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openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 134 is out!
We are pleased to announce our brand new openSUSE Weekly News 134! In the issue 134 you can read The openSUSE Project welcomes Jos Poortvliet as new Community Manager SUSE Studio: SUSE Gallery launch Michal Hrusecky: openSUSE Paste h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.35 (Part 4) – Architecture and infrastructure Tuxradar: Reviewed: OpenSUSE 11.3 Content: [...]
The openSUSE Project welcomes Jos Poortvliet as new Community Manager
We’re proud to announce today that Jos Poortvliet will join the openSUSE project and Novell as openSUSE Community Manager starting on August 1. With Jos we’ve found a leader with excellent community building experience combined with a very welcoming nature, many fresh, promising ideas and a strong drive to grow the [...]
openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 133 out now!
We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News 133! In the issue 133 you can read Timeline for openSUSE’s strategy discussion Sirko Kemter: Improve the distribution design 2 Alex Barrios: openSUSE present in the Especial Edition of CIBESS python4kids: WhyPy? KDENews/Stuart Jarvis: Ever wanted your ownCloud? Content: Announcements Status Updates Team Reports In the Community [...]
Timeline for openSUSE’s strategy discussion
Due to the positive fact that more proposals emerge, we wanted to take the time to make them into polished proposals that we want to publish for discussion as well. Here’s our new timeline: Consolidate community proposals for discussion till July 25 Discuss proposals starting, July 27 (4 days for each discussion) end of public discussions, Aug 10. Create final proposals Define voting [...]
openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 132 it out!
We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News! In the issue 132 you can read openSUSE 11.3 is here! OBS Development Team Member Job Position Sirko Kemter: Improve the distribution design Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.35 (Part 2) – File systems and storage IBM developerWorks/Ian Shields: Learn Linux, 101: Create partitions and [...]
openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 11.3 available now!
openSUSE Education team is very thrilled to announce the availability of openSUSE Edu: Linux for Education(Li-f-e). Li-f-e is built on openSUSE 11.3. The aim of this DVD is to provide complete education and development resources for parents, students, teachers as well as IT admins running labs at educational institutes It comes [...]
openSUSE 11.3 Launch Information
We had a successful openSUSE 11.3 launch yesterday. The announcement itself saw many friendly comments. Many people retweeted the announcement from @openSUSE. Besides the announcement on news.opensuse.org, Novell released a press release and distributed it through the press channel. We’re collecting all press mentions of the launch in the openSUSE wiki. A couple of launch parties were [...]
openSUSE 11.3 is here!
openSUSE 11.3 is here! The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the latest incarnation of openSUSE, with support for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. openSUSE 11.3 is packed with new features and updates including SpiderOak to sync your files across the Internet for free, Rosegarden for free editing of your audio files, improved indexing [...]
New wiki, what now?
We just switched to the new wiki. So here it is. And now? Let me explain what you can do to help! Create your user page Every user of the wiki has a personal page and we did not transfer any of them. We wanted to use this opportunity to brush them up and standardize them. Your [...]
Change in openSUSE Membership handling
Anyone can become openSUSE member after showing continued and substantial contribution to the project of any kind (bugs, support in forums, wiki edits, code contribution etc.). For those who don’t know what openSUSE Membership is or how to become a member I suggest to read this wiki article or older blogpost by Andreas. Some time ago [...]