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Announcing openSUSE Education Li-f-e 13.1

Izabel Valverde 18. Dec 2013

Get Li-f-e from here : Direct Download Torrents Metalinks md5sum openSUSE Education community is proud to bring you an early Ch...

Reminder: Vote for the openSUSE Board!

Jos Poortvliet 14. Dec 2013

It is december 14, dear Geekos! That means that tomorrow, December 15, the official deadline for voting for the openSUSE Board Elections ends! That’s right, you have only ...

openSUSE Admin: manage the complexity

Lars Vogdt 24. Nov 2013

In the Service Team’s Cave, where the infrastructure of openSUSE servers and services runs, the openSUSE Service Team faced an issue: requests to admin@opensuse.org were ma...

openSUSE 13.1: Ready For Action!

Jos Poortvliet 19. Nov 2013

Dear contributors, friends and fans: The release is here! Eight months of planning, packaging, adding features, fixing issues, testing and fixing more issues has brought yo...

We're Ready For The Release, Are You?!

Jos Poortvliet 18. Nov 2013

Dear Geekos! We’re sure you are all anxiously awaiting the release of openSUSE 13.1, coming in 24 hours. Yes, just around the corner! So we want to remind you that you ca...

openSUSE Summit Was Geeko Awesome

News Team 18. Nov 2013

Our openSUSE Summit 2013 has just finished here in Orlando. We were hosted in a Mexican themed hotel in the area of Disney World, with our own special area setup nicely f...

Sneak Peek openSUSE 13.1: Geeko Tips

Jos Poortvliet 13. Nov 2013

Welcome to our fourth Sneak Peek for openSUSE 13.1! The release is getting very close and you’ve already learned about all the awesome new Cloud features, the new YaST and ...

Get Ready to Party: Release is Around the Corner!

Jos Poortvliet 11. Nov 2013

In just a little over a week, openSUSE 13.1 will be released! As we’ve all put in serious work to make this happen, it is certainly a good cause for celebration. Time to or...

Sneak Peek openSUSE 13.1: What we have for Plasma Desktop Users

Jos Poortvliet 4. Nov 2013

A few days ago we featured a GNOME Sneak Peek and today it is time for the Blue camp! Whereas GNOME is still going through radical changes, KDE has been in incremental mode...

openSUSE 13.1 RC2 Hits the Web, Last Chance for Testing

Jos Poortvliet 31. Oct 2013

The openSUSE 13.1 release is getting very close - just a little over two weeks, according to the Roadmap. Today, Release Candidate 2 is available on software.opensuse.org....

Board Elections Coming!

Jos Poortvliet 30. Oct 2013

The end of the year is approaching. And besides Santa and fireworks, Geekos know: the openSUSE board gets a refresh! The openSUSE Election Committee has announced the time...

Sneak Peek openSUSE 13.1: What we have for GNOME Users

News Team 29. Oct 2013

[caption id=”attachment_17228” align=”alignright” width=”300”]Clean GNOME Shell[/caption] Welcome to our third Sneak Peek of what is coming in openSUSE 13.1! You’ve alread...

Help test the openSUSE Release Candidates!

Jos Poortvliet 22. Oct 2013

openSUSE made its first release candidate for 13.1 available less than two weeks ago. And with it, we issued a call for testing. If you’re interested in helping out but wo...

openSUSE Summit Schedule Ready!

Jos Poortvliet 21. Oct 2013

As you may well know, Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in beautiful Florida will welcome all Geekos to this year’s openSUSE Summit from November 15 to 17. This will be a g...

OpenStack Havana and openSUSE

Andreas Jaeger 17. Oct 2013

Congratulations to the OpenStack community for today’s release of OpenStack Havana! This is the eighth OpenStack release and the community delivered on-time, yet again. P...

BetaPizza Hackaton Results

Jos Poortvliet 15. Oct 2013

Friday a week ago a Beta Pizza Hackaton took place at the SUSE offices and online. 121 people went over more than 580 bugs, screening 440 and fixing 140 of them. The conte...

openSUSE 13.1 RC 1 Available: Time to Test!

Jos Poortvliet 11. Oct 2013

It was a dark night, wind howling through the forest... Somewhere far away, a fire was burning and the smell ... ... Ok, **forget that**. RC1 is here, so [stop watching...

Coming soon: openSUSE 13.1 with YaST in Ruby

Jos Poortvliet 10. Oct 2013

[caption id=”attachment_17058” align=”alignright” width=”300”] YaST during installation[/caption] On July 31st the YaST team announced that the final Ruby conversion of Ya...

openSUSE Conference 2015 (oSC15) Location Search

anditosan 9. Oct 2013

We as a community are still abuzz from the success of the first community organized openSUSE conference in Thessaloniki this past July and many are already looking forwar...

GSoC Students Rockin' Ready!

Jos Poortvliet 8. Oct 2013

We reached the conclusion of yet another Google Summer of Code. Our students and mentors put in a lot of effort, writing and reviewing code, documenting it and in the proce...

Help promote openSUSE 13.1!

Jos Poortvliet 7. Oct 2013

We’re not at the release, but the beta is out, according to the roadmap RC1 is coming Thursday and our artists have been hard at work preparing artwork. We’ve got badges,...

SUSE Speeds up Building AArch64 Software in QEMU

Jos Poortvliet 1. Oct 2013

Following the announcement of much improved Raspberry Pi support, there is more news coming from the openSUSE ARM team! The SUSE team has been developing an AArch64 port o...

Travel support applications to attend openSUSE Summit opened!

Izabel Valverde 27. Sep 2013

We are happy to announce the Travel Team is ready to receive applications for sponsorships to attend to openSUSE Summit 2013. This year openSUSE Summit will be held in t...

Beta Pizza Hackaton Starting Friday!

Jos Poortvliet 25. Sep 2013

Friday is the day: the Beta Pizza Hackaton is here. Have you already been testing the Beta? Reported bugs? Great! This Friday we’ll begin to triage and fix them! There wi...

openSUSE Summit 2013: Registration Opened!

anditosan 24. Sep 2013

It has already been a year since the first iteration of the openSUSE Summit held in Orlando Florida. Our guests and organizers agreed that tying this community event at th...

openSUSE 13.1 Beta Is Out!

Jos Poortvliet 19. Sep 2013

“Still … in this world only winter is certain.” ― George R.R. Martin “And thus, Factory is now Frozen.” ― Stephan “coolo” Kulow Starting today, you can scurry over to s...

Beta, Pizza and Hackaton

Jos Poortvliet 16. Sep 2013

Almost time for the release of openSUSE 13.1 Beta. Many openSUSE contributors, upon hearing that, will feel their bellies rumbling: Pizza! The tradition of Beta, Pizza a...

openSUSE ARM Gets new Raspberry Pi Images

Jos Poortvliet 9. Sep 2013

[caption id=”attachment_16818” align=”alignright” width=”300”]Sadly, the sticker doesn’t fit…[/caption] Over the weekend, Bernhard Wiedemann has been working on new armv6 ...

OBS Stopped Building, Will be Back Tomorrow

Jos Poortvliet 5. Sep 2013

We’ve got some bad news: OBS has decided to stop building images. Our Geekos are hard at work to fix it but they don’t expect to have it all back up and running until tomo...

Winter is Coming, Get Your Code Inside!

Jos Poortvliet 5. Sep 2013

It is already September! Haven’t you noticed? Bad weather is coming, it will be freezing soon! According to the roadmap, Full Feature Freeze will be upon openSUSE Factor...

Help Wanted: openSUSE Review Team

Lars Vogdt 28. Aug 2013

The openSUSE Review Team is interested in adding 1 to 2 new members to the team.  This person will review submissions to opnSUSE Factory that will improve the quality of ...

Upcoming openSUSE 13.1 will be kept Evergreen

Jos Poortvliet 26. Aug 2013

The openSUSE Evergreen has just announced that the upcoming openSUSE 13.1 will be the next Evergreen release. This means that the Evergreen team will continue to provide o...

GSoC 2013 – Half Way Through

News Team 19. Aug 2013

We have reached the half way stage of the Google Summer of Code 2013, and it has been an exciting journey so far. A lot of good work has been done this summer on a variety...

openSUSE Milestone 4

anditosan 12. Aug 2013

openSUSE Milestone 4, and final Milestone before starting the Beta process, is out for everyone to test. The process has worked out normally and although this Milestone ca...

