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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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, ...

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 ...

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...

KDE and openSUSE: Plasma 5.17, Qt 5.14 and more

Douglas DeMaio 10. Oct 2019

It’s been way too long since the last blog post, so we’ve got quite a lot to report on! Plasma 5.17 Beta The Beta version of Plasma 5.17 was released with many new featur...

Tumbleweed Snapshots Trending High with Bash, PulseAudio, Curl Updates

Douglas DeMaio 26. Sep 2019

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released this week brought about two dozen new versions of software. The snapshots brought one new major version update for pulseaudio ...

InfinityBook Pro 13 as an important part of the openSUSE reference tests

Douglas DeMaio 15. May 2019

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

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019 Bali: Call for proposals is Open

Douglas DeMaio 1. May 2019

The openSUSE.Asia Committee call for proposals for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019 is now open. openSUSE.Asia Summit is one of the great events for openSUSE community (i.e., bot...

Return of the Rodents: Xfce is back in openSUSE Tumbleweed Installer

Douglas DeMaio 10. Apr 2019

We are very pleased to announce that installing the lightweight and slim desktop environment Xfce in openSUSE Tumbleweed just got faster and hassle-free! Along with GNOME ...

Major Version Updates of Bash, libvirt, OpenConnect Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 7. Feb 2019

Another three snapshots were released this week for openSUSE Tumbleweed bringing updates for ImageMagick, Mesa, Apache, Ceph, Flatpak Builder, Python and more. Plus, new ma...

Gimp Goes Vertical, OSTree Preps for Changes with systemd

Douglas DeMaio 22. Nov 2018

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 19. Oct 2018

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

KDE and openSUSE: Plasma 5.14, Qt 5.12 and more

Douglas DeMaio 17. Oct 2018

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 28. Sep 2018

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 14. Sep 2018

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

Hexchat, Duplicity Among Packages Updated in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 6. Sep 2018

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

Tumbleweed Snapshots Bring Changes for KVM, QEMU, Xen

Douglas DeMaio 23. Aug 2018

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

openSUSE Kubic Moves in a New Direction

Douglas DeMaio 9. Aug 2018

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jul 2018

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

Krita, GNOME Builder, FFmpeg Get Updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 5. Jul 2018

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

syslog-ng vs. systemd’s journald

Douglas DeMaio 30. Apr 2018

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

Tumbleweed Gets New Mesa, KDE Frameworks, GNOME Packages

Douglas DeMaio 26. Apr 2018

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

Krita, Linux Kernel, KDEConnect Get Updated in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 20. Apr 2018

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

Tumbleweed Starts Week with Plasma, DigiKam Updates

Douglas DeMaio 6. Apr 2018

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

Tumbleweed Now Has Ratings for Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 29. Mar 2018

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

Plasma 5.12 Brings Wayland to Leap

Douglas DeMaio 8. Feb 2018

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

New Python3, LibreOffice, Google RE2 Packages Released in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 11. Jan 2018

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

Future Tumbleweed Snapshot to Bring YaST Changes

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jan 2018

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

Update to Kernel 4.14 Among This Week’s Tumbleweed Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 23. Nov 2017

The past week brought new features to openSUSE Tumbleweed with a snapshot that included Linux Kernel 4.14. New features like HDMI Consumer Electronics Control support for R...

From Drivers to Kernel, A Week Full of Tumbleweed Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 3. Nov 2017

There has been an openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot every day this week and KDE Frameworks along with AppArmor and Plasma began a week full of new software releases for openSUSE...

Plasma 5.11, GNOME 3.26.1 Land in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 12. Oct 2017

The week has been pretty exciting for desktop enthusiast running openSUSE Tumbleweed since two of this week’s snapshots delivered new versions of GNOME and KDE respectively...

Tumbleweed Goes Astronomical

Douglas DeMaio 5. Oct 2017

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

Catching up with Tumbleweed Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 24. Aug 2017

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

Tumbleweed Snapshots Update AppStream, Mesa, Frameworks

Douglas DeMaio 13. Jul 2017

This past week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have produced several fixes and improvements, including some for KDE users and those using AMD hardware. Mesa 17.1.4 was amo...

Plasma, Ceph, Git Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 6. Jul 2017

Plasma 5.10.3, Ceph, Git and LibreOffice 5.4.0.1 are among the top package to arrive in openSUSE Tumbleweed this week. A total of six openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots arrived...

GStreamer, Mesa Packages Updated in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 29. Jun 2017

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week brought a few major release packages and a clear example for how the automated testing tool openQA  can prevents a snapshot fr...

GNU Compiler Collection 7 Now openSUSE Tumbleweed Default

Douglas DeMaio 1. Jun 2017

The default compiler for openSUSE Tumbleweed became GNU Compiler Collection 7 after the release of snapshot 20170529 making openSUSE the first major distribution to have th...

Tumbleweed Snapshots Update Fonts, Perl, Python Packages

Douglas DeMaio 27. Apr 2017

openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week gave many newer versions of Perl and Python packages, but several other packages were updated in the repositories including some ope...

