After roughly 8 years it was time to upgrade my desktop computer. Even though I already upgraded the graphic card two times in the mean time, processor and memory resources reached their limits. Especially computing intensive tasks and newer video games were slowd down. Fortunately, things have changed a lot in the …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 openSUSE 15 …

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The struggle is real: for day-to-day work, leveraing several web applications such as messenger or customized booking systems is necessary. After a short time you will mostly have a flood of browser tabs and lose track. Using nativefier it is possible to package websites into desktop applications. Some websites and …

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With the Pinebook Pro PINE64 offers a very interesting notebook based on an ARM SoC. Because of its price below 200 USD the notebook is a good Chromebook alternative that offers more freedom because of its Open Source designs. All components and even the operating system can be switched easily - that sounds amazing! …

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Recently, I stumbled upon the following issue when creating new openSUSE Leap 15.1 Vagrantboxes from the generic and roboxes projects: 1[ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device dev-sda2.device. 2[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Resume from hibernation using device /dev/sda2. 3[ OK ] Reached target Local File System (Pre). …

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Recently I stumbled upon the following error when registering a new openSUSE system in Uyuni: The appropriate file simply did not exist - but the folder was created: 1# file /var/lib/salt/.ssh/known_hosts 2known_hosts: cannot open 'known_hosts' (No such file or directory) 3 4# ls -lad /var/lib/salt/ 5drwxr-xr-x 1 salt …

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