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Lend a Hand at the openSUSE Conference

Douglas DeMaio 28. May 2025

The openSUSE community wants to make the project’s conference in Nuremberg smooth, welcoming and beneficial to attendees. We’re calling on you to get involved! Whether you...

Why Gaming with openSUSE Is A Good Move

Douglas DeMaio 16. May 2025

Imagine this: You built a gaming rig in 2016. It still crushes 1080p titles, runs cool, and looks great on your desk. But now Windows 10 is nearing its end-of-life, and upg...

Get openSUSE Gear at oSC25

Douglas DeMaio 6. May 2025

Heading to the openSUSE Conference 2025 in Nuremberg? Great news! The project will have a shop available at the conference venue where attendees can purchase openSUSE merch...

Upgrade to Freedom Campaign Shifts to End of 10

Douglas DeMaio 5. May 2025

Microsoft will end support for Windows 10 on Oct. 14 and this will likely trigger a surge in unnecessary electronic waste (e-waste) on International E-Waste Day, which is a...

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...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025 Call for Speakers

openSUSE Asia Summit India Team 22. Apr 2025

We are pleased to announce that the Call for Speakers for the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025 is now open. The event will take place from August 29 to 31, 2025 in Faridabad, Indi...

No Hidden Software, No Surprises

Stefan Hundhammer (Edited by Douglas DeMaio) 16. Apr 2025

The Upgrade to Freedom campaign has joined the End of 10 initiative to promote Free and Open Source Software as a sustainable alternative to Windows 10. Learn more at endof...

Freedom Means Knowing What’s Installed

Douglas DeMaio 15. Apr 2025

The Upgrade to Freedom campaign exists to remind users that better, community-driven operating systems to Microsoft Windows do exist and that there are alternatives that do...

Replace Windows, Not Your Device

Douglas DeMaio 14. Apr 2025

The Upgrade to Freedom campaign has joined the End of 10 initiative to promote Free and Open Source Software as a sustainable alternative to Windows 10. Learn more at endof...

Logo Call openSUSE.Asia Summit

openSUSE Asia Summit India Team 7. Apr 2025

We are excited to announce the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025 Logo Competition! A logo is more than just a design—it represents the spirit, identity, and energy of the event. E...

Tariffs Spark Shift to Open Source

Douglas DeMaio 7. Apr 2025

This new era of tariffs and retaliatory measures may ripple through the tech sector and accelerate interest in open-source alternatives like openSUSE. Businesses and gover...

Traveling to oSC25? Important Information About Visas

Douglas DeMaio 31. Mar 2025

If you are planning to attend the openSUSE Conference 2025 2025 from June 26 – 28, there are important visa requirements you should be aware of. If you are not a citizen o...

Zypper Adds Experimental Parallel Downloads

Douglas DeMaio 27. Mar 2025

A new zypper experimental media backend and support for parallel package downloads have been introduced with the release of libzypp version 17.36.4 and zypper version 1.14....

Freedom Does Not Come From One Vendor

Douglas DeMaio 26. Mar 2025

As political winds shift across the globe, the digital world is not immune to the turbulence. Governments and organizations across the globe are reassessing their dependenc...

Invitation to openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025 - Faridabad, India

openSUSE Asia Summit India Team 21. Mar 2025

29th – 31st August 2025 About openSUSE.Asia Summit We are excited to announce that the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025 will be held in Faridabad, India. This annual event brings...

Choose Freedom, Not Trialware

Douglas DeMaio 21. Mar 2025

The Upgrade to Freedom campaign has joined the End of 10 initiative to promote Free and Open Source Software as a sustainable alternative to Windows 10. Learn more at endof...

SUSE extends eLearning discount to openSUSE Members

Douglas DeMaio 19. Mar 2025

SUSE, the main sponsor of the openSUSE Project, is offering a discount on its eLearning platform for members looking to enhance their skills in SUSE technologies. The eLea...

AI hands out Windows keys, but Linux never had a lock

Douglas DeMaio 28. Feb 2025

AI’s latest escapade into software piracy has left Microsoft scrambling, but let’s be honest; why even go through the hassle? If people are looking at not paying for an ope...

Windows to Linux, Set Up Full Disk Encryption on openSUSE

Douglas DeMaio 20. Feb 2025

The Upgrade to Freedom campaign has joined the End of 10 initiative to promote Free and Open Source Software as a sustainable alternative to Windows 10. Learn more at endof...

Submit a Presentation for the openSUSE Conference

Douglas DeMaio 23. Jan 2025

The call for papers for openSUSE Conference 2025 is open. The conference is scheduled to take place June 26 to 28 in Nuremberg, Germany. Until April 30, people can submit...

openSUSE Board Elections Update

Douglas DeMaio 20. Jan 2025

Members of the openSUSE Election Committee have informed the project that Board elections are underway. Four candidates are running for three open seats. The final candid...

Gaming on Linux, How openSUSE Stacks Up for Gamers

Douglas DeMaio 16. Jan 2025

The Upgrade to Freedom campaign has joined the End of 10 initiative to promote Free and Open Source Software as a sustainable alternative to Windows 10. Learn more at endof...

LXQt Wayland support is now here

Shawn W Dunn 13. Jan 2025

With the release of LXQt 2.1, we are pleased to announce the availability of Wayland compatibility for LXQt within Tumbleweed. This support is to be considered experimenta...

New Year Starts with Slowroll Version Bump

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jan 2025

The openSUSE Slowroll community has welcomed the January version bump that was completed recently. Slowroll’s snapshots mark the beginning of fresh updates with the initia...

Board Election Schedule Revised

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jan 2025

Members of the openSUSE Election Committee have provided an update regarding this year’s Board election. This election will fill three board seats. All eligible openSUSE me...

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...

Cheers to 5 Years of openSUSE Bar

Douglas DeMaio 17. Dec 2024

The openSUSE community will celebrate the 5-year anniversary of the openSUSE Bar on Dec. 19. Join people in the bar and celebrate this social space where open-source enthus...

Choosing Better Alternatives Amid Confusing Policies

Douglas DeMaio 13. Dec 2024

A recent back-and-forth on Windows 11’s hardware requirements and the end-of-life timeline for Windows 10 leaves millions of users frustrated and uncertain about their next...

Linux, openSUSE ready for Everyday Users

Douglas DeMaio 11. Dec 2024

The Upgrade to Freedom campaign has joined the End of 10 initiative to promote Free and Open Source Software as a sustainable alternative to Windows 10. Learn more at endof...

Leap Micro 6.1 Officially Released

Douglas DeMaio 6. Dec 2024

The openSUSE community is excited to announce the official release of Leap Micro 6.1. Leap Micro continues its alignment with SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro, ensuring robust ...

Leap Micro 6.1 Release Candidate

Lubos Kocman 4. Dec 2024

Release Candidate images of Leap Micro 6.1 can be found at get.opensuse.org. At this point we’re only awaiting confirmation of the Leap Micro 6.1 maintenance setup prior m...

openSUSE Empowers Creative Professionals

Douglas DeMaio 3. Dec 2024

The Upgrade to Freedom campaign has joined the End of 10 initiative to promote Free and Open Source Software as a sustainable alternative to Windows 10. Learn more at endof...

Upgrading to Leap Micro 6.1 Beta with opensuse-migration-tool

Lubos Kocman 29. Nov 2024

Leap Micro 6.1 Beta was released last Wednesday. Images can be found at get.opensuse.org As this is mostly a rebrand of SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.1, unless some serious...

Project to have AMA with SUSE’s GM

Douglas DeMaio 28. Nov 2024

The openSUSE community is invited to an online engagement with SUSE’s General Manager for Business Critical Linux on Dec. 3 at 16:00 UTC. Rick Spencer, who leads the SUSE ...

Transition from Windows to Linux: A Step-by-Step Guide

Douglas DeMaio 26. Nov 2024

The Upgrade to Freedom campaign has joined the End of 10 initiative to promote Free and Open Source Software as a sustainable alternative to Windows 10. Learn more at endof...

Leap Micro 6.1 Alpha is now available. Get ready for Leap Micro 5.5 End of Life.

Lubos Kocman 20. Nov 2024

Leap Micro 6.1 Alpha images can be found at get.opensuse.org. Unless some serious issues are found, users can expect a quick transition to GA within a few weeks. About Lea...

Upgrade to Freedom! The Switch from Windows 10

Douglas DeMaio 20. Nov 2024

The Upgrade to Freedom campaign has joined the End of 10 initiative to promote Free and Open Source Software as a sustainable alternative to Windows 10. Learn more at endof...

Ignite Creativity in Hack Week

Douglas DeMaio 18. Nov 2024

Open-source software developers, tech enthusiasts and innovators worldwide are set for Hack Week 24 that starts today and runs through Nov. 22. The event is a cornerstone ...

Community Call for Involvement With Project’s Governance, Rebranding

Douglas DeMaio 15. Nov 2024

The openSUSE Board is calling for the formation of a working group to explore topics focused on project governance, operational models and rebranding for the project. This...

Board Election for Three Seats Opens

Douglas DeMaio 13. Nov 2024

Members of the openSUSE’s election committee have provided notice to the project about the start of this year’s board election. This election there are three board seats up...

