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Hack Week Project Takes Aim at Improving Membership Management
A Hack Week 25 project is looking to simplify how the openSUSE community manages memberships through a new platform called openSUSE Lounge. The openSUSE Lounge project proposes a centralized system for maintaining member records, tracking membership status and supporting election-related tasks, all while reducing the manual workload placed on membership...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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SUSE delivers Raspberry Pi 5 U-Boot support It is finally happening. Raspberry Pi 5 users can now look forward to proper U-Boot support, thanks to the hard work of the SUSE Hardware Enablement team. Many Raspberry Pi 5 users have been eagerly waiting for upstream U-Boot support for their boards....
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Hack Week Project Aims to Bridge YaST, Cockpit Gaps
A project during Hack Week 25 aims to address community feedback by bringing popular configuration features from YaST into Cockpit and System Roles, which is a step toward bridging the gap left by YaST’s deprecation in openSUSE Leap 16.0. The initiative, titled Bring to Cockpit + System Roles capabilities from...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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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 are from October 18 to 26. Recent Planet highlights includes an announcement from the Open Build Service Blog, a Halloween install party, Leap driving fleets, configuring...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Leap Keeps Fleets on Track
Every minute matters for companies managing vehicle fleets and Linux distributions like openSUSE’s serve as dependable backbones for these types of operations. From security patrols in Indonesia to maintenance cars in the Philippines, fleets can be monitored in real time through cloud-based platforms powered by openSUSE Leap like Ntrack’s GPS...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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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 are from October 11 to 17. The week’s Planet highlights an install party at the University of Valencia, KDE Apps of the week, KDE turns 29...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Leap Powers Consultants on the Move
For tech consultants, life happens on the move. From airport lounges to boardrooms across Europe and beyond, the tool of choice for one tech consultant is Slimbook Executive edition powered by openSUSE Leap; it’s a reliable, secure, and flexible Linux machine that seamlessly adapts to the ever-changing demands of independent...
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October 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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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 are from October 4 to 10. The week’s Planet highlights Akademy 2025 in Berlin, unbricking ESP8266 boards on Linux, openSUSE Leap’s liftoff, the FSF’s 40th anniversary,...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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GSoC 2025, Building a Semantic Search Engine for Any Video
Hello, openSUSE community! My name is Akash Kumar, and I was a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025 mentee with the openSUSE organization. This blog post highlights the project I developed during this mentorship program, which openSUSE and its mentors helped make possible. This summer, I had the incredible opportunity...
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October 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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openSUSE Leap Ready for Liftoff
Users are stepping forward to share how Linux distributions like openSUSE power their projects or interests as users in the community prepare for the next enduring release of openSUSE Leap. Releases like Leap 16 can be used for aviation tracking and it is one of several use cases for the...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Next Chapter Opens with Leap 16 Release
CA / CS / JA / LT / SV / ES / ZH-TW Members of openSUSE Project are thrilled to announce the release of openSUSE Leap 16. This major version update of our fixed-release community-Linux distribution has a fresh software stack and introduces an unmatched maintenance- and security-support cycle, a...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Migrating to openSUSE Leap 16.0 with opensuse-migration-tool
Over the years, I have noticed that the biggest challenges during upgrades usually involve 3rd-party repositories, mostly due to their unavailability for the new release or delays in catching up. Another challenge has been constant changes to distribution repositories. For example, in Leap 15.3 we removed the ports repositories as...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Tumbleweed Monthly Update - September 2025
Software packages updating on openSUSE Tumbleweed hit a steady rhythm in September as snapshots were released almost daily. These updates delivered new features, performance improvements, and important security fixes for rolling release users. GnuPG 2.5.12, file archiver 7-Zip 25.01, text editor Vim 9.1.1706 and Kernel Source 6.16.5 were just a...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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openQA Gains AI-Friendly Interface
Members of the openSUSE Project have advanced automated testing with the integration of Model Context Protocol (MCP) into the project’s openQA framework. This marks a pivotal step toward embedding Artificial Intelligence into its open-source software development workflows. “The initial release will begin with three MCP tools, and the feature will...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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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 are from September 13 to 19. The week’s Planet highlights Plasma 6.5 beta, OBS’s revamped workflow with diff comments, SecureHome testing, syslog-ng nightlies, Tumbleweed updates, the...
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October 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Submit a Talk for Open Developers Summit in Prague
The openSUSE community will have an Open Developers Summit on April 23, 2026, in Prague, Czech Republic. The summit will be on the last day of SUSECON, which is April 21 - 23, 2026. Members of the project invite partners of SUSE, openSUSE contributors, open-source community projects and enthusiasts to...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Cantillon Lessons Guide Shift to Open-Source
Communities, governments and businesses face a choice that carries real economic weight as Microsoft winds down support for its Windows 10 operating system. This choice relates to centuries-old economic realities. The 18th-century economist Richard Cantillon noted that when new money enters the economy, it benefits those closest to the source...
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September 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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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 are from September 6 to today. The most recent blogs involve updates around KDE Akademy, widget for Plasma, immutable KDE options like Kalpa, openVINO, openSUSE’s transition...
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September 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Project Halfway there with Git Workflow Adoption
Leap 16 now accepts contributions exclusively via the new git workflow. This shift reflects a broader trend: many development projects in the Open Build Service have already adopted Git, and new ones are being onboarded daily. Tumbleweed has not yet switched to the new Git workflow. The openSUSE release team...
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September 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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openSUSE Leap and Leap Micro doubles down on support openSUSE Leap 15 is a record breaker. It will keep receiving updates until April 30 2026, delivering a lengthy amount of unmatched community support. The usual lifecycle is 12 months plus 6 months of overlap for a smooth upgrade, but Leap...
September 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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openSUSE Asia Summit A Journey of Wonder
The openSUSE.Asia Summit brought together developers, students and open-source advocates together at Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies (MRIIRS) from Aug. 29 - 30 and celebrated 20 years of the project. The two-day event opened with a ceremony and keynotes from Satyakam Goswami and I. Goswami covered the...
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September 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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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 standards, VirtualBox 7.2.0 and Bash 5.3.3, which improves script handling and adds new built-ins. KDE...
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September 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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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 KVM virtualization, openSUSE Leap (15.6), K3s, and Ollama for local AI inference. Our architecture leverages a KVM...
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September 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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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 developments, KDE and an extension of the Call for Hosts for...
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August 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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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 solutions like gnome-tour for GNOME and plasma-welcome for KDE’s Plasma by making...
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August 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM