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It might just be the future of openSUSE. We take a indepth look at openSUSE Leap 42.1 beta. Find out why this might be the most ambitious Linux distribution release to date, the features that appeal the power user & the newbie.

Plus the Linux malware that fixes up your box, why it might never be the year of the Linux desktop, the Linux botnet that hits with 150 Gbps DDoS attacks & more!

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Leap – openSUSE

It secures the future of openSUSE. Maintaining a distribution is a lot of work. By basing openSUSE on SLE (SUSE Linux Enterprise), the core of openSUSE will be maintained by SUSE engineers. That means it will get fixes and security updates from SLE.

The openSUSE project can then replace and add the bits and pieces of software that contributors want and are willing to maintain.

openSUSE Leap will also complement Tumbleweed better. When there was one openSUSE, it was torn between those who wanted newer software and those who wanted a stable system. Tumbleweed caters to those who want newer software, which allows the regular release to do an even better job of providing a highly stable system.

openSUSE releases Leap Beta

Users wanting a long-term, stable Linux system can expect Leap to use the most advanced long-term supported branch of the Linux kernel, 4.1 series, which provides significant improvements to ARM hardware architecture.

Long-Term support for Leap

rbrownsuse (openSUSE Chairman) comments on Long term support

Yup – the easiest way of saying it is actually:

Leap 42.x will be supported until AT LEAST Leap 43.0 is out – and that will happen around about when SLE 13 is out (which is certainly a few years away)

The exact deadlines and schedules are somewhat unknown, because no one knows when SLE 13 will be out yet

And also, dependant on that, we might focus and fine tune the lifecycle of the final version of Leap 42.x to give it a comfortable overlap with the release of 43.0

But until we’re closer to that, we dont know for sure

So we’re saying what we’re saying..

Quick Notes

btrfs on / and for many subvolumes, some with copy on write disabled (libvert, mailman, pgsql, mariadb)
xfs on /home – Really smart since /home gets filled by me from time to time. Avoids that btrfs slowdown when you fill it up
Possible to set system to use NTP, even when not connected to the Internet at time of install.

Firewall set to enable (one click disable)
SSH Port set to blocked
SSH Service set to disabled

YaST always bitches that a software source is missing. It’s the USB drive I installed the distro from. How common is it to install from a thumb drive, and then leave it forever plugged in? (Easy to fix)
Online Update tool shipped without any sources configured. (Again an easy fix)

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Gpick Project – Home

Gpick is an advanced color picker and palette editing tool.

KColorChooser – Color Chooser

KColorChooser is a simple application to select the color from the screen or from a pallete.

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FeedReader – RSS desktop client

Desktop notifications
- Fast search and filters
- Full articles instead of previews for known sites
- Tagging (plugin needed for Tiny Tiny RSS)
- Sharing to “read-it-later” services like Pocket and Instapaper
- Handy keyboard short-cuts
- Keep all your old articles as long as you like
- Consistent formatting of articles
- automatically saved state of the UI

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Why there will never be a year of the Linux desktop

Oh, don’t get me wrong, Linux, as Android tablets and smartphones and Chrome OS Chromebooks, will become the most popular end-user operating system of all. But, the desktop? That’s another story.

Security firm discovers Linux botnet that hits with 150 Gbps DDoS attacks

Akamai announced on Tuesday that its Security Intelligence Response Team has discovered a massive Linux-based botnet that’s reportedly capable of downing websites under a torrent of DDoS traffic exceeding 150 Gbps. The botnet spreads via a Trojan variant dubbed XOR DDoS. This malware infects Linux systems via embedded devices like network routers then brute forces SSH access. Once the malware has Secure Shell credentials, it secretly downloads and installs the necessary botnet software, then connects the newly-infected computer to the rest of the hive.

Is there an Internet-of-Things vigilante out there?

The further we dug into Wifatch’s code the more we had the feeling that there was something unusual about this threat. For all intents and purposes it appeared like the author was trying to secure infected devices instead of using them for malicious activities.

Gigabytes of user data from hack of Patreon donations site dumped online | Ars Technica

Hackers have published almost 15 gigabytes’ worth of password data, donation records, and source code taken during the recent hack of the Patreon funding website.

