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Mesa, Flatpak, Plasma Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 3. Mar 2023

This week openSUSE Tumbleweed users learned of the performance optimizations gained with changes for x86-64-v3 and received a few snapshots. Some of the packages to arrive...

openSUSE Tumbleweed gains optional x86-64-v3 optimization

Dirk Müller 2. Mar 2023

Tumbleweed users who performed a distribution upgrade or zypper dup the last weeks on the rolling release with “recommended packages” enabled (the default) and matching har...

Open Source Policy Update Spotlights AI Considerations

Douglas DeMaio 1. Mar 2023

A recent update of SUSE’s Open Source Policy is giving developers, communities and projects food for thought as Artificial Intelligence chatbots and protocols are gaining p...

Ruby Default Switches in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 24. Feb 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed roundup will look at five snapshots that have been released since last Friday. Snapshots include switching the default Ruby for the rolling...

Awareness Sessions About Projects Available for GSoC Applicants

Douglas DeMaio 22. Feb 2023

Mentors and administrators of openSUSE are excited to be accepted as a mentorship organization for this year’s Google Summer of Code and will be available for potential men...

Leap 15.5 Reaches Beta Phase

Douglas DeMaio 21. Feb 2023

The release manager for openSUSE Leap Luboš Kocman is expected to announce the Beta release phase of Leap 15.5 soon. The first Beta release is syncing on mirrors globally f...

Mesa, Disk Encryption, Xfce Packages Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 17. Feb 2023

This week has provided many openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots focusing on hardware, graphics, desktop environment and more. From Mesa to the disk encryption package cryptsetup...

openSUSE Conference Travel Info

Douglas DeMaio 14. Feb 2023

The openSUSE Conference is set to begin in 100 days from today and, to help prepare people who want to travel to Nuremberg for the event from May 26 - 28, there is informat...

Audacity, OpenSSL, systemd Update Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 10. Feb 2023

The past week has produced a few openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots and automatic migrations kicked off for the first snapshot of February. Some of the packages covered this we...

Novo fórum de openSUSE em portugues

Victorhck 6. Feb 2023

You can read it in English Olá Geekos. Estamos animados com o nosso novo fórum em português. Esperamos ter a sua ajuda para construir uma comunidade envolvente no nosso i...

Tumbleweed Snapshots Update Mesa, Remmina, More

Douglas DeMaio 1. Feb 2023

Several snapshots have updated in openSUSE Tumbleweed before and during Hack Week. Leading up to FOSDEM, more packages are arriving, but this blog will give a small overvi...

Hack Week Fun Begins

Douglas DeMaio 30. Jan 2023

The joy of Hack Week has begun! This week is special for openSUSE and open-source contributors because it begins with the 22nd Hack Week and ends with the return FOSDEM, w...

Firefox, Apache, LibreOffice update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jan 2023

This week in openSUSE Tumbleweed there was a change from a 2048 bit RSA to a 4096 bit RSA key and four snapshots were released so far. The larger bit key was a security re...

openSUSE Simplifies Codec Installation

Douglas DeMaio 24. Jan 2023

The openSUSE Project was inspired by Fedora’s efforts to make Cisco’s OpenH264 codecs and FDK AAC available to its users that members reached out to Cisco’s open-source te...

New 4096 bit RSA signing key for Tumbleweed

Marcus Meissner 23. Jan 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots will switch the RPM and repository signing key of Tumbleweed from 2048 bit RSA to a 4096 bit RSA key. This switchover was necessa...

Salt, Vim, nodejs update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 20. Jan 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots had a steady amount of software packages in each of the daily releases. While vim, Node.js and Salt updates made the headlines, A...

Mentorship Community Plans Project Finalization, Submission

Douglas DeMaio 18. Jan 2023

People interested in mentorship for this year’s Google Summer of Code as part of openSUSE’s application will conclude a finalization meetup on Feb. 7 at 15:30 UTC on the pr...

Learn More About openSUSE, ALP at FOSDEM

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jan 2023

The openSUSE Project is planning activities for this year’s FOSDEM, which will take place Feb. 4 and 5 in Brussels. The project will be in with operating systems space in ...

BusyBox, systemd, Gear update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 13. Jan 2023

openSUSE Tumbleweed started the new year just like it finished the last; on a roll and giving users freshly updated software packages. The rolling release has been on a da...

openSUSE Conference Call for Papers is Open

Douglas DeMaio 10. Jan 2023

The call for papers for openSUSE Conference 2023 is open! The openSUSE Conference 2023 is scheduled to take place May 26 to May 28. The call for papers will close on April...

Second Prototype Advances ALP

Douglas DeMaio 22. Dec 2022

Geekos are rolling out a new Operating System and the second prototype of the next generation OS is quickly advancing. The first Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) prototype L...

Explaining difference between download.o.o and mirrorcache.o.o

Andrii Nikitin 22. Dec 2022

Explaining difference between download.o.o and mirrorcache.o.o Introduction Historically mirrorcache.opensuse.org was set up to evaluate new backend engine, and gradually ...

Download Redirector State - December 2022

Andrii Nikitin 22. Dec 2022

Download Redirector State (download.opensuse.org) - December 2022 Introduction The post describes changes that went live for download.opensuse.org on 22-Dec. No critical c...

Bash, GCC13 update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 21. Dec 2022

Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed are rolling out this week like a postal worker delivering presents. The snapshots are plenty, but only a few software packages are arrivin...

Good Commit Messages Give Devs Meaning, Purpose

Douglas DeMaio 20. Dec 2022

Adding clarity to commit messages significantly helps fellow developers, and this short blog will share some best practices for writing quality commit messages for openSUSE...

KDE, GNOME, Audio packages update in Tumbleweed 

Douglas DeMaio 16. Dec 2022

Updates for sound, image and system components arrived this week throughout several openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots, and the arm images are rolling again, according to notes ...

Project Plans Workshop to Grow Mentorship Efforts

Douglas DeMaio 14. Dec 2022

The openSUSE Project will have a workshop on Jan. 10 at 15:30 UTC at meet.opensuse.org/meeting that will focus on increasing mentorship for this year’s Google Summer of Cod...

openSUSE Leap 15.3 to Reach End-of-Life

Community Meeting 12. Dec 2022

Users of openSUSE Leap 15.3 will not be receiving security and maintenance updates once the version goes EOL (end of life) on the last day of 2022. Marcus Meissner gave us...

GLib, GTK, NetworkManager update in Tumbleweed 

Douglas DeMaio 8. Dec 2022

The first six days of December have brought openSUSE Tumbleweed users six snapshots and developers plenty of conversation. More than 200 messages about changing parts of t...

The openSUSE forums move from vBulletin to Discourse

Victorhck 5. Dec 2022

Maybe you have read this announcement in openSUSE forums and asked yourself what this will mean for the way you use the forums. Even more when you may not understand, or on...

Nano, VirtualBox update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 1. Dec 2022

A steady pace of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots arrived to users this week and there were tons of conversation on the openSUSE Factory mailing list regarding plans to advanc...

Tumbleweed to Roll Out Mitigation Plan, Advance Microarchitecture 

Douglas DeMaio 28. Nov 2022

A mitigation plan for a microarchitecture level change and information about advancing openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed to an x86-64-v2 microarchitecture kicked off a ...

PipeWire, Flatpak, YaST packages update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 24. Nov 2022

This week saw the continuous release of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots reach 42. Packages to arrive this week include Mesa, bind, Flatpak and more. These three above packa...

ALP Work Group Seeks High-Level Consuming Ideas

Douglas DeMaio 21. Nov 2022

Members of the openSUSE Project will gather tomorrow in the project’s online meeting room at 14:30 UTC for a Work Group to discuss high-level ideas, and the group will seek...

New Leap Micro Version Now Available

Douglas DeMaio 17. Nov 2022

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of its modern lightweight host operating system Leap Micro 5.3. This release has a new SELinux module for Cockpit t...

Git, PostgreSQL, Btrfs update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 11. Nov 2022

This week saw a new all-time high of continuous openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released, which surpasses the previous streak of 26. That streak continues and the snapshots ...

Release Candidate of Leap Micro Now Available

Lubos Kocman and Douglas DeMaio 9. Nov 2022

The release candidate of openSUSE’s modern lightweight host operating system Leap Micro 5.3 is now available on get.opensuse.org. The release made NetworkManager the defau...

openSUSE site Aligns with Upstream Documentation

Douglas DeMaio 8. Nov 2022

The history of documentation as it relates to operating systems and software development has a rich history that expands decades. The founding of manual pages, or manpages...

No more updates for nodejs14, below in Leap 15.4

Lubos Kocman 7. Nov 2022

As of today, nodejs14 as well as any older nodejs versions will no longer receive updates in openSUSE Leap 15.4. Users are adviced to switch to nodejs16 instead. The nodej...

LLVM, sudo, Plasma update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 3. Nov 2022

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots continued to roll forward and update more than 150 software packages. Besides updates for LLVM, sudo and KDE’s Plasma, packages l...

Melhoria na infraestrutura de mirrors no Brasil e América do Sul

Douglas DeMaio 2. Nov 2022

Segundo as estatísticas do projeto coletadas com Matomo (antigo Piwik), o Brasil está entre os cinco países que mais utilizam as distribuições do openSUSE. O Brasil está e...

GStreamer, GNOME, systemd update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 28. Oct 2022

The new streak of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots continued this week as the continuous streak stands at 15. The consistency brought rolling release users updates this week ...

Call for Testing Next Generation Installer

Douglas DeMaio 27. Oct 2022

Members of the openSUSE Project’s release team are asking community to help the YaST team with early testing of the installer images. The installer is progressing its way ...

Audacity, Gear, GPG update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 20. Oct 2022

Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed rolled out consistently this week. The rolling release put out a snapshot everyday since Oct. 12 and this week brought a few major version...

Medical Campaign uses GNU Health, openSUSE

Douglas DeMaio 19. Oct 2022

NUREMBERG, Germany, Oct. 19, 2022 - A recent campaign of medical-surgical assistance in Senegal by a Non-Governmental Organization highlights the benefits of using open-so...

Project Enters Election Phase 0

Douglas DeMaio 18. Oct 2022

The openSUSE Project has begun its annual elections process that will fill three board seats to represent the project’s governance. Phase 0, which is the announcement of t...

Project Enters Election Phase 0

Douglas DeMaio 18. Oct 2022

The openSUSE Project has begun its annual elections process that will fill three board seats to represent the project’s governance. Phase 0, which is the announcement of t...

Plasma, Frameworks, Kernel, LLVM update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 14. Oct 2022

This week had one large and a few smaller openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots. The rolling release was coasting along with some smaller snapshots earlier in the week and the lat...

QEMU, Vim update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 7. Oct 2022

Snapshot releases of openSUSE Tumbleweed were plentiful during the month of September with the rolling release delivering 27 snapshots out of 30 days in the month. Since l...

Run a Booth, Increase Awareness of openSUSE

Douglas DeMaio 5. Oct 2022

The openSUSE community is filled with tons of volunteers, professionals and hobbyists who contribute to the project and want to see it thrive. One of the ways of doing thi...

ALP prototype 'Les Droites' is to be expected later this week.

Lubos Kocman 26. Sep 2022

All of the ALP Workgroups are working towards delivering promised September ALP prototype with the codename “Les Droites”. SUSE will continue using a mountain naming theme...

ALP minimal arch baselevel will be x86_64-2

Lubos Kocman 26. Sep 2022

There is big news brewing! SUSE has reconsidered setting the minimum architecture baseline for ALP from the originally announced x86_64-v3 to x86_64-v2. SUSE is currently...

Virtualbox, grep, gawk update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 21. Sep 2022

The rhythm of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots being released this week continues at a steady pace. The rolling release appears to be producing consistent snapshots since the...

Plasma, Gear, Frameworks update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 15. Sep 2022

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots had several KDE packages updated and an update affecting scripts related to grep. In addition to some changes with YaST affecting...

Leap Micro 5.3 Beta Available for Testing

Douglas DeMaio 9. Sep 2022

Leap Micro 5.3, which is a modern lightweight host operating system, is now available for beta testing on get.opensuse.org. The beta version is only expected to be availab...

Tumbleweed Ends Continuous Streak, Keeps Rolling

Douglas DeMaio 8. Sep 2022

The Tumbleweed continuous daily-release streak ended last week with a new record of 26 snapshots, but openSUSE’s rolling release doesn’t appear to have slowed down in any w...

Tumbleweed Continues Release Streak

Douglas DeMaio 2. Sep 2022

Tumbleweed’s continuous daily release streak has reached an astounding 26 snapshots. The streak of openSUSE’s rolling release continued this week and packages like glibc, ...

Mesa, Git, Gear, More Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Aug 2022

This was another full week of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots. The rolling release continues fastforwarding daily with new versions of software. The most recent snapshot is...

ALP Aims to Balance Past, Present with Future

Douglas DeMaio 25. Aug 2022

The openSUSE Project has been discussing technical aspects for the Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) on the development mailing list. An email titled x86_64 architecture leve...

Frameworks, PostgreSQL, Vim Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 18. Aug 2022

The month of August is hot for openSUSE Tumbleweed as snapshots appear to be rolling out daily. The trend this week is like Tumbleweed on cruise control just rolling out s...

New Kernel, HarfBuzz Versions update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 12. Aug 2022

Consecutive openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been rolling out to users each day this week. Among the few major version releases this week are the 5.19 Linux Kernel and t...

Xen, QEMU update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 4. Aug 2022

The openSUSE Tumbleweed produced five snapshots since last Thursday that have so far been released. Among some of the packages updated this week besides those listed above...

Work Group Shifts to Feedback Session

Douglas DeMaio 3. Aug 2022

Members of openSUSE’s Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) community workgroup had a successful install workshop on August 2 and are transitioning to two install feedback session...

MicroOS Install Workshop, Feedback Sessions Planned

Emily Gonyer and Douglas DeMaio 27. Jul 2022

In an effort so gain more user insight and perspective for the development of the Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP), members of the openSUSE community workgroup will have a Mi...

Community to celebrate openSUSE Birthday

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jul 2022

The openSUSE Project is preparing to celebrate its 17th Birthday on August 9. The project will have a 24-hour social event with attendees visiting openSUSE’s virtual Bar. ...

Community Work Group Discusses Next Edition

Douglas DeMaio 20. Jul 2022

Members of openSUSE had a visitor for a recent Work Group (WG) session that provided the community an update from one of the leaders focusing on the development of the next...

MicroOS Desktop Use to Help with ALP Feedback

Emily Gonyer and Douglas DeMaio 19. Jul 2022

Participants from the openSUSE community working on the upcoming release of the Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) encourage people to try openSUSE MicroOS Desktop to gain user...

openSUSE Reaches First-Class Support for Nim Language

David Anes and Douglas DeMaio 14. Jul 2022

openSUSE joins fellow open-source project Arch Linux in having up-to-date packages for the Nim Language and the statically typed, imperative programming language now has fi...

Tumbleweed Gets Vim, Plasma, PipeWire Updates

Douglas DeMaio 8. Jul 2022

The openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots are rolling out steady during the month or July. Some big and small snapshots have been released with a few major-versions updates arrivi...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2022 Main Track Call For Papers

openSUSE Online Volunteer Team 1. Jul 2022

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2022 Call For Papers CFP deadline is extended to Aug 13, Fri. And Notification to speakers: Week of August 22, 2022. Let's submit your proposal. It is...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2022 Logo Competition Announcement

openSUSE Online Volunteer Team 1. Jul 2022

openSUSE.Asia Online Summit 2022 Logo Competition Today, we will start a logo competition for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2022. A logo is an essential material for the successful ...

OpenSSL, Squid, Dracut Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 30. Jun 2022

Five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released since last Friday. The snapshots had a small amount of packages in each release. The 20220629 snapshot updated OpenS...

openSUSE Leap 15.4 release retrospective

Victorhck 28. Jun 2022

We are seeking feedback regarding the release of openSUSE Leap 15.4, which was released to the general public on June 8. With this survey, what we’re looking from you is b...

Hack Week starts Hacking for Humanity next week

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jun 2022

It’s back. No, not the McRib. It’s Hack Week. The coveted Hack Week 21 runs from June 27 to July 1 and has both virtual and physical participation elements. Hack Week is p...

Community work group update post oSC22

Lubos Kocman 17. Jun 2022

The community workgroup (CWG) for the Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) would like to update you on what has happened since the openSUSE Conference 2022. Make sure to check th...

An update from ALP Quality Engineering

Lubos Kocman 16. Jun 2022

Building our products in an open and transparent way allows us to rethink the way how we test. Jose Lausuch from our ALP Quality Engineering was invited to the Community W...

Community aims to grow communication, marketing team

Douglas DeMaio 15. Jun 2022

The openSUSE community has been having community meetings on a regular basis for some time and attendees in the latest meeting have expressed a desire to grow the communica...

