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Download redirector current state

Andrii Nikitin 23. Dec 2021

Download redirector current state (download.opensuse.org). Introduction Package updates are a bit controversial point in the openSUSE world and sometimes are related to qu...

Holidays in the openSUSE Bar!

Jens (karatekhd@opensuse.org) 23. Dec 2021

Hi All! First, on behalf of all the openSUSE BAR regulars, we’d like to wish you Happy Holidays / Merry X-mas🎄. But, we are also aware that many of us will be spending the...

Frameworks, Gear, Pipewire Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 17. Dec 2021

There was no slowing down of snapshots this week as new software continues to flow with daily openSUSE Tumbleweed releases. Tumbleweed went seven for seven this week! Jus...

Celebrate the first openSUSE BAR anniversary!

Jens (karatekhd@opensuse.org) 15. Dec 2021

Almost a year ago, on the 19th of December 2020, openSUSE Members knurpht and m4u had the following conversation: Gertjan™ - Knurpht™, [19.12.20 00:05] Dude, have a drink ...

Ritchie-CLI Becomes Official, Mesa, bind Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 10. Dec 2021

This week brought an exuberant amount of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots. While the rolling release snapped its streak of continuous daily snapshots, Tumbleweed persists rel...

openSUSE Tumbleweed Rolls into December

Douglas DeMaio 3. Dec 2021

November provided a robust month of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots, which included 21 releases from Nov. 1 to Nov. 29. December, which is traditionally a slower month for T...

Alpha Releases of openSUSE Leap 15.4 are Available for Testing

Douglas DeMaio 2. Dec 2021

Alpha releases of openSUSE Leap 15.4 are now available for download on get.opensuse.org. The fourth minor release of Leap 15 has entered its alpha development stage. Durin...

Git, curl, systemd Roll with Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Nov 2021

openSUSE Tumbleweed gave rolling release users a snapshot every day this past week. The latest snapshot to be released was 20211124. This snapshot brought systemd 249.7, w...

MicroOS Expands Security With Keylime

Alberto Planas 24. Nov 2021

Recently MicroOS gained some new options in relation with security. The distribution has now integrated Keylime, an open source project for doing remote attestation with TP...

Ruby, Plasma, GTK Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 19. Nov 2021

There were a total of four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released this week. Snapshot 20211117 gave KDE users the Plasma 5.23.3 update. The bug-fix release had changes fo...

KDE Gear, GNOME Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 11. Nov 2021

Tumbleweed pulled back from the frequency of snapshots released last week, but still had a good amount of releases this week. After continuous daily releases from Oct. 27 ...

Survey Results of Packagers, Maintainers Posted

Douglas DeMaio 10. Nov 2021

The openSUSE Project has posted results from a recent survey that ran between Oct. 7 and Oct. 29. The aim was to gather more information from open-source developers, devel...

Project seeks Candidates for openSUSE Board Election

Douglas DeMaio 9. Nov 2021

The openSUSE Project is seeking nominations and applications for openSUSE Board candidacy. The projecct also looks to gain more members leading up to the elections. A noti...

Tumbleweed Snapshots Glide Forward

Douglas DeMaio 4. Nov 2021

openSUSE Tumbleweed is on a roll this week. The week prior put together frequent Tumbleweed snapshots and the rolling release has been delivering continuous daily software...

Leap's First Quarterly Update is Released

Douglas DeMaio 2. Nov 2021

The release manager for openSUSE Leap has announced the release of the first quarterly iso image update for the 15.3 release Dubbed as respins, these updates refresh the i...

VirtualBox, Plasma, systemd Updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 29. Oct 2021

Rolling release users had a variety of package updates this week to include updates of rpm, Plasma, rsyslog, webkit2gtk3, systemd, AppStream and more, which were updated th...

Nuevo foro en espanol de openSUSE

Victorhck 28. Oct 2021

You can read it in English Hola Geekos. Los antiguos moderadores DiabloRojo, Karlggest y Victorhck de ForoSuSE, el foro en español de openSUSE, que actualmente no se encu...

