Board Election for Three Seats Opens
Members of the openSUSE’selection committee have provided notice to the project about the start of this year’s board election. This election there are three board seats up for grabs. The election begins its nomination process today and invites all ...
Project Welcomes rsync.net as Gold Sponsor
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-source solutions that serve users worldwide. Rsync.net’s secure cloud storage and ...
Project Welcomes rsync.net as New Gold Sponsor
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-source solutions that serve users worldwide. Rsync.net’s secure cloud storage and ...
Streamlining openSUSE Translations Upstream
Managing localization of desktop menus and applications takes a specific tool and approach that fills a gap but leaves inconsistent upstream translations. Open-source translation standards have advanced over the years and the downstream-only model bein...
Project Launches Recognition Platform
The openSUSE Project has announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at highlighting contributions of its diverse community members. Dubbed “Contributor in the Spotlight,” the project aims to feature a different contributor each month and showca...
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - October 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 GNOME, systemd, qemu and more alongside important security patches. Various CVEs wer...
Leap, Tumbleweed Get Makeovers
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 notable Linux distributions, there is an updated logo and new digital wallpaper ...
Workshop Continues with GNOME Extensions
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 workshop. The session will cover how to enhance and customize the GNOME desktop e...
Community Plans Tech Summit
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 Resort at Universal Orlando Resort and will take place as SUSECON concludes. Partner...
Presenting GRUB2 BLS
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 grub2-$ARCH-efi-bls. This subpackage deliver a new EFI file, grubbls.efi, that c...
Development start of Leap 16.0
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 version, significant changes may occur, and the final product may look very diff...
Schedule for openSUSE.Asia Summit is Published
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 event takes place in Tokyo, Japan, and is a two-day event running from Nov. 2...
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - September 2024
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. PostgreSQL received a major update moving to 17 and text shaping engine harfbuzz had a m...
Quickstart in Full Disk Encryption with TPM and YaST2
This is a quick start guide for Full Disk Encryption with TPM or FIDO2 and YaST2 on openSUSE MicroOS. It focuses on the few steps to install openSUSE MicroOS with YaST2 and using Full Disk Encryption secured by a TPM2 chip and measured boot or a FIDO2 ...
Python 3.13 RC2, with and without GIL
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 3.13, but we’re also bringing exiting experimental features in Tumbleweed. Expe...
