presented by Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen

Join SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen as he opens the openSUSE Conference 2025 in Nuremberg. In this brief welcome, DP will congratulate the community on its 20th anniversary - highlighting the critical role of open source collaboration and innovation in shaping the future of software innovation. He will specifically emphasize the immense importance of the European open source software developer...

presented by rickspencer

Rick Spencer has a passion for leading teams in the creation of amazing software. He strives to create clarity of vision, passion for quality, and user-centered decision making to both small and large software development teams. Rick is a General Manager with SUSE since January 2024. He has held positions at InfluxData, Canonical Ltd. and Microsoft

presented by Christian Stankowic

Uyuni offers two powerful APIs (XMLRPC and JSON) to integrate additional third-party applications. This talk demonstrates two integrations that allow users driving infrastructure automation:

• an Ansible collection that integrates Uyuni into Ansible and Event-driven Ansible. It allows controlling managed systems and enables users to cont...

presented by Hans de Raad

By Brenno de Winter and Hans de Raad

The regulatory landscape in Europe is evolving rapidly. The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and the NIS2 Directive introduce mandatory security, risk management, and transparency obligations for digital products and services—including open source components used commercially. While many of these regulations aim to strengthen cybersecurity and supply chain t...

presented by pheinlein

When proprietary products are discontinued or bought up by competitors, your own (decision-making) freedom can quickly become precarious. A discontinued product forces you to migrate, incurs costs, and imposes unwelcome decisions.

Not so with open source software: it offers me the freedom to develop the code further at any time, either on my own or with new partners, and to set up new suppor...

presented by Anežka Lábusová

In this talk, I’ll share my personal experience using Linux as a student, from high school to university. I’ll talk about what it is like, what challenges I face, and how I manage day-to-day study tasks with Linux.

presented by Douglas DeMaio

Meet outside for the group photo

presented by lachmanfrantisek

Are you in search of RPM-based CI for your project hosted on GitHub or GitLab? Allow us to introduce Packit, the upstream integration tailored specifically for RPM distributions. Initially conceived for Fedora, Packit now extends its capabilities to encompass the entire RPM family.

In this presentation, we will explore Packit and how to use it for your project.

Atte...

presented by mslacken

AI in the form of Large Languages Models are good in transforming language based descriptions into actions. The idea of kowalski is to use the (openSUSE) documentation enriched with the actual state of the system to create concrete solutions for the user. https://github.com/openSUSE/kowalski

presented by Dan Čermák

When using tools like RPM or Zypper for updating packages, there is a risk of incomplete updates or breaking the running system. To overcome these challenges, we have developed container-snap, a prototype plugin designed to deliver atomic OS updates that are fully applied or rolled back without compromising the system's state.

container-snap leverages OCI images as the source for...

presented by jsrain

Last three years I have talked at this conference about SUSE’s plans, the products to come, as well as the technology included.

As over the time the plans are adjusted, this session will summarise the state of the matters, SUSE's plan for upcoming product releases and, most importantly, what it means for openSUSE Leap and Micro.

presented by Lubos Kocman

openSUSE Leap is a "traditional" community distribution built on binary packages from SLES. In this session, we'll dive into the recently released openSUSE Leap 16.0 Beta, exploring its new features and changes. We'll also cover the migration process from Leap 15, including any challenges or considerations to keep in mind.

presented by Robert Richardson, Oliver Kurz, livdywan, Tina Müller, mkittler, gpathak

We, the QE tools team within SUSE, would like to host a interactive discussion round focusing on openQA and Quality Assurance (QA) in general. Rather than another "getting started" workshop, this session will be an opportunity for openQA users and developers to engage in an open exchange about testing methodologies, challenges, and best practices.

We will kick off the session with a short pr...

presented by Bernhard M.

How is Slowroll doing?

What happened in the last year?

What challenges are ahead?

Let me tell ya...

presented by Onuralp SEZER, Onur Can KARAMAN

Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful tools, but running them locally unlocks new possibilities—enhancing privacy, reducing costs, and allowing full customization. In this talk, we’ll explore how to set up and optimize LLMs on your machine, leveraging open-source models and efficient inference techniques. We’ll then take it a step further by turning these models into intelligent agents that...

presented by Ram Mohan Rao Chukka, Shravika Perikari

This session explores the utilization of parallelism and rolling updates within Ansible playbooks to expedite deployment processes and facilitate faster releases. As organizations strive for agility and efficiency in their software delivery pipelines, optimizing deployment strategies becomes crucial. By leveraging Ansible's parallel execution capabilities and implementing rolling updates, teams...

presented by Filippo Bonazzi, Denys Kondratenko

openSUSEway is a Desktop Environment based on Sway - a tiling Wayland compositor.

We have presented openSUSEway a few times at past openSUSE conferences, most recently last year.

