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Update to Kernel 4.14 Among This Week’s Tumbleweed Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 23. Nov 2017

The past week brought new features to openSUSE Tumbleweed with a snapshot that included Linux Kernel 4.14. New features like HDMI Consumer Electronics Control support for R...

From Drivers to Kernel, A Week Full of Tumbleweed Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 3. Nov 2017

There has been an openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot every day this week and KDE Frameworks along with AppArmor and Plasma began a week full of new software releases for openSUSE...

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

Douglas DeMaio 20. Oct 2017

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

GNU Compiler Collection 6 Removed from Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 19. Oct 2017

Two openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week and the Open Build Service is warming up after last weekend’s scheduled power outage. Since the power interruptio...

Plasma 5.11, GNOME 3.26.1 Land in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 12. Oct 2017

The week has been pretty exciting for desktop enthusiast running openSUSE Tumbleweed since two of this week’s snapshots delivered new versions of GNOME and KDE respectively...

Special Edition Highlights openSUSE, KDE

Douglas DeMaio 11. Oct 2017

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

Hack Week Announced for Mid-November

Douglas DeMaio 9. Oct 2017

Hack Week 0x10 will be Nov. 10 - 16 at many of the SUSE Research and Development locations and developers and hackers from the community are welcomed to participate. Hack ...

Tumbleweed Goes Astronomical

Douglas DeMaio 5. Oct 2017

Astronomers using openSUSE Tumbleweed received some major software enhancements in a snapshot this week and the four snapshots released also addressed some architecture iss...

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...

Planned Downtime to Affect openSUSE Services

Douglas DeMaio 4. Oct 2017

A scheduled power outage in the Nuremberg office will effect a number of openSUSE services from Oct. 13 at 4 p.m. (16:00 UTC) to Oct. 14  at 4 p.m. (16:00 UTC). The schedu...

New Repository Caters to Tumbleweed’s Nvidia Users

Douglas DeMaio 20. Sep 2017

Using Nvidia drivers on openSUSE Tumbleweed in the past was cumbersome and fragile when it came to regular snapshot updates. Often users needed to uninstall the NVIDIA’s u...

New KDE Applications, PulseAudio Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 14. Sep 2017

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

Design Selected for openSUSE.Asia Summit

Douglas DeMaio 13. Sep 2017

Thank you for designing great logos and helping us to choose one from them. As a result of the final vote, two candidates tied for the first place. openSUSE.Asia Summit Co...

Are Governments Held Hostage? Why openSUSE Supports Public Money Public Code

Douglas DeMaio 13. Sep 2017

Public Money? Public Code! from Free Software Foundation Europe on Vimeo. Europeans can disagree on political issues, but there is one issue the open-source community is b...

Catching up with Tumbleweed Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 24. Aug 2017

The last review readers received about openSUSE Tumbleweed was a while ago, so it’s time to catch up on the new packages available for the rolling release. Release manager...

Cast your Vote — openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 Logo

Douglas DeMaio 22. Aug 2017

Following the announcement of our logo contests, thanks to our awesome community as usual, we now have several logos. Choosing the best of them off course was a lot of work...

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 ...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017: Call for Sponsorships

Douglas DeMaio 28. Jul 2017

The openSUSE.Asia Committee is seeking sponsors for the fourth edition of openSUSE.Asia Summit. The summit will take place in Tokyo, Japan, from Oct. 21– 22, 2017. With m...

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...

openSUSE Heroes Spring Into Action

Douglas DeMaio 19. Jul 2017

Mike Tyson might have said it best when he said “everyone has a plan ‘till they get punched in the mouth.” Tyson’s point is that plans change, especially in the moment of ...

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...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 Logo Competition

Douglas DeMaio 14. Jul 2017

Today, we will start a logo competition for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017, which is going to be held in Tokyo, Japan. A logo is an essential material for the successful summit....

Tumbleweed Snapshots Update AppStream, Mesa, Frameworks

Douglas DeMaio 13. Jul 2017

This past week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have produced several fixes and improvements, including some for KDE users and those using AMD hardware. Mesa 17.1.4 was amo...

Join the 3D Design and Printing Workshop

Douglas DeMaio 11. Jul 2017

Members of the openSUSE will host a 3D Design and Printing Workshop in Nuremberg on Sept. 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m at SUSE Headquarter. The workshop, which as 60 spots a...

English openSUSE wiki updated and moved home

Douglas DeMaio 10. Jul 2017

The English openSUSE wiki has been moved and updated  successfully. If you encounter any issue, please let us know by mail to admin(@)opensuse.org. On July 11, the MediaWi...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 Tokyo: Call for proposals is open

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jul 2017

openSUSE.Asia Committee calls for proposals of talks for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 held at the University of Electro-Communications on October 21 and 22. Please refer to...

Plasma, Ceph, Git Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 6. Jul 2017

Plasma 5.10.3, Ceph, Git and LibreOffice 5.4.0.1 are among the top package to arrive in openSUSE Tumbleweed this week. A total of six openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots arrived...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 Tokyo, Japan

Douglas DeMaio 30. Jun 2017

It is our great pleasure to announce that openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 will take place at the University of Electro Communications, Tokyo, Japan on October 21 and 22. openS...

GStreamer, Mesa Packages Updated in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 29. Jun 2017

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week brought a few major release packages and a clear example for how the automated testing tool openQA  can prevents a snapshot fr...

Tumbleweed Gets Qt 5.9, mp3 Out-Of-The Box

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jun 2017

A total of seven openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots featuring new software were released this week along with an upgrade to GStreamer that allows for mp3 decoding to work out-of...

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. ...

KDE Applications 17.04.2 Arrives in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 14. Jun 2017

KDE Applications 17.04.2 is now available to openSUSE Tumbleweed users after arriving in the most recent snapshot of the five snapshots delivered this week. Snapshot 20170...

