This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from July 17 to 23. This week opened Call for Proposals for two 2027 Open Developers Summits (Barcelona and Dallas), and KDE published its Akademy 2026 schedule...
The openSUSE community is planning two Open Developers Summits in 2027, and organizers are calling for proposals for both events now. The first summit is scheduled to take place on Feb. 18, 2027, in Barcelona, Spain, held alongside SUSECON. The second is scheduled to take place on April 14, 2027,...
openSUSE Leap Micro was the last to the party to receive the extended openSUSE signing key following its recent expiration. We’re deeply sorry for the inconvenience. The underlying issue has now been resolved everywhere. If your system still encounters repository signature errors, you can refresh the repository metadata and fetch...
Infrastructure runs on Linux, and Linux hardware is only as good as the software that builds, packages, signs and distributes its drivers and libraries, work that has to happen across dozens of distributions and several CPU architectures, every single day. That work has a home. The openSUSE Project has spent...
This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from July 10 to 16. Blogs this week cover the third Plasma 6.7 bugfix release, a SUSE security advisory on SELinux userspace utilities, a call for host...
openSUSE.Asia Summit 2027: Call for Host The openSUSE.Asia Summit is an annual conference that brings together openSUSE contributors, users, and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enthusiasts from across Asia. It provides a unique opportunity for the community to meet in person, exchange ideas, share technical knowledge, and strengthen collaboration....
This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from July 3 to 9. Blogs this week cover usability and printer improvements in Plasma 6.7, a sixth bugfix update for Plasma 6.6, and openSUSE’s support for...
More Space openSUSE moved to BLS some time ago using the bootloaders systemd-boot and GRUB2-BLS that nowadays is mostly a repackaging of the traditional GRUB2, as the main patches are already merged since 2.16. This decision also required more space in the ESP partition, as now the kernel and initrds...
This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from June 26 to July 2. Blogs this week cover Hans de Raad’s openSUSE Conference keynote on the Cyber Resilience Act and sovereign open-source assurance, a Google...
Contributors to openSUSE had a great time at the openSUSE Conference in June. Even as many of them gathered in Nuremberg to discuss how to drive development of the rolling release forward, software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed kept rolling out. June brought major version bumps across the stack with...
We started this Google Summer of Code project with a simple question: can a new openSUSE user get useful, system-specific help without sending their questions or machine information to a cloud service? The idea was to combine a Small Language Model (SLM) running on the user’s machine with retrieval over...
Why Europe’s third way needs sovereign open-source assurance, and what the openSUSE community, the SUSE ecosystem and the businesses built on them should do about it Accompanying article to the openSUSE Conference 2026 keynote by Hans de Raad (OpenNovations) - “Open Source Won Distribution. Now It Must Win Assurance.” Most...
There are moments in open-source history that feel less like announcements and more like finally saying out loud what everyone already knew. Eight years ago, during the annual openSUSE conference, the story began on news.opensuse.org with the announcement that Spacewalk was being forked. Today, as we gear up for the...
This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from June 12 to 18. Blogs this week cover the release of KDE Plasma 6.7 with per-screen virtual desktops and mic test features, KDE Frameworks 6.27, Agama...
This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The community blog aggregates a list of the featured highlights below from June 5 - 11. Blogs this week cover a photographer pairing rival AMD and Nvidia GPUs on one openSUSE Leap 16.1 workstation to run Adobe...
For years, photographer Klaus Tröger built his professional workflow on a quiet contradiction; a Linux workstation running the Adobe software that most people assume belongs on a Mac or a Windows PC. “I’m not willing to give up Linux, and I’m not willing to give up Adobe,” Klaus said. “So...
openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Logo Competition We are excited to announce the launch of the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Logo Competition! The Summit logo is more than just a symbol—it represents the energy, creativity, and diversity of our openSUSE community across Asia. This year, we invite you to make history by designing...
The Travel Support Program (TSP), which is aided through donations to the Geeko Foundation, is now accepting applications for the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026. Funds are allocated by the foundation specifically for travel assistance for speakers attending the event. Applications for the TSP are open now and will run until July...
May delivered a steady cadence of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots across the major desktop stacks with KDE Gear 26.04.1, KDE Frameworks 6.26.0, Plasma 6.6.5 and GNOME 50 minor releases. Mesa made a couple leaps with the 26.1 series with the new Vulkan 1.4 Application Programming Interfaces, and the Linux kernel progressed...