Leap 15.4 Offers New Features, Familiar Stability

Douglas DeMaio 8. Jun 2022

CA / CS / ES / FR / JA / NL / PT-BR / SV / ZH-CN / ZH-TW NUREMBERG, Germany – The next minor release of openSUSE Leap 15 is now available on get.opensuse.org for users, pr...

openSUSE’s Brazilian Community to Celebrate Leap Release

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jun 2022

Members of the openSUSE Brazilian community are getting together for a release party on June 15 for openSUSE Leap 15.4. The team is developing a full schedule and will be ...

Work Groups for ALP Give Updates

Community Work Group 1. Jun 2022

Members of SUSE and openSUSE have deleloped several Work Groups (WG) to discuss the formation of the Adaptable Linux Platform. Below readers can see the latest brief from t...

Mesa, ImageMagick Packages Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 25. May 2022

Snapshots for openSUSE Tumbleweed have been continuously released this month. This week we will look at packages released in four snapshots since Friday. However, before v...

openSUSE Leap 15.4 Enters Release Candidate Phase

Douglas DeMaio 17. May 2022

The openSUSE Project has entered the Release Candidate phase for the next minor release version of the openSUSE Leap distribution. The upcoming release of Leap 15.4 transi...

GCC 12 Becoming Default Compiler in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 13. May 2022

More than a month after preparing the default compiler for openSUSE Tumbleweed to be switched to GNU Compiler Collection 12, the latest snapshot passed openQA and is making...

GNOME, curl, Fetchmail update in Tumbleweed, WSL Image Published

Douglas DeMaio 6. May 2022

Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed flowed out this week and the rolling release also gave Microsoft Windows users a newer Windows Subsystem for Linux image. A newly publishe...

Call for Volunteers to 2022 openSUSE Asia Summit

Shobha Tyagi 4. May 2022

Call For Volunteers The openSUSE.Asia Summit is an annual openSUSE Asian conference, attended by contributors and enthusiasts from all over Asia. The event focuses primari...

LLVM, PipeWire, git update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 21. Apr 2022

There have been three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released since last Thursday. If the 20220420 snapshot passes openQA, it might be released before this article publishe...

openSUSE Community Publishes Annual Survey Results

Douglas DeMaio 13. Apr 2022

The openSUSE community has published results from the annual community survey. This year’s results increased from last year’s results by more than 100 participants, with 1...

Tumbleweed to Get New Default GCC

Douglas DeMaio 8. Apr 2022

A new default GNU Compiler Collection for openSUSE Tumbleweed is set to follow one of the snapshots that rolled out this week. Snapshot 20220405 prepares the default compi...

Leap Micro Beta Available for Testers

Douglas DeMaio 5. Apr 2022

People browsing through openSUSE’s websites may spot something new on get.opensuse.org. Leap Micro, which is currently showing the 5.2 beta version, is for containerized a...

Tumbleweed updates sudo, systemd, ibus

Douglas DeMaio 31. Mar 2022

A total of four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were delivered this week to rolling release users. Tumbleweed has consistently been releasing daily snapshots; a four-day per...

Know the Visa, Health Requirements to Attend oSC22

Douglas DeMaio 30. Mar 2022

For people planning on attending the openSUSE Conference 2022 in Nuremberg, Germany, from June 2 – 4, there are certain health and visa requirements that need to be met for...

openSUSE Finalizes New Code of Conduct

Douglas DeMaio 29. Mar 2022

The openSUSE Community is proud to announce its new Code of Conduct as approved by the openSUSE Board. The openSUSE Code of Conduct was written during several community me...

Entering Leap Bugs Gains New Clarity

Douglas DeMaio 28. Mar 2022

Submitting bug reports related to openSUSE’s traditional release over the years had some abnormalities as reporting bugs for Leap’s distribution had SUSE Linux Enterprise c...

Tumbleweed Gets GNOME 42

Douglas DeMaio 25. Mar 2022

openSUSE’s rolling release quickly gave Tumbleweed users the freshly released GNOME 42. This highly anticipated release from GNOME contributors landed in the 20220323 snap...

openSUSE Selected as Mentor Organization

Douglas DeMaio 8. Mar 2022

The openSUSE Project has been selected as a Google Summer of Code 2022 mentor organization. Being selected as one of the 203 open-source projects for GSoC gives openSUSE m...

Tumbleweed Has Six Snapshots, Leap Gets Quarterly Respin

Douglas DeMaio 4. Mar 2022

This week was filled with good news surrounding openSUSE. On top of openSUSE Leap 15.4 reaching its beta build phase, rolling release Tumbleweed had six snapshots that upd...

openSUSE Leap 15.4 Reaches Beta Build Phase

Douglas DeMaio 2. Mar 2022

The next openSUSE Leap minor release, 15.4, has entered its beta release phase today and users can begin testing the minor version to find bugs before the general release s...

Beta Test Leap with Pizza, Friends

Douglas DeMaio 1. Mar 2022

The release manager for openSUSE Leap Luboš Kocman is expected to announce the Beta release phase of Leap 15.4 this week, according to the roadmap. That means the openSUSE ...

Nano, Plasma, TigerVNC update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 25. Feb 2022

Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed continue to be released at a steady pace. There have been seven snapshots released since our last review. The latest snapshot is 20220223 ...

Call for Papers opens for Summit in Albania

Douglas DeMaio 23. Feb 2022

The openSUSE community has opened the call for papers for a summit that will be held in conjunction with Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAL) 2022. People can submit a t...

AppArmor, Flatpak, GStreamer update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 18. Feb 2022

openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed has produced five snapshots since our last review. Snapshots 20220215, 20220214, 20220213, 20220212 and 20220210 updated several tool...

Latest Plasma Lands in Tumbleweed, Set for Leap Beta

Douglas DeMaio 11. Feb 2022

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots delivered exciting news not only to rolling release users, but also brought significant news for users of the long-established Lea...

Version Control Tool, IRC Client Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 4. Feb 2022

This week openSUSE Tumbleweed had a steady pace of snapshots with four releases users could #zypper dup their system into, which brought updates for an Internet Relay Chat ...

Bash, systemd, libvirt Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 28. Jan 2022

There were openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots every day this week. Some other noteworthy news within Tumbleweed is that Wicked is being phased out. New installations of Tumblew...

Release Manager Gives Community Update On Desktop Environment

Douglas DeMaio 27. Jan 2022

The openSUSE community received cheerful news today after Leap release manager Luboš Kocman updated the community on the desktop environment expected for the next minor rel...

openSUSE Conference Design Contest Begins

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jan 2022

openSUSE begins an image design contest for the openSUSE Conference 2022 today. The design will be used for the conference poster and t-shirt. Submitted images must meet c...

openSUSE Gains New Hardware

Douglas DeMaio 25. Jan 2022

The openSUSE Project added an enormous amount of compute power for its projects this past year thanks to SUSE, which is the project’s main sponsor. The added hardware will ...

Tools Strace, BusyBox Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 21. Jan 2022

openSUSE Tumbleweed had a variety of package updates in smaller snapshots throughout this week. A few things being prepared for Tumbleweed is that the Linux Kernel 5.16.1 ...

Call for Papers Opens for openSUSE Conference 2022

Douglas DeMaio 18. Jan 2022

The call for papers for openSUSE Conference 2022 is open! The call for papers is open until April 14. This leaves a less than 90 days to submit a proposal. The dates of th...

openSUSE Begins Annual Survey

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jan 2022

The start of an openSUSE survey has begun, and users, open-source contributors and community members are encouraged to take the annual survey. Last year the community star...

curl, GNOME, KDE Updates Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 14. Jan 2022

openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed finished off 2021 with multiple snapshots and 2022 is starting off the same by producing nine snapshots so far this year. The latest ...

openSUSE 15.2 Reached End-of-Life

Community Meeting 13. Jan 2022

Users of openSUSE Leap 15.2 will not be receiving security and maintenance updates as the version is now EOL (end of life) as of Jan. 4, 2022. EOL ends updates for the ope...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Introducing the openSUSE 2020 End of Year Survey

Adrien Glauser 19. Dec 2020

This year has been tough. But times of difficulties and challenges are also opportunities to reflect on where we come from, as a thriving global open-source community, and ...

KDE Frameworks, VirtualBox, systemd update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 17. Dec 2020

Five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released since last Friday. Snapshot 20201215 is the latest update to arrive in the rolling release. The snapshot updated KDE ...

Alpha Releases of openSUSE Leap 15.3 are Available for Testing

Douglas DeMaio 16. Dec 2020

Alpha images of openSUSE’s next stable fixed release openSUSE Leap 15.3 are now available for testing at software.opensuse.org/distributions/testing. Release Manager Luboš...

openSUSE Leap offers Predictability

Douglas DeMaio 14. Dec 2020

Users of the community enterprise distributions can be confident in the direction of openSUSE Leap for those who might be hunting for a stable Linux distribution that offer...

Board Elections - Meet the Candidates

Vinzenz Vietzke 14. Dec 2020

As the openSUSE Board election is drawing closer, with the ballots opening on December 15 already, we want to invite the openSUSE community to a “meet-and-greet” and QA liv...

Tumbleweed Gets PulseAudio 14, Updates for Plasma, Firewalld

Douglas DeMaio 11. Dec 2020

Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots updated hundreds of packages in the rolling release this week. There were two major versions to arrive this week and one of them, pulsea...

Advancing openSUSE Images for The PinePhone

Douglas DeMaio 8. Dec 2020

Awareness grew after a post in an online forum appeared in June about openSUSE images for the PinePhone, which is a smartphone developed by Pine64 that allows user to have ...

Mojolicious, PHP, grep update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 4. Dec 2020

Half a dozen openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released since last week’s blog update for Geekos’ favorite rolling release. Six packages were updated in the most rec...

GNOME, KDE Frameworks, Mutt update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Nov 2020

Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released since last Thursday. Only two packages came in the most recent 20201124 snapshot. Email client mutt had a version bum...

Xfce Virtual Machine Images For Development

Vinzenz Vietzke 23. Nov 2020

The openSUSE distributions offer a variety of graphical desktop environments, one of them being the popular and lightweight Xfce. Up to now there was the stable tested bran...

News in openSUSE Packaging

Vítězslav Čížek and Kristýna Streitová 23. Nov 2020

If you are interested in openSUSE, sooner or later you will probably learn how packages and specfiles work. But packaging is not static knowledge that you learn once and ar...

Two Tumbleweed Snapshots update PostgreSQL, Mesa

Douglas DeMaio 20. Nov 2020

Two openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released so far this week. Snapshot 20201117 provides the latest update of packages for the rolling release. Among the packages to u...

openSUSE Board Election 2020 announced

Ish Sookun 16. Nov 2020

The openSUSE Regular Board Election has been announced for the 15th of December 2020. Results will be published on the new year’s eve, i.e 31st December. Call for nominatio...

New AppArmor 3, KDE Applications, GStreamer Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 13. Nov 2020

This week there were six openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released. Some minor email changes have affected the Tumbleweed snapshot reviewer, so reviewer ratings won’t be list...

Updates for Poppler, Plasma, Xfce, LLVM 11 Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 6. Nov 2020

Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released since our last blog more than a week ago. These four snapshots had a variety of package updates that included updates for ...

openSUSE Developers Kickoff Leap 15.3

Douglas DeMaio 5. Nov 2020

Members of the openSUSE community are separated by great distances, but that didn’t keep them from coming together virtually on Nov. 4 to kickoff the development of the nex...

PostgreSQL 13, Latest Stable Kernel Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 29. Oct 2020

The past week has been pretty productive for openSUSE Tumbleweed as five major version updates landed in the rolling release. Five snapshots have so far been released sinc...

openSUSE Community To Have Kickoff Session for Leap 15.3

Douglas DeMaio 28. Oct 2020

The openSUSE community is inviting package maintainers, contributors, open source developers and Leap 15.3 stakeholders to join the openSUSE community for a kickoff of Leap...

Node.js, OpenSSL, Mesa Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 23. Oct 2020

The past week has delivered two openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot. Some of the package updates in the snapshots include newer versions of Node.js, OpenSSL, Mesa, Apparmor, Imag...

Introducing the Open Build Service Connector

The OBS Team 22. Oct 2020

The Open Build Service Connector extension brings the Open Build Service into Visual Studio Code! Everything Starts With a Bookmark That’s right. The Open Build Service C...

Find out more about the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference

Douglas DeMaio 14. Oct 2020

The openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference organizers are thrilled to begin the conference and hope everyone has a great time. To get attendees more accustomed to the event, we...

Join our team and help us improve the openSUSE learning experience!

Adrien G 12. Oct 2020

For years openSUSE has meant more than one distribution. With the recent addition of Kubic and MicroOS to the Leap & Tumbleweed family, different package sets, release ...

Thunderbird, grep, systemd Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 8. Oct 2020

Systemd 246.6, grep 3.5 and Mozilla Thunderbird 78.3.1 became available in openSUSE Tumbleweed this week. Four snapshots have been released so far this month. The most re...

Get cool merchandise for upcoming openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference

Mike Saunders 6. Oct 2020

The joint openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference 2020 will take place from October 15 – 17. And there’s lots going on! We’ll have talks, presentations, keynotes, tutorials and m...

Collabora is Diamond Sponsor for openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference 2020

Mike Saunders 28. Sep 2020

The joint openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference 2020 will run from October 15 – 17, and Collabora has joined as a Diamond Sponsor. Collabora is a major contributor to the Libr...

Tumbleweed Gets New KDE Frameworks, systemd

Douglas DeMaio 24. Sep 2020

KDE Frameworks 5.74.0 and systemd 246.4 became available in openSUSE Tumbleweed after two respective snapshots were released this week. Hypervisor Xen, libstorage-ng, whic...

Feature Requests, Submit Requests for openSUSE Jump Take Shape

Douglas DeMaio 23. Sep 2020

The openSUSE Project is progressing with the state of openSUSE Jump, which is the interim name given to the experimental distribution in the Open Build Service. openSUSE L...

Tumbleweed Snapshots bring updated Inkscape, Node.js, KDE Applications

Douglas DeMaio 17. Sep 2020

Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released since the last article. KDE’s Applications 20.08.1, Node.js, iproute2 and inkscape were updated in the snapshots throughou...

Conference Organizers Announce Schedule, Platform Registration

Douglas DeMaio 15. Sep 2020

Organizers of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference are pleased to announce the schedule for the conference is published.   All times on the schedule are published in Coor...

openSUSE Projects Support Hacktoberfest Efforts

Douglas DeMaio 14. Sep 2020

The openSUSE community is ready for Hacktoberfest, which is run by Digital Ocean and DEV that encourages people to make their first contributions to open source projects. T...

Firefox, Ceph Major Versions Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 10. Sep 2020

Six openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have arrived in the rolling release since the last Tumblweed update. KDE’s Plasma 5.19.5, php and Ceph were among more of the known updat...

Tumbleweed Rises from Rebuilt Packages

Douglas DeMaio 4. Sep 2020

With “literally all 15,000” packages being rebuilt in snapshot 20200826, openSUSE Tumbleweed roared back from a stability rating of 36 in the rebuild snapshot to a 95 rati...

Ritchie-CLI for openSUSE

Alessandro de Oliveira Faria 31. Aug 2020

Ritchie is an open source tool developed from ZUP Company that allows you to create, store and share automations securely. It also optimizes repetitive commands so you have...

Alpha Prototype Jump is Available, Tumbleweed gets systemd, curl Updates

Douglas DeMaio 28. Aug 2020

The prototype project openSUSE Jump is now available for Alpha phase testing. Jump is an interim name given to the experimental distribution in the Open Build Service as de...

Tumbleweed rolls out Apache, Wireshark, Nano, Remmina Updates

Douglas DeMaio 20. Aug 2020

openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots had a strong week of releases and brought not just Apache, Wireshark, nano and remmina, but new KDE, GNOME and Mate software. Five of the pas...

openSUSE + LibreOffice Virtual Conference Talks Accepted

Douglas DeMaio 18. Aug 2020

Talks submitted for the openSUSE + LibreOffice Virtual Conference have been reviewed and accepted by the conference organizers. The approved talks have been updated in the...

Participate in Hacktoberfest, Help Develop Contributions

Douglas DeMaio 14. Aug 2020

The month-long, virtual-festival event that celebrates open source contributions, Hacktoberfest, is coming soon and members of the openSUSE community can make a difference....

Tumbleweed Snapshots bring Kernel 5.8, Hypervisor FS Support with Xen Update

Douglas DeMaio 13. Aug 2020

This week openSUSE Tumbleweed delivered four snapshots that brought in a new mainline kernel for the distribution as well as a package for Xen that removes previous require...

New Prototype Builds Bringing Leap, SLE Closer Will be Available Soon

Douglas DeMaio 10. Aug 2020

The release manager for openSUSE Leap, Lubos Kocman, has updated openSUSE’s develop community on efforts to bring the codes of Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise closer togethe...

Skopeo, xxHash, GCC 10.2 are Among Updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 6. Aug 2020

openSUSE Tumbleweed had continuous daily snapshots with a handful of software package updates this week. Many minor-version updates and one major-version update became ava...

