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Winner of openSUSE 2010 survey got his Chumby!

Jos Poortvliet 30. Dec 2010

[caption id=”attachment_6017” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”The lucky winner now has a Chumby!”][/caption] In February 2010 openSUSE held the openSUSE survey 201...

openSUSE Boosters Year 2010

News Team 29. Dec 2010

[caption id=”attachment_6077” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”The elusive Thirsty Thirteen”][/caption] At the end of the year it is the time for reviews and the op...

The first Marketing Collaboration days are over but more will come!

Jos Poortvliet 28. Dec 2010

On the 6th of December, the openSUSE marketing team held the first of three Collaboration Days. The goal of these days was to get on IRC together and get some tasks done. E...

openSUSE at and with FOSDEM 2011

News Team 28. Dec 2010

[caption id=”attachment_6063” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”picture by Robert Lihm”][/caption] Next years FOSDEM takes place again in Brussels on Feb 5th and 6th...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 155 is out!

Sascha Manns 25. Dec 2010

We are pleased to announce our openSUSE Weekly News Issue 155. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team Producer  Published: 2010-12-25 Table of Contents An...

Weekly News Team searches for new Contributors

Sascha Manns 24. Dec 2010

Hello Mates. Last year was a great year. We have seen a lot happen. The Relaunch of the openSUSE BuildService provides many new features for packagers. The kde-obs-genera...

openSUSE Announces Fifth Development Milestone with Kernel Interactivity Patch

Jos Poortvliet 23. Dec 2010

The openSUSE project released the fifth of six milestones in the development of openSUSE 11.4 some days ago. Milestone 5 (M5) brings a wide range of updates, both major and...

Board Meeting Summary 15 December 2010

Bryen Yunashko 21. Dec 2010

For the full transcript of the last openSUSE Board meeting, see our logs. Introduction of new openSUSE Board Chairman - Alan Clark We opened with an introduction to new B...

Attachmate Acquisition: What does it mean for SUSE, openSUSE & open source?

Jos Poortvliet 20. Dec 2010

A Q&A with Jeff Hawn, **__chairman and __CEO of Attachmate by Jos Poortvliet, openSUSE Community Manager at Novell** I had a chance to speak with Jeff Hawn, chairman a...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 154 is out!

Sascha Manns 18. Dec 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News Issue 154. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team Producer  Published: 2010-12-18 Table of Contents...

Educational track at openSUSE conference 2010 big success

Jos Poortvliet 17. Dec 2010

[caption id=”attachment_5382” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Heinz on Skolelinux”][/caption] At the openSUSE conference almost two months ago a special Educationa...

Next Tuesday: Social Media Collaboration Day

Jos Poortvliet 17. Dec 2010

Last Monday the second Marketing Collaboration Day happened - with a focus on Marketing Materials. The moderators, Chuck Payne and Bryen Yunashko, would like to thank every...

Alan Clark new openSUSE Board Chairman

openSUSE Board 14. Dec 2010

[caption id=”attachment_5918” align=”alignright” width=”252” caption=”Alan Clark. Chairman of the openSUSE Board”][/caption] As you know, Michael Loeffler has left the ope...

Holiday Wishes from the openSUSE Board

Bryen Yunashko 13. Dec 2010

Seasons Greetings to everyone in the openSUSE Community and beyond from the openSUSE Board! As we come to the end of 2010, we’d like to take a moment to reflect on a ban...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 153 is out

Sascha Manns 12. Dec 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team Producer  Published: 2010-12-11 Table of Contents Announce...

openSUSE Collaboration thrives!

Bryen Yunashko 10. Dec 2010

Earlier this week, the openSUSE Marketing Team held the first of a series of Collaboration Days in December. This was, without a doubt, a success with many of our team mem...

Join us on Saturday for the next openSUSE “Zombie” Bug Day

News Team 8. Dec 2010

On Saturday the 27th of November a Bug Day was organized to solve the issue with Zombie bugs, bugs against old, non-maintained versions of openSUSE. A team got together in ...

Greek sub-forum @ openSUSE Forums

News Team 7. Dec 2010

We are pleased to announce the Greek sub-forum is now live and ready for business. I have been working closely with: @warlordfff, who will be one of the Forum Moderators. T...

openSUSE makes a splash at Latinoware

Bryen Yunashko 7. Dec 2010

[caption id=”attachment_5804” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”The openSUSE Brasileiros!”][/caption] A few weeks ago, Latinoware offered an opportunity for the Bra...

Updating openSUSE Manuals for openSUSE 11.4

Andreas Jaeger 7. Dec 2010

With the openSUSE distribution, we have a set of openSUSE manuals and QuickStart guides. You can read them online via //doc.opensuse.org.  They are installed by default on ...

openSUSE poster and Free Software Calendar 2011 with Linux Magazin

Jos Poortvliet 6. Dec 2010

Ladies and Gentlemen The Januari edition of the German Linux-Magazin this year will feature something this Magazine has not featured for almost 10 years: a Free Software E...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 152

Sascha Manns 5. Dec 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 152. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Sascha Manns editor in chief Satoru Matsumoto Editorial office...

openSUSE Announces Fourth Development Milestone with Kernel Interactivity Patch

Will Stephenson 2. Dec 2010

On Monday, the openSUSE project released the fourth of six milestones in the development of openSUSE 11.4.  Milestone 4 (M4) brings a wide range of updates, both major and ...

