The name for this project was updated to Myrlyn on Jan. 9, 2025. YQPkg, a promising new package management tool for openSUSE, is preparing to make waves in the Linux commu...
The release of Leap 15.6 on June 12 set in motion the End of Life for maintenance and security for Leap 15.5, which will happen at the end of December. Users should upgrad...
The openSUSE community will celebrate the 5-year anniversary of the openSUSE Bar on Dec. 19. Join people in the bar and celebrate this social space where open-source enthus...
A recent back-and-forth on Windows 11’s hardware requirements and the end-of-life timeline for Windows 10 leaves millions of users frustrated and uncertain about their next...
The Upgrade to Freedom campaign has joined the End of 10 initiative to promote Free and Open Source Software as a sustainable alternative to Windows 10. Learn more at endof...
Users of openSUSE can now rely on the built-in switcherooctl tool for GPU switching, which is already integrated into our distributions with major desktop environments like...
The openSUSE community is excited to announce the official release of Leap Micro 6.1. Leap Micro continues its alignment with SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro, ensuring robust ...
Release Candidate images of Leap Micro 6.1 can be found at get.opensuse.org. At this point we’re only awaiting confirmation of the Leap Micro 6.1 maintenance setup prior m...
Leap Micro 6.1 Beta was released last Wednesday. Images can be found at get.opensuse.org As this is mostly a rebrand of SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.1, unless some serious...
This month, the rolling-release continues to shine as a well-oiled machine. November brings key updates for Mesa, gtk4, php8, postgresql17 and more. Alongside these key upd...
The openSUSE community is invited to an online engagement with SUSE’s General Manager for Business Critical Linux on Dec. 3 at 16:00 UTC. Rick Spencer, who leads the SUSE ...
Leap Micro 6.1 Alpha images can be found at get.opensuse.org. Unless some serious issues are found, users can expect a quick transition to GA within a few weeks. About Lea...
Open-source software developers, tech enthusiasts and innovators worldwide are set for Hack Week 24 that starts today and runs through Nov. 22. The event is a cornerstone ...
The openSUSE Board is calling for the formation of a working group to explore topics focused on project governance, operational models and rebranding for the project. This...
Members of the openSUSE’s election committee have provided notice to the project about the start of this year’s board election. This election there are three board seats up...
The openSUSE Project is excited to announce rsync.net as the latest Gold Sponsor! The company’s support will empower the openSUSE community to continue building open-sourc...
Managing localization of desktop menus and applications takes a specific tool and approach that fills a gap but leaves inconsistent upstream translations. Open-source tran...
The openSUSE Project has announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at highlighting contributions of its diverse community members. Dubbed “Contributor in the Spotligh...
This month, the rolling-release ran like a well-tuned engine as it powered through important updates and bug fixes with precision and speed. Updates were available for GNOM...
Branding for Tumbleweed and Leap 16.0 are moving along with the creation of a visual identity for these two distinct operating system flavors. For two of openSUSE’s most n...
The openSUSE Project will live-stream Episode 10 of it Contribution Workshop series on Oct. 24 at 18:00 UTC on openSUSE’s YouTube and X platforms for a GNOME Extensions wor...
The openSUSE community is preparing for the Early Adopter Tech Summit on March 14 and 15, 2025, in Orlando, Florida. This event will take place at Loews Sapphire Falls Res...
GRUB2 with BLS is now in MicroOS and Tumbleweed Recently the openSUSE project released for MicroOS and Tumbleweed a new version of the GRUB2 package, with a new subpackage...
Hello everyone! I’d like to announce the start of development and the public availability of what we currently refer to as Leap 16.0 pre-Alpha. Since this is a pre-Alpha v...
The schedule for this year’s openSUSE.Asia Summit is out and features a diverse lineup of talks highlighting advancements in open-source and with the project. This year’s ...
Welcome to the monthly update for Tumbleweed for September 2024! This month, the rolling-release model has kept pace with numerous important updates and bug fixes. PostgreS...
This is a quick start guide for Full Disk Encryption with TPM or FIDO2 and YaST2 on openSUSE Tumbleweed. It focuses on the few steps to install openSUSE Tumbleweed with YaS...
Python 3.13 RC2 is now available in Tumbleweed. This new version of the Python interpreter will be released in October 2024. There is a lot of changes and new features in ...
