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Mesa, Flatpak, Plasma Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 3. Mar 2023

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed gains optional x86-64-v3 optimization

Dirk Müller 2. Mar 2023

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

Open Source Policy Update Spotlights AI Considerations

Douglas DeMaio 1. Mar 2023

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

Ruby Default Switches in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 24. Feb 2023

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

Awareness Sessions About Projects Available for GSoC Applicants

Douglas DeMaio 22. Feb 2023

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

Leap 15.5 Reaches Beta Phase

Douglas DeMaio 21. Feb 2023

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

Mesa, Disk Encryption, Xfce Packages Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 17. Feb 2023

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

openSUSE Conference Travel Info

Douglas DeMaio 14. Feb 2023

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

Audacity, OpenSSL, systemd Update Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 10. Feb 2023

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

Tumbleweed Snapshots Update Mesa, Remmina, More

Douglas DeMaio 1. Feb 2023

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

Hack Week Fun Begins

Douglas DeMaio 30. Jan 2023

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

Firefox, Apache, LibreOffice update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jan 2023

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

openSUSE Simplifies Codec Installation

Douglas DeMaio 24. Jan 2023

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

New 4096 bit RSA signing key for Tumbleweed

Marcus Meissner 23. Jan 2023

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

Salt, Vim, nodejs update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 20. Jan 2023

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

Mentorship Community Plans Project Finalization, Submission

Douglas DeMaio 18. Jan 2023

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

Learn More About openSUSE, ALP at FOSDEM

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jan 2023

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

BusyBox, systemd, Gear update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 13. Jan 2023

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

openSUSE Conference Call for Papers is Open

Douglas DeMaio 10. Jan 2023

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

Second Prototype Advances ALP

Douglas DeMaio 22. Dec 2022

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

Bash, GCC13 update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 21. Dec 2022

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

Good Commit Messages Give Devs Meaning, Purpose

Douglas DeMaio 20. Dec 2022

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

KDE, GNOME, Audio packages update in Tumbleweed 

Douglas DeMaio 16. Dec 2022

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

Project Plans Workshop to Grow Mentorship Efforts

Douglas DeMaio 14. Dec 2022

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

openSUSE Leap 15.3 to Reach End-of-Life

Community Meeting 12. Dec 2022

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

GLib, GTK, NetworkManager update in Tumbleweed 

Douglas DeMaio 8. Dec 2022

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

The openSUSE forums move from vBulletin to Discourse

Victorhck 5. Dec 2022

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

The openSUSE forums move from vBulletin to Discourse

Victorhck 5. Dec 2022

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

Nano, VirtualBox update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 1. Dec 2022

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

Tumbleweed to Roll Out Mitigation Plan, Advance Microarchitecture 

Douglas DeMaio 28. Nov 2022

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

PipeWire, Flatpak, YaST packages update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 24. Nov 2022

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

ALP Work Group Seeks High-Level Consuming Ideas

Douglas DeMaio 21. Nov 2022

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

New Leap Micro Version Now Available

Douglas DeMaio 17. Nov 2022

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

Git, PostgreSQL, Btrfs update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 11. Nov 2022

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

Release Candidate of Leap Micro Now Available

Lubos Kocman and Douglas DeMaio 9. Nov 2022

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

openSUSE site Aligns with Upstream Documentation

Douglas DeMaio 8. Nov 2022

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

No more updates for nodejs14, below in Leap 15.4

Lubos Kocman 7. Nov 2022

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

LLVM, sudo, Plasma update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 3. Nov 2022

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

Melhoria na infraestrutura de mirrors no Brasil e América do Sul

Douglas DeMaio 2. Nov 2022

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

GStreamer, GNOME, systemd update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 28. Oct 2022

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

Call for Testing Next Generation Installer

Douglas DeMaio 27. Oct 2022

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

Audacity, Gear, GPG update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 20. Oct 2022

