Solus 4.1 — a review
Solus 4.1 was released in January. Here is the release announcement. I have experimented with Solus since release 1.0 in 2015. I like the simple elegance of its desktop. On the other hand, I would...
View ArticleAn update on openSUSE installs
On my last post about Tumbleweed installs, I noted two serious problems: installs using the live media do not work correctly; a weak password encryption method is used. I have since done some more...
View ArticleA look at Solus 4.0
A few days ago, I saw the announcement of Solus 4.0. Or, more accurately, I saw the listing at Distrowatch, and followed their link to the announcement. I had been watching for this. I’ve been...
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My Tumbleweed install for December
I have not been doing monthly Tumbleweed installs for a while. But this month I have done several, for various reasons. I will report on the most interesting install. Well, at least, the install...
View ArticleA Tumbleweed install, and notes on Leap 15.0
Since my last post on Leap 15.0, Build 139.1 was released. It was time for a new install, so I downloaded the iso. And then I installed to a virtual machine. I ran into some interesting bugs. It told...
View ArticleGeckoLinux has been updated to 180107
Yesterday, I reported on GeckoLinux. And I found a few problems. I’m happy to say that the maintainer noticed my report, and has provided an updated release 423.180107 to correct those problems....
View ArticleGeckoLinux 423.180105 — a review
[Note: please see addendum at the end of this post.] Gecko Linux is based on openSUSE. The new release was just announced, so I thought I would give it a try. The version number 423.180105, indicates...
View ArticleTumbleweed install for Jan. 2018
There have been several Tumbleweed snapshots over the last few days. But today we saw the first with a 2018 snapshot date. So I decided to do a test install. Downloading As usual, I used “aria2c” to...
View ArticleHandling multiple openSUSE version with UEFI
There are times when you want to have several versions of openSUSE on the same computer. For example, on one of my computers I have: openSUSE Leap 42.3 (this is what I mainly use); openSUSE Tumbleweed...
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OpenSUSE Leap 15 — an early look
Work on Leap 15 is underway. There was a short discussion on the factory mailing list, beginning HERE. Two months after my last status update Leap 15 is almost rolling. Following SLE 15 I’d like to...
View ArticleSolus booting woes
Solus is a nicely themed linux distro. I particularly liked the Budgie desktop, which comes from the Solus team. Solus would not be my personal choice, because I’m a command line type of person and...
View ArticleInstall Tumbleweed into existing VM
Last month, I created a Tumbleweed Virtual Machine (or VM), using KVM. Yesterday’s project was to install into that existing VM. I wanted a clean install, retaining “/home” but reformatting...
View ArticleCreating a virtual machine
In my previous post, I explained how I setup KVM. Today, I’ll describe creating virtual machines that run under KVM. Creating with Yast The easiest way to do this with openSUSE, is to use Yast. Click...
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Linux multi-boot part 2 (booting)
In yesterday’s post, I discussed ways of having multiple linux installs on that same computer, using my laptop as an example. Today, I continue with that, but mostly concentrate on the details of...
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UEFI and opensuse Leap 42.1
Leap 42.1 started out with some UEFI problems. The last of those were fixed in an update yesterday. However, the fix only solves the problem for already installed systems. The install media still...
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My Tumbleweed install for December 2015
For this month, I installed snapshot 20151218. The install was done on Monday morning. I had recently replaced the hard drive on my main desktop, so this was a new install to replace what I had...
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UEFI and opensuse Leap 42.1
There have been several problems with UEFI on Leap. As originally installed, it suffered from bug 950569, where some hardware would hang during boot unless secure-boot was disabled. This bug was...
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My Tumbleweed install for October
I said there would not be a Tumbleweed install this month. But I changed my mind on that. Snapshot 20151017 came out after I had finished my Leap 42.1-RC1 installs, and I had a little free time. For...
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Testing KaOS 2015.08
I saw a Distrowatch announcement of a new release of KaOS, so decided to give it a try. From there, I followed the link to the release announcement. My previous experience with KaOS was in April,...
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My Tumbleweed install for August
I’ve been doing an install of the month, in order to test Tumbleweed installation. For August, I installed in an alternate partition on my main desktop system. The Tumbleweed install media have been...
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