Clik here to view.
GeckoLinux 150 Static Plasma review - Not quite
GeckoLinux 150 was supposed to be the cure to all openSUSE Leap 15 ailments. It is not. I was expecting flawless results on all fronts, but then there were big issues with multimedia playback and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SUSE Touts Financial Growth, Hints at Future Acquisitions
SUSE will soon have a new owner, but it remains focused on easing the cloud native migration path for enterprise customers. In an interview with SDxCentral at this week’s Open Source Summit event in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SUSE Continues Working On Transactional Updates With Btrfs
While Red Hat and several other Linux vendors have either deprecated Btrfs support or at least not embraced it like they originally talked up this "next-gen file-system" years ago, SUSE has continued...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My open source career (by Cornelius Schumacher, SUSE)
My learning experience in the free software community went beyond technology. I also learned a lot about people, about how they work together, about organization, about leadership. I became a member...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Latest Tumbleweed Snapshot Brings Major Versions of Flatpak, qemu,...
Since the last openSUSE Tumbleweed update, three snapshots have been released and the latest snapshot has brought two new major versions of both Flatpak and qemu.On the heels of the Libre Application...
View ArticleClik here to view.
VIM, Xen, Git Packages Updated in This Week’s Tumbleweed Snapshots
There were a total of four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week that updated packages like VIM, Xen, Git and ImageMagick.The latest snapshot, 20180925, updated three packages. All the packages...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SUSE punts SES v5.5 out door, says storage is going software-defined and open...
Private equity-owned SUSE has released v5.5 of its software-defined, Ceph-powered Enterprise Storage (SES) platform.SES is an all-in-one object storage repository with both file and block access...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tumbleweed Gets Plasma 5.14, Frameworks 5.50
Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week brought new versions of software along with new versions of KDE’s Plasma and Frameworks as well as python-setuptools and many other packages.The most recent...
View ArticleKDE and openSUSE, Leap 15.1
KDE and openSUSE: Plasma 5.14, Qt 5.12 and morePlasma 5.14 was released with many improvements.It was planned to have it in a released in a Tumbleweed snapshot on the same day, but openQA issues...
View ArticleSUSE Joins the OpenChain Community of Conformance
SUSE Joins the OpenChain Community of ConformanceThe OpenChain Project, which builds trust in open source by making open source license compliance simpler and more consistent, announces it has welcomed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Raspberry Pi: Hands-on with Kali, openSUSE, Fedora and Ubuntu MATE Linux
It has been nearly two years since I tried Fedora, Manjaro and Ubuntu MATE on the Raspberry Pi 2 & 3, and there have been a lot of changes since then. Most for the better, such as the introduction...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is openSUSE the Developers’ Linux Distro Holy Grail?
With changes to SUSE over its history, the official chameleon logo seems pretty appropriate. In 2015, the openSUSE project restructured, creating two versions: Leap and Tumbleweed. Tumbleweed is a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
openSUSE Develops Legal Review System
The open-source community has a new project designed to help Linux/GNU distributions with the legal review process of licenses.The new project called Cavil is legal review system that is collectively...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gimp Goes Vertical, OSTree Preps for Changes with systemd
The release of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been steadily coming out this month and some of the more recent packages in the snapshots are bringing about significant changes.Three Tumbleweed...
View ArticleRed Hat and SUSE on Servers
IBM's Red Hat acquisition could be "disastrous", says Puppet execNigel Kersten says claims that the deal is a cloud play are "ridiculous" IBM shocked the tech industry earlier this year when it snapped...
View ArticleKDE: Usability & Productivity, Updating KDE on openSuSE 42.3 to Leap 15.0
This week in Usability & Productivity, part 46This week in Usability & Productivity was full of bug squashing and user interface polishing! We landed a lot of nice fixes and improvements rather...
View ArticleServer: Five Ways to Look at IBM Buying Red Hat, SUSE Talking OpenStack
Purple Reign: Five ways to look at IBM buying Red HatHaving spent decades writing about the fallout of enterprise technology mergers and acquisitions I think I can say, with expert confidence, that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
You Can Now Run openSUSE Tumbleweed on Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ with Xfce Desktop
Meet EXTON OpSuS Rpi, a variant of Arne Exton's old EXTON OpSuS Tumbleweed distribution optimized for Raspberry Pi devices. It's a "remaster” of the official OpenSuSE Tumbleweed ISO image for...
View ArticleSUSE: SDS, Istio, SUSE Manager and More
Protect Your Time and Money from the Data ExplosionAs today’s data explosion continues, there’s really no question that for the IT manager or anyone in a similar role, software-defined storage (SDS) is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tumbleweed Rolls with Package Updates of Git, Virtualbox, OpenSSH
openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed had a total of five snapshots this week and is preparing for an update to the KDE Plasma 5.14.4 packages in forthcoming snapshots.The five Tumbleweed snapshots...
View Article