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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 ...

Tumbleweed gets LLVM, Sudo, GCC Updates

Douglas DeMaio 8. Dec 2023

This week openSUSE Tumbleweed has been on a constant roll as consecutive snapshots arrive with fresh software updates. MariaDB, GTK and gnome-software were part of a range...

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...

Major Versions of PipeWire, Firefox arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio (Image by Jakub Steiner) 30. Nov 2023

Rolling release users of openSUSE Tumbleweed who did a zypper dup on and after Monday will have a couple new major version updates. El Presidente made an appearance in sna...

Flatpak, OpenVPN, Bash update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 24. Nov 2023

This week has produced more than a few openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots with a moderate downloaded size of packages for those who did a zypper dup. Snapshot 20231122 is the l...

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.Asia Summit 2024: Call for Host

Syuta Hashimoto 20. Nov 2023

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024: Call for Host The openSUSE.Asia Summit is an annual openSUSE conference in Asia and a great opportunity where contributors and enthusiasts from A...

Gear, Frameworks, Kernel updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 16. Nov 2023

A large amount of software updates made it into openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week. Most snapshots came with several new versions for those who used their command lin...

LLVM, VLC updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 10. Nov 2023

During Hack Week this weeek, openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed still manages to send out four snapshots. Software packages like LLVM, the Linux Kernel’s firmware, VLC ...

Community to Explore Engineering Depths with AMA Session

Douglas DeMaio 9. Nov 2023

The open-source community is in for a treat next week as an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on the openSUSE Project’s Jitsi instance will provide unique and insightful inform...

Results of Use Case Survey Published

Douglas DeMaio 6. Nov 2023

The openSUSE Project ran a use-case survey during the month of October and results are now available via a 254-page report and a summary of the survey’s findings is on the...

Firefox, hiredis, Strace updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 3. Nov 2023

Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed this week have been frequent with a fair amount of software packages arriving in each snapshot.. Among some of the packages to update this...

Apache, Plasma, firewalld updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 27. Oct 2023

This week saw a major transition in openSUSE Tumbleweed for YaST as it moved to a new major version. Several other packages like Apache, Redis, GVfs, Vim, KDE Plasma 5.27....

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...

GNOME, Gear, Pipewire update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 19. Oct 2023

Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed this week ranged from small- to medium-sized updates. Snapshots are rolling out consistently this week and updates for GNOME, KDE Gear, Pi...

Leap 15.5 issue with Radeon RX 7000 series and amdgpu driver

13. Oct 2023

Upcoming Quarterly Update 1 for SLES 15 SP5 contains Bug 1215802. This update will make its way also to Leap 15.5 users, since SLES and Leap starting by 15 SP3/15.3 share ...

GPG, RubyGems, Kernel update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 13. Oct 2023

Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed this week had a variety of package updates. Both Mesa and ImageMagick, were among the packages updated both this week and last week in the...

Leap Micro 5.5 availability and Leap Micro 5.3 EOL

Lubos Kocman 12. Oct 2023

A new version of the modern lightweight host operating system Leap Micro 5.5 is now available. All documents including Release notes from SLE Micro 5.5 documentation space ...

Innovation Marathon Hack Week Set for November

Douglas DeMaio 11. Oct 2023

Hack Week 23 is set to blaze a trail of innovation this November. This annual tradition started in 2007, this annual tradition, which somehow made up the difference for th...

Tumbleweed's Graphic Updates Shine

Douglas DeMaio 5. Oct 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots brings clarity for graphics thanks to updates of multiple graphics and imaging packages. Package updates for Mesa, GTK, ImageMagi...

Tumbleweed Gets systemd-boot Support

Douglas DeMaio 29. Sep 2023

This week openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots continue to deliver software updates for users wanting to enhance their systems. Updates in this week’s snapshots brought numerous ...

Leap Micro 5.5 reaches Beta, Leap Micro 5.3 soon to be EOL

Lubos Kocman 27. Sep 2023

A new version of the modern lightweight host operating system Leap Micro 5.5 just entered the Beta of its development. A quick transition to a Release Candidate (RC) expec...

Survey to Explore openSUSE's Use Cases, More

Douglas DeMaio 27. Sep 2023

A recently published openSUSE survey is asking IT professionals and users about their views on open-source technologies and the ever-evolving Linux ecosystem. The Use Case...

Slowroll Distribution Keeps Name

Douglas DeMaio 26. Sep 2023

Choosing a name for anything is not an easy task; the detail can wield significant influence, which is why a survey to make a decision about renaming Slowroll was presented...

Health-Checker, Gear, More update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 22. Sep 2023

A few openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots became available to users of the rolling release this week. Several software packages for KDE users were among those updated. The heal...

Systemd, Kernel update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 14. Sep 2023

This week saw openSUSE Tumbleweed level up with a new Linux Kernel. The rolling release had many snapshots, but only recently did the zypper dup change the distribution to...

KDE Gear, FreeRDP update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 7. Sep 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots varied from large to small and there was also an updated arm Tumbleweed snapshot released. Packages to arrive so far this month h...

New Leap Micro Alpha Enhances SELinux

Lubos Kocman and Douglas DeMaio 6. Sep 2023

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce its modern lightweight host operating system Leap Micro 5.5 just entered Alpha. This release brings a host of enhancements and ...

Survey Reveals Community Preferences for openSUSE's Future Direction

Douglas DeMaio 5. Sep 2023

The openSUSE contributor community recently completed a comprehensive survey last week aimed at determining the project’s future direction. The results were obtained from 3...

Tumbleweed Slows for Open Build Service Move

Douglas DeMaio 31. Aug 2023

The rolling release for openSUSE temporarily slowed the frequency of its snapshot release cycle to support the migration efforts and data center move of the Open Build Serv...

Britty, LibreOffice, OpenVPN Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 24. Aug 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot updates remained steady and small other than the release of KDE Frameworks 5.109.0 in one of the snapshots. Daily snapshots were r...

Open Build Service Will Be Down Temporarily

Douglas DeMaio 23. Aug 2023

People using certain openSUSE services and tools will experience an interruption starting August 24 at 16:00 UTC since a significant shift will happen for the Open Build Se...

PostgreSQL, Xen, glibc Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 18. Aug 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were steady and there were no large updates. While updating openSUSE rolling release once a week could result in a larger update,...

Perl, Pipewire, LibreOffice Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 11. Aug 2023

Tumbleweed snapshots didn’t lack excitement this week as multiple packages received updates and a couple major versions arrived for openSUSE rolling release users this week...

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...

Try out the new CDN with openSUSE-repos

Lubos Kocman 31. Jul 2023

For a while Dirk Mueller was working in the background to get a sponsored CDN subscription. Thanks to his effort Fastly.com has agreed to sponsor the openSUSE project with ...

openSUSE Wishes You a Happy SysAdmin Day

Douglas DeMaio 28. Jul 2023

System administrators (sysadmins) are the unsung heroes of technology, and the openSUSE Project is thankful for all the openSUSE heroes that help our project to function. ...

Tumbleweed Update Highlights Redis, HarfBuzz Changes

Douglas DeMaio 21. Jul 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed updates had changes for harfbuzz, xterm, Redis, Audacity and more Snapshots have been rolling out consistently this week. The 20230718 sna...

Tumbleweed Brings KDE Users Frameworks, Gear Updates

Douglas DeMaio 14. Jul 2023

This week brought KDE users of openSUSE‘s rolling release Tumbleweed updates for Frameworks and Gear along with several other updated packages. Snapshots have been rolling...

Tumbleweed Boosts GNOME, MariaDB with Updates

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jul 2023

A week of five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots brought crucial updates for key packages like GNOME, MariaDB, transactional-update and others. The rolling release distributi...

Submitting Talks, Attending Conferences Embody Open Source, Power of Sharing

Douglas DeMaio 4. Jul 2023

Staying up-to-date with the latest trends, tools and industry knowledge is crucial for open-source developers and IT professionals like system administrators. Online reso...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023 Call For Sponsorships

openSUSE Asia Summit Chongqing Team 30. Jun 2023

The openSUSE.Asia Committee is seeking sponsors for the ninth openSUSE.Asia Summit. The summit will take place in Chongqing, China, from Oct. 21–23, 2023. Our participants ...

Kdump, firewalld update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 30. Jun 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots are rolling out at a steady pace. The snapshots were not large, but consistent. Snapshot 20230628 provided a few small changes t...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023 Call For Papers

openSUSE Asia Summit Chongqing Team 20. Jun 2023

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023 Call For Papers It is a pleasure to announce the call for papers for openSUSE.Asia summit 2023 starting today, the openSUSE.Asia Committee is lo...

Mesa, systemd, Gear, Frameworks update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 15. Jun 2023

Frequent snapshots of openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed brought KDE enthusiasts freshly made software this week. KDE Gear and KDE Frameworks were released in two of th...

Leap 15.5 Release Retrospective is open for feedback

Lubos Kocman 9. Jun 2023

openSUSE Leap 15.5 was released earlier this week and release team would like to hear from you about your experience with openSUSE Leap 15.5. Did anything go particularly ...

Leap 15.5 Release Matures, Sets Up Technological Transition

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jun 2023

EN / CA / CS / DE / ES / FR / JA / NL / ZH-TW NUREMBERG, Germany – The release of openSUSE’s latest 15-series version marks years of maintenance and security that began m...

Project Announces Plans for Another Minor Leap 15 Release

Lubos Kocman 6. Jun 2023

We’d like to announce that the openSUSE Release team plans to work on openSUSE Leap 15.6. openSUSE Leap 15.6 is expected to be released in early June 2024 and would reach ...

Modern Python stack for Leap

Daniel García Moreno 6. Jun 2023

Adding Python 3.11 to Leap 15.4 and newer Leap has a default Python interpreter that’s “too old”. In Leap, python3 is Python 3.6 that reached upstream end of life at the e...

Major QEMU Version Lands in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 2. Jun 2023

The openSUSE Conference did not slow down openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots from frequently being released this week. Three snapshots have been released since last Friday when...

Open House in Prague to Showcases Culture, Innovations

Douglas DeMaio 1. Jun 2023

Members of the Geekos community are inviting technology enthusiasts, students, potential candidates, and anyone interested in open source, openSUSE and Linux to an Open Hou...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023 Logo Competition Announcement

openSUSE Asia Summit Chongqing Team 1. Jun 2023

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023 Logo Competition Today is the launch of our logo competition for the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023. A logo is an integral part of the openSUSE.Asia Su...

MicroOS Desktop has new names!

Shawn W Dunn 31. May 2023

New Names! As seen in Richard Brown’s presentation at openSUSE Conference 2023 Why you should be running the MicroOS Desktop, we are pleased to announce a name change for ...

AlmaLinux Contributes to OpenQA Project, Adds Additional Architectures Support, New Features

Douglas DeMaio and Andrew Lukoshko 30. May 2023

NUREMBERG, Germany (May 30, 2023) - Open-source projects and contributions have brought remarkable advancements in technology by enabling communication and collaboration am...

Project’s Community Conference to Begin Friday

Douglas DeMaio 23. May 2023

This year’s openSUSE Conference starts in about 72 hours and open-source enthusiasts, contributors and supporters are making their way to Nuremberg, Germany, for a collabor...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023 Announcement

openSUSE.Asia Summit Chongqing Team 21. May 2023

Chongqing, China, Selected for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023 Chongqing has been accepted to host the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023 and the openSUSE.Asia Summit will return to Chin...

Kernel Updates in Tumbleweed, Development Seeks Volunteers

Douglas DeMaio 4. May 2023

Snapshot updates of openSUSE Tumbleweed were frequent and consistent this week while another development project seeks to get things moving. A post to developers on the Fa...

KDE Gear, Grep, GTK4 update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 28. Apr 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed had a decent amount of software packages in each snapshot. The rolling release updated applications for both GNOME and KDE, with several KD...

Home instance of NextCloud with Leap Micro 5.4, Leap Micro 5.2 is EOL, Leap 15.5 enters RC

Lubos Kocman 27. Apr 2023

This week was a busy week! Leap 15.5 enters the Release Candidate phase! According to the roadmap users can expect the final release shortly after the openSUSE Conference ...

