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openSUSE 12.1 Reveiew by Terence Lam

Manu Gupta 30. Dec 2011

This review is written by Terence Lam a student from Singapore sharing his experiences with openSUSE In this review, I will install openSUSE 12.1, try out GNOME and KDE an...

openSUSE Weekly News 207 is out!

Sascha Manns 24. Dec 2011

We are pleased to announce our openSUSE Weekly News Issue 207. Sadly we can just release a PDF Version. You can find it there: //bit.ly/vwq9yW

systemd – boot faster and cleaner with openSUSE 12.1

Manu Gupta 22. Dec 2011

openSUSE 12.1 features systemd as a replacement for the System V init daemon. systemd provides a new and improved way of booting up your system and managing services. It co...

openSUSE and ownCloud

Jos Poortvliet 20. Dec 2011

openSUSE 12.1 has been released a few weeks ago. A major new technology we introduce in this release is ownCloud, which we ship in a separate repository. ownCloud is a we...

openSUSE Weekly News Issue 206 is out!

Sascha Manns 17. Dec 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 206. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 206 Edition Legal Notice This work (com...

openSUSE Board Election 2011 results

Izabel Valverde 17. Dec 2011

The openSUSE Election Officials is pleased to announce the 5th openSUSE Board e__l__ected by openSUSE community. The new board members are Pascal Bleser, Will Stephenson a...

FOSDEM12 Cross-Distribution Devroom: (Last) Call for Participation

Henne Vogelsang 16. Dec 2011

FOSDEM is the biggest event organized by and for the Free and Open Source (FOSS) community. Its goal is to provide developers a place to meet, come together and share and d...

Forums and Wikis and Blogs, Oh MY!

MatthewEhle 12. Dec 2011

It has been suggested that I write a post explaining some of the big changes that we have been doing with the forums, wikis, and blogs over the last few weeks.  Here is a q...

openSUSE Weekly News 205 is out!

Sascha Manns 10. Dec 2011

We are pleased to announce our Issue 205 of the openSUSE Weekly News. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 205 Edition Legal Notice This ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 204 is out!

Sascha Manns 4. Dec 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 204. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 204 Edition Legal Notice This work (com...

openSUSE Board election 2011 started

Izabel Valverde 2. Dec 2011

The openSUSE board election just started! Please go to: https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/polls/read/digitaltomm/15228/opensuse-board-election-2011 and cast your vote for t...

Join The G(r)EEKOS Release Parties!!!

George Bratsos 29. Nov 2011

The openSUSE 12.1 distribution is released. After 8 months of hard work by the openSUSE community, the result could be something less than awesome. It is true that openSU...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 203 is out!

Sascha Manns 26. Nov 2011

We are pleased to announce our Issue 203 of openSUSE Weekly News. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 203 Edition Legal Notice This work...

Maintenance downtime Thursday 2011-11-24

Lars Vogdt 23. Nov 2011

We need some maintenance downtime to work on the following issues: fix storage problems on Build Service machines increase network subnet mask for extern...

openSUSE Weekly News 202 is out!

Sascha Manns 19. Nov 2011

We are pleased to announce our Issue 202 of openSUSE Weekly News. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 202 Edition Legal Notice This work...

openSUSE 12.1 Launch Feedback

Andreas Jaeger 19. Nov 2011

openSUSE 12.1 was launched on Wednesday and it’s time to look back at the successful launch of a great distribution. We’ve seen a lot of positive feedback regarding openSU...

openSUSE participates in Google Code-in

Manu Gupta 18. Nov 2011

Introducing people to the world of free and open source software (FOSS) has always been a priority for the openSUSE project. We’re not only doing so for new users with our ...

openSUSE 12.1: All Green!

Jos Poortvliet 16. Nov 2011

It is November 16, 2011 and our mirrors have synced. Time to present to you: openSUSE 12.1! This release represents more than eight months of work by our international com...

Almost openSUSE 12.1

Izabel Valverde 15. Nov 2011

[caption id=”attachment_11851” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Welcome to openSUSE 12.1!”][/caption] Yes, it is almost time. Tomorrow openSUSE 12.1 will be release...

Join or organize openSUSE 12.1 Launch parties!

Jos Poortvliet 15. Nov 2011

[caption id=”” align=”alignright” width=”200” caption=”Party time!”][/caption] We’re almost there. In two days openSUSE once again releases a new, improved version of its ...

openSUSE Weekly News 201 is out!

Sascha Manns 12. Nov 2011

We are pleased to announce the openSUSE Weekly News 201. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 201 Edition Legal Notice This work (compila...

Continuous Integration testing for openSUSE available!

Jos Poortvliet 10. Nov 2011

The development process of the Open Build Service (OBS) code base as well as it’s accompanying tools is largely test-driven. Major parts of the OBS source code are covered...

Geekos go on G+

Kostas Koudaras 8. Nov 2011

The IT world moves fast and along with it does social networking. It’s been only a few days since Google announced the limited availability of Google+ pages and already th...