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

Medical Campaign uses GNU Health, openSUSE

Douglas DeMaio 19. Oct 2022

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

Project Enters Election Phase 0

Douglas DeMaio 18. Oct 2022

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

Project Enters Election Phase 0

Douglas DeMaio 18. Oct 2022

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

Plasma, Frameworks, Kernel, LLVM update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 14. Oct 2022

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

QEMU, Vim update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 7. Oct 2022

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

Run a Booth, Increase Awareness of openSUSE

Douglas DeMaio 5. Oct 2022

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

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

Lubos Kocman 26. Sep 2022

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

ALP minimal arch baselevel will be x86_64-2

Lubos Kocman 26. Sep 2022

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

Virtualbox, grep, gawk update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 21. Sep 2022

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

Plasma, Gear, Frameworks update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 15. Sep 2022

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

Leap Micro 5.3 Beta Available for Testing

Douglas DeMaio 9. Sep 2022

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

Tumbleweed Ends Continuous Streak, Keeps Rolling

Douglas DeMaio 8. Sep 2022

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

Tumbleweed Continues Release Streak

Douglas DeMaio 2. Sep 2022

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

Mesa, Git, Gear, More Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Aug 2022

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

ALP Aims to Balance Past, Present with Future

Douglas DeMaio 25. Aug 2022

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

Frameworks, PostgreSQL, Vim Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 18. Aug 2022

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

New Kernel, HarfBuzz Versions update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 12. Aug 2022

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

Xen, QEMU update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 4. Aug 2022

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

Work Group Shifts to Feedback Session

Douglas DeMaio 3. Aug 2022

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

MicroOS Install Workshop, Feedback Sessions Planned

Emily Gonyer and Douglas DeMaio 27. Jul 2022

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

Community to celebrate openSUSE Birthday

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jul 2022

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

Community to celebrate openSUSE Birthday

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jul 2022

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

Community Work Group Discusses Next Edition

Douglas DeMaio 20. Jul 2022

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

MicroOS Desktop Use to Help with ALP Feedback

Emily Gonyer and Douglas DeMaio 19. Jul 2022

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

openSUSE Reaches First-Class Support for Nim Language

David Anes and Douglas DeMaio 14. Jul 2022

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

Tumbleweed Gets Vim, Plasma, PipeWire Updates

Douglas DeMaio 8. Jul 2022

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

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2022 Main Track Call For Papers

openSUSE Online Volunteer Team 1. Jul 2022

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

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2022 Logo Competition Announcement

openSUSE Online Volunteer Team 1. Jul 2022

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

OpenSSL, Squid, Dracut Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 30. Jun 2022

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

openSUSE Leap 15.4 release retrospective

Victorhck 28. Jun 2022

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

Hack Week starts Hacking for Humanity next week

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jun 2022

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

Community work group update post oSC22

Lubos Kocman 17. Jun 2022

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

An update from ALP Quality Engineering

Lubos Kocman 16. Jun 2022

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

Community aims to grow communication, marketing team

Douglas DeMaio 15. Jun 2022

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

Leap 15.4 Offers New Features, Familiar Stability

Douglas DeMaio 8. Jun 2022

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

openSUSE’s Brazilian Community to Celebrate Leap Release

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jun 2022

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

Work Groups for ALP Give Updates

Community Work Group 1. Jun 2022

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

Mesa, ImageMagick Packages Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 25. May 2022

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

openSUSE Leap 15.4 Enters Release Candidate Phase

Douglas DeMaio 17. May 2022

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

GCC 12 Becoming Default Compiler in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 13. May 2022

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 6. May 2022

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

LLVM, PipeWire, git update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 21. Apr 2022

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

openSUSE Community Publishes Annual Survey Results

Douglas DeMaio 13. Apr 2022

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

Tumbleweed to Get New Default GCC

Douglas DeMaio 8. Apr 2022

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

Leap Micro Beta Available for Testers

Douglas DeMaio 5. Apr 2022

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

Tumbleweed updates sudo, systemd, ibus

Douglas DeMaio 31. Mar 2022

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

Know the Visa, Health Requirements to Attend oSC22

Douglas DeMaio 30. Mar 2022

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

openSUSE Finalizes New Code of Conduct

Douglas DeMaio 29. Mar 2022

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

Entering Leap Bugs Gains New Clarity

Douglas DeMaio 28. Mar 2022

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

Tumbleweed Gets GNOME 42

Douglas DeMaio 25. Mar 2022

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

openSUSE Selected as Mentor Organization

Douglas DeMaio 8. Mar 2022

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

Tumbleweed Has Six Snapshots, Leap Gets Quarterly Respin

Douglas DeMaio 4. Mar 2022

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

openSUSE Leap 15.4 Reaches Beta Build Phase

Douglas DeMaio 2. Mar 2022

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

Beta Test Leap with Pizza, Friends

Douglas DeMaio 1. Mar 2022

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

Nano, Plasma, TigerVNC update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 25. Feb 2022

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

Call for Papers opens for Summit in Albania

Douglas DeMaio 23. Feb 2022

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

AppArmor, Flatpak, GStreamer update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 18. Feb 2022

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

Latest Plasma Lands in Tumbleweed, Set for Leap Beta

Douglas DeMaio 11. Feb 2022

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

Version Control Tool, IRC Client Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 4. Feb 2022

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

Bash, systemd, libvirt Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 28. Jan 2022

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

Release Manager Gives Community Update On Desktop Environment

Douglas DeMaio 27. Jan 2022

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

openSUSE Gains New Hardware

Douglas DeMaio 25. Jan 2022

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

Tools Strace, BusyBox Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 21. Jan 2022

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

Call for Papers Opens for openSUSE Conference 2022

Douglas DeMaio 18. Jan 2022

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

openSUSE Begins Annual Survey

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jan 2022

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

curl, GNOME, KDE Updates Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 14. Jan 2022

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

openSUSE 15.2 Reached End-of-Life

Community Meeting 13. Jan 2022

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

Frameworks, Gear, Pipewire Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 17. Dec 2021

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 10. Dec 2021

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed Rolls into December

Douglas DeMaio 3. Dec 2021

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

Alpha Releases of openSUSE Leap 15.4 are Available for Testing

Douglas DeMaio 2. Dec 2021

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

Git, curl, systemd Roll with Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Nov 2021

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

MicroOS Expands Security With Keylime

Alberto Planas 24. Nov 2021

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

Ruby, Plasma, GTK Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 19. Nov 2021

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

KDE Gear, GNOME Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 11. Nov 2021

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

Survey Results of Packagers, Maintainers Posted

Douglas DeMaio 10. Nov 2021

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

Project seeks Candidates for openSUSE Board Election

Douglas DeMaio 9. Nov 2021

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

Tumbleweed Snapshots Glide Forward

Douglas DeMaio 4. Nov 2021

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

Leap's First Quarterly Update is Released

Douglas DeMaio 2. Nov 2021

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

VirtualBox, Plasma, systemd Updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 29. Oct 2021

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

KDE Plasma, Gear, Frameworks Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 22. Oct 2021

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

Hospital to run GNU Health, openSUSE

Douglas DeMaio 20. Oct 2021

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

OpenSSH, Squid, PostgreSQL Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 15. Oct 2021

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

Quarterly Respin of openSUSE Leap Images are Coming

Douglas DeMaio 14. Oct 2021

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

GNOME, Salt Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 8. Oct 2021

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

New Survey Aims to Gain Packager, Maintainer Insights

Douglas DeMaio 7. Oct 2021

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

GNOME, Plasma Releases Make Progress While Tumbleweed Rolls

Douglas DeMaio 1. Oct 2021

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

Thunar, Firefox, Python Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 17. Sep 2021

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

KDE Gear, Plasma, systemd Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 10. Sep 2021