Release Team to have retrospective meeting about openSUSE Leap 15.2

Douglas DeMaio 5. Aug 2020

Members of the openSUSE community will have two retrospective meetings about the release of openSUSE Leap 15.2 after receiving feedback from the recent survey. The meeting...

oneAPI compatibility with all openSUSE

Alessandro de Oliveira Faria 30. Jul 2020

As leader of the openSUSE Innovator initiative, openSUSE member and official oneAPI innovator, I tested the new release of the tool on openSUSE Leap 15.1, 15.2 and Tumblewe...

openSUSE + LibreOffice Virtual Conference Extends Call for Papers

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jul 2020

Organizers of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Virtual Conference are extending the Call for Papers to August 4. Participants can submit talks for the live conference past the o...

Release Team Asks for Feedback on openSUSE Leap 15.2

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jul 2020

The openSUSE release team is would like feedback from users, developers and stakeholders about the release of the of community-developed openSUSE Leap 15.2 through a survey...

GNOME, KDE, libvirt Packages Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 16. Jul 2020

The desktops had a big week of updates in openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week. Among the packages updated for the desktops this week were GNOME’s 3.36.4 version and th...

openSUSE Leap 15.2 is Available for Windows Subsystem for Linux

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jul 2020

The release of openSUSE Leap 15.2 continues to expand its use and is now available for Windows Subsystem for Linux in the Microsoft Store. Leap can be executed on top of W...

openSUSE Leap 15.2 Release Brings Exciting New Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and Container Packages

Douglas DeMaio 2. Jul 2020

ISO 639-1 Languages - CA - CS - DE - FR - ID - IT - ES - JA - ZH-TW - PT NUREMBERG, Germany (02/07/2020) – The openSUSE release team is proud to announce the availability ...

Tumbleweed Gets LibreOffice 7, New Breezy Features

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jun 2020

New Breezy Features work with GitHub, GitLab and Launchpad The newest major version of the open-source offices suite landed in an openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week. ...

Celebrate The Upcoming openSUSE Leap Release

Douglas DeMaio 24. Jun 2020

Having a party to celebrate an achievement is rewarding and the openSUSE community knows how to party; and get things done. This is no exception during the time of the pand...

Help promote openSUSE Leap 15.2!

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jun 2020

The release of openSUSE Leap 15.2 will be released soon. To help spread the word about the release, we have counters available at counter.opensuse.org and more artwork uplo...

openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference Update

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jun 2020

Organizers of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference have been slightly adjusted the conference dates from the original dates of Oct. 13 – 16 to the new dates of Oct. 15. -...

Plasma 5.19, Virtualbox, Kernel 5.7.1 update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 16. Jun 2020

An exciting week of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have brought even more KDE software, a new stable kernel and more. A week ago Plasma 5.19 arrived in the 20200609 snapsho...

openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference Will Take Place Online

Douglas DeMaio 2. Jun 2020

Organizers of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference along with the project’s boards have made the decision to change the conference to an online conference. The uncertaint...

openSUSE for INNOVATORS Project is born

Alessandro de Oliveira Faria 29. May 2020

It is with great enthusiasm that I announce the INNOVATORS for openSUSE project, is an initiative to share projects, articles and news about innovative projects on the open...

openSUSE Leap 15.2 Enters Release Candidate Phase

Douglas DeMaio 28. May 2020

The openSUSE community, contributors and release engineers for the project have entered into the release candidate phase today after the Build “665.2” snapshot was released...

KDE Applications, Wireshark, IceWM update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 27. May 2020

The last week has produced a total of three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots bringing the total amount of snapshots for the month to 18. All 18 snapshots have recorded a stab...

openSUSE Talks at SUSECON Digital

Douglas DeMaio 20. May 2020

SUSECON Digital 2020 starts today and it is free to register and participate in SUSE’s premier annual event. This year features more than 190 sessions and hands-on trainin...

Remaining openSUSE Services to Switch to New Authentication System

Douglas DeMaio 16. May 2020

Dear Community On Monday 18 May 2020 at 07:00 UTC, we will switch over all remaining openSUSE services to the new authentication system. At the same time, the openSUSE for...

Updated KDE Frameworks, Redis Arrive in Tumbleweed, Curl Gets New Experimental Feature

Douglas DeMaio 14. May 2020

Ninetynine seems to be a new norm for openSUSE Tumbleweed as the rolling release trends and posts stable ratings of 99 for every snapshot this month, according to the Tumbl...

Community Account Migration

Douglas DeMaio 9. May 2020

Dear openSUSE Community, The authentication system behind the following services are expect to changed this month. Here is a list of services the might be affected. An ema...

SUSE carve out affecting openSUSE

Lars Vogdt 7. May 2020

SUSE’s partnership with EQT started last year - and now SUSE starts to separate more and more services from MicroFocus. SUSE and openSUSE are not only cooperating and sha...

QEMU 5, Kismet, BRLTTY Packages Update in Tumbleweed Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 7. May 2020

There have been four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released so far this month and they are all trending stable at a rating of 99, according to the Tumbleweed snapshot revie...

Discuss, Define and be Transparent with the openSUSE-Community

Vincent Moutoussamy 29. Apr 2020

Hi, The SUSE Linux Enterprise Team is acknowledging the openSUSE community needs for a better and transparent collaboration with SUSE. We have now a momentum to think and ...

Tumbleweed Snapshots this week bring Salt 3000, LLVM10, update of TigerVNC

Douglas DeMaio 16. Apr 2020

Since last Thursday, a total of five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released. Each snapshot had about between five to 10 packages updated. The most recent snapshot, ...

Jitsi instance on meet.opensuse.org

Marco Strigl 15. Apr 2020

In the times of Covid-19 and the people staying at home it is an adventure to get the tools to work from home without missing the benefits of face-to-face meetings. There ...

SUSE proposes synchronizing code streams, includes SLE binaries for openSUSE Leap

Douglas DeMaio 10. Apr 2020

SUSE has sent a proposal to the openSUSE community about bringing the code streams of both SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Leap closer together. The proposal includes SL...

Mesa, Nano, Redis, Git Update in openSUSE Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 4. Apr 2020

Another four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week. A notable package updated this week is a new major version of gucharmap. Plus several python package up...

Update on openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference

Douglas DeMaio 3. Apr 2020

Organizers of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference had a meeting this week to discuss various topics surrounding COVID19 and how it may affect the conference and planning ...

Kismet, Frameworks Updates Land in openSUSE Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Mar 2020

Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released so far this week. Kismet, KDE Frameworks, sudo, LibreOffice and ImageMagick were just a few of the packages that received ...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2020 Announcement

Shobha Tyagi 12. Mar 2020

Faridabad, India, Selected for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2020 India was accepted to host the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2020. openSUSE.Asia summit is going to be held for the first ...

openSUSE Summit Dublin Canceled

Douglas DeMaio 6. Mar 2020

The openSUSE Summit Dublin has been canceled due to the cancellation of some talks and the cancellation of the in-person SUSECON 2020 in Dublin. Concerns over the developi...

Plasma, VIM, Wireshark update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 4. Mar 2020

A total of five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week that provided updates for YaST, KDE’s Long Term Support version of Plasma and the open source printing...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2021 Logo Competition Announcement

Shobha Tyagi 27. Feb 2020

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 ...

Moving to the new News

Stasiek Michalski 27. Feb 2020

In an effort to make contributing to openSUSE easier, openSUSE News has moved from being a Wordpress application to a Jekyll static site developed directly on Github. Now y...

Leap 15.2 Enters Beta Builds Phase

Douglas DeMaio 25. Feb 2020

openSUSE Leap 15.2 entered the Beta phase last week and has already released two snapshots with the release of build 581.2 and build 588.2. Leap has a rolling development m...

Plasma, NodeJS, pip, Grep update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 20. Feb 2020

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots arrived this week and the snapshots provided a few major version upgrades and several minor updates with newer features. The latest sna...

Call for Papers, Registration Opens for openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference

Douglas DeMaio 14. Feb 2020

Planning for the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference has begun and members of the open-source communities can now register for the conference. The Call for Papers is open and...

People of openSUSE: An Interview with Ish Sookun

Douglas DeMaio 13. Feb 2020

Can you tell us a bit about yourself? I live on an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean (20°2’ S, 57°6’ E), called Mauritius. I work for a company that supports me in ...

New IP addresses for build.opensuse.org

Lars Vogdt 3. Feb 2020

During the maintenance window this Thursday (2020-02-06) we will move the IPv4 and IPv6 address of build.opensuse.org. The new addresses are: 195.135.221.162 ...

Libvirt, PHP, FFmpeg Updates Roll Out on Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 29. Jan 2020

A total of five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been releases since last week for the rolling release users. The Libvirt 6.0 package came earlier in the week. LibreOff...

Using Tilix - Part 1 on openSUSE

Douglas DeMaio 27. Jan 2020

Today we present Tilix, a tiling terminal emulator, and share some tips that make this terminal an excellent tool for all users especially system administrators. As a remin...

Winner Announced for 2020 Conference Logo Competition

Douglas DeMaio 24. Jan 2020

The winner of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference logo competition is Kukuh Syafaat from Indonesia. Kukuh’s “Fresh Community Spirit” was the winning design and was one o...

LibreOffice, Firefox, Curl Receive Updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 15. Jan 2020

Several packages were updated this week for openSUSE Tumbleweed as was expected after the holiday season. Five snapshots of the rolling release have been delivered so far t...

Tumbleweed Provides Some Stability to 2020

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jan 2020

The year of 2020, at least in the openSUSE world, is starting out to be pretty stable. In little more than a week into the new year, there have been five openSUSE Tumblewee...

Q&A: What it is like to be on the openSUSE Board

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jan 2020

You already know what a fantastic platform openSUSE is for doing just about anything with Linux. So what’s behind that easy-to-use and super powerful distribution that we k...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Request Travel Support for openSUSE Conference 2019

Douglas DeMaio 18. Dec 2018

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

openSUSE Enthusiast Creates Board Elections Poster to Encourage Participation

Fraser Bell 18. Dec 2018

One of the growing community of openSUSE enthusiasts in Indonesia has contributed a poster he designed for the 2018-2019 Board Elections and Membership Drive. [caption id=...

2018-2019 Elections Underway with Calls for Candidates and New Members

Fraser Bell 13. Dec 2018

Earlier this week, on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, the Elections Committee posted the Schedule for the 2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections, along with the announcement of a Membe...

Tumbleweed Rolls with Package Updates of Git, Virtualbox, OpenSSH

Douglas DeMaio 6. Dec 2018

openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed had a total of five snapshots this week and is preparing for an update to the KDE Plasma 5.14.4 packages in forthcoming snapshots. Th...

Thunderbird, YaST, Sudo Updates Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 29. Nov 2018

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released since the last blog. The three Tumbleweed snapshots this week brought a newer Linux Kernel, several rubygem package updat...

openSUSE to Have Poster, T-Shirt Design Contest for oSC19

Douglas DeMaio 28. Nov 2018

openSUSE will have a t-shirt image and poster design contest for the openSUSE Conference 2019. Both contests are separate contests and have to meet certain requirements. De...

Gimp Goes Vertical, OSTree Preps for Changes with systemd

Douglas DeMaio 22. Nov 2018

The release of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been steadily coming out this month and some of the more recent packages in the snapshots are bringing about significant c...

Find Out the Visa Requirements to Attend oSC19

Douglas DeMaio 20. Nov 2018

For people planning on attending the openSUSE Conference 2019 in Nuremberg, Germany, from May 24 – 26, there are certain requirements necessary to receive a visa for those ...

openSUSE Develops Legal Review System

Douglas DeMaio 8. Nov 2018

The open-source community has a new project designed to help Linux/GNU distributions with the legal review process of licenses. The new project called Cavil is legal revie...

Marvell, TUXEDO Computers Sponsor openSUSE Project

Douglas DeMaio 6. Nov 2018

Two companies were recently added to the openSUSE Sponsors page thanks to the companies generous donations to the openSUSE Project. Both Marvell and TUXEDO Computers have ...

Tumbleweed Gets New Versions of KDE Applications, Krita, Apache Subversion

Douglas DeMaio 19. Oct 2018

Since last week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed update, there were two snapshots released that brought KDE users a newer version of Applications 18.08.2 and all Tumbleweed users coul...

KDE and openSUSE: Plasma 5.14, Qt 5.12 and more

Douglas DeMaio 17. Oct 2018

Plasma 5.14 Plasma 5.14 was released with many improvements. It was planned to have it in a released in a Tumbleweed snapshot on the same day, but openQA issues prevented...

Tumbleweed Gets Plasma 5.14, Frameworks 5.50

Douglas DeMaio 11. Oct 2018

Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week brought new versions of software along with new versions of KDE’s Plasma and Frameworks as well as python-setuptools and many o...

openSUSE to have Summit at Southern California Linux Expo

Douglas DeMaio 1. Oct 2018

The openSUSE Project will have a summit at the 17th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, Calif., March 8, 2019. The...

VIM, Xen, Git Packages Updated in This Week's Tumbleweed Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 28. Sep 2018

There were a total of four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week that updated packages like VIM, Xen, Git and ImageMagick. The latest snapshot, 20180925, updated three p...

openSUSE Conference 2020: Call for Hosts

Douglas DeMaio 25. Sep 2018

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce that it is accepting proposals for openSUSE Conference 2020. The Call for Hosts will be open until April 15, 2019. The openSUSE...

Tumbleweed Gets New Versions of KDE Plasma, Applications

Douglas DeMaio 20. Sep 2018

A total of four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were delivered to users of the rolling release this past week and the snapshot brought new versions of KDE Plasma and KDE Appl...

openSUSE to Have Summit in Nashville

Douglas DeMaio 18. Sep 2018

The openSUSE community is headed to Nashville, Tennessee, next year and will have the openSUSE Summit Nashville April 5 through April 6, 2019, during the end of SUSE’s prem...

Latest Tumbleweed Snapshot Brings Major Versions of Flatpak, qemu, Thunderbird , Nano

Douglas DeMaio 14. Sep 2018

Since the last openSUSE Tumbleweed update, three snapshots have been released and the latest snapshot has brought two new major versions of both Flatpak and qemu. On the h...

Hexchat, Duplicity Among Packages Updated in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 6. Sep 2018

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week that updated versions of dbus, hexchat and more. Snapshot 20180903 updated extended attributes extensions with ...

Registration, CfP for openSUSE Conference 2019 Open

Douglas DeMaio 31. Aug 2018

openSUSE is pleased to announce that registration and the call for papers for the openSUSE Conference 2019 (oSC19), which takes place in Nuremberg, Germany, are open. The ...

Tumbleweed Snapshots Bring Changes for KVM, QEMU, Xen

Douglas DeMaio 23. Aug 2018

Two openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were once again released this past week, which included two Linux Kernel updates. The most recent snapshot, 20180818, updated the kernel ...

Language, Networking Packages Get Updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 16. Aug 2018

There were two openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this past week that mostly focused on language and network packages. The Linux Kernel also received an update a couple days ag...

openSUSE Kubic Moves in a New Direction

Douglas DeMaio 9. Aug 2018

Dear Community, It has been more than a year since the openSUSE community started the Kubic Project, and it’s worth looking back over the last months and evaluating where ...

openSUSE Leap 42.3 End of Life is Extended

Douglas DeMaio 8. Aug 2018

The usual lifetime of openSUSE Leap minor versions have traditionally received updates for about 18 months, but the minor version of Leap 42.3 is being extended. The last ...

Tumbleweed Gets Python Setuptools 40.0, New Versions of Frameworks, Applications

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jul 2018

Several packages were updated in openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week and developers will notice the snapshots are reported to be extremely stable. Wireshark, sysdig, G...

Krita, GNOME Builder, FFmpeg Get Updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 5. Jul 2018

The four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week are trending quite stable as new major version packages have been updated this week. Among the packages updates this week ...

Dates, Location set for openSUSE Conference 2019

Douglas DeMaio 25. Jun 2018

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the location and dates for the 2019 openSUSE Conference. The openSUSE Conference 2019 will return to the Z-Bau in Nuremberg, Ge...

Tumbleweed Delivers New Kernel, Applications, Plasma, libvirt

Douglas DeMaio 20. Jun 2018

The past week brought a total of three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots and a bunch of new features and improvements for KDE users. Snapshot 20180618 updated just a few packa...

openSUSE Releases Leap 15 Images for Raspberry Pi, Armv7 Devices

Douglas DeMaio 14. Jun 2018

The release of openSUSE Leap 15 two weeks ago is following up with its Build to Scale theme by offering images for Raspberry Pis, Beagle Boards, Arndale board, CuBox-i comp...

GSoC Blog: openSUSE Conference 2018

Douglas DeMaio 6. Jun 2018

Embedded below is the blog of Google Summer of Code student Matheus de Sousa Bernardo. Matheus is assisting with improving API and workflow of Trollolo, which is a cli-too...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2018 Logo Competition

Douglas DeMaio 29. May 2018

Today, we will start a logo competition for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2018, which is going to be held in Taipei, Taiwan. A logo is an essential material for the successful summi...

openSUSE Donates 10 More Raspberry Pis to GNU Health

Douglas DeMaio 26. May 2018

The openSUSE Project once again donated 10 Raspberry Pis to GNU Health Project, which were handed over to the project’s founder Luis Falcon at the openSUSE Conference today...