The Green Planet

Kostas Koudaras 7. Nov 2011

The last few days those of you linked to the planet by //planetsuse.org/ are experiencing connection problems. This is not because openSUSE Planet is down but as Pascal B...

openSUSE Weekly News Issue 200 is out

Sascha Manns 7. Nov 2011

We are pleased to announce our openSUSE Weekly News 200. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 200 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilat...

Are you ready for RC2?

Jos Poortvliet 3. Nov 2011

Following the openSUSE 12.1 roadmap, RC2 has been released upon this innocent world. This is your final chance to test openSUSE 12.1 before we move to the final version! W...

Will you Party?

Kostas Koudaras 2. Nov 2011

A little over two weeks left for openSUSE 12.1 to be released on November, 16th 2011. And there is no better way to enjoy the new release than with your fellow openSUSE p...

Help us spread the word on openSUSE 12.1!

Jos Poortvliet 1. Nov 2011

Heya all, In less than 3 weeks, our little baby, openSUSE 12.1, will be released into the wild. Now as you know, babies need lots of attention! This is where we need YOU....

openSUSE Medical Project searches for new Leadership and other participation

Sascha Manns 31. Oct 2011

Hello Mates! openSUSE Medical here! Well i would to announce that “openSUSE Medical Calling and also needs you” a) Due to lack of time (i’ve began my Master Studies abr...

openSUSE Weekly News Issue 199 is out!

Sascha Manns 29. Oct 2011

We are pleased to announce our openSUSE Weekly News Issue 199. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 199 Edition Legal Notice This work (c...

Fourth openSUSE Board Election 2011

Izabel Valverde 28. Oct 2011

This years openSUSE Election Committee is in the pleasant position to announce the 2011 Board Elections. So, if you want to participate in the openSUSE board and influence...

Coffee talk with Michael Miller

Kostas Koudaras 26. Oct 2011

Friday 16.09, while working on the openSUSE 12.1 marketing actions during the Marketing Hackfest, two of us had the spontaneous idea to suggest an interview to Michael Mill...

Help out with testing at openSUSE

Manu Gupta 25. Oct 2011

One of the most important activities during software development is testing. In FOSS community, software often gets tested by the developers themselves, other developers ...

Internet at openSUSE Conference 2011

Andreas Jaeger 25. Oct 2011

At the openSUSE conference 2011, there was especially one area that caused us the previous years some trouble and this year nobody spoke about since it just worked fine: Wi...

openSUSE 12.1 RC1 spotted in the wild

Jos Poortvliet 24. Oct 2011

As was already blogged by Vincent Untz, a few weeks after our last milestone was released as beta 1, the first Release Candidate of openSUSE 12.1 is now floating over the ...

openSUSE Weekly News Issue 198 is out!

Sascha Manns 22. Oct 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News Issue 198. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 198 Edition Legal Notice This wor...

openSUSE Weekly News 197

Sascha Manns 16. Oct 2011

We are pleased to announce Issue 197 from openSUSE Weekly News. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 197 Edition Legal Notice This work (...

openSUSE Weekly News Issue 197 (PDF)

Sascha Manns 16. Oct 2011

Due to technical issue, the release of HTML version will be delayed by several days. Sorry for the inconvenience. Download the PDF

Interview about openQA

Kim Leyendecker 14. Oct 2011

Last week, openQA 1.0 was released. We did an interview with Bernhard Wiedeman, the main developer of openQA. First of all, what´s your job regarding the openQA project...

openSUSE Announces First Public Release of openQA

Jos Poortvliet 11. Oct 2011

The openSUSE Project announces the 1.0 release of the unique cross-distribution-capable, fully automated testing framework openQA. openQA is the only comprehensive testin...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 196 is out with: 12.1 Beta,Board Election,ARM

Sascha Manns 9. Oct 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News Issue 196. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 196 Edition Legal Notice This wor...

openSUSE Board Election Committee Formed

Bryen Yunashko 5. Oct 2011

The 2011 openSUSE Board term is soon coming to an end. In the last few project meetings as well as at the conference, the board has called for people to step up for the E...

Hackweek results for openSUSE ARM

Jos Poortvliet 4. Oct 2011

Last Friday Dirk Müller send an email to openSUSE-Factory about the status of the openSUSE ARM port. SUSE employees Adrian, Alexander, Dirk and Reinhard had spend their H...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 195 is out with: Get your package in 12.1, Hackweek and Getting your Article in news.o.o

Sascha Manns 1. Oct 2011

We are pleased to announce our next openSUSE Weekly News 195. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 195 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation)...

openSUSE 12.1 Beta Arrives!

Bryen Yunashko 1. Oct 2011

The much-awaited Beta release of openSUSE 12.1 is here!  And just in time for your weekend Beta Pizza Party.  So fire up that oven and warm up that download manager because...

openSUSE Pizza Parties the Geeko Way

Kostas Koudaras 30. Sep 2011

The new openSUSE 12.1 Release is approaching very soon and all you Geekos should not miss the opportunity of becoming a double GPM! Party time starts this weekend and l...

Get your package in Factory for 12.1!