The Unforgotten Heroes of oSC13

Henne Vogelsang 31. Jul 2013

The sound of clapping hands was nothing unusual for us organizers and volunteers at the openSUSE Conference 2013. Everyone was eager to let us know what a great job we did,...

openSUSE Conference 2013: The Infomercial

George Bratsos 29. Jul 2013

[caption id=”attachment_16406” align=”alignright” width=”300”] Volunteers oSC13[/caption] One of the most exciting openSUSE Conferences is over. The community proved that ...

openSUSE Conference 2013 3rd day

George Bratsos 22. Jul 2013

Just as we started the conference with great energy and enthusiasm there is always a time to part ways until the next reunion. Some tears drop and hugs are given as we sepa...

openSUSE Conference 2013 2nd day

anditosan 21. Jul 2013

After the first awesome day at #oSC13 and a more exciting night, we’re over 200 participants. Many more interesting presentations and workshops took place and everyone ha...

openSUSE Conference 2013! The conference begins!

George Bratsos 20. Jul 2013

The openSUSE Conference 2013 is being held in Thessaloniki, Greece at the Olympic Museum. Everything is set and the first day of the conference is now over! Last night, we...

openSUSE Conference Workshop preregistration of attendees

Lars Vogdt 17. Jul 2013

We at openSUSE team have been faced with one slight difficulty. We need to track people interested in the workshops so we can assure you can fit in beforehand, tell you som...

openSUSE Milestone 3

anditosan 16. Jul 2013

Milestone 2 was released just a month ago and it is now time to get the newest milestone release of openSUSE. Please remember that there is only one more milestone before o...

Announcing the openSUSE Summit 2013

News Team 15. Jul 2013

While everyone is certainly looking forward to the upcoming openSUSE Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece (only a few days away) it is not too early to cast our view just a b...

openSUSE Conference BoF sessions can be scheduled!

Jos Poortvliet 10. Jul 2013

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

openSUSE Conference Registration CLOSING!

Jos Poortvliet 4. Jul 2013

We opened registration back in February and now we’ve just passed the mark of two weeks from the conference! If you have not yet registered, please hurry up: we need these ...

openSUSE Conference Schedule ready!

Jos Poortvliet 3. Jul 2013

We’ve got great news for you: the openSUSE Conference Paper Committee has finalized the conference program! We’ve got inspiring keynotes, interesting talks, in-depth worksh...

The certification value and the LPIC 1 - SUSE Certified Linux Administrator connection

Kostas Koudaras 2. Jul 2013

More than twenty years have passed since GNU/Linux was born, and more than twenty five since the GNU manifesto by Richard Stallman. Free Software has become widely used in...

Thanking the openSUSE Conference Sponsors!

Jos Poortvliet 1. Jul 2013

In about a month, the openSUSE conference will kick off in Thessaloniki, Greece. We expect that about 300 visitors will join us for 4 days featuring over 60 talks, workshop...

Announcing the First Keynote for oSC: Georg Greve on Freeing our Data

Jos Poortvliet 19. Jun 2013

The openSUSE conference will feature Georg Greve as first keynote speaker, opening the event on Friday morning. He will talk about “Freedom in the world we live in and the...

openSUSE 12.1 EOL, 13.1 Milestone 2 released!

anditosan 11. Jun 2013

For those of you waiting for (or working on) openSUSE 13.1, we have good news: milestone 2 is now out for you to download. As to be exptected, the inclusion of newer softwa...

Schedule of openSUSE Conference

anditosan 10. Jun 2013

the openSUSE Conference kicks off in less than 6 weeks! The conference Paper Committee has been receiving and judging a lot of presentation proposals and while there is sti...

Be a volunteer at oSC13, it matters

Kostas Koudaras 20. May 2013

Master oSC13 Kostas just published his “only 58 days to go” blog in his series of daily how are we doing posts and it should be clear that with less than two months to go,...

