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openSUSE Board election 2019-2020 - Call for Nominations, Applications

Douglas DeMaio 5. Dec 2019

Election time is here! Two seats are open for election on the openSUSE Board. Gertjan Lettink completed his second term. Simon Lees completed his first term and thus he is...

Tumbleweed Snapshots Rate Top-Notch, Get Krita, QEMU, Mesa Updates

Douglas DeMaio 4. Dec 2019

There were 20 openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released in the month of November and the snapshots brought in a large amount of updated packages to include KDE Applications 19...

Tumbleweed Gets New OpenSSH Major Version

Douglas DeMaio 30. Oct 2019

Since the last update, there have been five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released. Snapshot 20191027, brought an update to KDE Plasma 5.17.1. The bugfix update fixed the ...

GNOME, LLVM, Samba, Ruby Packages Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 24. Oct 2019

Two openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week that updated several libraries as well as updates for GNOME, Ruby, Samba, Mozilla and the LLVM compiler. Snapshot...

Plasma, Applications, Frameworks arrive in Latest Tumbleweed Snapshot

Douglas DeMaio 17. Oct 2019

 Since last week, there have been four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released and the snapshots brought new versions of software from KDE, Mozilla and more. The most rec...

openSUSE to have Summit in Dublin

Douglas DeMaio 16. Oct 2019

The openSUSE Community is going to Ireland March 27 and 28, 2020, for openSUSE Summit Dublin. Registration for the summit has begun and the Call for Papers is open until F...

KDE and openSUSE: Plasma 5.17, Qt 5.14 and more

Douglas DeMaio 10. Oct 2019

It’s been way too long since the last blog post, so we’ve got quite a lot to report on! Plasma 5.17 Beta The Beta version of Plasma 5.17 was released with many new featur...

Sixth openSUSE.Asia Summit Concludes

Douglas DeMaio 7. Oct 2019

The openSUSE community concluded its sixth openSUSE.Asia Summit this weekend at the Fakultas Teknik of the Universitas Udayana in Bali, Indonesia. Bali’s newest tourist at...

Election Committee Set to Open Vote on Project Name

Douglas DeMaio 30. Sep 2019

Following discussions about the “openSUSE Project logo & name change” that started in June on the openSUSE Project mailing list [1], the Election Committee received a r...

Co-Conference Logo Competition for 2020

Douglas DeMaio 27. Sep 2019

The LibreOffice and openSUSE communities will have a joint conference next year in Nuremberg, Germany, and for this special co-conference, we are having a logo competition....

Tumbleweed Snapshots Trending High with Bash, PulseAudio, Curl Updates

Douglas DeMaio 26. Sep 2019

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released this week brought about two dozen new versions of software. The snapshots brought one new major version update for pulseaudio ...

Firefox, Graphene, Krita update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 19. Sep 2019

Two openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week. The snapshots furnished the update for KDE Applications 19.08.1 and updated several libraries including Intel’s ...

Applications, PostgreSQL, Zypper Packages Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 13. Sep 2019

The past week produced four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots. The snapshots brought an update of KDE Plasma and Applications along with an update for the input framework ibu...

Multiple YaST Packages, Major Versions of Gawk, Swig Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 5. Sep 2019

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week. The snapshots brought two new major versions and two Linux Kernel updates. Snapshot 20190902 brought the seco...

MariaDB, VLC, Plopper, Apache Packages Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 29. Aug 2019

There have been three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released this week. The snapshots brought new versions of VLC, Apache, Plopper and an update of the Linux Kernel. Snap...

Xfce 4.14 Lands in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 23. Aug 2019

Ahoy! openSUSE Xfce team is pleased to announce that the long awaited Xfce 4.14 has been released for Tumbleweed. After a long development cycle (4 years!), all of the cor...

Changing the Chair of the openSUSE Board

Richard Brown 19. Aug 2019

Dear Community, After six years on the openSUSE Board and five as its Chairperson, I have decided to step down as Chair of the openSUSE Board effective today, August 19. ...

Kata Containers Packages are Available officially in openSUSE Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 17. Aug 2019

Kata Containers is an open source container runtime that is crafted to seamlessly plug into the containers ecosystem. We are now excited to announce that the Kata Contai...