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

openSUSE Results from Google Summer of Code

Douglas DeMaio 6. Sep 2021

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

Wireshark, PipeWire, Audacity Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 3. Sep 2021

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

Tumbleweed Updates Kismet, PulseAudio, Python

Douglas DeMaio 25. Aug 2021

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

Tumbleweed Fast Forwards with KDE Gear, Frameworks Updates

Douglas DeMaio 20. Aug 2021

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

Node.js, curl update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 30. Jul 2021

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

Deactivating connect.opensuse.org

Lars Vogdt 26. Jul 2021

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

GNOME, Wireshark update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 23. Jul 2021

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

Leap Gains Maintenance Update Improvements

Douglas DeMaio 19. Jul 2021

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

Tumbleweed Gets RubyGems Updates, New systemd

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jul 2021

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

IRC and Matrix announcements

Neal Gompa 7. Jul 2021

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

VLC, Plasma, PipeWire Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 1. Jul 2021

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

openSUSE.Asia Summit Call For Paper

Shobha Tyagi 28. Jun 2021

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

Survey For openSUSE Leap 15.3 Release Closes

Douglas DeMaio 16. Jun 2021

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

Plasma, Mesa, curl Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 11. Jun 2021

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

Foster openSUSE Leap 15.3 Growth

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jun 2021

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

New Rebuilds Look to Advance New Hardware

Douglas DeMaio 8. Jun 2021

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

Online Open House Goes Over openSUSE, Survey Opens

Douglas DeMaio 4. Jun 2021

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

openSUSE Leap 15.3 Bridges Path to Enterprise

Douglas DeMaio 2. Jun 2021

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

Release Manager Provides Update on Early Features Requisitions for Leap 15.4

Douglas DeMaio 31. May 2021

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

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2021 Logo Competition Announcement

Shobha Tyagi 31. May 2021

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

Mesa, Nodejs, Zstd Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 27. May 2021

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

openSUSE Community Readies for Release Party

Douglas DeMaio 25. May 2021

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

KDE Gear, GTK, Btrfs Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 21. May 2021

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

RealSenseID compatibility with all openSUSE

Alessandro de Oliveira Faria 19. May 2021

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

Mesa, KDE Frameworks, GlusterFS Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 14. May 2021

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

Shells, openSUSE Unite with Partnership

Douglas DeMaio 13. May 2021

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

openSUSE Leap 15.3 Expands with armv7

Douglas DeMaio 12. May 2021

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

LLVM, KDE Gear, GNOME Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 30. Apr 2021

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

openSUSE Leap 15.3 Enters Release Candidate Phase

Douglas DeMaio 28. Apr 2021

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

Tumbleweed Gamers Get Updates of Mesa, Pentobi

Douglas DeMaio 23. Apr 2021

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

GNOME 40, KDE Frameworks, Plasma Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 16. Apr 2021

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

A Message from the openSUSE Board

openSUSE Board 12. Apr 2021

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

Two Tumbleweed Snapshots Update Fetchmail, Mesa, More

Douglas DeMaio 9. Apr 2021

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

Upgrading to the next PostgreSQL version

Lars Vogdt 6. Apr 2021

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

YaST Packages, Nmap Get Updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 1. Apr 2021

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

Entire Rebuild of Tumbleweed Brings Enormous Update

Douglas DeMaio 19. Mar 2021

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

openSUSE Project Selected for Google Summer of Code Mentoring

Douglas DeMaio 11. Mar 2021

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

A Message to the openSUSE Community

Community News Team 10. Mar 2021

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

openSUSE Leap 15.3 Reaches Beta Build Phase

Douglas DeMaio 3. Mar 2021

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

Call for Papers Open for openSUSE Conference

Douglas DeMaio 1. Mar 2021

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

PostgreSQL, GNOME, Rubygems Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Feb 2021