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Will Flash Be Trashed? | LINUX Unplugged 101

chris — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 18:01:37 +0000

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A renewed push to kill flash hits the web & we discuss the possible advantages for Linux users. A KDE user trying out Gnome for a week & the real issues he touches on.

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Which brings up an important distinction between KDE and Gnome. Gnome feels like a product. It feels like a singular experience. When you use it, it feels like it is complete and that everything you need is at your fingertips. It feel’s like THE Linux desktop in the same way that Windows or OS X have THE desktop experience: what you need is there and it was all written by the same guys working on the same team towards the same goal.

I spent the first five days of my week logging into Gnome manually– not turning on automatic login. On night of the fifth day I got annoyed with having to login by hand and so I went into the User Manager and turned on automatic login. The next time I logged in I got a prompt: “Your keychain was not unlocked. Please enter your password to unlock your keychain.” That was when I realized something… Gnome had been automatically unlocking my keychain—my wallet in KDE speak– every time I logged in via GDM. It was only when I bypassed GDM’s login that Gnome had to step in and make me do it manually.
- it was at that moment that I realized it was such a simple thing that made the desktop feel so much more like it was working WITH ME. When I log into KDE via SDDM? Before the splash screen is even finished loading there is a window popping up over top the splash animation– thereby disrupting the splash screen– prompting me to unlock my KDE wallet or GPG keyring.
- Software Managers! Something that has seen a lot of push in recent years and will likely only see a bigger push in the months to come. Unfortunately, it’s another area where KDE was so close… and then fell on its face right at the finish line.
- Gnome Software is probably my new favorite software center, minus one gripe which I will get to in a bit. Muon, I wanted to like you. I really did. But you are a design nightmare. When the VDG was drawing up plans for you (mockup below), you looked pretty slick.
- Then someone got around to coding you and doing your actual UI, and I can only guess they were drunk while they did it.

Which brings up an important distinction between KDE and Gnome. Gnome feels like a product. It feels like a singular experience. When you use it, it feels like it is complete and that everything you need is at your fingertips. It feel’s like THE Linux desktop in the same way that Windows or OS X have THE desktop experience: what you need is there and it was all written by the same guys working on the same team towards the same goal.
KDE doesn’t feel like cohesive experience. KDE doesn’t feel like it has a direction its moving in, it doesn’t feel like a full experience. KDE feels like its a bunch of pieces that are moving in a bunch of different directions, that just happen to have a shared toolkit beneath them.
I know the KDE developers know design matters, that is WHY the Visual Design Group exists, but it feels like they aren’t using the VDG to their fullest.
Will I still use Gnome after this week? Probably not, no. Gnome still trying to force a work flow on me that I don’t want to follow or abide by, I feel less productive when I’m using it because it doesn’t follow my paradigm.

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I don’t get why Noah and Chris are puzzled by what SuSE and OpenSuSE intend to do. The new distro will be to SLE what CentOS is to RHEL.
There will be Tumbleweed, the bleeding edge, always rolling distro that will be in much better shape than Rawhide because OpenSuSE actually expects people to use it as a desktop OS as opposed to “it’s rawhide so it’s borked”.

Then there will be OpenSUSE 42, based on the SLE sources. People will be able to use it such as others do with CentOS and I would be amazed if OpenSuSE and SuSE don’t make it extremely easy to switch from 42 to the enterprise version where they can sell people support on a subscription basis.

To me, it looks like a very smart move.

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openSUSE 13.2 Review | Linux Action Show 337

chris — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 16:11:10 +0000

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Is openSUSE 13.2 the best distro to take advantage of tomorrow’s Linux tools today? Or do the rough-spots leave us frustrated? We lived in openSUSE 13.2 and share our results.

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Some Rough Spots

The disk layout report is super dense, and a lot to parse. I opted to manually layout the partition table so I would have a better handle on what was being done. I was unable to get the auto suggest tool to suggest a layout that included removing my current install of Ubuntu. I liked some of its suggestions.

Refreshing the repos causes an error while it tries to read from the USB Thumb drive I used to install the OS. This happens everytime I do a “One Click” install. It happens twice during a “One Click” install.
Wifi selection / config did not hold over from install
When selecting a wifi network, I first have to enter my admin password, then the wifi network password, then it connects. So only users with admin rights can join wifi?

