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May 23, 2012
openSUSE Conference has a location and a CfP out!

Posted: May 23, 2012, 2:00pm CEST by Jos Poortvliet

We are happy to announce that after scouting many wonderful places, having long discussions and many last minute changes, we finally have a location and date set for the openSUSE Conference 2012 (oSC12) and our CfP committee is ready to accept talk proposals! location This year oSC12 will take place at the Czech Technical University in Prague. [...]
Downtime of parts of build.opensuse.org on 2012-05-23

Posted: May 23, 2012, 12:02pm CEST by Andreas Jaeger

The storage backend of the openSUSE Build Service at build.opensuse.org is causing again problems. Server side builds will not be enabled for now. The outage will be for at least today. Access to api.o.o and the website build.opensuse.org are possible, so source modifications and local builds, e.g. via the command line client osc, are working. Just [...]
May 22, 2012
openSUSE in Fosscomm 2012

Posted: May 22, 2012, 4:12pm CEST by Koudaras Konstantinos

Once again, the Greek openSUSE community was present and rocked in the Free open source software communities meeting, which took place this year in the beautiful town of Serres. We had 5 talks and 1 workshop. The openSUSE Project-talk (Kostas Koudaras) Yast-talk (Kostas Koudaras-Stathis Agrapidis) openSUSE Medical-talk (Stathis Iosifidis) OwnCloud-talk (Stathis Iosifidis but originally registered from Chris Loukas) OBS-workshop (Stathis [...]
May 18, 2012
IPv6 day 6 June 2012: time to do it again

Posted: May 18, 2012, 3:40pm CEST by Lars Vogdt

Like last year, openSUSE will participate again on the coordinated launch of the next-generation Internet protocol IPv6 on June 6, 2012. Joining the Internet Society and several major Internet companies like Google, Yahoo and Facebook, openSUSE shows again its readiness for the industry-standard technologies including the new standard protocol for the Internet, Internet Protocol version 6 [...]
May 09, 2012
Planned outage of some openSUSE infrastructure on 2012-05-10 starting at 0:00 UTC

Posted: May 9, 2012, 12:09pm CEST by Andreas Jaeger

Our Provo data center will take down a few server starting today at 6pm local time (MDT) which is 10th of May, 0:00 UTC. The downtime is expected to last for three hours. The following openSUSE services might be effected: all openSUSE wiki instances, e.g. en.opensuse.org the wordpress instances like news.opensuse.org and lizards.opensuse.org the forums at forums.opensuse.org
May 03, 2012
Open Build Service version 2.3 released

Posted: May 3, 2012, 10:11am CEST by Andreas Jaeger

Open Build Service is a generic system to build and distribute packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. OBS 2.3 brings the functionality to maintain a released software product in an efficient and transparent way. This includes Update coordination: One or more maintenance groups can decide if and when to start or release [...]
May 01, 2012
download.opensuse.org celebrates May 1 holiday (it’s broken)

Posted: May 1, 2012, 11:01am CEST by Will Stephenson

Update: download.opensuse.org is back up, OBS and mirrors are resyncing After receiving a new disk array, and restoring backups onto it, download.opensuse.org is back up. The openSUSE Build Service is currently syncing all its repos to it, and then a full mirror rescan will be carried out so that the latest software is on all the [...]
April 26, 2012
openSUSE and GSOC 2012: Good to Go!

Posted: April 26, 2012, 6:13am CEST by Jos Poortvliet

Google published the list of 12 students proposals that have been accepted for Google Summer of Code 2012 for openSUSE. It means that 12 students will be able to work full-time on changing the world this summer! 51 proposals, 12 students accepted Big thanks to every student who dedicated their time thinking up and writing awesome proposals: [...]
April 23, 2012
openSUSE Summit Website Adds Spanish Translations

Posted: April 23, 2012, 12:10pm CEST by Jos Poortvliet

The openSUSE Summit team has been working hard over the last weeks to add Spanish translations to the website. As the openSUSE Summit is meant to be an ‘Americas’ event, we aim to create a dual-language conference, accommodating both the Spanish and English speaking visitors. The exact language distribution of talks will strongly depends [...]
April 20, 2012
Grab the Geeko by the Horns: The Boosters are Hiring

Posted: April 20, 2012, 5:31pm CEST by Henne Vogelsang

SUSE, our founder, partner and sponsor, has put out a couple of job openings for the openSUSE Boosters Team! Are you a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enthusiast? Are you quick on your feet, a talented technologist? Are you hungry to learn new things and equally passionate about sharing your knowledge with your peers? [...]
April 18, 2012
Heinlein Support Becomes openSUSE Project Sponsor

