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Separating Atuin shell history per Distrobox container By default Atuin keeps a single shell history database in ~/.local/share/atuin , since home directories are shared into every Distrobox container, that means every container is dumping its history into the same database. That’s not great — history from one distrobox ends up mixed in with others. The fix is to give each container its own…
openSUSE Kernel cmdline INSECURE=1 to boot test ISO’s without signed repositories on the image Build ProductBuilder images outside of openSUSE:Factory Grab the following packages 000product installation-images skelcd-control-* Example repository configuration for building: <project name="home:sfalken:kalpa:images"> <title>Kalpa Images Devel Project</title> <description/> <person…
So you want to do fedora packaging in a Distrobox? It takes a couple of extra steps, particularly if you want to be able to do mockbuilds: $ distrobox create -i quay.io/fedora/fedora:latest -n fpkg --root --init --additional-packages 'systemd vim zsh fedora-packager copr-cli' If you happen to be on an openSUSE based system, such as MicroOS, Aeon, or Kalpa (and probably Leap, Tumbleweed, or…
The story of the day As some of you may, or may not know, in general, when it comes to CLI tools for Kalpa , the existing recommendation is to use a Distrobox , and do your stuff there. This really is a perfectly fine way to do things, but it does add a layer of abstraction, running those things in a container, and can sometimes be a pain in the arse, when it comes to accessing certain things,…
We currently have a breakage in Tumbleweed with the Budgie Desktop. This is a temporary workaround, so you can stay up and running, and still get updates. This is just a repackaging, from scratch, back to the 10.9.2 stable branch of the Budgie Desktop Existing Installations sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/sfalken:/BuddiesofBudgie/openSUSE_Tumbleweed…
What is this? It’s just what is says on the tin. Somebody asked me for some screenshots of LXQt using Miriway as the Wayland compositor. Not entirely certain what else to say.
UPDATE 2024-08-13 This setup has already broken. Back to the old Drawing Board. What the hell do you mean, “Full Window Video”? Exactly what it sounds like. I would like the video I’m watching, to “fill” the window it’s running in. If you take your handy dandy browser window, with youtube, in this example, and make the window smaller, the video is going to scale…
Pursuant to the presentation We’re all grown up: openSUSE is not SUSE (and it’s tim our name reflected that.) , given by Richard Brown and Robert Sirchia at openSUSE Conference 2024 , it is clear that the openSUSE Community has some thinking to do and questions to answer, about our Project Name, our Governance, and our very future. Discussion of this has largely been focused and…
openSUSE {Aeon,Kalpa,MicroOS}? So I was made aware of a thread on reddit where it’s brought up that folks don’t understand the relationship between openSUSE MicroOS , openSUSE Aeon , and openSUSE Kalpa . This blog post will attempt to clear up some misunderstandings and misconceptions about the relationship between the three “Distributions”. Timeline MicroOS In 2019,…
The Scenario If you’re anything like me, you use Discord for things, and if you use their “Official” Linux electron client you know what a wonderful piece of software it is, and how the developers have helpfully chosen default window/panel sizes for you, because obviously they use your computer, and know what your screen configurations, preferred window arrangement, and…
I’m not tracking traffic, so I have no idea if people are reading this or not, so if you’re reading this, Hi! You may have noticed that the default colours you’re seeing on the site have changed, and seem a bit unoptimized in places. You’re not wrong. Or Crazy, or on the brown acid. I chose the PaperMod theme when I set up the site, which gave me reasonably decent light and…
What prompted this blog post? So if like myself, you’ve got a large number of openSUSE machines on your network, it can be advantageous to run a local mirror, for updates. And it just so happens that one of the openSUSE developers, firstyear, has put together a nifty caching server that really speeds all this up, the proxy-cache itself isn’t the point of this blog post, but if you want…
The Story. I have a machine, setup as a NAS, that lives in my closet, running TrueNAS Scale , which I also use to run some various Virtual Machines, because why not, it’s relatively beefy hardware for a NAS (Ryzen 7 5600G, 64MB of Ram), and when I built the thing, It had 4 X WD Red 2TB Drives, in a RAIDZ1, and a spare 256GB SATA SSD from an old machine, that I used for the boot-pool.
So if you’re anything like me, you’re aware that tools like Docker and Podman exist, which allow you to run containers on your host. Simple enough. You might also be aware of things like Docker Compose and Quadlets for automated management and bring up of those containers. Problem is, I had a pretty stupid simple little container that I wanted to bring together, and have running on a…
FIRST! Of course it’s the first. What else would it be. I’ve just found myself lately in need of being able to post a few things that are just longer than Mastodon really provides for. This is where I’ll do that.
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