Uyuni: Forking Spacewalk with Salt and Containers

Douglas DeMaio 26. May 2018

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Members of a new open source community project called Uyuni announced today at openSUSE Conference that a fork of the open-source systems managem...

Based on Enterprise Code, Tested Millions of Times: openSUSE Leap 15 released

Douglas DeMaio 25. May 2018

EN, CA, CZ, DE, ES, JA, PL, PT-BR, ZH, ZH-TW Fresh community build on top of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 brings huge variety of newest software, easy migration to SLE, transa...

Have a Release Party, Promote openSUSE’s Newest Version

Douglas DeMaio 16. May 2018

There are just 9 days left for the release of openSUSE Leap 15 and the community can help spread the word of the release by having a release party and promoting the newest ...

Transactional Updates in openSUSE Leap 15

Douglas DeMaio 15. May 2018

This blog is part of a series of technical blogs leading up to the release of openSUSE Leap 15. All of the blogs provide a use case regarding openSUSE Leap and the packages...

Status update for openSUSE Conference

Douglas DeMaio 14. May 2018

The openSUSE Conference is right around the corner and attendees list keeps growing for oSC18, which will take place May 25 - 27 at the Faculty of Information Technologies ...

Hands on with Docker, openSUSE Leap 15

Douglas DeMaio 4. May 2018

This blog is part of a series of technical blogs leading up to the release of openSUSE Leap 15. All of the blogs provide a use case regarding openSUSE Leap and the packages...

Results in for openSUSE Board Elections

Douglas DeMaio 3. May 2018

This year’s openSUSE Board elections produced the longest election period in the history of the project. The four phases of the election, which included an application pha...

syslog-ng vs. systemd’s journald

Douglas DeMaio 30. Apr 2018

This blog is part of a series of technical blogs leading up to the release of openSUSE Leap 15. All of the blogs provide a use case regarding openSUSE Leap and the pack...

Tumbleweed Gets New Mesa, KDE Frameworks, GNOME Packages

Douglas DeMaio 26. Apr 2018

A total of four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week that brought new updates for the Linux Kernel, Mesa and a major version update of libglvnd. RADV rece...

Request Travel Support for openSUSE Conference 2018

Douglas DeMaio 24. Apr 2018

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

Krita, Linux Kernel, KDEConnect Get Updated in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 20. Apr 2018

There have been a few openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released in the past two weeks that brought some new features and fixes to users. This blog will go over the past two s...

openSUSE Heroes ♥ Let's Encrypt™ - Expect certificate exchange

Thorsten Bro 19. Apr 2018

Maybe some of you noticed, that our certificate *.opensuse.org on many of services will expire soon (on 2018-04-23). As we noticed that - as well - we decided to put a b...

Elections for openSUSE Board Run Until April 27

Douglas DeMaio 19. Apr 2018

The ballots for Elections to fill the three seats on the openSUSE Board are open until April 27. The voting began April 15 and openSUSE Members are able to vote for the fo...

openSUSE Leap 15 Release Scheduled for May 25

Douglas DeMaio 18. Apr 2018

The release of openSUSE Leap 15 is scheduled to be release during the first day of this year’s openSUSE Conference in Prague, Czech Republic on May 25. The package submiss...

Tumbleweed Starts Week with Plasma, DigiKam Updates

Douglas DeMaio 6. Apr 2018

KDE‘s newest point version of Plasma 5.12.4 was released in the first of five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots that were released this week. The  most recent snapshot was 201...

Questions and Answers With Candidates for openSUSE Board Elections

Douglas DeMaio 3. Apr 2018

Elections for the openSUSE Board have been postponed until mid-April. Until then, the community can familiarize themselves with the candidates who are running for three ava...

openSUSE Elections Postponed

Douglas DeMaio 31. Mar 2018

The elections for the openSUSE Board have been postponed until April 15. The postponement will extend Phase 1 of the elections and give candidates more time to campaign an...

Tumbleweed Now Has Ratings for Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 29. Mar 2018

Major Krita Release Arrives in Tumbleweed openSUSE’s rolling distribution Tumbleweed produces high-quality snapshots and a new rating tool for the snapshots has labeled tw...

Elections for openSUSE Board Approaching

Douglas DeMaio 27. Mar 2018

Campaigning for the elections of the openSUSE Board is nearing its end and will move on to the Phase 2 Election phase beginning April 2. There are three seats available on...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2018: Call for Host

Douglas DeMaio 13. Mar 2018

The openSUSE.Asia organization committee is accepting proposals to host the openSUSE.Asia Summit during the second half of 2018. The openSUSE.Asia Summit is the largest ann...

Tumbleweed Updates Several GNU Packages

Douglas DeMaio 8. Mar 2018

openSUSE’s rolling distribution Tumbleweed has had five snapshots so far this month and a lot of those snapshots have includes several GNU packages. There were many other ...

Planned Outage To Affect openSUSE Services This Weekend

Douglas DeMaio 6. Mar 2018

A network outage this weekend will effect openSUSE services that have a Direct Connection to Nuremberg host infrastructure on Saturday, March 10, between the hours of 1 and...

openSUSE Heroes offsite 2018

Thorsten Bro 5. Mar 2018

The first weekend in March 2018, the openSUSE Heroes met again in-person, after one year of infrastructure work, which was mostly done from home. After our last in-person ...

2018 openSUSE board elections

Kostas Koudaras 26. Feb 2018

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...

Tumbleweed Has Updates for Frameworks, Applications, Plasma

Douglas DeMaio 22. Feb 2018

The were plenty of updated packages in openSUSE Tumbleweed this week and KDE updates were made available for Frameworks, Applications and Plasma. While the most recent sna...

Project Selected as Mentoring Organization for Google Summer of Code

Douglas DeMaio 14. Feb 2018

Let the fun begin! This week it was announced that the openSUSE Project is one of the 212 mentoring organization for this year’s Google Summer of Code, which is an annual i...

Visit Combined Booths at SCaLE 16X, Save $ With Promo Code

Douglas DeMaio 12. Feb 2018

The 16th Southern California Linux Expo is about a month away, and openSUSE will once again have a booth with the KDE and GNOME booths. The event takes place at the Pasade...

Plasma 5.12 Brings Wayland to Leap

Douglas DeMaio 8. Feb 2018

This Tuesday KDE released the latest Long Term Support (LTS) version of the Plasma desktop 5.12. A key point in this new release is that Wayland support was extensively wo...

Official KDE Plasma 5.12 Release Now in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 8. Feb 2018

Mesa 18, cryptsetup 2 Also Arrive in Snapshots ### KDE Plasma 5.12 transitioned from it beta version of 5.11.95 to the official release in an openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot...

Where to Stay, Getting Around Prague for oSC18

Douglas DeMaio 7. Feb 2018

Prague is a beautiful city and you can bet that the city will be crowded during the openSUSE Conference. Hotels are already starting to fill up, so it’s best to take a look...

Tumbleweed Snapshots Get YaST Changes for Firewalld

Douglas DeMaio 1. Feb 2018

There is no signs of slowing down openSUSE’s rolling release  Tumbleweed as six snapshots of new software were released this past week. Not all the snapshots were large; i...

openSUSE Leap 15 Reaches Beta Phase Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 31. Jan 2018

The development version of openSUSE Leap 15 has reached its beta phase builds and snapshots are available for testers via //download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.0/iso...

Find Out the Visa Requirements to Attend oSC18

Douglas DeMaio 29. Jan 2018

For people planning on attending the openSUSE Conference 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic, from May 25 – 27, there are certain requirements necessary to receive a visa for th...

The future of openSUSE-Education

Lars Vogdt 27. Jan 2018

The openSUSE-Education project tries to support schools using openSUSE. We create and describe additional software-repositories for educational projects and we created Add-...

openSUSE - Meltdown & Spectre Update - 26 Jan 2018

Richard Brown 26. Jan 2018

Hi folks, This is an update to our current Meltdown and Spectre situation on openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed. We have released kernels with initial Meltdown and Spectre miti...

Ruby, YaST, Plasma 5.12 Beta Get Updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jan 2018

openSUSE’s rolling distribution Tumbleweed received several snapshot of new software packages this past week. A total of six snapshots arrived and brought new versions of ...

openSUSE 42.2 to Reach End-of-Life This Week

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jan 2018

The minor release of openSUSE Leap 42.2 will reach its End-of-Life (EOL) this week on Jan. 26. The EOL phase ends the updates to the operating system, and those who contin...

Tumbleweed Rolls Forward with New versions of Mesa, Squid, Xen

Douglas DeMaio 19. Jan 2018

This week provided a pretty healthy amount of package updates for openSUSE’s rolling distribution Tumbleweed. There were three snapshots released since the last blog and s...

cPanel Provides Project with Network Cards

Douglas DeMaio 18. Jan 2018

The hosting platform cPanel has provided the openSUSE Project with two new network cards to assist the project with its infrastructure needs. The network cards will soon b...

Become a Google Summer of Code Mentor for openSUSE

Douglas DeMaio 15. Jan 2018

The  application period for organizations wanting to participate in the Google Summer of Code is now and the openSUSE project is once again looking for mentors who are will...

New Python3, LibreOffice, Google RE2 Packages Released in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 11. Jan 2018

Several openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots arrive before and after the new year and this post will focus on the most recent snapshots released this week. Much of the efforts of...

openSUSE Conference Registration, Call For Papers Opens Today

Douglas DeMaio 11. Jan 2018

openSUSE is pleased to announce that registration and the call for papers for the openSUSE Conference 2018 (oSC18), which takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, are open....

Future Tumbleweed Snapshot to Bring YaST Changes

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jan 2018

What you need to know about the new storage stack (storage-ng) Changes to YaST are coming and people using openSUSE Tumbleweed will be the first to experience these planne...

Current Status: openSUSE and "Spectre" & "Meltdown" vulnerabilities

Richard Brown 4. Jan 2018

Hi folks, By now you probably heard about the new “Spectre” and “Meltdown” side channel attacks against current processors. openSUSE, same as almost all other current ope...

Special Edition Highlights openSUSE, KDE

Douglas DeMaio 11. Oct 2017

Getting the masses to move to a Linux distribution can be challenging, but the openSUSE Project is doing its part to get people started with open-source software. Members ...

Hack Week Announced for Mid-November

Douglas DeMaio 9. Oct 2017

Hack Week 0x10 will be Nov. 10 - 16 at many of the SUSE Research and Development locations and developers and hackers from the community are welcomed to participate. Hack ...

Tumbleweed Goes Astronomical

Douglas DeMaio 5. Oct 2017

Astronomers using openSUSE Tumbleweed received some major software enhancements in a snapshot this week and the four snapshots released also addressed some architecture iss...

SUSE Studio online + Open Build Service = SUSE Studio Express

Douglas DeMaio 4. Oct 2017

Merging SUSE Studio and Open Build Service Written by Andreas Jaeger SUSE Studio was launched in 2009 to make building images really easy. Nowadays, images are used every...

Planned Downtime to Affect openSUSE Services

Douglas DeMaio 4. Oct 2017

A scheduled power outage in the Nuremberg office will effect a number of openSUSE services from Oct. 13 at 4 p.m. (16:00 UTC) to Oct. 14  at 4 p.m. (16:00 UTC). The schedu...

New Repository Caters to Tumbleweed’s Nvidia Users

Douglas DeMaio 20. Sep 2017

Using Nvidia drivers on openSUSE Tumbleweed in the past was cumbersome and fragile when it came to regular snapshot updates. Often users needed to uninstall the NVIDIA’s u...

Design Selected for openSUSE.Asia Summit

Douglas DeMaio 13. Sep 2017

Thank you for designing great logos and helping us to choose one from them. As a result of the final vote, two candidates tied for the first place. openSUSE.Asia Summit Co...

Are Governments Held Hostage? Why openSUSE Supports Public Money Public Code

Douglas DeMaio 13. Sep 2017

Public Money? Public Code! from Free Software Foundation Europe on Vimeo. Europeans can disagree on political issues, but there is one issue the open-source community is b...

Catching up with Tumbleweed Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 24. Aug 2017

The last review readers received about openSUSE Tumbleweed was a while ago, so it’s time to catch up on the new packages available for the rolling release. Release manager...

openSUSE Leap 42.3 Cloud Images Become Available

Douglas DeMaio 22. Aug 2017

Cloud images for openSUSE Leap 42.3 are now available for Azure, Google Compute Engine and more cloud providers. The images for Amazon Web Services (AWS EC2) are expected ...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017: Call for Sponsorships

Douglas DeMaio 28. Jul 2017

The openSUSE.Asia Committee is seeking sponsors for the fourth edition of openSUSE.Asia Summit. The summit will take place in Tokyo, Japan, from Oct. 21– 22, 2017. With m...

Refresh of Linux Distribution Continues Leveraging Community, Enterprise Benefits

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jul 2017

(Languages: DE, ES, FR, IT, ZH, zh_TW) openSUSE Leap 42.3 Gives Smooth Desktop and Server Upgrade The openSUSE Project released openSUSE Leap 42.3 today bringing the comm...

Plan A Community Release Party for openSUSE Leap 42.3

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jul 2017

Many people are anxiously awaiting for the release of openSUSE Leap 42.3 next week, but before the release arrives, you can prepare for a Release Party to celebrate the upc...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 Logo Competition

Douglas DeMaio 14. Jul 2017

Today, we will start a logo competition for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017, which is going to be held in Tokyo, Japan. A logo is an essential material for the successful summit....

Join the 3D Design and Printing Workshop

Douglas DeMaio 11. Jul 2017

Members of the openSUSE will host a 3D Design and Printing Workshop in Nuremberg on Sept. 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m at SUSE Headquarter. The workshop, which as 60 spots a...

English openSUSE wiki updated and moved home

Douglas DeMaio 10. Jul 2017

The English openSUSE wiki has been moved and updated  successfully. If you encounter any issue, please let us know by mail to admin(@)opensuse.org. On July 11, the MediaWi...

Tumbleweed Snapshots Pick Up Pace

Douglas DeMaio 8. Jun 2017

The care and thoroughness of making GNU Compiler Collection 7 the default compiler for openSUSE Tumbleweed produced a gradual decrease in snapshots over the past month, but...

Next Leap 42.3 Snapshot Equates to Release Candidate

Douglas DeMaio 6. Jun 2017

Rolling Development Still needs Testing, Promoters Since changing to a rolling development version model for the eventual release of openSUSE Leap 42.3, challenges have ar...

Introducing Kubic Project: a new open-source project

Douglas DeMaio 29. May 2017

Recent years have seen tremendous growth in the container technologies market. From being a non-existent category just a few years ago to being one of the most interesting,...

Conference Talks Uploaded, Stream is Live

Douglas DeMaio 27. May 2017

This year’s openSUSE Conference has so far been a blast and the talks  from Day 1 of the conference have already been uploaded to the openSUSETV YouTube channel. For the p...

Enterprise Beta Sources Added to openSUSE Leap 42.3 Build

Douglas DeMaio 19. May 2017

Sources from the beta version of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) Service Pack 3 (SP3) arrived today in the latest build for openSUSE’s next minor release of the 42 series. The...

Announcing openSUSE’s status page - status.opensuse.org

Lars Vogdt 10. May 2017

[caption id=”attachment_20402” align=”alignleft” width=”300”] Screenshot https://status.opensuse.org/[/caption] Worried about downtimes and maintenance windows of openSUSE...

Students to Enhance Multiple Open Source Projects

Douglas DeMaio 9. May 2017

Five students will spend this summer putting their coding skills into practice for openSUSE and other projects during this year’s Google Summer of Code. The internationa...

GNU Health, openSUSE Pioneer Shift in Healthcare Management

Douglas DeMaio 13. Mar 2017

The GNU Health Project is one of many noble open-source projects and the openSUSE Project is pleased to announce it has donated 10 Raspberry Pis to help expand the use and ...

openSUSE at LinuxFest Northwest 2017

James Mason 27. Feb 2017

LinuxFest Northwest 2017, coming up the first weekend in May, promises to continue its tradition of providing a unique, active, fun experience for open-source enthusiasts a...

OBS got the power!

Lars Vogdt 25. Feb 2017

One year after introducing a new kind of Open Build Service worker machines, the “lambkins”, the openSUSE Build Service got a big hardware refresh. The new machines, spon...

openSUSE Heroes December meeting - final results

Lars Vogdt 25. Feb 2017

While we had some fun and good food and drinks, we also managed to discuss a lot during the three days in the Nuremberg headquarter. This was needed because this was the fi...

Tumbleweed Snapshots Bring Users New Vulkan, 4.9.7 Kernel

Douglas DeMaio 9. Feb 2017

Six Tumbleweed snapshots this week brought users newer versions of GStreamer, Wine, Vulkan, and a new Linux Kernel. The new 4.9.7 kernel arrived over the weekend with the ...

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...

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...

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.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...

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 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...

