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CzPBuilding syslog-ng with bundled ivykis on FreeBSD
One of the core dependencies of syslog-ng is the ivykis library. We have a few FreeBSD specific fixes in our ivykis fork, however the syslog-ng port uses ivykis from ports instead of the bundled version. I am now working on making it selectable. Testing and help are welcome.
Read more at https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/building-syslog-ng-with-bundled-ivykis-on-freebsd
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Releasing version 25
Agama 25 is here, and while it does not carry any single headline feature, it bundles a handful of changes requested by users and some groundwork for what is coming next.
This is the first release after openSUSE Leap 16.1, starting the work toward Tumbleweed, Slowroll, and Leap 16.2.
Let's see what's new.
A web-based terminal
Agama's web UI now features an actual terminal. Until now, if you needed a shell on the system you
were installing, your options were limited to switching to a different virtual console (e.g.
Ctrl+Alt+F8) if you had local access, or connecting through SSH.
Now you can just open a terminal from the comfort of Agama's web UI, without leaving the browser.
Leaving before it's too late
As several users requested, Agama now offers an exit option. You will find it from the very beginning of the process, letting you reboot or shut down the machine if you change your mind.
It is important to note that the option is only available before the installation starts: cancelling while Agama is already applying changes to the system could leave it in an unpredictable and potentially unbootable state, so the exit option disappears as soon as the installation is underway.
Enhanced port selection
Until now, the ports of a bond or a bridge had to be typed by hand in a free-text field, with only a line listing the existing device names as a hint. A typo was silently accepted, and the field did not scale well past a handful of NICs.
In Agama 25, the ports selection uses a searchable multi-select field instead: the devices found in the system are offered in a list you can filter as you type, and a name can still be written out by hand for a device that is not present in the system yet.
Towards Tumbleweed adoption
Behind the scenes, we keep working with the Tumbleweed maintainers to make Agama the installer for the distribution. There is still no date for that to happen, but we are getting closer. Recent examples of that effort are adjusting the registration support and 32-bit media build and adding riscv64 support, the latter contributed by Andreas Schwab.
Cutting ties with YaST packages
Agama was born on top of several YaST packages, reusing logic that was already there instead of rewriting it from scratch. We are now reducing that reliance, bringing into Agama's own codebase just the parts it actually needs instead of pulling in whole YaST modules. So far this effort covers the AutoYaST-related code, and more areas will follow.
Polishing and publishing our OpenAPI and JSON schemas
Agama exposes its HTTP API through an OpenAPI specification and validates its configuration and profile files against JSON schemas. We have been polishing both and, more importantly, publishing them with stable URLs at Agama's documentation site.
Having them published this way is useful well beyond Agama itself: it allows other tools to generate
clients, validate requests, or simply let people browse the API without digging through the source
code. The JSON schemas are useful on their own too. For instance, adding a "$schema" key pointing
to the right schema at the top of your AutoYaST-like profile or configuration file is enough for
many editors to offer autocompletion and inline validation as you type.
Keep in touch
On top of all that, we have also been busy with a bunch of smaller fixes and improvements that did
not make it into this post, like reporting more details about network devices or setting
systemd-boot as the default bootloader for MicroOS.
As always, you can take a look at the project at GitHub or
drop by the #yast channel at Libera.chat if you have questions, feedback
or just want to say hello.
Stay tuned!
Budapest Audio Expo 2026
Last Sunday I spent my day at the third Audio Expo in Budapest. Yet again it was fantastic. And yet again, my favorite audio experience was in the NCS Audio room, even if I listened to lot more expensive systems.
TL;DR:
Made in Hungary audio rivals the rest of the world in quality, while often being available at a much more affordable price. My favorite of the show was the NCS Audio / Qualiton / Pixel cables room, all made in Hungary. 72 Audio was also perfect, as usual. Heed Audio Helikon with Zellaton speakers could fill the largest show room with lively sound. A pair of Popori Acoustics speakers sounded beautiful with a prototype Natural Distortion DAC and amp.
