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openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 103 is out!

Sascha Manns 27. Dec 2009

Issue #103 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! openSUSE News: Linux for Education Updated The Geek Stuff/Sasikala: Unix Sed Tutorial: 6 Examples for S...

Linux for Education Updated

News Team 22. Dec 2009

The openSUSE Education team is proud to announce the availability of the updated Li-f-e hybrid ISO. Unlike the official openSUSE release, the Edu project’s Li-f-e flavor wi...

Under Construction: New Wiki Underway

News Team 22. Dec 2009

You may have noticed we have some exciting work going on to revamp the openSUSE wiki, and if you’re interested in helping with that, we have some requests to make. We’ve se...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 102 is out!

Sascha Manns 19. Dec 2009

Issue #102 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! Joe Brockmeier: openSUSE Build Service Integrates with openDesktop.org to reach 150,000 contributors Mic...

openSUSE Build Service Integrates with openDesktop.org to reach 150,000 contributors

News Team 17. Dec 2009

Today Frank Karlitschek, maintainer of the openDesktop.org network, announced that the first step of integration with openDesktop.org is complete. Effective immediately, de...

openSUSE Weekly News, issue 101 is out!

Sascha Manns 12. Dec 2009

Issue #101 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! Announcing New openSUSE Board mebers Thomas Göttlicher: Install Multiple Kernel Versions using the YaST Q...

Reminder: Weekly News Team Meeting

Sascha Manns 10. Dec 2009

The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place tomorrow (Saturday December 12) at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter ...

openSUSE 11.2 and its retail box

News Team 10. Dec 2009

Retail versions of openSUSE 11.2 are once again available. For the first time, the retail box is being handled by a partner, open-slx. open-slx is founded and lead by Stef...

Announcing New openSUSE Board Members

Andreas Jaeger 9. Dec 2009

The election committee announces the three new members of the openSUSE board: Bryen Yunashko (non-Novell seat) Pavol Rusnak (Novell seat) Ruper...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 100 is out!

Sascha Manns 5. Dec 2009

Issue #100 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: * openSUSE Board Election Update * Egbert Eich: The Future of SaX2 * Ben Kevan: KDE 4.3.4 Released –...

Update to openSUSE.org

No Content Found 5. Dec 2009

Over the last two weeks, we have been making some major infrastructure changes to the openSUSE landing page and wikis.  The result is that users of the wiki can now expect ...

Move of openSUSE Infrastructure Repositories

Andreas Jaeger 4. Dec 2009

In the past, we had one central openSUSE subversion (svn) repository on Novell Forge for the openSUSE infrastructure including the openSUSE Build Service. This repository h...

Update on openSUSE Board Election

Andreas Jaeger 3. Dec 2009

For the current 2009 election of the openSUSE board, we have three seats for election and three candidates running unopposed. As our existing election rules did not anticip...

Reminder: Wiki Team Meeting Sunday December 6, 2009 at 19.00 UTC

News Team 2. Dec 2009

The openSUSE Wiki Team Meeting will take place on Sunday, the 6th of December 2009 at 19.00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. The meeting will be held ...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Tomorrow (Wednesday, December 2nd)

News Team 1. Dec 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, December 2nd, at 12:00 UTC. The meeting time in all time zones are listed on the Fixed Time World Clo...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 99 is out!

Sascha Manns 28. Nov 2009

Issue #99 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: * Dominique Leuenberger: Compitz 0.8.4 * Michal Hrusecky: Status Report - Media Wiki Theme * Linux.co...

Reminder: Weekly News Team Meeting

Sascha Manns 27. Nov 2009

The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place tomorrow (Saturday November 28) at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter ...

openSUSE Weekly News, issue 98 is out!

Sascha Manns 21. Nov 2009

Issue #98 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Board Election 2009 Startup openSUSE 11.2 Launchparties openSUSE Spotlight: What does the open...

openSUSE Kernel Repository is public

News Team 20. Nov 2009

Want to help test the openSUSE kernel? Want the very latest and greatest openSUSE Linux kernel sources? We have good news for you! After several months of preparation, the...

openSUSE Board Election – change of timeline

News Team 19. Nov 2009

As Thomas just announced on the project mailing list the election committee has decided to extend the period for announcing candidacy by one week to November 30. Same appli...

Reminder: Second openSUSE Board Election Deadline Approaching!

News Team 17. Nov 2009

The time has come again for openSUSE Members to vote for new members to the Board. Stephen Shaw (decriptor) and Bryen Yunashko (suseROCKS) have completed their tenure on t...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday November 18, 2009 at 16:00 UTC

News Team 16. Nov 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday, November 18th, at 16:00 UTC. The meeting time in all time zones are listed on the Fixed Time World Clock. Proje...

openSUSE Weekly News Issue 97 is out!

Sascha Manns 14. Nov 2009

Issue #97 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE 11.2 Released! Launch Party Locations KDE.NEWS/Will Stephenson: Introducing KDE 4 KNe...

Reminder: Weekly News Team Meeting

Sascha Manns 13. Nov 2009

The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place tomorrow  (Saturday November 14) at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter ...

openSUSE 11.2 Released!

News Team 12. Nov 2009

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of openSUSE 11.2.  openSUSE 11.2 includes new versions of GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, the Linux kernel, and...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.2: GNOME 2.28

News Team 11. Nov 2009

With openSUSE 11.2 right around the corner, let’s take a look at what’s new and interesting in the GNOME desktop for this release. Highlights include a preview of GNOME 3.0...

Banners for openSUSE 11.2

News Team 10. Nov 2009

We’re very, very close to the final release of openSUSE 11.2! To help promote the 11.2 release, we have banners for openSUSE 11.2 available on the openSUSE wiki, courtesy ...

Project Bugzilla Update Planned to Version 3.4

Andreas Jaeger 9. Nov 2009

The bugtracking tool used by the openSUSE project is the Novell bugzilla and this system will be updated to a new upstream version (version 3.4) together with some changes ...

openSUSE Weekly News #96 is out!

Sascha Manns 7. Nov 2009

Issue #96 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Call for Candidates: Board Election 2009 Novell User Communities: Using the OpenSUS...

Vote for the openSUSE DVD Cover

News Team 5. Nov 2009

openSUSE 11.2 is scheduled to be officially released in about a week (give or take a few hours…) and, as usual, we’re gearing up to press a bunch of media for shows and the...

Usability Concept for the openSUSE Wiki - Status Report #1

News Team 4. Nov 2009

Behind the scenes, the Wiki and Booster Teams are currently working hard to improve the Usability of the openSUSE Wiki to the openSUSE Community. The process started in ear...

OpenSUSE Weekly News #95 is out!

Sascha Manns 31. Oct 2009

Issue #95 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE News: Announcing the Second openSUSE Board Election Sneak Peeks (Preview 1...

Final openSUSE 11.2 Release Candidate Available

News Team 29. Oct 2009

This is it folks! We’re almost there for openSUSE 11.2. Time to grab the final 11.2 release candidate and shake out any remaining bugs to get the lizard ready for release. ...

Reminder: Weekly News Team Meeting

Sascha Manns 28. Oct 2009

The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place tomorrow  (Saturday October 31) at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter c...

Reminder: Wiki Team Meeting Friday October 30, 2009 at 17.00 UTC

News Team 28. Oct 2009

The openSUSE Wiki Team Meeting will take place on Friday, the 30th of October 2009 at 17.00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. The meeting will be held ...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.2: KDE 4.3 Experience, with Luboš Luňák

News Team 27. Oct 2009

The KDE 4 experience in openSUSE has been enhanced daily, and while the desktop environment itself has matured significantly since the last release, there has been a consta...

Announcing the Second openSUSE Board Election

News Team 26. Oct 2009

The time has come again for openSUSE Members to vote for new members to the Board. Stephen Shaw (decriptor) and Bryen Yunashko (suseROCKS) have completed their tenure on t...

openSUSE Weekly News #94 is out!

Sascha Manns 24. Oct 2009

Issue #94 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Novell’s Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier hosts new Network World podcast series Will Stephe...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday October 21, 2009 at 16:00 UTC

News Team 19. Oct 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday, October 21st, at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be he...

OpenSUSE Weekly News #93 is out!

Sascha Manns 17. Oct 2009

Issue #93 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE 11.2 on its way to become final – Release candidate available! Pavol Rusna...

Reminder: Weekly News Team Meeting

Sascha Manns 16. Oct 2009

The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place tomorrow  (Saturday October 16) at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter c...

openSUSE at "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften", Nürnberg on Oct 24

News Team 16. Oct 2009

english version below Wir möchten alle in und um Nürnberg dazu einladen openSUSE auf der “Langen Nacht der Wissenschaft” zu besuchen. Diese findet am Samstag 24. Otkober v...

openSUSE 11.2 on its way to become final - Release candidate available!

News Team 15. Oct 2009

We’re well on the way to openSUSE 11.2! Today we’re happy to announce the first release candidate for openSUSE 11.2. This release includes quite a few bugfixes and several ...

openSUSE Weekly News #92 is out!

Sascha Manns 10. Oct 2009

Issue #92 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE News: Introducing the ‘openSUSE Boosters’ Team The Geek Stuff/Ramesh Natar...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday October 7, 2009 at 12:00 UTC

News Team 6. Oct 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place tomorrow (Wednesday October 10th) at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting w...

Introducing the 'openSUSE Boosters' Team

News Team 3. Oct 2009

Following its announcement in August, the dedicated openSUSE Boosters team held its inaugural meeting in Germany last week to plan its activities to promote the growth of o...

openSUSE Weekly News #91 is out!

