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oSC15 - Call for papers

Kostas Koudaras 30. Dec 2014

Make your voice heard! Do you have something interesting to share with the dynamic openSUSE community? Now is your chance. The conference will be held in the beautiful city...

oSC 2015 - Call for Team Members

Kostas Koudaras 22. Dec 2014

Before the dawn of 2015 and as announced at oSC14  work has already started for yet another awesome openSUSE Conference. For 2015 the city of The Hague in theNetherlands ...

Roundup of recent Tumbleweed highlights

Douglas DeMaio 15. Dec 2014

Here are some highlights from the most recent Tumbleweed snapshot. Mozilla Firefox updated to 34.0.5 from 33.1. The default search engine changed to Yahoo for North Americ...

Geeko holiday gift ideas

Douglas DeMaio 11. Dec 2014

Tis the season for Geeko hacking - Fa la la la la, la la la la! Whom wouldn’t get excited about this time of year? And as Christmas is about giving here is our selection ...

Conference kicks into high gear

Douglas DeMaio 11. Dec 2014

[caption id=”attachment_18919” align=”alignright” width=”300”] Register for OSC15 at //bit.ly/1wC7qdX[/caption] We are ready to get this year’s Geeko-hack party started in...

Hour of Code reinforces need for project mentors

Douglas DeMaio 8. Dec 2014

Administrators, mentors needed for Google Summer of Code In the words of will.i.am, “great coders are today's rock stars,” but unfortunately there are not enough of these ...

This weeks highlights in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 5. Dec 2014

Here are some highlights from this week’s Tumbleweed snapshot. The default kernel has upgraded from 3.17.2 to 3.17.4 and several enhancements have been made to the Btrfs c...

openSUSE-Education 13.2 released

Lars Vogdt 4. Dec 2014

This time others are faster than the original source: Softpedia as well as Distrowatch already announced the new openSUSE-Education release 13.2.1, which is based on openSU...

Three seats available for openSUSE board elections

Douglas DeMaio 4. Dec 2014

Elections to fill three seats on the openSUSE Board are set to begin in the coming weeks and candidates are needed to fill these three positions. Individuals who apply for...

What to expect from Btrfs on openSUSE 13.2?

Douglas DeMaio 12. Nov 2014

As the first major Linux distribution to have Btrfs as the default file system, what can users and developers expect from openSUSE 13.2? How is the systems capabilities en...

Help promote openSUSE 13.2!

Douglas DeMaio 10. Nov 2014

To help promote 13.2, we have assembled some badges, backgrounds, counters and banners for you to put on your social media or blog pages. For your blog and social media ac...

openSUSE project creates buzz in Italy

Douglas DeMaio 6. Nov 2014

NUREMBERG, Germany (5-Nov.-2014) -  Many Linux user groups throughout Italy met at separate, but collectively themed events on Oct. 25 for Linux Day to promote the use of G...

openSUSE 13.2: green light to freedom!

Ancor Gonzalez Sosa 4. Nov 2014

Dear contributors, friends and fans: openSUSE 13.2 is out! After one year on continuous improvement in the tools and procedures and many hours of developing, packaging, tes...

Tumbleweed, Factory rolling releases to merge

Douglas DeMaio 24. Oct 2014

With the release of openSUSE 13.2 in November, two of openSUSE’s open-source projects, the ‘Tumbleweed’ and ‘Factory’ rolling releases will be merging, and offered as a s...

Sneak Peek into GNOME on openSUSE 13.2

Kostas Koudaras 23. Oct 2014

openSUSE 13.2 comes with the latest and greatest that the GNOME desktop has to offer – GNOME 3.14. At the time of the release 13.2 offers GNOME 3.14.1, which improves upon ...

Hack Week Event Inspires Innovation, Creativity, Fun

Douglas DeMaio 21. Oct 2014

Hi everyone, I’m Doug! This is the beginning of my third week at openSUSE contributing to marketing and communications. It is great to be of the community. Everything here ...