Marketing Collaboration Days

Bryen Yunashko 2. Dec 2010

The openSUSE Marketing Team is proud to host Collaboration Days during the month of December.  Each designated day, we will focus on a specifc area related to marketing.  T...

Third openSUSE Board Election 2010

Sascha Manns 1. Dec 2010

We are pleased to announce the openSUSE Board Election 2010! The Election Committee this year is staffed by: Stathis Iosifidis , Sascha Manns, Satoru Matsumoto, Thomas Sc...

Feature handling for openSUSE reworked

Andreas Jaeger 30. Nov 2010

openFATE, the feature tracking tool used in openSUSE has been completely reworked and the new version is live now on features.opensuse.org. A team has started driving the ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 151 is out!

Sascha Manns 27. Nov 2010

We are pleased to announce our new issue 151. In the issue 151 you can read Novell, Attachmate and openSUSE lex Barrios: Just a small story about m...

New signing key in openSUSE:11.3:Contrib

News Team 24. Nov 2010

The old openSUSE:11.3:Contrib signing key got deleted by an accident, so we have to generate the new one and sign all packages in this repo with it. It is safe to accept ke...

Where do we need to improve?

News Team 23. Nov 2010

Community, during our bi-weekly Board Meetings on IRC we have a regular agenda topic “Where do we need to improve?”. We’re very much interested in ideas you may have to im...

Novell, Attachmate and openSUSE

News Team 22. Nov 2010

Is this thing on? tap tap. Good evening friends, this is your openSUSE Board speaking. If you didn’t hear yet, Novell has agreed to be acquired by Attachmate Corporation. W...

openSUSE Bug Day on Saturday, November 27th

Henne Vogelsang 22. Nov 2010

At the last openSUSE project meeting and after the discussion about zombie bugs on the opensuse-project mailing list, a small team of volunteers agreed to organize a Bug Da...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 150

Sascha Manns 20. Nov 2010

We are pleased to announce the Issue 150 of openSUSE Weekly News. In the issue 150 you can read Manu Gupta: Aloha openSUSE Medical Sirko Kemter: Op...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 149 is out!

Sascha Manns 13. Nov 2010

We are pleased to announce our new Issue 149. In the issue 149 you can read openSUSE News: openSUSE Announces Third Development Milestone Evaluating systemd ...

openSUSE Announces Third Development Milestone Evaluating systemd

Will Stephenson 11. Nov 2010

Delayed by a week due to a critical bug that would have prevented testing, the openSUSE project today announces openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 3 (M3), the third of six milestone r...

openSUSE at Latinoware

Jos Poortvliet 10. Nov 2010

At Latinoware, a team of openSUSE contributors will come together, not only to promote openSUSE but also to talk with each other about the future plans for the major linu...

openSUSE Forum has New News Editor

News Team 9. Nov 2010

The openSUSE Community News letter is published each week and the forum section has been edited since March 2009 by @caf4926. Starting issue 149 @knurpht (A Global Moderato...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 148 is out!

Sascha Manns 6. Nov 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News. In the issue 148 you can read Run…Or Help Run! Kostas Koudaras: 11.3 Late Launch Party ...

Run…Or Help Run!

Bryen Yunashko 4. Nov 2010

First, the Help Run…. Election season in the openSUSE Project is just around the corner. And this means the firsts step is to organize the Election Officials committee. ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 147 is out!

Sascha Manns 30. Oct 2010

We are pleased to announce the new Issue 147. In the issue 147 you can read From the Developer to the User and back – Announcing Project Bretzn SUS...

openSUSE Conference big success

Jos Poortvliet 28. Oct 2010

“Collaboration Across Borders” - Under this moto the openSUSE Community received in Nuremberg several hundreds of Free Software enthusiasts and contributors. Giving a stron...

openSUSE Conference 2010 Impression

Jos Poortvliet 27. Oct 2010

For those who couldn’t make it to the actual event, here is a little impression of the openSUSE conference. Of course, the many blogs on planet openSUSE and the cool specia...

From the Developer to the User and back – Announcing Project Bretzn

Jos Poortvliet 26. Oct 2010

At the openSUSE conference Frank Karlitschek, KDE e.V. board member and well known for his projects like GetHotNewStuff, opendesktop.org, socialdesktop.org announced a new...

Thanks for your participation at the openSUSE Conference

Andreas Jaeger 25. Oct 2010

A lot of people have been involved with the openSUSE Conference and I’ve heard a lot of people saying thanks for a great conference. This is supported by 290 attendees visi...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 146 is out!

Sascha Manns 25. Oct 2010

We are pleased to announce our openSUSE Weekly News Issue 146. In the issue 146 you can read openSUSE ass-kickin’ keynote openSUSE News: The openSU...

Smeegol at oSC

Jos Poortvliet 23. Oct 2010

[caption id=”attachment_5220” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Meeks and Wafaa”][/caption] Wednesday at the conference, Smeegol master Andrew “Funkypenguin” Wafaa w...

