@scottalanmiller said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:

I should mention that I'm managing my desktop with Salt from the desktop itself.

Now we need a special thread for the details on this.

@mlnews said in openSuse Leap 15 to Follow Leap 42.3:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/opensuse-leap-s-new-versioning-scheme-finally-syncs-with-suse-linux-enterprise-515158.shtml

That's good news.

So I stopped using the text install and went to full graphical and... it started working. WTF

@dafyre said in OpenSuse Leap 42.2 Hits Beta:

I played with the first OpenSuse Leap release. It was pretty cool. My only OpenSuse server at the moment is a web server and it runs Tumbleweed.

Yup, I worked with it too, it's a great product.

@KOOLER "do guy" = "do gui" LOL

@momurda said in Building a Basic DRBD Cluster on OpenSuse 12.2:

What is the purpose of 'zypper -remove patterns-openSUSE-minimal_base'
I know what it does, but is it necessary? Does this minimal_base package prevent you from installing certain packages at a later date? Or you just making things nice n neat?

It's been quite some time, but if I remember correctly it interfered with some packages that we needed as the "minimal" blocked adding a bunch of stuff.

@DustinB3403 said in Linux: Checking Filesystem Usage with df:

Will there be a topic on "managing inode in linux"

Yes, but it is going to go into an "Advanced Topics" section. Just as LVM and MD will have high level "normal" admin sections and eventually delve much deeper in advanced sections. I want to cover everything in a "normal admin" capacity like you would learn from the RHCE up front. Then go back and cover the nitty gritty details that other admin books don't. So it will basically take two passes but the hope is that the first pass will take you from "starting point" to "competent Linux Admin" then the second part will go where normal admin guides don't tread.

It doesn't update as "new" when I just update the list. Only if I comment on the thread.

Wow, actually a pretty easy one but don't ask me how I guessed at this.... openSuse by default is "missing" curl, so you need to do this before you can do rpm imports:

zypper install curl

I don't know why others don't follow with this. I'm sure there are reasons I can't see, but it just seems easier with a rolling release like Arch or Tumbleweed.

They can still snapshot at a point in time to create the LTS release. Maybe it's more work on their part since with a rolling release there can be so many packages that change rather quickly?

I know it's almost enough of a pain to do the upgrade from release to release sometimes to make me consider just wiping and starting over (I usually do that with my laptop and Fedora since home is on a separate drive).

@scottalanmiller said:

For home laptop use (non-gaming) be sure to check out PC-BSD. It's screaming fast, super stable and very responsive.

In this particular article it was a solid, but not fastest, performer in the transcoding benchmarks they ran, which were about as close to web serfing and video watching. PC-BSD is the fastest bar none if you're compiling software or iops intensive workloads.

Some KDE Plasma application shots...

@Dashrender said:

what resolution is your laptop? The last time I run VBox on my 3200 x 1800 resulted in a pretty much useless situation with it.

1600x900

@matteo-nunziati said in Open Storage Operating Systems for SAM-SD:

what a mess...

Windows desktops are loaded with software that you are only limited as to how you can use it by EULA as well.

+1 for primary application platform on Ubuntu.

If you mean what I think you mean, I use Centos for General server stuff, basically a server that can handle anything or can be more than 1 thing, however for Ubuntu and cause of the snaps, I use Ubuntu for specific roles like :

File server
Or
RockChat server

For specific purpose roles.