Asia Summit Highlights Growing Open Source Community in Asia

Douglas DeMaio 16. Oct 2014

This weekend is the start of openSUSE’s first Asia Summit in Beijing. The summit, which is a follow on to an open source summit SUSE sponsored in May, is expected to incre...

openSUSE 13.2: time to get your hands dirty

Ancor Gonzalez Sosa 16. Oct 2014

With less than three weeks from the release of our beloved green distro and the first release candidate already rocking, we can feel like we are almost there. This is exact...

openSUSE 13.2 RC1 is now out, hands on

Kostas Koudaras 9. Oct 2014

openSUSE 13.2 RC1 is baked and ready to serve!. This previous Beta release was a blast with almost 10.000 downloads. The community responded to the call and we had lot of e...

openSUSE users and the new Linux Foundation Certification Programs

Kostas Koudaras 8. Oct 2014

Hello Geekos, You may be aware the Linux Foundation recently launched two Certification programs Linux Foundation Certified Sysadmin (LFCS) covering basic system admin...

openSUSE 13.2 Is Coming - First Beta Has Arrived!

Jos Poortvliet 22. Sep 2014

[caption id=”attachment_14680” align=”alignright” width=”150”] Get openSUSE 13.2 Beta![/caption] Our brand new ‘Rolling Factory’ has already amassed over 6000 installation...

openSUSE Asia - Register and book your dates!!!

Manu Gupta 22. Sep 2014

The openSUSE Asia Summit committee has been working hard and is finally prepared to welcome you and give a taste of rich Chinese history and hospitality. You may register ...

Statement on the recent Merger announcement

Richard Brown 17. Sep 2014

Dear openSUSE Community, As you might be aware, SUSE’s parent entity, the Attachmate Group has entered into an agreement to merge into Micro Focus, a UK-based enterprise s...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2014 - We have a Logo now

Manu Gupta 12. Sep 2014

We are pleased to announce that the winner of our Logo Design contest is the No.8 candidate authored by W.H! Congratulations, W.H! W.H’s logo has been chosen as the offici...

Gopesh talks about his GSoC Experience as an openSUSE student

Manu Gupta 9. Sep 2014

GSoC:My journey with openSUSE begins Hello everyone, I am Gopesh Tulsyan from India.I got involved with openSUSE community during GSoC to add features to OSEM(Open Source ...

Factory: Over 6000 installations and growing!

Ancor Gonzalez Sosa 5. Sep 2014

Since the announcement at the end of July of the new Factory development model, the machinery worked tirelessly releasing more than 15 Factory snapshots during the next mon...

Thank you mentors for an amazing GSoC!!!

Manu Gupta 4. Sep 2014

Another Google Summer of Code has come to an end. This year has been particularly satisfying as we achieved 100% success. All of our students passed their final evaluation ...

Things I learnt with the Zorp and openSUSE Team

Manu Gupta 1. Sep 2014

Greetings everyone, this is Peter from Hungary. In the last few months I have spent a lot of time and effort to give something to the open source community in the framework...

openSUSE Asia Summit - Choose our Logo

Manu Gupta 30. Aug 2014

Following the announcement of our logo contests, thanks to our awesome community as usual, we now have several logos. Choosing the best of them off course was a lot of work...

openSUSE News Survey - Responses

Nenad Latinović 29. Aug 2014

Hi there, green machine users! As you know, there has been a survey going on about your favorite news spot. It was our way of feeling your pulse a little, to see what you ...

GSoC: What I have learned

cbruckmayer 14. Aug 2014

In the past 4 months during this years Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for open source software project...

openSUSE News Team Needs Your Feedback!

Nenad Latinović 14. Aug 2014

Heya geekos! We love the fact that the openSUSE News section is being generally well-adopted and well read. But, we’d like to do more, and do better! And for that, we need...

Need a Wallpaper Changer for GNOME? Try Variety!

Nenad Latinović 13. Aug 2014

openSUSE, despite the vastness of the www stating it’s primarily a KDE distro, prides itself in offering a one stop shop for your operating system needs, regardless of your...

Command Line Tuesdays - Part Eight

Nenad Latinović 12. Aug 2014

Yo yo, geekos! Here we are, for the final chapter of our CLT hangout. Today, we’ll be talking about job control through which we’ll learn how to control processes running o...

REMINDER: openSUSE Asia Summit Logo Contest Continues!

Nenad Latinović 8. Aug 2014

Heya there geekos! As we have already reported, there’s an ongoing contest for the official logo for the openSUSE Asia Summit. You can read the announcement here. There hav...

Official 13.1 Docker Containers Released

Henne Vogelsang 7. Aug 2014

We are proud to announce official Docker containers for our latest openSUSE release, 13.1. Docker is an open-source project that automates the deployment of applications in...

GSoC: Open Source Event Manager Goals & Campaigns

cbruckmayer 6. Aug 2014

In the past 4 months during this years Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for open source software project...