Posted: April 18, 2012, 3:00pm CEST by Jos Poortvliet

The openSUSE community is proud to welcome Heinlein Support as new sponsor to the project! Heinlein is a Linux specialist offering training, consulting and hosting focused on the German market and will help us with our mail infrastructure. Introducing Heinlein Heinlein Support has specialized in Linux servers and e-mail services for over 20 years. They share their [...]
April 16, 2012
GoGo on openSUSE

Posted: April 16, 2012, 12:26pm CEST by Jos Poortvliet

openSUSE 12.1 was one of the first major Linux distributions to include the new programming language Go. Recently, go 1.0 was released and shortly before milestone 3 openSUSE Factory received packages for this new Go. Graham Anderson notified the factory mailing list of this and included some tips for Go hackers on getting started with [...]
April 12, 2012
Downtime of software.opensuse.org

Posted: April 12, 2012, 8:46pm CEST by Andreas Jaeger

We had some network problems in our Nürnberg data center this afternoon and now the site software.opensuse.org is not reachable. To download the openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3, go directly to the download directory. To download openSUSE 12.1, go directly to the 12.1 download directory. For everything else, please wait until the server is fully up again. Update 2012-04-12 19:37 [...]
openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3 hits the street

Posted: April 12, 2012, 4:44pm CEST by Jos Poortvliet

Despite delays due to the move to a i686 desktop kernel for 32-bit systems, milestone 3 is finally available. This milestone brings progress on a number of features including GNOME 3.4, LibreOffice 3.5.2, Plymouth and more. Like the M2, there has been a bit of a delay getting this testing milestone out. Some kernel changes made [...]
April 04, 2012
Open Build Service Delivers Website Integration

Posted: April 4, 2012, 3:59pm CEST by Jos Poortvliet

The Open Build Service, a system to collaboratively build and easily distribute packages for a wide variety of operating systems and platforms, has introduced the ability to integrate the intelligent OBS ‘download package’ page into websites. This is useful for projects who want to offer their users easy access to downloads for a wide variety [...]
April 03, 2012
The KDE and openSUSE communities welcome you to COSCUP 2012!

Posted: April 3, 2012, 3:00pm CEST by Jos Poortvliet

COSCUP is the largest FLOSS conference organized by local communities in Taiwan. The conference has sessions for new users, enthusiastic promoters, coders or anyone who is interested in cutting-edge FLOSS technologies. The goal is to create a friendly and informative environment for people from different communities to make friends, learn new technologies and inspire each [...]
March 29, 2012
openSUSE Summit Geeko-ing Up: Website up, Call for Papers out!

Posted: March 29, 2012, 5:00pm CEST by Jos Poortvliet

We’re happy to announce that starting March 29 the openSUSE Summit team will accept session proposals for the openSUSE Summit. The openSUSE Summit will take place from September 21-23, 2012 in Orlando Florida at the Caribe Royale Hotel. The proposal submission period ends on June 15, 2012 at midnight EDT. Final announcement of the program [...]
March 27, 2012
software.openSUSE.org calling for Ruby Hackers!

Posted: March 27, 2012, 11:22pm CEST by Jos Poortvliet

About 2 weeks ago Thomas “digitaltom” Schmidt of the openSUSE Boosters started working on a refresh of the software.opensuse.org search interface. In that time, he has transformed the quite technical search UI into one which is a lot more modern and far easier to use. But there’s quite a bit of work in designing and [...]
March 20, 2012
openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 2 is out

Posted: March 20, 2012, 2:00pm CET by Jos Poortvliet

Those following openSUSE development closely probably know that the 2nd milestone on the way to openSUSE 12.2 was planned for the beginning of this week. And indeed you can now download it from software.opensuse.org/developer. As usual, a list of the most annoying bugs is being maintained and you can see the list of bugs and/or [...]
March 19, 2012
openSUSE to be part of GSOC 2012!

Posted: March 19, 2012, 9:14pm CET by Jos Poortvliet

Good news! As followers of our openSUSE Google+ account already know, openSUSE will be part of GSOC 2012. That means it is now time for the students to take the openSUSE GSOC ideas, find a mentor and start creating proposals to be submitted to Google. We’ve got until April 6th for this, at which point [...]
March 16, 2012
Join FLISOL 2012!

Posted: March 16, 2012, 2:22pm CET by Jos Poortvliet

It’s that time of the year again – FLISOL, the “Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre” (Latin American free software install fest) will start in about 6 weeks! If you live in Latin America, you can join one of the hundreds of install fests happening all over the continent on April 28th. And if [...]
March 13, 2012
openSUSE Stable Maintenance Process Now Fully Open

Posted: March 13, 2012, 5:20am CET by Adrian Schröter

A while ago, we wrote about the work on moving maintenance support into the Open Build Service. Since then announcement, some of the internal maintenance scripts have been running in parallel to the Open Build Service but the Security, Maintenance and OBS teams are now convinced things are ready for a switch. Soon, to be [...]
March 07, 2012
OSC12 is coming to Prague in fall

Posted: March 7, 2012, 2:54pm CET by Henne Vogelsang

The openSUSE Conference (oSC) is the yearly get-together of our community to give its people a chance to meet face to face, talk to and inspire each other. Being together in one room, even in this day and age, beats every other collaboration method and is what forges cohesion and friendships. That is why the [...]
February 29, 2012
Rest in peace, daemon.