This year we would like to expand our community outreach by holding an open workshop. We will give a brief presentation about the openSUSEway desktop environment, th...

presented by Adam Majer, Adrian Schröter, Stephan Barth

Overview of Git package workflow with OBS

presented by Wolfgang Engel

SUSE Package Hub delivers open source packages to enterprise users in combination with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. This talk covers the basic understanding how Package Hub is designed to work since it is sharing a collection of same sources with the corresponding openSUSE Leap version. Furthermore we will show the planned future, what is going to change, and how to contribute.

presented by Bernhard M.

During the last year, I have spent several months on a project, that was sponsored by a grant from the NLnet NGI0 initiative. It is about an operating system, that only has packages that can be reproduced anywhere anytime bit-by-bit. I call it R-B-OS - the Reproducible-Builds-Operating-System.

Last year when we had https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSC24/program/proposals/4378 , most ...

presented by Raúl Osuna

In this session, a brief explanation about what Uyuni is and what it can achieve will be shared as an introduction for newbies or as a knowledge reminder for the part of the audience already knowing the product. This part of the session is mainly a summary of last year's session. Secondly, we will try to summarize the changes that have happened within the last year in Uyuni, in the period of t...

presented by Tobias Görgens

The Steam Deck has transformed mobile gaming — but in one crucial area, it still lags behind: security. Until now, no Steam Deck-focused Linux distribution has offered full disk encryption by default, leaving sensitive user data unprotected.

In this talk, I present Yuga Linux, a distribution built on openSUSE technologies, tailored specifically for the Steam Deck with a strong focus on secur...

presented by Dan Čermák

To ease the pain of testing container images, we’ve developed the pytest_container plugin for pytest. The plugin makes it possible to use pytest to perform tests on containers and software inside containers. You don’t have to take care of pulling images, building them, or picking ports on the host. You just describe your container setup and pass it to a test function....

presented by Ish Sookun

The current process of openSUSE membership application can be cumbersome and overall approval deem lengthy or inconsistent. This is due to way applications are made, some times information is lacking, there are back-and-forths, before membership officials can finalise an application. The current state of membership management has its limitations and it is not friendly, either for the members, t...

REPLACEMENT Please note that this talk replaces Cognitive and Self-Adaptive System for Effective Distributed-Tracing (using Jaeger, Open Tracing)

presented by Paolo Perego

Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes to keep your favorite open-source projects (relatively) secure? Spoiler alert: it's not magic (mostly)!

This talk is a peek into the world of a security engineer who spends their days auditing code, hunting down vulnerabilities, and trying to make the open-source world a little less "Oops!" and a little more "Awesome!".

We'll dive into:

• Wha...

presented by Oscar Barrios Torrero

How do you scale quality in a fast-moving open source project like Uyuni?

In this talk, I’ll walk you through our journey adopting TestOps practices to bring automation, visibility, and resilience into our quality engineering process.

We’ll explore how infrastructure automation with Terraform and Salt laid the foundation for consistent, on-demand testing environments. From there, we intr...

presented by Dan Čermák

The Open Source Network (OSN) is an employee network at SUSE dedicated to fostering open source contributions and increasing the mindshare of open source within the company. At our meetup, you can engage with fellow network members and open source enthusiasts, learn about OSN's initiatives and how to get involved, Discover opportunities for contributing to open source projects, and gain insight...

presented by Simon Lees

With the types of products and projects that we regularly work on many of us don't get alot of exposure to new fancy technology, this talk aims to give a quick introduction to one of these topics, web assembly.

As some background, For the last year i've been helping to port Little Piggy Tracker (LGPT) a clone of the LSDJ audio software for Game Boy to various handheld devices. At the same ...

presented by Adrian Schröter, Stephan Barth, Adam Majer

Hands on experience with Git package workflow and OBS

Assumptions: We assume that you know basic GitHub workflow of fork, clone, commit, push and pull request.

Please sign-up for the workshop on Gitea here: https://src.opensuse.org/testing/_ObsPrj/issues/4

presented by Paolo Perego

Ever wished your security toolkit felt more like the Starship Enterprise bridge – where you handle strategy while your computer executes complex tasks? This talk chronicles the development of Nightcrawler, a command-line HTTP/HTTPS proxy and scanner designed to find low-hanging web security fruit, built in a unique "four-hands" collaboration between a human researcher and a Large Language Model...

presented by Johannes Segitz

Sign GPG keys (and potentially verify other ways of communication).

