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~+openSUSE+~, is a general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project and sponsored by Novell. After acquiring SUSE Linux in January 2004, Novell decided to release the SUSE Linux Professional product as a 100% open source project, involving the community in the development process ~-(source: [[WikiPedia:OpenSUSE|Wikipedia]])-~

The openSUSE build service cross builds packages to multiple distributions, including debian and fedora in addition to openSUSE proper.
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Some pointers, for those developers who need to interact/collaborate with OpenSUSE package maintainers.

 Software/Packages ::
 :: [[http:/software.opensuse.org]] - Information about package/projects
 :: http://software.opensuse.org/search - Find source/binary package.
 Bugs ::
 :: https://bugzilla.novell.com - Bug tracker
 :: http://en.opensuse.org/Submit_a_Bug - Submit a bug
 Developer home ::
 :: openSUSE Build Service, here the packages are built - [[http://build.opensuse.org]]
 :: If you search the package on [[http://software.opensue.org/search]], the 'go to OBS project' takes you to the development project of this package.  This project then lists the maintainers of the package.
 :: The package change log  {{{rpm -q --changelog $PACKGE | less}}}  also reveals recent maintainers
 :: The developer community life on irc - [[http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate/IRC]]
 :: Development mailing lists - [[http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate/Mailinglists#Development_Lists]]
##  Lessons for Lizards (LfL) is a community cookbook-style book project ~-<<BR>> [[http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Lfl]]-~

 General information :: Wikipedia's WikiPedia:OpenSUSE
 :: http://www.opensuse.org/ - Homepage

== See Also ==
 * DistributionsCollaboration