To state that not much has been happening in openSUSE Tumbleweed is an understatement as there were seven snapshot this week. Life, however, is full of surprises and irony...

The openSUSE Project has two seats  for this year’s openSUSE board elections. Phase 0 has begun and candidates who have an interest in running for the board will need to...

Many packages made it into openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week and two minor kernel versions were just a couple of the several updates that landed in the repositories. ...

Does it happen to you, too, that there are moments where you ask yourself why others want something from you that is there already since a while? Exactly this happened wit...

Release also includes support for ARMv7 The latest release from openSUSE has new images available for the Raspberry Pi and joins SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspber...

After a long, but exciting first day, we even managed to get some sleep before we started again and discussed the whole morning about our policies and other stuff that is n...

Some of the openSUSE Heroes decided during the last openSUSE Conference that it’s time for more face to face meetings to “get things done” and “work together”… [caption id...

November brought openSUSE Tumbleweed users an early holiday gift with 24 snapshots of new software and four updated Linux Kernels. The continuous snapshot streak of Tumble...

News of Linux releases are getting most of the headlines during November while snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed have subtly been flying under the radar. Other than Nov. 3 ...

It’s official; the Warrior Tablet made by MJ Technology and powered by openSUSE is ready for the world; now it just needs funding through an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign...

Mentors for this year’s Google Summer of Code blog about their experience being a mentor, the Mentor Summit at Google and the collaborative effort start an openSUSE mentori...

Having a party to celebrate an achievement is always great and the openSUSE community knows how to party; just look at all the fun we have at openSUSE conferences and summi...

**A Professional Distribution for Developers, System Administrators and Users ** (Languages: CZ, DE, EN, ES, FR, IT, JA, LT, TW) Members of the openSUSE Project ar...

This week has been a bit hectic with dramatic change affecting people around the world, but openSUSE  Tumbleweed users who are use to change can find some clarity in the ch...

A new framework for desktop applications on Linux has been added to Tumbleweed and now users can enjoy the most up-to-date version of Flatpak. Flatpak 0.6.13 arrived in th...

The development cycle for openSUSE Leap 42.2 Release Candidates (RC) is coming to an end. RC2, which will be followed by the stable release of openSUSE Leap 42.2 on Nov. 1...

In less than a week, openSUSE Tumbleweed had two snapshots that included new Linux Kernels. Snapshot 20161020 brought users Linux Kernel 4.8.3 and and four days later snap...

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the availability of the openSUSE Leap 42.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). Since mid-May, the project has been guiding the developme...

A couple of snapshots have been released since the last Tumbleweed update, but in those two snapshots were an enormous amount of package updates. Snapshot 20161003 was the...

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 Beta 3 was released today one day ahead of schedule and the last beta for 42.2 brought quite a few new versions for people to test. VirtualBox was u...

Another week and another five snapshots for openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed produced updates for openSSL, GNOME 3.22, Mesa and the Linux Kernel. Dominique Leuenberge...

Less than 48 hours from when GNOME’s release team unveiled version 3.22 (Karlsruhe), openSUSE Tumbleweed users are getting the full upstream experience of the latest GNOME....

The release of openSUSE Leap 42.2 Beta 2 today added several new minor versions including KDE’s first Long Term Support version for Plasma. The highly anticipated release ...

Snapshots this week added new sensations for Tumbleweed users, but there were plenty of other updates in the repositories to get people excited. While snapshot 20160907 ad...

QtCon, Akademy and VideoLAN Dev Days in Berlin this past week kept many developers busy, but openSUSE’s rolling release kept going forward. Tumbleweed had one new snapshot...

openSUSE users are at no loss for getting new software as this week the rolling distribution Tumbleweed had several snapshot releases and there was a beta release for openS...

openSUSE Betas are pizza party time.  Have a Pizza Party and test the openSUSE Leap 42.2 Beta. Geeko in Nuremberg will have a party on Sept. 7 at 10:00 UTC. Any Beta teste...

Official Release Scheduled for Nov. 16 Software testers and Linux enthusiasts can now get the Beta release of openSUSE Leap 42.2, which was released today. “Leap is for p...

openSUSE Tumbleweed had another abundant week of snapshots. Four Tumbleweed snapshots were released since the last article and the snapshot of the week, 20160816, brought ...

Snapshot 20160808 brought openSUSE Tumbleweed users Plasma 5.72 shortly after last week’s article was published, but it didn’t last long. This week Tumbleweed appears to h...

We are happy to announce that Ramadoni Ashudi design from Indonesia is selected as official logo for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2016 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. As the winner Ram...

Since the release of Linux Kernel 4.7 in the 20160730 snapshot, which brought lengthy email discussions about out-of-tree and third-party drivers on the Factory mailing lis...

openSUSE.Asia Summit is a 2 day event hosted every year in different regions of Asia to promote openSUSE and open source.  Hosting a variety of  workshops, talks and a hack...

The latest openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot has updated KDE Applications in the repositories to version 16.04.3. Snapshot 20160724 had a considerably large amount of package u...

During the last weeks, the openSUSE board and others expressed their concern about the current state of some openSUSE infrastructure: especially the reaction times to chang...

There is a lot of excitement around the latest openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots because of new KDE features and the newest stable Linux Kernel, which is expected in the next s...

In this years edition of Google Summer of Code, an international annual program in which stipends are awarded to students to hack on Free Software during the summer, openSU...

The last update provided on Tumbleweed was almost a month ago and a lot has happened since then. Besides the release of a an Alpha 2 for openSUSE Leap 42.2 and the five-da...

Embedded below is the midterm blog entry of Google Summer of Code student Martin Garcia. Martin is assisting with openSUSE’s Jangouts during the Google Summer of Code.

Preparations for the openSUSE.Asia Summit is rolling.  Following tradition, we are back with the logo contest. We are looking for a logo reflecting openSUSE and its commu...

The openSUSE.Asia Committee is seeking sponsors for the third edition of openSUSE.Asia Summit. The summit will take place in Yogyakarta, Indonesia from Sept 30 - Oct 2nd ...

[caption id=”” align=”aligncenter” width=”340”] Semarang, Indonesia by Yohanes Dicky Yuniar[/caption] The openSUSE.Asia Committee are announcing the call for papers for 3r...

The openSUSE Conference ended today and people who were not able to travel to Bavaria for the conference can view most of the conference on the openSUSETV channel on YouTub...

[caption id=”attachment_19978” align=”alignright” width=”300”] Chief Executive Officer of SoftIron, Norman Fraser, Ph.D., provides the keynote talk at the openSUSE Conferen...

[caption id=”attachment_19974” align=”alignright” width=”300”] Frank Karlitschek, founder of Nextcloud and ownCloud, talks about a Global User Directory for Cloud and other...

[caption id=”attachment_19967” align=”alignright” width=”300”] SaltStack Chief Technical Officer and technical founder Thomas Hatch talks about the evolution of Salt and IT...

A new GNU Compiler Collection for openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed is scheduled to arrive soon. Tumbleweed 20160613 snapshot will be the last snapshot to be based on ...

Thank you to everyone who came out to LinuxFest Northwest 2016 April 23 and 24! The Geeko crew had a lot of fun in our newly-expanded openSUSE Lounge, where we were able to...

The openSUSE project announces the immediate cancellation of the ownCloud Summit that was scheduled to take place during the openSUSE Conference in two weeks. The summit w...

We are happy to announce the third openSUSE.Asia Summit. The openSUSE.Asia Summit 2016 will take place at Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia...

Embedded below is the blog of Google Summer of Code student Rishabh Saxena. Rishabh is assisting with openSUSE’s Open Source Event Management during the Google Summer of C...

openSUSE Leap 42.2 Alpha 1, which is now available for testing, made some news last week, but this week’s news focuses more on openSUSE’s rolling distribution. Developers ...

Embedded below is the blog of Google Summer of Code student Ana Martinez Gomez. Ana is assisting with openSUSE’s Open Source Event Management app during and the Google Sum...

Embedded below is the blog of Google Summer of Code student Martin Garcia Monterde. Martin detailed his first week coding with openSUSE and the Google Summer of Code.

Embedded below is the blog of Google Summer of Code student Shalom Ray. Ray provides an overview of his project Improving the one-click installer.

Last week, members of The GNOME Project announced a new conference in the United States northwest to enhance the GNU/Linux application ecosystem. The Libre Application S...

Since the last openSUSE Tumbleweed update, there have been three snapshots, but the next snapshot is the one many users are waiting for because it will include Qt 5.6. The...

Since the last update, openSUSE Tumbleweed had two snapshots. Snapshot 20160505 and 20160508 brought quite a few goodies for Tumbleweed users. Firefox 46 and GNOME 3.20.2...

All proposals accepted for the openSUSE Conference, which takes place in Nuremberg, Germany, from June 22 - 26, have been selected and people selected to give the presentat...

