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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...

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...

Using Tilix - Part 1 on openSUSE

Douglas DeMaio 27. Jan 2020

Today we present Tilix, a tiling terminal emulator, and share some tips that make this terminal an excellent tool for all users especially system administrators. As a remin...

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...

New 4.0.2 Version of Uyuni is Released

Douglas DeMaio 2. Aug 2019

Contributors of Uyuni Project have released a new version of Uyuni 4.0.2, which is an open-source infrastructure management solution tailored for software-defined infrast...

Leap 15.1 Beta Pizza Party

Douglas DeMaio 22. Feb 2019

Hunt for bugs & have a lot of fun! The release manager for openSUSE Leap announced that Leap 15.1 entered its Beta phase this week and that means it’s time for a Bet...

Tumbleweed Gets New grep, Linux Kernel 4.20

Douglas DeMaio 25. Jan 2019

A total of two snapshots have arrived in openSUSE Tumbleweed since last week’s article about the rolling release. The two snapshots delivered new versions of grep, VLC, KD...

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...

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...

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 ...

Tumbleweed Delivers New Kernel, Applications, Plasma, libvirt

Douglas DeMaio 20. Jun 2018

The past week brought a total of three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots and a bunch of new features and improvements for KDE users. Snapshot 20180618 updated just a few packa...

openSUSE Releases Leap 15 Images for Raspberry Pi, Armv7 Devices

Douglas DeMaio 14. Jun 2018

The release of openSUSE Leap 15 two weeks ago is following up with its Build to Scale theme by offering images for Raspberry Pis, Beagle Boards, Arndale board, CuBox-i comp...

Uyuni: Forking Spacewalk with Salt and Containers

Douglas DeMaio 26. May 2018

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Members of a new open source community project called Uyuni announced today at openSUSE Conference that a fork of the open-source systems managem...

Based on Enterprise Code, Tested Millions of Times: openSUSE Leap 15 released

Douglas DeMaio 25. May 2018

EN, CA, CZ, DE, ES, JA, PL, PT-BR, ZH, ZH-TW Fresh community build on top of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 brings huge variety of newest software, easy migration to SLE, transa...

Transactional Updates in openSUSE Leap 15

Douglas DeMaio 15. May 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 packages...

Status update for openSUSE Conference

Douglas DeMaio 14. May 2018

The openSUSE Conference is right around the corner and attendees list keeps growing for oSC18, which will take place May 25 - 27 at the Faculty of Information Technologies ...

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...

openSUSE Leap 15 Release Scheduled for May 25

Douglas DeMaio 18. Apr 2018

The release of openSUSE Leap 15 is scheduled to be release during the first day of this year’s openSUSE Conference in Prague, Czech Republic on May 25. The package submiss...

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...

Tumbleweed Has Updates for Frameworks, Applications, Plasma

Douglas DeMaio 22. Feb 2018

The were plenty of updated packages in openSUSE Tumbleweed this week and KDE updates were made available for Frameworks, Applications and Plasma. While the most recent sna...

Freetype, Flatpak, Sysdig Receive Updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 15. Feb 2018

The streak of six Tumbleweed snapshots continued this a week as openSUSE’s rolling release has provided a consistent release of six snapshots per week this year. There wer...

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...

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...

openSUSE Leap 15 Reaches Beta Phase Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 31. Jan 2018

The development version of openSUSE Leap 15 has reached its beta phase builds and snapshots are available for testers via //download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.0/iso...

openSUSE 42.2 to Reach End-of-Life This Week

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jan 2018

The minor release of openSUSE Leap 42.2 will reach its End-of-Life (EOL) this week on Jan. 26. The EOL phase ends the updates to the operating system, and those who contin...

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...

Current Status: openSUSE and "Spectre" & "Meltdown" vulnerabilities

Richard Brown 4. Jan 2018

Hi folks, By now you probably heard about the new “Spectre” and “Meltdown” side channel attacks against current processors. openSUSE, same as almost all other current ope...

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...

Start Using Qt 5.10 Beta in KDE Unstable repositories: Krypton and Argon

Douglas DeMaio 20. Oct 2017

The Qt project has recently released the first beta version of Qt 5.10. This release brings a lot of new features, such as initial support for Vulkan, text to speech functi...

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...

Special Edition Highlights openSUSE, KDE

Douglas DeMaio 11. Oct 2017

Getting the masses to move to a Linux distribution can be challenging, but the openSUSE Project is doing its part to get people started with open-source software. Members ...

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...

New KDE Applications, PulseAudio Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 14. Sep 2017

The last openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot has arrived and brought the newest version of KDE Applications as well as a new PulseAudio version. KDE Applications 17.08.1 was rele...

Refresh of Linux Distribution Continues Leveraging Community, Enterprise Benefits

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jul 2017

(Languages: DE, ES, FR, IT, ZH, zh_TW) openSUSE Leap 42.3 Gives Smooth Desktop and Server Upgrade The openSUSE Project released openSUSE Leap 42.3 today bringing the comm...

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...

Conference Talks Uploaded, Stream is Live

Douglas DeMaio 27. May 2017

This year’s openSUSE Conference has so far been a blast and the talks  from Day 1 of the conference have already been uploaded to the openSUSETV YouTube channel. For the p...

Newest GNOME, KDE, Kernel Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 6. Apr 2017

Eighteen openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots brought several new packages to users last month, which included both  GNOME 3.24 and KDE Plasma 5.9.4. GNOME 3.24 received most of ...

openSUSE Leap 42.2 gets 64-bit Raspberry Image

Douglas DeMaio 5. Dec 2016

Release also includes support for ARMv7 The latest release from openSUSE has new images available for the Raspberry Pi and joins SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspber...

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...

Optimal Release for Linux Professionals Arrives with openSUSE Leap 42.2

Douglas DeMaio 16. Nov 2016

**A Professional Distribution for Developers, System Administrators and Users ** (Languages: CZ, DE, EN, ES, FR, IT, JA, LT, TW) Members of the openSUSE Project ar...

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...

Last Release Candidate for openSUSE Leap 42.2 Released

Douglas DeMaio 2. Nov 2016

The development cycle for openSUSE Leap 42.2 Release Candidates (RC) is coming to an end. RC2, which will be followed by the stable release of openSUSE Leap 42.2 on Nov. 1...

Release Candidate Available for openSUSE Leap 42.2

Douglas DeMaio 18. Oct 2016

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the availability of the openSUSE Leap 42.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). Since mid-May, the project has been guiding the developme...

openSUSE Releases Leap Beta, Modifies Road Map

Douglas DeMaio 31. Aug 2016

Official Release Scheduled for Nov. 16 Software testers and Linux enthusiasts can now get the Beta release of openSUSE Leap 42.2, which was released today. “Leap is for p...

openSUSE offers choices for KDE Git builds

Douglas DeMaio 19. Feb 2016

Gravitational waves might be the cause of two new live image, spin off projects released today by members of the openSUSE community. The release of Argon, which is a live ...

openSUSE makes the Leap to the Public Cloud

James Mason 19. Jan 2016

openSUSE Leap 42.1 is now available on Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Microsoft Azure. Leap has been available on EC2 & GCE since shortly after it release; the ...

Hardware problem: rsync.opensuse.org down

Lars Vogdt 11. Jan 2016

What a start in the new year: the server running rsync.opensuse.org died with two broken hard disks at 2016-01-10. As the hardware is located in the data center of our spo...

Tumbleweed gets Firefox 42, Machinery ready for Leap

Douglas DeMaio 12. Nov 2015

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...

Landing page published, search page to become default page for users

Douglas DeMaio 10. Sep 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...

Integration process for openSUSE Tumbleweed, Leap explained

Douglas DeMaio 28. Aug 2015

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...

Six Tumbleweed snapshots follow Leap milestone release

Douglas DeMaio 30. Jul 2015

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 ...

Leap milestone in limbo, Tumbleweed snapshot released

Douglas DeMaio 23. Jul 2015

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...

Release Engineer job offers unique challenge

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jul 2015

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...

Tumbleweed, what’s happening with Leap

Douglas DeMaio 16. Jul 2015

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...

Testing Leap milestone in openQA

Douglas DeMaio 15. Jul 2015

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...

Work begins on totally new openSUSE release

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jun 2015

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...

Tumbleweed moves to Plasma 5.3 and a new release of KDE Applications

Jos Poortvliet 16. May 2015

[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...

Openness brings fresh air to YaST

Ancor Gonzalez Sosa 25. Feb 2015

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...

Xfce and openSUSE - Five Steps to Perfection

Nenad Latinović 12. Jan 2015

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...

What to expect from Btrfs on openSUSE 13.2?

Douglas DeMaio 12. Nov 2014

As the first major Linux distribution to have Btrfs as the default file system, what can users and developers expect from openSUSE 13.2? How is the systems capabilities en...

Help promote openSUSE 13.2!