Sascha Manns 3. Oct 2009

Issue #91 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8 Released Federico Mena-Quintero: The openSUSE Boost Team ...

Reminder: Weekly News Team Meeting

Sascha Manns 2. Oct 2009

The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place today (Saturday October 03) at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter chann...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8 Released

Andreas Jaeger 1. Oct 2009

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that the last openSUSE 11.2 Milestone  8 (M8) is available for download. Test now and give feedback via our bugzilla since this is...

openSUSE Weekly News#90 is out!

Sascha Manns 26. Sep 2009

Issue #90 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Joe Brockmeier: Hundreds converge on Nuremberg for openSUSE Conference openSUSE Con...

openSUSE Conference is Over - Some Wrap Up

News Team 24. Sep 2009

On Sunday the first openSUSE conference (osc09) finished in Nuernberg, Germany. Overall it was great success and brought people face to face together. Participants were mo...

Issue #89 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!

News Team 19. Sep 2009

Issue #89 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE Conference Bryen Yunashko: Upcoming Board Elections Andreas Jaeg...

GPG-Keysigning Party and CaCert Assurance Event on openSUSE-Conference

News Team 16. Sep 2009

This Thursday 16:45 - 17:30 will be a GPG-Keysigning Party and a CaCert Assurance Event at the openSUSE Conference Unconference track in Nürnberg. So even if the deadline f...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 7 Released

News Team 14. Sep 2009

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that the openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 7 (M7) is available for download. This release includes GNOME 2.28 beta 2, KDE 4.3.1, RPM 4.7.1, ...

openSUSE Weekly News, issue 88 is out!

Sascha Manns 12. Sep 2009

Issue #88 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE Conference: Social Events Make Tech Easier/Joshua Price: 8 Useful and Inte...

Reminder: Power Outage in Nuernberg Office

News Team 11. Sep 2009

From Sep 12 to Sep 13 we will have a power outage in the Nuernberg office. Downtime is planned from 2009-09-11 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC) until 2009-09-14 10:00 CEST (08:00 UT...

openSUSE 11.1 KDE4 Reloaded with Online Updates and KDE 4.3.1

News Team 10. Sep 2009

Although openSUSE 11.2 is still two months away updated openSUSE 11.1 KDE4 Reloaded images previewing some changes are available now. They are respins of openSUSE 11.1 incl...

openSUSE Conference: Social Events

Henne Vogelsang 9. Sep 2009

The openSUSE Conference isn’t just an opportunity to work together — it’s also an opportunity to play together. During the conference, we’ll have several activities for at...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday September 9, 2009 at 12:00 UTC

News Team 8. Sep 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place tomorrow (Wednesday September 9th) at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting ...

openSUSE Weekly News, issue 87 out!

Sascha Manns 5. Sep 2009

Issue #87 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Keynote Update: Lenz Grimmer to Keynote openSUSE Conference Masim Sugianto: Indones...

Reminder: Weekly News Team Meeting

Sascha Manns 5. Sep 2009

The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place today (Saturday September 05) at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter cha...

Keynote Update: Lenz Grimmer to Keynote openSUSE Conference

News Team 3. Sep 2009

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that Lenz Grimmer will be delivering the opening keynote for the first-ever openSUSE Conference. The openSUSE Conference will be h...

Power Outage in Nuernberg Office

News Team 2. Sep 2009

From Sep 12 to Sep 13 we will have a power outage in the Nuernberg office. Downtime is planned from 2009-09-11 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC) until 2009-09-14 10:00 CEST (08:00 UT...

Keysigning Party @ openSUSE Conference

Andreas Jaeger 2. Sep 2009

Extend the web of trust! Take part at the Keysigning Party during openSUSE Conference. There will be two Keysigning Party sessions during the openSUSE Conference, so every...

openSUSE Weekly News, issue 86 out!

Sascha Manns 29. Aug 2009

Issue #86 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 6 Released Jan Weber: Summary of openSUSE @ FrOSCon 2009 ...

Apache Foundation's Gianugo Rabellino to Keynote openSUSE Conference

News Team 27. Aug 2009

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce its second confirmed keynote for the first-ever openSUSE Conference. Our closing keynote will be delivered by Gianugo Rabellino,...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 6 Released

News Team 24. Aug 2009

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that the openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 6 (M6) is available for download. This release includes new packages on the GNOME and KDE live CD...

openSUSE News Team Releases Survey Results

Sascha Manns 24. Aug 2009

The openSUSE News team has taken the comments from its recent survey and created a white paper for the openSUSE community. The paper also provides insight into the state of...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday August 26, 2009 at 16:00 UTC

News Team 24. Aug 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place today (Wednesday August 26) at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be...

openSUSE Weekly News, issue #85

Sascha Manns 22. Aug 2009

Issue #85 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Change in Maintenance for openSUSE 11.2 and Future Versions Joe Brockmeier: OpenSou...