OSC2010 Key note – From Developers to Users and back

News Team 21. Oct 2010

Frank Karlitschek will show us on Saturday at 9:30 the project he’s working on to simplify the way software gets to users. Frank has deep knowledge in open source communiti...

openSUSE ass-kickin' keynote

Jos Poortvliet 20. Oct 2010

[caption id=”attachment_5196” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Henne kicking ass”][/caption] As 260 fans of openSUSE descended upon Nuremberg, the second annual ope...

The openSUSE Build Service 2.1 released

Andreas Jaeger 19. Oct 2010

The openSUSE Build Service - OBS - is  now officially at release 2.1. We’re delighted with the improvements in  this release, including an enhanced web interface, inte...

The third openSUSE Conference Keynote

News Team 18. Oct 2010

This Wednesday the 2nd openSUSE Conference 2010 opens its doors and we are very happy to announce the third keynote today. The Desktop and the Cloud - Thoughts about Freed...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 145 is out!

Sascha Manns 17. Oct 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News. In the issue 145 you can read Finalizing who we are… Jos Poortvliet: Last piece of strateg...

Finalizing who we are...

Jos Poortvliet 15. Oct 2010

We’re almost there, ladies and gents.![Future Lizard!](//en.opensuse.org/images/a/af/Future.png) Again there was quite some feedback on the strategy doc. We have worked to...

All play and no work makes Geeko a peppy lizard!

Henne Vogelsang 14. Oct 2010

OSC2010 Sneak Peaks – Fill up Birds of a Feather sessions

News Team 12. Oct 2010

Ladies and Gentlemen, Just one week to go untill the openSUSE conference opens its doors. We moved all Birds of a Feather (Bof) sessions and workshops out of the conferenc...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 144 is out!

Sascha Manns 9. Oct 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News. In the issue 144 you can read Announcing Smeegol 1.0 Andreas Jaeger: Revising the Board El...

OSC2010 Sneak Peaks – Conference keynotes you shouldn’t miss!

News Team 8. Oct 2010

12 days from now it will be the 20th of October - the day the openSUSE Conference will start in Nuremberg, Germany. The conference will be kicked of by keynotes on Wednesda...

openSUSE Strategy: the third and fourth part of the trilogy!

Jos Poortvliet 7. Oct 2010

Hi all,![Future Lizard!](//en.opensuse.org/images/a/af/Future.png) The last week we again received over 100 comments on the first and second part of our strategy. A few re...

Keysigning Party @ openSUSE Conference

Andreas Jaeger 7. Oct 2010

Extend the web of trust! Take part at the Keysigning Party during openSUSE Conference. There will be one Keysigning Party session during the openSUSE Conference: Friday, O...

openSUSE Announces Second 11.4 Development Milestone With New Kernel, OpenOffice, Mesa

Will Stephenson 7. Oct 2010

Today, Thursday October 7, the openSUSE project announces Milestone 2 of openSUSE 11.4.  Milestone 2 (M2) is the second of six periodic development snapshots of openSUSE 11...

Announcing Smeegol 1.0

News Team 6. Oct 2010

The openSUSE Goblin Team are pleased to announce the first public release of Smeegol. Smeegol is based on the netbook user interface that came from the MeeGo(TM)* projec...

Marketing Team Meeting

Andreas Jaeger 5. Oct 2010

The monthly meeting of the openSUSE Marketing Team Meeting is held on the third Tuesday of each month at 15:00 UTC on Freenode IRC network, channel #openSUSE-Marketing.  Al...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 143 is out!

Sascha Manns 2. Oct 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News. In the issue 143 you can read OSC2010 Sneak Peaks – Take an LPI exam at openSUSE Conference 2010 ...

Deadline for travel and hotel sponsorship requests for openSUSE conference

Jos Poortvliet 29. Sep 2010

Hi all! Friday the 1st of October will be the deadline for requesting travel and hotel sponsorship requests for the openSUSE conference. We will notify those who will rece...

openSUSE Ambassadors rocking around the world!

Jos Poortvliet 29. Sep 2010

Last week our Ambassadors did what they do every week: promote openSUSE. They went to meetings, conferences and tradeshows for a talk or staffing a booth. And they organiz...

OSC2010 Sneak Peaks – Take an LPI exam at openSUSE Conference 2010

News Team 28. Sep 2010

Thanks to the support of Linux Professional Institute (LPI) we are able to provide a number of the well known and useful LPI exams to be taken at the openSUSE Conference 20...

openSUSE: Target Aquired

Jos Poortvliet 27. Sep 2010

Hi all,![Future Lizard!](//en.opensuse.org/images/a/af/Future.png) Over the last week you have all given input on the new strategy document describing the target users of ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 142 is out!

Sascha Manns 25. Sep 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News #142. In the issue 142 you can read Easily Building Software for Multiple Distributions and Platforms ...

openSUSE Wiki Upgrade

No Content Found 24. Sep 2010

We have just completed the upgrade to the 1.16 release of MediaWiki.  This release comes with several improvements in functionality and performance.  Anyone who is interest...

OSC2010 Sneak Peaks – Bernhard Wiedemann: Automated Testing

Henne Vogelsang 22. Sep 2010

> [![](/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/sneakpeek-logo2.png)](//news.opensuse.org/category/sneak-peeks/) > > The openSUSE Conference brings together users, contr...