Administrator password needed to suspend the system
There is a lot of choice when it comes to installing software on openSUSE. From the very handy zypper command, to several, perhaps too many GUI applications to handle the task with various levels of functionality.

The same is true for just installing updates.

It’s interesting how Gnome normalizes the branding across distributions. It seem distributions are still attempting to figure out how to “brand” gnome and not look tacky. Perhaps the design culture around gnome creates a high amount of pressure not to screw it up, so the distributions avoid changing it much. But the experience is rather generic between all of the distributions so far.

software.opensuse.org

software.opensuse.org gives the openSUSE user confdince that many of the packages and tools he or she will need will be just a simple click away, with the added benfit of future updates. An investment that is truly paying off for the users of openSUSE. It’s not as complete as one might hope, but its one of the best out there. It’s a super advantage for opensuse, and it just seems to get better and better over time, regardless of what version of openSUSE you use.

Tomorrow’s Linux features, today.

zypper after many years has really come into its own. Powerful, fast, and intuitive to use. I prefer it over all other GUI tools and other distro command line tools.
SUSE Linux – Zypper Command Examples

Finally I get rewarded for using btrfs, with built in snapshots tied into the zypper package manager. Roll back changes with ease. Not the first distro to do this, but definitely the most user friendly.

Quickly install and take advantage of KVM or XEN with their quick install wizard.

The virtual machine management tools are readily available, and the same great tools you’ve come to love from other distros. But the speed at which all of it is setup and gets you up and running is impressive, and suggestions openSUSE could be a fantastic base OS for any developer, testers, system admins or etc that need quick and ready access to great virtualization tools.

My humble unofficial resources

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Desktop App Pick

Download APKs From Google Play To Your Computer With Google Play Downloader

Google Play Downloader isn’t some piracy tool and it won’t allow you to download paid apps and games. The tool can only download free games and applications and is useful if you want to backup Android APK files to your computer, if you don’t want to install some applications directly via Googe Play for privacy or other reasons (for instance, you can use it with Genymotion, which no longer includes Google Play with its Android images) and so on.

AUR (en) – googleplaydownloader

Weekly Spotlight

Managing Services with systemctl

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China will move to Linux by 2020 in ‘de-Windowsifying’ process

China have announced a new time frame in which they will move to a new operating system. It will consist of 15% of government computers being switched to Linux per year. The report by Ni Guangnan outlining the transition won government approval and by 2020 the Chinese Government’s transition to Linux should be complete.

China Plans to Replace All Windows Machines with Linux Rigs by 2020 | Maximum PC

Debian’s Civil War: Has It Really Come to This?

Well it seems no matter how loudly we here in the Linux blogosphere try to hum a happy tune or discuss
cheerful FOSS matters, we just can’t seem to drown out the shouts and screams coming from those standing too close to the Systemd Inferno.

Stand back, people! It’s dangerous!

The embers, of course,
had been hot for some time already before the blaze
flared sky-high a few months ago. Now, the conflagration appears to be completely out of control.

Need proof? Two words:
Debian fork.

That’s right: Debian, the granddaddy of Linux distributions and embodiment of everything so many FOSS fans hold dear, may be forked, and it’s apparently all because of Systemd.

Cinnamon 2.4

On behalf of the team and all the developers who contributed to this build, I am proud to announce the release of Cinnamon 2.4!

This new version will be featured in Linux Mint 17.1 “Rebecca” planned for the end of November and in LMDE 2 “Betsy” planned for Spring 2015.

Kubuntu 15.04 Will Be Based On KDE5

Kubuntu Vivid is the development name for what will be released in April next year as Kubuntu 15.04. The exciting news is that following some discussion and some wavering, the Kubuntu team will be switching to Plasma 5 by default. They claim that it has shown itself as a solid and reliable platform and it’s time to show it off to the world. There are some bits which are missing from Plasma 5 which are planned to be filled in over the next six months. As another technical detail, Debian git is now used to store the packaging in a Kubuntu branch, so hopefully it will be easier to share updates.

