We are pleased to announce: Issue 147 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week’s issue: * From the Developer to the User and back – Announcing Project Bretzn * SUSE Studio: Gold rush * Jos Poortvliet: oSC successful? Absolutely! * ServerWatch/Joe Brockmeier: Using Strace to Trace Problems * h-online: KDevelop 4.1 adds [...]

Beside many other amazing things which happened at the openSUSE Conference 2010, Stefan Schäfer gave a talk about his project called Invis Server. It is a very specific server solution for the small and medium business, based on the openSUSE distribution. The Invis Server is perfect software for all production installations in small business use [...]

The openSUSE Project developers have announced that version 11.1 of their popular Linux distribution will reach its end of life in December of this year. After the 31st of December, no new updates, including security updates and critical fixes, will be available. Following its discontinuation, the 11.1 distribution directory, including all of the installation ISOs, [...]

We are pleased to announce: Issue 146 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week’s issue: * openSUSE ass-kickin’ keynote * openSUSE News: The openSUSE Build Service 2.1 released * Rares Aioanei: Kernel Weekly News 23.10.2010 * Make Tech Easier/Tavis J. Hampton: Advanced KDE Administration * Nelson Marques: openoffice.org and Libre Office… For [...]

The openSUSE Build Service – OBS – is now officially at release 2.1. We’re delighted with the improvements in this release, including an enhanced web interface, integration with online code management systems and better access controls. OBS 2.1 Introduces New Features =========================== Enhanced web user interface This iteration has enhanced the web user interface of [...]

Dear openSUSE users, SUSE Security announces that the SUSE Security Team will stop releasing updates for openSUSE 11.1 soon. Having provided security-relevant fixes for the last two years, we will stop releasing updates after December 31st 2010. As a consequence, the openSUSE 11.1 distribution directory on our server download.opensuse.org will be removed from /distribution/11.1/ to [...]

We are pleased to announce: Issue 145 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week’s issue: * Finalizing who we are… * Jos Poortvliet: Last piece of strategy before the conference * Petr Mladek: LibreOffice 3.3 beta2 available for openSUSE * Rémy Marquis: Getting Plymouth on openSUSE * Linux User & Developer/Ken Hess: [...]

We are pleased to announce: Issue 144 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week’s issue: * Announcing Smeegol 1.0 * Andreas Jaeger: Revising the Board Election Rules, 3rd iteration * Dominique Leuenberger: GNOME 2.32.0 for openSUSE 11.3 * Jos Poortvliet: Call to Arms * OMG!SUSE! team: SUSE in the Cloud For a [...]

Thursday October 7, the openSUSE project announces Milestone 2 of openSUSE 11.4.  Milestone 2 (M2) is the second of six periodic development snapshots of openSUSE 11.4 and includes updates to major components across the breadth of the distribution. Autumn’s seeds; Spring’s release Starting at the bottom of the stack, Linux Kernel 2.6.36rc4 made it into M2. This [...]

We are pleased to announce: Issue 143 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week’s issue: * OSC2010 Sneak Peaks – Take an LPI exam at openSUSE Conference 2010 * Uwe Gansert: AutoYaST and Image Creation/Installation * Nelson Marques: Marketing @ openSUSE Conference, Across Borders! * Techthrob: Softlinks vs. Hardlinks: A Quick Explanation [...]

We are pleased to announce: Issue 142 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week’s issue: * Easily Building Software for Multiple Distributions and Platforms * Will Stephenson: Qt 4.7.0 in openSUSE; KDE updates * Andreas Jaeger: From Source Code to Packages for Various Distributions * TuxArena: KDocker: Dock Any Application in the [...]

According to a Reuters report the acquisition of Novell is being delayed over difficulties in selling the non-Linux portions of the business. Citing anonymous sources, the report says that Novell is attempting to sell the company as a single entity, rather than parting with the SUSE Linux division, which would leave the company with what [...]

We are pleased to announce: Issue 141 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week’s issue: * openSUSE Conference 2010 – Collaborate Across Borders * Jos Poortvliet: directions – openSUSE and Fedora * Javier Llorente: KDE bug triage report * Bryen Yunashko: A Great Weekend in Columbus at the Ohio Linux Fest * [...]

THERE IS still an attempt by Novell to sell the story that OpenSUSE is independent. Don’t believe the PR. OpenSUSE’s community manager says: “Initially our goal was to answer: “Who is openSUSE and what does it (want to) do?” prompted by the discussion about the default desktop at the openSUSE conference last year. In five [...]

We are pleased to announce: Issue 140 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week’s issue: * openSUSE News: SUSE Studio Contest – you have until the end of this month! * Rares Aioanei: openSUSE kernel news – 11.09.2010 * Sankuru: Using ffmeg to batch convert cd audio files to mp3 * OMG!SUSE! [...]

We are pleased to announce: Issue 139 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week’s issue: * Strategy sucks * Rares Aioanei: OpenSUSE kernel news – 04.09.2010 * IBM developerWorks/Roderick W. Smith: Resizing Linux partitions, Part 2: Advanced resizing * Google Video/Chat Plugin * KDE News/Sebastian Kügler: Help Test the Next Generation of [...]

openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 is available today, Thursday, September 2 for developers, testers and community members to test and participate in the development of openSUSE 11.4. M1 starts off openSUSE 11.4 development at a cracking pace with performance improvements in the package management network layer and version updates to major components. This milestone contains libzypp [...]

We are pleased to announce: Issue 138 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week’s issue: * Andreas Jaeger: Revising the Board Election Rules * Sebastian Kügler: Demystifying Akonadi * Will Stephenson: openSUSE Boosters at FrOSCon, Day 2 * Rares Aioanei: openSUSE Kernel Review * Wolfgang Rosenauer: Call for testing: Firefox 4.0b4 on [...]