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

Tumbleweed Gets Newest KDE Frameworks, Plasma

Douglas DeMaio 18. Feb 2021

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

All openSUSE Services in Provo database center now support IPv6

Lars Vogdt 18. Feb 2021

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

KDE Applications, systemd update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 12. Feb 2021

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 11. Feb 2021

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

Wayland, firewalld, PulseAudio update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 5. Feb 2021

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

Wayland, firewalld, PulseAudio update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 5. Feb 2021

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

Outreach, Survey Extension Addressed in Second Meetup

Douglas DeMaio 2. Feb 2021

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

Spack is now available in openSUSE Tumbleweed

Ana Guerrero Lopez 1. Feb 2021

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

RubyGems, sudo, libvirt update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 29. Jan 2021

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

Web Development Sprints To Start Next Week

Douglas DeMaio 28. Jan 2021

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

Session One Meetup Generates Enhancements, Actions

Douglas DeMaio 25. Jan 2021

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

GNOME, VLC, Zypper update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jan 2021

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

OAK compatibility with all openSUSE

Alessandro de Oliveira Faria 19. Jan 2021

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

Meetup Will Discuss Survey Results, Project Improvements

Douglas DeMaio 18. Jan 2021

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

Xfce, KDE Packages Flood This Week’s Tumbleweed Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 15. Jan 2021

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

Tumbleweed Rolls Into The New Year

Douglas DeMaio 8. Jan 2021

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

openSUSE Community Publishes End of Year Survey Results

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jan 2021

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

Introducing the openSUSE 2020 End of Year Survey

Adrien Glauser 19. Dec 2020

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

KDE Frameworks, VirtualBox, systemd update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 17. Dec 2020

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

Alpha Releases of openSUSE Leap 15.3 are Available for Testing

Douglas DeMaio 16. Dec 2020

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

openSUSE Leap offers Predictability

Douglas DeMaio 14. Dec 2020

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

Board Elections - Meet the Candidates

Vinzenz Vietzke 14. Dec 2020

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

Tumbleweed Gets PulseAudio 14, Updates for Plasma, Firewalld

Douglas DeMaio 11. Dec 2020

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

Advancing openSUSE Images for The PinePhone

Douglas DeMaio 8. Dec 2020

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

Mojolicious, PHP, grep update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 4. Dec 2020

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

openSUSE Release Team to Share Results from arm Survey in Online Meetup

Douglas DeMaio 1. Dec 2020

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...

GNOME, KDE Frameworks, Mutt update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Nov 2020

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

Xfce Virtual Machine Images For Development

Vinzenz Vietzke 23. Nov 2020

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

News in openSUSE Packaging

Vítězslav Čížek and Kristýna Streitová 23. Nov 2020

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

Two Tumbleweed Snapshots update PostgreSQL, Mesa

Douglas DeMaio 20. Nov 2020

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

openSUSE Board Election 2020 announced

Ish Sookun 16. Nov 2020

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

New AppArmor 3, KDE Applications, GStreamer Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 13. Nov 2020

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

Survey for the future of openSUSE on Arm

Guillaume GARDET 9. Nov 2020

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...

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

Douglas DeMaio 6. Nov 2020

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

openSUSE Developers Kickoff Leap 15.3

Douglas DeMaio 5. Nov 2020

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

PostgreSQL 13, Latest Stable Kernel Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 29. Oct 2020

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

openSUSE Community To Have Kickoff Session for Leap 15.3

Douglas DeMaio 28. Oct 2020

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

Node.js, OpenSSL, Mesa Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 23. Oct 2020

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

Introducing the Open Build Service Connector

The OBS Team 22. Oct 2020

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

Find out more about the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference

Douglas DeMaio 14. Oct 2020

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

Thunderbird, grep, systemd Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 8. Oct 2020

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

Get cool merchandise for upcoming openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference

Mike Saunders 6. Oct 2020

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

Collabora is Diamond Sponsor for openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference 2020