KDE Plasma, Gear, Frameworks Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 22. Oct 2021

The past week produced two openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots and both included a lot of updates for users of KDE. Plasma, Gear and Frameworks weren’t the only packages to upda...

Hospital to run GNU Health, openSUSE

Douglas DeMaio 20. Oct 2021

NUREMBERG, Germany, Oct. 20, 2021 - Thousands of patients in the coastal area of Kribi, Cameroon, are set to gain enhanced health-care delivery as a hospital in the city ex...

OpenSSH, Squid, PostgreSQL Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 15. Oct 2021

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released this week have brought updates for text editors, browsers, emails clients, database management systems and many other pieces of...

Quarterly Respin of openSUSE Leap Images are Coming

Douglas DeMaio 14. Oct 2021

In response to feedback from openSUSE users, Leap is expecting to have regular rebuilds of the distribution on a quarterly or as needed basis soon. These respins, which re...

GNOME, Salt Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 8. Oct 2021

The update of GNOME 41 in openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed didn’t take long; the new GNOME landed a day after our last blog post. Other software updates included in t...

New Survey Aims to Gain Packager, Maintainer Insights

Douglas DeMaio 7. Oct 2021

The openSUSE Project is trying to gather more information from open-source developers, development teams, packagers and maintainers through the latest survey that will run ...

GNOME, Plasma Releases Make Progress While Tumbleweed Rolls

Douglas DeMaio 1. Oct 2021

GNOME 41 has reached openSUSE Factory staging and KDE’s Plasma 5.23 is nearing a release in an openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot as it progresses through staging. openSUSE’s ro...

Thunar, Firefox, Python Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 17. Sep 2021

Five Tumbleweed snapshots became available to users of openSUSE’s rolling release this week. A couple smaller- and medium-sized snapshots brought new software updates for ...

KDE Gear, Plasma, systemd Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 10. Sep 2021

There was one openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot this week out of five that brought an enormous amount of package updates for those using the rolling release. Snapshot 20210904 ...

openSUSE Results from Google Summer of Code

Douglas DeMaio 6. Sep 2021

The openSUSE Project participated in this year’s Google Summer of Code along with several mentoring organizations. Six of the seven accepted projects were successfully com...

Wireshark, PipeWire, Audacity Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 3. Sep 2021

Snapshot releases of openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed have been constantly trickling out to users since last week’s review. This review will cover the five snapshots ...

Tumbleweed Updates Kismet, PulseAudio, Python

Douglas DeMaio 25. Aug 2021

Snapshot releases of openSUSE Tumbleweed began to flow this week for the rolling release. Moving past last week’s build failures and the obstacles with the ISO media size ...

Tumbleweed Fast Forwards with KDE Gear, Frameworks Updates

Douglas DeMaio 20. Aug 2021

A lot of work this week has been taking place in the background to release openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots. Documented on the mailing list in the latest openSUSE release eng...

Recently and soon in openSUSE #1

Adrien (nycticorax@opensuse.org) & Jens (karatekhd@opensuse.org) 31. Jul 2021

Community meeting: Tell us everything! Today (Saturday 31st of July, 17:00 UTC) is the third installment of the recently rejuvenated Community meetings! Taking place on Jit...

Node.js, curl update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 30. Jul 2021

Six openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week. Among the updated packages that landed this week in the rolling release were curl, GNU Compiler Collection, Node...

Deactivating connect.opensuse.org

Lars Vogdt 26. Jul 2021

Our community portal, reachable via https://connect.opensuse.org, accompanied our community now since 2010. A long, long time. Especially, if you compare it with Facebook ...

GNOME, Wireshark update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 23. Jul 2021

Since last Friday, five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released. GNOME 40, btrfs, Mesa, Wireshark and several other package updates landed this week in the rollin...

Leap Gains Maintenance Update Improvements

Douglas DeMaio 19. Jul 2021

The recent release of openSUSE Leap 15.3 has gained some maintenance improvements from a new repository setup. Maintenance efforts for Leap related to Closing the Leap Gap...

Tumbleweed Gets RubyGems Updates, New systemd

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jul 2021

A total of four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released since the last update. Three smaller snapshots, which included a new systemd update, and one large snapsho...

