As announced at this year's SUSECON, the new containerized SUSE Manager 5.0 was released in mid-July. The Uyuni project also offers images for the container version since version 2023.10. The most recently released version 2024.08 is the last one that is also offered as a classic RPM version.

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Compared to the …

From 17.06 to 19.06 the SUSECON took place in Berlin. Compared to the previous iteration of the conference, the event took place exclusively in presence.

Recently I stumbled upon the following error when registering a new openSUSE system in Uyuni:

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Sometimes Spacewalk still suggests updates and errata for a system even though they have already been installed. Especially for bigger system landscapes this is confusing as planning maintenance using the web interface is hard in this way.

1# zypper update scout
2Refreshing service 'spacewalk'.
3Loading …

This week Spacewalk was released in version 2.4 after 6 months of development. In summary, about 60 bugs were fixed and some new features were implemented.

The web-interface is now available to other projects as part of the Patternfly framework. The project driven mainly by Red Hat aims at combining beatiful designs …