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Call for Papers, Registration Opens for openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference

Douglas DeMaio 14. Feb 2020

Planning for the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference has begun and members of the open-source communities can now register for the conference. The Call for Papers is open and...

New IP addresses for build.opensuse.org

Lars Vogdt 3. Feb 2020

During the maintenance window this Thursday (2020-02-06) we will move the IPv4 and IPv6 address of build.opensuse.org. The new addresses are: 195.135.221.162 ...

Using Tilix – Part 2 on openSUSE

Douglas DeMaio 3. Feb 2020

Last week, we introduced Tilix and started exploring its basics, let’s now familiarize ourselves with the advanced features of Tilix, namely: Management of bookmar...

openSUSE to have Summit in Dublin

Douglas DeMaio 16. Oct 2019

The openSUSE Community is going to Ireland March 27 and 28, 2020, for openSUSE Summit Dublin. Registration for the summit has begun and the Call for Papers is open until F...

Kata Containers Packages are Available officially in openSUSE Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 17. Aug 2019

Kata Containers is an open source container runtime that is crafted to seamlessly plug into the containers ecosystem. We are now excited to announce that the Kata Contai...

First Phase for openSUSE Conference Talks Begins

Douglas DeMaio 13. Feb 2019

openSUSE is pleased to announce the first phase for accepting talks for the openSUSE Conference 2019 (oSC19) has begun. A total of 80 talks were submitted during the call ...

openSUSE Develops Legal Review System

Douglas DeMaio 8. Nov 2018

The open-source community has a new project designed to help Linux/GNU distributions with the legal review process of licenses. The new project called Cavil is legal revie...

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 ...

openSUSE Heroes ♥ Let's Encrypt™ - Expect certificate exchange

Thorsten Bro 19. Apr 2018

Maybe some of you noticed, that our certificate *.opensuse.org on many of services will expire soon (on 2018-04-23). As we noticed that - as well - we decided to put a b...

Project Selected as Mentoring Organization for Google Summer of Code

Douglas DeMaio 14. Feb 2018

Let the fun begin! This week it was announced that the openSUSE Project is one of the 212 mentoring organization for this year’s Google Summer of Code, which is an annual i...

cPanel Provides Project with Network Cards

Douglas DeMaio 18. Jan 2018

The hosting platform cPanel has provided the openSUSE Project with two new network cards to assist the project with its infrastructure needs. The network cards will soon b...

SUSE Studio online + Open Build Service = SUSE Studio Express

Douglas DeMaio 4. Oct 2017

Merging SUSE Studio and Open Build Service Written by Andreas Jaeger SUSE Studio was launched in 2009 to make building images really easy. Nowadays, images are used every...

OBS got the power!

Lars Vogdt 25. Feb 2017

One year after introducing a new kind of Open Build Service worker machines, the “lambkins”, the openSUSE Build Service got a big hardware refresh. The new machines, spon...

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...

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...

Introducing: openSUSE heroes

Lars Vogdt 25. Jul 2016

During the last weeks, the openSUSE board and others expressed their concern about the current state of some openSUSE infrastructure: especially the reaction times to chang...

New workers get Tumbleweed rolling

Douglas DeMaio 25. Feb 2016

openQA workers that keep Tumbleweed tested and rolling have almost been replenished. The new hardware can run more workers and is newer, bigger and faster, which increases...

OBS welcomes new lambkins

Lars Vogdt 27. Jan 2016

The openSUSE build service becomes more and more a victim of his success: building constantly more than 300,000 packages for more than 43,000 developers needs really a lot ...

Sometimes you need some luck (was: build.opensuse.org downtime)

Henne Vogelsang 24. Apr 2014

A morning you love as admin: starting with one single disk in your storage array failing, ending up in a whole array crashing. The storage array running behind the backend...

Bodega, app stores and the Open Build Service

Jos Poortvliet 3. Apr 2014

Welcome to the Bodega store! Bodega is a project making use of the Open Build Service. Aside from that, there are many other connections between the Bodega team and openS...

SUSE Speeds up Building AArch64 Software in QEMU

Jos Poortvliet 1. Oct 2013

Following the announcement of much improved Raspberry Pi support, there is more news coming from the openSUSE ARM team! The SUSE team has been developing an AArch64 port o...