If you're a long time member you might remember that we did this a while ago already. This time we'll switch up the mode a bit because some parts proved to be slightly problematic last time. We'll do it differently this time because having a central list caused issues with mail clients wrangling the list, which then caused ...

presented by Shibi Ramachandran, Ram Mohan Rao Chukka

Let's discover how to extend ArgoCD's capabilities by building a sophisticated drift detection and auto-remediation system. We'll demonstrate how to combine ArgoCD's Resource Hooks, Custom Health Checks, and the ApplicationSet controller to create an intelligent system that not only detects configuration drift but automatically resolves it based on defined policies. Through live coding, we'll b...

presented by Ish Sookun

At oSC23, I presented the challenges that we, a small community of openSUSE users, faced back home when building our first mirror in Mauritius. Two years later, I'm sharing updates on how we're expanding further and adding a second mirror in Mauritius to host more mirror content for the local community.

We still face challenges, which I will sh...

presented by Rudraksh Karpe

The exponentially growing AI/ML and LLMs advancements bring concerns about privacy, as there is a risk of data exposure to online LLMs service providers. Setting up LLMs in-house requires a high computational cost which is a major obstacle for businesses across various sectors such as Retail, Healthcare, Finance, etc. These industries seek to leverage the power of LLMs to drive ...

presented by Onuralp SEZER

In this talk, we’ll explore how Supervision streamlines common computer vision tasks, from loading datasets to annotating and analyzing images or videos. We’ll also discuss its lightweight nature, making it an ideal choice for running AI-powered vision applications on resource-constrained devices. Through practical demonstrations, attendees will learn how to set up and optimize Supervision for ...

presented by Klaas Freitag, Cornelius Schumacher

How does openSUSE look from the outside? In this talk, two SUSE expats share how their Geeko hearts started to ache when they were no longer part of the inner circle.

Where are openSUSE's strengths, and how are they shining? Where does it desperately need to improve to maintain relevance? There is so much excellence across so many disciplines to be presented to communities outside SUSE's roo...

presented by Jan Pleskač

This workshop will be lead by Pavel Polach.

This practical workshop will be about developing with TROPIC01, the first open secure element.

Outcome of this workshop: New TROPIC01 USB devkit for developing secure solutions: You will get working USB device, ready to be used to harden various authentication protocols by offloading crypto operations to TROPIC01 cryptography chip (key generat...

presented by Bernhard M.

Want to talk a few minutes about interesting stuff? => Add yourself to https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/lightning-talks-osc2025

presented by Douglas DeMaio

The board will be available during this time to present and provide information for the project.

presented by Douglas DeMaio

We will get started with the BBQ and start to celebrate 20 years of openSUSE. Come to this event and celebrate 20 years of freedom, stability, and fun with openSUSE.

presented by Danilo Spinella

openSUSE uses RPM for its own packaging needs, with macros on their own on top. However, the distributions using RPMs are just a couple compared to the vast Linux ecosystem. How are other distributions handling packaging? Are they using bash scripts, functions, or even declarative languages?

This talk will give a rundown of the different approaches that have been more successful in buil...

presented by Nico Krapp, marv7000

Framework Laptops are one of the most fascinating hardware projects of the last years for Open Source enthusiasts. They have first-class Linux support, although officially just for Fedora and Ubuntu. In this talk I want to highlight the work done in the openSUSE community to enable and support these Laptops on our own, from hardware enablement to packaging applications. All with the goal of be...

presented by livdywan

If you are neurodivergent, looked into topics like ADHD or Autism or simply curious this might be the session for you. No prior knowledge required.

I'll bring various fidget toys and talk a little bit about stimming as a means to balance emotions and physical energy. This is an open chat where everyone has a chance to chime in and share their own thoughts. This time we w...

presented by Alex Bissessur

After certain events caused massive upheaval in the virtualisation landscape, many companies using that technology have found themselves dropped into the deep end, with skyrocketing infrastructure costs and furious upper management. Promising a stark opposite to high costs, limited flexibility, and vendor lock-in, Harvester takes the stage.

Harvester is an open source hyperconverged infras...

presented by Jay Michalska

We all know OBS, but what if we knew it just a little bit better. Contributing to the service is easy, as long as you understand how. This talk will focus on that.

presented by Paulo Gomes

This talk will explore how qubesome applies GitOps principles to manage desktop environments. Defining and configuring your Window managers and workloads, which are then later executed as non-root containers, enabling a secure and flexible experience for managing your version controlled setup.

We will look into splitting configuration and state, enabling uneventful transition between machine...

presented by Sarah Julia Kriesch

IBM Z & LinuxONE is the hardware behind the architecture s390x for Big Endian systems. Also, openSUSE is built and maintained for it. You will receive an overview of the most essential differences between x86 and s390x. Additionally, all new or future planned features are explained. Finally, you get an introduction, how you can add s390x with openSUSE zSystems as an additional architecture for ...

presented by Bernhard M.

There are FLOSS 3D-printers with FLOSS slicer software for low budget, that produce decent quality.

Here we can exchange tips and tricks about how to get started and how to improve.