Introduction In my last posts I explained on how to run AI models on a openSUSE system using LocalAI. Now I’d like to introduce you to training AI with a small guide on creating a Low Ranking Adaption, also known as LoRA, and using it with LocalAI on your system. This way, you can leverage […]

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The openSUSE Project will live-stream Episode 10 of it Contribution Workshop series on Oct. 24 at 18:00 UTC on openSUSE’s YouTube and X platforms for a GNOME Extensions workshop.

The session will cover how to enhance and customize the GNOME desktop environment using powerful extensions that add functionality, streamline workflows and personalize the desktop experience.

GNOME Extensions are an excellent way for users to expand the capabilities of their GNOME environment and make desktop use more efficient and tailored to individual needs.

Episode 10: GNOME Extensions

• Date: Oct. 24
• Time: 18:00 UTC
• Where: openSUSE official YouTube & X channels
• Useful Links: GNOME Shell on GitLab, GNOME Extensions Website and GNOME Shell Integration Add-on for Firefox

These workshops offer a platform for learning and for contributors to ask questions and engage directly with developers, maintainers and experienced members of the openSUSE community.

Whether you’re new to open-source contributions or a seasoned developer, the openSUSE Contribution Workshops offer valuable learning opportunities to improve your skills, engage with the community, and contribute effectively to the openSUSE Project.

The espisdoes for the Contribution Workshop go over a variety of topics including package maintenance, infrastructure or understanding the overall project landscape. These following episodes are tailored to provide an overview and practical advice for open-source software development, use and contribution.

The following episodes were already released:

• Episode 1: openSUSE Contribution Workshop: Basic use of OBS osc using a version bump as an example
• Episode 2: openSUSE Contribution Workshop: From 0 to an rpm package packaging GNU Hello
• Episode 3: openSUSE Contribution Workshop: openSUSE Leap 15.6 Beta Bug Day
• Episode 4: openSUSE Contribution Workshop: Packaging Rust in Open Build Service
• Episode 5: Contributing to openSUSE Leap - Project Structure, Feature Tracking, Package Updates for SLES Packages
• Episode 6: Host Your Own openSUSE Mirror
• Episode 7: openSUSE Contribution Workshop: Custom Leap Micro image spin in a few minutes
• Episode 8: Testing and Breaking Builds - Offloading Repetitive Tasks to Computers
• Episode 9: Python packaging workshop for openSUSE

Note: The live stream was unavailable for openSUSE’s X platform.

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Today we want to tell you about three significant improvements we have just introduced that make it easier to collaborate on the request page. Those improvements are part of the beta program. We started the redesign of the request workflow in August 2022. Then, in September 2022, we focused on the support of multi-action submit requests. We continued in October 2022 with improvements regarding the Build Results tab and superseded conversations, and we presented build...

I am not what you would call a fan of Apple products. I believe that they are very user hostile, specifically in the area of right-to-repair arena. Consumer electronics should be built with repair and maintenance in mind so that we minimize the amount of e-waste we produce. Repairability should absolutely be encouraged for consumers […]

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

What a week it’s been for our favorite green chameleon! With 7 snapshots (1010…1016) rolling out, we’ve had plenty of updates, improvements, and new features making their way into our systems. If you blinked, you might have missed a few—so let’s dive into the highlights from the past week and catch up on everything that’s been buzzing in the openSUSE world!

This Week’s Highlights:

• GCC 14.2.1
• Mozilla Firefox 132.0.2
• KDE Gear 24.08.2
• KDE Frameworks 6.7.0
• KDE Plasma 6.2.1
• Samba 4.21.0
• Linux kernel 6.11.3

But, hold on! The excitement doesn’t stop there—there’s more on the horizon! Let’s take a peek at what’s coming our way in the next snapshots.

What to Expect Next:

• Linux kernel 6.11.4
• Virtualbox 7.1.4
• Vagrant will be removed: does not work with Virtualbox 7.1 and has no fix in sight.
• Mozilla Firefox 132.0.3
• SWIG 4.3.0 (beta1 has been submitted for testing)
• LLVM 19: Needs Mesa 24.2.x
• Mesa 24.2.x: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/11840
• Tumbleweed Wallpaper refresh. per https://github.com/openSUSE/branding/pull/160
• Change the default LSM (opted in at installation) to SELinux. AppArmor is still an option, just not the default. This change only impacts new installations. Before going live, we threw this at openQA and it identified some bugs, see https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1230118.

