. Apr 2008

Issue 16 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: SoC application deadline extended People of openSUSE: Marco Michna openSU...

People of openSUSE: Marco Michna

News Team 28. Mar 2008

This week we meet #openSUSE IRC supporter, and openSUSE Quality Assurance team member Marco ‘daemon’ Michna in one more ‘People of openSUSE’ interview! !...

Google Summer of Code Update – Looking for Students

News Team 26. Mar 2008

The openSUSE Project is looking for students who are interested in contributing to the project via the Google Summer of Code. The application deadline for students is Monda...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 15

News Team 26. Mar 2008

Issue 15 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 3 is Out SoC Student Application Period Open Brainsha...

People of openSUSE: Masim Sugianto

News Team 21. Mar 2008

Today’s ‘People of openSUSE’ interviews Masim ‘Vavai’ Sugianto - founder of the Indonesian openSUSE community helping users, and spreading out openSUSE to be widely used in...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 3

News Team 19. Mar 2008

After four regular weeks and one hack week after Alpha 2, we are very happy to announce openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 3. See more screenshots on the Screenshots/openSUSE_11.0_Al...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 14

News Team 19. Mar 2008

Issue 14 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Videos and Slides from FOSDEM 2008 openSUSE to Participate in Google Summer of Code...

openSUSE Participates in Google Summer of Code: Looking for Mentors, Projects, Students

Andreas Jaeger 18. Mar 2008

Zonker wrote the following: I'm happy to announce that the openSUSE Project has been accepted to Google’s Summer of Code 2008! Now the real fun begins! We’re now in the “...

Videos and Slides from FOSDEM 2008

News Team 15. Mar 2008

The videos and slides of the openSUSE presentations at FOSDEM are now online, and available at the FOSDEM2008 wiki page. They are also available on Google video (lower qua...

openSUSE Packaging Days II – April 4th/5th, 2008

News Team 14. Mar 2008

Ever had problems finding a package for your favorite application for your favorite distro? Are you an application developer or project contributor, and want to learn how t...

People of openSUSE: Timo Hönig

News Team 14. Mar 2008

This week we feature Timo Hönig, openSUSE Mobile Device team member, mainly working on D-Bus, IAL, and KNetworkManager. ![timo_hoenig.jpg](/wp-content/up...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 13

News Team 12. Mar 2008

Issue 13 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Announcing the Official openSUSE Forums Preparing for Board Elections ope...

Announcing the Official openSUSE Forums

admin 11. Mar 2008

In order to provide a better service to the existing openSUSE Community and to our new users, we’re pleased to announce that suseforums.net, suselinuxsupport.de and the ope...

People of openSUSE: Detlef Reichelt

News Team 8. Mar 2008

Do you know who is behind the PackMan project? Then it’s time to we present you Detlef Reichelt - PackMan project maintainer and openSUSE Member! ![detle...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 12

News Team 5. Mar 2008

Issue 12 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Quiet Week, Many Small Changes Continued Work on Slimming down the Installation ...

People of openSUSE: Marcus Rueckert

News Team 1. Mar 2008

This week we travel back to the main center of the openSUSE development, Nürnberg, to meet Marcus ‘darix’ Rueckert - openSUSE packager, and openSUSE Build Service content a...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 11

News Team 27. Feb 2008

Issue 11 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Factory Live CDs Now Available FOSDEM 2008 is Over Mono Hack Week Summary...

FOSDEM 2008, It's Over...

News Team 25. Feb 2008

I’m still a little bit groggy after FOSDEM, but so far i’m quite happy. Nothing really bad happened, it seems that everybody got back alive. :-) I will for sure forget som...

People of openSUSE: Rossana Motta

News Team 22. Feb 2008

Continuing the ‘People of openSUSE’ series, this time we have the pleasure to meet openSUSE Member Rossana Motta, well-know among SuSELinuxSupport forum users. ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 10

News Team 20. Feb 2008

Issue ten of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: A look at SUSE Hack Week Innovations FOSDEM 2008 - This Weekend! In Tips...

FOSDEM 2008 - This Weekend!

News Team 19. Feb 2008

This weekend (23-24.02) the openSUSE folks will again go to Brussels to one of the most important developer events in Europe: FOSDEM. For all openSUSE users we will again ...