Douglas DeMaio 10. Nov 2014

To help promote 13.2, we have assembled some badges, backgrounds, counters and banners for you to put on your social media or blog pages. For your blog and social media ac...

openSUSE 13.2: green light to freedom!

Ancor Gonzalez Sosa 4. Nov 2014

Dear contributors, friends and fans: openSUSE 13.2 is out! After one year on continuous improvement in the tools and procedures and many hours of developing, packaging, tes...

Sneak Peek into GNOME on openSUSE 13.2

Kostas Koudaras 23. Oct 2014

openSUSE 13.2 comes with the latest and greatest that the GNOME desktop has to offer – GNOME 3.14. At the time of the release 13.2 offers GNOME 3.14.1, which improves upon ...

openSUSE 13.2: time to get your hands dirty

Ancor Gonzalez Sosa 16. Oct 2014

With less than three weeks from the release of our beloved green distro and the first release candidate already rocking, we can feel like we are almost there. This is exact...

openSUSE 13.2 RC1 is now out, hands on

Kostas Koudaras 9. Oct 2014

openSUSE 13.2 RC1 is baked and ready to serve!. This previous Beta release was a blast with almost 10.000 downloads. The community responded to the call and we had lot of e...

openSUSE 13.2 Is Coming - First Beta Has Arrived!

Jos Poortvliet 22. Sep 2014

[caption id=”attachment_14680” align=”alignright” width=”150”] Get openSUSE 13.2 Beta![/caption] Our brand new ‘Rolling Factory’ has already amassed over 6000 installation...

Factory: Over 6000 installations and growing!

Ancor Gonzalez Sosa 5. Sep 2014

Since the announcement at the end of July of the new Factory development model, the machinery worked tirelessly releasing more than 15 Factory snapshots during the next mon...

Need a Wallpaper Changer for GNOME? Try Variety!

Nenad Latinović 13. Aug 2014

openSUSE, despite the vastness of the www stating it’s primarily a KDE distro, prides itself in offering a one stop shop for your operating system needs, regardless of your...

Command Line Tuesdays - Part Eight

Nenad Latinović 12. Aug 2014

Yo yo, geekos! Here we are, for the final chapter of our CLT hangout. Today, we’ll be talking about job control through which we’ll learn how to control processes running o...

Command Line Tuesdays - Part Seven

Nenad Latinović 5. Aug 2014

Heya geekos. I’ve checked the ‘curriculum’, and we’re at part 7 of 8 as of today. Which means there will be one more - and sadly final - CLT next tuesday. So for today, let...

MATE 1.8.1 Available on openSUSE

Nenad Latinović 31. Jul 2014

After GNOME 2.x passed the torch to GNOME 3, a lot of people started to wonder what is the perfect graphical user interface for them. Many users moved to Xfce, since it off...

Command Line "Somedays" - Part Six

Nenad Latinović 30. Jul 2014

Hey guys. Yes, it’s Wednesday, and yes, we’re a day late. Reason? This awesome announcement, that had to take the whole glory of Tuesday. Also, in the future, if there’s an...

Factory moves to Rolling Release Development Model

Ancor Gonzalez Sosa 29. Jul 2014

We are proud to announce that we have just switched our beloved development distribution, openSUSE Factory, to be an independent distribution using the “rolling release” de...

Command Line Tuesdays - Part Five

Nenad Latinović 15. Jul 2014

Yes, you’ve guessed what time it is! It’s time to rrrrrrrrummmbleeeee! And this time, we’ll learn how to work with commands. So without further ado, let’s get to business. ...

Command Line Tuesdays - Part Four

Nenad Latinović 8. Jul 2014

Heya there geekos! New week, new adventure! Today, we’ll learn how to manipulate files using four fairly simple commands. So let’s begin! Before we start with the comma...

Command Line Tuesdays - Part Three

Nenad Latinović 1. Jul 2014

Heya Geekos! New week, new part in our CLT series! Today, mr Shotts takes us on a first part of a guided tour through our file system. We’ll learn how to visit, list files...

Command Line Tuesdays - Part Two

Nenad Latinović 24. Jun 2014

Heya geekos! Let’s refresh our memories. Last week, we skimmed through some basic commands, learned what a shell is actually, and made a steady introduction into our CLI T...

Command Line Tuesdays - Part One

Nenad Latinović 10. Jun 2014

Here we are geekos, back in action! Sorry it’s been a while, but let me just assure you we’re back on track, raging to meet the deadlines and to, well, have some fun :) ...

Command Line Tuesdays - The Introductory

Nenad Latinović 27. May 2014

Hi Geekos! Today we’re introducing a new series, called ‘Command Line Tuesdays’. Why command line Tuesdays? Because in this series, everyday computer enthusiasts like your...

What Will openSUSE 13.2 Default Wallpaper Look Like?

Nenad Latinović 22. May 2014

Eppur si muove! Even though we sometimes feel there’s a sort of a standstill once first major bugs are fixed in a new release and it settles on our machine, that’s not the ...

Jean-Daniel Dodin a.k.a shares his experiences on how to manage a Personal Web Server with openSUSE

Manu Gupta 14. May 2014

Hello :-) I want to share my experience in managing a personal hosted web server with openSUSE. Two points, first. I’m not a computer professional, but an openSU...

What's up on KDE repositories

Ricardo Chung 4. Apr 2014

Dear KDE Users, Maybe you have heard already about it from another openSUSE mailing list, a blog post or through our openSUSE community page on Google+, but the KDE reposi...

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...

openSUSE Conference 2014 Location Sneak Peek

Jos Poortvliet 24. Mar 2014

Less than two months from the awesome openSUSE Conference will kick off. The location of oSC14 is the beautiful and historic city of Dubrovnik, located on the Dalmatian co...

Development for 13.2 Kicks Off

Jos Poortvliet 19. Mar 2014

openSUSE Factory development is going steady and our venerable release manager has made a first milestone available. No development schedule has yet been determined, althou...

Sneak Preview of oSC14 Sessions

Jos Poortvliet 11. Mar 2014

At the openSUSE Conference 2014 in Dubrovnik hundreds of Geekos are expected to meet, discuss and attend the talks and workshops. The openSUSE Conference Paper Committee is...

openSUSE 13.1: Ready For Action!

Jos Poortvliet 19. Nov 2013

Dear contributors, friends and fans: The release is here! Eight months of planning, packaging, adding features, fixing issues, testing and fixing more issues has brought yo...

We're Ready For The Release, Are You?!

Jos Poortvliet 18. Nov 2013

Dear Geekos! We’re sure you are all anxiously awaiting the release of openSUSE 13.1, coming in 24 hours. Yes, just around the corner! So we want to remind you that you ca...

Sneak Peek openSUSE 13.1: Geeko Tips

Jos Poortvliet 13. Nov 2013

Welcome to our fourth Sneak Peek for openSUSE 13.1! The release is getting very close and you’ve already learned about all the awesome new Cloud features, the new YaST and ...

Get Ready to Party: Release is Around the Corner!

Jos Poortvliet 11. Nov 2013

In just a little over a week, openSUSE 13.1 will be released! As we’ve all put in serious work to make this happen, it is certainly a good cause for celebration. Time to or...

Sneak Peek openSUSE 13.1: What we have for Plasma Desktop Users

Jos Poortvliet 4. Nov 2013

A few days ago we featured a GNOME Sneak Peek and today it is time for the Blue camp! Whereas GNOME is still going through radical changes, KDE has been in incremental mode...

openSUSE 13.1 RC2 Hits the Web, Last Chance for Testing

Jos Poortvliet 31. Oct 2013

The openSUSE 13.1 release is getting very close - just a little over two weeks, according to the Roadmap. Today, Release Candidate 2 is available on software.opensuse.org....

Sneak Peek openSUSE 13.1: What we have for GNOME Users

News Team 29. Oct 2013

[caption id=”attachment_17228” align=”alignright” width=”300”]Clean GNOME Shell[/caption] Welcome to our third Sneak Peek of what is coming in openSUSE 13.1! You’ve alread...

Help test the openSUSE Release Candidates!

Jos Poortvliet 22. Oct 2013

openSUSE made its first release candidate for 13.1 available less than two weeks ago. And with it, we issued a call for testing. If you’re interested in helping out but wo...

OpenStack Havana and openSUSE

Andreas Jaeger 17. Oct 2013

Congratulations to the OpenStack community for today’s release of OpenStack Havana! This is the eighth OpenStack release and the community delivered on-time, yet again. P...

Coming soon: openSUSE 13.1 with YaST in Ruby

Jos Poortvliet 10. Oct 2013

[caption id=”attachment_17058” align=”alignright” width=”300”] YaST during installation[/caption] On July 31st the YaST team announced that the final Ruby conversion of Ya...

Help promote openSUSE 13.1!

Jos Poortvliet 7. Oct 2013

We’re not at the release, but the beta is out, according to the roadmap RC1 is coming Thursday and our artists have been hard at work preparing artwork. We’ve got badges,...

openSUSE 13.1 Beta Is Out!