Jos Poortvliet 27. Sep 2011

The upcoming openSUSE 12.1 release is being developed in Factory. According to the release schedule the Toolchain and several other critical components are frozen, but th...

openSUSE Weekly News Issue 194 is out with Hackweek 7, Women in openSUSE and Wunderlist

Sascha Manns 24. Sep 2011

We are pleased to announce the openSUSE Weekly News Issue 194. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 194 Edition Legal Notice This work (c...

SUSE Hackweek 7 – Next Week

News Team 22. Sep 2011

One of the ways SUSE and its developers contribute to openSUSE is through Hackweek: - a week long sprint permitting developers to work on something entirely of their own de...

openSUSE 12.1 Beta taking more time to become good

News Team 21. Sep 2011

Last Friday Stephan Kulow, our openSUSE Release Manager, started a discussion on Factory mailing list about show-stoppers for the 12.1-Beta release scheduled for 2011-09-22...

Systemd is being removed from Tumbleweed

Kostas Koudaras 20. Sep 2011

Respecting users is a priority to the openSUSE Project so when something does not work the way it should be, taking a step back is more preferable than delivering something...

openSUSE Weekly News 193 is out with Conference, Libre Office 3.4 and next Nepomuk

Sascha Manns 17. Sep 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 193. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 193 Edition Legal Notice This work (com...

openSUSE Conference Fun!

Jos Poortvliet 15. Sep 2011

At the openSUSE conference in Nürnberg almost 400 visitors have shown up for the four tracks of sessions about technical and community matters and the many other events an...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 192 is out!

Sascha Manns 10. Sep 2011

We are pleased to announce the openSUSE Weekly News 192. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 192 Edition Legal Notice This work (compila...

openSUSE celebrates Beta with BetaPizza Parties!

Jos Poortvliet 6. Sep 2011

The openSUSE community is happy to announce that the 6th Milestone of the upcoming release will be renamed openSUSE 12.1 Beta. This change in name reflects the state of t...

OBS downtime scheduled for Tuesday 2011-09-06 08:00 – 11:00 CEST

Lars Vogdt 6. Sep 2011

The OBS-Team is going to replace some backend servers on next Tuesday. Therefore, a downtime is scheduled from 08:00 to 11:00 CEST, altough we believe it won’t take that l...

Sponsors present at openSUSE Conference 2011

Jos Poortvliet 5. Sep 2011

The openSUSE Conference 2011 team is happy to announce the partners for this year’s conference. Aside from sponsoring, there are contributions in terms of sessions, media...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 191 is out!

Sascha Manns 3. Sep 2011

We are pleased to announce the openSUSE Weekly News 191. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 191 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is l...

Drone On!

Jos Poortvliet 2. Sep 2011

Among other things, the openSUSE project is about “having a lot of fun”. In that spirit we would like to add a bit of diversion and an extra incentive for everyone to regi...

And the Milestones Keep On Coming!

Bryen Yunashko 1. Sep 2011

Fire up your virtual machines, get your test machines motoring, and start tweaking your fingers.  It’s testing time! openSUSE 12.1’s next milestone 5 is now ready for down...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 190 is out!

Sascha Manns 27. Aug 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 190. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 190 Edition Legal Notice This wo...

Honey, your conference is on the phone!

Bryen Yunashko 25. Aug 2011

As we continue to work towards making this years conference the best ever, there’s one cool new thing we’ve never done before: Introducing the openSUSE Conference App for y...

Fun, fun, fun at OSC11

Henne Vogelsang 22. Aug 2011

The Zentrifuge, our conference location this year, is build in an old factory that was used for the production of washing machines (centrifuge, get it?). The bridging betwe...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 189 is out!

Sascha Manns 20. Aug 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 189. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 189 Edition Legal Notice This wo...

Open Bugs Day on August 21

Andreas Jaeger 20. Aug 2011

The Testing Core Team has decided to hold our third Open Bugs Day (OBD) on Sunday August 21 from 0:00 to 23:59 UTC. To ensure that all the testers are using the same code...

The openSUSE Conference Program and Keynote Speakers

Bryen Yunashko 19. Aug 2011

With our conference, osc11, fast approaching (Have you registered yet? If not, what are you waiting for?!), the excitement is building all over the project. Its quite some...

openSUSE Conference 2011

Henne Vogelsang 15. Aug 2011

The third openSUSE Conference, osc11, kicks off on Sunday September 11, 2011 in Nuremberg, Germany. Under the motto RWX³ all Free and Open Source Software enthusiasts are ...

openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 11.4 update release announcement

Kim Leyendecker 15. Aug 2011

 The openSUSE Education team is proud to announce the release of updated openSUSE Edu Li-f-e - Linux for Education. A Linux distribution that provides parents, students,...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 188 is out!

Sascha Manns 13. Aug 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 188. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 188 Edition Legal Notice This work (com...

Strategy DONE!

Jos Poortvliet 9. Aug 2011

Almost 2 years ago, at the first openSUSE conference, a discussion started about Strategy. A few months ago a final document was ready and on July 14th 2011, the strategy...

openSUSE Weekly News 187 is out!

Sascha Manns 6. Aug 2011

We are pleased to announce our Issue 187 from openSUSE Weekly News. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 187 Edition Legal Notice This wo...

And they keep rocking…

Jos Poortvliet 4. Aug 2011

[caption id=”attachment_9741” align=”alignright” width=”225” caption=”Getting ready to rock in Thessaloniki”][/caption] Over the last few months the openSUSE ambassadors h...

1st Greek openSUSE Collaboration Summer weekend Camp: The Report

Kostas Koudaras 3. Aug 2011

From Friday the 15th to Sunday the 17th of July Lizards and other FOSS enthusiasts were gathered at Katerini for the 1st Greek openSUSE Collaboration Summer weekend Camp....

Are you ready for RWX³ ?

Kostas Koudaras 1. Aug 2011

Less than 50 days left before the 3rd openSUSE conference starts. A lot of people are working hard for this to be another successful gathering. Are you registered yet? If...

Volunteers needed for the conference

Henne Vogelsang 1. Aug 2011

As you know, the third international openSUSE Conference is happening in a couple of weeks from now, you already should be registered! For the organization team this means ...

openSUSE Weekly News 186 is out!

Sascha Manns 30. Jul 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 186. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 186 Edition Legal Notice This work (com...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 185 is out!

Sascha Manns 23. Jul 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 185. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 185 Edition Legal Notice This work (com...

Conference travel sponsorship program

Henne Vogelsang 23. Jul 2011

The openSUSE conference team is starting the travel sponsorship program to financially support community members to attend the conference. Apply now online until August 5th...

Last Call for openSUSE Conference Papers!

Bryen Yunashko 22. Jul 2011

With the days closing in on us before the next great openSUSE Conference in Nuremberg, Germany 11-14 September, 2011, we’re seeing a lot of awesome papers being submitted t...

A new milestone on the cloud: openSUSE releases milestone 3

Ricardo Chung 22. Jul 2011

Just a few days ago the third of six milestones on the road to openSUSE 12.1 has been made available for testing before it goes to final release November 11th, 2011.  (Yes,...

People of openSUSE: Mihnea Dobrescu-Balaur

Kim Leyendecker 20. Jul 2011

**Nickname:** mihneadb / used to be CrAzzY_ in online games **Homepage: ** none **Blog:** none **Favorite season:** Winter ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 184 is out!

Sascha Manns 16. Jul 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 184. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 184 Edition Legal Notice This work (com...

Opensuse Conference Registration Open

14. Jul 2011

How to start a project: Education

Kostas Koudaras 13. Jul 2011

The Education project provides parents, students and teachers as well as IT admins running labs at educational institutes with education and development resources for their...

openSUSE and RW Sessions — The Workshop

Bryen Yunashko 13. Jul 2011

In our last article focusing on openSUSE Conference sessions, we discussed the BoF. In today’s article, we’ll explore the why, what and how of a workshop. Teach Them To ...

openSUSE Conference CfP deadline extended

Jos Poortvliet 11. Jul 2011

Over the last month the conference team has received a large number of proposed sessions for the openSUSE conference. However, we also realize we have not entirely capital...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 183 is out!

Sascha Manns 10. Jul 2011

We are pleased to announce our Issue 183 of openSUSE Weekly News. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 183 Edition Legal Notice This work...

Have a computer? Then you can participate in the HCL Week!

Manu Gupta 8. Jul 2011

Aloha openSUSE Users! Now is an excellent time to help openSUSE! If you have openSUSE running on your system, all you have to do is add your hardware to the openSUSE Har...

People of openSUSE: Manu Gupta

Kim Leyendecker 5. Jul 2011

**Nickname:** manugupt1 over www and Manu in the real world **Homepage: ** **Blog:** [Http://sysbytes.wordpress.com](//sysbytes.wordpress.com/) ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 182 is out!

Sascha Manns 2. Jul 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News Issue 182. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 182 Edition Legal Notice This wor...

openSUSE Continues Brazilian Blaze!

Bryen Yunashko 29. Jun 2011

Continuing the great work of our Ambassadors of the Southern Hemisphere, our Brazilian openSUSE team once again gets ready for a strong openSUSE presence in Brazil beginnin...

openSUSE strategy voting close to the finish line!

Jos Poortvliet 27. Jun 2011

As we wrote three weeks ago, June 30th is the deadline for voting for the openSUSE Strategy! Relevance 2 years ago the subject came up at the openSUSE conference: what ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 181 is out!

Sascha Manns 25. Jun 2011

We are pleased to announce the openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 181. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 181 Edition Legal Notice This work (...

People of openSUSE: Christos Bountalis

Kim Leyendecker 23. Jun 2011

**Nickname:** mpounta **Homepage: ** //cbounta.wordpress.com/ **Blog:** //cbounta.wordpress.com/ **Favorite ...

openSUSE releases milestone 2

Jos Poortvliet 22. Jun 2011

About 3 weeks after the first milestone for openSUSE 12.1, today the second milestone has been made available. Following the Roadmap, this is the second of 6 milestone un...

Build Service Down Time – Fixed

Andreas Jaeger 21. Jun 2011

We are currently facing a hardware problem with the openSUSE Build Service. Affected services are: //build.opensuse.org //api.opensuse.org //...

openSUSE Summer Camp Greece 2011

Kostas Koudaras 20. Jun 2011

Summer in Greece! Is the weather too hot for you to code or contribute to your favorite FOSS project? Do you need some motivation and a refreshing swim? Come to our Summ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 180 is out!

