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openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Beta

Lubos Kocman (Edited by Douglas DeMaio) 30. Apr 2025

Leap Micro 6.2 Adopts the Leap Release Cycle Members of the openSUSE Release Team are excited to announce that the Leap 16 Beta is now available for testing! Like its pre...

New Package Management Tool Debuts

Douglas DeMaio 20. Dec 2024

The name for this project was updated to Myrlyn on Jan. 9, 2025. YQPkg, a promising new package management tool for openSUSE, is preparing to make waves in the Linux commu...

Leap 15.5 Nears End of Life

Douglas DeMaio 19. Dec 2024

The release of Leap 15.6 on June 12 set in motion the End of Life for maintenance and security for Leap 15.5, which will happen at the end of December. Users should upgrad...

Leap, Tumbleweed Get Makeovers

Douglas DeMaio 26. Oct 2024

Branding for Tumbleweed and Leap 16.0 are moving along with the creation of a visual identity for these two distinct operating system flavors. For two of openSUSE’s most n...

Development start of Leap 16.0

Lubos Kocman 7. Oct 2024

Hello everyone! I’d like to announce the start of development and the public availability of what we currently refer to as Leap 16.0 pre-Alpha. Since this is a pre-Alpha v...

Looking at Next Steps for Leap 16 Branding

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jul 2024

Many thanks to all who participated in the Leap 16 branding workshop at the openSUSE Conference 2024. The enthusiasm and creativity is moving us forward to take the next st...

Leap 15.6 image respin

Lubos Kocman 21. Jun 2024

Leap 15.6 install media were refreshed to address an issue with old secure boot signing key for ppc64le and s390x. Refreshed images from Leap 15.6 Build 710.3 are already ...

Leap 15.6 Unveils Choices for Users

Douglas DeMaio 12. Jun 2024

EN / CA / CS / DE / ES / JA / PT-BR / SV / ZH-TW NUREMBERG, Germany – The release of Leap 15.6 is official and paves the way for professionals and organizations to transit...

openSUSE Community Readies for Release Party

Douglas DeMaio 6. Jun 2024

Members of openSUSE Project are excited about the launch of Leap 15.6 on June 12 and encourages people to host a Release Party. If you don’t know how to do this, there is ...

Try Cockpit in Leap Release Candidate

Lubos Kocman and Douglas DeMaio 29. Apr 2024

openSUSE Leap 15.6 exited Beta and entered its Release Candidate phase with build 669.1 last week. You can get Leap 15.6 RC install images from get.opensuse.org. This mean...

Leap 15.6 Reaches Beta Phase

Douglas DeMaio 7. Mar 2024

The openSUSE Project is thrilled to announce the Beta release phase of Leap 15.6. Feel free to download Leap 15.6 Beta images from get.opensuse.org and test it out, or upg...

Clear Course is Set for openSUSE Leap

Lubos Kocman and Douglas DeMaio 15. Jan 2024

The openSUSE release team confirms there will be a successor to Leap 15 and it’s a numerical leap forward. As many eagerly await the arrival of Leap 15.6 this year, a path...

The Transitional Journey of openSUSE’s Logo Rebranding

Douglas DeMaio 5. Dec 2023

The open-source world is in the midst of an exciting transformation as the openSUSE community prepares to phase in a new project logo. While the competition, which has mor...

Selecting the New Face of openSUSE is Underway

Douglas DeMaio 23. Nov 2023

The openSUSE community’s logo contest submission phase is now complete and voting for the logos has begun. This competition marks a pivotal moment for openSUSE and the vot...

Results of Use Case Survey Published

Douglas DeMaio 6. Nov 2023

The openSUSE Project ran a use-case survey during the month of October and results are now available via a 254-page report and a summary of the survey’s findings is on the...

Survey to Explore openSUSE's Use Cases, More

Douglas DeMaio 27. Sep 2023

A recently published openSUSE survey is asking IT professionals and users about their views on open-source technologies and the ever-evolving Linux ecosystem. The Use Case...

Leap 15.5 Release Retrospective is open for feedback

Lubos Kocman 9. Jun 2023

openSUSE Leap 15.5 was released earlier this week and release team would like to hear from you about your experience with openSUSE Leap 15.5. Did anything go particularly ...

Leap 15.5 Release Matures, Sets Up Technological Transition

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jun 2023

EN / CA / CS / DE / ES / FR / JA / NL / ZH-TW NUREMBERG, Germany – The release of openSUSE’s latest 15-series version marks years of maintenance and security that began m...

Project Announces Plans for Another Minor Leap 15 Release

Lubos Kocman 6. Jun 2023

We’d like to announce that the openSUSE Release team plans to work on openSUSE Leap 15.6. openSUSE Leap 15.6 is expected to be released in early June 2024 and would reach ...

Modern Python stack for Leap

Daniel García Moreno 6. Jun 2023

Adding Python 3.11 to Leap 15.4 and newer Leap has a default Python interpreter that’s “too old”. In Leap, python3 is Python 3.6 that reached upstream end of life at the e...

Home instance of NextCloud with Leap Micro 5.4, Leap Micro 5.2 is EOL, Leap 15.5 enters RC

Lubos Kocman 27. Apr 2023

This week was a busy week! Leap 15.5 enters the Release Candidate phase! According to the roadmap users can expect the final release shortly after the openSUSE Conference ...

Leap 15.5 Reaches Beta Phase

Douglas DeMaio 21. Feb 2023

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

openSUSE Leap 15.3 to Reach End-of-Life

Community Meeting 12. Dec 2022

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

No more updates for nodejs14, below in Leap 15.4

Lubos Kocman 7. Nov 2022

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

Medical Campaign uses GNU Health, openSUSE

Douglas DeMaio 19. Oct 2022

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

Leap Micro 5.3 Beta Available for Testing

Douglas DeMaio 9. Sep 2022

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

openSUSE Leap 15.4 release retrospective

Victorhck 28. Jun 2022

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

Community aims to grow communication, marketing team

Douglas DeMaio 15. Jun 2022

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

Leap 15.4 Offers New Features, Familiar Stability

Douglas DeMaio 8. Jun 2022

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

openSUSE’s Brazilian Community to Celebrate Leap Release

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jun 2022

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

Mesa, ImageMagick Packages Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 25. May 2022

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

openSUSE Leap 15.4 Enters Release Candidate Phase

Douglas DeMaio 17. May 2022

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

Leap Micro Beta Available for Testers

Douglas DeMaio 5. Apr 2022

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

Entering Leap Bugs Gains New Clarity

Douglas DeMaio 28. Mar 2022

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

openSUSE Leap 15.4 Reaches Beta Build Phase

Douglas DeMaio 2. Mar 2022

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

Beta Test Leap with Pizza, Friends

Douglas DeMaio 1. Mar 2022

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

Latest Plasma Lands in Tumbleweed, Set for Leap Beta

Douglas DeMaio 11. Feb 2022

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

Release Manager Gives Community Update On Desktop Environment

Douglas DeMaio 27. Jan 2022

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

openSUSE Begins Annual Survey

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jan 2022

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

openSUSE 15.2 Reached End-of-Life

Community Meeting 13. Jan 2022

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

Alpha Releases of openSUSE Leap 15.4 are Available for Testing

Douglas DeMaio 2. Dec 2021

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

Survey Results of Packagers, Maintainers Posted

Douglas DeMaio 10. Nov 2021

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

Leap's First Quarterly Update is Released

Douglas DeMaio 2. Nov 2021

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

Hospital to run GNU Health, openSUSE

Douglas DeMaio 20. Oct 2021

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

Quarterly Respin of openSUSE Leap Images are Coming

Douglas DeMaio 14. Oct 2021

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

New Survey Aims to Gain Packager, Maintainer Insights

Douglas DeMaio 7. Oct 2021

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

Leap Gains Maintenance Update Improvements

Douglas DeMaio 19. Jul 2021

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

Survey For openSUSE Leap 15.3 Release Closes

Douglas DeMaio 16. Jun 2021

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

Foster openSUSE Leap 15.3 Growth

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jun 2021

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

New Rebuilds Look to Advance New Hardware

Douglas DeMaio 8. Jun 2021

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

Online Open House Goes Over openSUSE, Survey Opens

Douglas DeMaio 4. Jun 2021

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

openSUSE Leap 15.3 Bridges Path to Enterprise

Douglas DeMaio 2. Jun 2021

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

Release Manager Provides Update on Early Features Requisitions for Leap 15.4

Douglas DeMaio 31. May 2021

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

openSUSE Community Readies for Release Party

Douglas DeMaio 25. May 2021

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

RealSenseID compatibility with all openSUSE

Alessandro de Oliveira Faria 19. May 2021

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

Shells, openSUSE Unite with Partnership

Douglas DeMaio 13. May 2021

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

openSUSE Leap 15.3 Expands with armv7

Douglas DeMaio 12. May 2021

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

openSUSE Leap 15.3 Enters Release Candidate Phase

Douglas DeMaio 28. Apr 2021

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

openSUSE Leap 15.3 Reaches Beta Build Phase

Douglas DeMaio 3. Mar 2021

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 11. Feb 2021

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

OAK compatibility with all openSUSE

Alessandro de Oliveira Faria 19. Jan 2021

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

openSUSE Community Publishes End of Year Survey Results

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jan 2021

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

Introducing the openSUSE 2020 End of Year Survey

Adrien Glauser 19. Dec 2020

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

Alpha Releases of openSUSE Leap 15.3 are Available for Testing

Douglas DeMaio 16. Dec 2020

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

openSUSE Leap offers Predictability

Douglas DeMaio 14. Dec 2020

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 1. Dec 2020

Members of the openSUSE release team members will share results of openSUSE on arm during two separate online sessions on openSUSE’s Jisti instance Dec. 2. The first sessi...

Survey for the future of openSUSE on Arm

Guillaume GARDET 9. Nov 2020

The openSUSE release team has established a survey to gain greater insights into the use cases of people using or developing for ARMv6, ARMv7 and ARMv8. The introduction t...

openSUSE Developers Kickoff Leap 15.3

Douglas DeMaio 5. Nov 2020

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

openSUSE Community To Have Kickoff Session for Leap 15.3

Douglas DeMaio 28. Oct 2020

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

Feature Requests, Submit Requests for openSUSE Jump Take Shape

Douglas DeMaio 23. Sep 2020

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

Ritchie-CLI for openSUSE

Alessandro de Oliveira Faria 31. Aug 2020

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 28. Aug 2020

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 10. Aug 2020

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

Release Team to have retrospective meeting about openSUSE Leap 15.2

Douglas DeMaio 5. Aug 2020

Members of the openSUSE community will have two retrospective meetings about the release of openSUSE Leap 15.2 after receiving feedback from the recent survey. The meeting...

Leap 15.2 Install party @ GOLEM - A quick report

Dario Faggioli 3. Aug 2020

Italian Linux users did an openSUSE Leap 15.2 Launch Party, at the local LUG (it’s called GOLEM, it’s in a small town in central Italy), and Dario Faggioli made a quick r...

oneAPI compatibility with all openSUSE

Alessandro de Oliveira Faria 30. Jul 2020

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

Release Team Asks for Feedback on openSUSE Leap 15.2

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jul 2020

The openSUSE release team is would like feedback from users, developers and stakeholders about the release of the of community-developed openSUSE Leap 15.2 through a survey...

openSUSE Leap 15.2 is Available for Windows Subsystem for Linux

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jul 2020

The release of openSUSE Leap 15.2 continues to expand its use and is now available for Windows Subsystem for Linux in the Microsoft Store. Leap can be executed on top of W...

openSUSE Leap 15.2 Release Brings Exciting New Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and Container Packages

Douglas DeMaio 2. Jul 2020

ISO 639-1 Languages - CA - CS - DE - FR - ID - IT - ES - JA - ZH-TW - PT NUREMBERG, Germany (02/07/2020) – The openSUSE release team is proud to announce the availability ...

Celebrate The Upcoming openSUSE Leap Release

Douglas DeMaio 24. Jun 2020

Having a party to celebrate an achievement is rewarding and the openSUSE community knows how to party; and get things done. This is no exception during the time of the pand...

Help promote openSUSE Leap 15.2!

