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openSUSE 12.3 Milestone 2 released

News Team 18. Dec 2012

A month’s work since Milestone 1 shows that the new Release Team are hitting their stride, as they have reviewed and checked in more than 470 updated packages, far more tha...

openSUSE's 2013 New Board Members are...

Bryen Yunashko 17. Dec 2012

As of 23:00 UTC on 16 December, 2012, the openSUSE Project’s members completed the Fifth election of the openSUSE Board.  At stake were two seats of the five electable seat...

openSUSE Conference 2013 in Thessaloniki, Greece. OPA!

Henne Vogelsang 10. Dec 2012

We are very happy to inform you that next year’s openSUSE Conference (oSC13), the yearly get together of our community, will happen in July in the beautiful city of Thessal...

Candidates Talk Frankly at Debate

Bryen Yunashko 7. Dec 2012

On 6 December, 2012, the 8 candidates standing for election of the 2013 openSUSE Board joined members of the community in an open Q&A Debate session on IRC.   The compl...

2013 Board Elections begin today!

Bryen Yunashko 5. Dec 2012

The excitement has been building for weeks and now the most important phase of the openSUSE Board elections begins today – Election Time! Two seats are open for election...

Board Report - Travel Sponsorship Programme

Manu Gupta 3. Dec 2012

Summarizing the Travel Support Program **** The openSUSE Travel Support Program aims to support contributors representing openSUSE at events, conferences and hack-fests wi...

Meet the openSUSE Board Candidates

Bryen Yunashko 28. Nov 2012

The period for standing up for election to the 2013 openSUSE Board is now closed and the openSUSE Election Officials committee is proud to announce this year’s candidates...

Planned maintenance downtime December 1st

Lars Vogdt 24. Nov 2012

Update: all services are back - please report issues via mail to admin @ opensuse.org On Saturday, December 1st 2012, at approximately 05:00 UTC our data center team will ...

openSUSE at LinuxCon

Jos Poortvliet 20. Nov 2012

Two weeks ago, openSUSE Ambassadors Ilias and Diomidis joined the SUSE crew at LinuxCon in Barcelona, Spain, to represent the Geeko to the visitors of this conference. As m...

The Board Election 2012

Izabel Valverde 13. Nov 2012

This years openSUSE Election Committee is in the pleasant position to announce the 2012 Board elections[0]. The timeline we decided for this year election is the following...

openSUSE 12.3 Milestone 1 is Ready for You!

Will Stephenson 8. Nov 2012

News fresh from the Factory: the openSUSE Release team has made the openSUSE 12.3 Milestone 1 available for testing and feedback. There has been lots of plumbing in the in...

Newcomer experience in openSUSE and other FOSS communities – Survey

Jos Poortvliet 7. Nov 2012

Kevin Carillo, a PhD student currently living in Wellington (New Zealand) is doing some research on Free/Open Source Software communities. He asked the openSUSE community f...

openSUSE 12.2 for ARM Final!

Jos Poortvliet 6. Nov 2012

As was promised last week, the openSUSE ARM team has released openSUSE 12.2 for the ARM architecture! Almost all of the usual openSUSE distribution (>5000 packages) bui...

openSUSE ARM RC2 needs testing!

Jos Poortvliet 29. Oct 2012

Hot on the heels of the news that the Google Chromebook runs openSUSE (even made slashdot) and following the closing of the openSUSE Conference in Prague, Dirk Müller let ...

openSUSE Conference 2012: Monday

Jos Poortvliet 24. Oct 2012

[caption id=”attachment_14487” align=”alignright” width=”300”] registration desk[/caption] The third day schedule began gently at 10:00, with a few of the headaches that c...

Day 2 - Ending Linuxdays

Jos Poortvliet 23. Oct 2012

The second day started an hour later to give people time to recover from the party the previous night.  The golden autumn weather seemed to have run out by Sunday, making...

Linux Days 2012 Day One

Will Stephenson 21. Oct 2012

On Saturday the openSUSE Conference 2012 began. The fourth annual meeting of the openSUSE Community is taking place in Prague, Czech Republic at the CVUT University. After...

openSUSE Conference 2012: What You Need To Know

Jos Poortvliet 20. Oct 2012

Heya all! We’re sure you’re terribly excited: On Saturda the awesome four-in-one Linux event Linux Days 2012 in Prague kicks off. We’ve got a few last minute notifications ...

Live streams from openSUSE Conference

Lars Vogdt 20. Oct 2012

The SUSE Video team is happy to announce the availability of live streams from the openSUSE Conference. Just klick on the images or Room names below to start the live strea...

Announcing SUSE Business Track

Will Stephenson 18. Oct 2012

We are pleased to announce an additional track of talks and workshops as part of the openSUSE Conference 2012. On Monday, October 22nd at Masaryk College, Thakurova 1, Prag...

Last Interviews and Announcing Live Video Streaming!

Jos Poortvliet 17. Oct 2012

You’ve seen interviews now with a number of speakers at the upcoming conference in Prague starting on Saturday. Here, we’ve got one more: Shane Coughlan on his Flying Drone...

LinuxDays Parties Scheduled

Jos Poortvliet 16. Oct 2012

At the upcoming four in one conference in Prague we have a smashing session schedule ready for you. Last week we gave a sneak peek of some of those sessions. Today, we add...

Announcing openSUSE Conference 2012 Sponsors

Will Stephenson 15. Oct 2012

Next weekend the openSUSE Conference 2012 begins. Please join us October 20-23 at the Czech Technical University in Prague. This year, the openSUSE conference co-locates wi...

Reminder: Get BoFfin at openSUSE Conference 2012!

Will Stephenson 12. Oct 2012

Everyone knows what really matters at a conference happens outside the scheduled talks, right? The life of the openSUSE project happens when we get together, talk and pla...

Learn More About Free Software Next Week in Prague

Helen South 11. Oct 2012

The openSUSE Conference 2012 takes place next week from October 20th to 23rd in Prague, Czech Republic. When you first step into the world of Free Software, it isn’t alwa...

First openSUSE Conference Sneak Peek

Helen South 8. Oct 2012

Less than two weeks from now the openSUSE Conference will start. The location itself is almost enough reason to attend: the openSUSE Conference 2012 is in the beautiful, h...

oSC 2012 BoF sessions can be scheduled!

Jos Poortvliet 3. Oct 2012

Within three weeks, in Prague, the openSUSE Conference will start off again. Like last year, we have not only an awesome program but also reserved time for small sessions ...

openSUSE Factory Moving: Milestone 0 Ready for Feedback!

Jos Poortvliet 3. Oct 2012

Good news! openSUSE Milestone 0 of openSUSE 12.3 is out! While we’re still discussing the schedule and won’t be deciding anything before the openSUSE Conference in Prague ...

openSUSE Conference 2012 – Invitation to Lightning Talks and Speedy Geeko

Izabel Valverde 2. Oct 2012

The openSUSE Conference in Prague is about to happen and we know that all of you are really excited about it. One more year with great talks and workshops and the warmth of...

Announcing openSUSE on ARM Release Candidate 1

Jos Poortvliet 1. Oct 2012

After 11 months of grueling work, openSUSE is pleased to announce the first Release Candidate for openSUSE 12.2 on the ARM architecture. After discussing ARM first at the ...

Report: Successful openSUSE GSOC

News Team 28. Sep 2012

This summer, openSUSE had a great experience for the fifth time participating in the Summer of Code. While working on the list of ideas for GSoC projects, we decided to enc...

openSUSE Board Welcomes new Chairman: Vincent Untz

Jos Poortvliet 21. Sep 2012

This week Alan Clark announced to the openSUSE Board that he is stepping down from his position as Board Chair. His duties in SUSE keep him increasingly busy and SUSE has ...

Planned maintenance downtime of rsync.opensuse.org, Monday 2012-09-17

Lars Vogdt 16. Sep 2012

Our public rsync server ‘rsync.opensuse.org’ will be not available on Monday, 2012-09-17, starting 11:00 local time (CEST) which is 17th of September, 09:00 UTC. The downti...

openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 12.2 out now!

Lars Vogdt 14. Sep 2012

openSUSE Education team once again presents Li-f-e (Linux for Education) built on hot new openSUSE 12.2 including all the post release updates. As always this edition of Li...

Time to Start Planning your Sessions: Conference Program Available!

Jos Poortvliet 12. Sep 2012

The openSUSE Conference is coming! The Call for Papers is closed and the sessions for this awesome four-plus-one event are decided upon and scheduled. It is time to grab a...

openSUSE 12.2: Green Means Go!

Jos Poortvliet 5. Sep 2012

Dear users, developers, and Geekos around the world - openSUSE 12.2 is ready for you! Two months of extra stabilization work have resulted into a stellar release, chock-ful...

Sneak Peek: GNOME in openSUSE 12.2

Will Stephenson 4. Sep 2012

openSUSE 12.2 is the second openSUSE release to include GNOME 3. GNOME 3.4 continues the rapid pace of evolution and consolidation set by GNOME 3.2 on openSUSE 12.1. This a...

Sneak Peek: openSUSE 12.2 and KDE

Jos Poortvliet 4. Sep 2012

openSUSE comes with the 4.8 series of the KDE workspaces, applications and platform. This release, as you can read in the announcements is mostly focused on improving the u...

openSUSE 12.2 Release Publicity: Call for contributions

Will Stephenson 27. Aug 2012

As we enter the final straight towards the release of openSUSE 12.2, the openSUSE Team is busy preparing the release publicity. And this is where you, the openSUSE communit...

Hackweek 8 at SUSE

Jos Poortvliet 24. Aug 2012

What have the boot speed of openSUSE, a sandbox for KVM development, OpenStack, CUPS, Linux UEFI support and Enlightenment 17 to do with each other? They’re among the proje...

Reasons To Attend The openSUSE Summit

Bryen Yunashko 23. Aug 2012

Everyone’s excited about the upcoming openSUSE Summit in Orlando, Florida next month and now there is a full itinerary tailored just for you.  The openSUSE Summit, a 100% f...

openSUSE Conference is coming... Sponsorship request starts today!

Izabel Valverde 10. Aug 2012

The openSUSE Travel Support Team is happy to announce that they are ready to process applications to sponsor openSUSE people to attend openSUSE Conference. The Conference w...

Happy Birthday openSUSE!!!

Izabel Valverde 9. Aug 2012

Happy Birthday openSUSE Alles Gute zum Geburtstag openSUSE openSUSE Joyeux anniversaire openSUSE Feliz Aniversário Χρόνια Πολλά openSUSE openSUSE Feliz Cumpleaños V...

openSUSE 12.2 RC2 Ready for a Final Test

Will Stephenson 2. Aug 2012

Today, the openSUSE project makes available openSUSE 12.2 Release Candidate 2 for widespread testing, with a final release targeted for mid September. In the two weeks sin...

openSUSE Conference 2012: Call For Papers still Open

Manu Gupta 18. Jul 2012

Your opportunity to impact the openSUSE conference in Prague, held October 20 - 23, 2012, through a presentation, leading a BoF session, or running a workshop is quickly fa...

openSUSE 12.2 RC1 Available for Testing

Will Stephenson 12. Jul 2012

openSUSE 12.2 Release Candidate 1 is now available to download. Get it Download it from software.opensuse.org/developer. As usual, a list of the most annoying bugs is bei...

openSUSE Conference CfP going to close soon!

Jos Poortvliet 27. Jun 2012

With the openSUSE conference coming on October 20-23 in Prague, we have only two weeks left for you to send in your session proposal! So, stop thinking about it and DO it. ...

Travel Support Team to Provide Travel Sponsorship to Conference, Summit and COSCUP Attendees

Jos Poortvliet 26. Jun 2012

The openSUSE Travel Support Team is happy to announce that they are ready to process applications to sponsor community members to attend the openSUSE Summit and the openSU...

Beta 2 Available for Testing

Jos Poortvliet 20. Jun 2012

Stephan ‘Coolo’ Kulow has released Beta 2 so it is time to start organizing these Beta Pizza Parties! As you might know, openSUSE 12.2 is delayed while we search for ways ...

openSUSE Summit CfP extended, part of the program announced

Jos Poortvliet 19. Jun 2012

The openSUSE Summit team has decided to delay the CfP end date which was last week. The CFP will now be extended to June 30th. With SUSECon just having started their CfP ...

Beta means Pizza. Join the Party or Make your Own!

Jos Poortvliet 18. Jun 2012

So, we’re delaying our release. And Coolo has announced we will do another Beta. There will be plenty of time after the beta and before the release which means: we can tes...

rsync.opensuse.org unreliable

Lars Vogdt 17. Jun 2012

Our rsync server ‘rsync.opensuse.org’ is currently unreliable and crashes very often. Reason might be hardware related: we are still searching for the real issue. Please c...

Where is my 12.2, my Kingdom for a 12.2!

Jos Poortvliet 14. Jun 2012

Many people have noticed that the milestones and the Beta for this openSUSE release have been delayed or even canceled like Milestone 4. Now the RC is planned to go out Th...

Announcing the opening of registration for the openSUSE Conference, LinuxDays, the Gentoo Miniconf and SUSE Labs.

Jos Poortvliet 13. Jun 2012

Today, the most ambitious Free Software event of the Czech Republic officially opens registration! We’ve got an awesome event for you in store with sessions on all major ...

openSUSE now available on Windows Azure

Jos Poortvliet 12. Jun 2012

Last Thursday at the Meet Windows Azure party in San Francisco, attendees learned how developers can use Linux on Windows Azure. In case too much of our Old Toad has impai...

openSUSE @ Akademy Es

Jos Poortvliet 11. Jun 2012

Akademy ES is the yearly meeting of KDE developers and users in Spain. It is organized by the KDE Spain Association, and started in 2008. This year the event was organized ...

openSUSE 12.2 Beta 1 available for testing

Jos Poortvliet 6. Jun 2012

After a few delayed milestones, the fourth even got canceled - there has been quite a number of disruptive changes in our Factory development distribution, but we’re starti...

openSUSE rocking LinuxTag

Jos Poortvliet 25. May 2012

[caption id=”attachment_13466” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”booth talk at openSUSE Booth”][/caption] LinuxTag in Berlin is still going and openSUSE is having a ...

openSUSE Conference has a location and a CfP out!

Jos Poortvliet 23. May 2012

We are happy to announce that after scouting many wonderful places, having long discussions and many last minute changes, we finally have a location and date set for the op...

Downtime of parts of build.opensuse.org on 2012-05-23

Andreas Jaeger 23. May 2012

The storage backend of the openSUSE Build Service at build.opensuse.org is causing again problems. Server side builds will not be enabled for now. The outage will be for a...

openSUSE in Fosscomm 2012

Kostas Koudaras 22. May 2012

Once again, the Greek openSUSE community was present and rocked in the Free open source software communities meeting, which took place this year in the beautiful town of Se...

IPv6 day 6 June 2012: time to do it again

Lars Vogdt 18. May 2012

Like last year, openSUSE will participate again on the coordinated launch of the next-generation Internet protocol IPv6 on June 6, 2012. Joining the Internet Society and s...

Planned outage of some openSUSE infrastructure on 2012-05-10 starting at 0:00 UTC

Andreas Jaeger 9. May 2012

Our Provo data center will take down a few server starting today at 6pm local time (MDT) which is 10th of May, 0:00 UTC. The downtime is expected to last for three hours. ...

Open Build Service version 2.3 released

Andreas Jaeger 3. May 2012

Open Build Service is a generic system to build and distribute packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. OBS 2.3 brings the functionality to m...

*Updated - we're back* download.opensuse.org celebrates May 1 holiday (it's broken)

Will Stephenson 1. May 2012

Update: download.opensuse.org is back up, OBS and mirrors are resyncing After receiving a new disk array, and restoring backups onto it, download.opensuse.org is back up. ...

openSUSE and GSOC 2012: Good to Go!

News Team 26. Apr 2012

Google published the list of 12 students proposals that have been accepted for Google Summer of Code 2012 for openSUSE. It means that 12 students will be able to work full...

openSUSE Summit Website Adds Spanish Translations

Jos Poortvliet 23. Apr 2012

The openSUSE Summit team has been working hard over the last weeks to add Spanish translations to the website. As the openSUSE Summit is meant to be an ‘Americas’ event, w...

Grab the Geeko by the Horns: The Boosters are Hiring

Henne Vogelsang 20. Apr 2012

SUSE, our founder, partner and sponsor, has put out a couple of job openings for the openSUSE Boosters Team! Are you a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enthusiast? Are ...

Heinlein Support Becomes openSUSE Project Sponsor

Jos Poortvliet 18. Apr 2012

The openSUSE community is proud to welcome Heinlein Support as new sponsor to the project! Heinlein is a Linux specialist offering training, consulting and hosting focused ...

GoGo on openSUSE

Jos Poortvliet 16. Apr 2012

openSUSE 12.1 was one of the first major Linux distributions to include the new programming language Go. Recently, go 1.0 was released and shortly before milestone 3 openS...

Downtime of software.opensuse.org

Andreas Jaeger 12. Apr 2012

We had some network problems in our Nürnberg data center this afternoon and now the site software.opensuse.org is not reachable. To download the openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3,...

openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3 hits the street

Jos Poortvliet 12. Apr 2012

Despite delays due to the move to a i686 desktop kernel for 32-bit systems, milestone 3 is finally available. This milestone brings progress on a number of features includi...

Open Build Service Delivers Website Integration

Jos Poortvliet 4. Apr 2012

The Open Build Service, a system to collaboratively build and easily distribute packages for a wide variety of operating systems and platforms, has introduced the ability t...

The KDE and openSUSE communities welcome you to COSCUP 2012!

Jos Poortvliet 3. Apr 2012

COSCUP is the largest FLOSS conference organized by local communities in Taiwan. The conference has sessions for new users, enthusiastic promoters, coders or anyone who is...

openSUSE Summit Geeko-ing Up: Website up, Call for Papers out!

Jos Poortvliet 29. Mar 2012

We’re happy to announce that starting March 29 the openSUSE Summit team will accept session proposals for the openSUSE Summit. The openSUSE Summit will take place from Se...

software.openSUSE.org calling for Ruby Hackers!

Jos Poortvliet 27. Mar 2012

About 2 weeks ago Thomas “digitaltom” Schmidt of the openSUSE Boosters started working on a refresh of the software.opensuse.org search interface. In that time, he has tran...

openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 2 is out

Jos Poortvliet 20. Mar 2012

Those following openSUSE development closely probably know that the 2nd milestone on the way to openSUSE 12.2 was planned for the beginning of this week. And indeed you c...

openSUSE to be part of GSOC 2012!

Jos Poortvliet 19. Mar 2012

Good news! As followers of our openSUSE Google+ account already know, openSUSE will be part of GSOC 2012. That means it is now time for the students to take the openSUSE ...

Join FLISOL 2012!

Jos Poortvliet 16. Mar 2012

It’s that time of the year again - FLISOL, the “Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre” (Latin American free software install fest) will start in about 6...

openSUSE Stable Maintenance Process Now Fully Open

Adrian Schröter 13. Mar 2012

A while ago, we wrote about the work on moving maintenance support into the Open Build Service. Since then announcement, some of the internal maintenance scripts have been ...

OSC12 is coming to Prague in fall

Henne Vogelsang 7. Mar 2012

The openSUSE Conference (oSC) is the yearly get-together of  our community to give its people a chance to meet face to face, talk to and inspire each other. Being together ...

Rest in peace, daemon.

Pascal Bleser 29. Feb 2012

Our fellow and long time openSUSE contributor Marco “daemon” Michna has passed away last week. He was a friend to many of us, and will be sorely missed. Our condolences a...

openSUSE & GSOC 2012

Izabel Valverde 29. Feb 2012

openSUSE as a project always looking to improve and grow and this is one of those opportunities: Google Summer of Code! Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a program that off...

Continue the openSUSE Weekly News

Sascha Manns 24. Feb 2012

After three years of hard work the chairman of the openSUSE Weekly News team, Sascha Manns has given up his chair. We have recieved many questions about the future of the ...

12.1 update repository changes

Lars Vogdt 20. Feb 2012

Teams from the openSUSE Buildservice and openSUSE Maintenance worked together since weeks now to integrate openSUSE distribution maintenance support into the Buildservice o...

Development of openSUSE 12.2 started!

Kim Leyendecker 17. Feb 2012

With the release of Milestone 1, the development of openSUSE 12.2 has started! We’re pleased to announce that Milestone 1 contains many minor updates, like a new Firefox ve...

openSUSE at FOSDEM

Jos Poortvliet 8. Feb 2012

[caption id=”attachment_12680” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Busy time at the booth”][/caption] openSUSE brought lots of fun to FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium. We’r...

GNOME Accessibility Hackfest (interview)

Kostas Koudaras 7. Feb 2012

A few weeks ago in A Coruña, Spain a Hackfest around GNOME Accessibility took place hosted by Igalia . openSUSE found the opportunity to make some questions to the people i...

SSL cert update for opensuse.org hosts in Nuremberg

Lars Vogdt 30. Jan 2012

Thursday 2012-02-02 we will update the SSL certificates for all openSUSE hosts located Nuremberg (see detailed list below). The fingerprint of the new certificate is: &g...

Using BTRFS on openSUSE 12.1

Manu Gupta 23. Jan 2012

This article is contributed by Kamila SouÍkova Introduction As the btrfs wiki says: “Btrfs is a new copy on write filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced feat...

openSUSE 11.3 EOL'ed, 12.2 On The Way!

Bryen Yunashko 21. Jan 2012

As Benjaman Brunner announced yesterday, openSUSE 11.3 has reached end of life.  As a quick refresher, openSUSE releases new versions every 8 months, and each version has...

Why openSUSE.org goes on strike tomorrow

openSUSE Board 17. Jan 2012

End of January the US Congress will vote to pass two laws, the “PROTECT IP Act” (PIPA) and the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA). If these laws pass they would enable copyrig...

build.opensuse.org binary backend was down

Lars Vogdt 14. Jan 2012

The SAN array of the backend server server lost 3 hard disks over the weekend. That means the array with the built RPMs was broken. We checked and replaced a lot of file...

People of openSUSE: Frederic Crozat

Kim Leyendecker 9. Jan 2012

We all hope you had a good start in the new year. I’d say People of openSUSE had. Today we have the chance to interview SUSE’s Freederic Crozat, who’s responsible for syste...

Results of openSUSE Conference 2011 Survey

Andreas Jaeger 5. Jan 2012

After the openSUSE 2011 Conference, we run a survey to gather feedback so that we can improve for the next conference. The overall feedback was very positive. Thanks a lot ...

Happy 2012

Izabel Valverde 1. Jan 2012

**We wish all developers, maintainers, users and friends a Happy New Year. ** Let us make 2012 even better…

openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 12.1 out now!

Manu Gupta 1. Jan 2012

Announcement by Jigish Gohil openSUSE Education team is proud to present another edition of openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e (Linux for Education) based on openSUSE 12.1. Li-f-e comes ...

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