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Tumbleweed Adopts SELinux as Default

Douglas DeMaio 13. Feb 2025

Tumbleweed has adopted SELinux as the default Linux Security Module (LSM) for new installations after a recent snapshot. The transition was announced on the mailing list i...

New Episode Launches in Workshop Series

Douglas DeMaio 23. May 2024

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 ...

Contribution Sessions to Begin Tomorrow

Douglas DeMaio 14. Feb 2024

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

An update from ALP Quality Engineering

Lubos Kocman 16. Jun 2022

Building our products in an open and transparent way allows us to rethink the way how we test. Jose Lausuch from our ALP Quality Engineering was invited to the Community W...

openSUSE Selected as Mentor Organization

Douglas DeMaio 8. Mar 2022

The openSUSE Project has been selected as a Google Summer of Code 2022 mentor organization. Being selected as one of the 203 open-source projects for GSoC gives openSUSE m...

Tumbleweed Updates Kismet, PulseAudio, Python

Douglas DeMaio 25. Aug 2021

Snapshot releases of openSUSE Tumbleweed began to flow this week for the rolling release. Moving past last week’s build failures and the obstacles with the ISO media size ...

Tumbleweed Fast Forwards with KDE Gear, Frameworks Updates

Douglas DeMaio 20. Aug 2021

A lot of work this week has been taking place in the background to release openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots. Documented on the mailing list in the latest openSUSE release eng...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

KDE and openSUSE: Plasma 5.17, Qt 5.14 and more

Douglas DeMaio 10. Oct 2019

It’s been way too long since the last blog post, so we’ve got quite a lot to report on! Plasma 5.17 Beta The Beta version of Plasma 5.17 was released with many new featur...

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019 Bali: Call for proposals is Open

Douglas DeMaio 1. May 2019

The openSUSE.Asia Committee call for proposals for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019 is now open. openSUSE.Asia Summit is one of the great events for openSUSE community (i.e., bot...

openSUSE Develops Legal Review System

Douglas DeMaio 8. Nov 2018

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...

GSoC students are already hacking!

Ana María Martínez Gómez 23. May 2018

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...

University students, openSUSE participates in GSoC!

Ana María Martínez Gómez 19. Feb 2018

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 ...

Plasma 5.12 Brings Wayland to Leap

Douglas DeMaio 8. Feb 2018

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...

openSUSE Leap 15 Reaches Beta Phase Snapshots

Douglas DeMaio 31. Jan 2018

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...

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 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 ...

Factory moves to Rolling Release Development Model

Ancor Gonzalez Sosa 29. Jul 2014

We are proud to announce that we have just switched our beloved development distribution, openSUSE Factory, to be an independent distribution using the “rolling release” de...

openSUSE Announces First Public Release of openQA

Jos Poortvliet 11. Oct 2011

The openSUSE Project announces the 1.0 release of the unique cross-distribution-capable, fully automated testing framework openQA. openQA is the only comprehensive testin...

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