Easily Building Software for Multiple Distributions and Platforms

Jos Poortvliet 20. Sep 2010

In a little over a month, the openSUSE conference 2010 will start under the title “collaboration accross borders”. This article highlights one of the main topics at this co...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 141 is out!

Sascha Manns 18. Sep 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News. In the issue 141 you can read openSUSE Conference 2010 – Collaborate Across Borders Jos P...

OSC2010 Sneak Peaks – Vincent Untz: Explaining GNOME 3

Henne Vogelsang 15. Sep 2010

> > ![](/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/sneakpeek-logo2.png) > > > > The openSUSE Conference brings together users, contributors and friends of the op...

openSUSE Conference 2010 – Collaborate Across Borders

Jos Poortvliet 13. Sep 2010

The openSUSE Conference brings together users, contributors and friends of the openSUSE project from 20th to 23rd October in Nuremberg, Germany. Over four days, more than s...

Forum Users Benefit from openSUSE KDE Repository

News Team 12. Sep 2010

Without question, users who frequent the openSUSE forums are very appreciative of all the work being done by ALL the various development teams. The progressive nature of KD...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 140 is out!

Sascha Manns 11. Sep 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News. In the issue 140 you can read openSUSE News: SUSE Studio Contest – you have until the end of this mon...

New Search for openSUSE Wiki

No Content Found 10. Sep 2010

Here is the news that a lot of you have been waiting for!  The new wikis (en.opensuse.org, languages.opensuse.org, and dewiki.opensuse.org) have been switched to the new Lu...

SUSE Studio Contest - you have until the end of this month!

Jos Poortvliet 8. Sep 2010

For those who didn’t know yet, about two weeks ago Novell introduced SUSE Gallery.com where you can submit your SUSE Studio Appliances for the world to see and download. Ov...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 139 is out!

Sascha Manns 5. Sep 2010

Now we are ready. We’re pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News #139. Enjoy it! :-) In the issue 139 you can read Strategy sucks Rares Aio...

Strategy sucks

Jos Poortvliet 3. Sep 2010

strategy statement from team Hi all, Over the last weeks there has been a lot of disussion, both internally and externally, about the strategies which have been proposed....

openSUSE Connect Beta

Will Stephenson 3. Sep 2010

As a result of the openSUSE Boosters’ ‘HackMeck’ two weeks ago at FrOSCoN we are proud to present you with a new beta of openSUSE Connect. Connect is supposed to become th...

openSUSE Announce First 11.4 Development Milestone With Improved Package Management Performance, New XOrg, KDE and GNOME

Will Stephenson 2. Sep 2010

[caption id=”attachment_4093” align=”alignright” width=”240” caption=”Metalink multichannel download, so package candy melts your screen, not your internet connection.”][/c...

Software Freedom Day is Coming!

Jos Poortvliet 30. Aug 2010

On September 18, it is international Software Freedom Day. Software Freedom Day aims to celebrate Free Software and the people behind it. It wants to spread the word about ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 138 is out!

Sascha Manns 28. Aug 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 138! In the issue 138 you can read Andreas Jaeger: Revising the Board Election Rules ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 137 is out!

Sascha Manns 22. Aug 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 137. We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 137. In the issue 137 you can read ...

Server maintenance next Saturday, the 21 August

News Team 18. Aug 2010

We will have a service outage this saturday (21 August) due to work on power supply in one of our server rooms. This means the following services will not be accessable on ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 136 is out!

Sascha Manns 14. Aug 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 136! In the issue 136 you can read KDE bug team asks for help on Friday 13th Andrew ...

KDE bug team asks for help on Friday 13th

Jos Poortvliet 11. Aug 2010

Javier sent us the following announcement: It's my pleasure to announce the next KDE Bug triage :-) It will begin next Friday (13th) and end on Monday (16th). The aim of...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 135 is out!

Sascha Manns 10. Aug 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 135. In the issue 135 you can read We’re a happy family – The Boosters are hiring! M...

openSUSE Connect hacking session at FrOSCon 2010

News Team 9. Aug 2010

Join the HackMeck! HackMeck is the weekend hack retreat of the openSUSE Boosters team in the openSUSE development room @ FrosCON. The aim of HackMeck is to advance Conne...

Canning the Spam

No Content Found 6. Aug 2010

The new wiki has attracted a lot of attention from users and contributors of openSUSE.  Unfortunately, it has also gained the attention of spammers, as the wiki team has be...

We’re a happy family – The Boosters are hiring!

Henne Vogelsang 5. Aug 2010

The openSUSE Boosters are a team of people helping developers of the openSUSE project to take off. It consists of people with skills ranging from low level C hackery ove...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 134 is out!

Sascha Manns 31. Jul 2010

We are pleased to announce our brand new openSUSE Weekly News 134! :-) In the issue 134 you can read The openSUSE Project welcomes Jos Poortvliet as new Commu...

The openSUSE Project welcomes Jos Poortvliet as new Community Manager

News Team 28. Jul 2010

We’re proud to announce today that Jos Poortvliet will join the openSUSE project and Novell as openSUSE Community Manager starting on August 1. With Jos we’ve found a lea...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 133 out now!

Sascha Manns 24. Jul 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 133! In the issue 133 you can read Timeline for openSUSE’s strategy discussion Sirko Kemter...