Project Welcomes rsync.net as Gold Sponsor

Douglas DeMaio 12. Nov 2024

The openSUSE Project is excited to announce rsync.net as the latest Gold Sponsor! The company’s support will empower the openSUSE community to continue building open-sourc...

Streamlining openSUSE Translations Upstream

Douglas DeMaio 11. Nov 2024

Managing localization of desktop menus and applications takes a specific tool and approach that fills a gap but leaves inconsistent upstream translations. Open-source tran...

Project Launches Recognition Platform

Douglas DeMaio 8. Nov 2024

The openSUSE Project has announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at highlighting contributions of its diverse community members. Dubbed “Contributor in the Spotligh...

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...

Workshop Continues with GNOME Extensions

Douglas DeMaio 23. Oct 2024

The openSUSE Project will live-stream Episode 10 of it Contribution Workshop series on Oct. 24 at 18:00 UTC on openSUSE’s YouTube and X platforms for a GNOME Extensions wor...

Community Plans Tech Summit

Douglas DeMaio 14. Oct 2024

The openSUSE community is preparing for the Early Adopter Tech Summit on March 14 and 15, 2025, in Orlando, Florida. This event will take place at Loews Sapphire Falls Res...

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...

Schedule for openSUSE.Asia Summit is Published

Douglas DeMaio 2. Oct 2024

The schedule for this year’s openSUSE.Asia Summit is out and features a diverse lineup of talks highlighting advancements in open-source and with the project. This year’s ...

openSUSE Asia Summit Logo Competition Announcement

openSUSE Asia Summit Japanese Team 2. Aug 2024

The votes are in, and the openSUSE Asia Summit Organization Committee is pleased to announce the winner of the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 logo competition. The openSUSE Asi...

openSUSE Asia Summit Logo Competition Announcement

openSUSE Asia Summit Japanese Team 2. Aug 2024

The votes are in, and the openSUSE Asia Summit Organization Committee is pleased to announce the winner of the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 logo competition. The openSUSE Asi...

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...

Slowroll Set for a Quarter of Updates

Douglas DeMaio 3. Jul 2024

Slowroll, which has a more modest update cadence than Tumbleweed, is gaining acceptance as a balance between the rapid updates of Tumbleweed’s rolling releases and the trad...

Leap Micro 6.0 is now available. Leap Micro 5.4 reaches End of Life.

Lubos Kocman 25. Jun 2024

A new major version of Leap Micro is now available!  Leap Micro 6.0 images can be found at get.opensuse.org. Leap Micro 6.0 uses a brand-new codebase, comes with plenty of...

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 Micro 6.0 Release Candidate is now available

Lubos Kocman 21. Jun 2024

Here is a little gift for the weekend. openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 RC is now available! Images can be found at get.opensuse.org. The main difference from Beta is a working upg...

Leap Micro 6.0 reaches Beta

Lubos Kocman 19. Jun 2024

openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 Beta is now available! We expect that it will very quickly transition to RC and GA as the infra readiness advances. Leap Micro 6.0 Beta images can ...

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...

New signing key for NVIDIA repositories

Marcus Meissner 12. Jun 2024

The third-party repository for NVIDIA graphics drivers is soon switching from a 1024-bit DSA GPG key to a 4096-bit RSA GPG key. This switchover is necessary to meet curren...

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 ...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 Call for Speakers

openSUSE Asia Summit Japanese Team 4. Jun 2024

We are pleased to announce that the call for speakers for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 started today. The event will be held on November 2 and 3 in Tokyo, Japan. Please check ...

Invitation to openSUSE Asia Summit 2024 Tokyo Japan

openSUSE Asia Summit Japanese Team 31. May 2024

What is openSUSE.Asia Summit? The openSUSE Project is excited to announce that openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 will be held in Tokyo, Japan. The openSUSE.Asia Summit is an annua...

openSUSE Project Listed as Organization on Hugging Face

Douglas DeMaio 24. May 2024

The openSUSE Project has an official space on Hugging Face, which is a popular platform offering a range of open-source Artificial Intelligence models, tools and resources....

New Episode Launches in Workshop Series

Douglas DeMaio 23. May 2024

The openSUSE Project continues its Contribution Workshop series today with a new episode at 19:15 UTC on the project’s YouTube & X channels. The new episode will take ...

openSUSE Asia Summit 2024 Logo Competition Announcement

openSUSE Asia Summit Japanese Team 22. May 2024

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 Logo Competition We are pleased to announce the launch of our logo contest for the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024! The logo plays a crucial role in rep...

