--- title: openSUSE Expands AI Support with Intel NPU Driver 1.35.0... description: Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.35.0 and OpenVINO 2026.3.1 are now packaged for openSUSE Tumbleweed, Leap 16.0, and Leap 16.1, giving users access to NPU acceleration... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/opensuse-expands-ai-support-with-intel-npu-driver-1-35-0-and-openvino-2026-3-1-8eroozsob twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: openSUSE Expands AI Support with Intel NPU Driver 1.35.0 and OpenVINO 2026.3.1 | daily.dev og:description: Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.35.0 and OpenVINO 2026.3.1 are now packaged for openSUSE Tumbleweed, Leap 16.0, and Leap 16.1, giving users access to NPU acceleration... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/opensuse-expands-ai-support-with-intel-npu-driver-1-35-0-and-openvino-2026-3-1-8eroozsob og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8erOoZSob.png og:image:alt: openSUSE Expands AI Support with Intel NPU Driver 1.35.0 and OpenVINO 2026.3.1 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # openSUSE Expands AI Support with Intel NPU Driver 1.35.0 and OpenVINO 2026.3.1 **[openSUSE](https://daily.dev/sources/opensuse)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.35.0 and OpenVINO 2026.3.1 are now packaged for openSUSE Tumbleweed, Leap 16.0, and Leap 16.1, giving users access to NPU acceleration on new Intel Core Ultra processors and a modern inference stack for LLMs, computer vision, speech recognition, and local generative AI. During testing, an openSUSE Innovator identified a bug in the NPU driver's ResourceCleaner thread that caused a SIGABRT crash on startup, and submitted an upstream fix via Pull Request #142 to the official intel/linux-npu-driver project. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What version of the Intel Linux NPU driver is now packaged for openSUSE Tumbleweed and Leap 16.0/16.1? Intel Linux NPU Driver version 1.35.0 has been packaged and made available for openSUSE Tumbleweed, Leap 16.0, and Leap 16.1. It provides the infrastructure needed to use the NPU found in newer generations of Intel Core Ultra processors on these distributions. _Track distro-level driver rollouts like this one on daily.dev before enabling NPU acceleration on Linux._ ### What caused the Intel NPU driver to crash with SIGABRT on startup in some Linux environments? A bug in the ResourceCleaner, an internal thread of the NPU's Level Zero driver, caused the process to terminate with a SIGABRT during startup in certain Linux environments. The issue was identified while testing Intel NPU driver 1.35.0 on openSUSE and was fixed upstream via pull request #142 to the intel/linux-npu-driver project. _Developers debugging NPU driver crashes can follow upstream fixes like this one via daily.dev._ ### What version of OpenVINO is available for openSUSE and what can it be used for? OpenVINO 2026.3.1 packages are now available for openSUSE Tumbleweed, Leap 16.0, and Leap 16.1. It enables running inference applications across CPU, GPU, and NPU, supporting LLMs, multimodal models, computer vision, speech recognition, embeddings, quantized models, and local generative AI development. _Developers building local AI inference stacks can follow OpenVINO packaging updates on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Intel NPU Driver 1.30 Released For Linux](https://daily.dev/posts/intel-npu-driver-1-30-released-for-linux-ya8whij3m) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Intel NPU Linux Driver 1.24 Released](https://daily.dev/posts/intel-npu-linux-driver-1-24-released-muofu7tkf) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#opensuse](https://daily.dev/tags/opensuse) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/opensuse-expands-ai-support-with-intel-npu-driver-1-35-0-and-openvino-2026-3-1-8eroozsob) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"openSUSE Expands AI Support with Intel NPU Driver 1.35.0 and OpenVINO 2026.3.1","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/opensuse-expands-ai-support-with-intel-npu-driver-1-35-0-and-openvino-2026-3-1-8eroozsob","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/opensuse-expands-ai-support-with-intel-npu-driver-1-35-0-and-openvino-2026-3-1-8eroozsob"},"datePublished":"2026-08-31T07:06:31.191Z","dateModified":"2026-08-31T07:07:00.349Z","description":"Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.35.0 and OpenVINO 2026.3.1 are now packaged for openSUSE Tumbleweed, Leap 16.0, and Leap 16.1, giving users access to NPU acceleration...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/1447cd791471dd5024e9f1e864d9cda1?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/1447cd791471dd5024e9f1e864d9cda1?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"openSUSE","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"openSUSE","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/4d81d0e92717435b876f92aaa9c95d07","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/opensuse"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/opensuse-expands-ai-support-with-intel-npu-driver-1-35-0-and-openvino-2026-3-1-8eroozsob","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"open-source,linux,opensuse","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"openSUSE","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/opensuse"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"openSUSE Expands AI Support with Intel NPU Driver 1.35.0 and OpenVINO 2026.3.1"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/opensuse-expands-ai-support-with-intel-npu-driver-1-35-0-and-openvino-2026-3-1-8eroozsob#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What version of the Intel Linux NPU driver is now packaged for openSUSE Tumbleweed and Leap 16.0/16.1?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Intel Linux NPU Driver version 1.35.0 has been packaged and made available for openSUSE Tumbleweed, Leap 16.0, and Leap 16.1. 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