openSUSE Tumbleweed on the Banana Pi BPI-M2 ZERO
I recently got myself a Banana Pi M2 Zero board while ordering other stuff at an electronics distributor. The M2 zero is the same form factor and feature set as the Raspberry Pi Zero W (the GPIO pin...
View ArticleOpenSUSE and KDE Leftovers
OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 essential post-install tweaksThere you go. Hopefully, this guide will make your openSUSE experience more pleasant, more accessible. As I've outlined in my review, the updates part is...
View ArticleopenSUSE Community Publishes End of Year Survey Results
The openSUSE community has published the End of the Year Community Survey results.The results provided some significant information about the project’s tools, its distributions, the demographics of the...
View ArticleOpenSUSE Tumbleweed Updates
Tumbleweed Rolls Into The New Year - openSUSE NewsThe holidays might be over and the new year is here, but users of openSUSE Tumbleweed didn’t see any difference in the amount of snapshots released...
View ArticleopenSUSE Tumbleweed ARM Adds Support for Raspberry Pi 400 and Raspberry Pi 4 CM
While this new openSUSE Tumbleweed ARM snapshot may look like an ordinary one, the biggest change is the fat that it now supports Raspberry Pi Foundation’s recently unveiled Raspberry Pi 400 personal...
View ArticleXfce 4.16 Desktop Lands in openSUSE Tumbleweed, Download Now
If you’ve been waiting for Xfce 4.16 to land in openSUSE Tumbleweed, I have some good news today as the wait is over and you can install the desktop environment right now from distribution’s software...
View ArticleSUSE/OpenSUSE Leftovers
OAK compatibility with all openSUSEWhile fcused on the openSUSE Innovator initiative as an openSUSE member and official Intel oneAPI innovator, I tested the OAK AI Kit device on openSUSE Leap 15.1,...
View ArticleGNOME, VLC, Zypper update in Tumbleweed
Five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week.The snapshots updated the GNOME desktop, GStreamer, VLC and a couple text editors.An update of bash 5.1.4 arrived in the latest snapshot...
View ArticleTop 6 Reasons Why You Should Use OpenSUSE
Some of the most popular Linux distributions lay in three categories: Ubuntu/Debian-based distros, Fedora, and Arch Linux. Today, I will give you an insight into one distribution you might not have...
View ArticleopenSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2021/03
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,Shame on me for giving you the information about the changes in Tumbleweed during this week only now, but at least technically this is still the review of Week 03....
View ArticleVICE v3.5 | Versatile Commodore Emulator on openSUSE
I recently received a little bit of a ribbing, I suppose, via email about not writing about emulators that were not of the Nintendo vintage. This is a fair criticism, I probably spend more time messing...
View ArticleGeckoLinux Does OpenSuse Better
GeckoLinux is a US-based Linux distribution. Its focus on polish and out-of-the-box usability on the desktop is a time-honored draw for using this Linux choice.OpenSuse is among the easiest Linux...
View ArticleopenSUSE "Leap" 15.2 - Any Good?
This is a review I've been wanting to write since forever. Having tried many iterations of SUSE Linux over its long life before, during and after the Novell era, it always left me feeling ambivalent....
View ArticleOpenSUSE: YaST Development Sprint and Digest of YaST Development Sprint
Digest of YaST Development Sprint 116Let’s start with an installer improvement quite some people was waiting for. Both openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise can use either wicked or NetworkManager to...
View ArticleRHEL no-cost* vs openSUSE Leap
Ever since Red Hat announced that they are changing the development model of CentOS and making it an upstream project rather than downstream, it left many CentOS users frowning. No matter what argument...
View ArticleOpenSUSE Leftovers
RubyGems, sudo, libvirt update in TumbleweedThree openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released since the last update.Several RubyGems were updated in the first two snapshots of the week and an update to...
View ArticleopenSUSE Leap 15.1 Reached End of Life, Upgrade to openSUSE Leap 15.2 Now
Released in May 2019, openSUSE Leap 15.1 was based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 15 Service Pack (SP) 1 sources and powered by the Linux 4.19 LTS kernel, and shipped with many interesting changes,...
View ArticleSpack, now available in Tumbleweed
The configurable Python-based HPC package manager Spack is now an Official package in openSUSE Tumbleweed, which currently has the 0.16.0 version of Spack.If you work with scientific software, you...
View ArticleGetting a package from openSUSE to SLE
I was looking forward to updating a package (enchant) with a backported patch from upstream and wanted it to be included in both SLE offerings and openSUSE. I’m used to working within the community...
View ArticleWayland, firewalld, PulseAudio update in Tumbleweed
Among some of the more known packages to update this week in Tumbleweed were firewalld, Flatpak, Wayland, LibreOffice, PulseAudio and both Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird.Two out the five snapshots...
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