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Planet News Roundup This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. This community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from August 7 to 13. This week highlights Tumbleweed’s five snapshots. Podman 6.0.0, which now defaults rootless networking to pasta and drops legacy components like slirp4netns and...

Venue Update for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 The openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Organizing Committee would like to announce an important update regarding the conference venue. After careful consideration, openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 will now take place at: Convention Hall Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia This replaces the previously announced venue at the...

Planet News Roundup 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 31 to August 6. This week highlights the winner of the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 logo competition ahead of the October summit in Yogyakarta, and Tumbleweed...

openSUSE Asia Summit 2026 Logo Competition Winner Announced The votes are in! The openSUSE Asia Summit Committee is pleased to announce that A. Thalida has been selected as the winner of the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Logo Competition. Congratulations, A. Thalida! 🎉 The winning logo will become the official visual identity of openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026, representing this year’s conference...

Planet News Roundup 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...

Open Developers Summits Head to Barcelona and Dallas in 2027 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,...

Updating the Signing Key on Leap Micro 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...

The Case for Sponsoring openSUSE 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...

Planet News Roundup 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 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....

Planet News Roundup 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...

Support of XBOOTLDR in openSUSE 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...

Planet News Roundup 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...

Tumbleweed Monthly Update - June 2026 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...

Building a Local, Offline openSUSE Assistant for GSoC 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...

When the Code Stays Clean and Trust Collapses Anyway 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...

Uyuni Joins openSUSE Project Ahead of Annual Conference 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...

Planet News Roundup 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...

Planet News Roundup 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...