Timeline for openSUSE’s strategy discussion

News Team 21. Jul 2010

Due to the positive fact that more proposals emerge, we wanted to take the time to make them into polished proposals that we want to publish for discussion as well. Here’s...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 132 it out!

Sascha Manns 18. Jul 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News! In the issue 132 you can read openSUSE 11.3 is here! OBS Development Team Member Job Positi...

openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 11.3 available now!

News Team 17. Jul 2010

openSUSE Education team is very thrilled to announce the availability of openSUSE Edu: Linux for Education(Li-f-e). Li-f-e is built on openSUSE 11.3. The aim of this DVD...

openSUSE 11.3 Launch Information

Andreas Jaeger 16. Jul 2010

We had a successful openSUSE 11.3 launch yesterday. The announcement itself saw many friendly comments. Many people retweeted the announcement from @openSUSE. Besides the ...

openSUSE 11.3 is here!

Bryen Yunashko 15. Jul 2010

[caption id=”attachment_3836” align=”alignleft” width=”300” caption=”openSUSE 11.3 is here!”][/caption] The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the late...

New wiki, what now?

Henne Vogelsang 12. Jul 2010

We just switched to the new wiki. So here it is. And now? Let me explain what you can do to help! Create your user page Every user of the wiki has a personal page and we ...

Change in openSUSE Membership handling

News Team 12. Jul 2010

Anyone can become openSUSE member after showing continued and substantial contribution to the project of any kind (bugs, support in forums, wiki edits, code contribution et...

openSUSE Weekly News #131 is out!

Sascha Manns 10. Jul 2010

We are pleased to announce our openSUSE Weekly News #131. In the issue 131 you can read openSUSE Wiki - Episode II: A new hope KDE Desktop Tricks...

openSUSE.org Scheduled Outage

News Team 9. Jul 2010

On Saturday, July 10th from 09:00 AM CET to 03:00 PM CET, our infrastructure vendor will be shutting down services in the Nuremberg (Germany) data center to allow for a sch...

openSUSE Wiki Change Scheduled

No Content Found 9. Jul 2010

As mentioned in earlier posts, the new English wiki is scheduled to go live on Monday.  Here are a few technical details about the change itself: Schedule ...

The devil is in the details – What changes on monday for the wiki oldtimers?

Henne Vogelsang 8. Jul 2010

A couple of days ago I gave you the big picture on what will happen to en.opensuse.org on Monday when we switch to the new wiki. Now let me go into the nitty gritty details...

Call for Volunteers: Moderators for the German Forums needed

Sascha Manns 8. Jul 2010

Note: A German version is below - Deutsche Version unten. We plan to create a German Forum at forums.opensuse.org in the near future. So we’re searching for Moderators. I...

openSUSE Wiki – Episode II: A new hope

Henne Vogelsang 5. Jul 2010

You hear it in the bushes since quite some time, rumors spread and people whisper about it: A new wiki for the openSUSE project is coming very soon! The openSUSE Wiki team ...

Maintenance for openSUSE 11.0 extended

News Team 5. Jul 2010

openSUSE 11.0 was released on 19th of June 2008 and was planned to be under security maintenance for two years. Upon multiple requests from the community, the SUSE Security...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 130 is out!

Sascha Manns 3. Jul 2010

We are pleased to Announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 130! In the issue 130 you can read Prepare for Landing - openSUSE 11.3 RC2 is now available! ...

openSUSE checking instrumentation -- Prepare for Landing -- openSUSE 11.3 RC2 now available!

Bryen Yunashko 1. Jul 2010

Following up on Michael Loeffler’s previous RC1 announcement, openSUSE is now doing a final check of instrumentation before landing.  The weather continues to be clear and ...

openSUSE Forums – vBulletin Upgrade Complete

News Team 1. Jul 2010

The vBulletin software that is the ‘Nuts and Bolts’ behind the openSUSE Forum has just undergone a major upgrade from v3 to v4. This resulted in some considerable down time...

CFP Extended for Ohio Linux Fest

Bryen Yunashko 29. Jun 2010

The Ohio Linux Fest will be on September 10-12, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio.  There is now a one-week extension for Call for Partiicipation. If any of you are in the Ohio ar...

openSUSE Weekly News Issue 129 is out!

Sascha Manns 26. Jun 2010

We’re pleased to announce our brand new openSUSE Weekly News Issue 129! In the issue 129 you can read Michael Löffler: Let’s beat the drum for openSUSE confere...

openSUSE 11.3 Launch Party in Nürnberg (15.7.)

Thomas Schmidt 24. Jun 2010

On July 15th you are invited to celebrate with us the latest release of our distribution: openSUSE 11.3! **Who? **All people interested in openSUSE. Please spread the wo...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 128 is out!

Sascha Manns 19. Jun 2010

We are pleased to announce our openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 128. In the issue 128 you can read openSUSE 11.3 RC1 is available Wiki change postponed ...

Plan your openSUSE 11.3 release party now!

News Team 18. Jun 2010

As openSUSE 11.3 is around the corner and will be released on July 15, it’s now the right time to prepare your Launch Paty in our city or region. Gnokii just posted on th...

openSUSE approaching destination - please fasten your seat belts - openSUSE 11.3 RC1 is available

News Team 17. Jun 2010

Ladies and Gentlemen, Please fasten your seat belts, the touch down area is in sight we do have clear view and smooth weather conditions. So we expect a smooth landing f...