Planned outage of Weblate on May 14th

Padraig Dillon 9. May 2024

The openSUSE will undergo a critical update with the migration of Weblate to a hosted solution. Shifting to a hosted solution for the web-based localization tool in order ...

openSUSE Asia Summit Set for Tokyo

openSUSE Asia Summit Japanese Team 6. May 2024

openSUSE.Asia Summit will come back to Tokyo, Japan The openSUSE Project is exciting to announce that openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 is going to be held in Tokyo, Japan. The op...

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...

openSUSE Factory enabled bit-by-bit reproducible builds

Jan Zerebecki 18. Apr 2024

In March, the configuration for building openSUSE Factory was changed to be bit-by-bit reproducible (except for the embedded signature). Following this, the first openSUSE ...

Leap Micro 6 Enters Alpha Stage

Douglas DeMaio 15. Apr 2024

The openSUSE project is excited to announce that Leap Micro 6 is in its alpha development stage. Building on the solid foundation of its predecessors, Leap Micro 6 continu...

What we need to take away from the XZ Backdoor

Dirk Mueller 12. Apr 2024

A lot has been written about the XZ Backdoor in the last few weeks, so it is time to look forward. Before doing so, we share further details about what happened with regard...

Default wallpaper has common path across openSUSE, SUSE

Lubos Kocman 9. Apr 2024

We will be newly using png for the default wallpaper set on openSUSE Tumbleweed and upcoming versions of openSUSE Leap and Leap Micro. The driver behind the decision is th...

Workshop Series Continues with New Episodes

Douglas DeMaio 3. Apr 2024

The openSUSE continues its Contribution Workshop series this week and has new episodes covering topics essential for newcomers and seasoned contributors. Upcoming Episodes ...

openSUSE addresses supply chain attack against xz compression library

Marcus Meissner 29. Mar 2024

openSUSE maintainers received notification of a supply chain attack against the “xz” compression tool and “liblzma5” library. Background Andres Freund reported to Debian ...

GNOME Arrives in openSUSE Releases

Douglas DeMaio 25. Mar 2024

March has been an exciting month for openSUSE Tumbleweed users as GNOME 46 made its way into the rolling release like KDE’s Plasma 6 did a few weeks ago. The GNOME users a...

Plasma Arrives in openSUSE’s Releases

Douglas DeMaio 22. Mar 2024

A lot of excitement was brewing at the announcement of KDE’s Plasma 6 release and now the MegaRelease has arrived in openSUSE Tumbleweed and Kalpa while plans for Slowroll ...

Contribution Workshop to Cover Rust

Douglas DeMaio 20. Mar 2024

The openSUSE community’s Contribution Workshops continues to move forward with exciting new sessions. The next session, which is Episode 4: openSUSE Contribution Workshop:...

Community Plans for Summit in Berlin

Douglas DeMaio 26. Feb 2024

The community is headed to Berlin on June 19 for a Community Summit in association with SUSE’s premier annual global technical conference SUSECON. Registration for the eve...

Engage with Uyuni Community Hours

Douglas DeMaio 22. Feb 2024

Like many open-source projects, the Uyuni Project has a long tradition of fostering community engagement and open dialogue, which is why those who are interested in configu...

Exploring Agama's 2024 Roadmap

Douglas DeMaio 16. Feb 2024

A recent post on the YaST blog about Agama’s roadmap looks at the new installer as functional enough to embark on tasks ranging from localization and network configuration ...

Contribution Sessions to Begin Tomorrow

Douglas DeMaio 14. Feb 2024

The openSUSE community is pleased to announce that it will have short sessions aimed at encouraging people on how to contribute to the project. A group of volunteers will ...

openSUSE Conference Travel Info

Douglas DeMaio 30. Jan 2024

The openSUSE Conference in Nuremberg, Germany, at the end of June may feel like a long time away, but if you are planning to oSC24, there are topics that need action now be...

Call for Hosts Begins for openSUSE Conference

Douglas DeMaio 23. Jan 2024

The openSUSE Project is asking interested people to submit a call for hosts for the openSUSE Conference 2025. This event is a cornerstone of the openSUSE community and aim...

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...

Conference Adds Business Focused Networking Event

Douglas DeMaio 12. Jan 2024

The openSUSE Project is excited to announce the Open 4 Business networking event, a collaborative initiative launched by the DORS/CLUC organization, scheduled for June 26 f...

Project to have Workshop for Mentorship Application

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jan 2024

The openSUSE Project will have a workshop on Jan. 16 at 15:30 UTC on meet.opensuse.org/meeting that will focus on this year’s Google Summer of Code application and mentorsh...

Systemd-boot and Full Disk Encryption in Tumbleweed and MicroOS

Alberto Planas 20. Dec 2023

Systemd-boot and Full Disk Encryption in Tumbleweed and MicroOS openSUSE Tumbleweed and MicroOS are now delivering an image that is using systemd-boot as boot loader and f...