Posted: February 29, 2012, 10:42pm CET by Pascal Bleser

Our fellow and long time openSUSE contributor Marco “daemon” Michna has passed away last week. He was a friend to many of us, and will be sorely missed. Our condolences and sympathy go out to his family and friends. Daemon, dear friend, rest in peace.
openSUSE & GSOC 2012

Posted: February 29, 2012, 12:27pm CET by Izabel Valverde

openSUSE as a project always looking to improve and grow and this is one of those opportunities: Google Summer of Code! Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a program that offers students an paid opportunity to write code for several open source projects. The purpose is to benefit open source projects and encourage young developers to [...]
February 24, 2012
Continue the openSUSE Weekly News

Posted: February 24, 2012, 8:58pm CET by Sascha Manns

After three years of hard work the chairman of the openSUSE Weekly News team, Sascha Manns has given up his chair. We have recieved many questions about the future of the Weekly News so we thought to write a little bit about this topic. Why we need the openSUSE Weekly News? The Weekly News team published [...]
February 20, 2012
12.1 update repository changes

Posted: February 20, 2012, 12:44pm CET by Lars Vogdt

Teams from the openSUSE Buildservice and openSUSE Maintenance worked together since weeks now to integrate openSUSE distribution maintenance support into the Buildservice on build.opensuse.org. There were a lot of changes and a lot of places had to be adapted, but finally they got it working: maintenance updates for openSUSE 12.1 are now handled inside the openSUSE [...]
February 17, 2012
Development of openSUSE 12.2 started!

Posted: February 17, 2012, 10:00am CET by Kim Leyendecker

With the release of Milestone 1, the development of openSUSE 12.2 has started! We’re pleased to announce that Milestone 1 contains many minor updates, like a new Firefox version but also major things like new artwork and KDE 4.8. Our release manager, Stephan “Coolo” Kulow said: There have been enough weeks without another release, so I started now [...]
February 08, 2012
openSUSE at FOSDEM

Posted: February 8, 2012, 3:19am CET by Jos Poortvliet

Busy time at the booth openSUSE brought lots of fun to FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium. We’re all exhausted now from selling beer, t-shirts, hats and giving demonstrations of openSUSE with GNOME Shell, KDE, Plasma Active, openSUSE-on-ARM (running XFCE) and countless other things. Yet we did want to tell you about FOSDEM before we go catch up [...]
February 07, 2012
GNOME Accesibility Hackfest (interview)

Posted: February 7, 2012, 10:47am CET by Koudaras Konstantinos

A few weeks ago in A Coruña, Spain a Hackfest around GNOME Accessibility took place hosted by Igalia . openSUSE found the opportunity to make some questions to the people involved and then learn a bit more about this interesting Project. Our interviewers were Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias, Joanmarie Diggs and Juanjo Marín. 1 – What is ATK [...]
January 30, 2012
SSL cert update for opensuse.org hosts in Nuremberg

Posted: January 30, 2012, 9:31am CET by Lars Vogdt

Thursday 2012-02-02 we will update the SSL certificates for all openSUSE hosts located Nuremberg (see detailed list below). The fingerprint of the new certificate is: Signed with security@suse.de key: pub 2048R/3D25D3D9 1999-03-06 uid SuSE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 SHA1 [...]
January 23, 2012
Using BTRFS on openSUSE 12.1

Posted: January 23, 2012, 1:00pm CET by Manu Gupta

This article is contributed by Kamila Součkova Introduction As the btrfs wiki says: “Btrfs is a new copy on write filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced features while focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration.” Although under heavy development, it has become stable enough for personal use, and there are plenty of reasons to try [...]
January 21, 2012
openSUSE 11.3 EOL’ed, 12.2 On The Way!

