Installing openSUSE the hard way

Sometimes I encounter people who don’t like installers. They claim when installing a Linux distribution like Gentoo or Arch they learn more. Well, this certainly could be the case. But I’d argue that most people just follow the install guide/wiki. So for some people this is just an exercise in copy-pasting and adapting minor things. Others will dive deep though. No doubt. In any case the assumption that only a disribution like Arch can give you this learning experience is flawed.

Open Source Status Report 202002

profanity On 03.02.2020 I released Profanity 0.8.0. It contains 315 commits since 0.7.0. Eighty issues got closed. So the website needed to be updated with the new tarballs and other information. A blogpost describing the new release got written. And the openSUSE package got updated as the first distribution of course ;) mdosch created his authors page for the Profanity blog which needed to get merged. And he and pep reviewed the 0.

Open Source Status Report 202001

I’m beginning a blog series about my open source contributions. I hope this is interesting for people who want to start contributing to open source but don’t know where to begin. Or people who want understand (one way) how open source is being developed. Additionally I hope it gives my Patreon and GitHub sponsors and idea of what I work on. This first report is written many weeks after the actual work was done, so it probably is incomplete nor written elegantly and I don’t remember all the details.

Sway

In 2015 I already made a post about sway. Now with the recent 1.0 release it’s time for another one. sway is available on the OpenBuildService for openSUSE since August 2015. And on March 12th I updated the package to the 1.0 release, which happened one day earlier. I packaged all the RCs that lead up to the final release too, to be sure everything works as expected. When packaging I asked the devs about a proper ChangeLog file which lead to the annotated git tags that they now use.

Maintaining Prosody

Since April 2015 (version 0.9.8) I help maintaining prosody for openSUSE. The first few months it lived only in the devel:languages:lua devel project. So users needed to add that repo if they wanted to install it. In October 2016 it made it into Tumbleweed. Before it could go in we had to submit some missing dependencies like luaexpat, luasocket, luasec and luafilesystem Develpoment and Maintenance The folks that code on prosody use the following model:

Sway

This post is about being cutting edge. Some friends of mine use Ubuntu, because they think it is stable. Others use arch because they think it is cutting edge. I get both, with openSUSE. If I want to have a stable system I run openSUSE Leap 42.1, with its SLE base its a really nice fit. If I want to play around with newest program I run openSUSE Tumbleweed, the rolling release version of openSUSE.

Hackweek

From 7th to 11th December I participated in my first Hackweek at SUSE. The Hackweek is awesome! You can spend one week hacking on whatever project you like! According to the official description Hackweek is a week where SUSE engineers can experiment without limits. It’s the opportunity to innovate, collaborate across teams, and learn. The only rule is: Do what you want, but do it! I absolutely love things like this.

Enable ssh on openSUSE

Okay, going to explain how to install and enable ssh on your openSUSE box here. Some people didn’t seem to get it to work altough there is an older article describing how to do it with SysVInit. My article will have the same format just with the new commands. On the openSUSE wiki they explain it via yast. Check if package is installed: zypper if openssh Install package if it isn’t installed: