Tumbleweed had two snapshot this week and Mesa updated two new minor versions since Saturday’s 20151209 snapshot. The biggest package update for the week was to autofs in ...

The openSUSE.Asia Summit brought people from all over Asia together for one purpose; to share knowledge about open source development and to inform attendees of community i...

Contributors of openSUSE that are not currently members can now apply for membership during a three-week window and can be a part of the changes to come in the project. ...

Today is the beginning of two week-long events that are both exciting and serve a great purpose. This week the Hour of Code begins and the lessons of teaching students to ...

In recent years, many open source people have gravitated away from Google, but while Google’s history may have some shady areas that conflict with open source ideals and ph...

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...

The openSUSE Project has been very busy this week. The project shared a booth with SUSE at the Supercomputing Conference in Austin, Texas, this week. The theme (see phot...

Tumbleweed Two releases snapshots in Tumbleweed brought a new Linux kernel and a web browser update for Mozilla. Firefox updated to version 42 in the 20151110 snapshot an...

While the work week comes to a close, the openSUSE project’s week continues into the weekend. The project will have a booth at Open Rhein Ruhr in Oberhausen, Germany, and ...

Bridging Community and Enterprise (In other languages: EL, LT, SP, FR) The wait is over and a new era begins for openSUSE releases. Contributors, friends and fans can now...

The wait is almost over to download openSUSE Leap 42.1. Next week users worldwide will be able to enjoy the power and stability of openSUSE’s newest release when it is unve...

If you’re a Tumbleweed and KDE aficionado, this is a good day. You’ll see some major updates: Plasma 5.4.2 Frameworks 5.15 Applications 15.08.2...

Leap comes out in 16 days, but before it does, openSUSE will have a Weekend Wikithon Oct. 24 and Oct. 25 to update, delete and refresh content on the openSUSE wiki. Contri...

Tumbleweed Work under the hood in Factory allowed for only one snapshot of Tumbleweed in 10 days, but the 20151012 TW snapshot provided two updates keenly anticipated by r...

The Release Candidate (RC1) of Leap 42.1 is out and with it comes more packages as well as  a new office suite. LibreOffice 5 is in the RC1 and about 400 more packages mad...

Another large Tumbleweed snapshot was release this week and although the frequency of snapshot haven’t been as often as in previous weeks, the recent snapshot provides plen...

We’re pleased to announce that the logo for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2015. The logo comes from Kukuh Syafaat. Congratulations, Kukuh Syafaat!!! A very big thanks from the o...

A large amount of new packages were released in the 20150924 snapshot, which included the highly anticipated update to Mesa 11. KDE Frameworks 5.14 release in the TW snaps...

Yesterday’s release of the first Leap Beta in the 42 series has people excited. Another thing that gets people excited is pizza, so why not combine the two for a Leap Betaf...

Today openSUSE released the Beta of Leap 42.1, providing an all new look that deviates from previous versions. The newest regular release from openSUSE has changes to Grub...

Tumbleweed had no snapshots this week but that doesn’t mean improvements are not taking place. Dominique Leuenberger announced in the Tumbleweed weekly review on the openS...

Time is running out fast!!! We already have an impressive list of proposals, but hey, it does not hurt to be greedy. Submit your proposals for the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2015...

An updated landing page for the openSUSE Project is live and it features 18 different languages to describe the embodiment of the project. New visitors can now easily unde...

After an update to Perl 5.22 and adding Plasma 5.4, Tumbleweed had no snapshots this week but there is one expected within the next few days. The Perl update to 5.22 requi...

The openSUSE.Asia Summit aims to promote Linux in Asia region. This year we are hosting the summit in Taipei City, Taiwan. Study Area, a non-commercial community, aims to e...

The second milestone for openSUSE’s newest distribution Leap was released today and it’s filled with packages that will interest open-source users everywhere and Linux prof...

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...

