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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...

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...

Tumbleweed Gets Vim, Plasma, PipeWire Updates

Douglas DeMaio 8. Jul 2022

The openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots are rolling out steady during the month or July. Some big and small snapshots have been released with a few major-versions updates arrivi...

OpenSSL, Squid, Dracut Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 30. Jun 2022

Five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released since last Friday. The snapshots had a small amount of packages in each release. The 20220629 snapshot updated OpenS...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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