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The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's best Linux distributions, as well as a variety of tools, such as OBS, OpenQA, Kiwi, YaST, OSEM, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community.

The project is controlled by its community and relies on the contributions of individuals, working as testers, writers, translators, usability experts, artists and ambassadors or developers. The project embraces a wide variety of technology, people with different levels of expertise, speaking different languages and having different cultural backgrounds.

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Distribution

The openSUSE distribution is a stable, easy to use and complete multi-purpose distribution.

It is aimed towards users and developers working on the desktop or server. It is great for beginners, experienced users and ultra geeks alike, in short, it is perfect for everybody! The latest release, openSUSE Leap 15.1, features new and massively improved versions of all useful server and desktop applications. It comes with more than 1,000 open source applications. openSUSE Tumbleweed is the rolling release, providing the latest upstream software releases, yet only those packages that pass testing.

openSUSE is also the base for SUSE's award-winning SUSE Linux Enterprise products.

Open Buildservice

The Open Build Service (OBS) is a generic system to build and distribute packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. It makes it possible to release software for a wide range of operating systems and hardware architectures. The OBS reference server, which we use to build our distribution, currently (March 2019) hosts 62,954 projects, with 527,451 packages, in 94,872 repositories for numerous distributions and architectures and is used by 60,034 confirmed developers.

OpenQA

openQA is openSUSE's fully automated OS testing service

that can be found under http://openqa.opensuse.org/. More information can be found at http://open.qa/.

It is used

to determine if a build/release/set of updates is good, for both Leap and Tumbleweed releases,
to give users an idea about the current quality,
to find serious bugs as early as possible, and avoid releasing software that contains those.

OSEM

OSEM is the Open Source Event Manager, an event management tool tailored to Free and Open Source Software conferences. OSEM actively participates in GSoC and RGSoC.

The project currently can be found on Github/openSUSE/osem

Jangouts

Jangouts (for "Janus Hangouts") is a solution for videoconferencing based on WebRTC and the excellent Janus Gateway with a user interface loosely inspired by Google Hangouts. It aims to provide a completely self-hosted open source alternative to Google Hangouts and similar solutions. Currently Jangouts supports conferences with video, audio, screen sharing and textual chat organized into an unlimited amount of conference rooms with a configurable limit of participants per room.

YaST

YaST is the installation and configuration tool for openSUSE and the SUSE Linux Enterprise distributions. It is popular for its easy use and attractive graphical interface and the capability to customize your system quickly during and after the installation. YaST actually stands for Yet another Setup Tool. YaST can be used to configure your entire system. Setup hardware, configure the network, system services and tune your security settings. All these tasks can be reached from the YaST Control Center.

Kiwi

KIWI is an application for making a wide variety of image sets for Linux supported hardware platforms as well as virtualisation systems including QEMU, Xen and VMware. It is developed by the openSUSE Project and used to create the openSUSE distributions, but can also be employed to build a variety of other Linux distributions. KIWI was recently integrated in OBS as Studio Express. Also see Kiwi

Wiki

The openSUSE wiki is the source of information about the openSUSE project and distribution.

The goal is to provide high quality documentation and a place for collaboration on all parts of the project. This is done in a well structured, standardized and easy readable way. Content is created, edited and refined by all community members.