Reminder: Weekly News Team Meeting

Sascha Manns 20. Aug 2009

The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place Saturday August 22 at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held...

Change in Maintenance for openSUSE 11.2 and Future Versions

News Team 18. Aug 2009

Michael Löffler has announced to the opensuse-announce mailing list: With regards to the discontinuation mail for openSUSE 10.3 sent out by Marcus the other day I’d like...

openSUSE Weekly News, issue 84

Sascha Manns 15. Aug 2009

Issue #84 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 5 released People of openSUSE: Marcus Schaefer Li...

People of openSUSE: Marcus Schaefer

News Team 13. Aug 2009

Marcus Schaefer is busy with Build Service, KIWI and SUSE Studio. Every openSUSE user, that tuned graphic, used SaX2. The xorg.conf created with SaX2 has this line: # C...

Mirrors for openSUSE-Education

News Team 10. Aug 2009

I’m proud to announce that the download area of //www.opensuse-education.org/ is sponsored now by 6 (!) mirrors. A big “thank you” to each of them: InterNetX GmbH ...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 5 Released

News Team 10. Aug 2009

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 5 (M5) is now available for download. It includes several updates, new features, bugfixes, and other improvements. This milestone includes KDE 4.3 f...

OpenSUSE Weekly News: Changes

Sascha Manns 8. Aug 2009

Hello Readers. The Weekly News editorial Team is pleased to announce, that we have made some changes. We publish the Weekly News each Saturday after proofreading. New...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 83

Sascha Manns 8. Aug 2009

Issue #83 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: KDE 4.3 review Marek Stopka: YaST Education module is no more GSoC project ...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday August 12, 2009

News Team 7. Aug 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place today (Wednesday August 12) at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be...

Unofficial openSUSE KDE 4.3 RPMs and Live CDs

News Team 6. Aug 2009

Get the latest KDE hot off the presses! The KDE Project announced the stable KDE 4.3 release this week, and openSUSE users can get the goods right away. The KDE 4.3 releas...

Reminder: Weekly News Team Meeting

Sascha Manns 6. Aug 2009

We are pleased to invite you (Editors/Translators) to the Weekly-News Team Meeting. The Topics from our Meeting are placed in: //en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meeti...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 82

Sascha Manns 4. Aug 2009

Issue #82 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Milestone 4 released Hackweek IV Results Vincent Danen: System monitoring...

openSUSE Conference Keynote Announcement - Register Today to Attend!

News Team 30. Jul 2009

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the first confirmed keynote for the first-ever openSUSE Conference. The openSUSE Conference is an opportunity for openSUSE contrib...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Today

News Team 29. Jul 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place today (Wednesday July 29) at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be h...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 81

Sascha Manns 28. Jul 2009

Issue #81 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Call for openSUSE Core Test Team Hackweek IV Linux.com/Rob Day: The Kerne...

Ready to Rumble: openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 4 Released

News Team 27. Jul 2009

Looking for some summer fun? Try the latest milestone release for openSUSE 11.2! Milestone 4 is hot off the openSUSE Build Service and ready for your testing pleasure.This ...

LinuxTag Videos Online - openSUSE Day at LinuxTag 2009

News Team 24. Jul 2009

Thanks to Jürgen we now have all presentations (documents and videos) from openSUSE day at LinuxTag online. This time Jürgen managed it with his unbeatable charm to get a ...

Reminder: openSUSE Weekly News Team Meeting

Sascha Manns 23. Jul 2009

We are pleased to invite you (Editors/Translators) to the Weekly-News Team Meeting. The Topics from our Meeting are placed in: //en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meet...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 80

Sascha Manns 21. Jul 2009

Issue #80 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Register Today for the openSUSE Conference! Lydia Pintscher: The Way to Amarok 2.2 ...

Register Today for the openSUSE Conference!

News Team 16. Jul 2009

Join us in Nürnberg, Germany, 17 September through 20 September for the first-ever openSUSE Conference! The openSUSE Conference schedule is up and registration is open! At...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday July 15 at 12:00 UTC

News Team 14. Jul 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday July 15th at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held in...

Hack Week IV Approaches

News Team 8. Jul 2009

Novell is once again sponsoring a Hack Week, from July 20 through July 24th. This is an opportunity for Novell’s Open Platform Solutions developers to use their Innovation ...

openFATE - Adding New Features Now Open for Everybody

News Team 1. Jul 2009

From openFATE’s launch in January ‘09 the addition of a new feature was limited to openSUSE members. Due and thanks to several requests out of the openSUSE community we cha...

iFolder Packages Available for 11.1

News Team 30. Jun 2009

Good news, everybody! iFolder client packages are now available for openSUSE 11.1 from the openSUSE update repositories. This means you can install iFolder client on openSU...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting July 1 at 16:00 UTC

News Team 30. Jun 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday July 1 at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held in IR...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 3 Available

News Team 29. Jun 2009

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 3. Images are ready for download and testing. This release includes the 2.6.30 Linux kern...

openSUSE Forums Hits 30,000 Users!