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....

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 ...

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 ...

We have a logo for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2015

Manu Gupta 2. Oct 2015

We’re pleased to announce that the logo for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2015. The logo comes from Kukuh Syafaat. Congratulations, Kukuh Syafaat!!! A very big thanks from the o...

openSUSE.Asia Summit - More on CFP, deadline approaching!!!

Manu Gupta 17. Sep 2015

Time is running out fast!!! We already have an impressive list of proposals, but hey, it does not hurt to be greedy. Submit your proposals for the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2015...

openSUSE.Asia Summit expands with Study Area

Manu Gupta 8. Sep 2015

The openSUSE.Asia Summit aims to promote Linux in Asia region. This year we are hosting the summit in Taipei City, Taiwan. Study Area, a non-commercial community, aims to e...

openSUSE Asia Summit 2015 Call for Sponsorship

Manu Gupta 28. Aug 2015

The openSUSE.Asia Committee seeks sponsors for the second edition of openSUSE.Asia Summit that will take place in Taipei city, Taiwan from 5th and 6th of December 2015. We ...

openSUSE.Asia Summit – Call for Papers

Manu Gupta 25. Aug 2015

The openSUSE.Asia Committee is happy to announce the call for papers upcoming second openSUSE.Asia Summit. Starting today, the Committee is looking forward to see your prop...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2015 – Logo design contest is back

Manu Gupta 24. Aug 2015

Preparations for the openSUSE.Asia Summit are rolling. As we are busy prepping ourselves for this big event, we realized that we need a logo for our very own Summit. Follow...

The second openSUSE.Asia Summit is arriving!!!

Manu Gupta 20. Aug 2015

We are happy to announce the second openSUSE.Asia Summit following a glorious successful first edition. The conference will take place in Taiwan at National Taipei Universi...

Release Engineer job offers unique challenge

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jul 2015

A job announcement for a Release Engineer for openSUSE was published today and it offers a unique challenge, which sounds pretty cool. The optional bonus challenges to be i...

Planned downtime 2015-06-09: Mailing Lists

Kostas Koudaras 5. Jun 2015

Update: The migration of the openSUSE Mailing Lists has been finished successfully. If you encounter any issues, please let us know by mail to admin@opensuse.org. On Tuesd...

May Madness - The Screenshot Contest Continues!

Nenad Latinović 7. May 2015

A warm and green hello to all of the geekosphere! Last month’s screenshot contest was a complete success! Our geeko friends submitted twice the usual amount of screenshots...

Gear Up For The Screenshot Contest!

Nenad Latinović 31. Mar 2015

Greetings, green portion of the GNU/Linux web! It’s been a while since you last heard from us, so let’s say we give you something special this time around. All of us users...

TSP - oSC15 Second Call

Izabel Valverde 27. Mar 2015

The conference date is right around the corner. Part of schedule is out and the organization is running to have everything settled to host visitors and organize the best op...

oSC15 Travel Support Request

Izabel Valverde 24. Feb 2015

openSUSE Conference 2015 As you may already know, the Travel Support Program (TSP) provides travel sponsorships to openSUSE community who want to attend the openSUSE con...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Announcing openSUSE Education Li-f-e 13.1

Izabel Valverde 18. Dec 2013

Get Li-f-e from here : Direct Download Torrents Metalinks md5sum openSUSE Education community is proud to bring you an early Ch...

Reminder: Vote for the openSUSE Board!

Jos Poortvliet 14. Dec 2013

It is december 14, dear Geekos! That means that tomorrow, December 15, the official deadline for voting for the openSUSE Board Elections ends! That’s right, you have only ...

openSUSE 13.1: Ready For Action!

Jos Poortvliet 19. Nov 2013

Dear contributors, friends and fans: The release is here! Eight months of planning, packaging, adding features, fixing issues, testing and fixing more issues has brought yo...

Sneak Peek openSUSE 13.1: Geeko Tips

Jos Poortvliet 13. Nov 2013

Welcome to our fourth Sneak Peek for openSUSE 13.1! The release is getting very close and you’ve already learned about all the awesome new Cloud features, the new YaST and ...

openSUSE 13.1 RC2 Hits the Web, Last Chance for Testing

Jos Poortvliet 31. Oct 2013

The openSUSE 13.1 release is getting very close - just a little over two weeks, according to the Roadmap. Today, Release Candidate 2 is available on software.opensuse.org....

Board Elections Coming!

Jos Poortvliet 30. Oct 2013

The end of the year is approaching. And besides Santa and fireworks, Geekos know: the openSUSE board gets a refresh! The openSUSE Election Committee has announced the time...

openSUSE Summit Schedule Ready!

Jos Poortvliet 21. Oct 2013

As you may well know, Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in beautiful Florida will welcome all Geekos to this year’s openSUSE Summit from November 15 to 17. This will be a g...

OpenStack Havana and openSUSE

Andreas Jaeger 17. Oct 2013

Congratulations to the OpenStack community for today’s release of OpenStack Havana! This is the eighth OpenStack release and the community delivered on-time, yet again. P...

openSUSE 13.1 RC 1 Available: Time to Test!

Jos Poortvliet 11. Oct 2013

It was a dark night, wind howling through the forest... Somewhere far away, a fire was burning and the smell ... ... Ok, **forget that**. RC1 is here, so [stop watching...

Travel support applications to attend openSUSE Summit opened!

Izabel Valverde 27. Sep 2013

We are happy to announce the Travel Team is ready to receive applications for sponsorships to attend to openSUSE Summit 2013. This year openSUSE Summit will be held in t...

openSUSE Summit 2013: Registration Opened!

anditosan 24. Sep 2013

It has already been a year since the first iteration of the openSUSE Summit held in Orlando Florida. Our guests and organizers agreed that tying this community event at th...

openSUSE 13.1 Beta Is Out!

Jos Poortvliet 19. Sep 2013

“Still … in this world only winter is certain.” ― George R.R. Martin “And thus, Factory is now Frozen.” ― Stephan “coolo” Kulow Starting today, you can scurry over to s...

OBS Stopped Building, Will be Back Tomorrow

Jos Poortvliet 5. Sep 2013

We’ve got some bad news: OBS has decided to stop building images. Our Geekos are hard at work to fix it but they don’t expect to have it all back up and running until tomo...

Winter is Coming, Get Your Code Inside!

Jos Poortvliet 5. Sep 2013

It is already September! Haven’t you noticed? Bad weather is coming, it will be freezing soon! According to the roadmap, Full Feature Freeze will be upon openSUSE Factor...

openSUSE Milestone 4

anditosan 12. Aug 2013

openSUSE Milestone 4, and final Milestone before starting the Beta process, is out for everyone to test. The process has worked out normally and although this Milestone ca...

openSUSE Conference Workshop preregistration of attendees

Lars Vogdt 17. Jul 2013

We at openSUSE team have been faced with one slight difficulty. We need to track people interested in the workshops so we can assure you can fit in beforehand, tell you som...

openSUSE Milestone 3

anditosan 16. Jul 2013

Milestone 2 was released just a month ago and it is now time to get the newest milestone release of openSUSE. Please remember that there is only one more milestone before o...

Announcing the openSUSE Summit 2013

News Team 15. Jul 2013

While everyone is certainly looking forward to the upcoming openSUSE Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece (only a few days away) it is not too early to cast our view just a b...

openSUSE Conference Registration CLOSING!

Jos Poortvliet 4. Jul 2013

We opened registration back in February and now we’ve just passed the mark of two weeks from the conference! If you have not yet registered, please hurry up: we need these ...

openSUSE Conference Schedule ready!

Jos Poortvliet 3. Jul 2013

We’ve got great news for you: the openSUSE Conference Paper Committee has finalized the conference program! We’ve got inspiring keynotes, interesting talks, in-depth worksh...

Announcing the First Keynote for oSC: Georg Greve on Freeing our Data

Jos Poortvliet 19. Jun 2013

The openSUSE conference will feature Georg Greve as first keynote speaker, opening the event on Friday morning. He will talk about “Freedom in the world we live in and the...

openSUSE 12.1 EOL, 13.1 Milestone 2 released!

anditosan 11. Jun 2013

For those of you waiting for (or working on) openSUSE 13.1, we have good news: milestone 2 is now out for you to download. As to be exptected, the inclusion of newer softwa...

Schedule of openSUSE Conference

anditosan 10. Jun 2013

the openSUSE Conference kicks off in less than 6 weeks! The conference Paper Committee has been receiving and judging a lot of presentation proposals and while there is sti...

Server outages the coming days

Jos Poortvliet 18. May 2013

Believe it or not: a car crashed into the Nuremberg SUSE office building. Our geekos are fine but the power will have to be shut down so repairs can take place. You can exp...

openSUSE Kicks Off Development with Milestone 1

anditosan 17. May 2013

openSUSE is pleased to announce that the newest Milestone for the upcoming version of openSUSE 13.1. is available for testing. As early version, it is expected that this M...

Ambassadors & Event Merchandise - All Change!

openSUSE Board 10. May 2013

Over the last few years, we’ve seen openSUSE grow into an international project consisting of a large number of volunteer contributors from around the world. These contribu...

Announcing the release of openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 12.3-1

Lars Vogdt 8. May 2013

openSUSE Education Team is proud to present Li-f-e (Linux for Education) 12.3-1. This first release is based on openSUSE 12.3 with all the official updates applied. Li-f-e ...

oSC 2013 Travel Support Requests Period Open

Izabel Valverde 3. May 2013

Today the openSUSE Travel Support Team opened the Travel Support Request Submission tool for requests related to the openSUSE Conference 2013 in Thessaloniki. The goal is...

Open Build Service version 2.4 released

Henne Vogelsang 30. Apr 2013

Over at openbuildservice.org they have released the Open Build Service (OBS) version 2.4 which supports yet another package format (Arch’s PKGBUILD), secure boot signing,...

OBS Gaining More Power

Jos Poortvliet 23. Apr 2013

In the last weeks, the Open Build Service has received support from several sponsors. SUSE brought in a new, powerful x86 compute rack, ARM support was beefed up with Samsu...

SUSE sponsors new hardware for the Open Build Service

Henne Vogelsang 8. Apr 2013

Over the last year, the Open Build Service (OBS) reference server, a service to build and distribute packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way,...

openSUSE Conference 2013 Call for Papers extends to June 17.

Henne Vogelsang 3. Apr 2013

Deadlines… we like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by! Originally the Call for Papers (CfP) for the openSUSE Conference 2013 (oSC13), the annual gathering of our ...

Hackweek 9 is coming!

Jos Poortvliet 26. Mar 2013

The week starting on April 8 will be Hack Week 9 at SUSE! The SUSE engineers will be free to work on projects of their passion for a week. They work in teams or alone on p...

openSUSE 12.3 – Awesome as 1-2-3

Jos Poortvliet 13. Mar 2013

Dear contributors, friends and fans: The latest release of the openSUSE distribution, version 12.3, is ready for you! After six months of hard work, we are happy to bring y...

Planned maintenance downtime for widehat.opensuse.org 2013-03-05

Lars Vogdt 4. Mar 2013

On 2013-03-05 we will do some maintenance on our public rsync server to increase the performance of the machine. During the maintenance a slower machine will take its place...

RC2 is Ready for You. Are You Ready for RC2?

Jos Poortvliet 28. Feb 2013

The openSUSE Release Team has released RC2 to the mirrors a few hours ago. A large number of bugs has been fixed and a number of packages has been updated. Major changes in...

openSUSE Conference 2014: Call for Locations!

openSUSE Board 26. Feb 2013

Today the openSUSE board invites you to submit your proposal for locations of the openSUSE Conference in 2014. Please send proposals to the openSUSE project mailing list wi...

oSC13: Kicking off with CfP and Registration

Jos Poortvliet 20. Feb 2013

The openSUSE Conference (oSC13) team is pleased to announce that registration has opened and our paper committee calls out for submission of session proposals! From July 18...

Heat Up Our Servers: 12.3 RC1 Is Ready To Download

Jos Poortvliet 7. Feb 2013

As winter refuses to relax its icy grasp on the northern hemisphere, the openSUSE project would like to announce the first release candidate of version 12.3 of its popular ...

openSUSE Conference 2013: Geeko Gets Geared Up!

Jos Poortvliet 24. Jan 2013

Today, the openSUSE community is happy and proud to announce the openSUSE Conference 2013, oSC13. On July 18, the openSUSE Community will flock to the land where 2500 years...

The openSUSE Conference - a Few Months Later

Jos Poortvliet 21. Jan 2013

This article attempts to give a bit of an overview of what happened at oSC 12. And that is lots and lots, as you can see in the Google Plus event page for oSC12 and LinuxD...

The openSUSE 12.3 Beta is Out! Time for Pizza...

Jos Poortvliet 17. Jan 2013

According to plan, today openSUSE 12.3 Beta sees the light. The beta comes with mostly smallish changes as we’re in serious testing waters now - we hope you’re out there t...

Opening the Can: initial support for openSUSE on the ARM Chromebook

Will Stephenson 8. Jan 2013

> > Amazon's top selling laptop doesn't run Windows or Mac OS, it runs Linux [buff.ly/11ahUlK](//t.co/jQeuELQE)[#Linux](https://twitter.com/search/%23Linux)[#Chr...

openSUSE 12.3 Milestone 2 released

News Team 18. Dec 2012

A month’s work since Milestone 1 shows that the new Release Team are hitting their stride, as they have reviewed and checked in more than 470 updated packages, far more tha...

openSUSE's 2013 New Board Members are...

Bryen Yunashko 17. Dec 2012

As of 23:00 UTC on 16 December, 2012, the openSUSE Project’s members completed the Fifth election of the openSUSE Board.  At stake were two seats of the five electable seat...

openSUSE Conference 2013 in Thessaloniki, Greece. OPA!

Henne Vogelsang 10. Dec 2012

We are very happy to inform you that next year’s openSUSE Conference (oSC13), the yearly get together of our community, will happen in July in the beautiful city of Thessal...

2013 Board Elections begin today!

Bryen Yunashko 5. Dec 2012

The excitement has been building for weeks and now the most important phase of the openSUSE Board elections begins today – Election Time! Two seats are open for election...

Meet the openSUSE Board Candidates

Bryen Yunashko 28. Nov 2012

The period for standing up for election to the 2013 openSUSE Board is now closed and the openSUSE Election Officials committee is proud to announce this year’s candidates...

Planned maintenance downtime December 1st

Lars Vogdt 24. Nov 2012

Update: all services are back - please report issues via mail to admin @ opensuse.org On Saturday, December 1st 2012, at approximately 05:00 UTC our data center team will ...

The Board Election 2012

Izabel Valverde 13. Nov 2012

This years openSUSE Election Committee is in the pleasant position to announce the 2012 Board elections[0]. The timeline we decided for this year election is the following...

openSUSE 12.3 Milestone 1 is Ready for You!

Will Stephenson 8. Nov 2012

News fresh from the Factory: the openSUSE Release team has made the openSUSE 12.3 Milestone 1 available for testing and feedback. There has been lots of plumbing in the in...

Newcomer experience in openSUSE and other FOSS communities – Survey

Jos Poortvliet 7. Nov 2012

Kevin Carillo, a PhD student currently living in Wellington (New Zealand) is doing some research on Free/Open Source Software communities. He asked the openSUSE community f...

openSUSE 12.2 for ARM Final!

Jos Poortvliet 6. Nov 2012

As was promised last week, the openSUSE ARM team has released openSUSE 12.2 for the ARM architecture! Almost all of the usual openSUSE distribution (>5000 packages) bui...

openSUSE ARM RC2 needs testing!

Jos Poortvliet 29. Oct 2012

Hot on the heels of the news that the Google Chromebook runs openSUSE (even made slashdot) and following the closing of the openSUSE Conference in Prague, Dirk Müller let ...

openSUSE Conference 2012: What You Need To Know

Jos Poortvliet 20. Oct 2012

Heya all! We’re sure you’re terribly excited: On Saturda the awesome four-in-one Linux event Linux Days 2012 in Prague kicks off. We’ve got a few last minute notifications ...

Live streams from openSUSE Conference

Lars Vogdt 20. Oct 2012

The SUSE Video team is happy to announce the availability of live streams from the openSUSE Conference. Just klick on the images or Room names below to start the live strea...

Announcing SUSE Business Track

Will Stephenson 18. Oct 2012

We are pleased to announce an additional track of talks and workshops as part of the openSUSE Conference 2012. On Monday, October 22nd at Masaryk College, Thakurova 1, Prag...

Last Interviews and Announcing Live Video Streaming!

Jos Poortvliet 17. Oct 2012

You’ve seen interviews now with a number of speakers at the upcoming conference in Prague starting on Saturday. Here, we’ve got one more: Shane Coughlan on his Flying Drone...

LinuxDays Parties Scheduled

Jos Poortvliet 16. Oct 2012

At the upcoming four in one conference in Prague we have a smashing session schedule ready for you. Last week we gave a sneak peek of some of those sessions. Today, we add...