Insights from the openSUSE Logo Contest

Douglas DeMaio 15. Dec 2023

The past few weeks have been an exciting time for the openSUSE Project as discussions about the visual identity of the project offers a glimpse into people’s various views ...

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...

openSUSE Community Plans Virtual Bar Anniversary

Douglas DeMaio 4. Dec 2023

The ways communities connect and interact have also transformed over the year. Amidst a time where people saw every square inch/cm of their homes, two openSUSE members fou...

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...

Submit a Presentation for the openSUSE Conference

Douglas DeMaio 22. Nov 2023

The time has arrived for people to begin submitting talks for openSUSE Conference 2024. This year’s conference theme is: Evaluating the Future: Where Are We Going? The th...

The Road to openSUSE Board Elections is Open

Douglas DeMaio 21. Nov 2023

The openSUSE community began the process for openSUSE Board Elections 2023. The process is a celebration of community involvement and a cornerstone of our open-source spiri...

openSUSE to have Logos Competition

Douglas DeMaio 25. Oct 2023

The openSUSE Community is pleased to announce a logo competition for a new openSUSE logo as well as four openSUSE distributions; Tumbleweed, Leap, Slowroll and Kalpa. You ...

Message from the openSUSE Board

Douglas DeMaio 19. Oct 2023

This is a short message from the openSUSE Board that we are posting on our communication channels and is a reminder that we ask each and every one of you to be kind, consid...

Yeah! Today is 18 Years of openSUSE

Douglas DeMaio 9. Aug 2023

Happy 18th Birthday to openSUSE! It’s that time of the year once again where we will raise our virtual glasses and celebrate the remarkable journey of open-source innovatio...

openSUSE Conference Travel Info

Douglas DeMaio 14. Feb 2023

The openSUSE Conference is set to begin in 100 days from today and, to help prepare people who want to travel to Nuremberg for the event from May 26 - 28, there is informat...

Tumbleweed Snapshots Update Mesa, Remmina, More

Douglas DeMaio 1. Feb 2023

Several snapshots have updated in openSUSE Tumbleweed before and during Hack Week. Leading up to FOSDEM, more packages are arriving, but this blog will give a small overvi...

Hack Week Fun Begins

Douglas DeMaio 30. Jan 2023

The joy of Hack Week has begun! This week is special for openSUSE and open-source contributors because it begins with the 22nd Hack Week and ends with the return FOSDEM, w...

Firefox, Apache, LibreOffice update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jan 2023

This week in openSUSE Tumbleweed there was a change from a 2048 bit RSA to a 4096 bit RSA key and four snapshots were released so far. The larger bit key was a security re...

New 4096 bit RSA signing key for Tumbleweed

Marcus Meissner 23. Jan 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots will switch the RPM and repository signing key of Tumbleweed from 2048 bit RSA to a 4096 bit RSA key. This switchover was necessa...

Salt, Vim, nodejs update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 20. Jan 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots had a steady amount of software packages in each of the daily releases. While vim, Node.js and Salt updates made the headlines, A...

Mentorship Community Plans Project Finalization, Submission

Douglas DeMaio 18. Jan 2023

People interested in mentorship for this year’s Google Summer of Code as part of openSUSE’s application will conclude a finalization meetup on Feb. 7 at 15:30 UTC on the pr...

Learn More About openSUSE, ALP at FOSDEM

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jan 2023

The openSUSE Project is planning activities for this year’s FOSDEM, which will take place Feb. 4 and 5 in Brussels. The project will be in with operating systems space in ...

BusyBox, systemd, Gear update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 13. Jan 2023

openSUSE Tumbleweed started the new year just like it finished the last; on a roll and giving users freshly updated software packages. The rolling release has been on a da...

openSUSE Conference Call for Papers is Open

Douglas DeMaio 10. Jan 2023

The call for papers for openSUSE Conference 2023 is open! The openSUSE Conference 2023 is scheduled to take place May 26 to May 28. The call for papers will close on April...

openSUSE Conference Call for Papers is Open

Douglas DeMaio 10. Jan 2023

The call for papers for openSUSE Conference 2023 is open! The openSUSE Conference 2023 is scheduled to take place May 26 to May 28. The call for papers will close on April...

Second Prototype Advances ALP

Douglas DeMaio 22. Dec 2022

Geekos are rolling out a new Operating System and the second prototype of the next generation OS is quickly advancing. The first Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) prototype L...

Bash, GCC13 update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 21. Dec 2022

Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed are rolling out this week like a postal worker delivering presents. The snapshots are plenty, but only a few software packages are arrivin...

Good Commit Messages Give Devs Meaning, Purpose

Douglas DeMaio 20. Dec 2022

Adding clarity to commit messages significantly helps fellow developers, and this short blog will share some best practices for writing quality commit messages for openSUSE...

KDE, GNOME, Audio packages update in Tumbleweed 

Douglas DeMaio 16. Dec 2022

Updates for sound, image and system components arrived this week throughout several openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots, and the arm images are rolling again, according to notes ...

Project Plans Workshop to Grow Mentorship Efforts

Douglas DeMaio 14. Dec 2022

The openSUSE Project will have a workshop on Jan. 10 at 15:30 UTC at meet.opensuse.org/meeting that will focus on increasing mentorship for this year’s Google Summer of Cod...

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...

Melhoria na infraestrutura de mirrors no Brasil e América do Sul

Douglas DeMaio 2. Nov 2022

Segundo as estatísticas do projeto coletadas com Matomo (antigo Piwik), o Brasil está entre os cinco países que mais utilizam as distribuições do openSUSE. O Brasil está e...

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...

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...

Hack Week starts Hacking for Humanity next week

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jun 2022

It’s back. No, not the McRib. It’s Hack Week. The coveted Hack Week 21 runs from June 27 to July 1 and has both virtual and physical participation elements. Hack Week is p...

Community work group update post oSC22

Lubos Kocman 17. Jun 2022

The community workgroup (CWG) for the Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) would like to update you on what has happened since the openSUSE Conference 2022. Make sure to check th...

An update from ALP Quality Engineering

Lubos Kocman 16. Jun 2022

Building our products in an open and transparent way allows us to rethink the way how we test. Jose Lausuch from our ALP Quality Engineering was invited to the Community W...

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 ...

Work Groups for ALP Give Updates

Community Work Group 1. Jun 2022

Members of SUSE and openSUSE have deleloped several Work Groups (WG) to discuss the formation of the Adaptable Linux Platform. Below readers can see the latest brief from t...

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...

GCC 12 Becoming Default Compiler in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 13. May 2022

More than a month after preparing the default compiler for openSUSE Tumbleweed to be switched to GNU Compiler Collection 12, the latest snapshot passed openQA and is making...

GNOME, curl, Fetchmail update in Tumbleweed, WSL Image Published

Douglas DeMaio 6. May 2022

Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed flowed out this week and the rolling release also gave Microsoft Windows users a newer Windows Subsystem for Linux image. A newly publishe...

LLVM, PipeWire, git update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 21. Apr 2022

There have been three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released since last Thursday. If the 20220420 snapshot passes openQA, it might be released before this article publishe...

openSUSE Community Publishes Annual Survey Results

Douglas DeMaio 13. Apr 2022

The openSUSE community has published results from the annual community survey. This year’s results increased from last year’s results by more than 100 participants, with 1...

Tumbleweed to Get New Default GCC

Douglas DeMaio 8. Apr 2022

A new default GNU Compiler Collection for openSUSE Tumbleweed is set to follow one of the snapshots that rolled out this week. Snapshot 20220405 prepares the default compi...

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...

Tumbleweed updates sudo, systemd, ibus

Douglas DeMaio 31. Mar 2022

A total of four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were delivered this week to rolling release users. Tumbleweed has consistently been releasing daily snapshots; a four-day per...

Know the Visa, Health Requirements to Attend oSC22

Douglas DeMaio 30. Mar 2022

For people planning on attending the openSUSE Conference 2022 in Nuremberg, Germany, from June 2 – 4, there are certain health and visa requirements that need to be met for...

openSUSE Finalizes New Code of Conduct

Douglas DeMaio 29. Mar 2022

The openSUSE Community is proud to announce its new Code of Conduct as approved by the openSUSE Board. The openSUSE Code of Conduct was written during several community me...

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...

Tumbleweed Gets GNOME 42

Douglas DeMaio 25. Mar 2022

openSUSE’s rolling release quickly gave Tumbleweed users the freshly released GNOME 42. This highly anticipated release from GNOME contributors landed in the 20220323 snap...

openSUSE Selected as Mentor Organization

Douglas DeMaio 8. Mar 2022

The openSUSE Project has been selected as a Google Summer of Code 2022 mentor organization. Being selected as one of the 203 open-source projects for GSoC gives openSUSE m...

Tumbleweed Has Six Snapshots, Leap Gets Quarterly Respin

Douglas DeMaio 4. Mar 2022

This week was filled with good news surrounding openSUSE. On top of openSUSE Leap 15.4 reaching its beta build phase, rolling release Tumbleweed had six snapshots that upd...

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 ...