The author expresses a strong preference for the 24-hour clock and the DD MMM YYYY date format, finding it more readable than US formats. Frustrated by changes in KDE Plasma's settings, they detail a workaround to restore their preferred format and emphasize the importance of customization for personal satisfaction and productivity.

I love t-shirts, especially those that you’d call logowear. But it’s not the kind of big name fashion logos that I’m referring to. Rather, it’s logowear from my favorite IT companies. I have well over a hundred of these t-shirts, and except when I’m preparing for a special event, I pull a random t-shirt from my collection. Yesterday I happened to wear a power.org t-shirt, while today I’m wearing an OpenPOWER t-shirt, two POWER t-shirts in two days :-) Both of these brought back some nice memories.

The first t-shirt is really old, I got it probably around 2008, while working for Genesi. One of my tasks was moderating the forums on the power.org website. It was a website focusing on IBM POWER server products, but it also included some generic POWER information. Besides sharing information, it also provided a meeting point for like-minded engineers, where they could discuss anything related to POWER. You can read my history with POWER-based computers in one of my opensource.com articles at https://opensource.com/article/20/10/power-architecture.

The t-shirt I had on today is a lot more recent, but still cannot be called new. It is a t-shirt by the OpenPOWER Foundation from the golden era of open source on POWER: the POWER9 years. Those years have seen the most active open source development on POWER ever since the Pegasos / PowerMac years. Many applications were ported to POWER, both for the server and the desktop. Hopefully there will be another wave of open source activity on POWER soon, fingers crossed :-)

Do you have any interesting POWER t-shirts? Share with me on your preferred social network! My accounts are listed in the top right corner of this page.

The openSUSE community is preparing for the Early Adopter Tech Summit on March 14 and 15, 2025, in Orlando, Florida.

This event will take place at Loews Sapphire Falls Resort at Universal Orlando Resort and will take place as SUSECON concludes.

Partners of SUSE, openSUSE, open-source community projects and community members are all encouraged to register for the summit and submit a talk. There are two types of talks available:

• Short Talk: 15 minutes
• Standard Talk: 30 minutes

The call for papers is open until January 15, 2025.

We welcome submissions from anyone passionate about open-source software and community development.

The summit’s schedule will be published in February 2025. Visit events.opensuse.org for more information.

The author discusses their experience with the Framework 13 laptop, initially appreciating its portability and features but ultimately needing more screen space. They experimented with dual, triple, and six-monitor setups, emphasizing the advantages and challenges of each arrangement, particularly in terms of productivity and usability, and the importance of a reliable docking solution.

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Updating two major desktops within one week is not to be taken lightly—yet, that’s exactly what Tumbleweed did this week. KDE and GNOME have received updates to the freshly released upstream versions.

In the five snapshots (1003, 1005, 1006, 1007, and 1009) released this week, you could find these changes:

• Qt 6.7.3
• Busybox 1.37.0
• FFmpeg 7.1
• libproxy 0.5.9
• Mozilla Firefox 131.0 (131.0.2 is in the Update channel, addressing CVE-2024-9680)
• KDE Plasma 6.2.0
• Linux kernel 6.11.2
• GNOME 47.0
• XWayland 24.1.3

For our KDE Users, the update frenzy is not over yet, as KDE Gear is being prepared to be updated to 24.08.2. Amongst this change, the staging Release Engineers are currently busy testing the integration of:

• GCC 14.2.1
• KDE Gear 24.08.2
• SWIG 4.3.0 (beta1 has been submitted for testing)
• LLVM 19: Needs Mesa 24.2.x
• Tumbleweed Wallpaper refresh. per https://github.com/openSUSE/branding/pull/160
• Mesa 24.2.x: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/11840
• Change the default LSM (opted in at installation) to SELinux. AppArmor is still an option, just not the default. This change only impacts new installations.