Next Version of Leap Micro Reaches Release Candidate

Douglas DeMaio 25. Apr 2023

The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce its modern lightweight host operating system Leap Micro 5.4 has reached its Release Candidate phase. The last beta introduced a...

Get Ready for this year's openSUSE Conference

Douglas DeMaio 19. Apr 2023

Are you ready for this year’s openSUSE Conference? It will once again take place at the Z Bau, which was converted into a cultural center in 2014. The conference schedule ...

Frameworks, Shotwell, systemd update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 14. Apr 2023

Six openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released since last Friday updating some GNOME applications, KDE’s Frameworks, the LLVM compiler and several other packages. Th...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023: Call for Host

Syuta Hashimoto 13. Apr 2023

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023: Call for Host Photo by rania: https://raniaamina.id/opensuse-asia-summit-2019-we-re-asia/ Last offline opensuse Asia Summit is 2019 held at Info...

Firefox, systemd update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 6. Apr 2023

Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed are continuously rolling forward. Several medium sized snapshots this week provided an array of system component updates for rolling relea...

GNOME, curl, LLVM Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 31. Mar 2023

This week in openSUSE Tumbleweed had both enormous and single-package snapshots. A new GNOME, compiler tools and music player updates arrived this week along with a ton of...

Hands-on, Ad-free browsing at your home with Leap Micro 5.4 Beta

Lubos Kocman 28. Mar 2023

The Beta version of our Immutable HostOS Leap Micro 5.4 is now available. The update brings SELinux in enforcing mode by default as well as tuned. Leap Micro is not a trad...

GCC, EFI Boot Manager Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 23. Mar 2023

Rolling-release distribution openSUSE Tumbleweed had a large number of security patches, bug fixes, and new features in snapshots released this week. Users who did a zyppe...

Mesa, Flatpak, Plasma Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 3. Mar 2023

This week openSUSE Tumbleweed users learned of the performance optimizations gained with changes for x86-64-v3 and received a few snapshots. Some of the packages to arrive...

openSUSE Tumbleweed gains optional x86-64-v3 optimization

Dirk Müller 2. Mar 2023

Tumbleweed users who performed a distribution upgrade or zypper dup the last weeks on the rolling release with “recommended packages” enabled (the default) and matching har...

Open Source Policy Update Spotlights AI Considerations

Douglas DeMaio 1. Mar 2023

A recent update of SUSE’s Open Source Policy is giving developers, communities and projects food for thought as Artificial Intelligence chatbots and protocols are gaining p...

Ruby Default Switches in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 24. Feb 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed roundup will look at five snapshots that have been released since last Friday. Snapshots include switching the default Ruby for the rolling...

Awareness Sessions About Projects Available for GSoC Applicants

Douglas DeMaio 22. Feb 2023

Mentors and administrators of openSUSE are excited to be accepted as a mentorship organization for this year’s Google Summer of Code and will be available for potential men...

Leap 15.5 Reaches Beta Phase

Douglas DeMaio 21. Feb 2023

The release manager for openSUSE Leap Luboš Kocman is expected to announce the Beta release phase of Leap 15.5 soon. The first Beta release is syncing on mirrors globally f...

Mesa, Disk Encryption, Xfce Packages Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 17. Feb 2023

This week has provided many openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots focusing on hardware, graphics, desktop environment and more. From Mesa to the disk encryption package cryptsetup...

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...

Audacity, OpenSSL, systemd Update Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 10. Feb 2023

The past week has produced a few openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots and automatic migrations kicked off for the first snapshot of February. Some of the packages covered this we...

Novo fórum de openSUSE em portugues

Victorhck 6. Feb 2023

You can read it in English Olá Geekos. Estamos animados com o nosso novo fórum em português. Esperamos ter a sua ajuda para construir uma comunidade envolvente no nosso i...

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...

openSUSE Simplifies Codec Installation

Douglas DeMaio 24. Jan 2023

The openSUSE Project was inspired by Fedora’s efforts to make Cisco’s OpenH264 codecs and FDK AAC available to its users that members reached out to Cisco’s open-source te...

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...

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