New 4.0.2 Version of Uyuni is Released

Douglas DeMaio 2. Aug 2019

Contributors of Uyuni Project have released a new version of Uyuni 4.0.2, which is an open-source infrastructure management solution tailored for software-defined infrast...

Mesa, ImageMagick, Plasma, Frameworks Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 1. Aug 2019

There have been three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released since last week. The snapshots brought a single major version update and new versions of KDE’s Plasma and Fram...

GNOME Packages, More Updated in Tumbleweed This Week

Douglas DeMaio 25. Jul 2019

Two openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released since our last Tumbleweed update on Saturday. The most recent snapshot, 20190723, updated Mozilla Firefox to version 6...

KDE Applications, Squid, SQLite, VIM Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 20. Jul 2019

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots in the middle of this week brought new minor version updates to ImageMagick, Squid, SQLite, VIM and more. The new KDE Applications 19.04...

Request Travel Support for the openSUSE.Asia Summit

Douglas DeMaio 19. Jul 2019

The Travel Support Program (TSP) provides travel sponsorships to openSUSE community who want to attend the openSUSE.Asia Summit and need financial assistance. openSUSE.Asia...

People of openSUSE: Sébastien Poher

Imad Aldoj 13. Jul 2019

[caption id=”attachment_21578” align=”alignright” width=”300”] Sébastien Poher aka sogal[/caption] About me I’m 1.80m, I love to wear unreadable thrash metal bands t-shir...

Tumbleweed’s July Snapshots Are Trending Strong

Douglas DeMaio 11. Jul 2019

There have been a total of five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots since the beginning of July and all the snapshots have a strong, stable rating. The rolling release had the m...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019 Logo Competition Winner

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jul 2019

The votes are in and the openSUSE Project is happy to announce that the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019 logo competition winner is Hervy Qurrotul from Indonesia. Congratulations ...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2020: Call for Host

Douglas DeMaio 28. Jun 2019

The openSUSE.Asia Summit is the largest annual openSUSE conference in Asia, attended by contributors and enthusiasts from all over Asia. The event focuses primarily on the ...

New node.js LTS, GNU Debugger, libvirt Updates Arrive in Tumbleweed Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 13. Jun 2019

The three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released this week updated some key packages for users of the rolling release. One of those key packages was an update of the GNU D...

People of openSUSE: Stasiek Michalski

Imad Aldoj 7. Jun 2019

Introduction I’m LCP, or Stasiek if you can pronounce that. Just a 20 years old guy from Poland who spends way too much time in front of computers. That’s how all my potte...

Mesa, VirtualBox, Ceph, NetworkManager Packages Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 6. Jun 2019

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released in the first four days of June, which bring several minor package updates to the rolling release. The 20190604 snaps...

openSUSE Community Releases Leap 15.1 Version

Douglas DeMaio 22. May 2019

Leap 15.1 Supports More Hardware, Drivers, Enhances Installation EN / CA / DE / FR / IT / ES / JA / NL / PL / ZH / ZH-TW 22/05/2019 ** NUREMBERG, Germany **- Today’s r...

Stable Sailing For Tumbleweed Snapshots This Week

Douglas DeMaio 16. May 2019

Developers Can Make Use of GCC 9, QEMU 4, Wireshark 3 This week produced a smooth and rapid release of stable openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot as the rolling release produced ...

InfinityBook Pro 13 as an important part of the openSUSE reference tests

Douglas DeMaio 15. May 2019

openSUSE and TUXEDO Computers want to offer the best user experience KÖNIGSBRUNN, Germany – The cooperation between TUXEDO Computers and the openSUSE project has existed...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019 Logo Competition

Douglas DeMaio 15. May 2019

Today, we will start a logo competition for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019, which is going to be held in Bali, Indonesia. A logo is an essential material for the successful summ...

GNOME 3.32 Arrives in Month’s First Tumbleweed Snapshot

Douglas DeMaio 9. May 2019

This month has produced a total of three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot thus far and GNOME 3.32.1 was made available to Tumbleweed users in snapshot 20190505. The key packa...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019 Bali: Call for proposals is Open

Douglas DeMaio 1. May 2019

The openSUSE.Asia Committee call for proposals for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019 is now open. openSUSE.Asia Summit is one of the great events for openSUSE community (i.e., bot...

