Server: Decentralisation, SUSE and Red Hat
Decentralizing the Data Center: Hybrid Cloud, Multi-Cloud and moreBut how did we get to cloud computing in the first place? While these are not the only reasons, cost, availability and disaster...
View ArticleSUSE drops OpenStack Cloud
For years, SUSE, the European Linux and open-source company, was one of the OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud program's champions. No longer. SUSE has decided to cease production of new...
View ArticleAdvanced Encryption Options Land in the YaST Partitioner
As you may know, so far the YaST Partitioner offered an “Encrypt Device” checkbox when creating or editing a block device. If such box is marked, the Partitioner asks for an encryption password and...
View ArticleKDE and openSUSE, YaST Development Sprint
KDE and openSUSE: Plasma 5.17, Qt 5.14 and moreThe Beta version of Plasma 5.17 was released with many new features and improvements such as per-screen fractional scaling on Wayland, a new User...
View ArticleSUSE: Highlights of OpenSUSE Asia Summit, Maintaining Enterprise Linux...
Highlights of openSUSE Asia Summit 2019The openSUSE.Asia Summit is one of the big events for the openSUSE community (i.e. both contributors and users) in Asia. Those who normally communicate online can...
View ArticleDodging derailment by SUSE, OpenStack Train is scheduled to arrive this week
With its OpenInfrastructure summit mere weeks away, the OpenStack gang is emitting its next release in the form of "Train" with a focus on data protection and machine learning.The release comes after...
View ArticleKubernetes at SUSE and Red Hat
Eirinix: Writing Extensions for EiriniAt the recent Cloud Foundry Summit EU in the Netherlands, Vlad Iovanov and Ettore Di Giacinto of SUSE presented a talk about Eirini — a project that allows the...
View ArticleSUSE/OpenSUSE Leftovers
Plasma, Applications, Frameworks arrive in Latest Tumbleweed SnapshotThe most recent snapshot, 20191014, updated several packages around KDE’s projects. Plasma 5.17.0 arrived in the snapshot and there...
View ArticleEvents: openSUSE Asia Summit, EmacsConf and LaKademy
openSUSE Asia Summit 2019: Summit PreparationActually, this journey begins in 2015. I attending Indonesia Linux Conference, that’s the first time I meet people from openSUSE Indonesia. Mr. Edwin...
View ArticleSUSE/OpenSUSE: Ceph and OpenSUSE's Tumbleweed Progress
Can I deploy Ceph on older hardware?You just retired a bunch of servers and disk arrays, but before you place hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars’ worth of equipment on the curb, you’re...
View ArticleSUSE Leftovers
Digital Transformation – it’s dead, Jim?However, digital transformation is like life – it’s an ongoing process, not something you just do once and then it’s done and dusted. A large part of digital...
View ArticleEvents: Cloud Foundry Summit, OpenSUSE Asia and FSFE System Hackers
The Importance of Culture in Software DevelopmentA few weeks ago at Cloud Foundry Summit, I had the chance to grab a few of our partners and talk about how culture plays a part in the software...
View ArticleSUSE/OpenSUSE: Name Change, YaST, MicroOS and More
openSUSE project: vote on name changeThe openSUSE project informed it's members by mail to vote for a potential name change. The vote ends on 07.11.2019 at 23:59 UTC. In a Wiki article the openSUSE...
View ArticleGNOME, LLVM, Samba, Ruby Packages Update in Tumbleweed
Snapshot 20191018 provided minor updates for both Mozilla Firefox 69.0.3 and Thunderbird 68.1.2. The update to Firefox fixed a bug that prompted Yahoo mail users to download files when clicking on...
View ArticleSUSE/OpenSUSE Leftovers
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2019/43 This week it has been another three snapshots released upon the users. There were some updates, as usual, and a larger stack has been removed from...
View ArticleSUSE/OpenSUSE: Work by Thomas Zimmermann and OpenSUSE Leap 15.0 EOL
ASpeed DRM Driver Ported To Atomic Mode-SettingThe "AST" DRM/KMS display driver that can be used with the many servers supporting ASpeed display hardware now has work pending for atomic mode-setting....
View ArticleTumbleweed Gets New OpenSSH Major Version
Snapshot 20191027, brought an update to KDE Plasma 5.17.1. The bugfix update fixed the Mouse KCM acceleration profile on X11 on the Plasma Desktop and had a fix for KWIN with visibility of the Context...
View ArticleSUSE: High Availability Cluster Services, Oracle Server Infrastructure and...
SUSE High Availability Cluster Services – How to stop, start or view the statusThis blog post aims to summarize the starting and stopping options available for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) High...
View ArticleSUSE, Fedora and GNOME News/Developments
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2019/44While some folks are enjoying/celebrating Halloween, Tumbleweed stayed away from being scary. Even though there have been 5 snapshots (1024, 1025, 1027,...
View ArticleOpenSUSE Project Name Change Vote - Results
OpenSUSE Project Name Change Vote - ResultsDear all, The vote has ended and the results have been released. Do we change the project name? Yes 42 No 225 Regards, Ish Sookun openSUSE votes not to change...
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