IRC and Matrix announcements

Neal Gompa 7. Jul 2021

The openSUSE Project has used IRC for real-time chat within the community since it began. And the IRC network used was Freenode, until now. Due to a variety of recent chan...

Google Summer of Code 2021: IBus Customize

Songlin Jiang 5. Jul 2021

Hi! My name is Songlin Jiang, a junior undergraduate from Lanzhou University, China, majoring in Computer Science and Technology. It’s my first time participating in the Go...

VLC, Plasma, PipeWire Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 1. Jul 2021

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released so far this week. There were two bigger snapshots and one smaller one that brought the ClamAV update. Kicking off the we...

openSUSE.Asia Summit Call For Paper

Shobha Tyagi 28. Jun 2021

openSUSE.Asia Virtual Summit 2021, Faridabad India Call For Paper Theme : USE. SHARE. CONTRIBUTE It is a pleasure to announce the call for papers for openSUSE.Asia summit ...

Survey For openSUSE Leap 15.3 Release Closes

Douglas DeMaio 16. Jun 2021

Our survey about the release of openSUSE Leap 15.3 has ended and the results will be discussed in a release retrospective at the openSUSE Conference in the coming days. “I...

Plasma, Mesa, curl Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 11. Jun 2021

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week with the possibility of another snapshot being released over the weekend if it passes openQA testing. The lates...

Foster openSUSE Leap 15.3 Growth

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jun 2021

The release party in the openSUSE bar continues on more than a week after the release of openSUSE Leap 15.3, yet that’s not the only thing soaring for the project. The ada...

New Rebuilds Look to Advance New Hardware

Douglas DeMaio 8. Jun 2021

Developers of the openSUSE community are making advances toward even broader hardware support through the FrontRunner project. FrontRunner is a rebuild of SUSE Linux Enter...

Online Open House Goes Over openSUSE, Survey Opens

Douglas DeMaio 4. Jun 2021

The openSUSE Project has a lot going on lately. The project just released Leap 15.3, had 24-hour release party in the openSUSE Bar and opened a survey to get feedback on t...

openSUSE Leap 15.3 Bridges Path to Enterprise

Douglas DeMaio 2. Jun 2021

CA / CS / ES / FR / ID / IT / NL / PT / SV / ZH-CN / ZH-TW NUREMBERG, Germany, June 2, 2021 – openSUSE Leap 15.3 is released! The newest minor version of openSUSE Leap is...

Release Manager Provides Update on Early Features Requisitions for Leap 15.4

Douglas DeMaio 31. May 2021

The release manager of openSUSE Leap is finishing up the release of Leap 15.3, but wants to keep contributors and developers informed about an early feature request deadlin...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2021 Logo Competition Announcement

Shobha Tyagi 31. May 2021

openSUSE.Asia Online Summit 2021 Logo Competition It’s a rationally acknowledged fact that openSUSE has a reputation for community-driven projects. Buckle up, here’s your ...

Mesa, Nodejs, Zstd Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 27. May 2021

Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released again so far this week. The snapshots updated Mozilla Thunderbird, Mesa, Node.js, PipeWire and compression package Zstd al...

openSUSE Community Readies for Release Party

Douglas DeMaio 25. May 2021

The openSUSE Project is planning to have a 24-hour release party in the openSUSE Bar immediately after the release of openSUSE Leap 15.3. The virtual release party will ha...

openSUSE.Asia 2021 Announcement

Shobha Tyagi 22. May 2021

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2021 online, Faridabad, India India was accepted to host the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2020. Due of Covid 19 pandemic we had to cancel the event. As the w...

KDE Gear, GTK, Btrfs Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 21. May 2021

Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released so far this week. The snapshots updated KDE Gear 21.04.1, GTK 4, Btrfs, postgresql, sudo and more. Snapshot 20210519 upd...

RealSenseID compatibility with all openSUSE

Alessandro de Oliveira Faria 19. May 2021

While focused on the openSUSE Innovator initiative as an openSUSE member and official Intel oneAPI innovator, I tested the RealSenseID device on openSUSE Leap 15.1, 15.2, 1...