Server outages the coming days

Jos Poortvliet 18. May 2013

Believe it or not: a car crashed into the Nuremberg SUSE office building. Our geekos are fine but the power will have to be shut down so repairs can take place. You can exp...

openSUSE Kicks Off Development with Milestone 1

anditosan 17. May 2013

openSUSE is pleased to announce that the newest Milestone for the upcoming version of openSUSE 13.1. is available for testing. As early version, it is expected that this M...

openSUSE Conference Getting Greener

Jos Poortvliet 13. May 2013

The Conference is getting closer while the team makes progress. Let’s talk numbers: two promotional video’s have been made, a choice of 7 hotels is available on the confere...

Ambassadors & Event Merchandise - All Change!

openSUSE Board 10. May 2013

Over the last few years, we’ve seen openSUSE grow into an international project consisting of a large number of volunteer contributors from around the world. These contribu...

Announcing the release of openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 12.3-1

Lars Vogdt 8. May 2013

openSUSE Education Team is proud to present Li-f-e (Linux for Education) 12.3-1. This first release is based on openSUSE 12.3 with all the official updates applied. Li-f-e ...

oSC 2013 Travel Support Requests Period Open

Izabel Valverde 3. May 2013

Today the openSUSE Travel Support Team opened the Travel Support Request Submission tool for requests related to the openSUSE Conference 2013 in Thessaloniki. The goal is...

openSUSE G(r)eekos @Fosscomm 2013

George Bratsos 2. May 2013

Fosscomm (Free and Open Source Software Communities Meeting) is an annual conference for Free and Open Software. It’s organized from the Greek open source community for th...

Open Build Service version 2.4 released

Henne Vogelsang 30. Apr 2013

Over at openbuildservice.org they have released the Open Build Service (OBS) version 2.4 which supports yet another package format (Arch’s PKGBUILD), secure boot signing,...

openSUSE, Hedgewars, syslog-ng, oyranus, ownCloud are moving GSOC along!! Participate and Submit your proposals Fast!!!

Jos Poortvliet 25. Apr 2013

[![400px-GSOC_2013logo](//news.opensuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/400px-GSOC_2013_logo.jpg)](//news.opensuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/400px-GSOC_2013_logo.jpg)_A...

OBS Gaining More Power

Jos Poortvliet 23. Apr 2013

In the last weeks, the Open Build Service has received support from several sponsors. SUSE brought in a new, powerful x86 compute rack, ARM support was beefed up with Samsu...

About ARMv7 progress and ARMing for AArch64

Jos Poortvliet 15. Apr 2013

openSUSE 12.3 introduced the 32bit ARMv7 architecture as new, fully supported architecture and brought experimental 64bit ARM (AArch64) images. Since the release, support f...

SUSE sponsors new hardware for the Open Build Service

Henne Vogelsang 8. Apr 2013

Over the last year, the Open Build Service (OBS) reference server, a service to build and distribute packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way,...

openSUSE Conference 2013 Call for Papers extends to June 17.

Henne Vogelsang 3. Apr 2013

Deadlines… we like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by! Originally the Call for Papers (CfP) for the openSUSE Conference 2013 (oSC13), the annual gathering of our ...

Hackweek 9 is coming!

Jos Poortvliet 26. Mar 2013

The week starting on April 8 will be Hack Week 9 at SUSE! The SUSE engineers will be free to work on projects of their passion for a week. They work in teams or alone on p...

openSUSE for new geekos

Jos Poortvliet 22. Mar 2013

It is almost weekend and you want to try another Linux distribution? We’ve got you covered! The Linux ecosystem is a varied one with hundreds of distributions, each havin...

Geeko Pumping Iron Session - openSUSE ARM Hackathon

News Team 19. Mar 2013

Now that openSUSE 12.3 is out, the openSUSE ARM Team want to step up a gear. As the cycle was shorter than normal, there are a few wrinkles that need to be ironed out and ...

openSUSE 12.3 Launch Feedback: we're still awesome!

Jos Poortvliet 18. Mar 2013

Last week we let openSUSE 12.3 out of the gate. Like always, it was exciting and fun to see the result of so much preparation get to our users! So, how did it go and what ...

openSUSE 12.3 – Awesome as 1-2-3

Jos Poortvliet 13. Mar 2013

Dear contributors, friends and fans: The latest release of the openSUSE distribution, version 12.3, is ready for you! After six months of hard work, we are happy to bring y...