Command Line Tuesdays - Part Seven

Nenad Latinović 5. Aug 2014

Heya geekos. I’ve checked the ‘curriculum’, and we’re at part 7 of 8 as of today. Which means there will be one more - and sadly final - CLT next tuesday. So for today, let...

MATE 1.8.1 Available on openSUSE

Nenad Latinović 31. Jul 2014

After GNOME 2.x passed the torch to GNOME 3, a lot of people started to wonder what is the perfect graphical user interface for them. Many users moved to Xfce, since it off...

GSoC: Open Source Event Manager Organizer Dashboard

cbruckmayer 30. Jul 2014

In the past 4 months during this years Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for open source software project...

Command Line "Somedays" - Part Six

Nenad Latinović 30. Jul 2014

Hey guys. Yes, it’s Wednesday, and yes, we’re a day late. Reason? This awesome announcement, that had to take the whole glory of Tuesday. Also, in the future, if there’s an...

Factory moves to Rolling Release Development Model

Ancor Gonzalez Sosa 29. Jul 2014

We are proud to announce that we have just switched our beloved development distribution, openSUSE Factory, to be an independent distribution using the “rolling release” de...

openSUSE Asia summit needs Python Developers

Manu Gupta 24. Jul 2014

The news writer from SUSE office snuck into the openSUSE Asia’s trello board and found that they will use an open source voting tool for their upcoming events. Snoek is a v...

openSUSE Asia Summit announces its logo contest

Manu Gupta 21. Jul 2014

The first openSUSE.Asia Summit will be held in Beijing, China in Oct, 2014. However, no Summit or Conference is successful without a symbol. The openSUSE Asia Summit organi...

openSUSE Board Announcement

Nenad Latinović 17. Jul 2014

Hi all, It’s with some regret that we have to announce that Vincent Untz, our current openSUSE Board Chairman, has chosen to step down as a result of a happy personal even...

openSUSE Summit - Registration Starts today

Manu Gupta 16. Jul 2014

We announced the openSUSE Asia Summit yesterday and here we are already opening up our registrations for the summit. We welcome you with open hands to visit our conference ...

Command Line Tuesdays - Part Five

Nenad Latinović 15. Jul 2014

Yes, you’ve guessed what time it is! It’s time to rrrrrrrrummmbleeeee! And this time, we’ll learn how to work with commands. So without further ado, let’s get to business. ...

The first openSUSE Asia Summit is announced...

Manu Gupta 14. Jul 2014

The first ever openSUSE Summit in Asia will take place in Beihang University, Beijing on October 18th and 19th, 2014. We aim to promote the use of openSUSE and other free o...

Command Line Tuesdays - Part Four

Nenad Latinović 8. Jul 2014

Heya there geekos! New week, new adventure! Today, we’ll learn how to manipulate files using four fairly simple commands. So let’s begin! Before we start with the comma...

Join The Geeko Community!

Nenad Latinović 4. Jul 2014

Heya geekos, geekos-to-be, and all other interested parties. This time it’s going to be a short one. We, the geekos kindly invite you to hang out with us! Yes, hang out....

Command Line Tuesdays - Part Three

Nenad Latinović 1. Jul 2014

Heya Geekos! New week, new part in our CLT series! Today, mr Shotts takes us on a first part of a guided tour through our file system. We’ll learn how to visit, list files...

Artwork Overhaul a Possibility in openSUSE 13.2?

Nenad Latinović 28. Jun 2014

As we stated in one of our earlier articles, the openSUSE team is working full steam. Even though it may sometimes seem quiet news-wise, it’s not so by any means. So, let’s...

Command Line Tuesdays - Part Two

Nenad Latinović 24. Jun 2014

Heya geekos! Let’s refresh our memories. Last week, we skimmed through some basic commands, learned what a shell is actually, and made a steady introduction into our CLI T...

Command Line Tuesdays - Part One

Nenad Latinović 10. Jun 2014

Here we are geekos, back in action! Sorry it’s been a while, but let me just assure you we’re back on track, raging to meet the deadlines and to, well, have some fun :) ...

Command Line Tuesdays - The Introductory

Nenad Latinović 27. May 2014

Hi Geekos! Today we’re introducing a new series, called ‘Command Line Tuesdays’. Why command line Tuesdays? Because in this series, everyday computer enthusiasts like your...

openSUSE Welcomes its GSoC 2014 students

Manu Gupta 26. May 2014

openSUSE welcomes Google Summer of Code 2014 participants. Thanks to Google, openSUSE has an excellent number of slots and an equally excellent number of mentors and stud...