Posted: January 21, 2012, 5:51pm CET by Bryen Yunashko

As Benjaman Brunner announced yesterday, openSUSE 11.3 has reached end of life. As a quick refresher, openSUSE releases new versions every 8 months, and each version has a life cycle of 18 months. As 11.3 was released in July of 2010, the time has come to embrace our newer versions, including the successful release of [...]
January 17, 2012
Why openSUSE.org goes on strike tomorrow

Posted: January 17, 2012, 5:54pm CET by openSUSE Board

End of January the US Congress will vote to pass two laws, the “PROTECT IP Act” (PIPA) and the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA). If these laws pass they would enable copyright holders to get court orders against websites accused of doing or facilitating copyright infringement. So far so good, the openSUSE Project is against [...]
January 14, 2012
build.opensuse.org binary backend is down

Posted: January 14, 2012, 2:53pm CET by Lars Vogdt

The SAN array of the backend server server lost 3 hard disks over the weekend. That means the array with the built RPMs was broken. We checked and replaced a lot of files from backups – but since not all binary parts of the projects are in backup we need to rebuild some of them (31 [...]
January 09, 2012
People of openSUSE: Frederic Crozat

Posted: January 9, 2012, 8:00pm CET by Kim Leyendecker

We all hope you had a good start in the new year. I’d say People of openSUSE had. Today we have the chance to interview SUSE’s Freederic Crozat, who’s responsible for systemd in openSUSE. So, enjoy! ;-) Nickname: fcrozat Homepage: [blog.crozat.net] Blog: [blog.crozat.net] Favorite season: Winter ( I love to take pictures of landscapes / trees under the snow) Motto: Please introduce yourself! My name is [...]
January 05, 2012
Results of openSUSE Conference 2011 Survey

Posted: January 5, 2012, 9:39am CET by Andreas Jaeger

After the openSUSE 2011 Conference, we run a survey to gather feedback so that we can improve for the next conference. The overall feedback was very positive. Thanks a lot to the 134 people that participated in the survey! Here’s a summary of the answers with some things pointed out. For the full results, download this [...]
January 01, 2012
Happy 2012

Posted: January 1, 2012, 4:02pm CET by Izabel Valverde

We wish all developers, maintainers, users and friends a Happy New Year. Let us make 2012 even better…
openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 12.1 out now!

Posted: January 1, 2012, 1:00am CET by Manu Gupta

Announcement by Jigish Gohil openSUSE Education team is proud to present another edition of openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e (Linux for Education) based on openSUSE 12.1. Li-f-e comes loaded with everything that students, parents, teachers and system admins of educational institutions may need. Softwares for mathematics, chemistry, astronomy etc, servers like KIWI-LTSP, Fedena school ERP, Moodle course management etc., full [...]
December 30, 2011
openSUSE 12.1 Reveiew by Terence Lam

Posted: December 30, 2011, 1:00am CET by Manu Gupta

This review is written by Terence Lam a student from Singapore sharing his experiences with openSUSE In this review, I will install openSUSE 12.1, try out GNOME and KDE and also give a brief overview of advanced tools like YaST and have a look at ownCloud. DVD Installer The installer supports a large number of languages and had [...]
December 24, 2011
openSUSE Weekly News 207 is out!

Posted: December 24, 2011, 9:20pm CET by Sascha Manns

We are pleased to announce our openSUSE Weekly News Issue 207. Sadly we can just release a PDF Version. You can find it there: [bit.ly]
December 22, 2011
systemd – boot faster and cleaner with openSUSE 12.1

Posted: December 22, 2011, 1:00am CET by Manu Gupta

openSUSE 12.1 features systemd as a replacement for the System V init daemon. systemd provides a new and improved way of booting up your system and managing services. It comes with many new features like socket and dbus-activation, use of cgroups (control groups) and aggressive parallelization capabilities which leads to a faster boot-up of the [...]
December 20, 2011
openSUSE and ownCloud

Posted: December 20, 2011, 11:07am CET by Jos Poortvliet

openSUSE 12.1 has been released a few weeks ago. A major new technology we introduce in this release is ownCloud, which we ship in a separate repository. ownCloud is a web application which lets you set up your own cloud – a place for you data where you can share it with others or use [...]
December 17, 2011
openSUSE Weekly News Issue 206 is out!

Posted: December 17, 2011, 9:51pm CET by Sascha Manns

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 206. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 206 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is licenced under Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The rights [...]
openSUSE Board Election 2011 results

Posted: December 17, 2011, 3:21am CET by Izabel Valverde

The openSUSE Election Officials is pleased to announce the 5th openSUSE Board elected by openSUSE community. The new board members are Pascal Bleser, Will Stephenson and Andrew Wafaa. We would like to congratulate all Board Members and wish them all the best. We would also like to thank all candidates for their time to run for openSUSE [...]
December 16, 2011
FOSDEM12 Cross-Distribution Devroom: (Last) Call for Participation

Posted: December 16, 2011, 1:28pm CET by Henne Vogelsang

FOSDEM is the biggest event organized by and for the Free and Open Source (FOSS) community. Its goal is to provide developers a place to meet, come together and share and discuss ideas. The event happens 4-5 February 2012 in Brussels, Belgium. And there will again be a cross-distribution mini conference at FOSDEM this year. [...]
December 12, 2011
Forums and Wikis and Blogs, Oh MY!