News Team 27. Jun 2009

Short but sweet post here: Getting a few numbers on community growth for the openSUSE Day introduction at LinuxTag, I noticed that the openSUSE Forums have now passed 30,00...

openSUSE at LinuxTag Pictures: Day One

News Team 25. Jun 2009

Once again, it’s LinuxTag time, and (of course) openSUSE is there. Today was day one of LinuxTag, and the openSUSE crew turned out to talk openSUSE, Build Service, and SUSE...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 77

News Team 24. Jun 2009

Issue #77 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE Factory is now open GSoC Status Reports Lubos Lunak: OpenOffice....

openSUSE Factory is Now Open

News Team 18. Jun 2009

openSUSE development is now even more open than before. Factory development is changing, and we’re making it easier for contributors to take responsibility for packages and...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 76

News Team 16. Jun 2009

Issue #76 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: OpenSUSE at the Southeast Linuxfest Status Reports from Google Summer of Code ...

Infrastructure Maintenance Downtimes

News Team 16. Jun 2009

We do a number of software and hardware updates this week for our openSUSE servers. That means that some services will not be available for some time. Tuesday 10:00 UTC Ma...

People of openSUSE: Lars Müller

News Team 13. Jun 2009

Lars Mueller is one of Samba developers. I have limited need for Samba which is the most often used way to connect Windows and Linux networked computers, so I couldn’t mis...

openSUSE at the SouthEast LinuxFest

News Team 10. Jun 2009

If you’re in, around, or near Clemson, South Carolina this weekend don’t miss the SouthEast LinuxFest at Clemson University! The openSUSE Project will be exhibiting at the ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 75

News Team 9. Jun 2009

Issue #75 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: KDE 4.2.4 released OSC 0.118 beta 1 released Dirk Mueller: KDE:KDE4:UNSTA...

iFolder IRC Meeting June 9 at 14:00 UTC

News Team 8. Jun 2009

The iFolder project will be having its monthly meeting tomorrow, June 9th, at 14:00 UTC. The meeting will be held in the #ifolder channel on Freenode. iFolder is a simple,...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 74

News Team 2. Jun 2009

Issue #74 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Announcing the openSUSE Ambassadors Program openSUSE Education Gnome 2.26...

Reminder: openSUSE Conference Call for Participation Deadline June 5

News Team 1. Jun 2009

The deadline for the openSUSE Conference call for participation is coming up pretty rapidly – Friday, June 5th is the last day to submit a proposal. We’re looking for contr...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday June 3rd at 16:00 UTC

News Team 29. May 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday June 3rd at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held in ...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 Released

News Team 28. May 2009

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce the second milestone release for openSUSE 11.2 is ready for download. This release includes Firefox 3.5 beta 4, KDE 4.3 beta 1, GN...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 73

News Team 27. May 2009

Issue #73 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Moblin v2.0 Beta on openSUSE Andrew Wafaa: New openSUSE Netbook Images Do...

Announcing the openSUSE Ambassadors Program

News Team 27. May 2009

Want to help spread the word about the openSUSE Project and encourage more people to become part of the openSUSE Community? Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and spread...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 72

News Team 21. May 2009

Issue #72 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Community Week Pascal Bleser : vnstat on openSUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise i...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday

News Team 19. May 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday May 20th at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held in ...

Moblin v2.0 Beta on openSUSE

News Team 19. May 2009

Today Intel and the Linux Foundation released a technology preview of the Moblin v2 beta, including the Moblin User Interface (UI) that is optimized for netbooks. To give a...

openSUSE Weekly News - openSUSE Community Week Special Edition

News Team 15. May 2009

The Community Week special edition of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! For a list of available translations see this page: //en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Communit...

Thursday openSUSE Community Week Sessions

News Team 14. May 2009

It’s hard to believe we’re already on day four of openSUSE Community Week ! Let’s take a look at all the fun that’s in store for Thursday, May 14th: GNOME Testing ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 71

News Team 13. May 2009

Issue #71 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Get Ready for the openSUSE Community Week Jan-Simon Möller: GSoC Introduction openS...

Wednesday openSUSE Community Week Sessions

News Team 13. May 2009

The openSUSE Community Week is going strong! The fun kicks up a notch Wednesday with sessions with the openSUSE Board and a workshop with the openSUSE Weekly News team, in ...

Tuesday openSUSE Community Week Sessions

News Team 12. May 2009

The openSUSE Community Week is going strong! Monday kicked off with a number of really informative and well-attended sessions on GNOME, KDE, testing, packaging, and more. T...

