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SFaulken

@SFaulken@kbin.social

openSUSE Developer/Maintainer/Member/Whatever.
I do things with openSUSE. Not that I'm particularly good at any of them =P

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Honestly, I wouldn't make any specific recommendation. Because when you do, you instantly become most peoples personal support technician, when they can't sort something out.

I'd probably make the general suggestions of Fedora/Silverblue/Kinoite, openSUSE Tumbleweed/Aeon/Kalpa, and maybe Pop!_OS if somebody put a gun to my head. But no recommendations.

How many people here have actually used XMPP?

With all the current discussion about the threat that Instagram Threads has on the Fediverse and that article about how Google Embrace Extend Extinguished XMPP, I was left very confused, since that was the first time I’ve heard that Gchat supported XMPP or what XMPP actually is, and I’ve had my personal Gmail since beta (no,...

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It's still around. I'm using it right now, in fact. Makes for a pretty damn good phone service as well, in conjunction with JMP

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That's XMMP different thing =P

frigidcode, to openSUSE
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If you spun up infrastructure fresh, would you use or ? Also why did you pick the distro that you did?

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@frigidcode For my non-commercial personal purposes? Some version of openSUSE MicroOS.

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@frigidcode It's not something I'm likely to have to deal with, but as I've been in the openSUSE ecosystem for over a decade now, I'd probably be talking to somebody at SUSE about one of their offerings, with a preference for a product like SLE Micro, for individual server setups, or Rancher for distributed stuff.

Open source developers - have the recent moves by RedHat changed your opinion of using non-GPL licenses?

The new license terms for RHEL are structured to stop subscribers from exercising their rights under the GPL. For now they are still providing source code albeit in a less convenient form, but technically they only need to do this for GPL licenses packages and they could remove code for BSD /MIT / Apache licensed packages....

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No, this changes nothing for me.

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The things appear to be back up/coming back up

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So they've got one of the LLM bots answering posts?

Nouvanity, to openSUSE
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Finally got how i like it, after "debloating" it (and accidentally deleting sddm in the process, oops) and reinstalling almost everything as flatpaks, its finally done.

now onto it.

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@Nouvanity

@autolycus

There are easier ways to do what you just did, although I would argue that most people haven't a clue what they're talking about when they say something is "bloated"

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The only thing that really makes this one "Official" is that I am applying the Code of Conduct here.

The other two moderators are/were also moderators for r/openSUSE, and other communications channels.

The lemmy.world community can be just as "Official" as this one, if they enforce the CoC.

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It's the Fediverse. Part of the whole point of a distributed network is to decentralize things, so there is no "single point of failure", the existence of c/opensuse on lemmy.world, or any other lemmy instance, or even m/openSUSE on any other kbin instance is perfectly fine. These are the early days of "reddit-like" federated services, and the interoperability will sort itself out in time.

I'd personally like to see the communities on other servers commit to the same rules this one does, but it isn't actually necessary, it's just the very basic requirement to be considered "Official" Not that Official means much in the openSUSE Project. It's just the nature of us.

Initial poking at putting together an LXQt-Wayland desktop for openSUSE (mastodon.naturalorder.me)

Woo, new adventure today. I got a wild hair, and decided to try and package a workable LXQt-Wayland for openSUSE, using labwc as the compositor. So far I can get the compositor to start? So that's progress, I suppose. Using the work done at https://github.com/stefonarch/LXQt-Wayland-files to see if I can't get something working....

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Huh. I knew AMD currently had an edge in Gaming, but I didn't realise it was that high.

I switched to AMD on linux for non-gaming related reasons, but what is it that Intel is doing that's killing their market share? I mean, I know their CPU's don't suck, but are they just that bad?

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Uh. You just described Aeon and Kalpa.

Theeo123, to openSUSE
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https://linuxiac.com/suse-about-red-hat-recent-actions/

SUSE has issued a letter in response to Redhats.... lets call it what it is, bullshit.

SUSE affirms that it places it's Open-source Values above profit margins, and encouraged, access, modification and distribution at all levels

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@penguin42

@Theeo123

https://sources.suse.com/?C=M;O=D

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My wife has one, it's a great machine. I just haven't decided whether or not I really need one yet.

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plex
pihole
mastodon
nextcloud
minecraft (vanilla and modded)
synapse (matrix)
A handful of bots for my discord server
probably some other stuff, If I really thought about it.

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Just got done re-reading Anansi Boys, and started a re-read of American Gods last night. (Yes, I know, I'm reading them out of order, shush.)

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Yeah, Neil Gaiman. It's supposedly a sequel, I guess, to AG, but there's not really much of a connection I'm aware of.

And yeah, Sandman was great.

gnuplusmatt, to openSUSE
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is it possible to compile your own ? Or ?

doesn't appear to be a bug for bug replacement and only has 5 years of LTS, with 10 if you pay...

This is a genuine question, I can't find any talk of this when discussing code drama the last few days

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@gnuplusmatt The closest you're going to get is openSUSE Leap. Which is mostly identical to SLE. (I don't actually know what the fundamental differences are on your basic install)

CentOS Stream for HPC work?

I've been running an HPC system for a science group for a while now and have built a couple of different systems based on common HPC infrastructures (ROCKS or Open HPC). These have been built on top of the rebuilt RHEL distros (mostly CentOS), but I don't really need the level of stability that these provide and would actually...

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I mean, if you know the software you need to have, to make it work on RHEL, It might take a bit of work on your part, but I can't imagine getting it installed on CentOS Stream will be that onerous a task.

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Uh. The relationship between CentOS Stream and RHEL is a bit murkier to me. I'd be lying to you if I said I fully understood how that code flow works.

For openSUSE the flow is "openSUSE Tumbleweed" -> "SUSE Linux Enterprise" -> "openSUSE Leap"

Everytime SUSE creates a new version/service pack of SLE (SLE 15 SP4, to use an example) the sources for that version are provided to openSUSE, and a new version of Leap is released (openSUSE Leap 15.4)

I don't actually work on Leap much, nor am I a SUSE Employee, so there are probably some minutae in that process that I'm missing, but that's the basic workflow.

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That's a very emotional take indeed, you obviously feel strongly.

What, exactly, is RedHat stealing here? Are they deleting code from upstream git repos?

I mean, if you have a moral issue with the way RedHat chooses to structure their customer agreements, you're more than welcome to not use their products. I generally feel like this is a mistake on RedHats part myself, but it doesn't affect my life in any meaningful way.

RedHat is going to continue to contribute back upstream, they're going to continue to support Fedora, and provide CentOS Stream for to community to use.

Rocky, Alma, Oracle and other projects that were rebuilding RHEL sources will have to sort out how they want to proceed.

There are a hell of a lot more evil things happening in the world to get pissed off about.

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That's how you read the GPL, you might be right.

When I read the GPL, and I have read it a number of times over the years, while I might find what RedHat has chosen to do to be distasteful, I don't find it in violation of the GPL. It's entirely possible that I'm wrong.

But I'm not a legal expert by any stretch of the imagination, are you?

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