NCS Audio
This year I visited the Audio Expo with someone who prefers headphones. In her experience speakers cannot give you the level of dynamics and detail that a good pair of headphones can provide. In the NCS Audio / Qualiton / Pixel cables room this suddenly changed.
We listened to almost all the systems on the seven floors of the exhibition building. This was the one where we returned for a second round of listening. No matter the type of music we listened to, it had extreme clarity, even in the bass section. We were looking for where the band is hiding, as it sounded like an actual band was there, not just a pair of speakers.
Best of all: this was one of the most affordable systems at the expo, beating many more expensive systems in listening experience.
Audio Expo 2026: NCS Audio / Qualiton / Pixel cables
72 Audio
Last year 72 Audio presented my favorite music experience at the Audio Expo. This year they presented a lot more affordable system. Still, it was one of the best sounding ones. Or, if you ask my partner, it was the best.
- 72 Audio: https://www.72audio.com/
Audio Expo 2026: 72 Audio
Natural Distortion
Their products are still just a prototype, but they definitely sound fantastic. A miniature DAC and amp were driving a pair of huge Popori Acoustics speakers and provided one of the most detailed sound experiences at the expo.
We listened to some church organ music. The pedals sounded a bit weak, but for the rest I felt as if I was sitting in the church and was listening to the performance live. It is very rare that organs sound natural to me from speakers.
- Natural Distortion: https://www.audioexpo.hu/kiallitok/natural-distortion
- Popori Acoustics: https://poporiacoustics.com/
Audio Expo 2026: Natural Distortion
Some negative experiences
While Natural Distortion sounded perfectly natural, systems with room correction sounded completely distorted. One of the demo songs was organ music, and the presenter of the demo explained how all the hard work of DSPs ensures the perfect sound. There was more than enough bass, still the whole thing sounded to me a kind of unbalanced and processed. While listening, I did not have the illusion of sitting in the church at all.
I was looking forward listening to some of most hyped new devices developed here in Hungary. The DAC and active speakers sounded OK, but as the door of the listening room was wide open and fixed in that position, there was no chance to hear the details. Much of the music was lost in the noise coming from outside.
When it comes to music, size does not matter. There were quite a few huge speakers at the event, but most of them were just loud, without providing an enjoyable listening experience. Even my good old speakers at home provide a lot more detail than some of the giants at the event.
Some positive experiences
Talking about oversize speakers. This year the Visegrád room, the largest show room of the building, had a Heed Helikon as amp, and a pair of Zellaton speakers. In earlier years I was always disappointed in this room. Loud and slightly distorted music on a pair of very expensive speakers: not something for an extended listening session. This year the room was full of perfectly sounding music, and I only left because I wanted to visit each and every room before closing time. As an added bonus, we had Lucina Yue on site, talking about her latest album: https://tidal.com/album/450279864
Another setup on my favorites list was put together by Limar Audio. They used a pair of miniature bookshelf speakers from Paradigm, but they could fill the room with beautiful music.
Audio Expo 2026: Limar Audio
I prefer speakers, but as I was with someone preferring headphones, we also listened to some. We saw some odd-looking oversize headphones at a HydraSound stand in the hall. The HEDD headphones sounded fantastic, but obviously listening to an open back headphone in a busy environment is far from optimal. After a while we learned that the stand was actually about cables, the headphones were not for sale :-)
We also visited the MUZIX stand in the basement and listened to several Final Audio headphones. Navigating a Japanese tablet was a kind of a challenge. Luckily I use TIDAL enough to be able to search all different kinds of music for testing. Final Audio excelled with each of them.
Conclusion
Obviously, we did not have a chance to hear all systems with all the different types of music we listen to: everything from classical to metal, jazz, electronica, progrock and even some pop occasionally. So, all experience depended on not just the systems, but also on the music played at the time of visit. Still, I suspect that there would not have been major changes in my review if we had had a chance for more thorough listening.
See you again next year!
Kudos September 2026
Welcome to our monthly report from the openSUSE Kudos recognition platform, where we take a moment to put a spotlight on the people who stepped up, helped others, and made this community a little brighter.
During the month of September 2026, 14 users received 14 kudos, and 152 badges were awarded to 136 contributors. You can see stats for this and previous months.
Spotlight
September spread its thanks evenly, with fourteen people each receiving a kudo: @adrianSuSE, Bernhard Wiedemann (@bmwiedemann), Dominique Leuenberger (@dimstar), Geetansh Goyal (@geetxnshgoyal), @hennevogel, Imobach Gonzalez Sosa (@IGonzalezSosa) and eight more.
Kudos
Here are the thank-you notes themselves: 14 peer-to-peer kudos written by contributors about contributors, grouped by the person being thanked.
From @lkocman in Infrastructure Heroes
“Many thanks for always being around and always willing to help Adrian!”
From @jsegitz in Code & Engineering
“Thank you for your tireless work on reproducible builds!”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Reporting a bug is great, but submitting a fix right out of the gate is next level. Especially if it is for a spicy architecture like s390x. Thank you DimStar!”
From @ddemaio in Documentation and Publishing
“Many thanks for sharing your Google Summer of Code experience on news.o.o. A fantastic & article”
From @akarsh in Code & Engineering
“Thanks for the quick reviews on my first OBS PR”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Many thanks for making Agama changelog shiny and actually useful Imo!”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Many thanks for your night watch over os-autoinst-distri-opensuse PRs Jan! You just helped to make Leap 16.1 RC greener in openQA”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Many thanks for your quick feedback about opensuse-version-diff Gertjan. Your quick eye caught an obvious issue. Many thanks!”
From @ddemaio in Code & Engineering
“Your new #diff code makes openSUSE stronger every day. Especially with people getting immediate facts about the software versions in Leap and Tumbleweed.”
From @lkocman in Support & User Assistance
“Many thanks for all your tireless help with getting Leap 16.1 RC out of the door Yuchen!”
From @kskarthik in Code & Engineering
“thanks a lot for the openSUSE packaging skills! it’s a very valuable assist in packaging chores”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Many thanks for your awesome help with the Leap 16.1 immutable modes in openQA Santi! I’m super happy that thanks to you we were able to release RC in the same day as it landed in openQA! Many thanks again!”
From @bbreinbauer in Code & Engineering
“Thanks for working on Firefox and Thunderbird!”
@Zaitor received a kudo:
From @dimstar in Code & Engineering
“Thank you very much for all your endless work to make GNOME better for openSUSE. You do tremendous work.”
Badges
Contributors earned 12 different badges in September, and here is an overview of the 8 most awarded ones. The full list of badges you can earn is on the badges page.
100 Tumbleweed Contributions
For submitting 100 Submit Requests to openSUSE:Factory.
Awarded this month to @dimstar, @fstrba, @iznogood, @mcalabkova, @ojkastl_buildservice, @pushman and @StevenK.
10 Tumbleweed Contributions
For submitting 10 Submit Requests to openSUSE:Factory.
34 contributors earned this badge this month, too many to list here, but every one of them counts.
First Tumbleweed Contribution
For submitting 1 Submit Request to openSUSE:Factory.
81 contributors earned this badge this month, too many to list here, but every one of them counts.
Leap 16.0 Contributor
Recognition for submitting at least one pull request to Leap 16.0 or related appliance repositories on src.opensuse.org.
Awarded this month to @abergmann, @dimstar, @jirislaby, @jsmeix, @mschreiner, @rn and @vcarvalho.
Leap 16.1 Contributor
Recognition for submitting at least one pull request to Leap 16.1 or related appliance repositories on src.opensuse.org.
Awarded this month to @abergmann, @alois, @jirislaby, @jsmeix and @vcarvalho.
linuxdays.cz 2026
For supporting LinuxDays.cz 2026.
Awarded this month to @dancermak, @jbaier_cz and @VPetras.
Got First Kudo
Received your first kudos.
Awarded this month to @geetxnshgoyal, @jbaier_cz, @szarate, @wrosenauer and @Zaitor.
First Kudos Given
Shared your first kudos.
Awarded this month to @akarsh, @bbreinbauer, @jsegitz and @kskarthik.
Congrats on your kudos and badges. Keep up the great work everyone, and don’t forget to have a lot of fun!
