originally presented 2018

Tony Su

KPLUG - San Diego Computer Society
Kernel Panic Linux User Group

Updated Presentation May 9, 2019
Originally presented July 12, 2018

updated May 2019

Rules of the Road

  • Ask Questions, don't wait until later
  • Speak up so everyone in the room can hear you
  • If you're unclear on something, it's a good bet you're not alone

General Overview

Well known examples:

  • Multimedia, eg codecs
  • Applications, eg Adobe

Strict FOSS policy

Breaking News!

Announcement - SUSE/openSUSE under new ownership!

Only FOSS distributed as part of the OS, all others must be installed after initial System Install

EQT Partnership

Install

Getting Install ISOs

https://software.opensuse.org

The Installation

DVD or Net

LEAP

Release

x64

Tumbleweed

Rolling

x64, i586

LEAP vs Tumbleweed

LEAP portal https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.1
LEAP release cycle https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap

LEAP history

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Leap_History

42

"Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" from the "Hitch hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

15

Consistent with SUSE (SLES, SLED)

Installation - Start!

Desktops

Default

Proposed Disk Layout

Set Time, Time Zone

Create User

Installation Summary

Part 1

Installation Summary

Part 2

Desktops

Additional using Online repos

Add, Modify Software

Includes Desktop Patterns

Add, Modify Software

Details enables additional views

Installation - Running!

Repositories

Enhancing your openSUSE

https://en.opensuse.org/Package_repositories

https://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories

https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/

Main repos

3rd Party Community repos

Where are all the repos? Here!

There are plenty more than are on any list

You've just Installed

Now What?

Yet another Setup Tool

The graphical tool that gets you up and working without knowing the command line

YaST

You should su, but you can sudo

openSUSE encourages su, discourages sudo (although you can sudo all you want)

Network Management - Wicked vs Network Manager

Wicked - "Managed" ifup / ifdown

Network Manager - Remembers network configurations

zypper up

Unless you "Enabled Online Repositories" during Install, you need to update to install all patches, fixes and improvements since the install ISO was built

YaST

The graphical tool that gets you up and working without knowing the command line

YaST - Add Module

Misc Enhancements

  • Guest Additions, Tools installed automatically
  • MAC addresses in new network fixed automatically

Virtualization

Vim

  • Add line with "Return" key
  • Edit by activating "Insert" mode
  • Simple, intuitive functionality
  • Simple exit and save
  • Auto highlighting, formatting, coding support

Wayland

  • Socket based, X server only optional
  • Supports Remote Connections without Xorg X server

Help!

https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Support

Forums

Mailing Lists

IRC

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org

Support Portal

Non-Interactive

Interactive

Community Documentation

Support Database(SDB)

Mailing List Archives

Technical Forums

Info

Bugzilla - When all else fails, report it

Help!

command --help

MAN pages

app docs

No, really. Standard stuff you can find and read on your own

Common, Useful CLI

zypper

systemctl

journalctl

Minimal to know, makes life easier

Transactional Server

  • High Threat facing, eg Naked Webservers

  • High Availability, Minimal Downtime

Deployment Scenarios

Technical Description

  • Read-only partition or disk, LEAP only

  • Nothing can write to the mounted partition or disk

  • Updates and other changes applied only with reboot

  • With every change, a BTRFS snapshot is created, enabling simple and fast "undo"

Install

  • LEAP - Desktop Selection

  • Tumbleweed- Package Installation

Transactional Server

  • https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/531246-Transaction-Server-New-TW-and-LEAP-15-server-option

  • https://kubic.opensuse.org/blog/2018-04-04-transactionalupdates/

  • https://medium.com/@lwinmaungmaung/opensuse-transactional-server-5-minute-review-9a5e85fc28b9

More Info

Do not confuse openSUSE Transactional Server with other "Transaction Servers" like Microsoft's Transaction Server which is used to manage data transactions over a network

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Any more Questions?

You can post any questions to the KPLUG mail list, or find me in the openSUSE Technical Help Forums

openSUSE - The means to make Great Stuff

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