Help Wanted: openSUSE Review Team

Lars Vogdt 28. Aug 2013

The openSUSE Review Team is interested in adding 1 to 2 new members to the team.  This person will review submissions to opnSUSE Factory that will improve the quality of ...

Server outages the coming days

Jos Poortvliet 18. May 2013

Believe it or not: a car crashed into the Nuremberg SUSE office building. Our geekos are fine but the power will have to be shut down so repairs can take place. You can exp...

Open Build Service version 2.4 released

Henne Vogelsang 30. Apr 2013

Over at openbuildservice.org they have released the Open Build Service (OBS) version 2.4 which supports yet another package format (Arch’s PKGBUILD), secure boot signing,...

OBS Gaining More Power

Jos Poortvliet 23. Apr 2013

In the last weeks, the Open Build Service has received support from several sponsors. SUSE brought in a new, powerful x86 compute rack, ARM support was beefed up with Samsu...

SUSE sponsors new hardware for the Open Build Service

Henne Vogelsang 8. Apr 2013

Over the last year, the Open Build Service (OBS) reference server, a service to build and distribute packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way,...

openSUSE Factory Moving: Milestone 0 Ready for Feedback!

Jos Poortvliet 3. Oct 2012

Good news! openSUSE Milestone 0 of openSUSE 12.3 is out! While we’re still discussing the schedule and won’t be deciding anything before the openSUSE Conference in Prague ...

Downtime of parts of build.opensuse.org on 2012-05-23

Andreas Jaeger 23. May 2012

The storage backend of the openSUSE Build Service at build.opensuse.org is causing again problems. Server side builds will not be enabled for now. The outage will be for a...

Open Build Service version 2.3 released

Andreas Jaeger 3. May 2012

Open Build Service is a generic system to build and distribute packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. OBS 2.3 brings the functionality to m...

Open Build Service Delivers Website Integration

Jos Poortvliet 4. Apr 2012

The Open Build Service, a system to collaboratively build and easily distribute packages for a wide variety of operating systems and platforms, has introduced the ability t...

openSUSE renames OBS

Jos Poortvliet 26. May 2011

The openSUSE Build Service Team has decided to rename its cutting-edge packaging- and distribution build technology to Open Build Service. The new name, while maintaining t...

Build Service team releases new versions fixing security problems

News Team 2. Mar 2011

The openSUSE Build Service team has released verison 2.0.8 and 2.1.6. of OBS. Both versions are fixing a critical security leak which can be miss-used to modify projects or...

OBS Books Project

News Team 18. Jan 2011

openSUSE Build Service (OBS) has a problem. It is horrible powerful, but no one knows. Or no one knows how to make use of it in short. Our documentation exists only in the...

The openSUSE Build Service 2.1 released

Andreas Jaeger 19. Oct 2010

The openSUSE Build Service - OBS - is  now officially at release 2.1. We’re delighted with the improvements in  this release, including an enhanced web interface, inte...

Easily Building Software for Multiple Distributions and Platforms

Jos Poortvliet 20. Sep 2010

In a little over a month, the openSUSE conference 2010 will start under the title “collaboration accross borders”. This article highlights one of the main topics at this co...

openSUSE Build Service 1.8 and 2.0 Announced

Andreas Jaeger 9. Jun 2010

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.8 and 2.0 releases of the openSUSE Build Service (OBS). It is an open package and distribution development platform that pro...

openSUSE Build Service 2.0 Beta1 Release Brings New User Interface

Andreas Jaeger 25. May 2010

The openSUSE Build Service (obs) is an open package and distribution development platform that provides a transparent infrastructure that allows developers to build for var...

OBS MeeGo Developer Meeting

News Team 19. Apr 2010

OBS Developers from MeeGo project visited the SUSE OBS Developers in Nürnberg on friday and saturday. Not everybody managed to come due to the ash over europe, but at least...

openSUSE Build Service 1.7.2 Released

News Team 11. Mar 2010

The openSUSE Build Service team is happy to announce the availability of OBS 1.7.2. This release brings beside bug fixes also some new features back ported from master bra...

openSUSE Build Service 1.7 now available

News Team 9. Feb 2010

Today, the openSUSE Build Service team released the latest version of the openSUSE Build Service, a tool that provides software developers with the ability to create and re...

openSUSE Build Service 1.7 RC 1

News Team 4. Feb 2010

We are happy to announce that we reached a state which can be considered as final version of 1.7.0. No more changes, except for the version number are planned until 1.7.0 ...

openSUSE releases the openSUSE Build Service(OBS) Beta 2 today

News Team 18. Jan 2010

This release is now feature complete and also the API should be final by now. Biggest changes since beta 1 are: Switch to Ruby on Rails 2.3.5 The branch...