Announcing openSUSE Conference 2012 Sponsors

Will Stephenson 15. Oct 2012

Next weekend the openSUSE Conference 2012 begins. Please join us October 20-23 at the Czech Technical University in Prague. This year, the openSUSE conference co-locates wi...

Reminder: Get BoFfin at openSUSE Conference 2012!

Will Stephenson 12. Oct 2012

Everyone knows what really matters at a conference happens outside the scheduled talks, right? The life of the openSUSE project happens when we get together, talk and pla...

oSC 2012 BoF sessions can be scheduled!

Jos Poortvliet 3. Oct 2012

Within three weeks, in Prague, the openSUSE Conference will start off again. Like last year, we have not only an awesome program but also reserved time for small sessions ...

openSUSE Factory Moving: Milestone 0 Ready for Feedback!

Jos Poortvliet 3. Oct 2012

Good news! openSUSE Milestone 0 of openSUSE 12.3 is out! While we’re still discussing the schedule and won’t be deciding anything before the openSUSE Conference in Prague ...

openSUSE Conference 2012 – Invitation to Lightning Talks and Speedy Geeko

Izabel Valverde 2. Oct 2012

The openSUSE Conference in Prague is about to happen and we know that all of you are really excited about it. One more year with great talks and workshops and the warmth of...

Announcing openSUSE on ARM Release Candidate 1

Jos Poortvliet 1. Oct 2012

After 11 months of grueling work, openSUSE is pleased to announce the first Release Candidate for openSUSE 12.2 on the ARM architecture. After discussing ARM first at the ...

openSUSE Board Welcomes new Chairman: Vincent Untz

Jos Poortvliet 21. Sep 2012

This week Alan Clark announced to the openSUSE Board that he is stepping down from his position as Board Chair. His duties in SUSE keep him increasingly busy and SUSE has ...

openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 12.2 out now!

Lars Vogdt 14. Sep 2012

openSUSE Education team once again presents Li-f-e (Linux for Education) built on hot new openSUSE 12.2 including all the post release updates. As always this edition of Li...

Time to Start Planning your Sessions: Conference Program Available!

Jos Poortvliet 12. Sep 2012

The openSUSE Conference is coming! The Call for Papers is closed and the sessions for this awesome four-plus-one event are decided upon and scheduled. It is time to grab a...

openSUSE 12.2: Green Means Go!

Jos Poortvliet 5. Sep 2012

Dear users, developers, and Geekos around the world - openSUSE 12.2 is ready for you! Two months of extra stabilization work have resulted into a stellar release, chock-ful...

Hackweek 8 at SUSE

Jos Poortvliet 24. Aug 2012

What have the boot speed of openSUSE, a sandbox for KVM development, OpenStack, CUPS, Linux UEFI support and Enlightenment 17 to do with each other? They’re among the proje...

Reasons To Attend The openSUSE Summit

Bryen Yunashko 23. Aug 2012

Everyone’s excited about the upcoming openSUSE Summit in Orlando, Florida next month and now there is a full itinerary tailored just for you.  The openSUSE Summit, a 100% f...

openSUSE Conference is coming... Sponsorship request starts today!

Izabel Valverde 10. Aug 2012

The openSUSE Travel Support Team is happy to announce that they are ready to process applications to sponsor openSUSE people to attend openSUSE Conference. The Conference w...

Happy Birthday openSUSE!!!

Izabel Valverde 9. Aug 2012

Happy Birthday openSUSE Alles Gute zum Geburtstag openSUSE openSUSE Joyeux anniversaire openSUSE Feliz Aniversário Χρόνια Πολλά openSUSE openSUSE Feliz Cumpleaños V...

openSUSE 12.2 RC2 Ready for a Final Test

Will Stephenson 2. Aug 2012

Today, the openSUSE project makes available openSUSE 12.2 Release Candidate 2 for widespread testing, with a final release targeted for mid September. In the two weeks sin...

openSUSE 12.2 RC1 Available for Testing

Will Stephenson 12. Jul 2012

openSUSE 12.2 Release Candidate 1 is now available to download. Get it Download it from software.opensuse.org/developer. As usual, a list of the most annoying bugs is bei...

openSUSE Conference CfP going to close soon!

Jos Poortvliet 27. Jun 2012

With the openSUSE conference coming on October 20-23 in Prague, we have only two weeks left for you to send in your session proposal! So, stop thinking about it and DO it. ...

Beta 2 Available for Testing

Jos Poortvliet 20. Jun 2012

Stephan ‘Coolo’ Kulow has released Beta 2 so it is time to start organizing these Beta Pizza Parties! As you might know, openSUSE 12.2 is delayed while we search for ways ...

openSUSE Summit CfP extended, part of the program announced

Jos Poortvliet 19. Jun 2012

The openSUSE Summit team has decided to delay the CfP end date which was last week. The CFP will now be extended to June 30th. With SUSECon just having started their CfP ...

Announcing the opening of registration for the openSUSE Conference, LinuxDays, the Gentoo Miniconf and SUSE Labs.

Jos Poortvliet 13. Jun 2012

Today, the most ambitious Free Software event of the Czech Republic officially opens registration! We’ve got an awesome event for you in store with sessions on all major ...

openSUSE 12.2 Beta 1 available for testing

Jos Poortvliet 6. Jun 2012

After a few delayed milestones, the fourth even got canceled - there has been quite a number of disruptive changes in our Factory development distribution, but we’re starti...

Open Build Service version 2.3 released

Andreas Jaeger 3. May 2012

Open Build Service is a generic system to build and distribute packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. OBS 2.3 brings the functionality to m...

Grab the Geeko by the Horns: The Boosters are Hiring

Henne Vogelsang 20. Apr 2012

SUSE, our founder, partner and sponsor, has put out a couple of job openings for the openSUSE Boosters Team! Are you a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enthusiast? Are ...

Heinlein Support Becomes openSUSE Project Sponsor

Jos Poortvliet 18. Apr 2012

The openSUSE community is proud to welcome Heinlein Support as new sponsor to the project! Heinlein is a Linux specialist offering training, consulting and hosting focused ...

Open Build Service Delivers Website Integration

Jos Poortvliet 4. Apr 2012

The Open Build Service, a system to collaboratively build and easily distribute packages for a wide variety of operating systems and platforms, has introduced the ability t...

openSUSE Summit Geeko-ing Up: Website up, Call for Papers out!

Jos Poortvliet 29. Mar 2012

We’re happy to announce that starting March 29 the openSUSE Summit team will accept session proposals for the openSUSE Summit. The openSUSE Summit will take place from Se...

openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 2 is out

Jos Poortvliet 20. Mar 2012

Those following openSUSE development closely probably know that the 2nd milestone on the way to openSUSE 12.2 was planned for the beginning of this week. And indeed you c...

openSUSE Stable Maintenance Process Now Fully Open

Adrian Schröter 13. Mar 2012

A while ago, we wrote about the work on moving maintenance support into the Open Build Service. Since then announcement, some of the internal maintenance scripts have been ...

OSC12 is coming to Prague in fall

Henne Vogelsang 7. Mar 2012

The openSUSE Conference (oSC) is the yearly get-together of  our community to give its people a chance to meet face to face, talk to and inspire each other. Being together ...

openSUSE 11.3 EOL'ed, 12.2 On The Way!

Bryen Yunashko 21. Jan 2012

As Benjaman Brunner announced yesterday, openSUSE 11.3 has reached end of life.  As a quick refresher, openSUSE releases new versions every 8 months, and each version has...

Why openSUSE.org goes on strike tomorrow

openSUSE Board 17. Jan 2012

End of January the US Congress will vote to pass two laws, the “PROTECT IP Act” (PIPA) and the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA). If these laws pass they would enable copyrig...

openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 12.1 out now!

Manu Gupta 1. Jan 2012

Announcement by Jigish Gohil openSUSE Education team is proud to present another edition of openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e (Linux for Education) based on openSUSE 12.1. Li-f-e comes ...

openSUSE Board Election 2011 results

Izabel Valverde 17. Dec 2011

The openSUSE Election Officials is pleased to announce the 5th openSUSE Board e__l__ected by openSUSE community. The new board members are Pascal Bleser, Will Stephenson a...

Forums and Wikis and Blogs, Oh MY!

MatthewEhle 12. Dec 2011

It has been suggested that I write a post explaining some of the big changes that we have been doing with the forums, wikis, and blogs over the last few weeks.  Here is a q...

openSUSE Board election 2011 started

Izabel Valverde 2. Dec 2011

The openSUSE board election just started! Please go to: https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/polls/read/digitaltomm/15228/opensuse-board-election-2011 and cast your vote for t...

openSUSE participates in Google Code-in

Manu Gupta 18. Nov 2011

Introducing people to the world of free and open source software (FOSS) has always been a priority for the openSUSE project. We’re not only doing so for new users with our ...

openSUSE 12.1: All Green!

Jos Poortvliet 16. Nov 2011

It is November 16, 2011 and our mirrors have synced. Time to present to you: openSUSE 12.1! This release represents more than eight months of work by our international com...

Geekos go on G+

Kostas Koudaras 8. Nov 2011

The IT world moves fast and along with it does social networking. It’s been only a few days since Google announced the limited availability of Google+ pages and already th...

Are you ready for RC2?

Jos Poortvliet 3. Nov 2011

Following the openSUSE 12.1 roadmap, RC2 has been released upon this innocent world. This is your final chance to test openSUSE 12.1 before we move to the final version! W...

Fourth openSUSE Board Election 2011

Izabel Valverde 28. Oct 2011

This years openSUSE Election Committee is in the pleasant position to announce the 2011 Board Elections. So, if you want to participate in the openSUSE board and influence...

openSUSE 12.1 RC1 spotted in the wild

Jos Poortvliet 24. Oct 2011

As was already blogged by Vincent Untz, a few weeks after our last milestone was released as beta 1, the first Release Candidate of openSUSE 12.1 is now floating over the ...

openSUSE Announces First Public Release of openQA

Jos Poortvliet 11. Oct 2011

The openSUSE Project announces the 1.0 release of the unique cross-distribution-capable, fully automated testing framework openQA. openQA is the only comprehensive testin...

SUSE Hackweek 7 – Next Week

News Team 22. Sep 2011

One of the ways SUSE and its developers contribute to openSUSE is through Hackweek: - a week long sprint permitting developers to work on something entirely of their own de...

Sponsors present at openSUSE Conference 2011

Jos Poortvliet 5. Sep 2011

The openSUSE Conference 2011 team is happy to announce the partners for this year’s conference. Aside from sponsoring, there are contributions in terms of sessions, media...

Drone On!

Jos Poortvliet 2. Sep 2011

Among other things, the openSUSE project is about “having a lot of fun”. In that spirit we would like to add a bit of diversion and an extra incentive for everyone to regi...

And the Milestones Keep On Coming!

Bryen Yunashko 1. Sep 2011

Fire up your virtual machines, get your test machines motoring, and start tweaking your fingers.  It’s testing time! openSUSE 12.1’s next milestone 5 is now ready for down...

openSUSE Conference 2011

Henne Vogelsang 15. Aug 2011

The third openSUSE Conference, osc11, kicks off on Sunday September 11, 2011 in Nuremberg, Germany. Under the motto RWX³ all Free and Open Source Software enthusiasts are ...

openSUSE Summer Camp Greece 2011

Kostas Koudaras 20. Jun 2011

Summer in Greece! Is the weather too hot for you to code or contribute to your favorite FOSS project? Do you need some motivation and a refreshing swim? Come to our Summ...

Time to vote on the openSUSE Strategy!

Jos Poortvliet 7. Jun 2011

Over the last year an openSUSE strategy discussion has been ongoing. Beginning this year things went quiet for a while as everyone was busy with the openSUSE 11.4 release...

Get your fresh kernels from openSUSE and test Linux 3.0!

Jos Poortvliet 6. Jun 2011

The openSUSE kernel developers have recently announced that the kernel git trees have moved to kernel.opensuse.org/git, providing better reliability than gitorious. Gitor...

openSUSE renames OBS

Jos Poortvliet 26. May 2011

The openSUSE Build Service Team has decided to rename its cutting-edge packaging- and distribution build technology to Open Build Service. The new name, while maintaining t...

GNOME 3.0 arrives for openSUSE 11.4

Manu Gupta 23. Apr 2011

The wait is finally over and the much anticipated release of GNOME 3 on openSUSE’s latest distro release, 11.4 is ready for download at a desktop near you.  Frederic Crozat...

The Canterbury Project

Henne Vogelsang 1. Apr 2011

If you are really in a timezone where it’s still before March 31st 23:59 then… We are pleased to announce the birth of the Canterbury distribution. Canterbury is a merge...

openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 11.4 out now!

News Team 29. Mar 2011

The openSUSE Education team is proud to present openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e (Linux for Education) based on openSUSE 11.4. The image is a “hybrid” iso image which can be used to bur...

openSUSE 11.4 - A New Hallmark For The openSUSE Project

News Team 10. Mar 2011

Dear openSUSE Community. Users. Contributors. Fans and friends. The time has come: openSUSE 11.4 has arrived!. After 8 months of hard work, you can learn what is new, downl...

openSUSE 11.4 RC2 Steps Out

Helen South 26. Feb 2011

With red carpets rolling out in Hollywood, you’d expect some applause for the openSUSE 11.4 RC2 release, which has now gone live ahead of 11.4 proper. But with much of the ...

openSUSE Announces Development Milestone Six of Six

Will Stephenson 28. Jan 2011

openSUSE project manager Stephan Kulow has announced that openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 6 (M6) is ready for testing.  With M6, the pace of development is starting to slow down as...

openSUSE Board Election 2010: Vogelsang and Linnell elected

Sascha Manns 28. Jan 2011

The last few weeks in the openSUSE project have been very interesting. Two seats on the openSUSE Project board were up for election. The Election Committee closed the pol...

Hackweek VI

James Mason 19. Jan 2011

Hackweek VI will take place January 24th - 28th, 2011. Hackweek is one of Novell’s biggest ways of giving back to the openSUSE community - by providing developers the oppo...

The openSUSE Board election 2010

Ricardo Chung 12. Jan 2011

The openSUSE Board Election process, started in December 2010, is heading full-speed for the planned announcement of the results on January 26, 2011. Today the voting begin...

Putting our Accessibility Heads Together

Bryen Yunashko 6. Jan 2011

Accessibility has become an important selling point in getting computing solutions into many organizations. Organizations are faced with legislations and regulations that r...

openSUSE Announces Fifth Development Milestone with Kernel Interactivity Patch

Jos Poortvliet 23. Dec 2010

The openSUSE project released the fifth of six milestones in the development of openSUSE 11.4 some days ago. Milestone 5 (M5) brings a wide range of updates, both major and...

Alan Clark new openSUSE Board Chairman

openSUSE Board 14. Dec 2010

[caption id=”attachment_5918” align=”alignright” width=”252” caption=”Alan Clark. Chairman of the openSUSE Board”][/caption] As you know, Michael Loeffler has left the ope...

openSUSE poster and Free Software Calendar 2011 with Linux Magazin

Jos Poortvliet 6. Dec 2010

Ladies and Gentlemen The Januari edition of the German Linux-Magazin this year will feature something this Magazine has not featured for almost 10 years: a Free Software E...

openSUSE Announces Fourth Development Milestone with Kernel Interactivity Patch

Will Stephenson 2. Dec 2010

On Monday, the openSUSE project released the fourth of six milestones in the development of openSUSE 11.4.  Milestone 4 (M4) brings a wide range of updates, both major and ...

Third openSUSE Board Election 2010

Sascha Manns 1. Dec 2010

We are pleased to announce the openSUSE Board Election 2010! The Election Committee this year is staffed by: Stathis Iosifidis , Sascha Manns, Satoru Matsumoto, Thomas Sc...

Novell, Attachmate and openSUSE

News Team 22. Nov 2010

Is this thing on? tap tap. Good evening friends, this is your openSUSE Board speaking. If you didn’t hear yet, Novell has agreed to be acquired by Attachmate Corporation. W...

openSUSE Announces Third Development Milestone Evaluating systemd

Will Stephenson 11. Nov 2010

Delayed by a week due to a critical bug that would have prevented testing, the openSUSE project today announces openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 3 (M3), the third of six milestone r...

openSUSE Conference big success

Jos Poortvliet 28. Oct 2010

“Collaboration Across Borders” - Under this moto the openSUSE Community received in Nuremberg several hundreds of Free Software enthusiasts and contributors. Giving a stron...

The openSUSE Build Service 2.1 released

Andreas Jaeger 19. Oct 2010

The openSUSE Build Service - OBS - is  now officially at release 2.1. We’re delighted with the improvements in  this release, including an enhanced web interface, inte...

openSUSE Announces Second 11.4 Development Milestone With New Kernel, OpenOffice, Mesa

Will Stephenson 7. Oct 2010

Today, Thursday October 7, the openSUSE project announces Milestone 2 of openSUSE 11.4.  Milestone 2 (M2) is the second of six periodic development snapshots of openSUSE 11...