Sascha Manns 18. Jun 2011

We are pleased to announce our openSUSE Weekly News Issue 180. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 180 Edition Legal Notice This work (c...

openSUSE and online storage and syncing

Jos Poortvliet 17. Jun 2011

The ‘cloud’ has been a buzzword for quite a while. While some are still rather cynical towards the concept, products like mobile phones with Android have shown the value ...

openSUSE and online services

Jos Poortvliet 16. Jun 2011

The ‘cloud’ has been a buzzword for quite a while. While some are still rather cynical towards the concept, products like mobile phones with Android have shown the value ...

openSUSE Conference and RW sessions – the BoF

Jos Poortvliet 14. Jun 2011

The openSUSE conference team adopted the UNIX acronym RWX for this year’s conference. The goal with this theme is to emphasize the stronger focus on getting-things-done a...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 179 is out!

Sascha Manns 11. Jun 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 179. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 179 Edition Legal Notice This work (com...

New Leadership inside the Medical Project

Sascha Manns 9. Jun 2011

During the first openSUSE Conference in 2009, the idea was born to start a project to package and publish software for medical purposes. Since then, many packages were buil...

World IPv6 Day Results

Lars Vogdt 9. Jun 2011

Yesterday was World IPv6 Day and openSUSE participated in it. We hope the experiment was as successful for the other participants as it was for us! Here is a short statu...

openSUSE conference looking for sponsors

Jos Poortvliet 8. Jun 2011

Like the previous years, the openSUSE conference team is looking for sponsors. The conference has grown 35% last year and we expect it to grow even more this year so fina...

Time to vote on the openSUSE Strategy!

Jos Poortvliet 7. Jun 2011

Over the last year an openSUSE strategy discussion has been ongoing. Beginning this year things went quiet for a while as everyone was busy with the openSUSE 11.4 release...

Get your fresh kernels from openSUSE and test Linux 3.0!

Jos Poortvliet 6. Jun 2011

The openSUSE kernel developers have recently announced that the kernel git trees have moved to kernel.opensuse.org/git, providing better reliability than gitorious. Gitor...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 178 is out!

Sascha Manns 4. Jun 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 178. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 178 Edition Legal Notice This wo...

openSUSE Conference CFP going strong!

Bryen Yunashko 2. Jun 2011

The openSUSE Conference 2011 has been announced and already we’re getting some strong proposals for topics to cover during our conference.  It’s not too late for you to s...

First step towards 12.1 with Milestone 1

Jos Poortvliet 1. Jun 2011

[caption id=”attachment_9068” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Experimental openSUSE 12.1 artwork”][/caption] Milestone 1, the first step towards the upcoming openS...

openSUSE and World IPv6 Day

Jos Poortvliet 31. May 2011

In a little over a week it will be World IPv6 day. This day is meant to call attention to the fact that IPv4 addresses have run out and the web has to move on to IPv6. ope...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 177 is out!

Sascha Manns 28. May 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 177! openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 177 Edition Legal Notice This work (com...

People of openSUSE: Jeff Mahoney

Kim Leyendecker 27. May 2011

**Nickname:** Jeff **Homepage: ** h[ttp://www.jeffreymahoney.com/](//www.jeffreymahoney.com/) **Blog:** N/A **Favorit...

FOSSCOMM 2011

Andreas Jaeger 27. May 2011

FOSSCOMM 2011 was held in Patras on the 7 to 8 May from Patras Linux User Group (PLUG) and the Department of Computer Engineering & Information Technology (Computer Lab...

openSUSE renames OBS

Jos Poortvliet 26. May 2011

The openSUSE Build Service Team has decided to rename its cutting-edge packaging- and distribution build technology to Open Build Service. The new name, while maintaining t...

Mailinglist and Features Server down for filesystem check

Lars Vogdt 26. May 2011

Sorry, but we expect our main mailing-lists server (lists.opensuse.org) and our features server (features.opensuse.org) to stay down for some more minutes than expected: th...

Ready...Set...Code!

Bryen Yunashko 25. May 2011

Yesterday marked the official start of Google Summer of Code’s Coding Period.  And openSUSE mentors are right in the thick of it working with 16 students seeking to make a ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 176 is out!

Sascha Manns 21. May 2011

We are pleased to announce the Issue 176 of the openSUSE Weekly News. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 176 Edition Legal Notice This ...

openSUSE Conference 2011 to be creative and open!

Jos Poortvliet 16. May 2011

Time to get ready for the openSUSE Conference 2011 On Sunday the 11th of September it will be that time again: the openSUSE Conference starts. And of course we want an e...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 175 is out!

Sascha Manns 14. May 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 175. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 175 Edition Legal Notice This work (com...

People of openSUSE: Jos Poortvliet

Kim Leyendecker 9. May 2011

On this issue of people of openSUSE, you can read about our friendly SUSE community manager, Jos Poortvliet. Read about his job at the SUSE, what he does in openSUSE, his p...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 174 is out!

