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Statement on the recent Merger announcement

Dear openSUSE Community, As you might be aware, SUSE’s parent entity, the Attachmate Group has entered into an agreement to merge into Micro Focus, a UK-based enterprise software company. As the primary sponsor of the openSUSE Project, SUSE’s President and General Manager, Nils Brauckmann has contacted the openSUSE Board to share the following key points Business […]

Source: Statement on the recent Merger announcement

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openSUSE Asia – Register and book your dates!!!

The openSUSE Asia Summit committee has been working hard and is finally prepared to welcome you and give a taste of rich Chinese history and hospitality. You may register in our CONFERENCE SUBMISSION TOOL before Sep 30th. We are looking forward to having you with us on this Oct in Beijing. Off course, once you have registered […]

Source: openSUSE Asia – Register and book your dates!!!

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openSUSE 13.2 Is Coming – First Beta Has Arrived!

Our brand new ‘Rolling Factory’ has already amassed over 6000 installations and that’s just kicking awesome. But we won’t just roll: we will still create releases of openSUSE, and 13.2 is next! According to the roadmap, our latest Geeko is due in November and it will be awesome. We promise. But it doesn’t come for […]

Source: openSUSE 13.2 Is Coming – First Beta Has Arrived!

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openSUSE users and the new Linux Foundation Certification Programs

Hello Geekos, You may be aware the Linux Foundation recently launched two Certification programs – Linux Foundation Certified Sysadmin (LFCS) covering basic system administration – Linux Foundation Certified Engineers (LFCE) covering advanced system administration and engineering skills Full details on the programs is at http://bit.ly/1yKRjxp Unlike other Linux Certification programs the exams for these are […]

Source: openSUSE users and the new Linux Foundation Certification Programs

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openSUSE 13.2 RC1 is now out, hands on

openSUSE 13.2 RC1 is baked and ready to serve!. This previous Beta release was a blast with almost 10.000 downloads. The community responded to the call and we had lot of eyes looking for bugs in openSUSE 13.2 Beta1. Many of them have been already squashed and openSUSE 13.2 Release Candidate 1 is here to […]

Source: openSUSE 13.2 RC1 is now out, hands on

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openSUSE 13.2: time to get your hands dirty

With less than three weeks from the release of our beloved green distro and the first release candidate already rocking, we can feel like we are almost there. This is exactly the right time to remember that there is still a lot of work to do and fun to have. Open source is awesome, but […]

Source: openSUSE 13.2: time to get your hands dirty

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Asia Summit  Highlights Growing Open Source Community in Asia

This weekend is the start of openSUSE’s first Asia Summit in Beijing. The summit, which is a follow on to an open source summit SUSE sponsored in May, is expected to increase awareness in Asia about openSUSE and other Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Students, professors and computer technologists attending the summit will listen […]

Source: Asia Summit  Highlights Growing Open Source Community in Asia

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Hack Week Event Inspires Innovation, Creativity, Fun

Hi everyone, I’m Doug! This is the beginning of my third week at openSUSE contributing to marketing and communications. It is great to be of the community. Everything here is new, and during my first week, I kept hearing people here talk about Hack Week. Several thoughts of what Hack Week could be crossed my […]

Source: Hack Week Event Inspires Innovation, Creativity, Fun

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Sneak Peek into GNOME on openSUSE 13.2

openSUSE 13.2 comes with the latest and greatest that the GNOME desktop has to offer — GNOME 3.14. At the time of the release 13.2 offers GNOME 3.14.1, which improves upon the user-experience of GNOME 3.10, that came with openSUSE 13.1, several notches, featuring notably a much improved gnome-shell with pretty-but-subtle animations and multi-touch gestures […]

Source: Sneak Peek into GNOME on openSUSE 13.2

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Tumbleweed, Factory rolling releases to merge

With the release of openSUSE 13.2 in November, two of openSUSE’s open-source projects, the ‘Tumbleweed’ and ‘Factory’ rolling releases will be merging, and offered as a single openSUSE rolling release under the name ‘Tumbleweed’ Factory will remain the name of the development process where openSUSE’s new developments are integrated, with the tested, user-ready rolling release […]

Source: Tumbleweed, Factory rolling releases to merge

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openSUSE 13.2: green light to freedom!

Dear contributors, friends and fans: openSUSE 13.2 is out! After one year on continuous improvement in the tools and procedures and many hours of developing, packaging, testing and fixing issues a new stable release is here providing the best that Free and Open Source has to offer with our special green touch: stable, innovative and […]

Source: openSUSE 13.2: green light to freedom!

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openSUSE project creates buzz in Italy

NUREMBERG, Germany (5-Nov.-2014) –  Many Linux user groups throughout Italy met at separate, but collectively themed events on Oct. 25 for Linux Day to promote the use of GNU/Linux and free software. Alexjan Carraturo, a openSUSE advocate, used this year’s Linux Day, which is sponsored by the Italian Linux Society, to promote participation in the […]

Source: openSUSE project creates buzz in Italy

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Help promote openSUSE 13.2!

To help promote 13.2, we have assembled some badges, backgrounds, counters and banners for you to put on your social media or blog pages. For your blog and social media accounts If you want to decorate your blog or website with a nice 13.2 banner, grab one of these two: 468×60   728×90   Twitter, […]

Source: Help promote openSUSE 13.2!

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Help promote openSUSE 13.2!

To help promote 13.2, we have assembled some badges, backgrounds, counters and banners for you to put on your social media or blog pages. For your blog and social media accounts If you want to decorate your blog or website with a nice 13.2 banner, grab one of these two: 468×60   728×90 600×100   […]

Source: Help promote openSUSE 13.2!

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What to expect from btrfs on openSUSE 13.2?

As the first major Linux distribution to have btrfs as the default file system, what can users and developers expect from openSUSE 13.2? How is the systems capabilities enhanced? Btrfs has different performance characteristics; it’s a logging-style file system that provides fault tolerance, repair, and easy management features. The most well known advantage of btrfs […]

Source: What to expect from btrfs on openSUSE 13.2?

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What to expect from Btrfs on openSUSE 13.2?

As the first major Linux distribution to have Btrfs as the default file system, what can users and developers expect from openSUSE 13.2? How is the systems capabilities enhanced? Btrfs has different performance characteristics; it’s a logging-style file system that provides fault tolerance, repair, and easy management features. The most well known advantage of Btrfs […]

Source: What to expect from Btrfs on openSUSE 13.2?