Posted: December 12, 2011, 6:49pm CET by MatthewEhle

It has been suggested that I write a post explaining some of the big changes that we have been doing with the forums, wikis, and blogs over the last few weeks. Here is a quick list: Forums, wikis, and blogs have been moved from iChain to Novell Access Manager Wikis have been upgraded to MediaWiki 1.17 Blogs have [...]
December 10, 2011
openSUSE Weekly News 205 is out!

Posted: December 10, 2011, 9:34pm CET by Sascha Manns

We are pleased to announce our Issue 205 of the openSUSE Weekly News. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 205 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is licenced under Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. [...]
December 04, 2011
openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 204 is out!

Posted: December 4, 2011, 7:29pm CET by Sascha Manns

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 204. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 204 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is licenced under Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The rights [...]
December 02, 2011
openSUSE Board election 2011 started

Posted: December 2, 2011, 2:50pm CET by Izabel Valverde

The openSUSE board election just started! Please go to: [https:] and cast your vote for this election. All openSUSE members[1] are eligible to vote. The board consists of 6 members and one chairperson. As the election period of Bryen Yunashko, Pavol Rusnak and Rupert Horstkotter ends, this election will appoint 3 new board members. The election period ends [...]
November 26, 2011
openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 203 is out!

Posted: November 26, 2011, 8:58pm CET by Sascha Manns

We are pleased to announce our Issue 203 of openSUSE Weekly News. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 203 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is licenced under Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The [...]
November 23, 2011
Maintenance downtime Thursday 2011-11-24

Posted: November 23, 2011, 11:25am CET by Lars Vogdt

We need some maintenance downtime to work on the following issues: fix storage problems on Build Service machines increase network subnet mask for external available servers (means: we are growing ;-) exchange some SSL certificates on servers delivering content via [HTTPS] We are trying to get everything done during the standard infrastructure window: Thursday (2011-11-24), 08:00 – 10:00 CET (7:00 [...]
November 19, 2011
openSUSE Weekly News 202 is out!

Posted: November 19, 2011, 8:56pm CET by Sascha Manns

We are pleased to announce our Issue 202 of openSUSE Weekly News. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 202 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is licenced under Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The [...]
openSUSE 12.1 Launch Feedback

Posted: November 19, 2011, 3:27pm CET by Andreas Jaeger

openSUSE 12.1 was launched on Wednesday and it’s time to look back at the successful launch of a great distribution. We’ve seen a lot of positive feedback regarding openSUSE 12.1 via press, social networks, blogs etc. The interest in social media is significant with good conversations and new members, our facebook group has grown the last [...]
November 18, 2011
openSUSE participates in Google Code-in

Posted: November 18, 2011, 4:52pm CET by Manu Gupta

Introducing people to the world of free and open source software (FOSS) has always been a priority for the openSUSE project. We’re not only doing so for new users with our distribution (did you get 12.1 yet?) or for new contributors with our project, we also frequently participate in programs like Googles Summer of Code [...]
November 16, 2011
openSUSE 12.1: All Green!

Posted: November 16, 2011, 2:00pm CET by Jos Poortvliet

It is November 16, 2011 and our mirrors have synced. Time to present to you: openSUSE 12.1! This release represents more than eight months of work by our international community and brings you the best Free Software has to offer. Awesome improvements include the latest GNOME 3.2 desktop as well as the newest from [...]
November 15, 2011
Almost openSUSE 12.1

Posted: November 15, 2011, 8:29pm CET by Izabel Valverde

Welcome to openSUSE 12.1! Yes, it is almost time. Tomorrow openSUSE 12.1 will be released to the world, bringing a large number of new features and cool stuff. We’ll look at a few things today and show you some screen shots! WARNING: Spoiler-alert! WARNING: Pretty Pictures! So what’s coming? openSUSE 12.1 brings of course tens of thousands of changes [...]
Join or organize openSUSE 12.1 Launch parties!

Posted: November 15, 2011, 4:02am CET by Jos Poortvliet

Party time! We’re almost there. In two days openSUSE once again releases a new, improved version of its distribution to the world. Reason to celebrate! And celebrate we will. Currently, about 11 parties have been registered but we know many more are being organized and we call out to you to add your party to the [...]
November 12, 2011
openSUSE Weekly News 201 is out!

Posted: November 12, 2011, 8:09pm CET by Sascha Manns

We are pleased to announce the openSUSE Weekly News 201. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 201 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is licenced under Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The rights for [...]
November 10, 2011
Continuous Integration testing for openSUSE available!

