SUSE Leftovers

Say Hello to openSUSE Leap

We are happy to announce that Linode now offers openSUSE Leap. Leap is the continuation of openSUSE’s 13.x branch with version 42.1 marking Leap’s debut in November 2015. Leap has a long-term commitment from SUSE as part of a new direction for the distribution.

SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 2 Now in Open Beta

Code Together - (Come Together parody)

Tony Jones: Introduction to performance analysis on openSUSE using Perf

The perf tool was introduced with kernel version 2.6.31 but several major releases later, knowing which of its many features to use when and how to interpret the results is still challenging for many users. In this talk I will present a brief overview of the performance counters provided by modern x86 hardware followed by a discussion of the various monitoring capabilities offered by perf, when to use which and how to begin to interpret the results.