Leap Micro 6.2 Adopts the Leap Release Cycle Members of the openSUSE Release Team are excited to announce that the Leap 16 Beta is now available for testing! Like its pre...
We are pleased to announce that the Call for Speakers for the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025 is now open. The event will take place from August 29 to 31, 2025 in Faridabad, Indi...
The openSUSE News article Freedom Means Knowing What’s Installed highlights a critical benefit of using openSUSE and other Linux distributions; complete system transparency...
The Upgrade to Freedom campaign exists to remind users that better, community-driven operating systems to Microsoft Windows do exist and that there are alternatives that do...
Messaging around the end of Windows 10 support has been loud, urgent and, unfortunately, irresponsibly narrow. In a recent article titled ‘Microsoft’s Free Upgrade Offer F...
We are excited to announce the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025 Logo Competition! A logo is more than just a design—it represents the spirit, identity, and energy of the event. E...
This new era of tariffs and retaliatory measures may ripple through the tech sector and accelerate interest in open-source alternatives like openSUSE. Businesses and gover...
Tumbleweed continues to showcase the strength of a well-maintained rolling release as we move through 2025. March delivered several snapshots and several impactful changes ...
A new zypper experimental media backend and support for parallel package downloads have been introduced with the release of libzypp version 17.36.4 and zypper version 1.14....
As political winds shift across the globe, the digital world is not immune to the turbulence. Governments and organizations across the globe are reassessing their dependenc...
29th – 31st August 2025 About openSUSE.Asia Summit We are excited to announce that the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025 will be held in Faridabad, India. This annual event brings...
A few weeks ago, a customer walked into a Best Buy, which is a well-known retailer in North America that sells computers, appliances and gadgets of all kinds. On a mission...
SUSE, the main sponsor of the openSUSE Project, is offering a discount on its eLearning platform for members looking to enhance their skills in SUSE technologies. The eLea...
AI’s latest escapade into software piracy has left Microsoft scrambling, but let’s be honest; why even go through the hassle? If people are looking at not paying for an ope...
Data breaches and cyber threats are becoming increasingly common and securing your personal and professional information has never been more critical. Users transitioning ...
Members of the openSUSE Election Committee have informed the project that Board elections are underway. Four candidates are running for three open seats. The final candid...
Millions of gamers are facing a critical decision; upgrade their operating system, invest in new hardware or explore alternatives like Linux with the end of Windows 10 supp...
The openSUSE Slowroll community has welcomed the January version bump that was completed recently. Slowroll’s snapshots mark the beginning of fresh updates with the initia...
Members of the openSUSE Election Committee have provided an update regarding this year’s Board election. This election will fill three board seats. All eligible openSUSE me...
The name for this project was updated to Myrlyn on Jan. 9, 2025. YQPkg, a promising new package management tool for openSUSE, is preparing to make waves in the Linux commu...
The release of Leap 15.6 on June 12 set in motion the End of Life for maintenance and security for Leap 15.5, which will happen at the end of December. Users should upgrad...
A recent back-and-forth on Windows 11’s hardware requirements and the end-of-life timeline for Windows 10 leaves millions of users frustrated and uncertain about their next...
Most people don’t give much thought to their operating system, but with Windows 10 support ending in October 2025, many will start searching for alternatives that keep them...
The openSUSE community is excited to announce the official release of Leap Micro 6.1. Leap Micro continues its alignment with SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro, ensuring robust ...
Release Candidate images of Leap Micro 6.1 can be found at get.opensuse.org. At this point we’re only awaiting confirmation of the Leap Micro 6.1 maintenance setup prior m...
Creative professionals exploring alternatives that allow them to continue working without investing in costly new hardware and software upgrades can look at Linux as the en...
Leap Micro 6.1 Beta was released last Wednesday. Images can be found at get.opensuse.org As this is mostly a rebrand of SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.1, unless some serious...
The openSUSE community is invited to an online engagement with SUSE’s General Manager for Business Critical Linux on Dec. 3 at 16:00 UTC. Rick Spencer, who leads the SUSE ...
With Microsoft ending support for Windows 10 in October 2025, millions of users are looking for alternatives that avoid costly hardware upgrades, additional upgrade costs t...