Samba, Ceph, LightDM Update in Tumbleweed Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 20. Apr 2017

Snapshots released the past two weeks of openSUSE Tumbleweed have slowed down a bit, but new software continues to be updated in the five snapshots that have been release s...

GNU Health, openSUSE Pioneer Shift in Healthcare Management

Douglas DeMaio 13. Mar 2017

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

Systemd Gets Important Commit in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 9. Mar 2017

A total of five snapshots this week brought openSUSE Tumbleweed users and developers several new packages and an important systemd commit. Topping this week’s updates were...

Tumbleweed Snapshots Bring Users New Vulkan, 4.9.7 Kernel

Douglas DeMaio 9. Feb 2017

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

New systemd, Plasma 5.9 Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 2. Feb 2017

Another busy week for openSUSE Tumbleweed brought several new packages in the rolling release along with Plasma 5.9 and systemd 232. The most recent snapshot, 20170131, ad...

GNOME, Notmuch update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 15. Dec 2016

To state that not much has been happening in openSUSE Tumbleweed is an understatement as there were seven snapshot this week. Life, however, is full of surprises and irony...

Git, Kernels, LightDM, More update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 8. Dec 2016

Many packages made it into openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week and two minor kernel versions were just a couple of the several updates that landed in the repositories. ...

MJ Technology Tablet has openSUSE, Dual Boot

Douglas DeMaio 22. Nov 2016

It’s official; the Warrior Tablet made by MJ Technology and powered by openSUSE is ready for the world; now it just needs funding through an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign...

Mesa 13 Arrives in Tumbleweed with New Kernel

Douglas DeMaio 10. Nov 2016

This week has been a bit hectic with dramatic change affecting people around the world, but openSUSE  Tumbleweed users who are use to change can find some clarity in the ch...

Tumbleweed brings Halloween Treats

Douglas DeMaio 3. Nov 2016

A new framework for desktop applications on Linux has been added to Tumbleweed and now users can enjoy the most up-to-date version of Flatpak. Flatpak 0.6.13 arrived in th...

GNOME 3.22 Streamlines Into Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 23. Sep 2016

Less than 48 hours from when GNOME’s release team unveiled version 3.22 (Karlsruhe), openSUSE Tumbleweed users are getting the full upstream experience of the latest GNOME....

Ceph, Git, YaST, kernel update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 24. Aug 2016

openSUSE Tumbleweed had another abundant week of snapshots. Four Tumbleweed snapshots were released since the last article and the snapshot of the week, 20160816, brought ...

Six Tumbleweed snapshots roll, update systemd, xen, Firefox

Douglas DeMaio 17. Aug 2016

Snapshot 20160808 brought openSUSE Tumbleweed users Plasma 5.72 shortly after last week’s article was published, but it didn’t last long. This week Tumbleweed appears to h...

Tumbleweed gets three snapshots, Leap deadline approaches

Douglas DeMaio 10. Aug 2016

Since the release of Linux Kernel 4.7 in the 20160730 snapshot, which brought lengthy email discussions about out-of-tree and third-party drivers on the Factory mailing lis...

Tumbleweed updates bash, KDE, new Kernel coming soon

Douglas DeMaio 20. Jul 2016

There is a lot of excitement around the latest openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots because of new KDE features and the newest stable Linux Kernel, which is expected in the next s...

SoftIron CEO announces new ARM server running openSUSE Leap

Douglas DeMaio 24. Jun 2016

[caption id=”attachment_19978” align=”alignright” width=”300”] Chief Executive Officer of SoftIron, Norman Fraser, Ph.D., provides the keynote talk at the openSUSE Conferen...

Tumbleweed changes fonts, Leap gets several updates

Douglas DeMaio 27. Nov 2015

Tumbleweed had one snapshot so far this week that brought more appeal to users of openSUSE. Snapshot 20151123 changed fonts for openSUSE. The terminal font changed to Adob...

Tumbleweed gets three snapshots this week

Douglas DeMaio 3. Sep 2015

During the past week, Tumbleweed had three snapshots and two packages updated to major versions. Perl’s update to version 5.22 in the 20150828 snapshot was perhaps the big...

Visit openSUSE at FOSDEM

Douglas DeMaio 23. Jan 2015

FOSDEM is here once again and openSUSE will be there for all the madness that will take place next Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Geekos will discuss everything you want to ...

Roundup of recent Tumbleweed highlights

Douglas DeMaio 15. Dec 2014

Here are some highlights from the most recent Tumbleweed snapshot. Mozilla Firefox updated to 34.0.5 from 33.1. The default search engine changed to Yahoo for North Americ...

This weeks highlights in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 5. Dec 2014

Here are some highlights from this week’s Tumbleweed snapshot. The default kernel has upgraded from 3.17.2 to 3.17.4 and several enhancements have been made to the Btrfs c...

Tumbleweed, Factory rolling releases to merge

Douglas DeMaio 24. Oct 2014

With the release of openSUSE 13.2 in November, two of openSUSE’s open-source projects, the ‘Tumbleweed’ and ‘Factory’ rolling releases will be merging, and offered as a s...

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