Mike Saunders 28. Sep 2020

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

Tumbleweed Gets New KDE Frameworks, systemd

Douglas DeMaio 24. Sep 2020

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

Feature Requests, Submit Requests for openSUSE Jump Take Shape

Douglas DeMaio 23. Sep 2020

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 17. Sep 2020

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

Conference Organizers Announce Schedule, Platform Registration

Douglas DeMaio 15. Sep 2020

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

openSUSE Projects Support Hacktoberfest Efforts

Douglas DeMaio 14. Sep 2020

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

Firefox, Ceph Major Versions Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 10. Sep 2020

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

Tumbleweed Rises from Rebuilt Packages

Douglas DeMaio 4. Sep 2020

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

Ritchie-CLI for openSUSE

Alessandro de Oliveira Faria 31. Aug 2020

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 28. Aug 2020

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

Tumbleweed rolls out Apache, Wireshark, Nano, Remmina Updates

Douglas DeMaio 20. Aug 2020

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

openSUSE + LibreOffice Virtual Conference Talks Accepted

Douglas DeMaio 18. Aug 2020

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

Participate in Hacktoberfest, Help Develop Contributions

Douglas DeMaio 14. Aug 2020

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 13. Aug 2020

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 10. Aug 2020

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

Skopeo, xxHash, GCC 10.2 are Among Updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 6. Aug 2020

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

oneAPI compatibility with all openSUSE

Alessandro de Oliveira Faria 30. Jul 2020

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

openSUSE + LibreOffice Virtual Conference Extends Call for Papers

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jul 2020

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

GNOME, KDE, libvirt Packages Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 16. Jul 2020

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

Tumbleweed Gets LibreOffice 7, New Breezy Features

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jun 2020

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

openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference Update

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jun 2020

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

Plasma 5.19, Virtualbox, Kernel 5.7.1 update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 16. Jun 2020

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

openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference Will Take Place Online

Douglas DeMaio 2. Jun 2020

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

openSUSE for INNOVATORS Project is born

Alessandro de Oliveira Faria 29. May 2020

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

openSUSE Leap 15.2 Enters Release Candidate Phase

Douglas DeMaio 28. May 2020

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

KDE Applications, Wireshark, IceWM update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 27. May 2020

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

openSUSE Talks at SUSECON Digital

Douglas DeMaio 20. May 2020

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

Cloud based workers for openQA

Guillaume Gardet 20. May 2020

Cloud based workers for openQA For those who do not know openQA, this is an automated test tool for operating systems and the engine at the heart of openSUSE’s automated t...

Remaining openSUSE Services to Switch to New Authentication System

Douglas DeMaio 16. May 2020

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 14. May 2020

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

Community Account Migration

Douglas DeMaio 9. May 2020

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

SUSE carve out affecting openSUSE

Lars Vogdt 7. May 2020

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

QEMU 5, Kismet, BRLTTY Packages Update in Tumbleweed Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 7. May 2020

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

Discuss, Define and be Transparent with the openSUSE-Community

Vincent Moutoussamy 29. Apr 2020

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 16. Apr 2020

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 10. Apr 2020

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

Mesa, Nano, Redis, Git Update in openSUSE Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 4. Apr 2020

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

Listen to your music with mpd and ncmpcpp

Sébastien 'sogal' Poher 31. Mar 2020

In this article, we will discover a softwares trio that will allow you to manage and listen to your music from your terminal: mpd: the music player daemon mpc: a CLI i...

Manage your dotfiles with Git

Sébastien 'sogal' Poher 27. Mar 2020

Dot what ??? What is commonly referred to as dotfiles are all those small plain text files that contain your softwares’ configuration. Most of the time they reside in your...

Kismet, Frameworks Updates Land in openSUSE Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Mar 2020

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

openSUSE Summit Dublin Canceled

Douglas DeMaio 6. Mar 2020

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

Plasma, VIM, Wireshark update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 4. Mar 2020

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

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