Generated by kudos-bot-news-o-o from https://kudos.opensuse.org/api/reports/monthly for the period 1-30 September 2026.
September Kudos, Recognition
Welcome to our monthly report from the openSUSE Kudos recognition platform, where we take a moment to put a spotlight on the people who stepped up, helped others, and made this community a little brighter.
During the month of September 2026, 14 users received 14 kudos, and 152 badges were awarded to 136 contributors. You can see stats for this and previous months.
Spotlight
September spread its thanks evenly, with fourteen people each receiving a kudo: @adrianSuSE, Bernhard Wiedemann (@bmwiedemann), Dominique Leuenberger (@dimstar), Geetansh Goyal (@geetxnshgoyal), @hennevogel, Imobach Gonzalez Sosa (@IGonzalezSosa) and eight more.
Kudos
Here are the thank-you notes themselves: 14 peer-to-peer kudos written by contributors about contributors, grouped by the person being thanked.
From @lkocman in Infrastructure Heroes
“Many thanks for always being around and always willing to help Adrian!”
From @jsegitz in Code & Engineering
“Thank you for your tireless work on reproducible builds!”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Reporting a bug is great, but submitting a fix right out of the gate is next level. Especially if it is for a spicy architecture like s390x. Thank you DimStar!”
From @ddemaio in Documentation and Publishing
“Many thanks for sharing your Google Summer of Code experience on news.o.o. A fantastic & article”
From @akarsh in Code & Engineering
“Thanks for the quick reviews on my first OBS PR”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Many thanks for making Agama changelog shiny and actually useful Imo!”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Many thanks for your night watch over os-autoinst-distri-opensuse PRs Jan! You just helped to make Leap 16.1 RC greener in openQA”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Many thanks for your quick feedback about opensuse-version-diff Gertjan. Your quick eye caught an obvious issue. Many thanks!”
From @ddemaio in Code & Engineering
“Your new #diff code makes openSUSE stronger every day. Especially with people getting immediate facts about the software versions in Leap and Tumbleweed.”
From @lkocman in Support & User Assistance
“Many thanks for all your tireless help with getting Leap 16.1 RC out of the door Yuchen!”
From @kskarthik in Code & Engineering
“thanks a lot for the openSUSE packaging skills! it’s a very valuable assist in packaging chores”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Many thanks for your awesome help with the Leap 16.1 immutable modes in openQA Santi! I’m super happy that thanks to you we were able to release RC in the same day as it landed in openQA! Many thanks again!”
From @bbreinbauer in Code & Engineering
“Thanks for working on Firefox and Thunderbird!”
@Zaitor received a kudo:
From @dimstar in Code & Engineering
“Thank you very much for all your endless work to make GNOME better for openSUSE. You do tremendous work.”
Badges
Contributors earned 12 different badges in September, and here is an overview of the 8 most awarded ones. The full list of badges you can earn is on the badges page.
100 Tumbleweed Contributions
For submitting 100 Submit Requests to openSUSE:Factory.
Awarded this month to @dimstar, @fstrba, @iznogood, @mcalabkova, @ojkastl_buildservice, @pushman and @StevenK.
10 Tumbleweed Contributions
For submitting 10 Submit Requests to openSUSE:Factory.
34 contributors earned this badge this month, too many to list here, but every one of them counts.
First Tumbleweed Contribution
For submitting 1 Submit Request to openSUSE:Factory.
81 contributors earned this badge this month, too many to list here, but every one of them counts.
Leap 16.0 Contributor
Recognition for submitting at least one pull request to Leap 16.0 or related appliance repositories on src.opensuse.org.
Awarded this month to @abergmann, @dimstar, @jirislaby, @jsmeix, @mschreiner, @rn and @vcarvalho.
Leap 16.1 Contributor
Recognition for submitting at least one pull request to Leap 16.1 or related appliance repositories on src.opensuse.org.
Awarded this month to @abergmann, @alois, @jirislaby, @jsmeix and @vcarvalho.
linuxdays.cz 2026
For supporting LinuxDays.cz 2026.
Awarded this month to @dancermak, @jbaier_cz and @VPetras.
