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Open Source Policy Update Spotlights AI Considerations

Douglas DeMaio 1. Mar 2023

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

Awareness Sessions About Projects Available for GSoC Applicants

Douglas DeMaio 22. Feb 2023

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

openSUSE Conference Travel Info

Douglas DeMaio 14. Feb 2023

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

Hack Week Fun Begins

Douglas DeMaio 30. Jan 2023

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

openSUSE Simplifies Codec Installation

Douglas DeMaio 24. Jan 2023

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

Mentorship Community Plans Project Finalization, Submission

Douglas DeMaio 18. Jan 2023

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

Learn More About openSUSE, ALP at FOSDEM

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jan 2023

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

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

Andrii Nikitin 22. Dec 2022

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

Download Redirector State - December 2022

Andrii Nikitin 22. Dec 2022

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

Project Plans Workshop to Grow Mentorship Efforts

Douglas DeMaio 14. Dec 2022

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

Melhoria na infraestrutura de mirrors no Brasil e América do Sul

Douglas DeMaio 2. Nov 2022

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

Project Enters Election Phase 0

Douglas DeMaio 18. Oct 2022

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

Project Enters Election Phase 0

Douglas DeMaio 18. Oct 2022

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

Hack Week starts Hacking for Humanity next week

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jun 2022

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

Community work group update post oSC22

Lubos Kocman 17. Jun 2022

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

An update from ALP Quality Engineering

Lubos Kocman 16. Jun 2022

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

openSUSE’s Brazilian Community to Celebrate Leap Release

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jun 2022

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

Work Groups for ALP Give Updates

Community Work Group 1. Jun 2022

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

Call for Volunteers to 2022 openSUSE Asia Summit

Shobha Tyagi 4. May 2022

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

openSUSE Community Publishes Annual Survey Results

Douglas DeMaio 13. Apr 2022

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

Know the Visa, Health Requirements to Attend oSC22

Douglas DeMaio 30. Mar 2022

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

openSUSE Finalizes New Code of Conduct

Douglas DeMaio 29. Mar 2022

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

openSUSE Selected as Mentor Organization

Douglas DeMaio 8. Mar 2022

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

Call for Papers opens for Summit in Albania

Douglas DeMaio 23. Feb 2022

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

Call for Papers Opens for openSUSE Conference 2022

Douglas DeMaio 18. Jan 2022

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

openSUSE Begins Annual Survey

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jan 2022

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

Download redirector current state

Andrii Nikitin 23. Dec 2021

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

Holidays in the openSUSE Bar!

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

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

Celebrate the first openSUSE BAR anniversary!

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

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

Upgrading to the next PostgreSQL version

Lars Vogdt 6. Apr 2021

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

Playing along with NFTables

Lars Vogdt and Darix 17. Mar 2021

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

openSUSE Project Selected for Google Summer of Code Mentoring

Douglas DeMaio 11. Mar 2021

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

A Message to the openSUSE Community

Community News Team 10. Mar 2021

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

Call for Papers Open for openSUSE Conference

Douglas DeMaio 1. Mar 2021

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

All openSUSE Services in Provo database center now support IPv6

Lars Vogdt 18. Feb 2021

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

Outreach, Survey Extension Addressed in Second Meetup

Douglas DeMaio 2. Feb 2021

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

Spack is now available in openSUSE Tumbleweed

Ana Guerrero Lopez 1. Feb 2021

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

Web Development Sprints To Start Next Week

Douglas DeMaio 28. Jan 2021

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

Session One Meetup Generates Enhancements, Actions

Douglas DeMaio 25. Jan 2021

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

Meetup Will Discuss Survey Results, Project Improvements

Douglas DeMaio 18. Jan 2021

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

openSUSE Community Publishes End of Year Survey Results

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jan 2021

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

Introducing the openSUSE 2020 End of Year Survey

Adrien Glauser 19. Dec 2020

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

Board Elections - Meet the Candidates

Vinzenz Vietzke 14. Dec 2020

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

Advancing openSUSE Images for The PinePhone

Douglas DeMaio 8. Dec 2020

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

openSUSE Developers Kickoff Leap 15.3

Douglas DeMaio 5. Nov 2020

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 28. Aug 2020

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 10. Aug 2020

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

Jitsi instance on meet.opensuse.org

Marco Strigl 15. Apr 2020

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 10. Apr 2020

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

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