Nano, Plasma, TigerVNC update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 25. Feb 2022

Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed continue to be released at a steady pace. There have been seven snapshots released since our last review. The latest snapshot is 20220223 ...

Call for Papers opens for Summit in Albania

Douglas DeMaio 23. Feb 2022

The openSUSE community has opened the call for papers for a summit that will be held in conjunction with Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAL) 2022. People can submit a t...

AppArmor, Flatpak, GStreamer update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 18. Feb 2022

openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed has produced five snapshots since our last review. Snapshots 20220215, 20220214, 20220213, 20220212 and 20220210 updated several tool...

Latest Plasma Lands in Tumbleweed, Set for Leap Beta

Douglas DeMaio 11. Feb 2022

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

Version Control Tool, IRC Client Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 4. Feb 2022

This week openSUSE Tumbleweed had a steady pace of snapshots with four releases users could #zypper dup their system into, which brought updates for an Internet Relay Chat ...

Bash, systemd, libvirt Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 28. Jan 2022

There were openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots every day this week. Some other noteworthy news within Tumbleweed is that Wicked is being phased out. New installations of Tumblew...

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 Gains New Hardware

Douglas DeMaio 25. Jan 2022

The openSUSE Project added an enormous amount of compute power for its projects this past year thanks to SUSE, which is the project’s main sponsor. The added hardware will ...

Tools Strace, BusyBox Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 21. Jan 2022

openSUSE Tumbleweed had a variety of package updates in smaller snapshots throughout this week. A few things being prepared for Tumbleweed is that the Linux Kernel 5.16.1 ...

Call for Papers Opens for openSUSE Conference 2022

Douglas DeMaio 18. Jan 2022

The call for papers for openSUSE Conference 2022 is open! The call for papers is open until April 14. This leaves a less than 90 days to submit a proposal. The dates of th...

openSUSE Begins Annual Survey

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jan 2022

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

curl, GNOME, KDE Updates Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 14. Jan 2022

openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed finished off 2021 with multiple snapshots and 2022 is starting off the same by producing nine snapshots so far this year. The latest ...

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...

Frameworks, Gear, Pipewire Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 17. Dec 2021

There was no slowing down of snapshots this week as new software continues to flow with daily openSUSE Tumbleweed releases. Tumbleweed went seven for seven this week! Jus...

Ritchie-CLI Becomes Official, Mesa, bind Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 10. Dec 2021

This week brought an exuberant amount of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots. While the rolling release snapped its streak of continuous daily snapshots, Tumbleweed persists rel...

openSUSE Tumbleweed Rolls into December

Douglas DeMaio 3. Dec 2021

November provided a robust month of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots, which included 21 releases from Nov. 1 to Nov. 29. December, which is traditionally a slower month for T...

Git, curl, systemd Roll with Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Nov 2021

openSUSE Tumbleweed gave rolling release users a snapshot every day this past week. The latest snapshot to be released was 20211124. This snapshot brought systemd 249.7, w...

Ruby, Plasma, GTK Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 19. Nov 2021

There were a total of four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released this week. Snapshot 20211117 gave KDE users the Plasma 5.23.3 update. The bug-fix release had changes fo...

KDE Gear, GNOME Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 11. Nov 2021

Tumbleweed pulled back from the frequency of snapshots released last week, but still had a good amount of releases this week. After continuous daily releases from Oct. 27 ...

Survey Results of Packagers, Maintainers Posted

Douglas DeMaio 10. Nov 2021

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

Tumbleweed Snapshots Glide Forward

Douglas DeMaio 4. Nov 2021

openSUSE Tumbleweed is on a roll this week. The week prior put together frequent Tumbleweed snapshots and the rolling release has been delivering continuous daily software...

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...

VirtualBox, Plasma, systemd Updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 29. Oct 2021

Rolling release users had a variety of package updates this week to include updates of rpm, Plasma, rsyslog, webkit2gtk3, systemd, AppStream and more, which were updated th...

KDE Plasma, Gear, Frameworks Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 22. Oct 2021

The past week produced two openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots and both included a lot of updates for users of KDE. Plasma, Gear and Frameworks weren’t the only packages to upda...

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...

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...

OpenSSH, Squid, PostgreSQL Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 15. Oct 2021

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released this week have brought updates for text editors, browsers, emails clients, database management systems and many other pieces of...

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...

GNOME, Salt Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 8. Oct 2021

The update of GNOME 41 in openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed didn’t take long; the new GNOME landed a day after our last blog post. Other software updates included in t...

New Survey Aims to Gain Packager, Maintainer Insights

Douglas DeMaio 7. Oct 2021

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

GNOME, Plasma Releases Make Progress While Tumbleweed Rolls

Douglas DeMaio 1. Oct 2021

GNOME 41 has reached openSUSE Factory staging and KDE’s Plasma 5.23 is nearing a release in an openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot as it progresses through staging. openSUSE’s ro...