Got First Kudo
Received your first kudos.
Awarded this month to @geetxnshgoyal, @jbaier_cz, @szarate, @wrosenauer and @Zaitor.
First Kudos Given
Shared your first kudos.
Awarded this month to @akarsh, @bbreinbauer, @jsegitz and @kskarthik.
Congrats on your kudos and badges. Keep up the great work everyone, and don’t forget to have a lot of fun!
Generated by kudos-bot-news-o-o from https://kudos.opensuse.org/api/reports/monthly for the period 1-30 September 2026.
Linux Saloon 224 | Open Mic Night
Sobre GenAI LLMs y Knowledge workers
Eres un Knowledge Worker o trabajas en tecnología y tienes dudas sobre el futuro con todo esto de las LLM, agentes y demas?… aca dejo unos pensamientos que tengo desde hace rato, pero hoy como que les pude dar forma gracias a una pequeña encuesta en un grupo de Programadores de Venezuela en Telegram.
Pero antes de continuar, Don’t Panic!
La encuesta en cuestión tiene las siguientes opciones:
El futuro sigue estando en los humanos?
- 🔘 El futuro es humano, la IA llegará a un techo que nos dará años donde todo seguirá igual
- 🔘 Las áreas del conocimiento solo serán de top 10% humanos más inteligentes y la IA
- 🔘 Los humanos no tendrán oportunidad, vamos a una época donde las armas y la juventud son el valor
- 🔘 El futuro solo estará en los bienes y valores finitos, también el como validamos esos valores
Y llevo bastante tiempo regresando aveces a la misma analogía que escuche en un podcast de Thoughtworks1 y quise expandir un poco mas (y se termino convirtiendo en algo bastante largo… because, well… brain):
Porque en 1970, los contadores dedicaban la mayor parte de su tiempo a recalcular manualmente hojas de cálculo en papel. Luego llegó la hoja de cálculo electrónica. Y supuso un cambio radical para ellos. Y no los convirtió en mejores contadores. Simplemente eliminó gran parte del trabajo tedioso.
Y aquí es donde yo pienso que de la misma forma que usamos un compilador, un analizador de código estático, linter, hojas de calculo, traductores (google translate), motores de búsqueda e incluso ML y otras cosas del conglomerado de AI, utilizar GPTs y otros tipos de modelos para el trabajo del día a día…
Aquí la comparación que yo hago es a la introducción del brazo robótico en fabricas o la invención de la central telefónica automatizada…
Los contadores siguen usando hojas de calculo y calculadora, solo que ahora todos sabemos usar una hoja de calculo en mayor o menor medida…
En las fabricas y almacenes siguen teniendo humanos en diferentes partes de sus procesos y la automatización ayuda a ensamblado de partes, soldar componentes, etc… y hoy por hoy tenemos en muchos lugares escaleras mecánicas, puertas automáticas con sensores y hasta juguetes para lanzar un NERF al que rompió producción (si trabajas en oficina claro) o incluso cosas como impresoras 3d o CNC de sobremesa, o servicios como JLCPCB
El oficio de telefonista cambio, y ahora hay recepcionistas, operadores de servicio de atención al cliente (call centers), etc… y ahora aveces hasta hay un chatbot o operador automata antes de que puedas hablar con un humano
Todas estas eran trabajo manual que se hacia que requería una parte física para poder realizarse o era knowledge work que no se podia automatizar porque la tecnología no existía…
Y ahora es que la automatización esta tocando al area de desarrollo de software de una forma muy dramática y a velocidad vertiginosa…
Entonces de la misma forma que ahora tu como ingeniero de software puedes tener tu propia hoja de calculo para llevar tus impuestos y finanzas personales (i.e yo), o una impresora 3d para prototipar esas partes que necesitas para algo que se rompió o ajustar algo (i.e mejorar el flujo de aire en tu computador)… pues ahora $fulanito podría sentarse por su cuenta o con alguien mas a resolver el problema que tiene…
O como mucho ya pasa: Alguien usa un LLM para generar thumbnails de videos o imágenes desde su teléfono, en lugar de contratar a un diseñador grafico o Alguien decide que puede hacer que su idea se haga realidad y se vibecodea algo desde cero…
Al final, citando a phenobarbital (en el 2023!):
entonces, hay un bojote de Juniors copy&paste que solo aprendieron haciendo cursos de $plataforma sin mucho ánimo de gastar 3 neuronas en análisis la informática y la creación de sistemas tiene mucho de arte y análisis y menos de monkey-coders y tira-flechas
Y nuevamente en el 2026:
foursixnine: Si no pueden sentarse en una entrevista tecnica, sin usar AI… nunca fueron seniors para empezar?… No digo que deban saber echar codigo en $lenguaje de memoria, pero los basics deberian estar alli.