Sascha Manns 7. May 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News Issue 174 openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 174 Edition Legal Notice This work...

openSUSE Ambassadors are rocking all over the world

Manu Gupta 6. May 2011

A big kudos to all our ambassadors who are working very hard to let the world know about openSUSE! They have been organizing events, speaking to people and writing about th...

It's that time of year again: openSUSE@LinuxTag Berlin

Henne Vogelsang 3. May 2011

Again this year, same procedure as every year, the openSUSE Project is attending the LinuxTag in Berlin with more than 30 members, a booth, several talks in the program an...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 173 is out!

Sascha Manns 30. Apr 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 173. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 173 Edition Legal Notice This work (com...

Upcomming power outage Saturday, 2011-04-30

Lars Vogdt 29. Apr 2011

We will have a service outage this Saturday (30 April) due to work on power supply in one of our server rooms. As result, the infrastructure in front of the following servi...

openSUSE happy to welcome 16 GSOC students!

News Team 28. Apr 2011

We’ve got excellent news! We’ve received many excellent submissions for our Google Summer of Code application and Google has given us 16 slots. This means that 16 eager stu...

openSUSE 11.4 DVDs for Events

Andreas Jaeger 26. Apr 2011

Following the huge success for filling requests of openSUSE 11.3 media in February, we have produced openSUSE 11.4 DVDs to distribute at events, Linux user groups, universi...

openSUSE Coming to LFNW

Bryen Yunashko 25. Apr 2011

Following in the growing list of appearances we’re making worldwide, openSUSE will land in Bellingham, Washington for the LinuxFest Northwest conference ( LFNW ) on Saturda...

GNOME 3.0 arrives for openSUSE 11.4

Manu Gupta 23. Apr 2011

The wait is finally over and the much anticipated release of GNOME 3 on openSUSE’s latest distro release, 11.4 is ready for download at a desktop near you.  Frederic Crozat...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 172 is out!

Sascha Manns 23. Apr 2011

We are pleased to announce our issue 172 of openSUSE Weekly News. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 172 Edition Legal Notice This work...

People of openSUSE: Alexander Naumov

Kim Leyendecker 20. Apr 2011

**Nickname:** anaumov (as nickname on IRC), Ute11ok **Homepage: ** //en.opensuse.org/User:Alexander_Naumov **Blog:** //thefreecountry.wordpress.com...

openSUSE servers with one click

James Mason 20. Apr 2011

Everybody knows openSUSE offers a great desktop experience; but its also a perfect fit for servers!  Go download the Installation DVD (or use one of the manufactured DVDs) ...

Infrastructure Updates

Adrian Schröter 19. Apr 2011

We had way too many server downtimes during the last month in our infrastructure. These were caused by an unreliable login proxy. We have now developed and setup a new logi...

Evergreen needs you!

Kim Leyendecker 17. Apr 2011

Copyright Evergreen needs you! To make a version for 11.2 also released and to guarantee the quality of evergreen, we´re searching developers, packagers and also marketi...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 171 is out!

Sascha Manns 16. Apr 2011

We are pleased to announce our new Issue 171. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 171 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is li...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 170 is out!

Sascha Manns 9. Apr 2011

We are pleased to announce our new issue 170. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 170 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is ...

Linux is 20 years old!

Jos Poortvliet 8. Apr 2011

We have two birthdays this week! While on April 6th GNOME 3 was born, another kid became 20 years old! The Linux Foundation celebrates the 20th anniversary of Linux with a...

Welcome GNOME 3! We have a present for you…

Bryen Yunashko 8. Apr 2011

Dear GNOME 3, So, you’re born, and we here at openSUSE Project are very excited to welcome you into the world.  We’ve been watching with anticipation and excitement as t...

Invalid SSL certificate on some opensuse.org services

Adrian Schröter 7. Apr 2011

Update from **14:30 UTC**: The problem is solved. We want to let you know that we are aware about an invalid SSL certificate on some of our servers behind the https protoc...

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose…

Bryen Yunashko 6. Apr 2011

Or in other words, “The more things change, the more they stay the same…” openSUSE does not ship major/minor releases, but our numbering/naming scheme - NN.X - has led to ...

People of openSUSE: Per Jessen

Kim Leyendecker 4. Apr 2011

**Nickname:** I don't use one **Homepage: ** [//www.jessen.ch/](//www.jessen.ch/) **Blog:** I don't use one. **Favorite season:** All/none of them,...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 169 is out!

Sascha Manns 2. Apr 2011

We are pleased to announce our new Issue 169. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 169 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is ...

The Canterbury Project

Henne Vogelsang 1. Apr 2011

If you are really in a timezone where it’s still before March 31st 23:59 then… We are pleased to announce the birth of the Canterbury distribution. Canterbury is a merge...

A year of Collaboration ahead

Manu Gupta 30. Mar 2011

The openSUSE Project considers collaboration an important value for a Free Software community. After our successful openSUSE conference which had a strong focus on collabo...

openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 11.4 out now!