Posted: November 10, 2011, 10:12pm CET by Jos Poortvliet

The development process of the Open Build Service (OBS) code base as well as it’s accompanying tools is largely test-driven. Major parts of the OBS source code are covered by a comprehensive test-suite. Traditionally, after each new code submission, these tests have been run by a custom shell-script on a local machine that wasn’t publicly [...]
November 08, 2011
Geekos go on G+

Posted: November 8, 2011, 9:31pm CET by Koudaras Konstantinos

The IT world moves fast and along with it does social networking. It’s been only a few days since Google announced the limited availability of Google+ pages and already thousands of Google-plussers have created a Google+ page. Of course, we’re social too and thus the openSUSE project now has an official Google+ page! If you are [...]
November 07, 2011
openSUSE Weekly News Issue 200 is out

Posted: November 7, 2011, 7:26pm CET by Sascha Manns

We are pleased to announce our openSUSE Weekly News 200. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 200 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is licenced under Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The rights for [...]
November 03, 2011
Are you ready for RC2?

Posted: November 3, 2011, 3:22pm CET by Jos Poortvliet

Following the openSUSE 12.1 roadmap, RC2 has been released upon this innocent world. This is your final chance to test openSUSE 12.1 before we move to the final version! We need to know about all big problems NOW! Read on to find out how to help. Freezing cold! At this point, development is frozen to the point [...]
The Green Planet

Posted: November 3, 2011, 11:17am CET by Koudaras Konstantinos

The last few days those of you linked to the planet by [planetsuse.org] are experiencing connection problems. This is not because openSUSE Planet is down but as Pascal Bleser announced a few days ago into the openSUSE Project ML because this domain name is not under the Project’s control but by and individual who left [...]
November 02, 2011
Will you Party?

Posted: November 2, 2011, 5:00pm CET by Koudaras Konstantinos

A little over two weeks left for openSUSE 12.1 to be released on November, 16th 2011. And there is no better way to enjoy the new release than with your fellow openSUSE peers. So, attend or organize a Launch Party! These events around the openSUSE release can be anything – from a party in a [...]
November 01, 2011
Help us spread the word on openSUSE 12.1!

Posted: November 1, 2011, 1:56pm CET by Jos Poortvliet

Heya all, In less than 3 weeks, our little baby, openSUSE 12.1, will be released into the wild. Now as you know, babies need lots of attention! This is where we need YOU. openSUSE 12.1 needs to be promoted everywhere! That is, on your blog; on twitter, facebook, Google plus; and much more! Read on for details [...]
October 31, 2011
openSUSE Medical Project searches for new Leadership and other participation

Posted: October 31, 2011, 4:57pm CET by Sascha Manns

Hello Mates! openSUSE Medical here! Well i would to announce that “openSUSE Medical Calling and also needs you” a) Due to lack of time (i’ve began my Master Studies abroad) i’ve to give up from the project. I think that there are people who are able to lead the project and have more time available. So “Looking for [...]
October 29, 2011
openSUSE Weekly News Issue 199 is out!

Posted: October 29, 2011, 8:18pm CEST by Sascha Manns

We are pleased to announce our openSUSE Weekly News Issue 199. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 199 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is licenced under Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The rights [...]
October 28, 2011
Fourth openSUSE Board Election 2011

Posted: October 28, 2011, 2:00pm CEST by Izabel Valverde

This years openSUSE Election Committee is in the pleasant position to announce the 2011 Board Elections. So, if you want to participate in the openSUSE board and influence the future direction of the project please stand up and announce your candidacy. If you want to vote for the candidates, please make sure your openSUSE membership [...]
October 26, 2011
Coffee talk with Michael Miller

Posted: October 26, 2011, 1:51pm CEST by Koudaras Konstantinos

Friday 16.09, while working on the openSUSE 12.1 marketing actions during the Marketing Hackfest, two of us had the spontaneous idea to suggest an interview to Michael Miller(Vice President of Global Alliances & Marketing for SUSE), asking him a few questions we could have in the openSUSE community. We did not have the time to [...]
October 25, 2011
Help out with testing at openSUSE

Posted: October 25, 2011, 9:37pm CEST by manugupt1

One of the most important activities during software development is testing. In FOSS community, software often gets tested by the developers themselves, other developers and volunteers. During the openSUSE 12.1 development process it has been important to keep Factory working properly. Testing this is however a rather boring, repetitive task: the tester has to boot [...]
Internet at openSUSE Conference 2011

Posted: October 25, 2011, 4:36pm CEST by Andreas Jaeger

At the openSUSE conference 2011, there was especially one area that caused us the previous years some trouble and this year nobody spoke about since it just worked fine: Wireless internet access. So, what have we done right this year? It was basically wiring internet ourselves to the location and setting up the wifi controllers sponsored [...]
October 24, 2011
openSUSE 12.1 RC1 spotted in the wild

Posted: October 24, 2011, 9:07pm CEST by Jos Poortvliet

As was already blogged by Vincent Untz, a few weeks after our last milestone was released as beta 1, the first Release Candidate of
October 22, 2011
openSUSE Weekly News Issue 198 is out!

