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openSUSE Project
The openSUSE Project is a community project to produce, platform of choice for Linux hackers and application
improve and document the openSUSE Linux distribution developers.
and make it the "world’s best Linux distribution"[1]. • To become the simplest Linux distribution providing
maximum number of packages.
Project
Activities
Every week, the openSUSE project publishes openSUSE
News,
Weekly News a newsletter containing reports on the
project and distribution, and interviews with members of
the openSUSE project. It is translated by volunteers in-
to several languages such as German, Spanish, Japanese,
Chinese, Russian, Polish, Portuguese and Indonesian.
On May 2008, the openSUSE Project launched
lizards.opensuse.org,
lizards.opensuse.org a blogging platform for openSUSE
members [4].
The openSUSE Project logo See also
• openSUSE
The openSUSE Project is a community program spon- • SUSE Linux distributions
sored by Novell, AMD and IP Exchange [2]. Its main goal
is promoting the use of Linux everywhere by developing
the openSUSE Linux distribution and by providing an en- References
vironment for open source collaboration through tools [1] ^ "openSUSE Guidelines Principles".
such as the openSUSE Build Service. Since it is an open En.opensuse.org. http://en.opensuse.org/
project, anyone can contribute to the openSUSE project Guiding_Principles. Retrieved 2010-11-09.
by editing the wiki, translating the distribution, creating [2] "Sponsors - openSUSE". 2008-08-05.
software patches, developing rpm packages, reporting http://en.opensuse.org/Sponsors. Retrieved
bugs or suggesting features. 2008-08-05.
[3] "Project Overview - openSUSE". 2008-08-04.
Main goals Archived from the original on 2008-06-17.
The openSUSE guidelines[1] describe the project goals http://web.archive.org/web/20080617031802/
and how it is managed. http://en.opensuse.org/Project_Overview.
The goals of the openSUSE project are [3]: Retrieved 2008-08-04.
• To make openSUSE the easiest Linux distribution for [4] "Blogging Platform for openSUSE Launched".
anyone to obtain and the most widely used open 2008-08-04. http://news.opensuse.org/2008/05/
source platform. 07/blogging-platform-for-opensuse-launched/.
• To provide an environment for open source Retrieved 2008-08-04.
collaboration that makes openSUSE the world’s best
Linux distribution for new and experienced Linux
users.
External links
• To dramatically simplify and open the development • Official website
and packaging processes to make openSUSE the
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Categories:
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