Dear friends, On Sunday the 11th of September it will be that time again: the openSUSE Conference starts. And of course we want an exciting program. Today, the proposal submission time starts and you have until July 11th to let us know what you want to discuss at the conference! The openSUSE Conference 2011 will [...]

Dear opensuse-security-announce subscribers and openSUSE users, SUSE Security announces that the SUSE Security Team will stop releasing updates for openSUSE 11.2 soon. Having provided security-relevant fixes for the last two releases and two months, we will stop releasing updates after May 12th 2011. Discussions on whether a community driven extension of the maintenance like Evergreen [...]

Dear openSUSE Community. Users. Contributors. Fans and friends. The time has come: openSUSE 11.4 has arrived!. After 8 months of hard work, you can learn what is new, download it and upgrade! We are proud to announce the launch of 11.4 in the openSUSE tradition of delivering the latest technology while maintaining stability. The 11.4 [...]

With red carpets rolling out in Hollywood, you’d expect some applause for the openSUSE 11.4 RC2 release, which has now gone live ahead of 11.4 proper. But with much of the hard work going in behind the scenes, this superb release candidate isn’t getting the fanfare it deserves. The recent Bug Squashing day saw 132 [...]

Hi, With the release of an opensc security fix on Thursday 13th January Novell has released the last update for openSUSE 11.1. openSUSE 11.1 is now officially discontinued and out of support by Novell. However, a community effort has been started to continue 11.1 maintenance under the codename of “Evergreen”. The overview page of this [...]

After the announcement by Canonical that Ubuntu would be moving to Unity for its interface, other developers have expressed some interest in porting it to their distributions just for fun. Fedora’s Adam Williamson was one of the first to start building packages for other distributions, but now someone is working on openSUSE packages as well. [...]

openSUSE Community Manager, Jos Poortvliet, recently interviewed Jeff Hawn, the Chairman and CEO of Attachmate Corporation about Attachmate’s intentions towards SUSE and openSUSE after the acquisition from Novell. Though Hawn’s plans should put a few minds at ease, there’s still quite a few unknowns to contend with, including the future of the openSUSE Conference… Here [...]

Ubuntu takes a lot of punches from time to time for its marketing and even its interface. Some feel Ubuntu is dumbed down and oversimplified, while many others think it’s innovative and user-friendly. Where ever you fall in the debate, one developer thinks some elements of Ubuntu should land into openSUSE. In fact, he has [...]

We are pleased to announce: Issue 152 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] For a list of available translations see this page: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/?p=5763 – Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com

On Monday, the openSUSE project released the fourth of six milestones in the development of openSUSE 11.4.  Milestone 4 (M4) brings a wide range of updates, both major and minor. Kernel 2.6.37rc3 is the basis of M4, including the famous “200 line” per tty task groups patch to improve desktop interactivity, and featuring the removal [...]

Hi all, There’s been many discussions over the past years about a “rolling update” version of openSUSE on lots of different mailing lists and in person a different conferences. So the time now is to stop talking about it, and actually trying to do it So, I’d like to propose “openSUSE Tumbleweed” a repo that [...]

We are pleased to announce: Issue 151 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week’s issue: * Novell, Attachmate and openSUSE * lex Barrios: Just a small story about my ambassador life * Linux User & Developer/Jon Masters: The Kernel Column * New Kernel speed up patch from Mike Galbraith * Anne-Marie Mahfouf [...]

Following the announcement that it would acquire Novell, the Attachmate Corporation has confirmed that, if the acquisition closes successfully, the openSUSE project will continue to operate as it always has in the past. In an official statement, the Attachmate Corporation Chairman and CEO Jeff Hawn said, “The openSUSE project is an important part of the [...]

Novell will honour all contractual obligations with its Australian customers and forge ahead with product development following the signing of a definitive merger agreement with Attachmate, according to Novell CEO, Ron Hovesepian. In a letter to customers, the chief executive wrote that the merger, valued at $US2.2 billion, would in no way affect the company’s [...]

We are pleased to announce: Issue 150 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week’s issue: * Manu Gupta: Aloha openSUSE Medical * Sirko Kemter: OpenRheinRuhr 2010 * Linux.com/Jack Wallen: How to Configure Wireless on Any Linux Desktop * Thomas Schraitle: Checking EPUBs * h-online/Richard Hillesley: Health Check: openSUSE – Community before code [...]

As published on http://news.opensuse.org/2010/11/22/novell-agrees-to-be-acquired-by-attachmate-corporation/ Is this thing on? *tap* *tap*. Good evening friends, this is your openSUSE Board [1] speaking. If you didn’t hear yet, Novell [2] has agreed to be acquired by Attachmate Corporation [3]. What does that mean for the openSUSE Project? We don’t know exactly yet because our crystal ball is currently [...]

It was announced this morning that Novell has sold off some portion of its intellectual properties to CPTN Holdings, (backed by Microsoft) for $450 million. The remainder of Novell assets will be acquired by Attachmate Corporation for about $2.2 billion. This should be of no surprise as Novell staked a For Sale sign in their [...]

We are pleased to announce: Issue 149 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week’s issue: * openSUSE News: openSUSE Announces Third Development Milestone Evaluating systemd * Sascha Manns: openSUSE medical team releases stable version 0.0.6 * Sirko Kemter: openSUSE A-Z Guide at BLIT 2010 * Sankar P: Detecting Memory Leaks in Kernel [...]

Delayed by a week due to a critical bug that would have prevented testing, the openSUSE project today announces openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 3 (M3), the third of six milestone releases of what will become openSUSE 11.4. The bug, a crash in the software rasterizer of the Mesa OpenGL stack, was found by our automated test [...]