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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 ...

KDE Frameworks, VirtualBox, systemd update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 17. Dec 2020

Five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released since last Friday. Snapshot 20201215 is the latest update to arrive in the rolling release. The snapshot updated KDE ...

Alpha Releases of openSUSE Leap 15.3 are Available for Testing

Douglas DeMaio 16. Dec 2020

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

openSUSE Leap offers Predictability

Douglas DeMaio 14. Dec 2020

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

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...

Tumbleweed Gets PulseAudio 14, Updates for Plasma, Firewalld

Douglas DeMaio 11. Dec 2020

Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots updated hundreds of packages in the rolling release this week. There were two major versions to arrive this week and one of them, pulsea...

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 ...

Mojolicious, PHP, grep update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 4. Dec 2020

Half a dozen openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released since last week’s blog update for Geekos’ favorite rolling release. Six packages were updated in the most rec...

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

Douglas DeMaio 1. Dec 2020

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

GNOME, KDE Frameworks, Mutt update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Nov 2020

Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released since last Thursday. Only two packages came in the most recent 20201124 snapshot. Email client mutt had a version bum...

Xfce Virtual Machine Images For Development

Vinzenz Vietzke 23. Nov 2020

The openSUSE distributions offer a variety of graphical desktop environments, one of them being the popular and lightweight Xfce. Up to now there was the stable tested bran...

News in openSUSE Packaging

Vítězslav Čížek and Kristýna Streitová 23. Nov 2020

If you are interested in openSUSE, sooner or later you will probably learn how packages and specfiles work. But packaging is not static knowledge that you learn once and ar...

Two Tumbleweed Snapshots update PostgreSQL, Mesa

Douglas DeMaio 20. Nov 2020

Two openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released so far this week. Snapshot 20201117 provides the latest update of packages for the rolling release. Among the packages to u...

openSUSE Board Election 2020 announced

Ish Sookun 16. Nov 2020

The openSUSE Regular Board Election has been announced for the 15th of December 2020. Results will be published on the new year’s eve, i.e 31st December. Call for nominatio...

New AppArmor 3, KDE Applications, GStreamer Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 13. Nov 2020

This week there were six openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released. Some minor email changes have affected the Tumbleweed snapshot reviewer, so reviewer ratings won’t be list...

Survey for the future of openSUSE on Arm

Guillaume GARDET 9. Nov 2020

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

Updates for Poppler, Plasma, Xfce, LLVM 11 Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 6. Nov 2020

Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released since our last blog more than a week ago. These four snapshots had a variety of package updates that included updates for ...

openSUSE Developers Kickoff Leap 15.3

Douglas DeMaio 5. Nov 2020

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

PostgreSQL 13, Latest Stable Kernel Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 29. Oct 2020

The past week has been pretty productive for openSUSE Tumbleweed as five major version updates landed in the rolling release. Five snapshots have so far been released sinc...

openSUSE Community To Have Kickoff Session for Leap 15.3

Douglas DeMaio 28. Oct 2020

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

Node.js, OpenSSL, Mesa Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 23. Oct 2020

The past week has delivered two openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot. Some of the package updates in the snapshots include newer versions of Node.js, OpenSSL, Mesa, Apparmor, Imag...

Introducing the Open Build Service Connector

The OBS Team 22. Oct 2020

The Open Build Service Connector extension brings the Open Build Service into Visual Studio Code! Everything Starts With a Bookmark That’s right. The Open Build Service C...

Find out more about the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference

Douglas DeMaio 14. Oct 2020

The openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference organizers are thrilled to begin the conference and hope everyone has a great time. To get attendees more accustomed to the event, we...

Join our team and help us improve the openSUSE learning experience!

Adrien G 12. Oct 2020

For years openSUSE has meant more than one distribution. With the recent addition of Kubic and MicroOS to the Leap & Tumbleweed family, different package sets, release ...

Thunderbird, grep, systemd Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 8. Oct 2020

Systemd 246.6, grep 3.5 and Mozilla Thunderbird 78.3.1 became available in openSUSE Tumbleweed this week. Four snapshots have been released so far this month. The most re...

Get cool merchandise for upcoming openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference

Mike Saunders 6. Oct 2020

The joint openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference 2020 will take place from October 15 – 17. And there’s lots going on! We’ll have talks, presentations, keynotes, tutorials and m...

Collabora is Diamond Sponsor for openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference 2020

Mike Saunders 28. Sep 2020

The joint openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference 2020 will run from October 15 – 17, and Collabora has joined as a Diamond Sponsor. Collabora is a major contributor to the Libr...

Tumbleweed Gets New KDE Frameworks, systemd

Douglas DeMaio 24. Sep 2020

KDE Frameworks 5.74.0 and systemd 246.4 became available in openSUSE Tumbleweed after two respective snapshots were released this week. Hypervisor Xen, libstorage-ng, whic...

Feature Requests, Submit Requests for openSUSE Jump Take Shape

Douglas DeMaio 23. Sep 2020

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

Tumbleweed Snapshots bring updated Inkscape, Node.js, KDE Applications

Douglas DeMaio 17. Sep 2020

Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released since the last article. KDE’s Applications 20.08.1, Node.js, iproute2 and inkscape were updated in the snapshots throughou...

Conference Organizers Announce Schedule, Platform Registration

Douglas DeMaio 15. Sep 2020

Organizers of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference are pleased to announce the schedule for the conference is published.   All times on the schedule are published in Coor...

openSUSE Projects Support Hacktoberfest Efforts

Douglas DeMaio 14. Sep 2020

The openSUSE community is ready for Hacktoberfest, which is run by Digital Ocean and DEV that encourages people to make their first contributions to open source projects. T...

Firefox, Ceph Major Versions Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 10. Sep 2020

Six openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have arrived in the rolling release since the last Tumblweed update. KDE’s Plasma 5.19.5, php and Ceph were among more of the known updat...

Tumbleweed Rises from Rebuilt Packages

Douglas DeMaio 4. Sep 2020

With “literally all 15,000” packages being rebuilt in snapshot 20200826, openSUSE Tumbleweed roared back from a stability rating of 36 in the rebuild snapshot to a 95 rati...

Ritchie-CLI for openSUSE

Alessandro de Oliveira Faria 31. Aug 2020

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 28. Aug 2020

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

Tumbleweed rolls out Apache, Wireshark, Nano, Remmina Updates

Douglas DeMaio 20. Aug 2020

openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots had a strong week of releases and brought not just Apache, Wireshark, nano and remmina, but new KDE, GNOME and Mate software. Five of the pas...

openSUSE + LibreOffice Virtual Conference Talks Accepted

Douglas DeMaio 18. Aug 2020

Talks submitted for the openSUSE + LibreOffice Virtual Conference have been reviewed and accepted by the conference organizers. The approved talks have been updated in the...

Participate in Hacktoberfest, Help Develop Contributions

Douglas DeMaio 14. Aug 2020

The month-long, virtual-festival event that celebrates open source contributions, Hacktoberfest, is coming soon and members of the openSUSE community can make a difference....

Tumbleweed Snapshots bring Kernel 5.8, Hypervisor FS Support with Xen Update

Douglas DeMaio 13. Aug 2020

This week openSUSE Tumbleweed delivered four snapshots that brought in a new mainline kernel for the distribution as well as a package for Xen that removes previous require...

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...

Skopeo, xxHash, GCC 10.2 are Among Updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 6. Aug 2020

openSUSE Tumbleweed had continuous daily snapshots with a handful of software package updates this week. Many minor-version updates and one major-version update became ava...

Postponement of "openSUSE.Asia" 2020

Shobha Tyagi 5. Aug 2020

The openSUSE.Asia summit 2020 that was planned to be organized in Faridabad, India stands cancelled because of covid-19 pandemic outbreak and is postponed to next year, 20...

Release Team to have retrospective meeting about openSUSE Leap 15.2

Douglas DeMaio 5. Aug 2020

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

Leap 15.2 Install party @ GOLEM - A quick report

Dario Faggioli 3. Aug 2020

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

oneAPI compatibility with all openSUSE

Alessandro de Oliveira Faria 30. Jul 2020

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

openSUSE + LibreOffice Virtual Conference Extends Call for Papers

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jul 2020

Organizers of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Virtual Conference are extending the Call for Papers to August 4. Participants can submit talks for the live conference past the o...

