BoxyBSD
@BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last week
#RUNBSD! But BoxyBSD now also starts to support #Linux! We're starting soon with the Linux support for already present users, offering free boxes:

* #AlmaLinux
* #Alpine
* #Debian
* #Devuan
* #CentOS
* #Fedora
* #Gentoo
* #OpenSuse
* #OpenEuler
* #RockyLinux

Just next to our core OS like #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #MidnightBSD and #DragonflyBSD (and #illumos). This should also make the step easier to compare and test different scenarios where BSD provides a different behavior compared to Linux systems.

Thanks to @gyptazy for the implementation!

#VPS#VM#VirtualMachine#OpenSource#Hosting#IPv6#BGP#FreeHosting#Community
BoxyBSD
@BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last week
#RUNBSD! But BoxyBSD now also starts to support #Linux! We're starting soon with the Linux support for already present users, offering free boxes:

* #AlmaLinux
* #Alpine
* #Debian
* #Devuan
* #CentOS
* #Fedora
* #Gentoo
* #OpenSuse
* #OpenEuler
* #RockyLinux

Just next to our core OS like #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #MidnightBSD and #DragonflyBSD (and #illumos). This should also make the step easier to compare and test different scenarios where BSD provides a different behavior compared to Linux systems.

Thanks to @gyptazy for the implementation!

#VPS#VM#VirtualMachine#OpenSource#Hosting#IPv6#BGP#FreeHosting#Community
Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last week

As a Barista at BSD Cafe, I'm also an admirer of tea – a metaphor for my appreciation of the good features of other operating systems. And the fact that I like and support BSDs doesn't mean I don't appreciate those other solutions.
For example, #SmartOS, #OmniOS, and #Tribblix are superb examples of well-crafted operating systems.

Similarly, #Linux - #openSUSE Tumbleweed-based desktops give me a lot of satisfaction every day.

The foundation of my passion for Open Source also stems from the ability to study, explore, and choose without constraints or restrictions. It's that sense of freedom that drives me to appreciate the good in every solution.

If and when I feel caged or forced, all of that vanishes.

#Freedom#OS#IT
Peter Czanik
@PCzanik@fosstodon.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Version 4.9.0 of #syslog_ng is now available. Among others it adds:
- #Prometheus exporter
- more efficient file/directory monitoring on #Linux
- #FreeBSD audit source
Read more at https://github.com/syslog-ng/syslog-ng/releases/tag/syslog-ng-4.9.0
Packages for #Debian / #Ubuntu / #openSUSE / #Fedora & #EPEL are available.
Markus Feilner
@mfeilner@social.linux-magazin.de  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Every time I set up a new laptop with #opensuse #tumbleweed #linux, I am so excited about the power of #opensource. The little refurbished #lenovo#T14s I got only took 5 minutes to install from an old USB stick. I swear that I needed more time to unpack, locate an Ethernet cable and find my way in the BIOS to set up USB boot than the system itself took for installing. Awesome.

Anybody talking about #Win11#Windows11 #microsoft Well, folks, Linux hardware will become much cheaper now.
Markus Feilner
@mfeilner@social.linux-magazin.de  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Every time I set up a new laptop with #opensuse #tumbleweed #linux, I am so excited about the power of #opensource. The little refurbished #lenovo#T14s I got only took 5 minutes to install from an old USB stick. I swear that I needed more time to unpack, locate an Ethernet cable and find my way in the BIOS to set up USB boot than the system itself took for installing. Awesome.

Anybody talking about #Win11#Windows11 #microsoft Well, folks, Linux hardware will become much cheaper now.
Steven Rosenberg
@passthejoe@ruby.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

After 2+ years in Fedora Silverblue, it's time to kick the tires on OpenSUSE Aeon, by which I mean a bare-metal install on my main laptop

I am very ready for:

* Fully automatic updates
* Rolling (No version upgrades)
* Distrobox by default -- and automatically upgraded
* Full disk encryption with TPM 2.0

Doing backups and making the boot USB stick now

#OpenSUSE#Aeon
Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦
@mcepl@en.osm.town replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@sjvn Or you can have #openSUSE which is truly free for everybody and the same binary packages (and more!) from #SLE.
trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:
@trashheap@tech.lgbt  ·  activity timestamp last month

So after multiple power losses yesterday; and multiple instances of btrfs log tree corruption yesterday. AND swapping out kernels and simulating power failures this morning. I've got a lot of anecdotal evidence that Liquorix Kernel 6.15.5 has something odd going on with how either the timing of it writing it's log tree on my NVME, or it's failing to flush the write of the log tree on my NVME.

Lets just say, im going back to openSUSE's vanilla kernel for the rest of my openSUSE adventure. #linux #btrfs#openSUSE #Liquorix
MJ :blobfoxcomputer:
@voyager@vmst.io  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Extract of the statement:

“The history of Deepin code reviews clearly shows that upstream is lacking security culture, and the same classes of security issues keep appearing. Although we only looked at a small fraction of the code Deepin consists of, we found security issues nearly every time we looked at one of its components.”

#Linux#openSUSE
MJ :blobfoxcomputer:
@voyager@vmst.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

I try to dig a bit deeper about the packager and upstream, so I looked for 1st hand sources.

The packager, Hillwood Yang, is an #openSUSE member, who also complained about the upstream when packaging DDE:

https://hillwoodhome.net/2020/09/24/deepin-desktop-wont-be-brought-into-opensuse/

But he soon submitted his “workaround”, which is what openSUSE accusing now:

https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/X11:Deepin:Factory#comment-1437010

Besides that I saw not relations between packager and upstream.

Two things are sure:
1. Code from upstream is in bad quality
2. The packager for openSUSE bypasses the security guideline

But there’s no obvious evidence that the upstream initiated the idea.

#Linux
MJ :blobfoxcomputer:
@voyager@vmst.io  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Extract of the statement:

“The history of Deepin code reviews clearly shows that upstream is lacking security culture, and the same classes of security issues keep appearing. Although we only looked at a small fraction of the code Deepin consists of, we found security issues nearly every time we looked at one of its components.”

#Linux#openSUSE
MJ :blobfoxcomputer:
@voyager@vmst.io  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
#Deepin DE, the open source #Linux desktop developed by a Chinese company, was removed from the #openSUSE official repo.

According to openSUSE, this is due to the upstream deliberately bypasses the security guidelines and requirements and smuggling system packages when users installing Deepin DE.

Now DDE is only available in 3rd party repo.

https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/07/deepin-desktop-removal.html
chesheer
@chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

So it appears, #openSUSE retires YaST in favor of Cockpit and Myrlyn. Leap 16.0 beta no longer has it, but it remains in Tumbleweed for now, no longer in development, though.
I've never used Cockpit or Myrlyn, but YaST always seemed to me barely usable.
I remember openSUSE in 00's bragging about YaST as a purely GUI tool for system management, so you no longer need to open terminal, ever. Well, it was somewhat unwieldy back then: long loading screens every time you open settings, somewhat chaotic UX.
Almost twenty years later YaST still remains the same: same loading screens, same necessity to learn tabs and flags and what they do instead of just opening text file and changing things like you do.
Anyway, apart from my ramblings, it's a huge change. YaST always has been one of the selling points of openSUSE, AFAIR. Now it's gone. Hope Cockpit and Myrlyn are better.
https://news.opensuse.org/2025/04/30/leap-16-enters-beta/