Announcing Smeegol 1.0

News Team 6. Oct 2010

The openSUSE Goblin Team are pleased to announce the first public release of Smeegol. Smeegol is based on the netbook user interface that came from the MeeGo(TM)* projec...

openSUSE: Target Aquired

Jos Poortvliet 27. Sep 2010

Hi all,![Future Lizard!](//en.opensuse.org/images/a/af/Future.png) Over the last week you have all given input on the new strategy document describing the target users of ...

openSUSE Announce First 11.4 Development Milestone With Improved Package Management Performance, New XOrg, KDE and GNOME

Will Stephenson 2. Sep 2010

[caption id=”attachment_4093” align=”alignright” width=”240” caption=”Metalink multichannel download, so package candy melts your screen, not your internet connection.”][/c...

The openSUSE Project welcomes Jos Poortvliet as new Community Manager

News Team 28. Jul 2010

We’re proud to announce today that Jos Poortvliet will join the openSUSE project and Novell as openSUSE Community Manager starting on August 1. With Jos we’ve found a lea...

openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 11.3 available now!

News Team 17. Jul 2010

openSUSE Education team is very thrilled to announce the availability of openSUSE Edu: Linux for Education(Li-f-e). Li-f-e is built on openSUSE 11.3. The aim of this DVD...

openSUSE 11.3 is here!

Bryen Yunashko 15. Jul 2010

[caption id=”attachment_3836” align=”alignleft” width=”300” caption=”openSUSE 11.3 is here!”][/caption] The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the late...

openSUSE Wiki – Episode II: A new hope

Henne Vogelsang 5. Jul 2010

You hear it in the bushes since quite some time, rumors spread and people whisper about it: A new wiki for the openSUSE project is coming very soon! The openSUSE Wiki team ...

openSUSE checking instrumentation -- Prepare for Landing -- openSUSE 11.3 RC2 now available!

Bryen Yunashko 1. Jul 2010

Following up on Michael Loeffler’s previous RC1 announcement, openSUSE is now doing a final check of instrumentation before landing.  The weather continues to be clear and ...

openSUSE approaching destination - please fasten your seat belts - openSUSE 11.3 RC1 is available

News Team 17. Jun 2010

Ladies and Gentlemen, Please fasten your seat belts, the touch down area is in sight we do have clear view and smooth weather conditions. So we expect a smooth landing f...

openSUSE Build Service 1.8 and 2.0 Announced

Andreas Jaeger 9. Jun 2010

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.8 and 2.0 releases of the openSUSE Build Service (OBS). It is an open package and distribution development platform that pro...

openSUSE Conference 2010 Call for Papers

News Team 31. May 2010

The openSUSE Project Team is happy to announce that the 2nd international openSUSE Conference will take place in Nuremberg, Germany between 20-23 October 2010. After the g...

openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 7: Preparing for RC Phase

Andreas Jaeger 26. May 2010

Milestone 7, a snapshot of the openSUSE Factory “work in progress” build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M7 is the last mi...

openSUSE Build Service 2.0 Beta1 Release Brings New User Interface

Andreas Jaeger 25. May 2010

The openSUSE Build Service (obs) is an open package and distribution development platform that provides a transparent infrastructure that allows developers to build for var...

openSUSE@LinuxTag 2010

Henne Vogelsang 4. May 2010

LinuxTag 2010 is around the corner. There will be openSUSE Rock ‘N’ Roll from June 9 to 12 at the Berlin Fairgrounds! We just received word that our project got accepted ...

openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 6: The Dust Begins to Settle

News Team 3. May 2010

Milestone 6 (of 7), a snapshot of the Factory “work in progress” build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M6 is the first relea...

openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5: The Community Strikes Back

News Team 14. Apr 2010

Milestone 5 (of 7), a snapshot of the Factory “work in progress” build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M5 was marked by signif...

openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 Release

Andreas Jaeger 25. Mar 2010

The fourth of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 4 focuses on switching to upstart as init daemon. Here’s ...

openSUSE Education Li-f-e Update

Andreas Jaeger 24. Mar 2010

The openSUSE Education team is happy to announce the availability of the updated openSUSE Education Li-f-e DVD iso. The Linux for Education (Li-f-e) contains a wide selec...

openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 3 is out!

News Team 15. Mar 2010

The third of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 3 focuses on using GCC 4.5 as the default compiler, leaving a g...

openSUSE Build Service 1.7.2 Released

News Team 11. Mar 2010

The openSUSE Build Service team is happy to announce the availability of OBS 1.7.2. This release brings beside bug fixes also some new features back ported from master bra...

Number Two Always Tries Harder: openSUSE Milestone 2

Henne Vogelsang 17. Feb 2010

Late last month we released the first milestone of openSUSE 11.3, now we follow up with the second. Milestone 2 is part of the milestones where we track new releases in the...

openSUSE Survey 2010 - Participate now

News Team 7. Feb 2010

Participate in the openSUSE survey 2010 to give feedback to the openSUSE project about the distribution, the openSUSE tools environment and the project in general. Let us k...

Its here! openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1

Henne Vogelsang 1. Feb 2010

Its here! The first openSUSE 11.3 Milestone. This is the first step toward the next openSUSE release. The most important goal of this first milestone is to test the build i...

openSUSE @ FOSDEM 2010

Henne Vogelsang 19. Jan 2010

It is that time of the year again! FOSDEM will take place at the first weekend in February (6th/7th) in Brussels and we’re going to attend. There is a buttload of tracks...

Under Construction: New Wiki Underway

News Team 22. Dec 2009

You may have noticed we have some exciting work going on to revamp the openSUSE wiki, and if you’re interested in helping with that, we have some requests to make. We’ve se...

openSUSE Build Service Integrates with openDesktop.org to reach 150,000 contributors

News Team 17. Dec 2009

Today Frank Karlitschek, maintainer of the openDesktop.org network, announced that the first step of integration with openDesktop.org is complete. Effective immediately, de...

openSUSE 11.2 and its retail box

News Team 10. Dec 2009

Retail versions of openSUSE 11.2 are once again available. For the first time, the retail box is being handled by a partner, open-slx. open-slx is founded and lead by Stef...

Announcing New openSUSE Board Members

Andreas Jaeger 9. Dec 2009

The election committee announces the three new members of the openSUSE board: Bryen Yunashko (non-Novell seat) Pavol Rusnak (Novell seat) Ruper...

Update to openSUSE.org

No Content Found 5. Dec 2009

Over the last two weeks, we have been making some major infrastructure changes to the openSUSE landing page and wikis.  The result is that users of the wiki can now expect ...

Update on openSUSE Board Election

Andreas Jaeger 3. Dec 2009

For the current 2009 election of the openSUSE board, we have three seats for election and three candidates running unopposed. As our existing election rules did not anticip...

Reminder: Wiki Team Meeting Sunday December 6, 2009 at 19.00 UTC

News Team 2. Dec 2009

The openSUSE Wiki Team Meeting will take place on Sunday, the 6th of December 2009 at 19.00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. The meeting will be held ...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Tomorrow (Wednesday, December 2nd)

News Team 1. Dec 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, December 2nd, at 12:00 UTC. The meeting time in all time zones are listed on the Fixed Time World Clo...

openSUSE Kernel Repository is public

News Team 20. Nov 2009

Want to help test the openSUSE kernel? Want the very latest and greatest openSUSE Linux kernel sources? We have good news for you! After several months of preparation, the...

openSUSE Board Election – change of timeline

News Team 19. Nov 2009

As Thomas just announced on the project mailing list the election committee has decided to extend the period for announcing candidacy by one week to November 30. Same appli...

Reminder: Second openSUSE Board Election Deadline Approaching!

News Team 17. Nov 2009

The time has come again for openSUSE Members to vote for new members to the Board. Stephen Shaw (decriptor) and Bryen Yunashko (suseROCKS) have completed their tenure on t...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday November 18, 2009 at 16:00 UTC

News Team 16. Nov 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday, November 18th, at 16:00 UTC. The meeting time in all time zones are listed on the Fixed Time World Clock. Proje...

openSUSE 11.2 Released!

News Team 12. Nov 2009

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of openSUSE 11.2.  openSUSE 11.2 includes new versions of GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, the Linux kernel, and...

Banners for openSUSE 11.2

News Team 10. Nov 2009

We’re very, very close to the final release of openSUSE 11.2! To help promote the 11.2 release, we have banners for openSUSE 11.2 available on the openSUSE wiki, courtesy ...

Vote for the openSUSE DVD Cover

News Team 5. Nov 2009

openSUSE 11.2 is scheduled to be officially released in about a week (give or take a few hours…) and, as usual, we’re gearing up to press a bunch of media for shows and the...

Usability Concept for the openSUSE Wiki - Status Report #1

News Team 4. Nov 2009

Behind the scenes, the Wiki and Booster Teams are currently working hard to improve the Usability of the openSUSE Wiki to the openSUSE Community. The process started in ear...

Final openSUSE 11.2 Release Candidate Available

News Team 29. Oct 2009

This is it folks! We’re almost there for openSUSE 11.2. Time to grab the final 11.2 release candidate and shake out any remaining bugs to get the lizard ready for release. ...

Reminder: Wiki Team Meeting Friday October 30, 2009 at 17.00 UTC

News Team 28. Oct 2009

The openSUSE Wiki Team Meeting will take place on Friday, the 30th of October 2009 at 17.00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. The meeting will be held ...

Announcing the Second openSUSE Board Election

News Team 26. Oct 2009

The time has come again for openSUSE Members to vote for new members to the Board. Stephen Shaw (decriptor) and Bryen Yunashko (suseROCKS) have completed their tenure on t...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday October 21, 2009 at 16:00 UTC

News Team 19. Oct 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday, October 21st, at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be he...

openSUSE 11.2 on its way to become final - Release candidate available!

News Team 15. Oct 2009

We’re well on the way to openSUSE 11.2! Today we’re happy to announce the first release candidate for openSUSE 11.2. This release includes quite a few bugfixes and several ...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday October 7, 2009 at 12:00 UTC

News Team 6. Oct 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place tomorrow (Wednesday October 10th) at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting w...

Introducing the 'openSUSE Boosters' Team

News Team 3. Oct 2009

Following its announcement in August, the dedicated openSUSE Boosters team held its inaugural meeting in Germany last week to plan its activities to promote the growth of o...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8 Released

Andreas Jaeger 1. Oct 2009

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that the last openSUSE 11.2 Milestone  8 (M8) is available for download. Test now and give feedback via our bugzilla since this is...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 7 Released

News Team 14. Sep 2009

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that the openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 7 (M7) is available for download. This release includes GNOME 2.28 beta 2, KDE 4.3.1, RPM 4.7.1, ...

Reminder: Power Outage in Nuernberg Office

News Team 11. Sep 2009

From Sep 12 to Sep 13 we will have a power outage in the Nuernberg office. Downtime is planned from 2009-09-11 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC) until 2009-09-14 10:00 CEST (08:00 UT...

openSUSE 11.1 KDE4 Reloaded with Online Updates and KDE 4.3.1

News Team 10. Sep 2009

Although openSUSE 11.2 is still two months away updated openSUSE 11.1 KDE4 Reloaded images previewing some changes are available now. They are respins of openSUSE 11.1 incl...

openSUSE Conference: Social Events

Henne Vogelsang 9. Sep 2009

The openSUSE Conference isn’t just an opportunity to work together — it’s also an opportunity to play together. During the conference, we’ll have several activities for at...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday September 9, 2009 at 12:00 UTC

News Team 8. Sep 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place tomorrow (Wednesday September 9th) at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting ...

Keynote Update: Lenz Grimmer to Keynote openSUSE Conference

News Team 3. Sep 2009

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that Lenz Grimmer will be delivering the opening keynote for the first-ever openSUSE Conference. The openSUSE Conference will be h...

Power Outage in Nuernberg Office

News Team 2. Sep 2009

From Sep 12 to Sep 13 we will have a power outage in the Nuernberg office. Downtime is planned from 2009-09-11 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC) until 2009-09-14 10:00 CEST (08:00 UT...

Keysigning Party @ openSUSE Conference

Andreas Jaeger 2. Sep 2009

Extend the web of trust! Take part at the Keysigning Party during openSUSE Conference. There will be two Keysigning Party sessions during the openSUSE Conference, so every...

Apache Foundation's Gianugo Rabellino to Keynote openSUSE Conference

News Team 27. Aug 2009

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce its second confirmed keynote for the first-ever openSUSE Conference. Our closing keynote will be delivered by Gianugo Rabellino,...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 6 Released

News Team 24. Aug 2009

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that the openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 6 (M6) is available for download. This release includes new packages on the GNOME and KDE live CD...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday August 26, 2009 at 16:00 UTC

News Team 24. Aug 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place today (Wednesday August 26) at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be...

Change in Maintenance for openSUSE 11.2 and Future Versions

News Team 18. Aug 2009

Michael Löffler has announced to the opensuse-announce mailing list: With regards to the discontinuation mail for openSUSE 10.3 sent out by Marcus the other day I’d like...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 5 Released

News Team 10. Aug 2009

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 5 (M5) is now available for download. It includes several updates, new features, bugfixes, and other improvements. This milestone includes KDE 4.3 f...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday August 12, 2009

News Team 7. Aug 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place today (Wednesday August 12) at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be...

openSUSE Conference Keynote Announcement - Register Today to Attend!

News Team 30. Jul 2009

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the first confirmed keynote for the first-ever openSUSE Conference. The openSUSE Conference is an opportunity for openSUSE contrib...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Today

News Team 29. Jul 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place today (Wednesday July 29) at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be h...

Ready to Rumble: openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 4 Released

News Team 27. Jul 2009

Looking for some summer fun? Try the latest milestone release for openSUSE 11.2! Milestone 4 is hot off the openSUSE Build Service and ready for your testing pleasure.This ...

LinuxTag Videos Online - openSUSE Day at LinuxTag 2009

News Team 24. Jul 2009

Thanks to Jürgen we now have all presentations (documents and videos) from openSUSE day at LinuxTag online. This time Jürgen managed it with his unbeatable charm to get a ...

Reminder: openSUSE Weekly News Team Meeting

Sascha Manns 23. Jul 2009

We are pleased to invite you (Editors/Translators) to the Weekly-News Team Meeting. The Topics from our Meeting are placed in: //en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meet...

Register Today for the openSUSE Conference!

News Team 16. Jul 2009

Join us in Nürnberg, Germany, 17 September through 20 September for the first-ever openSUSE Conference! The openSUSE Conference schedule is up and registration is open! At...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday July 15 at 12:00 UTC

News Team 14. Jul 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday July 15th at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held in...

Hack Week IV Approaches

News Team 8. Jul 2009

Novell is once again sponsoring a Hack Week, from July 20 through July 24th. This is an opportunity for Novell’s Open Platform Solutions developers to use their Innovation ...

openFATE - Adding New Features Now Open for Everybody

News Team 1. Jul 2009

From openFATE’s launch in January ‘09 the addition of a new feature was limited to openSUSE members. Due and thanks to several requests out of the openSUSE community we cha...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting July 1 at 16:00 UTC

News Team 30. Jun 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday July 1 at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held in IR...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 3 Available

News Team 29. Jun 2009

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 3. Images are ready for download and testing. This release includes the 2.6.30 Linux kern...

openSUSE at the SouthEast LinuxFest

News Team 10. Jun 2009

If you’re in, around, or near Clemson, South Carolina this weekend don’t miss the SouthEast LinuxFest at Clemson University! The openSUSE Project will be exhibiting at the ...

Reminder: openSUSE Conference Call for Participation Deadline June 5

News Team 1. Jun 2009

The deadline for the openSUSE Conference call for participation is coming up pretty rapidly – Friday, June 5th is the last day to submit a proposal. We’re looking for contr...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday June 3rd at 16:00 UTC

News Team 29. May 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday June 3rd at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held in ...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 Released

News Team 28. May 2009

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce the second milestone release for openSUSE 11.2 is ready for download. This release includes Firefox 3.5 beta 4, KDE 4.3 beta 1, GN...

Announcing the openSUSE Ambassadors Program

News Team 27. May 2009

Want to help spread the word about the openSUSE Project and encourage more people to become part of the openSUSE Community? Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and spread...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday

News Team 19. May 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday May 20th at 12:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held in ...

Moblin v2.0 Beta on openSUSE

News Team 19. May 2009

Today Intel and the Linux Foundation released a technology preview of the Moblin v2 beta, including the Moblin User Interface (UI) that is optimized for netbooks. To give a...

Thursday openSUSE Community Week Sessions

News Team 14. May 2009

It’s hard to believe we’re already on day four of openSUSE Community Week ! Let’s take a look at all the fun that’s in store for Thursday, May 14th: GNOME Testing ...

Wednesday openSUSE Community Week Sessions

News Team 13. May 2009

The openSUSE Community Week is going strong! The fun kicks up a notch Wednesday with sessions with the openSUSE Board and a workshop with the openSUSE Weekly News team, in ...

Tuesday openSUSE Community Week Sessions

News Team 12. May 2009

The openSUSE Community Week is going strong! Monday kicked off with a number of really informative and well-attended sessions on GNOME, KDE, testing, packaging, and more. T...