Help promote openSUSE Leap 15.1!

Douglas DeMaio 30. Apr 2019

The release of openSUSE Leap 15.1 is about three weeks away. To help spread the word about the release, we have counters available at counter.opensuse.org and more artwork ...

What to Know Before Going to openSUSE Conference 2019

Douglas DeMaio 29. Apr 2019

openSUSE Conference 2019 in Nuremberg, Germany, is just four short weeks away.  The conference will be from May 24 -26 at the ZBau and will start at 9:30 a.m. with a keynot...

New KDE Frameworks, Python Setuptools, Emacs Update in Tumbleweed Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 26. Apr 2019

Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot were released this week providing a Linux Kernel, KDE Frameworks, and python-setuptools to give developers plenty of new upstream packages...

Tumbleweed Snapshots Deliver Curl, Salt, FFmpegs Packages Updates

Douglas DeMaio 18. Apr 2019

Three quality openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot were released since last Thursday with updated packages for Curl, Salt, FFmpeg and more. Mozilla Firefox had a minor release of ...

Return of the Rodents: Xfce is back in openSUSE Tumbleweed Installer

Douglas DeMaio 10. Apr 2019

We are very pleased to announce that installing the lightweight and slim desktop environment Xfce in openSUSE Tumbleweed just got faster and hassle-free! Along with GNOME ...

openSUSE Board Alumni Peter T. Linnell died on March 18th

Henne Vogelsang 25. Mar 2019

[caption id=”attachment_21760” align=”aligncenter” width=”279”] Peter T. Linnell (1963 - 2019)[/caption] Peter was widely known as founder of Scribus, the Libre Graphics M...

Bali, Indonesia, Selected for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019

Douglas DeMaio 6. Mar 2019

For the second time, Indonesia was chosen to host the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019 event. A similar event was held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2016 and was attended by hundre...

Tumbleweed Snapshots Bring New Mesa, php, python-setuptools

Douglas DeMaio 1. Mar 2019

Snapshots Trending Stable There were three quality openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot released this week bringing updates for python-setuptools, Mesa, php, Flatpak and both Mo...

Leap 15.1 Beta Pizza Party

Douglas DeMaio 22. Feb 2019

Hunt for bugs & have a lot of fun! The release manager for openSUSE Leap announced that Leap 15.1 entered its Beta phase this week and that means it’s time for a Bet...

Tumbleweed Snapshots Are Steadily Rolling

Douglas DeMaio 21. Feb 2019

Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot were released this week bringing updates for Kerberos, GNOME, KDE, YaST and Mozilla Firefox. The latest snapshot of the week, 20190219, h...

Voters Choose Two New Board Members and One Incumbent to openSUSE Board

Fraser Bell 16. Feb 2019

[caption id=”attachment_21446” align=”alignleft” width=”180”] Christian Boltz aka cboltz, incumbent[/caption] The results are in and the Voting Members have chosen incumbe...

Inkscape, GTK, glibc Updates Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 14. Feb 2019

A single snapshot was released this week for openSUSE Tumbleweed bringing update packages for Mozilla Thunderbird, dbus, Inkscape, Ruby, glibc, gtk and more. The lone snap...

First Phase for openSUSE Conference Talks Begins

Douglas DeMaio 13. Feb 2019

openSUSE is pleased to announce the first phase for accepting talks for the openSUSE Conference 2019 (oSC19) has begun. A total of 80 talks were submitted during the call ...

Only a Few Days Left to Cast Your Ballot in the Board Elections

Fraser Bell 10. Feb 2019

Cast Your Votes While You Can! Ballots Will Close This Friday for 2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections [caption id=”attachment_21696” align=”alignleft” width=”283”] Ahmad R...

Major Version Updates of Bash, libvirt, OpenConnect Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 7. Feb 2019

Another three snapshots were released this week for openSUSE Tumbleweed bringing updates for ImageMagick, Mesa, Apache, Ceph, Flatpak Builder, Python and more. Plus, new ma...

Voting Gets Underway for the 2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections

Fraser Bell 5. Feb 2019

Cast Your Votes! We have done our part:  Now, You do Yours! [caption id=”attachment_21677” align=”aligncenter” width=”650”] 2018-2019 Election Poster contributed by Aris ...

LibreOffice, php, GTK Packages Updated in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 31. Jan 2019

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week. The three snapshots delivered new versions of php7, poppler, gtk3 and LibreOffice. The first snapshot of the...

2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections: Meet Marina Latini

Fraser Bell 26. Jan 2019

Seven Candidates in Race for Three Vacant Board Seats With only 8 days left to go until the ballots open on Monday, February 4, 2019, openSUSE News and the Elections Commi...

2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections: Meet Nathan Wolf

Fraser Bell 26. Jan 2019

Seven Candidates in Race for Three Vacant Board Seats With only 9 days left to go until the ballots open on Monday, February 4, 2019, openSUSE News and the Elections Commi...

Tumbleweed Gets New grep, Linux Kernel 4.20

Douglas DeMaio 25. Jan 2019

A total of two snapshots have arrived in openSUSE Tumbleweed since last week’s article about the rolling release. The two snapshots delivered new versions of grep, VLC, KD...

2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections: Meet Vinzenz Vietzke

Fraser Bell 25. Jan 2019

Seven Candidates in Race for Three Vacant Board Seats With only 10 days left to go until the ballots open on Monday, February 4, 2019, openSUSE News and the Elections Comm...

Kubic is now a certified Kubernetes distribution

Douglas DeMaio 24. Jan 2019

Published by Richard Brown on Jan 22, 2019 on kubic.opensuse.org The openSUSE Kubic team is proud to announce that as of yesterday, our Kubic distribution has become a C...

2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections: Meet Sébastien Poher

Fraser Bell 24. Jan 2019

Seven Candidates in Race for Three Vacant Board Seats With only 11 days left to go until the ballots open on Monday, February 4, 2019, openSUSE News and the Elections Comm...

2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections: Meet incumbent Sarah Julia Kriesch

Fraser Bell 23. Jan 2019

Seven Candidates in Race for Three Vacant Board Seats With less than two weeks to go until the ballots open on Monday, February 4, 2019, openSUSE News and the Elections ...

2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections: Meet Dr. Axel Braun

Fraser Bell 22. Jan 2019

Seven Candidates in Race for Three Vacant Board Seats With less than two weeks to go until the ballots open on Monday, February 4, 2019, openSUSE News and the Elections C...

2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections: Meet incumbent Christian Boltz

Fraser Bell 21. Jan 2019

Seven Candidates in Race for Three Vacant Board Seats With two weeks to go until the ballots open on Monday, February 4, 2019, openSUSE News and the Elections Committee ar...

Tumbleweed Starts Year with New Plasma, Applications, VIM, curl

Douglas DeMaio 18. Jan 2019

This new year has brought several updated packages to users of openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed. Three snapshots have been released in 2019 so far and among the packa...

And the Race is On! 2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections Enter Campaign Phase

Fraser Bell 15. Jan 2019

Nominations and applications for Candidates came to a close Sunday, January 13, 2019, and the Campaign Phase of the 2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections kicked in Monday, Jan...

Six Impressive Candidates Step Up for the 2018-2019 Board Elections

Fraser Bell 10. Jan 2019

[caption id=”attachment_21447” align=”alignright” width=”150”] Vinzenz Vietzke[/caption] The Elections Committee, Edwin Zakaria, Ish Sookun, and Gerry Makaro, are pleased ...

First Two Candidates for the 2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections Announced

Fraser Bell 9. Jan 2019

The Elections Committee announced today, Tuesday, January 8, 2019, the first two Candidates who have passed the application and eligibility process and are declared as offi...

No Candidates? Board might be forced to hand pick new Board Members

Fraser Bell 4. Jan 2019

There are less than 10 days left to apply as a Candidate for the openSUSE Board Elections, yet as of this date, no eligible Candidates have stepped up to run for the three ...

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