Leap Micro 6.1 Alpha images can be found at get.opensuse.org. Unless some serious issues are found, users can expect a quick transition to GA within a few weeks. About Lea...
The end of Windows 10 support in October 2025 presents a great opportunity for the Linux community to collectively help users transition their still-functional hardware to ...
Open-source software developers, tech enthusiasts and innovators worldwide are set for Hack Week 24 that starts today and runs through Nov. 22. The event is a cornerstone ...
The openSUSE Board is calling for the formation of a working group to explore topics focused on project governance, operational models and rebranding for the project. This...
Members of the openSUSE’s election committee have provided notice to the project about the start of this year’s board election. This election there are three board seats up...
The openSUSE Project is excited to announce rsync.net as the latest Gold Sponsor! The company’s support will empower the openSUSE community to continue building open-sourc...
Managing localization of desktop menus and applications takes a specific tool and approach that fills a gap but leaves inconsistent upstream translations. Open-source tran...
The openSUSE Project has announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at highlighting contributions of its diverse community members. Dubbed “Contributor in the Spotligh...
Branding for Tumbleweed and Leap 16.0 are moving along with the creation of a visual identity for these two distinct operating system flavors. For two of openSUSE’s most n...
The openSUSE Project will live-stream Episode 10 of it Contribution Workshop series on Oct. 24 at 18:00 UTC on openSUSE’s YouTube and X platforms for a GNOME Extensions wor...
Hello everyone! I’d like to announce the start of development and the public availability of what we currently refer to as Leap 16.0 pre-Alpha. Since this is a pre-Alpha v...
Python 3.13 RC2 is now available in Tumbleweed. This new version of the Python interpreter will be released in October 2024. There is a lot of changes and new features in ...
Many thanks to all who participated in the Leap 16 branding workshop at the openSUSE Conference 2024. The enthusiasm and creativity is moving us forward to take the next st...
Slowroll, which has a more modest update cadence than Tumbleweed, is gaining acceptance as a balance between the rapid updates of Tumbleweed’s rolling releases and the trad...
A new major version of Leap Micro is now available! Leap Micro 6.0 images can be found at get.opensuse.org. Leap Micro 6.0 uses a brand-new codebase, comes with plenty of...
Here is a little gift for the weekend. openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 RC is now available! Images can be found at get.opensuse.org. The main difference from Beta is a working upg...
openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 Beta is now available! We expect that it will very quickly transition to RC and GA as the infra readiness advances. Leap Micro 6.0 Beta images can ...
EN / CA / CS / DE / ES / JA / PT-BR / SV / ZH-TW NUREMBERG, Germany – The release of Leap 15.6 is official and paves the way for professionals and organizations to transit...
The third-party repository for NVIDIA graphics drivers is soon switching from a 1024-bit DSA GPG key to a 4096-bit RSA GPG key. This switchover is necessary to meet curren...
Members of openSUSE Project are excited about the launch of Leap 15.6 on June 12 and encourages people to host a Release Party. If you don’t know how to do this, there is ...
The openSUSE Project continues its Contribution Workshop series today with a new episode at 19:15 UTC on the project’s YouTube & X channels. The new episode will take ...
The schedule for openSUSE Conference 2024 is out and it is filled with several talks about open-source ecosystem and includes several breaks for networking opportunities. ...
Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for April 2024. This month began after addressing last month’s supply chain attack against xz compression library for ...
openSUSE Leap 15.6 exited Beta and entered its Release Candidate phase with build 669.1 last week. You can get Leap 15.6 RC install images from get.opensuse.org. This mean...
In March, the configuration for building openSUSE Factory was changed to be bit-by-bit reproducible (except for the embedded signature). Following this, the first openSUSE ...
The openSUSE project is excited to announce that Leap Micro 6 is in its alpha development stage. Building on the solid foundation of its predecessors, Leap Micro 6 continu...
A lot has been written about the XZ Backdoor in the last few weeks, so it is time to look forward. Before doing so, we share further details about what happened with regard...
The openSUSE continues its Contribution Workshop series this week and has new episodes covering topics essential for newcomers and seasoned contributors. Upcoming Episodes ...
openSUSE maintainers received notification of a supply chain attack against the “xz” compression tool and “liblzma5” library. Background Andres Freund reported to Debian ...
Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for March 2024. This month provided several anticipated updates for the rolling release. Before getting in the packag...
March has been an exciting month for openSUSE Tumbleweed users as GNOME 46 made its way into the rolling release like KDE’s Plasma 6 did a few weeks ago. The GNOME users a...
A lot of excitement was brewing at the announcement of KDE’s Plasma 6 release and now the MegaRelease has arrived in openSUSE Tumbleweed and Kalpa while plans for Slowroll ...
The openSUSE community’s Contribution Workshops continues to move forward with exciting new sessions. The next session, which is Episode 4: openSUSE Contribution Workshop:...
The openSUSE Project is thrilled to announce the Beta release phase of Leap 15.6. Feel free to download Leap 15.6 Beta images from get.opensuse.org and test it out, or upg...
There are several changes happening in openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed on a daily basis and integrating systemd-boot into has been evolving. A shift from the traditi...
Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for February 2024. This month we get one more day in February because of Leap year, but here is what we have for the m...
Like many open-source projects, the Uyuni Project has a long tradition of fostering community engagement and open dialogue, which is why those who are interested in configu...
A recent post on the YaST blog about Agama’s roadmap looks at the new installer as functional enough to embark on tasks ranging from localization and network configuration ...
The openSUSE community is pleased to announce that it will have short sessions aimed at encouraging people on how to contribute to the project. A group of volunteers will ...
Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for January 2024. This will be the new format going forward as recommended by those contributing to the marketing effo...
WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a portable binary instruction format. It has gained popularity for its portability as a compilation target that enables deployment on the ...
The openSUSE release team confirms there will be a successor to Leap 15 and it’s a numerical leap forward. As many eagerly await the arrival of Leap 15.6 this year, a path...
The openSUSE Project is excited to announce the Open 4 Business networking event, a collaborative initiative launched by the DORS/CLUC organization, scheduled for June 26 f...
The openSUSE Project will have a workshop on Jan. 16 at 15:30 UTC on meet.opensuse.org/meeting that will focus on this year’s Google Summer of Code application and mentorsh...
This week openSUSE Tumbleweed has been on a constant roll as consecutive snapshots arrive with fresh software updates. MariaDB, GTK and gnome-software were part of a range...
The ways communities connect and interact have also transformed over the year. Amidst a time where people saw every square inch/cm of their homes, two openSUSE members fou...
Rolling release users of openSUSE Tumbleweed who did a zypper dup on and after Monday will have a couple new major version updates. El Presidente made an appearance in sna...
This week has produced more than a few openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots with a moderate downloaded size of packages for those who did a zypper dup. Snapshot 20231122 is the l...
A large amount of software updates made it into openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week. Most snapshots came with several new versions for those who used their command lin...
During Hack Week this weeek, openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed still manages to send out four snapshots. Software packages like LLVM, the Linux Kernel’s firmware, VLC ...
Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed this week have been frequent with a fair amount of software packages arriving in each snapshot.. Among some of the packages to update this...
This week saw a major transition in openSUSE Tumbleweed for YaST as it moved to a new major version. Several other packages like Apache, Redis, GVfs, Vim, KDE Plasma 5.27....
Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed this week ranged from small- to medium-sized updates. Snapshots are rolling out consistently this week and updates for GNOME, KDE Gear, Pi...
Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed this week had a variety of package updates. Both Mesa and ImageMagick, were among the packages updated both this week and last week in the...
Hack Week 23 is set to blaze a trail of innovation this November. This annual tradition started in 2007, this annual tradition, which somehow made up the difference for th...
This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots brings clarity for graphics thanks to updates of multiple graphics and imaging packages. Package updates for Mesa, GTK, ImageMagi...
This week openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots continue to deliver software updates for users wanting to enhance their systems. Updates in this week’s snapshots brought numerous ...
A few openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots became available to users of the rolling release this week. Several software packages for KDE users were among those updated. The heal...
This week saw openSUSE Tumbleweed level up with a new Linux Kernel. The rolling release had many snapshots, but only recently did the zypper dup change the distribution to...
This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots varied from large to small and there was also an updated arm Tumbleweed snapshot released. Packages to arrive so far this month h...