Thunar, Firefox, Python Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 17. Sep 2021

Five Tumbleweed snapshots became available to users of openSUSE’s rolling release this week. A couple smaller- and medium-sized snapshots brought new software updates for ...

KDE Gear, Plasma, systemd Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 10. Sep 2021

There was one openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot this week out of five that brought an enormous amount of package updates for those using the rolling release. Snapshot 20210904 ...

openSUSE Results from Google Summer of Code

Douglas DeMaio 6. Sep 2021

The openSUSE Project participated in this year’s Google Summer of Code along with several mentoring organizations. Six of the seven accepted projects were successfully com...

Wireshark, PipeWire, Audacity Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 3. Sep 2021

Snapshot releases of openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed have been constantly trickling out to users since last week’s review. This review will cover the five snapshots ...

Tumbleweed Updates Kismet, PulseAudio, Python

Douglas DeMaio 25. Aug 2021

Snapshot releases of openSUSE Tumbleweed began to flow this week for the rolling release. Moving past last week’s build failures and the obstacles with the ISO media size ...

Tumbleweed Fast Forwards with KDE Gear, Frameworks Updates

Douglas DeMaio 20. Aug 2021

A lot of work this week has been taking place in the background to release openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots. Documented on the mailing list in the latest openSUSE release eng...

Node.js, curl update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 30. Jul 2021

Six openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week. Among the updated packages that landed this week in the rolling release were curl, GNU Compiler Collection, Node...

Deactivating connect.opensuse.org

Lars Vogdt 26. Jul 2021

Our community portal, reachable via https://connect.opensuse.org, accompanied our community now since 2010. A long, long time. Especially, if you compare it with Facebook ...

GNOME, Wireshark update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 23. Jul 2021

Since last Friday, five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released. GNOME 40, btrfs, Mesa, Wireshark and several other package updates landed this week in the rollin...

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...

Tumbleweed Gets RubyGems Updates, New systemd

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jul 2021

A total of four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released since the last update. Three smaller snapshots, which included a new systemd update, and one large snapsho...

IRC and Matrix announcements

Neal Gompa 7. Jul 2021

The openSUSE Project has used IRC for real-time chat within the community since it began. And the IRC network used was Freenode, until now. Due to a variety of recent chan...

VLC, Plasma, PipeWire Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 1. Jul 2021

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released so far this week. There were two bigger snapshots and one smaller one that brought the ClamAV update. Kicking off the we...

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...

Plasma, Mesa, curl Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 11. Jun 2021

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week with the possibility of another snapshot being released over the weekend if it passes openQA testing. The lates...

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...

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 ...

A Message from the openSUSE Board

openSUSE Board 12. Apr 2021

(This message was originally published on the mailing list on April 2, 2021) We, the members of the openSUSE Board, strongly value the openSUSE Code of Conduct and Guiding...

Entire Rebuild of Tumbleweed Brings Enormous Update

Douglas DeMaio 19. Mar 2021

There were few packages untouched in openSUSE’s rolling release distribution Tumbleweed this week as updates poured out of five new snapshots. The 20210311 snapshot provid...

openSUSE Project Selected for Google Summer of Code Mentoring

Douglas DeMaio 11. Mar 2021

Let’s gehts los! The openSUSE Project is one of about 200 mentoring organizations selected for this year’s Google Summer of Code. The openSUSE Project has participated in ...

A Message to the openSUSE Community

Community News Team 10. Mar 2021

Español Português Bahasa Indonesia فارسى Русский язык Dear community, openSUSE has been known for years as an amazing, vas...

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...

Call for Papers Open for openSUSE Conference

Douglas DeMaio 1. Mar 2021

The call for papers for the openSUSE Virtual Conference is open! The call for papers is open until May 4. This leaves a little more than 60 days to submit a proposal. The ...

Spack is now available in openSUSE Tumbleweed

Ana Guerrero Lopez 1. Feb 2021

The configurable Python-based HPC package manager Spack is now an Official package in openSUSE Tumbleweed, which currently has the 0.16.0 version of Spack. If you work wit...

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 ...

Board Elections - Meet the Candidates

Vinzenz Vietzke 14. Dec 2020

As the openSUSE Board election is drawing closer, with the ballots opening on December 15 already, we want to invite the openSUSE community to a “meet-and-greet” and QA liv...

Advancing openSUSE Images for The PinePhone

Douglas DeMaio 8. Dec 2020

Awareness grew after a post in an online forum appeared in June about openSUSE images for the PinePhone, which is a smartphone developed by Pine64 that allows user to 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...

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...

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