Monday Community Week Sessions

News Team 11. May 2009

openSUSE Community Week runs from May 11 through May 17. Our community week is a chance to get people from around the world together at the same time to focus on specific t...

iFolder Project Meeting Tuesday, May 12

News Team 8. May 2009

On the iFolder mailing list, Brent McConnell has announced the first iFolder Project meeting on May 12 at 14:00 GMT. Meeting Agenda includes: Engineering update. ...

Get Ready for openSUSE Community Week!

News Team 7. May 2009

The first openSUSE Community Week is just around the corner. May 11 through May 17 we’ll be hosting live sessions in IRC to help grow the openSUSE Community. Community w...

Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday May 6th at 17:00 UTC

News Team 4. May 2009

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place Wednesday May 6th at 17:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held in I...

openSUSE 11.1 KDE4 Reloaded: Includes KDE 4.2.2 and 11.1 Updates

News Team 1. May 2009

While 11.2 is still months away there’s still plenty of activity going on with openSUSE. In addition to last week’s milestone release, you can also get your hands on openSU...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 1 Released

News Team 24. Apr 2009

Lizard lovers, get ready to start your engines! The first milestone release for openSUSE 11.2 is now ready for your testing pleasure. Please note: This is a milestone rele...

openSUSE Project at LinuxExpo in Prague

News Team 31. Mar 2009

The openSUSE Project is bringing the green to Prague in April! The openSUSE Project will have a booth, demos, and several presentations at the LinuxExpo in Prague, April 15...

Planet SUSE DNS Troubles

News Team 20. Mar 2009

Stephan Binner reported on -announce that there’s a problem with the DNS for Planet SUSE at the moment. If you’re trying to reach Planet SUSE, you can still reach it at pla...

openSUSE Project Accepted to Google Summer of Code 2009

News Team 19. Mar 2009

Once again, the openSUSE Project will be participating in Google’s Summer of Code program! openSUSE was one of the 150 mentoring organizations accepted this year, and we’re...

openSUSE Build Service 1.5 Announced

News Team 19. Mar 2009

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.5 release of the openSUSE Build Service. This release takes developers beyond just building packages. You can now build your...

openSUSE Trademark Guidelines Released

News Team 2. Mar 2009

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the openSUSE Trademark Guidelines (PDF). With the guidelines, the openSUSE Project is looking to clarify the use ...

HP Builds on the openSUSE Education Project

News Team 29. Jan 2009

In December, HP announced that it would release a new desktop offering along with Novell targeted at education customers. Part of the announcement is a repository of educat...

FOSDEM 2009

News Team 21. Jan 2009

One of our favorite shows for sure, and again we will be there with a lot of people. I’m also happy that Novell sponsors the event, because we think it’s quite important a...

openSUSE Project Opens Feature Tracking with openFATE

News Team 16. Jan 2009

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce that feature tracking and requests are now available to the larger openSUSE Community. The openSUSE feature tracking system, ope...

openSUSE-Education 1.0 for SLE10 and 11.1

News Team 22. Dec 2008

The first version of the openSUSE-Education Add-on is drawing to a close. By releasing the final version for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 and the first Release Candidate for 11...

openSUSE 11.1 Released!

News Team 18. Dec 2008

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 11.1. The openSUSE 11.1 release includes more than 230 new features, improvements to YaST, major updates t...

Release Party In Nuremberg

News Team 10. Dec 2008

[![img_2048.jpg](//farm4.static.flickr.com/3216/3098241900_e149efed6d_m.jpg)](//www.flickr.com/photos/notlocalhorst/3098241900/) Just a reminder, we will have a par...

openSUSE-Education: Live-CD, CD-Cover and 1.0 Beta2 for openSUSE 11.1

News Team 4. Dec 2008

Here are the first results of the great last Meeting of the openSUSE-Education Team two weeks ago… We are proud to announce the first openSUSE Live-CD containing applicati...

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 RC 1 Now Available

News Team 27. Nov 2008

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that openSUSE 11.1 RC 1 is now available. If all goes well, this will be the last testing release before the final 11.1 public rel...

YaST Mascot Winner Chosen! Say Hello to Yastie!

News Team 21. Nov 2008

The openSUSE Project and YaST team are happy to announce the winner of the YaST Mascot Contest. After extensive deliberation, the judges have chosen the Aardvark concept, s...

openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5.1 for PowerPC Released

Andreas Jaeger 14. Nov 2008

The Beta5 DVD and NET ISO images for PowerPC have just been replaced by Beta5.1 ISO images.  The only change is the way the ISOs are created - now they are bootable media. ...

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5 Now Available

News Team 13. Nov 2008

Greetings, openSUSE fans! We have another development release ready for your testing pleasure. openSUSE 11.1 beta 5 is now available for immediate download and testing. Yo...

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4 Now Available

News Team 3. Nov 2008

Hot on the heels of openSUSE 11.1 beta 3, the openSUSE Project is happy to announce the availability of openSUSE 11.1 beta 4. This release includes a number of important b...

Results of the 1st openSUSE Board Election

News Team 27. Oct 2008

So the polls are closed now and all votes have been accounted for and confirmed valid, and we are now proud to announce the election results! The openSUSE project would lik...

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 3 Now Available

News Team 22. Oct 2008

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the availability of beta 3 of the 11.1 release. It’s a few days late, but much better for the delay. Beta 3 is now available for i...

YaST Mascot Contest

News Team 21. Oct 2008

Because not everybody was aware of the contest and wondered a little bit about the reminder mail, we extended the deadline for the YaST mascot contest. The new deadline for...

openSUSE 11.1 Beta3 Delayed

News Team 16. Oct 2008

openSUSE 11.1 beta 3 will be delayed by several days. We originally scheduled the release for today (October 16) but the power outage last Friday left us unable to check in...

Power Outage: Nearly All Systems are Running Again

Andreas Jaeger 11. Oct 2008

Our admins and developers - in Nuernberg, Provo and from home offices - worked hard today to get all openSUSE services up and running again.  Thanks a lot to all of them! ...

Power Outage in Area where most openSUSE Servers are Located

Andreas Jaeger 10. Oct 2008

Just a quick note: We have a power outage in the part of the city of Nürnberg where the Novell office and the main server room is.  This means that many of our servers are ...

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 2 Now Available

News Team 3. Oct 2008

The first beta release for 11.1 was so popular, we’ve decided to do it again! The openSUSE Project is happy to announce the release of openSUSE 11.1 beta 2, available for i...

openSUSE-Education 1.0 for 11.0 is Ready

News Team 28. Sep 2008

The openSUSE-Education Add On for openSUSE 11.0 is ready! Big steps compared to the 10.3 release: Better LTSP integration: now Easy-LTSP helps you to configure you...

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 Now Available

News Team 20. Sep 2008

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce the first beta release of openSUSE 11.1. openSUSE 11.1 includes quite a few improvements and new features over the 11.0 release, i...

Announcing RC1 of openSUSE-Education for 11.0

News Team 11. Sep 2008

It is nearly done… As announced on our roadmap, I’m happy to announce the first release candidate for our openSUSE-Education add on for openSUSE 11.0! We’ve produced an Ad...

openSUSE at Utah Open Source Conference

News Team 25. Aug 2008

See the openSUSE Project at the Utah Open Source Conference this week! The Utah Open Source Conference is going on August 28 through August 30 at the Salt Lake Community C...

openSUSE at FrOSCon!

News Team 18. Aug 2008

Join the openSUSE Project this weekend, Saturday August 23, and Sunday August 24, at third annual FrOSCon. FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source,...

Announcing ENOS 2008

News Team 11. Aug 2008

The acronym ENOS stands for ‘Encontro Nacional de openSUSE’, a Portuguese expression which can be translated to ‘National openSUSE Meeting’, an event meant to unite the P...

Announcing Hack Week III

News Team 7. Aug 2008

Novell is once again sponsoring Hack Week – and we want you to be in on it! Hack Week III (HW3) runs from August 25th through August 29th. What’s Hack Week? Hack Week is a...

openSUSE 11.0 PromoDVD

News Team 23. Jul 2008

Again we have some nice, new and shiny PromoDVDs, now with openSUSE 11.0. The main goal is to spread them. Some examples: you organize or take part of an event you wa...

openSUSE 11.0 Survey

News Team 18. Jul 2008

Survey time again! After nearly a month of the openSUSE 11.0 release we want to know what you think about it, how you use it and about openSUSE.org in general. As usual we ...

openSUSE Build Service 1.0 Released

News Team 9. Jul 2008

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.0 release of the openSUSE Build Service. The 1.0 release provides all the features necessary to support building openSUSE in...

YaST Workshop in Nuremberg, June 30 through July 4

News Team 25. Jun 2008

Now that openSUSE 11.0 is out the door, the YaST team is looking to get together and improve YaST even more. Next week the YaST team will be meeting in Nuremberg, Monday t...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 GM

News Team 19. Jun 2008

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 11.0 – everything you need to get started with Linux on the desktop and on the server. Promoting the use o...

Announcing openSUSE-Education for 10.3

News Team 18. Jun 2008

Good things come to those who wait: I think we’ve waited long enough to release the first openSUSE-Education version for openSUSE 10.3. Just use the YaST2 “Add-On Product”...

openSUSE Build Service 1.0 RC 1 released

News Team 11. Jun 2008

The openSUSE Project has released the first release candidate of the openSUSE Build Service 1.0. With the release candidate, all the features are now in place to support ex...

Banshee 1.0 Released!

News Team 10. Jun 2008

The Banshee team has released version 1.0! This release will be found in openSUSE 11.0, and includes tons of new features and improvements over the previous Banshee release...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 RC 1

News Team 29. May 2008

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the openSUSE 11.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). The good news is that we’re closing in on the final release of 11.0, but it’s not tim...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3

admin 16. May 2008

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the last Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! Over 700 bugs has been fixed since Beta 2. This means we’re on the home stretch for openSUSE ...

LinuxTag 2008

News Team 8. May 2008

Please don’t forget the biggest Linux event in Germany, just a few weeks away! For the second time it will be in Berlin, from 28-31.05.2008. The location is slightly differ...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Beta 2

News Team 3. May 2008

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the second Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! New changes include countless bug fixes, as well as the import of the new openSUSE 11.0 art...

openSUSE Google Summer of Code Projects Announced

News Team 24. Apr 2008

Google have announced the openSUSE projects and students taking part in this year’s Google Summer of Code. The projects include: LTSP GUI Management for openSUSE b...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1

News Team 18. Apr 2008

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the first Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! There are many exciting enhancements and features in the new release. Among these is the inc...

openSUSE Project Releases Major Update to openSUSE Build Service

News Team 16. Apr 2008

The openSUSE team is proud to announce another major release of the openSUSE Build Service (OBS). This release brings a new level to OBS scalability by adding the ability f...

openSUSE-Education 1.0 RC2 for openSUSE 10.3 is Ready

News Team 6. Apr 2008

With RC2 for openSUSE 10.3 the openSUSE-Education project starts the last testing phase before we release the final version of openSUSE-Education 1.0 for openSUSE 10.3. A...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 3

News Team 19. Mar 2008

After four regular weeks and one hack week after Alpha 2, we are very happy to announce openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 3. See more screenshots on the Screenshots/openSUSE_11.0_Al...

openSUSE Participates in Google Summer of Code: Looking for Mentors, Projects, Students

Andreas Jaeger 18. Mar 2008

Zonker wrote the following: I'm happy to announce that the openSUSE Project has been accepted to Google’s Summer of Code 2008! Now the real fun begins! We’re now in the “...

Announcing the Official openSUSE Forums

admin 11. Mar 2008

In order to provide a better service to the existing openSUSE Community and to our new users, we’re pleased to announce that suseforums.net, suselinuxsupport.de and the ope...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2

News Team 8. Feb 2008

Only three weeks after Alpha1, we’re glad to announce the release of openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2. There are various exciting changes in there that we would like to have feedback ...

openSUSE Welcomes Zonker - The New Community Manager

Andreas Jaeger 4. Feb 2008

I’d like to give a warm welcome to Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier who joins the openSUSE project as “openSUSE community manager”. You can reach him directly at zonker@opensuse.or...

openSUSE Shop Now Live!

admin 10. Jan 2008

We proudly announce shop.openSUSE.org. This is the place to find official openSUSE gear: T-shirts, mugs, caps, bags and more are available. As many times requested by th...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Alpha0

News Team 6. Dec 2007

We’d like to kick start the development of openSUSE 11.0 by releasing the current state of Factory as an Alpha0 release. Since the release of 10.3, we checked in 2187 packa...

ATI RadeonHD Driver: First Release!

News Team 30. Nov 2007

The X Window System developer team at SUSE has released version 1.0.0 of the ATI Radeon R5xx and R6xx chipset driver it has been developing over the past few months for Nov...

Announcing the First openSUSE Board

admin 8. Nov 2007

The openSUSE board has been setup to lead the overall project. The board will: act as a central point of contact, help resolve conflicts, communicate community interests to...

openSUSE Guiding Principles Take Effect

admin 8. Nov 2007

It’s official: the openSUSE project Guiding Principles are now in force. The Guiding Principles are a framework for the project and give everyone a clear view of who we are...

openSUSE 10.3 Live Version Available

admin 2. Nov 2007

The live version of openSUSE 10.3 is now available as a GNOME or KDE CD. Both contain the same software as the 1 CD installation versions would provide you with, but as a l...

Announcing openSUSE 10.3 GM

News Team 4. Oct 2007

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, the openSUSE project provides free, easy access to the world’s m...

openSUSE is Looking for a Chief Linux Evangelist

admin 28. Sep 2007

To strengthen the openSUSE project we’re looking for an enthusiastic Chief Evangelist to: promote and spread the adoption of openSUSE be a public face fo...

Announcing openSUSE 10.3 RC1

News Team 20. Sep 2007

After quite a few rebuilds and testing, the openSUSE team is happy to announce that RC1 looks brilliant and is now available for download. We consider this release to be fe...

openSUSE 10.3 Beta 3 Has Been Released

News Team 6. Sep 2007

The openSUSE Team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3 Beta 3. Though this release should not be used on any production machines, everyone can help shape this ...

openSUSE 10.3 Beta 2 Has Been Released

News Team 23. Aug 2007

The openSUSE Team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3 Beta 2. Though this release should not be used on any production machines, everyone can help shape this ...

openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1 Live CDs

News Team 12. Aug 2007

Stephan Kulow has created and uploaded Live CDs of the 1-CD installations for your pleasure: GNOME Live ISO, KDE Live ISO. He writes: “Please put ‘live CD’ into the summary...

Announcing openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1

News Team 9. Aug 2007

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the first Beta release of openSUSE 10.3. There are many exciting enhancements and features in the new release. Among these are a whol...

openSUSE Build Service Gains Momentum with AMD Sponsorship

News Team 7. Aug 2007

As announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, AMD has been unveiled as a Platinum Sponsor of openSUSE providing it with powerful infrastructure upon which the openS...

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 7 Has Been Released

News Team 2. Aug 2007

The openSUSE Team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 7. Though this release should not be used on any production machines, everyone can help shape this...

Announcing openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6

News Team 19. Jul 2007

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6 has been released to the public today. Read more about it .

News.openSUSE.org Goes Live

Andreas Jaeger 19. Jul 2007

We are happy to announce our new news.opensuse.org website. This news portal will provide the latest openSUSE news. We will continue to send important announcements to the...

New Project Manager for the Distribution

Andreas Jaeger 18. Jul 2007

I’m glad to announce that I have given over my responsibilities for the openSUSE distribution to Stephan Kulow coolo@suse.de. As from now on Stephan is project manager for ...

Announcing Hack Week

News Team 24. Jun 2007

At Novell we’ve been planning a special internal event that will run this week, from June 25th to 29th. We’re calling it Hack Week. During Hack Week, our entire Linux engi...

Results of Survey on Use of Proprietary Software

News Team 20. Jun 2007

The results of the survey we did on proprietary software has been published: It shows that we ship on the media some software which is hardly used (e.g. PlanMaker, SEPsesam...

SUSE Linux 9.3 Security Support Discontinued

News Team 18. Jun 2007

With todays release of the CUPS bugfix/security fix update we have released the last security update or SUSE Linux 9.3. It is now officially discontinued and out of support...

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 5

News Team 14. Jun 2007

The fifth Alpha release of openSUSE 10.3 has been released. First time two one installation media are offered: a GNOME CD and a KDE CD. Some annoying bugs were already disc...

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 4

News Team 16. May 2007

The fourth Alpha release of openSUSE 10.3 has been released. Some annoying bugs were already discovered. With its latest updates, the company warns it may phone tracker c...

openSUSE 10.3 Roadmap Published

News Team 9. May 2007

Andreas Jaeger announced the final roadmap for openSUSE 10.3. openSUSE 10.3 is the next release that incorporates new features from both the community and Novell internal d...

openSUSE Survey Results Now Online

News Team 4. May 2007

The openSUSE survey results are now online. The survey was live for almost 3 months and more than 27,000 user participated and gave us feeback how they use openSUSE what’s ...

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