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openSUSE 13.1 Review | LAS 29e07

chris — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 14:58:20 +0000

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openSUSE 13.1 hits the web this week, and it’s our review of this serious contender. With a focus on stability and polish, can this Linux for adults have a lot of fun?

We look at some of the tools, features, and advantages that set openSUSE apart, and a few areas that could use some work.

Plus: Linus’ dad kicks of an Internet storm, news of the week…

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Install:

Nice to have a straight to install, and an installer that gives you room to get technical, but has sane defaults.
Live CDs for Gnome and KDE are also available.
Had trouble getting my bootloader to install on an alternative drive.

Desktop:

Updater integration/plasma widget is bad ass
Display configuration now handled through KDE settings, not YaST.
YaST once again looks at home under KDE or Gnome.
Update alert info does not seem to be integrated into the XFCE desktop, but brilliantly integrated into KDE and supports Gnome Notifications too.

Steam Test:

A couple games did not work. But some of my favorites did.

Overall:

This really is an Enterprise grade release, specifically the KDE desktop. A couple-year deployment would be totally reasonable.
I’d like the long-term use case to look more exciting. Intergration of software.opensuse.org into the YaST tools.
- Search of software.opensuse.org from within the package manager zypper, or YaST tools, ala packer for Arch.
- Install from the zypper CLI/YaST tools from software.opensuse.org
Jos on openSUSE’s importance to SUSE
Live From SUSECon: OpenSUSE’s openQA Distro Tester is the Coolest, Plus OpenSUSE 13.1

Fun fact: openSUSE has a new release every eight months, and there are only three per version: .1, .2 and .3. So a .1 release comes out every other November. openSUSE 13.1 promises greater stability

Round-Up:

Linux 3.11
Work done on 64bit ARM support.
32bit ARM support has been heavily improved and a special Raspberry Pi build for openSUSE is available.
End users can now mount Amazon s3 buckets as local file system.
Samba 4.1
systemd 208
YaST has been ported to Ruby
This release has been selected for Evergreen support extending its life cycle to 3 years.

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openSUSE’s Jos Poortvliet | LAS 29e06

chris — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 17:12:15 +0000

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openSUSE’s community manager Jos Poortvliet joins us to discuss openSUSE 13.1, integrating new technologies such as systemd and wayland, his thoughts on staying competitive, and your questions!

Plus the solid details we now know about SteamOS and Steam Machines, the big upset of the week….

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Jos is the openSUSE community manager since 2010, and a Free Software evangelist for over 10 years. He’s also an active volunteer in the KDE community.

What are some of the main responsibilities of a community manager?
Could you describe the role of the openSUSE board?
- We’ve noticed one of their roles is enforcing “Trademark issues”. To your knowledge has openSUSE ever had a confrontation around branding on third party sites?
Why do you suppose we don’t see distros built from openSUSE, like we see with Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, and Fedora?
How has working with systemd been? Don’t you have a developer in-house?
What are openSUSE’s plans for Wayland?

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How is life in Berlin?
Do you see a point in the future when openSuSE becomes irrelevant to SuSE GmbH, and they will reduce or stop their sponsorship (much like they have already done with Libre Office)?

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Regarding the possibility of a Software Center-like experience in openSUSE:
Do you think this is a fundamental feature lacking in openSUSE compared to other distros, or do you think there are other priorities?
Two or maybe three years ago plans were unhatched at an openSUSE conference in co-operation with developers from other distros. The back end got worked on but it seems there was never a useful front end created. Are there any developments in this respect?
Are there any plans to implement such a software center in openSUSE? Would the Bodega idea proposed by Aaron Seigo fit the bill, or would it be more likely that the new Ruby version of YaST sees the existing tools undergo a revamp?

Viewer Martin Asks

How would you position openSUSE within the Linux ecosystem? (what kind of users does it attract, how does it differentiate itself)
How do you see openSUSE develop in mindshare and marketshare in the future?

openSUSE 13.1

YaST has been converted to Ruby for this release? WHU?
What is the big thing you’re looking forward to in 13.1?
Has “making a Linux” becoming boring? We’ve noticing you’re promoting a lot of upstream features.

