Tumbleweed Monthly Update - August 2025
Several software packages were updated in openSUSE Tumbleweed during August that brought new features, performance improvements and some important security fixes for rolling release users. Major updates included glibc 2.42 with support for new C standa...
Building Edge AI Infrastructure with KVM, openSUSE, and Ollama
Edge AI infrastructure is transforming how we deploy machine learning workloads, bringing computation closer to data sources while maintaining privacy and reducing latency. This comprehensive guide demonstrates building an edge analytics platform using...
Planet News Roundup
This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The below featured highlights listed on the community’s blog feed aggregator from August 16 to 22. Some of the most recent blogs involve updates on Tumbleweed de...
openSUSE Welcome Receiving Makeover
The familiar openSUSE-welcome window that greets millions of desktops is nearing retirement and a new approach will soon take its place. Rather than re-inventing the wheel, members of openSUSE’s release team have decided to tweak and refine existing ...
Deadline Extended Call for Host openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026
Deadline Extended: Call for Host – openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 The openSUSE.Asia Summit Organizing Committee has extended the deadline for the Call for Host to submit proposals for the 2026 Summit. Communities now have until August 20, 2025 to apply. T...
Try Xfce on Wayland with openSUSE Leap 16.0 RC
Entering RC Phase openSUSE Leap 16.0 has officially transitioned from Beta into the Release Candidate phase with the Build 148.4. The biggest challenge for the Release Team prior to Autumn release is source code management, as we want to transition bot...
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - July 2025
Several software packages were updated in openSUSE Tumbleweed during July that brought a large amount of enhancements, new features and critical security fixes across a wide range of components. Major upgrades included hwinfo 25, systemd-rpm-macros 26 ...
Planet News Roundup
This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The below featured highlights listed on the community’s blog feed aggregator from July 21 to 27. Some of the most recent blogs openSUSE Conference 2025, updates ...
Urgency to Switch from Windows 10 Builds
Install Linux Before It’s Too Late The openSUSE Project is part of a growing coalition of open-source advocates urging Microsoft users to install a Linux operating system as Microsoft prepares to end support for Windows 10 this October, and urgency t...
Fde Rogue Devices
Protecting against rogue devices in openSUSE with Full Disk Encryption openSUSE have now multiple ways to configure a Full Disk Encryption (FDE) installation. A very secure and easy way (YaST2) of doing this is via user space tools, as we described mul...
Running Local LLMs with Ollama on openSUSE Tumbleweed
Running large language models (LLMs) on your local machine has become increasingly popular, offering privacy, offline access, and customization. Ollama is a fantastic tool that simplifies the process of downloading, setting up, and running LLMs locally...
Sovereign AI Platform Picks openSUSE
Europe’s first federated AI initiative has chosen openSUSE as part of its foundation aimed sovereign AI. OpenNebula Systems officially announced the launch of Fact8ra, which is Europe’s first federated AI-as-a-Service platform. This initiative mark...
Project Seeks Input on Future of 32-bit ARM
The openSUSE Project is seeking community input to determine whether it should continue supporting 32-bit ARM architectures. Maintaining support for legacy platforms is increasingly challenging. The openSUSE team cited limited upstream support and dwin...
Celebrating 20 Years of openSUSE
Contributors and community members are encouraged to celebrate the openSUSE Project’s 20th anniversary by sharing some of their favorite moments from the past two decades. Over the years, it has grown into a global movement, powering desktops, server...
Travel Support Available for openSUSE.Asia Summit
The openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025 will take place from August 29 to 31 at MRIIRS in Faridabad, India, and we’re excited to welcome community members from across Asia and around the globe. To make the summit more accessible, the Travel Support Program (TS...
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - June 2025
June brought a fresh wave of updates across openSUSE’s rolling release. There were major feature enhancements, performance improvements, and several critical security fixes. KDE Plasma 6.4 as a the forefront of these updates alongside KDE Frameworks ...
Grace Hopper to Boost Tumbleweed Armv9 Builds
Grace Hopper to Boost Tumbleweed Armv9 Builds The openSUSE Project is preparing to expand its hardware capabilities with a high-performance system designed to accelerate support for the next generation of processor architecture. As part of a collaborat...
