After more than one year of collective home office I was looking for a keyboard that as silent as possible but still allows unresting typing. As a mechanical keyboard enthusiast, conventional rubberdome keyboards were not an option. Luckily, there are plenty of options available.

The range of mechanical keyboards is …

Nach der Einstellung des Spacewalk-Projekts durch Red Hat im Mai 2020 entschied sich neben SUSE auch Oracle für einen Fork der quelloffenen System Management-Software.

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Legacy software is often used longer than planned. Running older Java software on high-resolution displays with more than 1080p is quite hard by default.

To fix this, manually setting scaling via command-line pararameters is sufficient:

1$ java -Dsun.java2d.uiScale=3.5 -jar app.jar

In this case, 3.5x or 350% scaling is …

With more than 60% market share Android devices are dominating the smartphone market for a long time. But the most devices have one in common: a nosy operating system that likes to experience as much as possible about the user.

Hallo Welt Systeme UG - a german startup from Remscheid - aims to change this. With the …

2020 is not only the product of a fivefold 404 but also the big year of online conferences. While conferences were previously held in particularly conspicuous or unusual locations and invited people to join the physical network, this year online platforms in particular serve as a necessary compromise.

One of the …

While there are scripts for migrating SLES to SLES4SAP, there are no tools the other way around. If you deployed the wrong template by mistake you can change the product without reinstallation with some manual steps. A comparable procedure has also been documented by the vendor for installing SUSE Manager.

First of …

For some time, the Raspberry Pi 4 also supports booting via USB to circumvent buggy SD card system media. Back in May, this feature was supplied as beta, since September it is considered as stable functionality.

Booting Raspberry Pi OS (former Raspbian) via USB works out of the box, but additional steps are required …

Back in 2007, Canonical Landscape -  a tool for managing Ubuntu systems - was introduced. So beside already popular tools such as Uyuni and Foreman there is yet another software with comparable features. How useful is it?

Expectations

I've never used Landscape. The reason for this is that I usually work with Red …

When automatically customizing openSUSE 15.2 guests under VMware vSphere 6.7 recently, I stumbled upon the famous "Guest Customization failed" issue (once again).

After eliminating the most common error (not having Perl installed which is necessary) I had a look at the VMware Compatibility Guide. Looks like …