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