Sneak Preview III: There and Back Again: a Distro's Tale

Jos Poortvliet 11. Mar 2013

What do Qt 5, Linux 3.8 and LibreOffice 4 have in common? They were not released in time to be included in our leading edge, but stable openSUSE 12.3 in time. But fear not...

Sneak preview II: openSUSE 12.3 for Servers

Jos Poortvliet 8. Mar 2013

[caption id=”attachment_15473” align=”alignright” width=”300”] postgres in openSUSE 12.3[/caption] The new openSUSE is just around the corner so let’s take a closer look a...

Sneak Preview I: openSUSE 12.3 for Desktop Users

Jos Poortvliet 6. Mar 2013

In less than two weeks, openSUSE 12.3 will be on your doorstep. Or rather, on the mirrors, ready for use. If you are curious to know what is coming, this first sneak previe...

Planned maintenance downtime for widehat.opensuse.org 2013-03-05

Lars Vogdt 4. Mar 2013

On 2013-03-05 we will do some maintenance on our public rsync server to increase the performance of the machine. During the maintenance a slower machine will take its place...

RC2 is Ready for You. Are You Ready for RC2?

Jos Poortvliet 28. Feb 2013

The openSUSE Release Team has released RC2 to the mirrors a few hours ago. A large number of bugs has been fixed and a number of packages has been updated. Major changes in...

openSUSE Conference 2014: Call for Locations!

openSUSE Board 26. Feb 2013

Today the openSUSE board invites you to submit your proposal for locations of the openSUSE Conference in 2014. Please send proposals to the openSUSE project mailing list wi...

Flip Bits, Not Burgers!

Jos Poortvliet 25. Feb 2013

The Google Summer of Code is an annual program, which pays students to write code for Open Source projects. It gives a chance for college students to hack on really cool s...

openSUSE Marketing and Artwork Teams Got Work Done

Jos Poortvliet 21. Feb 2013

In preparation for the upcoming 12.3 release, the openSUSE Marketing and Artwork Teams followed up a very successful FOSDEM presence with a week-long hackfest at the SUSE ...

oSC13: Kicking off with CfP and Registration

Jos Poortvliet 20. Feb 2013

The openSUSE Conference (oSC13) team is pleased to announce that registration has opened and our paper committee calls out for submission of session proposals! From July 18...

Heat Up Our Servers: 12.3 RC1 Is Ready To Download

Jos Poortvliet 7. Feb 2013

As winter refuses to relax its icy grasp on the northern hemisphere, the openSUSE project would like to announce the first release candidate of version 12.3 of its popular ...

openSUSE Conference 2013: Geeko Gets Geared Up!

Jos Poortvliet 24. Jan 2013

Today, the openSUSE community is happy and proud to announce the openSUSE Conference 2013, oSC13. On July 18, the openSUSE Community will flock to the land where 2500 years...

openSUSE 12.2: Brought to you by "an extremely talented group of people"

Jos Poortvliet 23. Jan 2013

In September, the openSUSE community released openSUSE 12.2 all around the world. So what have the responses been since that Wednesday a little over three months ago, and...

openSUSE 12.3 Hackathon in Nuremberg: Progress on ARM, Packagekit and Many Bugs Fixed

Will Stephenson 23. Jan 2013

Over the weekend of Friday 19 to Sunday 21 January 2013, a group of openSUSE contributors braved heavy snowfalls all over Europe to come to the Nuremberg SUSE office. Follo...

The openSUSE Conference - a Few Months Later

Jos Poortvliet 21. Jan 2013

This article attempts to give a bit of an overview of what happened at oSC 12. And that is lots and lots, as you can see in the Google Plus event page for oSC12 and LinuxD...

The openSUSE 12.3 Beta is Out! Time for Pizza...

Jos Poortvliet 17. Jan 2013

According to plan, today openSUSE 12.3 Beta sees the light. The beta comes with mostly smallish changes as we’re in serious testing waters now - we hope you’re out there t...

Opening the Can: initial support for openSUSE on the ARM Chromebook

Will Stephenson 8. Jan 2013

> > Amazon's top selling laptop doesn't run Windows or Mac OS, it runs Linux [buff.ly/11ahUlK](//t.co/jQeuELQE)[#Linux](https://twitter.com/search/%23Linux)[#Chr...

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