Monday Community Week Sessions

News Team 11. May 2009

openSUSE Community Week runs from May 11 through May 17. Our community week is a chance to get people from around the world together at the same time to focus on specific t...

iFolder Project Meeting Tuesday, May 12

News Team 8. May 2009

On the iFolder mailing list, Brent McConnell has announced the first iFolder Project meeting on May 12 at 14:00 GMT. Meeting Agenda includes: Engineering update. ...

Get Ready for openSUSE Community Week!

News Team 7. May 2009

The first openSUSE Community Week is just around the corner. May 11 through May 17 we’ll be hosting live sessions in IRC to help grow the openSUSE Community. Community w...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 70

News Team 5. May 2009

Issue #70 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: KDE4 Reloaded Google Summer of Code Introduction OpenOffice.org 3.1beta6 ...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday May 6th at 17:00 UTC

News Team 4. May 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday May 6th at 17:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held in I...

People of openSUSE: Jim Henderson

News Team 3. May 2009

I noticed Jim by his thoughtful replies on openSUSE mail lists and forums. He has ability to listen, understand and answer in the way that correspondent can not only find ...

openSUSE 11.1 KDE4 Reloaded: Includes KDE 4.2.2 and 11.1 Updates

News Team 1. May 2009

While 11.2 is still months away there’s still plenty of activity going on with openSUSE. In addition to last week’s milestone release, you can also get your hands on openSU...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 69

News Team 29. Apr 2009

Issue #69 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 1 Released People of openSUSE: Jan Engelhardt Mic...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 1 Released

News Team 24. Apr 2009

Lizard lovers, get ready to start your engines! The first milestone release for openSUSE 11.2 is now ready for your testing pleasure. Please note: This is a milestone rele...

People of openSUSE: Jan Engelhardt

News Team 23. Apr 2009

Jan is one of silent community members that is active in kernel packaging and development area. Thanks to him openSUSE users have had chance to try stable real time kernel ...

openSUSE Community Week Coming May 11 through May 17

News Team 22. Apr 2009

Want to contribute to the openSUSE Project, but not sure where to start? Join us for the openSUSE Community Week May 11 through 17th. Want to help lead the project and ment...

openSUSE Google Summer of Code Accepted Projects Announced

News Team 21. Apr 2009

On Monday, Google announced the accepted projects for all of the Google Summer of Code organizations. The openSUSE Project has nine projects that were accepted for the Summ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 68

News Team 21. Apr 2009

Issue #68 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Call for Participations: openSUSE Summit 2009 openSUSE at LinuxFest Northwest ...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday April 22 at 13:00 UTC

News Team 18. Apr 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday April 22nd at 13:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held i...

Google Summer of Code Status Update

News Team 16. Apr 2009

Quick status update on the Google Summer of Code program for openSUSE. The deadline for student applications has passed, and yesterday was the “duplicate resolution” meetin...

Call for Participations: openSUSE Summit 2009

News Team 16. Apr 2009

The openSUSE Project is opening the call for participation in the openSUSE Summit 2009, to be held September 17 through 20 in Nuremberg, Germany. We’re looking for contribu...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 67

News Team 14. Apr 2009

We want YOU ! The openSUSE Weekly Newsletter team needs your support - join the crew ! Wanted: Editors for the main newsletter Translators for Italian, Russian, Swedis...

openSUSE at LinuxFest Northwest

News Team 14. Apr 2009

Join the openSUSE Project as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of LinuxFest Northwest! The openSUSE Project will be exhibiting at LinuxFest Northwest on April 25th and 26...

People of openSUSE: Jean-Daniel Dodin

News Team 13. Apr 2009

Jean-Daniel Dodin is openSUSE member since the very beginning. He is the first sysop of //fr.opensuse.org and in general very active openSUSE and Linux advocate, both on an...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 66

News Team 8. Apr 2009

We want YOU ! The openSUSE Weekly Newsletter team needs your support - join the crew ! Wanted: Editors for the main newsletter Translators for Italian, Russian, Spanis...

Next Steps for Google Summer of Code

News Team 7. Apr 2009

The Google Summer of Code application period ended last Friday, April 3rd. We’re now in the interim period until April 15th. The full timeline is available on Google’s site...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday (April 8)

News Team 7. Apr 2009

Just a quick reminder: the next openSUSE Project meeting is April 8th, at 16:00 UTC. (See The Fixed Time World Clock for the time in your time zone.) As always, the meeting...

People of openSUSE: Sascha saigkill Manns

News Team 6. Apr 2009

Sascha is active in many areas of openSUSE (Marketing, Feature Screening and using Build service for his projects), but he is particularly active in openSUSE Weekly News. M...

Final Reminder: Student Applications Due Friday at 19:00 UTC for Google Summer of Code

News Team 2. Apr 2009

Just a final reminder: The Google Summer of Code applications are due for students tomorrow by 19:00 UTC.  Get those applications in now, folks! (That’s Friday, April 3.) W...

KDE Bug Squashing and Packaging Day: Sunday April 5, 2009

News Team 2. Apr 2009

Will Stephenson has announced that the KDE team will be having a bug squashing and packaging workshop day on Sunday, April 5: I'm happy to announce that we're having a bug...

openSUSE Conference Set for September 17-20 in Nuremberg

News Team 31. Mar 2009

The openSUSE Project will be having its first full-on contributor’s conference this September in beautiful Nuremberg, Germany. There’s still a lot of planning to be done, ...

Google Summer of Code Update

News Team 31. Mar 2009

If you’re still thinking about submitting an application for the openSUSE Project (or, actually, any project) for Google Summer of Code - the deadline is Friday, April 3rd ...

openSUSE Project at LinuxExpo in Prague

News Team 31. Mar 2009

The openSUSE Project is bringing the green to Prague in April! The openSUSE Project will have a booth, demos, and several presentations at the LinuxExpo in Prague, April 15...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 65

News Team 28. Mar 2009

Issue #65 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Update on iFolder openSUSE Weekly News @ RadioTux.de People of openSUSE i...

openSUSE Weekly News @ RadioTux.de (live/podcast)

News Team 26. Mar 2009

We’re pleased to announce that as of today the great team of RadioTux will include a summary of openSUSE Weekly News in their German-speaking podcast “Radiotux@HoRads”. It’...

People of openSUSE is back

News Team 25. Mar 2009

We will start new round of People of openSUSE interviews with openSUSE community members. Just as before, the aim is to make you familiar with people behind openSUSE projec...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 64

News Team 25. Mar 2009

Issue #64 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE Build Service 1.5 Announced Gabriel Stein: SuSE-Studio - Quick and Easier ...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Tomorrow (March 25)

News Team 24. Mar 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place tomorrow, Wednesday March 25th at 12:00 UTC (13:00 CET) See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the m...

Reminder: Student Application Period for GSoC Starts Today

News Team 23. Mar 2009

Quick reminder: The student application period starts today for the Google Summer of Code 2009. (See the previous post on GSoC and openSUSE.) If you’d like to work with o...

Planet SUSE DNS Troubles

News Team 20. Mar 2009

Stephan Binner reported on -announce that there’s a problem with the DNS for Planet SUSE at the moment. If you’re trying to reach Planet SUSE, you can still reach it at pla...

openSUSE Project Accepted to Google Summer of Code 2009

News Team 19. Mar 2009

Once again, the openSUSE Project will be participating in Google’s Summer of Code program! openSUSE was one of the 150 mentoring organizations accepted this year, and we’re...

openSUSE Build Service 1.5 Announced

News Team 19. Mar 2009

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.5 release of the openSUSE Build Service. This release takes developers beyond just building packages. You can now build your...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 63

News Team 17. Mar 2009

Issue #63 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Geeko wants you! Update on openSUSE Infrastructure Services (download.opensuse.org)...

Update: download.opensuse.org Restored

News Team 12. Mar 2009

Good news, everybody! The download.opensuse.org and stage.opensuse.org systems are now fully restored, and all services should now be available. DNS has been changed to po...

SUSE in LPAR on as400 Featuring openSIS

News Team 12. Mar 2009

openSIS is proud to announce that we are beginning construction of a Linux server on an IBM iSeries computer using a SUSE LPAR.  This is a joint venture proof of concept wi...

Update on openSUSE Infrastructure Services (download.opensuse.org)

News Team 11. Mar 2009

We’ve restored user services to download.opensuse.org and are working to restore all services and add redundancy to the system. The repository inconsistencies last night w...

Downtime for download.opensuse.org

News Team 10. Mar 2009

Peter Poeml has reported that the storage array is down for download.opensuse.org. We don’t have a definite time for it to be up again, but it could be more than one day. W...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 62

News Team 10. Mar 2009

Issue #62 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE Project Meeting next Wednesday openSUSE Trademark Guidelines Released ...

Gearing Up for Google Summer of Code

News Team 7. Mar 2009

The openSUSE Project is looking for a few good mentors for the Google Summer of Code 2009! The openSUSE Project was a mentoring organization last year, and we’re hoping to ...

openSUSE Project Meeting on Wednesday, March 11 at 17:00 UTC

News Team 5. Mar 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will be Wednesday, March 11th, at 17:00 UTC on Freenode. Again that’s: 2009-03-11 17:00 UTC See all the timezones here: //is.gd/lZgv. T...

11.2 Roadmap and Fixed Release Cycle for openSUSE

News Team 5. Mar 2009

The roadmap for 11.2 is now set, and openSUSE is getting a fixed release cycle!  Codenamed  “Fichte,” openSUSE 11.2 is planned for release in November, and releases thereaf...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 61

News Team 3. Mar 2009

Issue #61 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Joe Brockmeier: Addressing the layoffs Andrew Wafaa: Open Support Masim S...

openSUSE Trademark Guidelines Released

News Team 2. Mar 2009

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the openSUSE Trademark Guidelines (PDF). With the guidelines, the openSUSE Project is looking to clarify the use ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 60

News Team 24. Feb 2009

Issue #60 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Open Letter to the openSUSE Community Andrew Wafaa: Ciao For Now And Bonne Chance A...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 59

News Team 17. Feb 2009

Issue #59 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! New layout ! In this week’s issue: Special Edition about FOSDEM2009 OpenOffice_org 3.0.1 final available...

