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A full-day open source workshop at the Polytechnics Mauritius campus in Ébène — tracing Linux from Stallman and Minix to a Mauritian gecko on the openSUSE Leap 16.0 wallpaper, packaging FrankenPHP live on the Open Build Service, and spinning up openSUSE on Google Cloud. With Eddy Lareine and Neil Baichoo.
openSUSE Leap 16.0 is now available on Google Cloud Platform with x86_64 and Arm64 images. You can launch a Compute Engine instance by selecting openSUSE Leap 16.0 under Public images. The Cloud Observability Ops Agent is not yet supported.
The openSUSE Project is a worldwide community effort promoting the use of Linux everywhere. The openSUSE Board guides the project's direction and facilitates community collaboration. Two seats are now open as the 2025 Board Election begins — get involved by running or casting your vote in March.
The openSUSE Conference (oSC) is the annual global gathering of the openSUSE community, organized by the openSUSE Project. It brings together developers, contributors, system administrators, Linux users, open-source advocates, and technology enthusiasts from around the world.
The MySQL repository for SUSE Linux provides a simple and convenient way to install and update MySQL products with the latest software packages using the Zypper package management tool.
openSUSE Board Elections are carried out every year and members are called to cast their vote electronically for their preferred candidate. The Election Platform is run by the Election Committee. Ariez Vachha, Edwin Zakaria and I were the Election Officials.
The electronic voting for the openSUSE Board Election is scheduled to begin on 1 December and ballots will close on 15 December. Six candidates are running for three seats on the Board.
Until a few months ago, there were only two openSUSE mirrors in the whole African continent — in South Africa and Kenya. Now, Mauritius has joined the list by adding two more openSUSE mirrors in Africa.
openSUSE Leap uses source from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), which gives Leap a level of stability unmatched by other Linux distributions, and combines that with community developments to give users, developers and sysadmins the best stable Linux experience available.