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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 Introduction Historically mirrorcache.opensuse.org was set up to evaluate new backend engine, and gradually ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, 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...

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’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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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 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...

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 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 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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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 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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 ...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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, ...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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 ...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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. ...

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...

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...

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. -...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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’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...

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...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

[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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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=...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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....

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...

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...

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 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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

(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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

The openSUSE 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...

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

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

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....

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 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’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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 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...

[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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 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...

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 about our project has again become a little bit easier. As announced during the Opening Keynote at oSC14 the reimbursement program for locally produced ...

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...

[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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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, 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

> > 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 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...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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

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

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...

[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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Hi all, Over the last week you have all given input on the new strategy document describing the target users of ...

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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 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...

[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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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! 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...

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...

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...

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

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...