Mesa, KDE Frameworks, GlusterFS Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 14. May 2021

There were three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released so far this week. The snapshots updated Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Firefox, Mesa, KDE Frameworks, glusterfs, php...

Shells, openSUSE Unite with Partnership

Douglas DeMaio 13. May 2021

A startup bringing personal workspaces in the cloud for students, workers, coders, and creators along with a Linux project for developers, system administrators and users a...

openSUSE Leap 15.3 Expands with armv7

Douglas DeMaio 12. May 2021

Developers of the openSUSE community are looking to utilize armv7l efforts in the context of openSUSE Step to evolve how openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise are develop...

LLVM, KDE Gear, GNOME Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 30. Apr 2021

Six openSUSE Tumbleweed were released this week. The snapshots delivered updated versions of curl, KDE Gear, LLVM, GNOME 40, Mozilla’s Firefox and Thunderbird and much mor...

openSUSE Leap 15.3 Enters Release Candidate Phase

Douglas DeMaio 28. Apr 2021

The openSUSE Project and its community, contributors and release engineers have entered the Release Candidate phase for the upcoming openSUSE Leap 15.3 version today after ...

Tumbleweed Gamers Get Updates of Mesa, Pentobi

Douglas DeMaio 23. Apr 2021

Gamers using openSUSE Tumbleweed have at least two package updates in the rolling release that enhanced performance on their system and offer new features. Both the 3D Gra...

GNOME 40, KDE Frameworks, Plasma Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 16. Apr 2021

Two openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released since last week’s blog. The snapshots brought the much anticipated GNOME 40 as well as an update of KDE Frameworks 5.81.0, ...

A Message from the openSUSE Board

openSUSE Board 12. Apr 2021

(This message was originally published on the mailing list on April 2, 2021) We, the members of the openSUSE Board, strongly value the openSUSE Code of Conduct and Guiding...

Two Tumbleweed Snapshots Update Fetchmail, Mesa, More

Douglas DeMaio 9. Apr 2021

A couple of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released since the beginning of the month. The two snapshots updated more than 30 packages and the latest snapshot, 20210406...

Upgrading to the next PostgreSQL version

Lars Vogdt 6. Apr 2021

We upgraded our internal PostgreSQL cluster to the latest version last week. Time passes by so quickly: we installed our PostgreSQL cluster around 2008. At least, this was...

YaST Packages, Nmap Get Updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 1. Apr 2021

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released since last Thursday. Most of the package updates focused on libraries and YaST packages as well as documentation and nmap...

Entire Rebuild of Tumbleweed Brings Enormous Update

Douglas DeMaio 19. Mar 2021

There were few packages untouched in openSUSE’s rolling release distribution Tumbleweed this week as updates poured out of five new snapshots. The 20210311 snapshot provid...

Playing along with NFTables

Lars Vogdt and Darix 17. Mar 2021

By default, openSUSE Leap 15.x is using the firewalld firewall implementation (and the firewalld backend is using iptables under the hood). But since a while, openSUSE als...

openSUSE Project Selected for Google Summer of Code Mentoring

Douglas DeMaio 11. Mar 2021

Let’s gehts los! The openSUSE Project is one of about 200 mentoring organizations selected for this year’s Google Summer of Code. The openSUSE Project has participated in ...

A Message to the openSUSE Community

Community News Team 10. Mar 2021

Español Português Bahasa Indonesia فارسى Русский язык Dear community, openSUSE has been known for years as an amazing, vas...

openSUSE Leap 15.3 Reaches Beta Build Phase

Douglas DeMaio 3. Mar 2021

openSUSE Leap has entered into the beta release phase today for its 15.3 minor version. This openSUSE Leap 15.3 version is a solidified release that focuses more on the bu...

Call for Papers Open for openSUSE Conference

Douglas DeMaio 1. Mar 2021

The call for papers for the openSUSE Virtual Conference is open! The call for papers is open until May 4. This leaves a little more than 60 days to submit a proposal. The ...

PostgreSQL, GNOME, Rubygems Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Feb 2021

Slonik fans are excited for this week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots as PostgreSQL has a major release in the rolling release distribution. Snapshot 20210224 brought in t...

Tumbleweed Gets Newest KDE Frameworks, Plasma

Douglas DeMaio 18. Feb 2021

Updates of both KDE’s Plasma and Frameworks landed in openSUSE Tumbleweed as part of three snapshots released this week. The rolling Tumbleweed distribution began the week...

All openSUSE Services in Provo database center now support IPv6

Lars Vogdt 18. Feb 2021

Today we reached a new milestone: all openSUSE services around the world now support IPv6 natively. The last set of machines in Provo are equipped with IPv6 addresses since...

KDE Applications, systemd update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 12. Feb 2021

A minor version update of systemd and KDE’s Applications 20.12.2 were releases in openSUSE Tumbleweed this week. Several other package were updated over the course of four...

New openSUSE Step Project Looks to Build SUSE Linux Enterprise on More Architectures

Douglas DeMaio 11. Feb 2021

We’re delighted to announce a new project in the openSUSE Project family called openSUSE Step. openSUSE Step is a community effort to rebuild SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) f...

Reducing the scope of software.opensuse.org

Lubos Kocman 8. Feb 2021

We have some exciting news to share regarding the consolidation of our web pages. We’ve decided to drop functionality behind https://software.opensuse.org/distributions an...

Wayland, firewalld, PulseAudio update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 5. Feb 2021

A total of five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released so far this week. Among some of the more known packages to update this week in Tumbleweed were firewalld, Flatp...

Outreach, Survey Extension Addressed in Second Meetup

Douglas DeMaio 2. Feb 2021

The second session of the openSUSE Project’s meetup regarding the End of the Year Survey Results on Jan. 30 led to some changes with regard to future surveys and contributo...

Spack is now available in openSUSE Tumbleweed

Ana Guerrero Lopez 1. Feb 2021

The configurable Python-based HPC package manager Spack is now an Official package in openSUSE Tumbleweed, which currently has the 0.16.0 version of Spack. If you work wit...

RubyGems, sudo, libvirt update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 29. Jan 2021

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released since the last update. Several RubyGems were updated in the first two snapshots of the week and an update to sudo came in...

Web Development Sprints To Start Next Week

Douglas DeMaio 28. Jan 2021

The openSUSE Project will begin monthly web development sprints to address feedback provided by attendees of the Jan. 23 meetup regarding the results of the End of the Year...

Session One Meetup Generates Enhancements, Actions

Douglas DeMaio 25. Jan 2021

The first session of the openSUSE Project’s meetup regarding the End of the Year Survey Results on Jan. 23 is already starting produce some actionable items from contributo...

GNOME, VLC, Zypper update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jan 2021

Five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week. The snapshots updated the GNOME desktop, GStreamer, VLC and a couple text editors. An update of bash 5.1.4 arr...

OAK compatibility with all openSUSE

Alessandro de Oliveira Faria 19. Jan 2021

While focused on the openSUSE Innovator initiative as an openSUSE member and official Intel oneAPI innovator, I tested the OAK AI Kit device on openSUSE Leap 15.1, 15.2 and...

Meetup Will Discuss Survey Results, Project Improvements

Douglas DeMaio 18. Jan 2021

The openSUSE Project welcomes our followers to participate in two planned meetups to discuss results from the End of the Year Community Survey on Jan. 23 and Jan. 30. Both...

Xfce, KDE Packages Flood This Week’s Tumbleweed Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 15. Jan 2021

A large quantity of packages from both Xfce and KDE projects flowed into openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week. Hundreds of packages updated in the rolling release and K...

Tumbleweed Rolls Into The New Year

Douglas DeMaio 8. Jan 2021

The holidays might be over and the new year is here, but users of openSUSE Tumbleweed didn’t see any difference in the amount of snapshots released over the holiday season....

openSUSE Community Publishes End of Year Survey Results

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jan 2021

The openSUSE community has published the End of the Year Community Survey results. The results provided some significant information about the project’s tools, its distrib...

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