A Strategy for the openSUSE Project: Proposals and Discussions

Andreas Jaeger 17. Jun 2010

As announced previously, the openSUSE Board and its Strategy Team have worked on three strategic proposals to define the direction of openSUSE’s future, as a Project, Commu...

openSUSE Weekly News Issue 127 is out!

Sascha Manns 12. Jun 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News Issue 127! In the issue 127 you can read openSUSE Build Service 1.8 and 2.0 Announced Dann...

openSUSE Build Service 1.8 and 2.0 Announced

Andreas Jaeger 9. Jun 2010

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.8 and 2.0 releases of the openSUSE Build Service (OBS). It is an open package and distribution development platform that pro...

An Update about the Strategy Proposals

Bryen Yunashko 9. Jun 2010

We wanted to give you an update regarding the status of our Strategy Team’s release of strategy proposals for public discussion.  Truth is, despite our best intentions to r...

Get Boostered at LinuxTag 2010

Henne Vogelsang 8. Jun 2010

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openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 126 is out!

Sascha Manns 5. Jun 2010

Weekly news We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News Issue 126. [![](//wiki.opensuse.org/images/6/6d/Opensuse_weekly_news_banner.png)](//wiki.op...

openSUSE.org Scheduled Outage Update

No Content Found 2. Jun 2010

The outage planned for this Saturday (June 5th) has been rescheduled.  The outage is now scheduled to take place between 20:00 and 00:00 GMT (4:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT).  The...

openSUSE @ LinuxTag 2010 – We want to meet you!

News Team 1. Jun 2010

openSUSE -  as usual - will be at LinuxTag. We have booth #203 in hall 7.2a and will show there the openSUSE Build Service 2.0 release which is scheduled for June 11 and ho...

openSUSE Forums Poised to Support the next Release, 11.3.

News Team 1. Jun 2010

With a good selection of Forum users already working with openSUSE’s development version of the next openSUSE release 11.3 - The forums will be a great place to stop for s...

openSUSE Strategy Meeting – wrap up

Bryen Yunashko 1. Jun 2010

As in michl’s post announced a the openSUSE Board and some other community members met the past weekend in Nürnberg to have a comprehensive 2.5 days face to face meeting . ...

openSUSE Conference 2010 Call for Papers

News Team 31. May 2010

The openSUSE Project Team is happy to announce that the 2nd international openSUSE Conference will take place in Nuremberg, Germany between 20-23 October 2010. After the g...

Boosters: Umbrella Sprint Summary

News Team 31. May 2010

For the last few months some of the Boosters were working on “Umbrella” infrastructure concept for openSUSE. Various web tools grew over time and unfortunately they becam...

openSUSE Weekly News #125 is out!

Sascha Manns 29. May 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News Issue 125. Enjoy it… ## Contents * 1 Editors Note * 2 Announcements * 2.1 op...

openSUSE.org Scheduled Outage

No Content Found 27. May 2010

On Saturday, June 5th, most of openSUSE.org will be down due to a network upgrade in the data center.  The outage is scheduled to take place between 13:00 and 17:00 GMT (9:...

openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 7: Preparing for RC Phase

Andreas Jaeger 26. May 2010

Milestone 7, a snapshot of the openSUSE Factory “work in progress” build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M7 is the last mi...

openSUSE Build Service 2.0 Beta1 Release Brings New User Interface

Andreas Jaeger 25. May 2010

The openSUSE Build Service (obs) is an open package and distribution development platform that provides a transparent infrastructure that allows developers to build for var...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 124 is out!

Sascha Manns 22. May 2010

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News Issue 124. ![](//wiki.opensuse.org/images/thumb/b/be/Logo-geeko_head.png/32px-Logo-geeko_head.png) openSU...

openSUSE Strategy Meeting

News Team 20. May 2010

For the past few months we, the openSUSE Board, together with the great help from Kurt Garloff, Jan Weber and Andreas Jaeger, held a series of strategy sessions to address ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 123 is out!

Sascha Manns 15. May 2010

openSUSE Weekly News is translated into many languages. Take a look at this page for currently available translations. ## Contents * [1 Editors Not...

openSUSE Weekly News #122 is out!

Sascha Manns 8. May 2010

We pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News Issue 122. ![Geeko](//en.opensuse.org/images/thumb/2/22/Geeko_head_simple.png/32px-Geeko_head_simple.png) ope...

Updates Go Twitter

Andreas Jaeger 5. May 2010

For our openSUSE distributions, we release regularly updates to fix security issues and general bugs.  As desktop user, you get notified in GNOME and KDE via the updater ap...

openSUSE@LinuxTag 2010

Henne Vogelsang 4. May 2010

LinuxTag 2010 is around the corner. There will be openSUSE Rock ‘N’ Roll from June 9 to 12 at the Berlin Fairgrounds! We just received word that our project got accepted ...

openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 6: The Dust Begins to Settle

News Team 3. May 2010

Milestone 6 (of 7), a snapshot of the Factory “work in progress” build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M6 is the first relea...

openSUSE Weekly News, issue 121 is out!