Jos Poortvliet 19. Sep 2013

“Still … in this world only winter is certain.” ― George R.R. Martin “And thus, Factory is now Frozen.” ― Stephan “coolo” Kulow Starting today, you can scurry over to s...

Winter is Coming, Get Your Code Inside!

Jos Poortvliet 5. Sep 2013

It is already September! Haven’t you noticed? Bad weather is coming, it will be freezing soon! According to the roadmap, Full Feature Freeze will be upon openSUSE Factor...

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 ...

Upcoming openSUSE 13.1 will be kept Evergreen

Jos Poortvliet 26. Aug 2013

The openSUSE Evergreen has just announced that the upcoming openSUSE 13.1 will be the next Evergreen release. This means that the Evergreen team will continue to provide o...

openSUSE Milestone 4

anditosan 12. Aug 2013

openSUSE Milestone 4, and final Milestone before starting the Beta process, is out for everyone to test. The process has worked out normally and although this Milestone ca...

openSUSE Milestone 3

anditosan 16. Jul 2013

Milestone 2 was released just a month ago and it is now time to get the newest milestone release of openSUSE. Please remember that there is only one more milestone before o...

openSUSE 12.1 EOL, 13.1 Milestone 2 released!

anditosan 11. Jun 2013

For those of you waiting for (or working on) openSUSE 13.1, we have good news: milestone 2 is now out for you to download. As to be exptected, the inclusion of newer softwa...

openSUSE Kicks Off Development with Milestone 1

anditosan 17. May 2013

openSUSE is pleased to announce that the newest Milestone for the upcoming version of openSUSE 13.1. is available for testing. As early version, it is expected that this M...

openSUSE for new geekos

Jos Poortvliet 22. Mar 2013

It is almost weekend and you want to try another Linux distribution? We’ve got you covered! The Linux ecosystem is a varied one with hundreds of distributions, each havin...

openSUSE 12.3 – Awesome as 1-2-3

Jos Poortvliet 13. Mar 2013

Dear contributors, friends and fans: The latest release of the openSUSE distribution, version 12.3, is ready for you! After six months of hard work, we are happy to bring y...

Sneak Preview III: There and Back Again: a Distro's Tale

Jos Poortvliet 11. Mar 2013

What do Qt 5, Linux 3.8 and LibreOffice 4 have in common? They were not released in time to be included in our leading edge, but stable openSUSE 12.3 in time. But fear not...

Sneak preview II: openSUSE 12.3 for Servers

Jos Poortvliet 8. Mar 2013

[caption id=”attachment_15473” align=”alignright” width=”300”] postgres in openSUSE 12.3[/caption] The new openSUSE is just around the corner so let’s take a closer look a...

Sneak Preview I: openSUSE 12.3 for Desktop Users

Jos Poortvliet 6. Mar 2013

In less than two weeks, openSUSE 12.3 will be on your doorstep. Or rather, on the mirrors, ready for use. If you are curious to know what is coming, this first sneak previe...

RC2 is Ready for You. Are You Ready for RC2?

Jos Poortvliet 28. Feb 2013

The openSUSE Release Team has released RC2 to the mirrors a few hours ago. A large number of bugs has been fixed and a number of packages has been updated. Major changes in...

Heat Up Our Servers: 12.3 RC1 Is Ready To Download

Jos Poortvliet 7. Feb 2013

As winter refuses to relax its icy grasp on the northern hemisphere, the openSUSE project would like to announce the first release candidate of version 12.3 of its popular ...

openSUSE 12.2: Brought to you by "an extremely talented group of people"

Jos Poortvliet 23. Jan 2013

In September, the openSUSE community released openSUSE 12.2 all around the world. So what have the responses been since that Wednesday a little over three months ago, and...

The openSUSE Conference - a Few Months Later

Jos Poortvliet 21. Jan 2013

This article attempts to give a bit of an overview of what happened at oSC 12. And that is lots and lots, as you can see in the Google Plus event page for oSC12 and LinuxD...

The openSUSE 12.3 Beta is Out! Time for Pizza...

Jos Poortvliet 17. Jan 2013

According to plan, today openSUSE 12.3 Beta sees the light. The beta comes with mostly smallish changes as we’re in serious testing waters now - we hope you’re out there t...

openSUSE 12.3 Milestone 2 released

News Team 18. Dec 2012

A month’s work since Milestone 1 shows that the new Release Team are hitting their stride, as they have reviewed and checked in more than 470 updated packages, far more tha...

openSUSE 12.3 Milestone 1 is Ready for You!

Will Stephenson 8. Nov 2012

News fresh from the Factory: the openSUSE Release team has made the openSUSE 12.3 Milestone 1 available for testing and feedback. There has been lots of plumbing in the in...

openSUSE 12.2 for ARM Final!

Jos Poortvliet 6. Nov 2012

As was promised last week, the openSUSE ARM team has released openSUSE 12.2 for the ARM architecture! Almost all of the usual openSUSE distribution (>5000 packages) bui...

openSUSE ARM RC2 needs testing!

Jos Poortvliet 29. Oct 2012

Hot on the heels of the news that the Google Chromebook runs openSUSE (even made slashdot) and following the closing of the openSUSE Conference in Prague, Dirk Müller let ...

Learn More About Free Software Next Week in Prague

Helen South 11. Oct 2012

The openSUSE Conference 2012 takes place next week from October 20th to 23rd in Prague, Czech Republic. When you first step into the world of Free Software, it isn’t alwa...

First openSUSE Conference Sneak Peek

Helen South 8. Oct 2012

Less than two weeks from now the openSUSE Conference will start. The location itself is almost enough reason to attend: the openSUSE Conference 2012 is in the beautiful, h...

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 ...

Announcing openSUSE on ARM Release Candidate 1

Jos Poortvliet 1. Oct 2012

After 11 months of grueling work, openSUSE is pleased to announce the first Release Candidate for openSUSE 12.2 on the ARM architecture. After discussing ARM first at the ...

openSUSE 12.2: Green Means Go!

Jos Poortvliet 5. Sep 2012

Dear users, developers, and Geekos around the world - openSUSE 12.2 is ready for you! Two months of extra stabilization work have resulted into a stellar release, chock-ful...

Sneak Peek: GNOME in openSUSE 12.2

Will Stephenson 4. Sep 2012

openSUSE 12.2 is the second openSUSE release to include GNOME 3. GNOME 3.4 continues the rapid pace of evolution and consolidation set by GNOME 3.2 on openSUSE 12.1. This a...

Sneak Peek: openSUSE 12.2 and KDE

Jos Poortvliet 4. Sep 2012

openSUSE comes with the 4.8 series of the KDE workspaces, applications and platform. This release, as you can read in the announcements is mostly focused on improving the u...

openSUSE 12.2 Release Publicity: Call for contributions

Will Stephenson 27. Aug 2012

As we enter the final straight towards the release of openSUSE 12.2, the openSUSE Team is busy preparing the release publicity. And this is where you, the openSUSE communit...

openSUSE 12.2 RC2 Ready for a Final Test

Will Stephenson 2. Aug 2012

Today, the openSUSE project makes available openSUSE 12.2 Release Candidate 2 for widespread testing, with a final release targeted for mid September. In the two weeks sin...

openSUSE 12.2 RC1 Available for Testing

Will Stephenson 12. Jul 2012

openSUSE 12.2 Release Candidate 1 is now available to download. Get it Download it from software.opensuse.org/developer. As usual, a list of the most annoying bugs is bei...

Beta 2 Available for Testing

Jos Poortvliet 20. Jun 2012

Stephan ‘Coolo’ Kulow has released Beta 2 so it is time to start organizing these Beta Pizza Parties! As you might know, openSUSE 12.2 is delayed while we search for ways ...

Where is my 12.2, my Kingdom for a 12.2!

Jos Poortvliet 14. Jun 2012

Many people have noticed that the milestones and the Beta for this openSUSE release have been delayed or even canceled like Milestone 4. Now the RC is planned to go out Th...

openSUSE now available on Windows Azure

Jos Poortvliet 12. Jun 2012

Last Thursday at the Meet Windows Azure party in San Francisco, attendees learned how developers can use Linux on Windows Azure. In case too much of our Old Toad has impai...

openSUSE 12.2 Beta 1 available for testing

Jos Poortvliet 6. Jun 2012

After a few delayed milestones, the fourth even got canceled - there has been quite a number of disruptive changes in our Factory development distribution, but we’re starti...

GoGo on openSUSE

Jos Poortvliet 16. Apr 2012

openSUSE 12.1 was one of the first major Linux distributions to include the new programming language Go. Recently, go 1.0 was released and shortly before milestone 3 openS...

openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3 hits the street

Jos Poortvliet 12. Apr 2012

Despite delays due to the move to a i686 desktop kernel for 32-bit systems, milestone 3 is finally available. This milestone brings progress on a number of features includi...

openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 2 is out

Jos Poortvliet 20. Mar 2012

Those following openSUSE development closely probably know that the 2nd milestone on the way to openSUSE 12.2 was planned for the beginning of this week. And indeed you c...

openSUSE Stable Maintenance Process Now Fully Open

Adrian Schröter 13. Mar 2012

A while ago, we wrote about the work on moving maintenance support into the Open Build Service. Since then announcement, some of the internal maintenance scripts have been ...

12.1 update repository changes

Lars Vogdt 20. Feb 2012

Teams from the openSUSE Buildservice and openSUSE Maintenance worked together since weeks now to integrate openSUSE distribution maintenance support into the Buildservice o...

Development of openSUSE 12.2 started!

Kim Leyendecker 17. Feb 2012

With the release of Milestone 1, the development of openSUSE 12.2 has started! We’re pleased to announce that Milestone 1 contains many minor updates, like a new Firefox ve...

Using BTRFS on openSUSE 12.1

Manu Gupta 23. Jan 2012

This article is contributed by Kamila SouÍkova Introduction As the btrfs wiki says: “Btrfs is a new copy on write filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced feat...

openSUSE 11.3 EOL'ed, 12.2 On The Way!

Bryen Yunashko 21. Jan 2012

As Benjaman Brunner announced yesterday, openSUSE 11.3 has reached end of life.  As a quick refresher, openSUSE releases new versions every 8 months, and each version has...

openSUSE 12.1 Reveiew by Terence Lam

Manu Gupta 30. Dec 2011

This review is written by Terence Lam a student from Singapore sharing his experiences with openSUSE In this review, I will install openSUSE 12.1, try out GNOME and KDE an...

systemd – boot faster and cleaner with openSUSE 12.1

Manu Gupta 22. Dec 2011

openSUSE 12.1 features systemd as a replacement for the System V init daemon. systemd provides a new and improved way of booting up your system and managing services. It co...

openSUSE and ownCloud

Jos Poortvliet 20. Dec 2011

openSUSE 12.1 has been released a few weeks ago. A major new technology we introduce in this release is ownCloud, which we ship in a separate repository. ownCloud is a we...

openSUSE 12.1 Launch Feedback

Andreas Jaeger 19. Nov 2011

openSUSE 12.1 was launched on Wednesday and it’s time to look back at the successful launch of a great distribution. We’ve seen a lot of positive feedback regarding openSU...

openSUSE 12.1: All Green!

Jos Poortvliet 16. Nov 2011

It is November 16, 2011 and our mirrors have synced. Time to present to you: openSUSE 12.1! This release represents more than eight months of work by our international com...

Almost openSUSE 12.1

Izabel Valverde 15. Nov 2011

[caption id=”attachment_11851” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Welcome to openSUSE 12.1!”][/caption] Yes, it is almost time. Tomorrow openSUSE 12.1 will be release...

Are you ready for RC2?

Jos Poortvliet 3. Nov 2011

Following the openSUSE 12.1 roadmap, RC2 has been released upon this innocent world. This is your final chance to test openSUSE 12.1 before we move to the final version! W...

Help out with testing at openSUSE

Manu Gupta 25. Oct 2011

One of the most important activities during software development is testing. In FOSS community, software often gets tested by the developers themselves, other developers ...

openSUSE 12.1 RC1 spotted in the wild

Jos Poortvliet 24. Oct 2011

As was already blogged by Vincent Untz, a few weeks after our last milestone was released as beta 1, the first Release Candidate of openSUSE 12.1 is now floating over the ...

openSUSE 12.1 Beta Arrives!

Bryen Yunashko 1. Oct 2011

The much-awaited Beta release of openSUSE 12.1 is here!  And just in time for your weekend Beta Pizza Party.  So fire up that oven and warm up that download manager because...

Get your package in Factory for 12.1!

Jos Poortvliet 27. Sep 2011

The upcoming openSUSE 12.1 release is being developed in Factory. According to the release schedule the Toolchain and several other critical components are frozen, but th...

openSUSE 12.1 Beta taking more time to become good

News Team 21. Sep 2011

Last Friday Stephan Kulow, our openSUSE Release Manager, started a discussion on Factory mailing list about show-stoppers for the 12.1-Beta release scheduled for 2011-09-22...

A new milestone on the cloud: openSUSE releases milestone 3

Ricardo Chung 22. Jul 2011

Just a few days ago the third of six milestones on the road to openSUSE 12.1 has been made available for testing before it goes to final release November 11th, 2011.  (Yes,...

openSUSE releases milestone 2

Jos Poortvliet 22. Jun 2011

About 3 weeks after the first milestone for openSUSE 12.1, today the second milestone has been made available. Following the Roadmap, this is the second of 6 milestone un...

openSUSE and online storage and syncing

Jos Poortvliet 17. Jun 2011

The ‘cloud’ has been a buzzword for quite a while. While some are still rather cynical towards the concept, products like mobile phones with Android have shown the value ...

openSUSE and online services

Jos Poortvliet 16. Jun 2011

The ‘cloud’ has been a buzzword for quite a while. While some are still rather cynical towards the concept, products like mobile phones with Android have shown the value ...

First step towards 12.1 with Milestone 1

Jos Poortvliet 1. Jun 2011

[caption id=”attachment_9068” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Experimental openSUSE 12.1 artwork”][/caption] Milestone 1, the first step towards the upcoming openS...

openSUSE 11.4 DVDs for Events

Andreas Jaeger 26. Apr 2011

Following the huge success for filling requests of openSUSE 11.3 media in February, we have produced openSUSE 11.4 DVDs to distribute at events, Linux user groups, universi...

GNOME 3.0 arrives for openSUSE 11.4

Manu Gupta 23. Apr 2011

The wait is finally over and the much anticipated release of GNOME 3 on openSUSE’s latest distro release, 11.4 is ready for download at a desktop near you.  Frederic Crozat...

openSUSE servers with one click

James Mason 20. Apr 2011

Everybody knows openSUSE offers a great desktop experience; but its also a perfect fit for servers!  Go download the Installation DVD (or use one of the manufactured DVDs) ...

Evergreen needs you!

Kim Leyendecker 17. Apr 2011

Copyright Evergreen needs you! To make a version for 11.2 also released and to guarantee the quality of evergreen, we´re searching developers, packagers and also marketi...

Welcome GNOME 3! We have a present for you…

Bryen Yunashko 8. Apr 2011

Dear GNOME 3, So, you’re born, and we here at openSUSE Project are very excited to welcome you into the world.  We’ve been watching with anticipation and excitement as t...

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose…

Bryen Yunashko 6. Apr 2011

Or in other words, “The more things change, the more they stay the same…” openSUSE does not ship major/minor releases, but our numbering/naming scheme - NN.X - has led to ...

The Canterbury Project

Henne Vogelsang 1. Apr 2011

If you are really in a timezone where it’s still before March 31st 23:59 then… We are pleased to announce the birth of the Canterbury distribution. Canterbury is a merge...

Review - openSUSE 11.4 and the much improved XFCE 4.8

Jos Poortvliet 28. Mar 2011

[caption id=”attachment_7964” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”The default XFCE desktop”] [/caption] Just a few months ago, the XFCE project announced XFCE 4.8, the...

openSUSE 11.4 still going strong

News Team 21. Mar 2011

[caption id=”attachment_7800” align=”alignright” width=”273” caption=”openSUSE on Distrowatch”][/caption] A bit over one week ago, we released openSUSE 11.4 introducing man...

openSUSE 11.4 made a splash

Jos Poortvliet 12. Mar 2011

Yesterday, openSUSE 11.4 saw the light of day. This release introduced some awesome new features and this was noticed by Linux users on social media and the press around th...

openSUSE 11.4 - A New Hallmark For The openSUSE Project

News Team 10. Mar 2011

Dear openSUSE Community. Users. Contributors. Fans and friends. The time has come: openSUSE 11.4 has arrived!. After 8 months of hard work, you can learn what is new, downl...

openSUSE 11.4 Will Be First To Roll Out With LibreOffice

News Team 7. Mar 2011

openSUSE 11.4 is set to release on 10th March 2010. A highlight among many exciting features is the debut of LibreOffice, successor project of the popular cross-platform d...

GNOME on openSUSE 11.4

News Team 3. Mar 2011

The upcoming new release of openSUSE 11.4 will be shipped with the latest and greatest GNOME 2.32. GNOME 2.32 is the last release in the GNOME 2.x series and has a number o...

openSUSE 11.4 and KDE

News Team 2. Mar 2011

KDE fans must definitely watch out for openSUSE 11.4, which will be the first major Linux distribution to feature KDE’s Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Pla...

openSUSE 11.4 RC2 Steps Out

Helen South 26. Feb 2011

With red carpets rolling out in Hollywood, you’d expect some applause for the openSUSE 11.4 RC2 release, which has now gone live ahead of 11.4 proper. But with much of the ...