People of openSUSE: Michael Meeks

News Team 15. Feb 2008

GNOME and full time OpenOffice.org developer Michael Meeks was invited by ‘People of openSUSE’ to an interview, and here are his answers! Just in case, if you will be in F...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 9

News Team 13. Feb 2008

Issue nine of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! You can read it in English or German. In this week’s issue: openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2 is out openSUSE Membe...

Hackweek 2 at Novell

Andreas Jaeger 11. Feb 2008

We had last June our first Hackweek and have this week (from 11th to 15th) our second hackweek. Some of us do use the ideas.opensuse.org website for collecting ideas but n...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2

News Team 8. Feb 2008

Only three weeks after Alpha1, we’re glad to announce the release of openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2. There are various exciting changes in there that we would like to have feedback ...

People of openSUSE: Jake Rogers

News Team 8. Feb 2008

It’s community week, and as so ‘People of openSUSE’ interviewed the most popular openSUSE IRC helper around there, Jake Rogers! He is also the author of help.opensuse.org, ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 8

News Team 6. Feb 2008

Issue eight of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: KDE News: KDE 4.0.1, openSUSE Live CD, New KDE Repo Layout openSUSE Welcomes Zon...

KDE Quickies: KDE 4.0.1, openSUSE Live CD, New KDE Repository Layout

News Team 5. Feb 2008

Just in time for the KDE 4.0.1 release, the openSUSE KDE team has updated the KDE 4 packages in the Build Service to the KDE 4.0.1 state, featuring several improvements o...

openSUSE Welcomes Zonker - The New Community Manager

Andreas Jaeger 4. Feb 2008

I’d like to give a warm welcome to Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier who joins the openSUSE project as “openSUSE community manager”. You can reach him directly at zonker@opensuse.or...

openSUSE Mailinglist: Check for Accidental Unsubscribtions

Andreas Jaeger 4. Feb 2008

Last week we had a small problem at lists.opensuse.org which unsubscribed a couple of mailing list members by accident. We’re really sorry about this and hope that everybod...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 7

News Team 31. Jan 2008

The seventh issue of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE Build Service Expands Support to Red Hat and CentOS Sax2 ported t...

People of openSUSE: Wolfgang Rosenauer

News Team 25. Jan 2008

Mostly known for his work on openSUSE for packaging Mozilla applications and for testing the distribution, we present you the community contributor Wolfgang Rosenauer. ...

openSUSE Build Service Expands Support to Red Hat and CentOS

News Team 24. Jan 2008

The openSUSE Build Service, an innovative framework that provides an infrastructure for software developers to easily create and compile packages for multiple Linux distrib...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 6

News Team 23. Jan 2008

The sixth issue of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 1 Released Federico unveils the latest community member ...

People of openSUSE: Katarina Machalkova

News Team 18. Jan 2008

Today’s People of openSUSE features a female YaST developer and the maintainer of ncurses user interface library - Katarina Machalkova! ![katarina_machal...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Alpha1

News Team 18. Jan 2008

With the new year beginning we kick start major development into the next version of openSUSE: openSUSE 11.0 (roadmap). A very early alpha version, Alpha 1, is now availabl...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 5

News Team 16. Jan 2008

The fifth issue of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: KDE 4.0 Released with openSUSE Packages and openSUSE-based live CD openSUSE ...

KDE 4.0 Released With openSUSE Packages and Live CD

News Team 11. Jan 2008

The KDE Community has announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.0.0. This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up ...

People of openSUSE: James Tremblay

News Team 11. Jan 2008

openSUSE Education founder James Tremblay was caught up by ‘People of openSUSE’ to an interesting interview. ![james_tremblay.jpg](//news.opensuse.org/wp...

openSUSE Shop Now Live!

admin 10. Jan 2008

We proudly announce shop.openSUSE.org. This is the place to find official openSUSE gear: T-shirts, mugs, caps, bags and more are available. As many times requested by th...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 4

News Team 9. Jan 2008

The fourth issue of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! The issue covers events during the Christmas holidays. In this week’s issue: A look at openSUSE’s accomplis...

People of openSUSE: Lukáš Ocilka

News Team 4. Jan 2008

Here you have an interview with Lukáš Ocilka, a Czech YaST developer maintaining many YaST components such as Installation, Firewall, and Backup. ![lukas...

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