FOSDEM openSUSE.org Devroom Recordings

Thomas Schmidt 17. Feb 2009

This year Juergen and me (tom) went to FOSDEM to do the video recordings of the talks in the openSUSE developer room. Last year we had some problems with the sound quality,...

FOSDEM, The Day After

News Team 9. Feb 2009

The Car crew arrived today at 01:00 in Nuremberg, except some snowstorms at Cologne it was a very smooth ride. This year we had really luck with the weather. What i heard s...

More Efficient Factory Development

News Team 5. Feb 2009

The openSUSE Factory distribution is our permanent development distribution. Currently used to develop openSUSE 11.2. We want to make the factory distribution better usable...

FOSDEM ...

News Team 4. Feb 2009

Preparing stuff for FOSDEM, call me Sir Printalot. So we have nametags (if you didn’t added you to the list you have to live with a handwritten one), schedules and posters....

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 57

News Team 3. Feb 2009

Issue #57 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! New layout ! In this week’s issue: openSUSE@FOSDEM2009 HP Builds on the openSUSE Education Project ...

People of openSUSE

News Team 3. Feb 2009

Who is this guy named notlocalhorst, FunkyPenguin or cb400f? Well, without people of openSUSE it’s quite hard to tell if you didn’t met them in person. So it’s a great over...

KDE 4.2 in openSUSE [Updated]

News Team 29. Jan 2009

The KDE Project released KDE 4.2 on Tuesday, and of course openSUSE packages were available in time for the release. If you missed the pointer from the KDE announcement inf...

openfate – New Features

News Team 29. Jan 2009

[29.01.2009 16:51] <digitltom> features.opensuse.org updated including vote system :-) Wow, that was fast. openfate already had a lot of features to make feature ...

HP Builds on the openSUSE Education Project

News Team 29. Jan 2009

In December, HP announced that it would release a new desktop offering along with Novell targeted at education customers. Part of the announcement is a repository of educat...

Linuxtag 2009, CFP

News Team 29. Jan 2009

Marko posted yesterday that the call for papers started for Linuxtag. Of course we will have a booth and we also want to do an openSUSE day again. Last year we had 8 presen...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 56

News Team 27. Jan 2009

Issue #56 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! New layout ! In this week’s issue: FOSDEM 2009 Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors Novell...

FOSDEM 2009

News Team 21. Jan 2009

One of our favorite shows for sure, and again we will be there with a lot of people. I’m also happy that Novell sponsors the event, because we think it’s quite important a...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 55

News Team 19. Jan 2009

Issue #55 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE Project Opens Feature Tracking with openFATE openSUSE forums has reached 20...

openSUSE Project Opens Feature Tracking with openFATE

News Team 16. Jan 2009

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce that feature tracking and requests are now available to the larger openSUSE Community. The openSUSE feature tracking system, ope...

Wanted: Build Service Contributors

News Team 15. Jan 2009

Have you ever wanted to join Build Service development, but you had no idea what to implement? Would you like a real opportunity to learn Ruby on Rails? This is a great tim...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 54

News Team 13. Jan 2009

Issue #54 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Bugzilla Update to 3.2 Contributor Gifts Miguel de Icaza: Mono goes Access...

Unofficial KDE 3.5 Live CD for openSUSE 11.1

News Team 9. Jan 2009

Want classic KDE on openSUSE, without the full DVD download? Carlos Goncalves has you covered. openSUSE 11.1 Live CDs and USB images featuring KDE 3.5 are now available for...

openSUSE Project Announces csync

News Team 8. Jan 2009

Andreas Schneider has unleashed the first public release candidate of csync 0.42, which is now available as source from the csync Web site, or via one-click for openSUSE 11...

Novell Bugzilla Update to 3.2 and a Guided Report Mode

Andreas Jaeger 7. Jan 2009

To make bug reporting easier, we will be updating Novell’s Bugzilla to the latest stable release (Bugzilla 3.2) with some additional features added by Novell. This update w...

Contributor Gifts

News Team 7. Jan 2009

Today we had two posts that contributors received the Box and a very special gift. Again Salid was one of the first who got it. If you are not from Germany, you have to wai...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 53

News Team 6. Jan 2009

Issue #53 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: Masim Sugianto: First Hackfest for Indonesian openSUSE Community How to Make openSUS...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 52

News Team 1. Jan 2009

Happy New Year ! Issue #52 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! In this week’s issue: openSUSE Education available SLE10 and 11.1 Zimbra Mail Server Tra...

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