Release Team Asks for Feedback on openSUSE Leap 15.2

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jul 2020

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

GNOME, KDE, libvirt Packages Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 16. Jul 2020

The desktops had a big week of updates in openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week. Among the packages updated for the desktops this week were GNOME’s 3.36.4 version and th...

openSUSE Leap 15.2 is Available for Windows Subsystem for Linux

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jul 2020

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

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

Douglas DeMaio 2. Jul 2020

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

Tumbleweed Gets LibreOffice 7, New Breezy Features

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jun 2020

New Breezy Features work with GitHub, GitLab and Launchpad The newest major version of the open-source offices suite landed in an openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week. ...

Celebrate The Upcoming openSUSE Leap Release

Douglas DeMaio 24. Jun 2020

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

Help promote openSUSE Leap 15.2!

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jun 2020

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

Build tensorflow2 with CUDA support

Christian Goll 19. Jun 2020

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

openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference Update

Douglas DeMaio 17. Jun 2020

Organizers of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference have been slightly adjusted the conference dates from the original dates of Oct. 13 – 16 to the new dates of Oct. 15. -...

Plasma 5.19, Virtualbox, Kernel 5.7.1 update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 16. Jun 2020

An exciting week of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have brought even more KDE software, a new stable kernel and more. A week ago Plasma 5.19 arrived in the 20200609 snapsho...

openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference Will Take Place Online

Douglas DeMaio 2. Jun 2020

Organizers of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference along with the project’s boards have made the decision to change the conference to an online conference. The uncertaint...

openSUSE for INNOVATORS Project is born

Alessandro de Oliveira Faria 29. May 2020

It is with great enthusiasm that I announce the INNOVATORS for openSUSE project, is an initiative to share projects, articles and news about innovative projects on the open...

openSUSE Leap 15.2 Enters Release Candidate Phase

Douglas DeMaio 28. May 2020

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

KDE Applications, Wireshark, IceWM update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 27. May 2020

The last week has produced a total of three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots bringing the total amount of snapshots for the month to 18. All 18 snapshots have recorded a stab...

openSUSE Talks at SUSECON Digital

Douglas DeMaio 20. May 2020

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

Cloud based workers for openQA

Guillaume Gardet 20. May 2020

Cloud based workers for openQA For those who do not know openQA, this is an automated test tool for operating systems and the engine at the heart of openSUSE’s automated t...

Remaining openSUSE Services to Switch to New Authentication System

Douglas DeMaio 16. May 2020

Dear Community On Monday 18 May 2020 at 07:00 UTC, we will switch over all remaining openSUSE services to the new authentication system. At the same time, the openSUSE for...

Updated KDE Frameworks, Redis Arrive in Tumbleweed, Curl Gets New Experimental Feature

Douglas DeMaio 14. May 2020

Ninetynine seems to be a new norm for openSUSE Tumbleweed as the rolling release trends and posts stable ratings of 99 for every snapshot this month, according to the Tumbl...

Community Account Migration

Douglas DeMaio 9. May 2020

Dear openSUSE Community, The authentication system behind the following services are expect to changed this month. Here is a list of services the might be affected. An ema...

SUSE carve out affecting openSUSE

Lars Vogdt 7. May 2020

SUSE’s partnership with EQT started last year - and now SUSE starts to separate more and more services from MicroFocus. SUSE and openSUSE are not only cooperating and sha...

QEMU 5, Kismet, BRLTTY Packages Update in Tumbleweed Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 7. May 2020

There have been four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released so far this month and they are all trending stable at a rating of 99, according to the Tumbleweed snapshot revie...

Discuss, Define and be Transparent with the openSUSE-Community

Vincent Moutoussamy 29. Apr 2020

Hi, The SUSE Linux Enterprise Team is acknowledging the openSUSE community needs for a better and transparent collaboration with SUSE. We have now a momentum to think and ...

Tumbleweed Snapshots this week bring Salt 3000, LLVM10, update of TigerVNC

Douglas DeMaio 16. Apr 2020

Since last Thursday, a total of five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released. Each snapshot had about between five to 10 packages updated. The most recent snapshot, ...

Jitsi instance on meet.opensuse.org

Marco Strigl 15. Apr 2020

In the times of Covid-19 and the people staying at home it is an adventure to get the tools to work from home without missing the benefits of face-to-face meetings. There ...

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...

Mesa, Nano, Redis, Git Update in openSUSE Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 4. Apr 2020

Another four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week. A notable package updated this week is a new major version of gucharmap. Plus several python package up...

Update on openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference

Douglas DeMaio 3. Apr 2020

Organizers of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference had a meeting this week to discuss various topics surrounding COVID19 and how it may affect the conference and planning ...

Listen to your music with mpd and ncmpcpp

Sébastien 'sogal' Poher 31. Mar 2020

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

Manage your dotfiles with Git

Sébastien 'sogal' Poher 27. Mar 2020

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

Kismet, Frameworks Updates Land in openSUSE Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Mar 2020

Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released so far this week. Kismet, KDE Frameworks, sudo, LibreOffice and ImageMagick were just a few of the packages that received ...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2020 Announcement

Shobha Tyagi 12. Mar 2020

Faridabad, India, Selected for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2020 India was accepted to host the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2020. openSUSE.Asia summit is going to be held for the first ...

openSUSE Summit Dublin Canceled

Douglas DeMaio 6. Mar 2020

The openSUSE Summit Dublin has been canceled due to the cancellation of some talks and the cancellation of the in-person SUSECON 2020 in Dublin. Concerns over the developi...

Plasma, VIM, Wireshark update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 4. Mar 2020

A total of five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week that provided updates for YaST, KDE’s Long Term Support version of Plasma and the open source printing...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2021 Logo Competition Announcement

Shobha Tyagi 27. Feb 2020

openSUSE.Asia Online Summit 2021 Logo Competition It’s a rationally acknowledged fact that openSUSE has a reputation for community-driven projects. Buckle up, here’s your ...

Moving to the new News

Stasiek Michalski 27. Feb 2020

In an effort to make contributing to openSUSE easier, openSUSE News has moved from being a Wordpress application to a Jekyll static site developed directly on Github. Now y...

Leap 15.2 Enters Beta Builds Phase

Douglas DeMaio 25. Feb 2020

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

Plasma, NodeJS, pip, Grep update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 20. Feb 2020

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

Call for Papers, Registration Opens for openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference

Douglas DeMaio 14. Feb 2020

Planning for the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference has begun and members of the open-source communities can now register for the conference. The Call for Papers is open and...

People of openSUSE: An Interview with Ish Sookun

Douglas DeMaio 13. Feb 2020

Can you tell us a bit about yourself? I live on an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean (20°2’ S, 57°6’ E), called Mauritius. I work for a company that supports me in ...

New IP addresses for build.opensuse.org

Lars Vogdt 3. Feb 2020

During the maintenance window this Thursday (2020-02-06) we will move the IPv4 and IPv6 address of build.opensuse.org. The new addresses are: 195.135.221.162 ...

Using Tilix – Part 2 on openSUSE

Douglas DeMaio 3. Feb 2020

Last week, we introduced Tilix and started exploring its basics, let’s now familiarize ourselves with the advanced features of Tilix, namely: Management of bookmar...

Libvirt, PHP, FFmpeg Updates Roll Out on Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 29. Jan 2020

A total of five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been releases since last week for the rolling release users. The Libvirt 6.0 package came earlier in the week. LibreOff...

Using Tilix - Part 1 on openSUSE

Douglas DeMaio 27. Jan 2020

Today we present Tilix, a tiling terminal emulator, and share some tips that make this terminal an excellent tool for all users especially system administrators. As a remin...

Winner Announced for 2020 Conference Logo Competition

Douglas DeMaio 24. Jan 2020

The winner of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference logo competition is Kukuh Syafaat from Indonesia. Kukuh’s “Fresh Community Spirit” was the winning design and was one o...

LibreOffice, Firefox, Curl Receive Updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 15. Jan 2020

Several packages were updated this week for openSUSE Tumbleweed as was expected after the holiday season. Five snapshots of the rolling release have been delivered so far t...

Tumbleweed Provides Some Stability to 2020

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jan 2020

The year of 2020, at least in the openSUSE world, is starting out to be pretty stable. In little more than a week into the new year, there have been five openSUSE Tumblewee...

Q&A: What it is like to be on the openSUSE Board

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jan 2020

You already know what a fantastic platform openSUSE is for doing just about anything with Linux. So what’s behind that easy-to-use and super powerful distribution that we k...

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