Sascha Manns 1. May 2010

We are pleased to annouunce the new Weekly News #121 ![Geeko](//en.opensuse.org/images/thumb/2/22/Geeko_head_simple.png/32px-Geeko_head_simple.png) openSUSE Week...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 120 is out!

Sascha Manns 24. Apr 2010

We are pleased to announce our openSUSE Weekly News Issue 120! ![Geeko](//en.opensuse.org/images/thumb/2/22/Geeko_head_simple.png/32px-Geeko_head_simple.png) open...

People of openSUSE: Andrew Wafaa

Sascha Manns 19. Apr 2010

**People of openSUSE ** Your Full Name: Andrew Wafaa IRC Nick: FunkyPenguin, FunkyPenguin_mob Favorite Season: Whichever one my favorite team wins. Motto: Personal: Be...

OBS MeeGo Developer Meeting

News Team 19. Apr 2010

OBS Developers from MeeGo project visited the SUSE OBS Developers in Nürnberg on friday and saturday. Not everybody managed to come due to the ash over europe, but at least...

openSUSE Weekly News, issue 119 is out!

Sascha Manns 17. Apr 2010

We are pleased to announce our openSUSE Weekly News Issue 119. ![Geeko](//en.opensuse.org/images/thumb/2/22/Geeko_head_simple.png/32px-Geeko_head_simple.png) open...

openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5: The Community Strikes Back

News Team 14. Apr 2010

Milestone 5 (of 7), a snapshot of the Factory “work in progress” build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M5 was marked by signif...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 118 is out!

Sascha Manns 10. Apr 2010

1 Editors Note 2 Announcements 2.1 Pascal Bleser: Planet openSUSE fixes and improvements 2.2 Pascal Bleser: Pla...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 117 is out!

Sascha Manns 3. Apr 2010

Issue #117 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! Contents 1 Editors Note 2 Announcements 2.1 Novell Wins Again - Jury Rules Copyrig...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 116 is out!

Sascha Manns 27. Mar 2010

Issue #116 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! Contents 1 Editors Note 2 Announcements 2.1 openSUSE News: Planet SUSE Status ...

openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 Release

Andreas Jaeger 25. Mar 2010

The fourth of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 4 focuses on switching to upstart as init daemon. Here’s ...

openSUSE Education Li-f-e Update

Andreas Jaeger 24. Mar 2010

The openSUSE Education team is happy to announce the availability of the updated openSUSE Education Li-f-e DVD iso. The Linux for Education (Li-f-e) contains a wide selec...

Planet SUSE Status

Andreas Jaeger 23. Mar 2010

Planet SUSE aggregates blog posts from the SUSE Linux universum, including openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise.  It aggregates not only English blog posts but also as separa...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 115 is out!

Sascha Manns 20. Mar 2010

Issue #115 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! Contents [hide] 1 Editors Note 2 Announcements 2.1 openSUSE News: openSUSE 11.3 Milestone ...

openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 3 is out!

News Team 15. Mar 2010

The third of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 3 focuses on using GCC 4.5 as the default compiler, leaving a g...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 114 is out!

Sascha Manns 13. Mar 2010

Issue #114 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! Sascha Manns: Geeko wants you: Weekly News Team searches for new Translators Cornelius Schumacher: Are y...

openSUSE Build Service 1.7.2 Released

News Team 11. Mar 2010

The openSUSE Build Service team is happy to announce the availability of OBS 1.7.2. This release brings beside bug fixes also some new features back ported from master bra...

Reminder: German Wiki Team Meeting

Sascha Manns 9. Mar 2010

The next openSUSE german Wiki Team meeting will take place tomorrow Wednesday March 09 at 18:00 GMT. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-wiki-de ...

openSUSE Weekly News Team Meeting

Sascha Manns 9. Mar 2010

The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place Saturday March 13  at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter channel on...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 113 is out!

Sascha Manns 6. Mar 2010

Issue #113 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! Pavol Rusnak: Announcing Connect! Andrew Wafaa: openSUSE & Google Summer of Code 2010 Bent...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 112 is out!

Sascha Manns 27. Feb 2010

Issue #112 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! Honoring openSUSE Wiki Reviewing Contributions Michal Hrusecky: Public openSUSE 11.3 virtual machine ...

openSUSE Weekly News Team Meeting

Sascha Manns 26. Feb 2010

The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place tomorrow (Saturday February 27)  at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newslet...

Honoring openSUSE Wiki Reviewing Contributions

News Team 22. Feb 2010

Community, we previously put a lot of efforts into encouraging the community to contribute to our Wiki Usability Concept for both the English and the German Wiki, i.e. to ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 111 is out!

Sascha Manns 20. Feb 2010

Issue #111 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! openSUSE News: Number Two Always Tries Harder: openSUSE Milestone 2 Linux User & Developer/Kunal De...

Reminder: openSUSE Weekly News Team Meeting

Sascha Manns 18. Feb 2010

The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place Saturday February 20 at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter channel on...

Number Two Always Tries Harder: openSUSE Milestone 2

Henne Vogelsang 17. Feb 2010

Late last month we released the first milestone of openSUSE 11.3, now we follow up with the second. Milestone 2 is part of the milestones where we track new releases in the...

Reminder: openSUSE german Wiki Team Meeting

Sascha Manns 17. Feb 2010

The next openSUSE german Wiki Team meeting will take place Saturday February 26) at 11:00 GMT. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-wiki-de channel...