Help the Project. Spread openSUSE DVDs!

Henne Vogelsang 18. Feb 2011

One of the easiest things to do to contribute to the free and open source movement and the openSUSE Project is to exercise your second free software freedom: The freedom to...

Open-Bugs-Day on Sunday the 20th of February

Henne Vogelsang 16. Feb 2011

As you all know, we’re closing in on the Final Release of openSUSE 11.4… and so in this last window for bug-fixing we need your help! The testing team is looking for vol...

Bretzn results released into the wild

Jos Poortvliet 1. Feb 2011

Apart from being a tasty Bavarian bread-snack, Bretzn is a code-name for a collection of technology aimed at solving a problem which has existed in software development for...

openSUSE Announces Development Milestone Six of Six

Will Stephenson 28. Jan 2011

openSUSE project manager Stephan Kulow has announced that openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 6 (M6) is ready for testing.  With M6, the pace of development is starting to slow down as...

First Bretzn Sprint: openSUSE App Store on the Horizon

James Mason 27. Jan 2011

Novell hosted the first Bretzn Sprint in the SUSE office in Nürnberg between 21th and the 23st of January. The objective of the sprint was to create an proof of concept ap...

openSUSE at and with FOSDEM 2011

News Team 28. Dec 2010

[caption id=”attachment_6063” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”picture by Robert Lihm”][/caption] Next years FOSDEM takes place again in Brussels on Feb 5th and 6th...

openSUSE Announces Fifth Development Milestone with Kernel Interactivity Patch

Jos Poortvliet 23. Dec 2010

The openSUSE project released the fifth of six milestones in the development of openSUSE 11.4 some days ago. Milestone 5 (M5) brings a wide range of updates, both major and...

Updating openSUSE Manuals for openSUSE 11.4

Andreas Jaeger 7. Dec 2010

With the openSUSE distribution, we have a set of openSUSE manuals and QuickStart guides. You can read them online via //doc.opensuse.org.  They are installed by default on ...

openSUSE Announces Fourth Development Milestone with Kernel Interactivity Patch

Will Stephenson 2. Dec 2010

On Monday, the openSUSE project released the fourth of six milestones in the development of openSUSE 11.4.  Milestone 4 (M4) brings a wide range of updates, both major and ...

Feature handling for openSUSE reworked

Andreas Jaeger 30. Nov 2010

openFATE, the feature tracking tool used in openSUSE has been completely reworked and the new version is live now on features.opensuse.org. A team has started driving the ...

New signing key in openSUSE:11.3:Contrib

News Team 24. Nov 2010

The old openSUSE:11.3:Contrib signing key got deleted by an accident, so we have to generate the new one and sign all packages in this repo with it. It is safe to accept ke...

openSUSE Bug Day on Saturday, November 27th

Henne Vogelsang 22. Nov 2010

At the last openSUSE project meeting and after the discussion about zombie bugs on the opensuse-project mailing list, a small team of volunteers agreed to organize a Bug Da...

openSUSE Announces Third Development Milestone Evaluating systemd

Will Stephenson 11. Nov 2010

Delayed by a week due to a critical bug that would have prevented testing, the openSUSE project today announces openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 3 (M3), the third of six milestone r...

From the Developer to the User and back – Announcing Project Bretzn

Jos Poortvliet 26. Oct 2010

At the openSUSE conference Frank Karlitschek, KDE e.V. board member and well known for his projects like GetHotNewStuff, opendesktop.org, socialdesktop.org announced a new...

Finalizing who we are...

Jos Poortvliet 15. Oct 2010

We’re almost there, ladies and gents.![Future Lizard!](//en.opensuse.org/images/a/af/Future.png) Again there was quite some feedback on the strategy doc. We have worked to...

openSUSE Announces Second 11.4 Development Milestone With New Kernel, OpenOffice, Mesa

Will Stephenson 7. Oct 2010

Today, Thursday October 7, the openSUSE project announces Milestone 2 of openSUSE 11.4.  Milestone 2 (M2) is the second of six periodic development snapshots of openSUSE 11...

Forum Users Benefit from openSUSE KDE Repository

News Team 12. Sep 2010

Without question, users who frequent the openSUSE forums are very appreciative of all the work being done by ALL the various development teams. The progressive nature of KD...

openSUSE Announce First 11.4 Development Milestone With Improved Package Management Performance, New XOrg, KDE and GNOME

Will Stephenson 2. Sep 2010

[caption id=”attachment_4093” align=”alignright” width=”240” caption=”Metalink multichannel download, so package candy melts your screen, not your internet connection.”][/c...

openSUSE 11.3 Launch Information

Andreas Jaeger 16. Jul 2010

We had a successful openSUSE 11.3 launch yesterday. The announcement itself saw many friendly comments. Many people retweeted the announcement from @openSUSE. Besides the ...

openSUSE 11.3 is here!

Bryen Yunashko 15. Jul 2010

[caption id=”attachment_3836” align=”alignleft” width=”300” caption=”openSUSE 11.3 is here!”][/caption] The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the late...

Maintenance for openSUSE 11.0 extended

News Team 5. Jul 2010

openSUSE 11.0 was released on 19th of June 2008 and was planned to be under security maintenance for two years. Upon multiple requests from the community, the SUSE Security...

openSUSE checking instrumentation -- Prepare for Landing -- openSUSE 11.3 RC2 now available!

Bryen Yunashko 1. Jul 2010

Following up on Michael Loeffler’s previous RC1 announcement, openSUSE is now doing a final check of instrumentation before landing.  The weather continues to be clear and ...

Plan your openSUSE 11.3 release party now!

News Team 18. Jun 2010

As openSUSE 11.3 is around the corner and will be released on July 15, it’s now the right time to prepare your Launch Paty in our city or region. Gnokii just posted on th...

openSUSE approaching destination - please fasten your seat belts - openSUSE 11.3 RC1 is available

News Team 17. Jun 2010

Ladies and Gentlemen, Please fasten your seat belts, the touch down area is in sight we do have clear view and smooth weather conditions. So we expect a smooth landing f...

openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 7: Preparing for RC Phase

Andreas Jaeger 26. May 2010

Milestone 7, a snapshot of the openSUSE Factory “work in progress” build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M7 is the last mi...

Updates Go Twitter

Andreas Jaeger 5. May 2010

For our openSUSE distributions, we release regularly updates to fix security issues and general bugs.  As desktop user, you get notified in GNOME and KDE via the updater ap...

openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 6: The Dust Begins to Settle

News Team 3. May 2010

Milestone 6 (of 7), a snapshot of the Factory “work in progress” build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M6 is the first relea...

openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5: The Community Strikes Back

News Team 14. Apr 2010

Milestone 5 (of 7), a snapshot of the Factory “work in progress” build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M5 was marked by signif...

openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 Release

Andreas Jaeger 25. Mar 2010

The fourth of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 4 focuses on switching to upstart as init daemon. Here’s ...

openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 3 is out!

News Team 15. Mar 2010

The third of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 3 focuses on using GCC 4.5 as the default compiler, leaving a g...

Number Two Always Tries Harder: openSUSE Milestone 2

Henne Vogelsang 17. Feb 2010

Late last month we released the first milestone of openSUSE 11.3, now we follow up with the second. Milestone 2 is part of the milestones where we track new releases in the...

Attention All KDE Users

Will Stephenson 16. Feb 2010

KDE SC 4.3.5 is about to become available for openSUSE 11.2 as an online update (from 4.3.1). This release fixes many bugs, so we decided to push it as an online update in...

Its here! openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1

Henne Vogelsang 1. Feb 2010

Its here! The first openSUSE 11.3 Milestone. This is the first step toward the next openSUSE release. The most important goal of this first milestone is to test the build i...

openSUSE 11.2 and its retail box

News Team 10. Dec 2009

Retail versions of openSUSE 11.2 are once again available. For the first time, the retail box is being handled by a partner, open-slx. open-slx is founded and lead by Stef...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.2: GNOME 2.28

News Team 11. Nov 2009

With openSUSE 11.2 right around the corner, let’s take a look at what’s new and interesting in the GNOME desktop for this release. Highlights include a preview of GNOME 3.0...

Banners for openSUSE 11.2

News Team 10. Nov 2009

We’re very, very close to the final release of openSUSE 11.2! To help promote the 11.2 release, we have banners for openSUSE 11.2 available on the openSUSE wiki, courtesy ...

Vote for the openSUSE DVD Cover

News Team 5. Nov 2009

openSUSE 11.2 is scheduled to be officially released in about a week (give or take a few hours…) and, as usual, we’re gearing up to press a bunch of media for shows and the...