OBS supports new branch and merge handling

News Team 11. Jan 2010

Michael Schröder put some effort into supporting a new way of doing a branch and merge of a package with openSUSE Build Service (OBS). This is a new feature of OBS 1.7 rele...

openSUSE Build Service 1.5 Announced

News Team 19. Mar 2009

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.5 release of the openSUSE Build Service. This release takes developers beyond just building packages. You can now build your...

Wanted: Build Service Contributors

News Team 15. Jan 2009

Have you ever wanted to join Build Service development, but you had no idea what to implement? Would you like a real opportunity to learn Ruby on Rails? This is a great tim...

openSUSE Webclient Survey Started

Andreas Jaeger 17. Oct 2008

Today we started an openSUSE Build Service Webclient online survey. We want to get more informations about the openSUSE Build Service Webclient users, the used hard and sof...

openSUSE Build Service Did It!

News Team 22. Sep 2008

The openSUSE 11.1 beta 1 release marks a significant change for openSUSE. For the first time in 11 years, a SUSE release was not built in the SUSE internal AutoBuild servi...

openSUSE Build Service 1.0 Released

News Team 9. Jul 2008

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.0 release of the openSUSE Build Service. The 1.0 release provides all the features necessary to support building openSUSE in...

openSUSE Build Service 1.0 RC 1 released

News Team 11. Jun 2008

The openSUSE Project has released the first release candidate of the openSUSE Build Service 1.0. With the release candidate, all the features are now in place to support ex...

KDevelop and the openSUSE Build Service

News Team 4. Jun 2008

Building packages for multiple distros can be a major pain – which is why we provide the openSUSE Build Service. One of the Build Service’s many features is the ability to ...

Games in the openSUSE Build Service

News Team 30. Apr 2008

Hello avid gamers and game developers! We decided to restructure and cleanup the games projects in the openSUSE Build Service. Before the change we had 8 projects for e...

openSUSE Project Releases Major Update to openSUSE Build Service

News Team 16. Apr 2008

The openSUSE team is proud to announce another major release of the openSUSE Build Service (OBS). This release brings a new level to OBS scalability by adding the ability f...

openSUSE Build Service Expands Support to Red Hat and CentOS

News Team 24. Jan 2008

The openSUSE Build Service, an innovative framework that provides an infrastructure for software developers to easily create and compile packages for multiple Linux distrib...

openSUSE Build Service Version 0.5 (Poinsettia) Available

News Team 21. Dec 2007

The openSUSE project releases the version 0.5 of the openSUSE Build Service. This code drop does provide the functionality as provided on build.opensuse.org the first time...

Another Step in Connecting the Worlds of Users And Developers

News Team 18. Dec 2007

As you know for sure ;), the openSUSE Build Service (OBS) shall connect the complete different worlds of End-Users and developers/packager. This does of course already work...

Software for Millions

admin 13. Dec 2007

Klaas wrote an article about the openSUSE Build Service that got published in the german edition of Linux Magazin. Everyone able to read german go here. It covers general ...

Novell Open Audio: AutoBuild/Build Service

News Team 29. Nov 2007

As part of their openSUSE release series, Novell Open Audio has talked to Michael Schröder and Andreas Bauer about the openSUSE Build Service, our powerful cross-distribu...

Updated Build Service Roadmap Published

News Team 16. Oct 2007

An updated Roadmap for the openSUSE Build Service has been published. It outlines the development targets until the fourth quarter of 2008. Please understand the dates as t...

openSUSE Build Service Gains Momentum with AMD Sponsorship

News Team 7. Aug 2007

As announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, AMD has been unveiled as a Platinum Sponsor of openSUSE providing it with powerful infrastructure upon which the openS...

Nice Trick to Use api.opensuse.org Native With KDE Apps

News Team 18. Jul 2007

People who are using curl and some editor to download files from api.opensuse.org, edit them and upload them again via curl should have a look on the simple kwrite applicat...

Release Management Support for openSUSE Build Service

News Team 18. Jul 2007

The openSUSE Build Service allows from now on more control about what to do with built packages. You can for example switch of the publishing of packages to the ftp server ...

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