Posted: October 22, 2011, 7:50pm CEST by Sascha Manns

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News Issue 198. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 198 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is licenced under Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The [...]
October 16, 2011
openSUSE Weekly News 197

Posted: October 16, 2011, 7:03pm CEST by Sascha Manns

We are pleased to announce Issue 197 from openSUSE Weekly News. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 197 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is licenced under Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The rights [...]
openSUSE Weekly News Issue 197 (PDF)

Posted: October 16, 2011, 8:26am CEST by Sascha Manns

Due to technical issue, the release of HTML version will be delayed by several days. Sorry for the inconvenience. Download the PDF
October 14, 2011
Interview about openQA

Posted: October 14, 2011, 4:00pm CEST by Kim Leyendecker

Last week, openQA 1.0 was released. We did an interview with Bernhard Wiedeman, the main developer of openQA. First of all, what´s your job regarding the openQA project? My role in the project was to wish for, envision, design, organize and implement most of openQA and OS-autoinst (the test-engine powering the openQA service). I made it do [...]
October 11, 2011
openSUSE Announces First Public Release of openQA

Posted: October 11, 2011, 2:00pm CEST by Jos Poortvliet

The openSUSE Project announces the 1.0 release of the unique cross-distribution-capable, fully automated testing framework openQA. openQA is the only comprehensive testing tool which can run tests on every level of the OS, from core functionality like the bootloader and booting the kernel up to testing applications like Firefox and LibreOffice. It shows the results [...]
October 09, 2011
openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 196 is out with: 12.1 Beta,Board Election,ARM

Posted: October 9, 2011, 8:52am CEST by Sascha Manns

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News Issue 196. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 196 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is licenced under Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The [...]
October 05, 2011
openSUSE Board Election Committee Formed

Posted: October 5, 2011, 4:23pm CEST by Bryen Yunashko

The 2011 openSUSE Board term is soon coming to an end. In the last few project meetings as well as at the conference, the board has called for people to step up for the Election Committee. Five openSUSE contributors have offered their help and we’d like to introduce them to you. The team The openSUSE Board is [...]
October 04, 2011
Hackweek results for openSUSE ARM

Posted: October 4, 2011, 2:00pm CEST by Jos Poortvliet

Last Friday Dirk Müller send an email to openSUSE-Factory about the status of the openSUSE ARM port. SUSE employees Adrian, Alexander, Dirk and Reinhard had spend their Hackweek revitalizing the initial work by Jan-Simon and Martin by getting openSUSE Factory on ARM to build and work. The current build status on OBS shows that almost [...]
October 01, 2011
openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 195 is out with: Get your package in 12.1, Hackweek and Getting your Article in news.o.o

Posted: October 1, 2011, 8:07pm CEST by Sascha Manns

We are pleased to announce our next openSUSE Weekly News 195. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 195 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is licenced under Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The rights for the compilation itself are copyright by Sascha Manns. Opt-Out: If you are an Author and don’t want to be included in the openSUSE Weekly News, [...]
openSUSE 12.1 Beta Arrives!

Posted: October 1, 2011, 8:59am CEST by Bryen Yunashko

The much-awaited Beta release of openSUSE 12.1 is here! And just in time for your weekend Beta Pizza Party. So fire up that oven and warm up that download manager because its time to get ready for the latest awesome openSUSE on your computer. If you’ve been following us, you know this release was originally called [...]
September 30, 2011
openSUSE Pizza Parties the Geeko Way

Posted: September 30, 2011, 11:12am CEST by Koudaras Konstantinos

The new openSUSE 12.1 Release is approaching very soon and all you Geekos should not miss the opportunity of becoming a double GPM! Party time starts this weekend and lasts until November 2011 in all Geeko-towns and Geeko-homes. Gather all your fellow Geekos to the best local pizzeria and let the party begin! HowTo So, the first [...]
September 27, 2011
Get your package in Factory for 12.1!

Posted: September 27, 2011, 2:07pm CEST by Jos Poortvliet

The upcoming openSUSE 12.1 release is being developed in Factory. According to the release schedule the Toolchain and several other critical components are frozen, but there is still time to get most package updates in! It’s not hard to do that, especially if you build packages on the Open Build Service anyway and you get [...]
September 24, 2011
openSUSE Weekly News Issue 194 is out with Hackweek 7, Women in openSUSE and Wunderlist

Posted: September 24, 2011, 8:26pm CEST by Sascha Manns

We are pleased to announce the openSUSE Weekly News Issue 194. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 194 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is licenced under Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The rights [...]
September 22, 2011
SUSE Hackweek 7 – Next Week

Posted: September 22, 2011, 5:49pm CEST by News Team

One of the ways SUSE and its developers contribute to openSUSE is through Hackweek: – a week long sprint permitting developers to work on something entirely of their own design or wishes as long as it is FOSS-related. Started in 2007, it has become a regular part of SUSE’s development. This is in keeping in [...]
September 21, 2011
openSUSE 12.1 Beta taking more time to become good