Final openSUSE 11.2 Release Candidate Available

News Team 29. Oct 2009

This is it folks! We’re almost there for openSUSE 11.2. Time to grab the final 11.2 release candidate and shake out any remaining bugs to get the lizard ready for release. ...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.2: KDE 4.3 Experience, with Luboš Luňák

News Team 27. Oct 2009

The KDE 4 experience in openSUSE has been enhanced daily, and while the desktop environment itself has matured significantly since the last release, there has been a consta...

openSUSE 11.2 on its way to become final - Release candidate available!

News Team 15. Oct 2009

We’re well on the way to openSUSE 11.2! Today we’re happy to announce the first release candidate for openSUSE 11.2. This release includes quite a few bugfixes and several ...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8 Released

Andreas Jaeger 1. Oct 2009

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that the last openSUSE 11.2 Milestone  8 (M8) is available for download. Test now and give feedback via our bugzilla since this is...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 7 Released

News Team 14. Sep 2009

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that the openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 7 (M7) is available for download. This release includes GNOME 2.28 beta 2, KDE 4.3.1, RPM 4.7.1, ...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 6 Released

News Team 24. Aug 2009

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that the openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 6 (M6) is available for download. This release includes new packages on the GNOME and KDE live CD...

Change in Maintenance for openSUSE 11.2 and Future Versions

News Team 18. Aug 2009

Michael Löffler has announced to the opensuse-announce mailing list: With regards to the discontinuation mail for openSUSE 10.3 sent out by Marcus the other day I’d like...

Ready to Rumble: openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 4 Released

News Team 27. Jul 2009

Looking for some summer fun? Try the latest milestone release for openSUSE 11.2! Milestone 4 is hot off the openSUSE Build Service and ready for your testing pleasure.This ...

iFolder Packages Available for 11.1

News Team 30. Jun 2009

Good news, everybody! iFolder client packages are now available for openSUSE 11.1 from the openSUSE update repositories. This means you can install iFolder client on openSU...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 3 Available

News Team 29. Jun 2009

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 3. Images are ready for download and testing. This release includes the 2.6.30 Linux kern...

openSUSE Factory is Now Open

News Team 18. Jun 2009

openSUSE development is now even more open than before. Factory development is changing, and we’re making it easier for contributors to take responsibility for packages and...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 Released

News Team 28. May 2009

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce the second milestone release for openSUSE 11.2 is ready for download. This release includes Firefox 3.5 beta 4, KDE 4.3 beta 1, GN...

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 1 Released

News Team 24. Apr 2009

Lizard lovers, get ready to start your engines! The first milestone release for openSUSE 11.2 is now ready for your testing pleasure. Please note: This is a milestone rele...

11.2 Roadmap and Fixed Release Cycle for openSUSE

News Team 5. Mar 2009

The roadmap for 11.2 is now set, and openSUSE is getting a fixed release cycle!  Codenamed  “Fichte,” openSUSE 11.2 is planned for release in November, and releases thereaf...

More Efficient Factory Development

News Team 5. Feb 2009

The openSUSE Factory distribution is our permanent development distribution. Currently used to develop openSUSE 11.2. We want to make the factory distribution better usable...

KDE 4.2 in openSUSE [Updated]

News Team 29. Jan 2009

The KDE Project released KDE 4.2 on Tuesday, and of course openSUSE packages were available in time for the release. If you missed the pointer from the KDE announcement inf...

openSUSE Project Announces csync

News Team 8. Jan 2009

Andreas Schneider has unleashed the first public release candidate of csync 0.42, which is now available as source from the csync Web site, or via one-click for openSUSE 11...

Numbers ... Again :-)

News Team 24. Dec 2008

Again here are the download numbers, from download.opensuse.org. If you don’t know, in the first 30 hours after the release we are redirecting the traffic to akamai instead...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.1: KDE in openSUSE 11.1

News Team 18. Dec 2008

openSUSE 11.1 continues a long history of shipping a well-polished KDE. This release includes not just one, but two choices of KDE. You can choose from the leading edge of ...

openSUSE 11.1 Released!

News Team 18. Dec 2008

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 11.1. The openSUSE 11.1 release includes more than 230 new features, improvements to YaST, major updates t...

Release Tomorrow, and More Good Signs ...

News Team 17. Dec 2008

Tomorrow is the big day! So some might wonder what exactly will happen … Basically we turn on the headless chicken mode and waiting that our servers will melt away :-) Not...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.1: The Latest GNOME Desktop

News Team 16. Dec 2008

In our continuing series of Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.1, we’re introducing the newest version of the GNOME desktop into openSUSE. openSUSE 11.1 will contain the latest ver...

A Good Sign ...

News Team 16. Dec 2008

We have it! :-)

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.1: Improved Installation, Easier Administration

News Team 13. Dec 2008

Welcome to the first in a series of Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.1! With less than a week to go until the release of openSUSE 11.1,we’ll be talking about the great new innova...

Pre-order openSUSE 11.1

News Team 9. Dec 2008

openSUSE 11.1 is gold, and available for pre-order! The release date is still the 18th of December, just in time to have some fun over the holidays … So what do you get fo...

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 RC 1 Now Available

News Team 27. Nov 2008

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that openSUSE 11.1 RC 1 is now available. If all goes well, this will be the last testing release before the final 11.1 public rel...

openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5.1 for PowerPC Released

Andreas Jaeger 14. Nov 2008

The Beta5 DVD and NET ISO images for PowerPC have just been replaced by Beta5.1 ISO images.  The only change is the way the ISOs are created - now they are bootable media. ...

Banshee 1.4 Released

News Team 14. Nov 2008

Aaron Bockover has announced that the 1.4 release of Banshee is now available. The new release includes support for Android G1, better device support, a new track editor, t...

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5 Now Available

News Team 13. Nov 2008

Greetings, openSUSE fans! We have another development release ready for your testing pleasure. openSUSE 11.1 beta 5 is now available for immediate download and testing. Yo...

Get Your openSUSE 11.1 Countdown Button Here

News Team 6. Nov 2008

Yes, you too can have a beautiful openSUSE countdown button just like the one you see in this post. The banners have been updated, and as Pascal Bleser reports, we have ...

OpenOffice.org Fix for openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4

News Team 5. Nov 2008

Good news, everybody! One of the most annoying bugs from openSUSE 11.1 beta 4 has a fix. A problem starting OpenOffice.org was found too late to fix for the beta, but we do...

Feature Testing on Thursday

News Team 5. Nov 2008

We will have tomorrow an extensive feature testing of openSUSE 11.1 beta4. If you want to join, and we would really appreciate it if we get some help on this, please join u...

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4 Now Available

News Team 3. Nov 2008

Hot on the heels of openSUSE 11.1 beta 3, the openSUSE Project is happy to announce the availability of openSUSE 11.1 beta 4. This release includes a number of important b...

Status Update for openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4

News Team 31. Oct 2008

After work on the remaining show-stopper bugs we found this week, we have solved the blocker bugs, but were unable to generate all the necessary media and have it propagate...

openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4 Slip

News Team 30. Oct 2008

Just a quick note. The 11.1 release is slipping by at least one day due to a few major problems with the DVDs found during testing. Specifically: The network is b...

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 3 Now Available

News Team 22. Oct 2008

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the availability of beta 3 of the 11.1 release. It’s a few days late, but much better for the delay. Beta 3 is now available for i...

Status Update: openSUSE 11.1 beta 3

News Team 19. Oct 2008

A quick status update on openSUSE 11.1 beta 3. The DVD installation ISOs were not complete by Friday night, and only the x86 live CDs have built correctly – the x86_64 imag...

openSUSE 11.1 Beta3 Delayed

News Team 16. Oct 2008

openSUSE 11.1 beta 3 will be delayed by several days. We originally scheduled the release for today (October 16) but the power outage last Friday left us unable to check in...

Intel e1000e Corruption Fixed – Already in openSUSE 11.1 Beta2 (with exception of Debug, Vanilla Kernels)

Andreas Jaeger 16. Oct 2008

The patches we did for the Intel e1000e network card for Beta2 protect the chip so that the NVRAM could not get corrupted anymore and we indeed did not receive any new bug ...

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 2 Now Available

News Team 3. Oct 2008

The first beta release for 11.1 was so popular, we’ve decided to do it again! The openSUSE Project is happy to announce the release of openSUSE 11.1 beta 2, available for i...

Status of the e1000e Issue

News Team 3. Oct 2008

This is an update on the status of the e1000e issue. Our openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 release contained a bug that would cause the non-volatile memory (NVM) of the e1000e controlle...

Upcoming Factory Changes

News Team 23. Sep 2008

The openSUSE Factory distribution is our permanent moving target, this is the place where all Alpha and Beta versions are mastered from. We are currently in the process of ...

Serious e1000e Driver Issue in SLE 11 Beta 1 and openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1

News Team 22. Sep 2008

We have an important announcement regarding openSUSE 11.1 beta 1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 beta 1: The Intel e1000e driver on openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 and SUSE Linux Enterp...

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...

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 Now Available

News Team 20. Sep 2008

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce the first beta release of openSUSE 11.1. openSUSE 11.1 includes quite a few improvements and new features over the 11.0 release, i...

Call for SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Beta Testers

Andreas Jaeger 15. Sep 2008

In the “old days” SuSE had a closed list of beta testers that would help with SuSE Linux testing and try to help SuSE ensure the best possible Linux distribution. Many beta...

KDE in openSUSE 11.1 and Beyond

News Team 9. Sep 2008

After receiving a great deal of feedback on the issue of KDE 3.5 inclusion in openSUSE 11.1, the KDE team has decided to take the following course of action. KDE 3...

openSUSE's MirrorBrain and a New Lizard in China

News Team 29. Aug 2008

Do you know openSUSE’s MirrorBrain?  I have been working on it for over a year now. It is a mirror framework which is open source and can be used by anyone. The other day,...

openSUSE to Add SELinux Basic Enablement in 11.1

Andreas Jaeger 20. Aug 2008

We have exciting news for security enthusiasts, experts, and paranoid people! Beginning with openSUSE 11.1, SUSE users will have an additional option regarding security fr...

Join the openSUSE Proofreading Team

admin 7. Aug 2008

We are about to establish a new openSUSE team - the Proofreading Team. This team wants to check new software strings before translator will start there work. If you are in...

Help Create the Artwork for openSUSE 11.1

Andreas Jaeger 30. Jul 2008

Now with openSUSE 11.0 out the door, and Alpha 1 of openSUSE 11.1 just released, it’s time to start thinking about the look of openSUSE 11.1! Once again this year the Pixel...

openSUSE 11.0 PromoDVD

News Team 23. Jul 2008

Again we have some nice, new and shiny PromoDVDs, now with openSUSE 11.0. The main goal is to spread them. Some examples: you organize or take part of an event you wa...

Bugzilla: Changed Definitions

Andreas Jaeger 22. Jul 2008

We are standardizing now on the definitions given at //en.opensuse.org/Bugs/Definitions. The severity definitions are now the same as in most other open source projects, so...

openSUSE 11.1 Roadmap

Andreas Jaeger 2. Jul 2008

With openSUSE 11.0 out the door, it’s time to start thinking about openSUSE 11.1. The public release of openSUSE 11.1 is scheduled for December 18, 2008, six months after t...

Novell Client for Linux Public Beta for openSUSE 10.3

News Team 30. Jun 2008

We’re pleased to announce the public beta of the Novell Client for openSUSE 10.3. Novell released the packages for the Novell Client for Linux 2.0 SP1 public beta today. A...

Numbers?

News Team 24. Jun 2008

Let me share some numbers for the openSUSE 11.0 release. Do you remember the 10.3 release? Again we used akamai for distribution of the images. Again for 30 hours, and yes,...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 GM

News Team 19. Jun 2008

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 11.0 – everything you need to get started with Linux on the desktop and on the server. Promoting the use o...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.0: A Plethora of Improvements

News Team 19. Jun 2008

In this final Sneak Peeks article we will be taking a look at some of the other improvements making their way into openSUSE 11.0. Firefox 3.0 openSUSE features the new ...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.0: Talking GNOME with Vincent Untz

News Team 18. Jun 2008

Just a few hours before openSUSE 11.0 is officially released! Here we’ll take a look at GNOME in openSUSE 11.0, and talk to Vincent Untz, openSUSE developer and a member of...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.0: KDE with Stephan Binner

News Team 17. Jun 2008

With openSUSE 11.0 just a few days away, it’s time to look at one of the stars of the show: KDE. In openSUSE 11.0, you get two KDEs for the price of one. Here we’ll take a ...

Banshee 1.0 Released!

News Team 10. Jun 2008

The Banshee team has released version 1.0! This release will be found in openSUSE 11.0, and includes tons of new features and improvements over the previous Banshee release...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.0: Compiz, with Dennis Kasprzyk

News Team 7. Jun 2008

There have been several changes with the Compiz setup in openSUSE 11.0, including both exciting and new features in Compiz Fusion, and extra developments behind-the-scenes ...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.0: Package Management, with Duncan Mac-Vicar

News Team 6. Jun 2008

In this article we will be covering all of the changes in and around the package management stack in the upcoming openSUSE 11.0. There have been a plethora of both visual a...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.0: New Installer, with Stephan Kulow

News Team 5. Jun 2008

I’m glad to announce the beginning of the Sneak Peaks at openSUSE 11.0 series! Over the next few weeks we will be taking a look at all of the exciting changes and improveme...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 RC 1

News Team 29. May 2008

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the openSUSE 11.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). The good news is that we’re closing in on the final release of 11.0, but it’s not tim...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3

admin 16. May 2008

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the last Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! Over 700 bugs has been fixed since Beta 2. This means we’re on the home stretch for openSUSE ...

Hard Disk Configuration Survey

News Team 6. May 2008

In order to optimize the YaST partitioner module for openSUSE users the user experience team decided to conduct a small survey to figure out how you deal with hard disk con...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Beta 2

News Team 3. May 2008

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the second Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! New changes include countless bug fixes, as well as the import of the new openSUSE 11.0 art...

Java Development Updates for openSUSE

News Team 30. Apr 2008

Michal Vyskocil has requested a new mailing list around Java topics. You can subscribe to it or browse the newly created archive. This nicely fits our other Java changes, w...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1

News Team 18. Apr 2008

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the first Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! There are many exciting enhancements and features in the new release. Among these is the inc...

Counting Down to 11.0 – Get Your Counter Here!

News Team 16. Apr 2008

You can help spread the word for openSUSE 11.0 before it’s released! The openSUSE project now has countdown banners that display the number of days before the next openSUS...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 3

News Team 19. Mar 2008

After four regular weeks and one hack week after Alpha 2, we are very happy to announce openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 3. See more screenshots on the Screenshots/openSUSE_11.0_Al...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2

News Team 8. Feb 2008

Only three weeks after Alpha1, we’re glad to announce the release of openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2. There are various exciting changes in there that we would like to have feedback ...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Alpha1

News Team 18. Jan 2008

With the new year beginning we kick start major development into the next version of openSUSE: openSUSE 11.0 (roadmap). A very early alpha version, Alpha 1, is now availabl...

Novell Open Audio: Fixing Security Problems in Linux

News Team 7. Dec 2007

For the last issue of their openSUSE release series, Novell Open Audio has talked to Marcus Meißner, team lead of the SUSE security team, to learn about the processes tri...

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Alpha0

News Team 6. Dec 2007

We’d like to kick start the development of openSUSE 11.0 by releasing the current state of Factory as an Alpha0 release. Since the release of 10.3, we checked in 2187 packa...

ATI RadeonHD Driver: First Release!

News Team 30. Nov 2007

The X Window System developer team at SUSE has released version 1.0.0 of the ATI Radeon R5xx and R6xx chipset driver it has been developing over the past few months for Nov...

New openSUSE Packages: KDE 4.0 RC1, KOffice 2 Alpha5, Firefox 3.0 Beta

News Team 24. Nov 2007

The release of KDE 4.0 RC1, KOffice 2 Alpha 5, and Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 were all announced in the last week. As always, openSUSE packages are available in the openSUSE Build ...

Novell Open Audio: YaST Improvements and 1-Click-Install

News Team 5. Nov 2007

As part of their openSUSE series over the next coming weeks, Novell Open Audio is taking a look at the YaST Improvements and 1-Click-Install in openSUSE 10.3. It features...

openSUSE 10.3 Live Version Available

admin 2. Nov 2007

The live version of openSUSE 10.3 is now available as a GNOME or KDE CD. Both contain the same software as the 1 CD installation versions would provide you with, but as a l...

YaST Tools for Creating Installation Media and Appliances

Andreas Jaeger 1. Nov 2007

The casual reader of news.opensuse.org knows that openSUSE 10.3 contains a YaST tool for creating images using KIWI. However, it is not that known fact that openSUSE 10.3 ...

Quickies: Installation Videos, KDE 4.0 Beta 3+ Live-CD, Build Service Notification RFC

News Team 25. Oct 2007

A small team has created videos of the openSUSE 10.3 installation with commentary and plans to create further ones. — A Live-CD based on openSUSE 10.3 with the KDE 4.0 Beta...

More openSUSE 10.3 Numbers

News Team 11. Oct 2007

Last week we released openSUSE 10.3, and we want to keep you updated on its very successful launch. I finally got some more numbers: During the first 30 hours we changed t...

openSUSE 10.3 on PS3 and Other PowerPC Hardware

Andreas Jaeger 6. Oct 2007

The spicy power team concentrated for openSUSE 10.3 on supporting the Sony Playstation PS3, the major changes are: openSUSE 10.3 is fully installable with YaST on ...

Release Day - All Hell Breaks Loose

News Team 5. Oct 2007

Yesterday we released openSUSE 10.3, and we are pretty impressed what happened. Some rough numbers: Our download for the iso images peaked at 14Gbit/s, the average was 12...