Attention All KDE Users

Will Stephenson 16. Feb 2010

KDE SC 4.3.5 is about to become available for openSUSE 11.2 as an online update (from 4.3.1). This release fixes many bugs, so we decided to push it as an online update in...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 110 is out!

Sascha Manns 13. Feb 2010

Issue #110 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! openSUSE News: Call for Volunteers in the German Wiki Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett: You don’t need Kopete Fac...

openSUSE Forum Team gets a Makeover

News Team 12. Feb 2010

The openSUSE Forum Team of Administrators and Moderators has had an overhaul following a review by the openSUSE board. The new team can be reviewed here: Forum team. The fo...

Meet The KDE Plasma Developers at SUSE, Feb 22

Will Stephenson 11. Feb 2010

On the evening of Monday the 22nd of February, the KDE Plasma, KWin and Oxygen developers will be holding a public event at the SUSE office in Nuremberg, Germany. All are ...

Call for Volunteers in the German Wiki

Sascha Manns 9. Feb 2010

some of you have noticed, that we’re making a Cleanupsession in the German Wiki. Old Articles are to be deleted, other just to updated. Now we have created a new QA-Set wit...

openSUSE Build Service 1.7 now available

News Team 9. Feb 2010

Today, the openSUSE Build Service team released the latest version of the openSUSE Build Service, a tool that provides software developers with the ability to create and re...

openSUSE Survey 2010 - Participate now

News Team 7. Feb 2010

Participate in the openSUSE survey 2010 to give feedback to the openSUSE project about the distribution, the openSUSE tools environment and the project in general. Let us k...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 109 is out!

Sascha Manns 6. Feb 2010

Issue #109 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! Its here! openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1 Sirko Kemter: First Art-Team meeting OStatic/Joe Brockmeier...

Reminder: first openSUSE Medical Team Meeting

Sascha Manns 5. Feb 2010

The first openSUSE-Medical Team meeting will take place tomorrow (Saturday February 6) at 14:00 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-medica...

openSUSE Build Service 1.7 RC 1

News Team 4. Feb 2010

We are happy to announce that we reached a state which can be considered as final version of 1.7.0. No more changes, except for the version number are planned until 1.7.0 ...

Its here! openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1

Henne Vogelsang 1. Feb 2010

Its here! The first openSUSE 11.3 Milestone. This is the first step toward the next openSUSE release. The most important goal of this first milestone is to test the build i...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 108 is out!

Sascha Manns 30. Jan 2010

Issue #108 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! openSUSE News: Wanted: Linux Community Manager Sirko Kemter: Art-Team meeting Worldlabel.com/D...

Wanted: Linux Community Manager

News Team 27. Jan 2010

At the end of this month Zonker, our openSUSE community manager for the last two years, will be leaving Novell. On behalf of the whole openSUSE community I would like to ta...

openSUSE Art Team Meeting

News Team 25. Jan 2010

The openSUSE Art Team Meeting will take place on Saturday, the 30th of January, 2010 at 16:00 UTC in #opensuse-artwork IRC channel on irc.freenode.net This will be the fir...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 107 is out!

Sascha Manns 23. Jan 2010

Issue #107 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! Wiki Cleanup – Geeko wants you! Masim Sugianto: Recover Deleted Files on Linux with Extundelete ...

openSUSE @ FOSDEM 2010

Henne Vogelsang 19. Jan 2010

It is that time of the year again! FOSDEM will take place at the first weekend in February (6th/7th) in Brussels and we’re going to attend. There is a buttload of tracks...

openSUSE releases the openSUSE Build Service(OBS) Beta 2 today

News Team 18. Jan 2010

This release is now feature complete and also the API should be final by now. Biggest changes since beta 1 are: Switch to Ruby on Rails 2.3.5 The branch...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 106 is out!

Sascha Manns 16. Jan 2010

Issue #106 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! openSUSE News: OBS supports new branch and merge handling Unixmen/srlinuxx: Five useful extensions for ...

Reminder: openSUSE Weekly News Team Meeting

Sascha Manns 15. Jan 2010

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

The openSUSE Forums Reach 40,000 Users

News Team 12. Jan 2010

The openSUSE Forums blew past another milestone on January 5th. More than 40,000 users are now registered on the openSUSE Forums! The forums are currently at 40,445 users,...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday January 13th, 2010 at 16:00

News Team 11. Jan 2010

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday, January 13, at 16:00 UTC. The meeting time in all time zones are listed on the Fixed Time World Clock. Project ...

OBS supports new branch and merge handling

News Team 11. Jan 2010

Michael Schröder put some effort into supporting a new way of doing a branch and merge of a package with openSUSE Build Service (OBS). This is a new feature of OBS 1.7 rele...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 105 is out!

Sascha Manns 9. Jan 2010

Issue #105 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! openSUSE Spotlight: The next openSUSE Survey Katarina Machalkova: YaST is falling, make a wish ...

openSUSE Weekly News, issue 104 is out!

Sascha Manns 2. Jan 2010

Issue #104 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! TooManyTabs - Saves Your Memory 1.1.0 Alcaro Soliverez/kde.news: First KMyMoney Beta Version Available fo...

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