phenobarbital: _en efecto, vamos a ponernos filosóficos:
hay una escena en “Los pilares de la tierra” de Follet, dónde el arzobispo de Kingsbridge le dice a Tom Builder (el hombre que está construyendo la catedral), vieron como un obrero estaba haciendo mala mezcla pero él (tom) estaba muy ocupado poniendo bloques_
phenobarbital: que muy chévere que te guste echar ladrillo y bloques, pero ahora eres maestro constructor, o supervisas a tus empleados o tiras bloques
phenobarbital: no puedes dirigir y batir cemento
phenobarbital: y llega un punto en tu vida en que decides, batir cemento o dirigir obrero…
phenobarbital: si “usar la IA” para algunos es “pedirle que tire bloques sin saber cómo se hace el tramado o con qué densidad se bate la mezcla”
phenobarbital: no eres un senior, eres un monkey coder que reemplazó las manos para lanzar código por otro artilugio que también lanza código y que igual, tampoco entiendes
En fin, don’t panic!.
Como lectura recomendada: La pagina de Automatizacion de wikipedia y la de Inteligencia artificial (en ingles)
Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/42
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week saw the release of 7 snapshots (1008, 1009, 1010, 1011, 1012, 1013, and 1014).
It has been an intensely busy week for Tumbleweed, clearing out several major items from our outlook. High on the list, libvirt 12.8.0 arrived in snapshot 1009, joined by python-setuptools 84.0.0 once the build issue in gobject-introspection was ironed out. In addition, the long-standing libnettle 4.0 transition has finally made its way into the published repository after weeks of anticipation.
Desktop environments and foundational libraries also saw substantial deliveries. KDE users received the latest monthly maintenance release with KDE Gear 26.08.2 spanning snapshots 1010 and 1011, alongside KDE Frameworks 6.31.0. The web and graphical stacks gained Mozilla Firefox 157.0.1, WebKitGTK 2.54.1, HarfBuzz 14.6.0, and GStreamer 1.28.8, while GNOME’s file manager stepped up to Nautilus 50.4. Under the hood, Linux Kernel rolled out version 7.2.10 in snapshot 1014, flanked by Grub2 2.16, OpenSSH 10.6p1, Git 2.56.0, and QEMU 11.1.2.
As always with a rapid cadence, a couple of items required quick interventions. A patch added to mutter in snapshot 1008 aimed at improving Wayland selection serials for Emacs ended up breaking clipboard copy and paste in Firefox and other tools, prompting an immediate revert in snapshot 1013 (boo#1284143). In a similar vein, ktextaddons 2.2.0 required a prompt follow-up patch to mend an unexpected ABI break affecting mail and text components. Meanwhile, cups-filters received further hardening in snapshot 1009 to ensure its serial backend no longer runs with root permissions.
These 7 snapshots delivered the following updates:
- expat 2.9.0
- FreeIPMI 1.6.20
- git 2.56.0
- glib2 2.88.4
- gpg2 2.5.24
- grub2 2.16
- gstreamer 1.28.8
- harfbuzz 14.6.0
- ImageMagick 7.1.2.32
- KDE Frameworks 6.31.0
- KDE Gear 26.08.2
- libbpf 1.8.0
- libvirt 12.8.0
- libvpx 1.17.0
- Linux Kernel 7.2.10
- llvm 23.1.3
- MozillaFirefox 157.0.1
- nautilus 50.4
- OpenSSH 10.6p1
- Python 3.13.16
- python-setuptools 84.0.0
- qemu 11.1.2
- util-linux 2.42.4
- webkitgtk4 2.54.1
- Xen 4.22.0_06
With these updates successfully rolled out, it is time to turn our gaze forward and see what the staging areas are cooking up for the near future:
- KDE Plasma 6.8.0
- Linux Kernel 7.2.11
- Mesa 26.2.5
- Ollama 0.40.5
- Qt 6.12.0: Staging builds are currently working through fallout in python-PyQt6 and python-matplotlib.