News Team 29. Mar 2011

The openSUSE Education team is proud to present openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e (Linux for Education) based on openSUSE 11.4. The image is a “hybrid” iso image which can be used to bur...

Review - openSUSE 11.4 and the much improved XFCE 4.8

Jos Poortvliet 28. Mar 2011

[caption id=”attachment_7964” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”The default XFCE desktop”] [/caption] Just a few months ago, the XFCE project announced XFCE 4.8, the...

Outage of build/api/features.opensuse.org (solved)

Andreas Jaeger 28. Mar 2011

We are currently facing problems with the the following openSUSE services: //build.opensuse.org //api.opensuse.org //features.opensuse.org We are trying to resolve this...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 168 is out!

Sascha Manns 26. Mar 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News Issue 168. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 168 Edition Legal Notice This wor...

Linux Foundation 20th Anniversary of Linux Campaign and Video Contest

Helen South 25. Mar 2011

[caption id=”attachment_7955” align=”alignright” width=”242” caption=”old school alternative”][/caption] It’s the 20th Anniversary of Linux in August and the Linux Foundat...

openSUSE accepted for Google Summer of Code!

Jos Poortvliet 22. Mar 2011

[caption id=”attachment_7935” align=”alignright” width=”240” caption=”This could be a very special summer for you!”][/caption] openSUSE has cleared the first hurdle toward...

openSUSE 11.4 still going strong

News Team 21. Mar 2011

[caption id=”attachment_7800” align=”alignright” width=”273” caption=”openSUSE on Distrowatch”][/caption] A bit over one week ago, we released openSUSE 11.4 introducing man...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 167 is out!

Sascha Manns 19. Mar 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News Issue 167 openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 167 Edition Legal Notice This work...

Mingle Today!

Henne Vogelsang 15. Mar 2011

It all started out with a simple question Pavol Rusnak asked on the openSUSE Conference ‘09 _What are we really doing when we develop a new tool to handle openSUSE users a...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 166 is out!

Sascha Manns 12. Mar 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 166. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 166 Edition Legal Notice This wo...

openSUSE 11.4 made a splash

Jos Poortvliet 12. Mar 2011

Yesterday, openSUSE 11.4 saw the light of day. This release introduced some awesome new features and this was noticed by Linux users on social media and the press around th...

openSUSE 11.4 - A New Hallmark For The openSUSE Project

News Team 10. Mar 2011

Dear openSUSE Community. Users. Contributors. Fans and friends. The time has come: openSUSE 11.4 has arrived!. After 8 months of hard work, you can learn what is new, downl...

Live.Code.Party.

Henne Vogelsang 7. Mar 2011

openSUSE 11.4 is going to be released this Thursday (March 10th, 2011) and there is no better way to enjoy the new release than having fun with your fellow openSUSE Lizard...

openSUSE 11.4 Will Be First To Roll Out With LibreOffice

News Team 7. Mar 2011

openSUSE 11.4 is set to release on 10th March 2010. A highlight among many exciting features is the debut of LibreOffice, successor project of the popular cross-platform d...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 165 is out!

Sascha Manns 5. Mar 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 165. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 165 Edition Legal Noti...

GNOME on openSUSE 11.4

News Team 3. Mar 2011

The upcoming new release of openSUSE 11.4 will be shipped with the latest and greatest GNOME 2.32. GNOME 2.32 is the last release in the GNOME 2.x series and has a number o...

openSUSE 11.4 and KDE

News Team 2. Mar 2011

KDE fans must definitely watch out for openSUSE 11.4, which will be the first major Linux distribution to feature KDE’s Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Pla...

Build Service team releases new versions fixing security problems

News Team 2. Mar 2011

The openSUSE Build Service team has released verison 2.0.8 and 2.1.6. of OBS. Both versions are fixing a critical security leak which can be miss-used to modify projects or...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 164 is out!

Sascha Manns 27. Feb 2011

We are pleased to announce the new openSUSE Weekly News Issue 164. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 164 Edition Legal Notic...

openSUSE 11.4 RC2 Steps Out

Helen South 26. Feb 2011

With red carpets rolling out in Hollywood, you’d expect some applause for the openSUSE 11.4 RC2 release, which has now gone live ahead of 11.4 proper. But with much of the ...

Open-Bugs-Day Held Last Sunday

News Team 25. Feb 2011

As announced previously, openSUSE organized an Open-Bugs-Day held on January 20. Many people participated, including a large number of contributors new to #opensuse-testi...

30 min downtime for build.opensuse.org and software

News Team 24. Feb 2011

We need a short service outage to move one of the big storages behind the openSUSE Buildservice to a new location. As result, build.opensuse.org and software.opensuse.org/s...

openSUSE participates in the Google Summer of Code 2011

Izabel Valverde 22. Feb 2011

In about a week Google will accept applications from Free Software projects to be part of Google’s Summer of Code. This great project enables students who want to spend the...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 163 is out!

Sascha Manns 19. Feb 2011

We are pleased to announce the new openSUSE Weekly News 163. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 163 Edition Legal Notice Copyrights of the introduc...

Help the Project. Spread openSUSE DVDs!

Henne Vogelsang 18. Feb 2011

One of the easiest things to do to contribute to the free and open source movement and the openSUSE Project is to exercise your second free software freedom: The freedom to...

Open-Bugs-Day on Sunday the 20th of February

Henne Vogelsang 16. Feb 2011

As you all know, we’re closing in on the Final Release of openSUSE 11.4… and so in this last window for bug-fixing we need your help! The testing team is looking for vol...

openSUSE Weekly News 162 is out!

Sascha Manns 12. Feb 2011

We are pleased to announce the openSUSE Weekly News #162. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 163 Edition Published: 2011-02-15 Table of...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 161 is out!

Sascha Manns 5. Feb 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 161. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 161 Edition Published: 2011-02-05 Table...

New SSL Certificates

No Content Found 4. Feb 2011

We will be updating our certificates for *.opensuse.org and *.suse.de today, sometime between 19:00 and 22:00 UTC.  We will be upgrading to a 2048 bit certificate, which wi...

Small server maintenance Thursday, 2011-02-03

News Team 3. Feb 2011

We will have a service outage (expected are 30 minutes) this Thursday morning between 09:00 and 10:00 CET. This means the following services will not be reachable during t...

Bretzn results released into the wild

Jos Poortvliet 1. Feb 2011

Apart from being a tasty Bavarian bread-snack, Bretzn is a code-name for a collection of technology aimed at solving a problem which has existed in software development for...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 160 is out!

Sascha Manns 29. Jan 2011

We are pleased to announce the new openSUSE Weekly News. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 160 Edition Published: 2011-01-29 Table of ...

openSUSE Announces Development Milestone Six of Six

Will Stephenson 28. Jan 2011

openSUSE project manager Stephan Kulow has announced that openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 6 (M6) is ready for testing.  With M6, the pace of development is starting to slow down as...

openSUSE Board Election 2010: Vogelsang and Linnell elected

Sascha Manns 28. Jan 2011

The last few weeks in the openSUSE project have been very interesting. Two seats on the openSUSE Project board were up for election. The Election Committee closed the pol...

Poll: Which outputformat of Weekly News you prefer?

Sascha Manns 27. Jan 2011

The openSUSE Weekly News team just created a Poll with the topic: Which outputformat of Weekly News you prefer? Please drop your vote there: https://connect.opensuse.org/pg...

First Bretzn Sprint: openSUSE App Store on the Horizon

James Mason 27. Jan 2011

Novell hosted the first Bretzn Sprint in the SUSE office in Nürnberg between 21th and the 23st of January. The objective of the sprint was to create an proof of concept ap...

App Installer Meeting or More Collaboration Across Borders

Izabel Valverde 26. Jan 2011

Back in October, at the openSUSE Conference, several meetings and hallway discussions occurred on the topic of “Installation ofApplications” on openSUSE. As of today, we st...

openSUSE Weekly News, 159 is out!

Sascha Manns 22. Jan 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News. openSUSE Weekly News ### openSUSE Weekly News Team 159 Edition Published: 2011-01-22 Table of ...

Small server maintenance Thursday, 2011-01-20

News Team 19. Jan 2011

We will have a service outage (expected are 30 minutes) this Thursday morning between 09:00 and 10:00 CET. This means the following services will not be reachable during t...

Hackweek VI

James Mason 19. Jan 2011

Hackweek VI will take place January 24th - 28th, 2011. Hackweek is one of Novell’s biggest ways of giving back to the openSUSE community - by providing developers the oppo...

OBS Books Project

News Team 18. Jan 2011

openSUSE Build Service (OBS) has a problem. It is horrible powerful, but no one knows. Or no one knows how to make use of it in short. Our documentation exists only in the...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 158 is out!

Sascha Manns 16. Jan 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 158 Edition Published: 2011-01-16 Table of Contents Announc...

Small server maintenance Thursday, 2011-01-13

News Team 12. Jan 2011

We will have a service outage (expected are 30 minutes) this Thursday morning between 09:00 and 10:00 CET. This means the following services will not be reachable during ...

The openSUSE Board election 2010

Ricardo Chung 12. Jan 2011

The openSUSE Board Election process, started in December 2010, is heading full-speed for the planned announcement of the results on January 26, 2011. Today the voting begin...

Reviewing the Trademark Guidelines

openSUSE Board 11. Jan 2011

In 2009, a set of trademark guidelines were created to help define how the community and beyond could use the openSUSE logo and related trademarks in their own products and...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 157 is out!

Sascha Manns 8. Jan 2011

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 157 Edition Published: 2011-01-08 Table of Contents Announc...

Putting our Accessibility Heads Together

Bryen Yunashko 6. Jan 2011

Accessibility has become an important selling point in getting computing solutions into many organizations. Organizations are faced with legislations and regulations that r...

openSUSE finished 2010 big

Izabel Valverde 3. Jan 2011

[caption id=”attachment_6136” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”By somenametoforget at Flickr”][/caption] Since the openSUSE Conference in Nuremberg in October, the ...

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 156 is out!

Sascha Manns 1. Jan 2011

We are pleased to announce our issue 156. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team Producer  Published: 2011-01-01 Table of Contents Announcements Status Up...

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