One more year, Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a mentoring program in which openSUSE helps university students contribute to open source project, has come to an end. So, befo...
The Travel Support Program (TSP) provides travel sponsorships to openSUSE community who want to attend the openSUSE conference and need financial assistance. The openSUSE c...
One of the growing community of openSUSE enthusiasts in Indonesia has contributed a poster he designed for the 2018-2019 Board Elections and Membership Drive. [caption id=...
Earlier this week, on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, the Elections Committee posted the Schedule for the 2018-2019 openSUSE Board Elections, along with the announcement of a Membe...
openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed had a total of five snapshots this week and is preparing for an update to the KDE Plasma 5.14.4 packages in forthcoming snapshots. Th...
Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released since the last blog. The three Tumbleweed snapshots this week brought a newer Linux Kernel, several rubygem package updat...
openSUSE will have a t-shirt image and poster design contest for the openSUSE Conference 2019. Both contests are separate contests and have to meet certain requirements. De...
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...
For people planning on attending the openSUSE Conference 2019 in Nuremberg, Germany, from May 24 – 26, there are certain requirements necessary to receive a visa for those ...
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...
Two companies were recently added to the openSUSE Sponsors page thanks to the companies generous donations to the openSUSE Project. Both Marvell and TUXEDO Computers have ...
David Kang and I attended two weeks ago (12-14 Oct) the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Mentor Summit in California representing openSUSE. Here is our report of the co...
Since last week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed update, there were two snapshots released that brought KDE users a newer version of Applications 18.08.2 and all Tumbleweed users coul...
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...
Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week brought new versions of software along with new versions of KDE’s Plasma and Frameworks as well as python-setuptools and many o...
The openSUSE Project will have a summit at the 17th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, Calif., March 8, 2019. The...
There were a total of four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week that updated packages like VIM, Xen, Git and ImageMagick. The latest snapshot, 20180925, updated three p...
The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce that it is accepting proposals for openSUSE Conference 2020. The Call for Hosts will be open until April 15, 2019. The openSUSE...
A total of four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were delivered to users of the rolling release this past week and the snapshot brought new versions of KDE Plasma and KDE Appl...
The openSUSE community is headed to Nashville, Tennessee, next year and will have the openSUSE Summit Nashville April 5 through April 6, 2019, during the end of SUSE’s prem...
Since the last openSUSE Tumbleweed update, three snapshots have been released and the latest snapshot has brought two new major versions of both Flatpak and qemu. On the h...
Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week that updated versions of dbus, hexchat and more. Snapshot 20180903 updated extended attributes extensions with ...
openSUSE.Asia Summit is an annual conference organized since 2014 every time in a different Asian city. Although it is a really successful event, which plays a really impor...
openSUSE is pleased to announce that registration and the call for papers for the openSUSE Conference 2019 (oSC19), which takes place in Nuremberg, Germany, are open. The ...
Two openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were once again released this past week, which included two Linux Kernel updates. The most recent snapshot, 20180818, updated the kernel ...
There were two openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this past week that mostly focused on language and network packages. The Linux Kernel also received an update a couple days ag...
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 ...
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 ...
Several packages were updated in openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week and developers will notice the snapshots are reported to be extremely stable. Wireshark, sysdig, G...
As you may already know, openSUSE participates again in GSoC, an international program that awards stipends to university students who contribute to real-world open source ...
What is The Different? _Starting this year, openSUSE.Asia organization committee are accepting proposals earlier for better preparation and well organized summit. This rul...
The four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week are trending quite stable as new major version packages have been updated this week. Among the packages updates this week ...
The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the location and dates for the 2019 openSUSE Conference. The openSUSE Conference 2019 will return to the Z-Bau in Nuremberg, Ge...
The past week brought a total of three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots and a bunch of new features and improvements for KDE users. Snapshot 20180618 updated just a few packa...
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...
Embedded below is the blog of Google Summer of Code student Matheus de Sousa Bernardo. Matheus is assisting with improving API and workflow of Trollolo, which is a cli-too...
Today, we will start a logo competition for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2018, which is going to be held in Taipei, Taiwan. A logo is an essential material for the successful summi...
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...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Members of a new open source community project called Uyuni announced today at openSUSE Conference that a fork of the open-source systems managem...
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...
We always enjoy that new people join openSUSE community and help them in their first steps. Because of that, openSUSE participates again in GSoC, an international program i...
openSUSE.Asia Committee calls for proposals of talks for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2018 held at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology on August 11 and 12. We mig...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
This year’s openSUSE Board elections produced the longest election period in the history of the project. The four phases of the election, which included an application pha...
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...
A total of four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week that brought new updates for the Linux Kernel, Mesa and a major version update of libglvnd. RADV rece...
There have been a few openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released in the past two weeks that brought some new features and fixes to users. This blog will go over the past two s...
Maybe some of you noticed, that our certificate *.opensuse.org on many of services will expire soon (on 2018-04-23). As we noticed that - as well - we decided to put a b...
The ballots for Elections to fill the three seats on the openSUSE Board are open until April 27. The voting began April 15 and openSUSE Members are able to vote for the fo...
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...
KDE‘s newest point version of Plasma 5.12.4 was released in the first of five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots that were released this week. The most recent snapshot was 201...
Elections for the openSUSE Board have been postponed until mid-April. Until then, the community can familiarize themselves with the candidates who are running for three ava...
The elections for the openSUSE Board have been postponed until April 15. The postponement will extend Phase 1 of the elections and give candidates more time to campaign an...
Major Krita Release Arrives in Tumbleweed openSUSE’s rolling distribution Tumbleweed produces high-quality snapshots and a new rating tool for the snapshots has labeled tw...
Campaigning for the elections of the openSUSE Board is nearing its end and will move on to the Phase 2 Election phase beginning April 2. There are three seats available on...
The openSUSE.Asia organization committee is accepting proposals to host the openSUSE.Asia Summit during the second half of 2018. The openSUSE.Asia Summit is the largest ann...
openSUSE’s rolling distribution Tumbleweed has had five snapshots so far this month and a lot of those snapshots have includes several GNU packages. There were many other ...
A network outage this weekend will effect openSUSE services that have a Direct Connection to Nuremberg host infrastructure on Saturday, March 10, between the hours of 1 and...
The first weekend in March 2018, the openSUSE Heroes met again in-person, after one year of infrastructure work, which was mostly done from home. After our last in-person ...
Elections to fill three seats on the openSUSE Board are set to begin in the coming weeks and candidates are needed to fill these three positions. Individuals who apply for...
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...
The were plenty of updated packages in openSUSE Tumbleweed this week and KDE updates were made available for Frameworks, Applications and Plasma. While the most recent sna...
openSUSE participates again in Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a program that awards stipends to university students who contribute to real-world open source projects during ...
The streak of six Tumbleweed snapshots continued this a week as openSUSE’s rolling release has provided a consistent release of six snapshots per week this year. There wer...
Let the fun begin! This week it was announced that the openSUSE Project is one of the 212 mentoring organization for this year’s Google Summer of Code, which is an annual i...
The 16th Southern California Linux Expo is about a month away, and openSUSE will once again have a booth with the KDE and GNOME booths. The event takes place at the Pasade...
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...
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...
Prague is a beautiful city and you can bet that the city will be crowded during the openSUSE Conference. Hotels are already starting to fill up, so it’s best to take a look...
There is no signs of slowing down openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed as six snapshots of new software were released this past week. Not all the snapshots were large; i...
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...
For people planning on attending the openSUSE Conference 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic, from May 25 – 27, there are certain requirements necessary to receive a visa for th...
The openSUSE-Education project tries to support schools using openSUSE. We create and describe additional software-repositories for educational projects and we created Add-...
Hi folks, This is an update to our current Meltdown and Spectre situation on openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed. We have released kernels with initial Meltdown and Spectre miti...
openSUSE’s rolling distribution Tumbleweed received several snapshot of new software packages this past week. A total of six snapshots arrived and brought new versions of ...
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...
This week provided a pretty healthy amount of package updates for openSUSE’s rolling distribution Tumbleweed. There were three snapshots released since the last blog and s...
The hosting platform cPanel has provided the openSUSE Project with two new network cards to assist the project with its infrastructure needs. The network cards will soon b...
The application period for organizations wanting to participate in the Google Summer of Code is now and the openSUSE project is once again looking for mentors who are will...
Several openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots arrive before and after the new year and this post will focus on the most recent snapshots released this week. Much of the efforts of...
openSUSE is pleased to announce that registration and the call for papers for the openSUSE Conference 2018 (oSC18), which takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, are open....
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...
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...
Here is our report of the co...