Tumbleweed Snapshots Pick Up Pace

Douglas DeMaio 8. Jun 2017

The care and thoroughness of making GNU Compiler Collection 7 the default compiler for openSUSE Tumbleweed produced a gradual decrease in snapshots over the past month, but...

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...

GNU Compiler Collection 7 Now openSUSE Tumbleweed Default

Douglas DeMaio 1. Jun 2017

The default compiler for openSUSE Tumbleweed became GNU Compiler Collection 7 after the release of snapshot 20170529 making openSUSE the first major distribution to have th...

Introducing Kubic Project: a new open-source project

Douglas DeMaio 29. May 2017

Recent years have seen tremendous growth in the container technologies market. From being a non-existent category just a few years ago to being one of the most interesting,...

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...

Kernel 4.11 Arrives in openSUSE Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 18. May 2017

Multiple small pattern changes had momentarily slowed the releases of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots, but snapshots are expected to come more frequently moving forward. The...

Announcing openSUSE’s status page - status.opensuse.org

Lars Vogdt 10. May 2017

[caption id=”attachment_20402” align=”alignleft” width=”300”] Screenshot https://status.opensuse.org/[/caption] Worried about downtimes and maintenance windows of openSUSE...

Students to Enhance Multiple Open Source Projects

Douglas DeMaio 9. May 2017

Five students will spend this summer putting their coding skills into practice for openSUSE and other projects during this year’s Google Summer of Code. The internationa...

Excited about oSC17? Volunteer to experience another aspect of it!

Douglas DeMaio 8. May 2017

oSC17 is just around the corner, and if you want to be part of making it awesome you can now sign up to become a volunteer! Volunteers are invaluable to conferences, and t...

GNOME 3.24.1, Plasma 5.9.5 Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 5. May 2017

A total of seven openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released since last week’s update, which brought several minor version updates and less than a handful of major version ...

Tumbleweed Snapshots Update Fonts, Perl, Python Packages

Douglas DeMaio 27. Apr 2017

openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week gave many newer versions of Perl and Python packages, but several other packages were updated in the repositories including some ope...

Samba, Ceph, LightDM Update in Tumbleweed Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 20. Apr 2017

Snapshots released the past two weeks of openSUSE Tumbleweed have slowed down a bit, but new software continues to be updated in the five snapshots that have been release s...

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...

Newest GNOME, KDE, Kernel Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 6. Apr 2017

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

Conference to have Daily Keynote Speakers

Douglas DeMaio 5. Apr 2017

The openSUSE Conference is about seven weeks away and this year will again have high-quality keynote speakers. Keynote speakers for this year’s conference at the Z-Bau in ...

Google Summer of Code 2017

cbruckmayer 23. Mar 2017

We’re very happy to announce that openSUSE has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2017 edition! Google Summer of Code is an a...

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 ...

Systemd Gets Important Commit in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 9. Mar 2017

A total of five snapshots this week brought openSUSE Tumbleweed users and developers several new packages and an important systemd commit. Topping this week’s updates were...

Committee Accepting Proposals for openSUSE.Asia Summit

Douglas DeMaio 3. Mar 2017

The openSUSE.Asia organization committee is accepting proposals to host the openSUSE.Asia Summit during the second half of 2017. The openSUSE.Asia Summit is the largest ann...

Tumbleweed Gets Kernel 4.10.1, Mesa 17, Python 3.6

Douglas DeMaio 2. Mar 2017

The joy and experimentation of Hack Week didn’t keep openSUSE Tumbleweed from continuing to roll. Since the last news article on Tumbleweed two weeks ago, there have been ...

openSUSE at LinuxFest Northwest 2017

James Mason 27. Feb 2017

LinuxFest Northwest 2017, coming up the first weekend in May, promises to continue its tradition of providing a unique, active, fun experience for open-source enthusiasts a...

OBS got the power!

Lars Vogdt 25. Feb 2017

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

openSUSE Heroes December meeting - final results

Lars Vogdt 25. Feb 2017

While we had some fun and good food and drinks, we also managed to discuss a lot during the three days in the Nuremberg headquarter. This was needed because this was the fi...

Kernels Becoming Tumbleweed Norm, Grub 2 Gets Release Candidate

Douglas DeMaio 16. Feb 2017

Two Linux Kernels per week in openSUSE Tumbleweed is becoming the norm as the rolling release is providing daily snapshots of new software that are closely aligned with ups...

Tumbleweed Snapshots Bring Users New Vulkan, 4.9.7 Kernel

Douglas DeMaio 9. Feb 2017

Six Tumbleweed snapshots this week brought users newer versions of GStreamer, Wine, Vulkan, and a new Linux Kernel. The new 4.9.7 kernel arrived over the weekend with the ...

New systemd, Plasma 5.9 Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 2. Feb 2017

Another busy week for openSUSE Tumbleweed brought several new packages in the rolling release along with Plasma 5.9 and systemd 232. The most recent snapshot, 20170131, ad...

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...

New Package in Tumbleweed Enhances Rolling Updates

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jan 2017

Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed are becoming more frequent once again and a new package in the rolling release should make the handling of updates easier. The new package...

Tumbleweed Preps for PulseAudio 10, Gets Ruby, Python Updates

Douglas DeMaio 18. Jan 2017

Developers using openSUSE Tumbleweed are always getting the newest packages as well as updated languages and past week’s snapshots delivered update versions of Python and R...

Mesa, Kernel, Wireshark update in Tumbleweed Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 11. Jan 2017

There were plenty of Tumbleweed snapshots leading up to the holiday season and openSUSE’s rolling release is gliding into 2017 with several new packages on the horizon. Th...

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