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Tumbleweed Monthly Update - February 2025

Douglas DeMaio 27. Feb 2025

This month delivered multiple snapshots and a wide range of updates plus a major default change highlighted in mid-February and a major version update of the Mesa 3D Graphi...

Myrlyn Now Handles Community Repos

Douglas DeMaio 10. Feb 2025

The promising new package management tool Myrlyn now includes a much-requested feature: repository configuration. Users can now easily manage their repos, adjust priorities...

Tumbleweed Monthly Update - January 2025

Douglas DeMaio 29. Jan 2025

Tumbleweed remains a strong example of a reliable rolling release as we step into 2025. This month delivered multiple snapshots and a wide range of updates! Two much antici...

Tumbleweed Monthly Update - December 2024

Douglas DeMaio 8. Jan 2025

Tumbleweed continues to exemplify a solid rolling release and December 2024 wraps up a year of several snapshots and large array of updates! KDE Gear 24.12 improves app usa...

GPU Switching: A Multi-GPU Game Changer

Douglas DeMaio 9. Dec 2024

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...

Tumbleweed Monthly Update - November 2024

Douglas DeMaio 29. Nov 2024

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...

Tumbleweed Monthly Update - October 2024

Douglas DeMaio 30. Oct 2024

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...

openSUSE Conference Schedule Set

Douglas DeMaio 22. May 2024

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. ...

openSUSE Tumbleweed Monthly Update - April

Douglas DeMaio 30. Apr 2024

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 Tumbleweed Monthly Update - March

Douglas DeMaio 28. Mar 2024

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...

openSUSE Tumbleweed Monthly Update - February

Douglas DeMaio 28. Feb 2024

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...

openSUSE Tumbleweed Monthly Update - January

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jan 2024

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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....

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Virtualbox, grep, gawk update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 21. Sep 2022

The rhythm of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots being released this week continues at a steady pace. The rolling release appears to be producing consistent snapshots since the...

Plasma, Gear, Frameworks update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 15. Sep 2022

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots had several KDE packages updated and an update affecting scripts related to grep. In addition to some changes with YaST affecting...

Tumbleweed Ends Continuous Streak, Keeps Rolling

Douglas DeMaio 8. Sep 2022

The Tumbleweed continuous daily-release streak ended last week with a new record of 26 snapshots, but openSUSE’s rolling release doesn’t appear to have slowed down in any w...

Tumbleweed Continues Release Streak

Douglas DeMaio 2. Sep 2022

Tumbleweed’s continuous daily release streak has reached an astounding 26 snapshots. The streak of openSUSE’s rolling release continued this week and packages like glibc, ...

Mesa, Git, Gear, More Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Aug 2022

This was another full week of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots. The rolling release continues fastforwarding daily with new versions of software. The most recent snapshot is...

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