Posted: September 21, 2011, 4:54pm CEST by News Team

Last Friday Stephan Kulow, our openSUSE Release Manager, started a discussion on Factory mailing list about show-stoppers for the 12.1-Beta release scheduled for 2011-09-22. It became clear that Factory still needs some polishing to become a useful Beta for large numbers of testers to try out.. Particularly, one of the reasons is the challenges relating to the [...]
September 20, 2011
Systemd is being removed from Tumbleweed

Posted: September 20, 2011, 9:54pm CEST by Koudaras Konstantinos

Respecting users is a priority to the openSUSE Project so when something does not work the way it should be, taking a step back is more preferable than delivering something that is not ready yet. For that reason yesterday afternoon Greg K.H. announced to the openSUSE-factory mailing list that systemd is being removed from Tumbleweed [...]
September 17, 2011
openSUSE Weekly News 193 is out with Conference, Libre Office 3.4 and next Nepomuk

Posted: September 17, 2011, 8:24pm CEST by Sascha Manns

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 193. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 193 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is licenced under Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The rights [...]
September 15, 2011
openSUSE Conference Fun!

Posted: September 15, 2011, 3:07pm CEST by Jos Poortvliet

At the openSUSE conference in Nürnberg almost 400 visitors have shown up for the four tracks of sessions about technical and community matters and the many other events and parties. While a longer article is coming, we’d like to give a taste of the conference here! Talks Lots of talks and discussions ranging from development and low-level [...]
September 10, 2011
openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 192 is out!

Posted: September 10, 2011, 8:26pm CEST by Sascha Manns

We are pleased to announce the openSUSE Weekly News 192. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 192 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is licenced under Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The rights for [...]
September 06, 2011
openSUSE celebrates Beta 1 with BetaPizza Parties!

Posted: September 6, 2011, 6:00pm CEST by Jos Poortvliet

The openSUSE community is happy to announce that the 6th Milestone of the upcoming release will be renamed openSUSE 12.1 Beta. This change in name reflects the state of this milestone, being ready for more extensive testing. After the beta, two release candidates will become available in quick succession before the final release. To celebrate [...]
OBS downtime scheduled for Tuesday 2011-09-06 08:00 – 11:00 CEST

Posted: September 6, 2011, 10:03am CEST by Lars Vogdt

The OBS-Team is going to replace some backend servers on next Tuesday. Therefore, a downtime is scheduled from 08:00 to 11:00 CEST, altough we believe it won’t take that long (but you never know) :-) Afterwards, the OBS should be prepared for all the awesome packager workshops happening during the openSUSE Conference.
September 05, 2011
Sponsors present at openSUSE Conference 2011

Posted: September 5, 2011, 4:36pm CEST by Jos Poortvliet

The openSUSE Conference 2011 team is happy to announce the partners for this year’s conference. Aside from sponsoring, there are contributions in terms of sessions, media coverage and network bandwidth. Let’s look at what our sponsors contribute, what sessions they’ll present and thank them for their support! Platinum Sponsor SUSE SUSE is a leading provider of enterprise [...]
September 03, 2011
openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 191 is out!

Posted: September 3, 2011, 9:05pm CEST by Sascha Manns

We are pleased to announce the openSUSE Weekly News 191. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 191 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is licenced under Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The rights for [...]
September 02, 2011
Drone On!

Posted: September 2, 2011, 5:25pm CEST by Jos Poortvliet

Among other things, the openSUSE project is about “having a lot of fun”. In that spirit we would like to add a bit of diversion and an extra incentive for everyone to register and attend the openSUSE conference. Join the Drone On! contest and have a lot of fun. We’ve purchased an AR Drone, small flying [...]
September 01, 2011
And the Milestones Keep On Coming!

Posted: September 1, 2011, 7:20pm CEST by Bryen Yunashko

Fire up your virtual machines, get your test machines motoring, and start tweaking your fingers. It’s testing time! openSUSE 12.1′s next milestone 5 is now ready for download. Thanks to the men and women of openSUSE Factory who kept their eye on the ball with all the wonderful flurry of activities going on in our Project [...]
August 27, 2011
openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 190 is out!

Posted: August 27, 2011, 9:51pm CEST by Sascha Manns

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 190. openSUSE Weekly News openSUSE Weekly News Team 190 Edition Legal Notice This work (compilation) is licenced under Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The [...]
August 25, 2011
Honey, your conference is on the phone!

Posted: August 25, 2011, 2:13pm CEST by Bryen Yunashko

As we continue to work towards making this years conference the best ever, there’s one cool new thing we’ve never done before: Introducing the openSUSE Conference App for your Android phone. With this app you’ll be able to: Look at the daily timetable of sessions Read the abstracts for each session Mark the ones you want to attend [...]

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