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jun 2020

The release of openSUSE Leap 15.2 will be released soon. To help spread the word about the release, we have counters available at counter.opensuse.org and more artwork uplo...

Build tensorflow2 with CUDA support

Christian Goll 19. Jun 2020

Build Tensorflow 2.1.1 with CUDA support Tensorflow 2.1.1 is available in Tumbleweed and Leap 15.2 but has no CUDA support enabled, due to legal issues with NVIDIA. As CUDA...

openSUSE Leap 15.2 Enters Release Candidate Phase

Douglas DeMaio 28. May 2020

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

openSUSE Talks at SUSECON Digital

Douglas DeMaio 20. May 2020

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 10. Apr 2020

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

Listen to your music with mpd and ncmpcpp

Sébastien 'sogal' Poher 31. Mar 2020

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

Manage your dotfiles with Git

Sébastien 'sogal' Poher 27. Mar 2020

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

Leap 15.2 Enters Beta Builds Phase

Douglas DeMaio 25. Feb 2020

openSUSE Leap 15.2 entered the Beta phase last week and has already released two snapshots with the release of build 581.2 and build 588.2. Leap has a rolling development m...

Plasma, NodeJS, pip, Grep update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 20. Feb 2020

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots arrived this week and the snapshots provided a few major version upgrades and several minor updates with newer features. The latest sna...

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...

GNOME, LLVM, Samba, Ruby Packages Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 24. Oct 2019

Two openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week that updated several libraries as well as updates for GNOME, Ruby, Samba, Mozilla and the LLVM compiler. Snapshot...

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...

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...

Tumbleweed’s July Snapshots Are Trending Strong

Douglas DeMaio 11. Jul 2019

There have been a total of five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots since the beginning of July and all the snapshots have a strong, stable rating. The rolling release had the m...

openSUSE Community Releases Leap 15.1 Version

Douglas DeMaio 22. May 2019

Leap 15.1 Supports More Hardware, Drivers, Enhances Installation EN / CA / DE / FR / IT / ES / JA / NL / PL / ZH / ZH-TW 22/05/2019 ** NUREMBERG, Germany **- Today’s r...

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

Douglas DeMaio 15. May 2019

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

Help promote openSUSE Leap 15.1!

Douglas DeMaio 30. Apr 2019

The release of openSUSE Leap 15.1 is about three weeks away. To help spread the word about the release, we have counters available at counter.opensuse.org and more artwork ...

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...

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 ...

Gimp Goes Vertical, OSTree Preps for Changes with systemd

Douglas DeMaio 22. Nov 2018

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

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...

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 Leap 42.3 End of Life is Extended

Douglas DeMaio 8. Aug 2018

The usual lifetime of openSUSE Leap minor versions have traditionally received updates for about 18 months, but the minor version of Leap 42.3 is being extended. The last ...

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...

openSUSE Donates 10 More Raspberry Pis to GNU Health

Douglas DeMaio 26. May 2018

The openSUSE Project once again donated 10 Raspberry Pis to GNU Health Project, which were handed over to the project’s founder Luis Falcon at the openSUSE Conference today...

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...

Have a Release Party, Promote openSUSE’s Newest Version

Douglas DeMaio 16. May 2018

There are just 9 days left for the release of openSUSE Leap 15 and the community can help spread the word of the release by having a release party and promoting the newest ...

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 ...

Hands on with Docker, openSUSE Leap 15

Douglas DeMaio 4. 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...

syslog-ng vs. systemd’s journald

Douglas DeMaio 30. Apr 2018

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

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...

What Is New With KDE’s Plasma 5.12 in openSUSE Leap

Douglas DeMaio 23. Feb 2018

 KDE Plasma 5.8 users coming from openSUSE Leap 42.3 to Plasma 5.12 on Leap 15 will notice significant changes when upgrading to the new versions. The boot up time for KD...

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...

Official KDE Plasma 5.12 Release Now in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 8. Feb 2018

Mesa 18, cryptsetup 2 Also Arrive in Snapshots ### KDE Plasma 5.12 transitioned from it beta version of 5.11.95 to the official release in an openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot...

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...