The SUSE office in Nuremberg, Germany, had a special presentation given by Dominique Leuenberger, last week about the interconnecting points of the openSUSE project. Speci...

The openSUSE.Asia Committee seeks sponsors for the second edition of openSUSE.Asia Summit that will take place in Taipei city, Taiwan from 5th and 6th of December 2015. We ...

The openSUSE.Asia Committee is happy to announce the call for papers upcoming second openSUSE.Asia Summit. Starting today, the Committee is looking forward to see your prop...

Preparations for the openSUSE.Asia Summit are rolling. As we are busy prepping ourselves for this big event, we realized that we need a logo for our very own Summit. Follow...

This week Tumbleweed posted two snapshots in spite of the fact many developers with families had been on holidays before school begins. In those two snapshots, there were ...

We are happy to announce the second openSUSE.Asia Summit following a glorious successful first edition. The conference will take place in Taiwan at National Taipei Universi...

Tumbleweed had four snapshots since our last weekly review, upgraded to a newer Kernel and has the latest LibreOffice 5, while Leap’s roadmap was published and version 42 i...

Leap roadmap details released The second milestone for openSUSE’s newest distribution Leap is scheduled for release Sept. 4. The release of the milestone will start to al...

There were multiple things that happened this week with openSUSE, but rather than making each happening a short snippet of information on news.opensuse.org, we felt it best...

openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed posted six snapshot updates this past week following the release of Leap’s first milestone. The only day a snapshot was not posted ...

The newest openSUSE release Leap 42.1, which is based on core SUSE Linux Enterprise source code, has just released its first development milestone. Milestone is being used...

Leap’s milestone is inching ever so close to being released. The milestone is very close to being released, but it won’t come out today. The timeline for the development o...

A job announcement for a Release Engineer for openSUSE was published today and it offers a unique challenge, which sounds pretty cool. The optional bonus challenges to be i...

Since our last update on news.opensuse.org about Tumbleweed, a lot has happened. The rolling release now uses GCC 5 for the compiler. There was a large chunk of bugfixes an...

Developing Leap 42.1 is happening quickly and it was announced yesterday that the milestone was being built.The first milestone will hopefully be released this week. Leap i...

Roadmap questions answered Deep thought and some additional core SUSE Linux Enterprise source code have given The openSUSE Project a path forward for future releases. The...

Developers waiting for a new compiler in Tumbleweed need to wait no more. The newest GNU Compiler Collection was checked in today to openSUSE Factory, which is the rollin...

Update: The migration of the openSUSE Mailing Lists has been finished successfully. If you encounter any issues, please let us know by mail to admin@opensuse.org. On Tuesd...

An estimated 45,000 students from a province in Indonesia have enhanced their education and computer-usage knowledge through a pilot  program using Linux and openSUSE that ...

The GCC 5 compiler is gradually making its way to be the default compiler for Tumbleweed, but until then, GCC4 is it. There is a blockage in the build caused by what some b...

[caption id=”attachment_19234” align=”alignright” width=”300”] The latest and greatest desktop tech from the KDE community[/caption] At the time of writing this, the openQ...

The spirit of last month’s Hackweek is still alive and well and it’s about time we review some of the projects from openSUSE’s Hackweek. The first project I want to highli...

A warm and green hello to all of the geekosphere! Last month’s screenshot contest was a complete success! Our geeko friends submitted twice the usual amount of screenshots...

The community kicked off the first day of the openSUSE Conference in The Hague, Netherlands, with tons of exciting news about project. Keynote speaker Markus Feilner gave ...

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/embed/ON50p0jLn98[/embed] In just a few days, Geekos will kick off the openSUSE Conference in The Hague, Netherlands. There is much to be e...

by Alex Vennos What is OSEM? OSEM is an event management web application, tailored to the needs of FOSS conferences. You can visit //osem.io/ to find out more about it. ...

Hack Week, a week where openSUSE/SUSE hackers experiment without limits! It’s the opportunity to innovate, collaborate across teams, and learn. The only rule is: Do what yo...