Plans to update to GCC 6 After an entire full rebuild last week, openSUSE Tumbleweed is shifting its focus to another area. Tumbleweed is planning to switch the compiler ...

The first round of proposals for the openSUSE Conference have been accepted and people who submitted a call for papers should log-in to events.opensuse.org and check to see...

There has not been a new snapshot for openSUSE Tumbleweed for the past week, and it has been a couple weeks since the last time it was discussed on news.opensuse.org. A ne...

The openSUSE Board announced today a call to action for a Community Release Team to assist with tasks associated to the development of the next Leap version 42.2. The anno...

Google made an announcement April 22 that 1,206 students were selected for the Google Summer of Code and six of those students will be mentored through the openSUSE Proje...

What to know The openSUSE Conference in Nuremberg, Germany, June 22 - 26 is just nine weeks away and attendee might want to start planning their trip to this year’s confer...

William Shakespeare once wrote that “it is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” Fine words from an educated and knowledgeable man who was born privileged...

Plasma 5.6  and Qt 5.6 have yet to make it in a Tumbleweed snapshot, but the packages are are in staging and the latter will likely arrive after Plasma 5.6. Until then, the...

There are 15 more days to submit a proposal for the openSUSE Conference in Nuremberg June 22 - 26, so I would like to provide an update to the community about the conferenc...

openSUSE Tumbleweed had some significant changes this past week with KDE Applications updating to version 15.12.3, which includes Long Term Support version of KDE Developme...

Four snapshots released this week provided plenty of new packages for openSUSE Tumbleweed users, but what is coming in a future snapshot is what has people excited. Python...

The openSUSE.Asia organization committee is inviting proposals to host the openSUSE.Asia Summit during the later half of 2016 (July to the middle of October). The openSUSE....

Nuremberg offers several places to stay during the openSUSE Conference, but don’t wait too long to book a hotel room or a hostel because there will be a race car event in N...

Since the last update on openSUSE Tumbleweed, there have been five snapshots and some of those snapshots have brought some interesting new packages. The 20160225 snapshot ...

Google announced yesterday (Leap Day) that the openSUSE Project has been accepted as a mentoring organization for this year’s Google Summer of Code. University students ca...

Planning for the openSUSE Conference in Nuremberg is moving along well. Each day brings more progress toward having a successful conference and this year the Organizing Te...

openQA workers that keep Tumbleweed tested and rolling have almost been replenished. The new hardware can run more workers and is newer, bigger and faster, which increases...

To celebrate Leap Day, openSUSE will ship you a Leap 42 T-Shirt when you submit a proposal for this year’s openSUSE Conference by Leap Day (Feb. 29, 2016). *Due to a techni...

Gravitational waves might be the cause of two new live image, spin off projects released today by members of the openSUSE community. The release of Argon, which is a live ...

The openSUSE Conference will return to Nuremberg June 22 - 26 and have its conference at a cultural center in the heart of the Bavarian city. This year’s oSC will take pla...

openSUSE’s rolling distribution Tumbleweed goes through automated tests before a snapshot is released and heavily relies on openQA for the process of Tumbleweed to create r...

Tumbleweed updated systemd from 224 to 228 in one of four snapshots this week and there were plenty of other exciting updates. The change log for the updated systemd state...

The campaign is over; the votes are counted and three members of the openSUSE community will lead the overall project on the openSUSE Board. Tomáš Chvátal, Gertjan Lettink...

Last week’s updates to Tumbleweed brought several new packages to openSUSE’s rolling release like Kmail 5, KDE Framework 5.18.0 and updates to Perl and YaST. This week’s s...

The openSUSE build service becomes more and more a victim of his success: building constantly more than 300,000 packages for more than 43,000 developers needs really a lot ...

The stage is set for the 14th annual Southern California Linux Expo in Pasadena, Calif., this week and openSUSE will be apart of the scheduled entertainment and tech talks....

openSUSE Leap 42.1 is now available on Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Microsoft Azure. Leap has been available on EC2 & GCE since shortly after it release; the ...

The community of openSUSE is expanding its outreach efforts to get more involvement from students and mentors to participate in the Google Summer of Code. Members of the c...

openSUSE is pleased to announce a call for papers for the openSUSE Conference 2016 (oSC16) taking place in Nuremberg, Germany. The dates for submission will be Jan. 15 thr...

Happy New Year Geekos It is mid-January and in a few days is FOSDEM time again. openSUSE will be there once again to show the entire Free Open Source Software community ...

What a start in the new year: the server running rsync.opensuse.org died with two broken hard disks at 2016-01-10. As the hardware is located in the data center of our spo...