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...

openSUSE Leap 42.3 Cloud Images Become Available

Douglas DeMaio 22. Aug 2017

Cloud images for openSUSE Leap 42.3 are now available for Azure, Google Compute Engine and more cloud providers. The images for Amazon Web Services (AWS EC2) are expected ...

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...

Plan A Community Release Party for openSUSE Leap 42.3

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jul 2017

Many people are anxiously awaiting for the release of openSUSE Leap 42.3 next week, but before the release arrives, you can prepare for a Release Party to celebrate the upc...

Heroes preparing to make the leap

Lars Vogdt 14. Jul 2017

You might have noticed some normally unwanted activity over the last weeks affecting the openSUSE infrastructure - resulting in reduced availability or downtime of the prov...

Website About People of openSUSE Ends Hiatus

Douglas DeMaio 19. Jun 2017

Interviews with people involved in the openSUSE Project have returned and new pages will be added in the future highlighting individuals involved in the community project. ...

Next Leap 42.3 Snapshot Equates to Release Candidate

Douglas DeMaio 6. Jun 2017

Rolling Development Still needs Testing, Promoters Since changing to a rolling development version model for the eventual release of openSUSE Leap 42.3, challenges have ar...

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...

Enterprise Beta Sources Added to openSUSE Leap 42.3 Build

Douglas DeMaio 19. May 2017

Sources from the beta version of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) Service Pack 3 (SP3) arrived today in the latest build for openSUSE’s next minor release of the 42 series. The...

Bird Watching: An openSUSE Maker Project

Douglas DeMaio 18. Apr 2017

Creating cool projects is what makes openSUSE so much fun and a recent project by an openSUSE member highlights just how creative and fun one can be using openSUSE. Adrian...

GNU Health, openSUSE Pioneer Shift in Healthcare Management

Douglas DeMaio 13. Mar 2017

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

openSUSE Cloud Images are Ripe for Users

Douglas DeMaio 1. Feb 2017

Cloud images for openSUSE Leap 42.2 are now available for Amazon Web Services (AWS EC2), Azure, Google Compute Engine and more cloud providers. Last week, openSUSE Leap 42...

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...

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...

Beta 3 Release Updates FireFox, KDE Applications, VirtualBox

Douglas DeMaio 5. Oct 2016

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 Beta 3 was released today one day ahead of schedule and the last beta for 42.2 brought quite a few new versions for people to test. VirtualBox was u...

New Leap Beta Adds Plasma 5.8 Beta

Douglas DeMaio 22. Sep 2016

The release of openSUSE Leap 42.2 Beta 2 today added several new minor versions including KDE’s first Long Term Support version for Plasma. The highly anticipated release ...

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...

Ceph, Git, YaST, kernel update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 24. Aug 2016

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

Six Tumbleweed snapshots roll, update systemd, xen, Firefox

Douglas DeMaio 17. Aug 2016

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

Tumbleweed gets three snapshots, Leap deadline approaches

Douglas DeMaio 10. Aug 2016

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

New compiler expected in next Tumbleweed snapshot

Douglas DeMaio 15. Jun 2016

A new GNU Compiler Collection for openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed is scheduled to arrive soon. Tumbleweed 20160613 snapshot will be the last snapshot to be based on ...

Tumbleweed changes fonts, Leap gets several updates

Douglas DeMaio 27. Nov 2015

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

Weekly review: openSUSE Leap 42.1 gets new ports, Hack Week scheduled

Douglas DeMaio 20. Nov 2015

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

openSUSE Leap 42.1 Becomes First Hybrid Distribution

Douglas DeMaio 4. Nov 2015

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

openSUSE Leap 42.1 Preview

Douglas DeMaio 30. Oct 2015

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

Leap Release Candidate gets new office suite

Douglas DeMaio 15. Oct 2015

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

openSUSE releases Leap Beta

Douglas DeMaio 24. Sep 2015

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

GNOME 3.18 enters staging, Leap’s Beta scheduled for next week

Douglas DeMaio 19. Sep 2015

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

openSUSE releases Leap Milestone 2

Douglas DeMaio 4. Sep 2015

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

Second milestone expected soon

Douglas DeMaio 11. Aug 2015

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

openSUSE releases first milestone for Leap

Douglas DeMaio 24. Jul 2015

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

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