Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for February 2024. This month we get one more day in February because of Leap year, but here is what we have for the month. This blog aims to provide readers with an overview of the key changes, improvements and issues addressed in openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots throughout the...
I am supposing this will not work - simply using dd to copy the booted disk /dev/sda for example to a file on an external hard drive. This would not be a good back as too many system file would be missed. right?
Like many open-source projects, the Uyuni Project has a long tradition of fostering community engagement and open dialogue, which is why those who are interested in configuration management should consider joining the Uyuni Community Hours scheduled for Feb. 24 at 15:00 UTC....
For those of you that haven't played with, or find the online documentation for containerizing your workloads to be a bit intimidating, I wrote a blog post/How To on putting together a container, and setting up the systemd services to manage it. Hope it's helpful to folks....
Explore the fundamentals of RPM packaging in Episode 2 of our openSUSE Community Workshops that starts with a simple 'Hello World' program. Guided by openSUS...
This week, Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch talk with Shawn W Dunn about openSUSE Kalpa, the atomic version of openSUSE Tumbleweed, with a KDE twist. What exactly do we mean by an Atomic desktop? Is …
I feel my system is perpetually bloated, and try to maintain what applications I have installed but always seem to veer off into new applications or python modules and what ever else....
In this session, we will delve into the basics of utilizing the Open Build Service (OBS) and the osc command-line tool, using a practical example of a versio...
The openSUSE community is pleased to announce that it will have short sessions aimed at encouraging people on how to contribute to the project. A group of vo...
There’s a few packages that I use that I have created personal patches for. When one of these packages gets updated I need to manually change the PKGBUILD to the new version, SHA, etc. Is there any way to have a local patch applied to a package every time a new version of the package is release?
OK, I’m a bit confused at the moment. I was ware that Ubuntu is selling subscriptions. I was aware that some security updates required subscription plans; BUT I was under the impression this was for extended support (i.e. after 5 years for a LTS version) or maybe for less frequently used packages beyond what the core...
I’ve started looking at Ansible to manage all the laptops, VMs, SBCs that I have running Arch Got the ol’ pacman installs / updates working fine, but I’m having some problems understanding how to setup AUR to install some of those packages....
New debian user here. I’m using sway and have a script in my waybar config to look for upgrades and indicate if any are available. However, it typically doesn’t find anything because I first need to run a sudo apt update first....