- fmt 12.2.0
- containerd 2.3.3: Upgrading from 1.7.x remains held back due to regressions in open-vm-tools, tracked under boo#1284086.
- kernel-source-longterm 6.18.55: Waiting on VirtualBox driver updates to adapt to kernel API changes.
- Swig 4.5.0: YaST integration issues remain under investigation, tracked under boo#1275515.
The KDE Documentary
In case you haven’t already seen it, for the KDE 30 year anniversary, KDE have had a documentary done. It’s a really great watch and a very high quality production.
Naturally it covers the most significant events in KDE history, but in the process also touches a lot on other parts of the eco system such as Qt, GNU, Linux and GNOME. And of course it includes legendary SUSE developers.
I love these people, and the rest of the FOSS community!
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 Oct. 9 - 15.
This week highlights KDE’s 30th anniversary and the premiere of the KDE documentary, the launch of Plasma 6.8 as the 30th Anniversary Edition, five Tumbleweed snapshots headlined by Linux Kernel 7.2.9, Samba 4.25.0 and LibreOffice 26.8.1.1, a mid-October Tumbleweed ARM update, the 31st KDE Frameworks 6 update, Open Build Service’s new Content Moderation feature, the Advanced Weather Widget plasmoid, episode 7 of the “La era de las distros” podcast on Madrid’s MAX distribution, Linux Saloon 223 on Omarchy, an openQA slow-test deep dive, GNOME’s refreshed Pixels wallpaper and more.
Here is a summary and links for each post:
30 Years and 1 Day: KDE Keeps Giving Me Freedom and Functionality with the Best Design
Victorhck shares a personal user’s tribute to KDE the day after the project’s 30th anniversary, reflecting on 15 years of using KDE with openSUSE since 2011. He expresses gratitude for the freedom, flexibility and polish of Plasma and KDE applications, praises the global community behind the project, and encourages readers to support KDE with donations, including a nod to celebrating 30 years with 30€.
KDE Documentary
Sebastian Kügler reflects on KDE’s 30th anniversary and the premiere of the KDE documentary, in which he was interviewed as a former release manager, Plasma core developer and KDE e.V. board member. He also hints at a return to Free Software development with two new apps tied to his hobbies.
Plasma 6.8 Released, 30th Anniversary Edition
The KDE Blog celebrates KDE’s 30th anniversary with the release of Plasma 6.8, highlighting dozens of improvements across the desktop experience. Key changes include the new Hanabi default wallpaper, Nepali calendar support, GTK4 window decoration fixes, a redesigned Discover with AppStream previews and a modernized Flatpak permissions panel.
Pixels Wallpaper Update
Jakub Steiner shares an early look at the updated Pixels wallpaper for GNOME, built from app icons redrawn as chunky pixel art. This time the wallpaper ships in nine color variants, and he asks the community for feedback on contrast, backgrounds and grain before the release.
KDE’s 30th Anniversary – Congratulations to the Whole Community!
The KDE Blog marks KDE’s 30th anniversary on Oct. 14, tracing the project from Matthias Ettrich’s original 1996 announcement to today’s worldwide community. Baltasar Ortega reflects on the people and values of KDE and previews the Plasma 6.8 launch arriving the next day.
Thirty Years of KDE
Cornelius Schumacher looks back on 30 years of KDE, from joining in 1999 to the project’s current strength with the Steam Deck reach and Sovereign Tech Fund investment. He reflects on how KDE’s commitment to freedom shaped his career and life, and notes the KDE documentary premiering for the anniversary.
Tumbleweed ARM Update by mid-October
openSUSE News details Tumbleweed ARM updates from mid-September through mid-October, covering the kernel’s move from 7.2.6 to 7.2.9 with a long list of SBC and AArch64 security fixes. Highlights include binutils 2.47 with Armv9.6 and Armv9.7 instructions, QEMU 11.1.2 virtualization fixes and refreshed Wi-Fi and Bluetooth firmware for Raspberry Pi, Qualcomm and MediaTek boards.
Advanced Weather Display with Advanced Weather Widget – Plasmoids for Plasma 6 (41)
The KDE Blog presents Advanced Weather Widget, the 41st entry in its Plasma 6 plasmoids series, a feature-rich weather applet by pnedyalkov. It supports multiple providers with automatic failover, detailed current conditions, radar maps, configurable KDE notifications and translations in 18 languages.
The Golden Age of LINUX in Spain. How MAX Was Created (with Its Original Developers) – Episode 7 of the Podcast “La era de las distros”
The KDE Blog promotes episode 7 of the podcast “La era de las distros,” which tells the story of Madrid’s MAX educational distribution through its original developers Ismail Ali-Gago, Carlos Salamanca and Mario Izquierdo. The episode covers the project’s humble technical beginnings and its role in digital sovereignty for Madrid’s classrooms.
The Content Moderation Feature Is Out For Everyone
The Open Build Service announces that its Content Moderation feature is now available to all users, giving the community tools to report, review and act on spam, abuse and other misconduct. Any user can report comments, users, projects, packages and requests using predefined categories.
31st KDE Frameworks 6 Update and the KDBusAddons Library
The KDE Blog covers the 31st update of KDE Frameworks 6, released Oct. 9, and continues its library deep-dive series with KDBusAddons. The post explains how KDBusAddons simplifies D-Bus work in Qt and KDE applications and provides a full listing of the Frameworks library tiers.
Linux Saloon 223 | Omarchy
Nathan Wolf hosts Linux Saloon 223 focused on Omarchy, with news including Discord’s age verification, Thunderbird for iOS and Ubuntu’s wiki overhaul. The episode also notes the shrinking Linux share among Steam users, Reddit dropping RSS feeds and upcoming show topics.
Anatomy of a slow test module
Zoltán Balogh dissects a slow support-server test module, explaining why wasted seconds in setup cost roughly three times as much since parallel nodes wait on the master. Through small, measured iterations he cut the SLE 15 SP7 SAP HANA scenario setup from 7m 37s to about 5m 10s and shares the patterns and lessons learned.
Final Touches for 6.8 – This Week in Plasma
The KDE Blog translates Nate Graham’s latest “This Week in Plasma,” covering the final polish on Plasma 6.8 ahead of its Oct. 14 release. The roundup lists interface tweaks for the weather applet, KRunner and Spectacle, plus bug fixes spanning Plasma 6.6.7 through 6.9 and Frameworks 6.32.
Tumbleweed – Review of the Week 2026/41
Dominique Leuenberger and Victorhck review five Tumbleweed snapshots (1001, 1002, 1003, 1005 and 1007), headlined by systemd 261.3, Mesa 26.2.4, NetworkManager 1.58.1, LibreOffice 26.8.1.1, Linux Kernel 7.2.9 and Samba 4.25.0. The roundup also notes a cups-filters2 revert that restored PDF and image printing, and previews staging updates including Plasma 6.8 Beta 2, libvirt 12.8.0 and fmt 12.2.0.
Barcelona Free Software: 30 Years of KDE
The KDE Blog announces a Barcelona Free Software talk on Oct. 21 celebrating KDE’s 30th anniversary, featuring KDE e.V. member and former KDE España president Albert Astals Cid. The event at Akasha Hub will share history, anecdotes and reflections on 30 years of KDE, followed by pizza and drinks courtesy of KDE España.
Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-10-09)
The Open Build Service posts its end-of-week roundup for packagers, highlighting fixes like copying special collectbuildenv packages, correcting dates on the Blame page and retriggering scmsync package syncs. The update also lists improvements to osc request listings, “osc fork” arguments and git-obs configuration handling.
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