Gnome Classic edition of openSUSE-Education

Lars Vogdt 22. May 2014

If you have fun, the rest is easy… The openSUSE-Education team is proud to announce the availability of another great release: the GNOME classic edition. This one is near...

What Will openSUSE 13.2 Default Wallpaper Look Like?

Nenad Latinović 22. May 2014

Eppur si muove! Even though we sometimes feel there’s a sort of a standstill once first major bugs are fixed in a new release and it settles on our machine, that’s not the ...

Spreading the Word on the Geeko - Support is Back!

News Team 21. May 2014

Spreading the word about our project has again become a little bit easier. As announced during the Opening Keynote at oSC14 the reimbursement program for locally produced ...

openSUSE Edu Li-f-e MATE available

Lars Vogdt 19. May 2014

The openSUSE-Education team is proud to present a special, 64-bit edition of openSUSE Edu Li-f-e with the MATE desktop environment. Li-f-e MATE edition came about to sup...

Jean-Daniel Dodin a.k.a shares his experiences on how to manage a Personal Web Server with openSUSE

Manu Gupta 14. May 2014

Hello :-) I want to share my experience in managing a personal hosted web server with openSUSE. Two points, first. I’m not a computer professional, but an openSU...

Aufbruchstimmung.....Here is what you missed at oSC14

News Team 2. May 2014

oSC14 took place in Dubrovnik, Croatia, attracting a large number of Geekos to give and attend talks, organize and attend workshops and have fun at the parties. Compared to...

oSC 2014 3rd - 4th Day

George Bratsos 28. Apr 2014

Geekos gathered at beautiful Dubrovnik in Croatia for their annual meetup. They drunk, they conversed and they shared knowledge and progress of the project. They had fun! T...

oSC 2014 2nd Day

George Bratsos 27. Apr 2014

This year’s openSUSE Conference is being held in the beautiful city of Dubrovnik in Croatia. This year’s conference organization team has taken care of its attendees with a...

oSC 2014 1st Day

George Bratsos 25. Apr 2014

The openSUSE Conference 2014 is being held in Dubrovnik, on the Dalmatian coast in Croatia. The conference venue, also known as the Campus of the University of Dubrovnik is...

oSC has started - follow us remotely!

Jos Poortvliet 25. Apr 2014

[caption id=”attachment_17869” align=”alignright” width=”300”] The Board in Action[/caption] The openSUSE Conference 2014 in Dubrovnik was kicked off just an hour ago by t...

Sometimes you need some luck (was: build.opensuse.org downtime)

Henne Vogelsang 24. Apr 2014

A morning you love as admin: starting with one single disk in your storage array failing, ending up in a whole array crashing. The storage array running behind the backend...

Make Room on the Runway: openSUSE Conference 2014 Program Ready

Jos Poortvliet 18. Apr 2014

We are happy to announce that at long last the schedule for oSC14 has landed and you can find the details of the once again jam packed conference here. We already published...

News from your openSUSE admins

Lars Vogdt 12. Apr 2014

Heartbleed and openSUSE infrastructure As people started to ask, we checked all openSUSE servers and can confirm that none of them is affected by the heartbleed bug. For ...

What's up on KDE repositories

Ricardo Chung 4. Apr 2014

Dear KDE Users, Maybe you have heard already about it from another openSUSE mailing list, a blog post or through our openSUSE community page on Google+, but the KDE reposi...

The new generation of openQA hits the production server

Ancor Gonzalez Sosa 4. Apr 2014

Bad news for the bugs: the new version of openQA is ready for prime time. Everybody following the blog of the openSUSE Team @ SUSE or the Factory mailing list during the la...

Bodega, app stores and the Open Build Service

Jos Poortvliet 3. Apr 2014

Welcome to the Bodega store! Bodega is a project making use of the Open Build Service. Aside from that, there are many other connections between the Bodega team and openS...

FreeDesktop Summit about to start

Jos Poortvliet 27. Mar 2014

Next week, from Monday the 31st of March to the 4th of April, developers from the major Linux Desktops (GNOME, KDE, Unity and RazorQt) will meet again in Nuremberg for the ...

openSUSE Conference 2014 Location Sneak Peek

Jos Poortvliet 24. Mar 2014

Less than two months from the awesome openSUSE Conference will kick off. The location of oSC14 is the beautiful and historic city of Dubrovnik, located on the Dalmatian co...

Help Promote oSC14!

Jos Poortvliet 21. Mar 2014

[caption id=”attachment_17724” align=”alignright” width=”300”] click to download banners![/caption] Every year we hear from people who did not know when or where the openS...

Development for 13.2 Kicks Off

Jos Poortvliet 19. Mar 2014

openSUSE Factory development is going steady and our venerable release manager has made a first milestone available. No development schedule has yet been determined, althou...

rsync.opensuse.org down, take two

Lars Vogdt 17. Mar 2014

After the outage 1 month ago, it seems rsync.opensuse.org has similar hardware problems again. Again we did not see any output on the serial console any more and even a p...

oSC14 Organized Accomodation Deadline Tomorrow!

Jos Poortvliet 14. Mar 2014

As you can see on the website, affordable accommodation deals have been prepared for all the Geekos visiting the openSUSE conference 2014. To get those low prices, bookings...

Sneak Preview of oSC14 Sessions

Jos Poortvliet 11. Mar 2014

At the openSUSE Conference 2014 in Dubrovnik hundreds of Geekos are expected to meet, discuss and attend the talks and workshops. The openSUSE Conference Paper Committee is...

oSC14 Keynote Confirmed, More Awesome Coming

Jos Poortvliet 5. Mar 2014

We are very pleased to announce Michael Meeks as our keynote speaker for the Saturday opening session at oSC14, held in Dubrovnik April 25th - 28th, 2014. Besides Michael M...

openSUSE participates in GSoC 2014

Manu Gupta 4. Mar 2014

GSoC 2014: First Steps openSUSE is part of yet another Google Summer of Code. After a rocking ride in last year’s edition, our Geeko’s are gearing up for another awesome p...

openSUSE Board F2F Meeting

Izabel Valverde 25. Feb 2014

The openSUSE Board has pleasure to announce the minutes from Face to Face Board meeting that happened in February 7th to 9th, 2014 in Nuremberg. Please read carefully and ...

oSC14 - The openSUSE Travel Support is open!

Izabel Valverde 24. Feb 2014

The openSUSE Conference 2014 will happen in Dubrovnic, Croatia. The TSP goal is to help everybody in and around openSUSE to be able to come to the openSUSE Conference! Yo...

openSUSE at SCALE 12x Day 1

anditosan 24. Feb 2014

“The early bird gets the worm” That was the theme of our awakening at 5AM this morning. We arose to 22 notifications of retweets by new followers we made at the conference....

openSUSE at SCALE 12x

anditosan 22. Feb 2014

Following the recent participation by our team at FOSDEM we would also like to continue in the tradition of showing our team’s outreach to different audiences. Over the pas...

[Update] Hardware problem: rsync.opensuse.org down

Lars Vogdt 18. Feb 2014

[caption id=”attachment_3023” align=”alignright” width=”150”] Geeko at work[/caption] Looks like the hardware behind rsync.opensuse.org now finally reaches it “end of life...

FOSDEM 2014: The Infomercial

George Bratsos 7. Feb 2014

Fosdem is the biggest open source developer’s event in Europe. Geekos couldn’t miss the chance to be there promoting our beloved distribution and of course our next big ...

oSC14 CfP and Registration Open!

Jos Poortvliet 29. Jan 2014

Starting today, the oSC14 Program Committee is ready to accept your proposals for sessions!We’re also ready to register visitors interested in joining us. Your talk and wor...

openSUSE Forums - back on-line

Jos Poortvliet 16. Jan 2014

As we reported last week, our public forums have been compromised and defaced. Passwords were safe but the cracker did manage to get access to the database with our forum p...

openSUSE Conference 2014 Takes Place April 24th - 28th in Dubrovnik, Croatia

Jos Poortvliet 9. Jan 2014

As announced at the openSUSE Conference 2013, this years openSUSE conference will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia. This beautiful city will welcome us Geekos from the 24t...

openSUSE forums defaced, user emails leaked

admin 7. Jan 2014

As hackernews.com noted, the public openSUSE forums have been compromised and defaced. A cracker managed to exploit a vulnerability in the forum software which made it pos...

The openSUSE Travel Support Team wishes you a Happy New Year!

Izabel Valverde 1. Jan 2014

Great News!!! For almost 2 years Izabel Valverde and Kostas Koudaras run the Travel Support Program Team with the openSUSE Board & SUSE support. After a great job d...

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