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GNOME, Notmuch update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 15. Dec 2016

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...

Election season begins for openSUSE Board

Douglas DeMaio 12. Dec 2016

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...

Git, Kernels, LightDM, More update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 8. Dec 2016

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. ...

Announcing openSUSE's GPG Key Server - keyserver.opensuse.org

Lars Vogdt 6. Dec 2016

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...

openSUSE Leap 42.2 gets 64-bit Raspberry Image

Douglas DeMaio 5. Dec 2016

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...

openSUSE Heroes meeting, day 2

Lars Vogdt 3. Dec 2016

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...

openSUSE Heroes meeting, day 1

Lars Vogdt 2. Dec 2016

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...

Tumbleweed Gets 4.8.10 Kernel, Updates for Virtualbox, VIM

Douglas DeMaio 1. Dec 2016

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...

Tumbleweed Delivers Incredible Snapshot Streak, Newest Kernel

Douglas DeMaio 23. Nov 2016

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 ...

MJ Technology Tablet has openSUSE, Dual Boot

Douglas DeMaio 22. Nov 2016

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...

openSUSE Mentors Blog about Google Summer of Code Experience

cbruckmayer 22. Nov 2016

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...

Organize an openSUSE Leap 42.2 Release Party

Douglas DeMaio 17. Nov 2016

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...

Optimal Release for Linux Professionals Arrives with openSUSE Leap 42.2

Douglas DeMaio 16. Nov 2016

**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...

Mesa 13 Arrives in Tumbleweed with New Kernel

Douglas DeMaio 10. Nov 2016

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...

Tumbleweed brings Halloween Treats

Douglas DeMaio 3. Nov 2016

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...

Last Release Candidate for openSUSE Leap 42.2 Released

Douglas DeMaio 2. Nov 2016

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...

Tumbleweed Gets Two New Kernels

Douglas DeMaio 26. Oct 2016

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...

Release Candidate Available for openSUSE Leap 42.2

Douglas DeMaio 18. Oct 2016

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...

Tumbleweed gets new Wayland, FreeType, Digikam

Douglas DeMaio 13. Oct 2016

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...

Beta 3 Release Updates FireFox, KDE Applications, VirtualBox

Douglas DeMaio 5. Oct 2016

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...

Mesa, Kernel, GNOME, KDE apps update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 2. Oct 2016

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...

GNOME 3.22 Streamlines Into Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 23. Sep 2016

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....

New Leap Beta Adds Plasma 5.8 Beta

Douglas DeMaio 22. Sep 2016

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 ...

Updates Enhance Audio, Graphics, Telepathy

Douglas DeMaio 14. Sep 2016

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...

Mozilla, systemd, compiler update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 7. Sep 2016

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...

Tumbleweed Enhances Encryption, has Massive Updates

Douglas DeMaio 2. Sep 2016

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...

Throw a Beta Pizza Party

Douglas DeMaio 1. Sep 2016

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...

openSUSE Releases Leap Beta, Modifies Road Map

Douglas DeMaio 31. Aug 2016

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...

Ceph, Git, YaST, kernel update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 24. Aug 2016

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 ...

Six Tumbleweed snapshots roll, update systemd, xen, Firefox

Douglas DeMaio 17. Aug 2016

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...

openSUSE.Asia Summit has a logo!!!!

Manu Gupta 12. Aug 2016

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...

Tumbleweed gets three snapshots, Leap deadline approaches

Douglas DeMaio 10. Aug 2016

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 2016 opens up event registration

Manu Gupta 9. Aug 2016

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...

Newest Tumbleweed snapshot updates KDE Applications

Douglas DeMaio 27. Jul 2016

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...

Introducing: openSUSE heroes

Lars Vogdt 25. Jul 2016

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...

Tumbleweed updates bash, KDE, new Kernel coming soon

Douglas DeMaio 20. Jul 2016

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...

Google Summer of Code Mid-Term

cbruckmayer 19. Jul 2016

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...

Systemd updates in Tumbleweed, Leap to have GNOME 3.20

Douglas DeMaio 14. Jul 2016

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...

Google Summer of Code student focuses on next steps

Douglas DeMaio 11. Jul 2016

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.

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2016 | Logo competition announced

Manu Gupta 30. Jun 2016

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...

openSUSE.Asia Summit | Call for Sponsorships is open

Manu Gupta 29. Jun 2016

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 ...

openSUSE.Asia Summit Call for papers is open

Manu Gupta 27. Jun 2016

[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...

openSUSE Conference to end with Docker Meetup, Live Project Meeting

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jun 2016

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...

SoftIron CEO announces new ARM server running openSUSE Leap

Douglas DeMaio 24. Jun 2016

[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...

openSUSE Conference Day 2

Douglas DeMaio 23. Jun 2016

[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...

openSUSE Conference 2016 Day 1

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jun 2016

[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...

New compiler expected in next Tumbleweed snapshot

Douglas DeMaio 15. Jun 2016

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 ...

openSUSE @ LFNW - wrapup

James Mason 15. Jun 2016

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...

ownCloud Summit at openSUSE Conference Cancelled

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jun 2016

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...

openSUSE.Asia 2016 announced from Indonesia

Manu Gupta 6. Jun 2016

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...

Google Summer of Code Student Implementing Payment Feature

Douglas DeMaio 3. Jun 2016

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...

New Kernel, KDE Applications to arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 1. Jun 2016

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 ...

University of Madrid Student Enhancing openSUSE's Open Source Event Management App

Douglas DeMaio 31. May 2016

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...

First coding week with openSUSE, Google Summer of Code

Douglas DeMaio 30. May 2016

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.

My First Step of Never Ending Open-Source Journey with openSUSE

Douglas DeMaio 24. May 2016

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.

openSUSE helps jump-start new summit

Douglas DeMaio 23. May 2016

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...

Next snapshot getting Qt 5.6, oSC schedule released

Douglas DeMaio 18. May 2016

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...

Tumbleweed gets Plasma 5.6.3, Firefox 46

Douglas DeMaio 11. May 2016

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...

openSUSE Conference Proposals Accepted, Tracks Listed

Douglas DeMaio 9. May 2016

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...

Tumbleweed updates Kernel, Mesa, gstreamer

Douglas DeMaio 4. May 2016

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 ...

openSUSE announces first round of accepted proposals

Douglas DeMaio 2. May 2016

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...

Tumbleweed gets glibc 2.23

Douglas DeMaio 29. Apr 2016

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...

openSUSE announces Community Release Team

Douglas DeMaio 28. Apr 2016

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...

openSUSE to Mentor Six Google Summer of Code Students

Douglas DeMaio 25. Apr 2016

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...

Planning on attending the openSUSE Conference?

Douglas DeMaio 20. Apr 2016

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...

Free software equalizes economic segregation in schools

Douglas DeMaio 15. Apr 2016

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...

Update on Tumbleweed, Conference

Douglas DeMaio 6. Apr 2016

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...

Update on openSUSE Conference

Douglas DeMaio 31. Mar 2016

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...

GNOME 3.20 coming real soon to Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 30. Mar 2016

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...

Python 3.5.1 coming in Tumbleweed snapshot

Douglas DeMaio 9. Mar 2016

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...

Call for the Host of openSUSE.Asia Summit 2016

Manu Gupta 8. Mar 2016

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....

Hostel or hotel? Where to stay during the openSUSE Conference

Douglas DeMaio 7. Mar 2016

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...

Tumbleweed gets KDE app store

Douglas DeMaio 2. Mar 2016

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 ...

openSUSE becomes mentoring organization

Douglas DeMaio 1. Mar 2016

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...

Organizing Team seeks input for planning conference

Douglas DeMaio 29. Feb 2016

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...

New workers get Tumbleweed rolling

Douglas DeMaio 25. Feb 2016

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...

openSUSE T-Shirts for Leap Day

Douglas DeMaio 24. Feb 2016

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...

openSUSE offers choices for KDE Git builds

Douglas DeMaio 19. Feb 2016

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 ...

openSUSE Conference returns to Nuremberg

Douglas DeMaio 18. Feb 2016

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...

Tumbleweed waits for workers

Douglas DeMaio 17. Feb 2016

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...

Systemd updates, ambitious YaST changes in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 10. Feb 2016

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...

New openSUSE Board Elected

Douglas DeMaio 3. Feb 2016

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...

Tumbleweed delivers several KDE updates

Douglas DeMaio 28. Jan 2016

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...

OBS welcomes new lambkins

Lars Vogdt 27. Jan 2016

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 ...

Comedy, tech coming to SCALE

Douglas DeMaio 20. Jan 2016

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 makes the Leap to the Public Cloud

James Mason 19. Jan 2016

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 ...

openSUSE expands outreach for Google Summer of Code

Douglas DeMaio 14. Jan 2016

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...

Call for papers for openSUSE Conference starts tomorrow

Douglas DeMaio 14. Jan 2016

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...

openSUSE at FOSDEM 2016

Kostas Koudaras 11. Jan 2016

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 ...

Hardware problem: rsync.opensuse.org down

Lars Vogdt 11. Jan 2016

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...

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