Firefox 37 is in the latest Tumbleweed, but there are plenty of other updates that make this snapshot unique. One update that is eye catching in this snapshot is that in Fi...

It’s official, Gnome will be in the next Tumbleweed snapshot and the development experience is highly anticipated. A clean installation works, but the guys are working on o...

[caption id=”attachment_18545” align=”alignright” width=”300”] Submit proposals for the openSUSE Asia Summit 2015[/caption] The openSUSE.Asia organization committee is inv...

The openSUSE Conference starts in The Hague in one month, and for those who are planning their presentations, we thought we would save you a little bit of time by providing...

Greetings, green portion of the GNU/Linux web! It’s been a while since you last heard from us, so let’s say we give you something special this time around. All of us users...

The conference date is right around the corner. Part of schedule is out and the organization is running to have everything settled to host visitors and organize the best op...

For those of you attending the openSUSE Conference in The Hague, we recommend these affordable lodging accommodations for your visit. Hotel Van der Valk Hotel Den Haag ...

Get ready for a good time in April and a flashback to old times. openSUSE will have Hackweek April 13 - 17 and everyone is welcome to participate. All participant will rec...

For people planning on attending the openSUSE Conference in The Hague, Netherlands from May 1 - 4 who are not citizen of the European Union, it’s a good idea to start think...

Distrowatch will be changing its color scheme for remarks on Tumbleweed from red to green. Snapshots for Tumbleweed have included Kernel 3.19 as it was the first distro to ...

It has been a while since we reported about YaST in this site. This post in Spanish from fellow openSUSE blogger Victorhck has inspired us to write about some exciting news...

openSUSE Conference 2015 As you may already know, the Travel Support Program (TSP) provides travel sponsorships to openSUSE community who want to attend the openSUSE con...

By Bruno Friedmann Hi Geekos, here is a small summary of our Thursday February 19th openSUSE miniSummit event here at SCALE 13x. Located in Century AB room, a 80 seats ro...

February 14 is a day to express your love for others and in keeping with that theme, openSUSE extends its gratitude toward the organizations and people who make Free and ...

The latest snapshot release of Tumbleweed provides a temporary root file system initrd in preparation to mount a real root file system. Version 14.158 of initrd-openSUSE u...

From retro gaming to Linux Professional Institute exams, this year’s openSUSE Conference is shaping up to be full of fun, knowledge and entertainment. Security Lock picki...

The votes have been cast and the results are in for the openSUSE elections. There were three seats to be fill this election for a standard two-year (24-month) term : Ro...

We are making another call for papers for this year’s openSUSE Conference in The Hague, the Netherlands between 1 and 4th May 2015. Now is your chance to submit your propo...

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 ...

The latest snapshot release of Tumbleweed has several updates. We dub this as the ‘KDE Applications 14.12 snapshot’ for Tumbleweed since many are related to 14.12. Here ar...

The voting polls are open. The openSUSE board election has started and all openSUSE members are eligible to cast their vote. The board consist of one appointed chairperson...

Canadian… Who is it? Aaron Seigo. The open-source guru confirmed Tuesday that he will provide the keynote speech at oSC15 in The Hague, Netherlands, which happens from M...

Hello Westvliet, goodbye BINK36, in with the new, out with the old. For the second time, Dutch legislation is impacting oSC15; we are obviously very important! What Happ...

Geekos are kicking off 2015 events in Southern California with an openSUSE Mini Summit @ SCALE. To attend the free openSUSE Mini Summit, you must buy a SCALE ticket; regist...

Hi there, geekos! You’ve probably read about openSUSE being touted as a “king of KDE distros”, with reviewers and journalists emphasizing the projects commitment to a uniq...

AppArmor updated to version 2.9.1 and has numerous improvements and bug fixes made to python tools. It has a fix log parsing for 3.16 kernels and syslog-style logs. Digika...