The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce its modern lightweight host operating system Leap Micro 5.5 just entered Alpha. This release brings a host of enhancements and ...
The rolling release for openSUSE temporarily slowed the frequency of its snapshot release cycle to support the migration efforts and data center move of the Open Build Serv...
This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot updates remained steady and small other than the release of KDE Frameworks 5.109.0 in one of the snapshots. Daily snapshots were r...
This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were steady and there were no large updates. While updating openSUSE rolling release once a week could result in a larger update,...
Tumbleweed snapshots didn’t lack excitement this week as multiple packages received updates and a couple major versions arrived for openSUSE rolling release users this week...
For a while Dirk Mueller was working in the background to get a sponsored CDN subscription. Thanks to his effort Fastly.com has agreed to sponsor the openSUSE project with ...
System administrators (sysadmins) are the unsung heroes of technology, and the openSUSE Project is thankful for all the openSUSE heroes that help our project to function. ...
This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed updates had changes for harfbuzz, xterm, Redis, Audacity and more Snapshots have been rolling out consistently this week. The 20230718 sna...
This week brought KDE users of openSUSE‘s rolling release Tumbleweed updates for Frameworks and Gear along with several other updated packages. Snapshots have been rolling...
A week of five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots brought crucial updates for key packages like GNOME, MariaDB, transactional-update and others. The rolling release distributi...
Staying up-to-date with the latest trends, tools and industry knowledge is crucial for open-source developers and IT professionals like system administrators. Online reso...
This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots are rolling out at a steady pace. The snapshots were not large, but consistent. Snapshot 20230628 provided a few small changes t...
Frequent snapshots of openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed brought KDE enthusiasts freshly made software this week. KDE Gear and KDE Frameworks were released in two of th...
We’d like to announce that the openSUSE Release team plans to work on openSUSE Leap 15.6. openSUSE Leap 15.6 is expected to be released in early June 2024 and would reach ...
Adding Python 3.11 to Leap 15.4 and newer Leap has a default Python interpreter that’s “too old”. In Leap, python3 is Python 3.6 that reached upstream end of life at the e...
New Names! As seen in Richard Brown’s presentation at openSUSE Conference 2023 Why you should be running the MicroOS Desktop, we are pleased to announce a name change for ...
NUREMBERG, Germany (May 30, 2023) - Open-source projects and contributions have brought remarkable advancements in technology by enabling communication and collaboration am...
This year’s openSUSE Conference starts in about 72 hours and open-source enthusiasts, contributors and supporters are making their way to Nuremberg, Germany, for a collabor...
Snapshot updates of openSUSE Tumbleweed were frequent and consistent this week while another development project seeks to get things moving. A post to developers on the Fa...
This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed had a decent amount of software packages in each snapshot. The rolling release updated applications for both GNOME and KDE, with several KD...
This week was a busy week! Leap 15.5 enters the Release Candidate phase! According to the roadmap users can expect the final release shortly after the openSUSE Conference ...
The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce its modern lightweight host operating system Leap Micro 5.4 has reached its Release Candidate phase. The last beta introduced a...
Are you ready for this year’s openSUSE Conference? It will once again take place at the Z Bau, which was converted into a cultural center in 2014. The conference schedule ...
Six openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released since last Friday updating some GNOME applications, KDE’s Frameworks, the LLVM compiler and several other packages. Th...
Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed are continuously rolling forward. Several medium sized snapshots this week provided an array of system component updates for rolling relea...
This week in openSUSE Tumbleweed had both enormous and single-package snapshots. A new GNOME, compiler tools and music player updates arrived this week along with a ton of...
The Beta version of our Immutable HostOS Leap Micro 5.4 is now available. The update brings SELinux in enforcing mode by default as well as tuned. Leap Micro is not a trad...
Rolling-release distribution openSUSE Tumbleweed had a large number of security patches, bug fixes, and new features in snapshots released this week. Users who did a zyppe...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Members of the openSUSE release team members will share results of openSUSE on arm during two separate online sessions on openSUSE’s Jisti instance Dec. 2. The first sessi...
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...
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...
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...
The openSUSE release team has established a survey to gain greater insights into the use cases of people using or developing for ARMv6, ARMv7 and ARMv8. The introduction t...
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...