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We play with the Steam Machine, Valve’s game console of the future | The Verge

The first Steam Machine is a computer that can fit bog standard parts just like a full-size gaming rig, and yet fit into your entertainment center. Valve’s steel and aluminum chassis measures just over 12 inches on a side and is 2.9 inches tall, making it a little bigger than an Xbox 360 and smaller than any gaming PC of its ilk.

Valve designed the case so the parts can breathe individually. The CPU blows air out the top, the power supply out the side, and the graphics card exhaust out back, and none share any airspace within the case.

a system built into Steam that shows you which games your hardware configuration can actually run, and conversely, what hardware you’d need to buy to play a given game well — based on the real-world data about computer configurations that Valve already collects with its Steam Hardware Survey.

First, circle January on your calendar. That’s when the other shoe will drop; Valve’s hardware and software partners will reveal the actual Steam Machines that will ship to consumers, and the games that will come to the Linux platform, at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show.

There will be a number of different Steam Machine boxes on sale in 2014, and Valve expects them to arrive mid-year. Some of those boxes will be far smaller and / or cheaper than Valve’s own prototype unit.

Don’t expect Valve to make Half-Life 3 exclusive to SteamOS to help lift the Linux-based operating system off the ground. “It’s against our philosophy to put a game in jail and say it only works on Steam Machines,” says Valve’s Doug Lombardi. Even though the company locked Half-Life 2 to Steam years ago, the team appears to have thought better of that decision. “That may or may not have been a good idea given the condition Steam was in at the moment.”

Valve’s Anna Sweet says she started talking to partners about Linux three years ago, and games will be surprisingly easy to build. “If you’re using the Unity engine, you’re already done… if you’ve done a Mac game, you’re most of the way there.”

SteamOS won’t just be about games: the company plans to add other services for video and music playback. “However, we are not planning support for spreadsheets,” quips Lombardi.

steamOS “not based on Ubuntu… but entirely custom”

As promised, the OS is built on Linux (not based on Ubuntu, we’re told, but entirely custom), though you’d never know it as the only interactive layer is all Steam.

Steam Controller Looks Very Useable

Here’s a quick look at some games being played with the prototype version of the Steam Controller – the same version that we’ll be shipping to 300 Steam users later this year.

Valve Will Announce Steam Machine Partners at CES 2014

Speaking to IGN, Valve’s Greg Coomer explained that no one Steam Machine will be considered the “main” device, and instead a variety of different boxes will be available, each with their own set of unique features.

Steam Community :: Group :: Steam Universe

Several press web sites are reporting today about SteamOS, Steam Machines, and the Steam Controller. They came to Steam hardware HQ recently and spent some hands-on time with all three. Here is a roundup of their coverage

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openSUSE: Ubuntu Killer? | LAS | s26e02

chris — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:32:09 +0000

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It’s our review of openSUSE 12.3. Is this powerful distribution an island of refuge for Ubuntu defectors? And we’ll discuss how openSUSE stands on it’s own, as a distribution with a rich legacy that’s following it’s own path to the future. But are there a few bumps along this journey?

Plus: Some desktop replacements for Google Reader, support for Wayland builds, your emails…

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Rolling, the Right Way

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Top Tier Messaging – Can it attract new users?

Sneak Preview I: openSUSE 12.3 for Desktop Users

A Traditional Distro

A DVD install only disk, with all the DE choices.
Release notes full of info.
Feels very much like the best traditional aspects of a grand release, in sensible delivery and context.

Bumps and Bruises

Wifi No Worky After Install
I was not too impressed with the XFCE implementation, LXDE was about what I expected.

Other

openSUSE 12.3 installer should play nice with UEFI and Secure Boot.
jumping ship from Mint 13 KDE to openSuse 12.3…hmm : LinuxActionShow

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One major piece I will be tackling is making sure we in the Red Hat desktop team work even closer with the Fedora community to bring forth some great improvements to Fedora and created an even more integrated and seamless experience for those wanting to use the Fedora desktop. This ranges from working with the Fedora team on a new software installer to working on getting Wayland ready for deployment in Fedora.

Taking on a new job at Red Hat
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openSUSE 12..3 Released!
Back to their usual eight month cycle (12.2 was delayed by two months).

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