As Slowroll continues its journey, the latest updates released on August 30 and two on Sept. 2 with snapshot 20240902T0137 and snapshot 20240902T2146 have brought a slew of...
Welcome to the monthly update for Tumbleweed for August 2024. This month has been a productive period with significant progress and updates. The rolling-release team is mak...
With the switch to dbus-broker as D-Bus implementation in Tumbleweed Snapshot 20240825, a regression was introduced: When using Wicked for network configuration, the system...
The votes are in, and the openSUSE Asia Summit Organization Committee is pleased to announce the winner of the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 logo competition. The openSUSE Asi...
Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for July 2024. Last month was busy with events like the Community Summit in Berlin and the openSUSE Conference. Both e...
The Aeon team is very happy to announce that with the release of Snapshot 20240726, Aeon Desktop is now officially at Release Candidate 3 (RC3) Status! The biggest change ...
An experimental “Pre-RC3” image for the Aeon Desktop has been published and testers are encouraged to try out the final prototype before it becomes the official Release Can...
The openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 is fast approaching, and we’re excited to invite participants from all over the world to join us Nov. 2 and 3 in Tokyo, Japan. This year prom...
Full Disk Encryption is planned to be introduced in the forthcoming release candidate of the Aeon Desktop to enhance data security for its users. The feature is expected t...
Many thanks to all who participated in the Leap 16 branding workshop at the openSUSE Conference 2024. The enthusiasm and creativity is moving us forward to take the next st...
Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for June 2024. This month was busy with events like the Community Summit in Berlin and the openSUSE Conference, but a ...
Slowroll, which has a more modest update cadence than Tumbleweed, is gaining acceptance as a balance between the rapid updates of Tumbleweed’s rolling releases and the trad...
The openSUSE.Asia Summit is an annual openSUSE conference in Asia and a great opportunity for contributors and enthusiasts from Asia to come together and meet face-to-face....
A new major version of Leap Micro is now available! Leap Micro 6.0 images can be found at get.opensuse.org. Leap Micro 6.0 uses a brand-new codebase, comes with plenty of...
Leap 15.6 install media were refreshed to address an issue with old secure boot signing key for ppc64le and s390x. Refreshed images from Leap 15.6 Build 710.3 are already ...
Here is a little gift for the weekend. openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 RC is now available! Images can be found at get.opensuse.org. The main difference from Beta is a working upg...
openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 Beta is now available! We expect that it will very quickly transition to RC and GA as the infra readiness advances. Leap Micro 6.0 Beta images can ...
EN / CA / CS / DE / ES / JA / PT-BR / SV / ZH-TW NUREMBERG, Germany – The release of Leap 15.6 is official and paves the way for professionals and organizations to transit...
The third-party repository for NVIDIA graphics drivers is soon switching from a 1024-bit DSA GPG key to a 4096-bit RSA GPG key. This switchover is necessary to meet curren...
Members of openSUSE Project are excited about the launch of Leap 15.6 on June 12 and encourages people to host a Release Party. If you don’t know how to do this, there is ...
We are pleased to announce that the call for speakers for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 started today. The event will be held on November 2 and 3 in Tokyo, Japan. Please check ...
What is openSUSE.Asia Summit? The openSUSE Project is excited to announce that openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 will be held in Tokyo, Japan. The openSUSE.Asia Summit is an annua...
Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for May 2024. This month has seen a significant number of updates, enhancements, and crucial security fixes. Whether y...
Contributors developing the Aeon Desktop are happy to announce a major milestone with the launch of Release Candidate 2 (RC2) images. Within the last 24 hours, an update o...
The openSUSE Project has an official space on Hugging Face, which is a popular platform offering a range of open-source Artificial Intelligence models, tools and resources....
The openSUSE Project continues its Contribution Workshop series today with a new episode at 19:15 UTC on the project’s YouTube & X channels. The new episode will take ...
openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 Logo Competition We are pleased to announce the launch of our logo contest for the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024! The logo plays a crucial role in rep...
The schedule for openSUSE Conference 2024 is out and it is filled with several talks about open-source ecosystem and includes several breaks for networking opportunities. ...
While focused on the openSUSE Innovator initiative as an openSUSE member and Intel Innovator, it was frustrating for me to see that openVINO did not have support on the ope...
The openSUSE will undergo a critical update with the migration of Weblate to a hosted solution. Shifting to a hosted solution for the web-based localization tool in order ...
openSUSE.Asia Summit will come back to Tokyo, Japan The openSUSE Project is exciting to announce that openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 is going to be held in Tokyo, Japan. The op...
Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for April 2024. This month began after addressing last month’s supply chain attack against xz compression library for ...
openSUSE Leap 15.6 exited Beta and entered its Release Candidate phase with build 669.1 last week. You can get Leap 15.6 RC install images from get.opensuse.org. This mean...
In March, the configuration for building openSUSE Factory was changed to be bit-by-bit reproducible (except for the embedded signature). Following this, the first openSUSE ...
The openSUSE project is excited to announce that Leap Micro 6 is in its alpha development stage. Building on the solid foundation of its predecessors, Leap Micro 6 continu...
A lot has been written about the XZ Backdoor in the last few weeks, so it is time to look forward. Before doing so, we share further details about what happened with regard...
We will be newly using png for the default wallpaper set on openSUSE Tumbleweed and upcoming versions of openSUSE Leap and Leap Micro. The driver behind the decision is th...
The openSUSE continues its Contribution Workshop series this week and has new episodes covering topics essential for newcomers and seasoned contributors. Upcoming Episodes ...
openSUSE maintainers received notification of a supply chain attack against the “xz” compression tool and “liblzma5” library. Background Andres Freund reported to Debian ...
Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for March 2024. This month provided several anticipated updates for the rolling release. Before getting in the packag...
March has been an exciting month for openSUSE Tumbleweed users as GNOME 46 made its way into the rolling release like KDE’s Plasma 6 did a few weeks ago. The GNOME users a...
A lot of excitement was brewing at the announcement of KDE’s Plasma 6 release and now the MegaRelease has arrived in openSUSE Tumbleweed and Kalpa while plans for Slowroll ...
The openSUSE community’s Contribution Workshops continues to move forward with exciting new sessions. The next session, which is Episode 4: openSUSE Contribution Workshop:...
The Download Redirector received a few minor quality of life improvements, which are discussed below. Projects The main menu on the downloads site now has a Projects item...
The openSUSE Project is thrilled to announce the Beta release phase of Leap 15.6. Feel free to download Leap 15.6 Beta images from get.opensuse.org and test it out, or upg...
There are several changes happening in openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed on a daily basis and integrating systemd-boot into has been evolving. A shift from the traditi...
Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for February 2024. This month we get one more day in February because of Leap year, but here is what we have for the m...
The community is headed to Berlin on June 19 for a Community Summit in association with SUSE’s premier annual global technical conference SUSECON. Registration for the eve...
Like many open-source projects, the Uyuni Project has a long tradition of fostering community engagement and open dialogue, which is why those who are interested in configu...
A recent post on the YaST blog about Agama’s roadmap looks at the new installer as functional enough to embark on tasks ranging from localization and network configuration ...
The openSUSE community is pleased to announce that it will have short sessions aimed at encouraging people on how to contribute to the project. A group of volunteers will ...
The openSUSE Conference in Nuremberg, Germany, at the end of June may feel like a long time away, but if you are planning to oSC24, there are topics that need action now be...
Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for January 2024. This will be the new format going forward as recommended by those contributing to the marketing effo...
The openSUSE Project is asking interested people to submit a call for hosts for the openSUSE Conference 2025. This event is a cornerstone of the openSUSE community and aim...
WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a portable binary instruction format. It has gained popularity for its portability as a compilation target that enables deployment on the ...
Results from a use case survey gave some insightful information about how people perceive openSUSE Slowroll. Some view it as a replacement for openSUSE Leap, but recent ne...
The openSUSE release team confirms there will be a successor to Leap 15 and it’s a numerical leap forward. As many eagerly await the arrival of Leap 15.6 this year, a path...
The openSUSE Project is excited to announce the Open 4 Business networking event, a collaborative initiative launched by the DORS/CLUC organization, scheduled for June 26 f...
The openSUSE Project will have a workshop on Jan. 16 at 15:30 UTC on meet.opensuse.org/meeting that will focus on this year’s Google Summer of Code application and mentorsh...