Novell Open Audio: openSUSE 10.3

News Team 5. Oct 2007

As part of a Novell Open Audio series on openSUSE, they will be interviewing various openSUSE developers to find out more about the project, particular involvements and new...

Announcing openSUSE 10.3 GM

News Team 4. Oct 2007

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, the openSUSE project provides free, easy access to the world’s m...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: A Plethora of Improvements

News Team 2. Oct 2007

With this last article the Sneak Peeks series comes to an end for this release. But don’t worry: it’s tightly packed with an extra share of information on the latest openSU...

Quickies: Goldmaster, oS 10.3 RC 1 Report, Bug Reporter Statistics, Reinforced Linux Drivers Project

News Team 29. Sep 2007

openSUSE 10.3 has been declared Gold and will now be uploaded to the mirrors and available for download on October 4th - the boxed version can be pre-ordered for delivery s...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: Virtualisation

News Team 27. Sep 2007

Some changes in openSUSE 10.3 have ensured that if you are interested in just about any type of popular virtualisation, then openSUSE is the operating system to be on. From...

Quickies: openSUSE 10.3 RC 2 Live-CDs, SUSE Linux 10.0 Soon Discontinued, And More

News Team 26. Sep 2007

Stephan Kulow has announced openSUSE 10.3 Live CDs based on Release Candidate 2 which also got synced out - its live installer should still be considered Alpha. The securit...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: 1-CD Installation & Multimedia support

News Team 25. Sep 2007

openSUSE 10.3 has seen a lot of changes with the media selection; the most prominent one being the new 1-CD installation for KDE, and 1-CD installation for GNOME. Multimedi...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: SUSE-Polished GNOME 2.20

News Team 20. Sep 2007

openSUSE has been driving innovation on the Linux desktop, and in today’s serial we’ll be discovering just what has been happening on the GNOME front. Among other things, o...

Call for Testing of openSUSE 10.3 Update Stack

Andreas Jaeger 20. Sep 2007

If you want to help testing our standard test cases, please coordinate with others and subscribe to opensuse-testing@opensuse.org (subscribe)! I’d like to do a special cal...

Announcing openSUSE 10.3 RC1

News Team 20. Sep 2007

After quite a few rebuilds and testing, the openSUSE team is happy to announce that RC1 looks brilliant and is now available for download. We consider this release to be fe...

Open Source Driver for ATI Radeon R5xx/R6xx

Andreas Jaeger 18. Sep 2007

AMD has recently released register specifications for the ATI Radeon R5xx and R6xx graphic devices. Engineers from Novell have now released a first alpha quality Open ...

JPackage in openSUSE - Get Involved!

Andreas Jaeger 17. Sep 2007

The JPackage project aims to provide rpm packages with lots of Java programs and libraries. The main focus is on free and open source software. Currently there are about 45...

KIWI-LTSP for openSUSE 10.3

Andreas Jaeger 17. Sep 2007

KIWI-LTSP team is very happy to announce the new project on Novell Forge. The project aims to  combine the Linux Terminal Server and openSUSE KIWI imaging technologies. LT...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: KDE 4

News Team 14. Sep 2007

openSUSE 10.3 will see the first small parts of KDE 4 creeping into the distribution. KDE 3 will still be the default KDE session for openSUSE 10.3, but KDE 4 will be makin...

openSUSE 10.3 Beta 3 Has Been Released

News Team 6. Sep 2007

The openSUSE Team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3 Beta 3. Though this release should not be used on any production machines, everyone can help shape this ...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: Compiz and Compiz Fusion

News Team 4. Sep 2007

Compiz and Xgl are two classic examples of where SUSE engineers have revolutionised the Linux desktop. openSUSE 10.3 will contain the latest Compiz 0.5.4 installed by defau...

YaST Independence From YCP

Andreas Jaeger 29. Aug 2007

The openSUSE 10.3 Beta 2 release brought down another major obstacle in developing YaST: the famous YCP language is not strictly needed for the YaST development anymore. A ...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: New Package Management

News Team 26. Aug 2007

openSUSE 10.3 is set to contain a new, significantly improved and more mature package management stack by default. ZMD, the package management component causing problems in...

2007 Desktop Linux Survey Results Revealed

admin 24. Aug 2007

Some interesting data on the dektop usage of Linux. What’s striking is that popularity of openSUSE almost doubled form roughly 10% in 2006 to close to 20% in 2007 survey.

openSUSE 10.3 Beta 2 Has Been Released

News Team 23. Aug 2007

The openSUSE Team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3 Beta 2. Though this release should not be used on any production machines, everyone can help shape this ...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: 1-Click Install

News Team 21. Aug 2007

Today we are taking a look at the new One-Click Install technology which aims to simplify package management for users. We will see how this is integrated into the openSUSE...

Testing the Current Upstream Linux Kernel

Andreas Jaeger 15. Aug 2007

Andrew Morton has spoken at different occasions about testing of the Linux kernel and asked users to test the current development version and report their findings.  For ou...

Quickies: LWE Announcements, Coolo Interviewed, Israeli openSUSE Portal, Art SVN, SCO

News Team 13. Aug 2007

Again time to sum up news that didn’t make it to an own story here: At LinuxWorld San Francisco it was announced that SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, which is based on the o...

Bug Slashing/Hunting Weekend is Over

News Team 13. Aug 2007

The Bug Slashing Weekend has come to an end, and we are happy to report that it was a huge success! Countless old bugs were slashed, updated, and looked over, though for th...

openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1 Live CDs

News Team 12. Aug 2007

Stephan Kulow has created and uploaded Live CDs of the 1-CD installations for your pleasure: GNOME Live ISO, KDE Live ISO. He writes: “Please put ‘live CD’ into the summary...

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: Greatly Improved Boot Time

News Team 12. Aug 2007

openSUSE 10.3 is going to be filled with new improvements and exciting technologies. To allow you to discover exactly what the developers have been working hard on behind t...

openSUSE Bug Slashing This Weekend!

News Team 10. Aug 2007

So openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1 has now been released and it’s looking great. A long-discussed topic on the opensuse-project@opensuse.org (subscribe) mailing list was the suggesti...

Announcing openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1

News Team 9. Aug 2007

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the first Beta release of openSUSE 10.3. There are many exciting enhancements and features in the new release. Among these are a whol...

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 7 Has Been Released

News Team 2. Aug 2007

The openSUSE Team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 7. Though this release should not be used on any production machines, everyone can help shape this...

KDE 4.0 Beta 1 and KOffice 2.0 Alpha 2 Packages

News Team 2. Aug 2007

KDE 4.0 Beta 1 has been released which marks the beginning of the integration process which will bring the powerful new technologies included in the now frozen KDE 4 libra...

Call for openSUSE Translations

Andreas Jaeger 27. Jul 2007

There have been several requests from community members on the mailing lists to join language teams for the languages Brazilian Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Japanes...

Quickies: Alpha 7 Planned, Linux Foundation CTO, Homepage Relaunch

News Team 26. Jul 2007

As quickies we combine news not worthy of an own story: Next week, a public openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 7 will be released which previously was planned as internal Alpha 6+. SUSE v...

Announcing openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6

News Team 19. Jul 2007

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6 has been released to the public today. Read more about it .

New Project Manager for the Distribution

Andreas Jaeger 18. Jul 2007

I’m glad to announce that I have given over my responsibilities for the openSUSE distribution to Stephan Kulow coolo@suse.de. As from now on Stephan is project manager for ...

Results of Survey on Use of Proprietary Software

News Team 20. Jun 2007

The results of the survey we did on proprietary software has been published: It shows that we ship on the media some software which is hardly used (e.g. PlanMaker, SEPsesam...

SUSE Linux 9.3 Security Support Discontinued

News Team 18. Jun 2007

With todays release of the CUPS bugfix/security fix update we have released the last security update or SUSE Linux 9.3. It is now officially discontinued and out of support...

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 5

News Team 14. Jun 2007

The fifth Alpha release of openSUSE 10.3 has been released. First time two one installation media are offered: a GNOME CD and a KDE CD. Some annoying bugs were already disc...

Survey on Use of Proprietary Software

News Team 5. Jun 2007

We like to know a bit more about the usage of proprietary software we ship on some versions of our openSUSE distribution. Therefore we created a 16 question survey and ask...

New Mailing List opensuse-softwaremgmt

News Team 22. May 2007

We have a new mailing list opensuse-softwaremgmt. It’s meant to bring the people involved in different projects having to do with package management together. Related chec...

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 4

News Team 16. May 2007

The fourth Alpha release of openSUSE 10.3 has been released. Some annoying bugs were already discovered. With its latest updates, the company warns it may phone tracker c...

openSUSE 10.3 Roadmap Published

News Team 9. May 2007

Andreas Jaeger announced the final roadmap for openSUSE 10.3. openSUSE 10.3 is the next release that incorporates new features from both the community and Novell internal d...

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