openSUSE

Python 3.13 RC2 is now available in Tumbleweed. This new version of the Python interpreter will be released in October 2024.

There is a lot of changes and new features in 3.13, but we're also bringing exiting experimental features in Tumbleweed.

Experimental JIT compiler

The default (python313) build has the flag --enable-experimental-jit=yes-off. This means that if you want to use this experimental JIT you can enable with an environment variable:

$ PYTHON_JIT=1 python3.13

You can find more information about the JIT compiler and how it can improve performance in PEP-744.

Free threaded CPython (no GIL)

With this new version of Python interpreter, there is an option to build without the famous Global Interpreter Lock, aka GIL. This is a really experimental feature, but why not have this on Tumbleweed? So we decided to build also this new version with a new package python313-nogil.

This new package is an isolated interpreter, so you can install without conflicts with python313. The package is building with the --disable-gil option and it provides the /usr/bin/python3.13t binary. It uses by default /usr/lib/python3.13t/site-packages for third-party libs so, with the default configuration, it won't use any python 3.13 module.

This means that now you can use threading.Thread in the Python interpreter, and it will be actual threads so, at the end using threads with python3.13t, interpreter should be a lot faster.

There's no packages for this interpreter in Tumbleweed, at this moment. So if you want to use third party libraries you should use virtualenv and pip for that:

$ python3.13t -m venv free-threaded-env
$ source free-threaded-env/bin/activate
(free-threaded-env) $ pip install requests
(free-threaded-env) $ python3
Python 3.13.0rc2 experimental free-threading build (main, Sep 07 2024, 16:06:06) [GCC] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys; sys._is_gil_enabled()
False

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19629878

In recent testing scenarios involving a build and NetworkManager, a significant issue has surfaced: the network stack becomes non-operational.

Users are advised to postpone system updates for now, but if users have already updated, use Snapper to rollback; it’s important to note that while the issue primarily affects GNOME setups with Wicked, it can also impact servers without these components.

This problem has been consistently reproducible since at least the 20240825 Tumbleweed build. Bind 9.20.1 received an update has changes to DNS query handling and system controls, which may have inadvertently contributed to the network stack issue.

So I often have to install and test different programs. I do not want programs to access the Internet immediately. After a while I might want to allow it, so it should be easy to allow or disallow internet access at the application level.

Basically I wonder if there is an easy way to do this. It seems that OpenSnitch can do this, but it doesn't seem to work on OpenSuse. I might be able to get it to work eventually, but before I spend hours tinkering with it, do you know of a better solution? Might this even be possible with the built-in firewall or AppArmor?

openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 Beta is now available! We expect that it will very quickly transition to RC and GA as the infra readiness advances. Leap Micro 6.0 Beta images can be found at get.opensuse.org or directly at download.opensuse.org.

About Leap Micro

Leap Micro 6.0 is a rebranded SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.0 which is an ultrareliable container and VM host by SUSE. This is the first publicly released product based on the fresh code base "SUSE Linux Framework One" (previously known as ALP).

Leap Micro 6.X is available for x86_64 and aarch64, released every 6 months, and supported until the next-next release is out. That means that Leap Micro 6.0 will become EOL once Leap Micro 6.2 gets released.

All pieces related to Rancher and Elemental are purposely excluded from Leap Micro 6.X as SLE Micro for Rancher is free for use without any subscription within Rancher deployments.

No more traditional installer

Leap Micro 6.X is deployed via self-install image which writes a preconfigured image to the disk and enlarges root partition. Users can use combustion, ignition or default to the jeos-firstboot wizard to do the initial setup of the system.

Do not get mistaken by the availability of openSUSE-Leap-Micro-6.0-*.iso is not installable. We refer to the image as a Packages image, which is basically an offline repository on a DVD.

New FDE, VMWare, and Cloud images

Aside from the self-install image Micro 6.0 comes with qcow, Full Disk Encryption, and RealTime images. All images can be found at download.opensuse.org

For the first time Leap Micro 6.X has also cloud-init therefore shortly after the release we will also have cloud images available on GCP, Azure, and AWS.

Changes to the product building

Leap Micro 6.X is using the new product composer instead of the old product builder. This allowed us to consume update-info from the newly designed maintenance workflow of SLE Micro 6.0 and was preferred by the openSUSE maintenance team.

Changes to the repositories and maintenance workflow

Leap Micro 5.X users receive all updates released for relevant SLE Micro version via a repository named repo-sle-update. This particular repository no longer exists in Leap Micro 6.X.

Instead, the repo-main repository will contain all released updates for the relevant version of SUSE Linux Micro to date.

Please note that the repository path slightly changed too, we'll ensure that migration via transactional-update shell followed by zypper dup --releaser 6.0 works via compatibility symlinks on download server.

New way of managing repository definitions

openSUSE-repos is not new to our users, however, for the first time, openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 deployments come with openSUSE-repos preinstalled. openSUSE repos uses a local RIS service that easily lets us maintain repository definitions with a package update.

Users migrating from 5.5/5.4 releases are advised to install zypper in openSUSE-repos to ensure they have up-to-date repository paths.

Documentation

Please refer to SLE Micro 6.0 documentation including Release notes.

Reporting Issues

Please refer to the Leap Micro section in our Submitting bug reports page.

Next steps

Missing maintenance setup was a long-term blocker for the transition out from Alpha, otherwise, the distribution itself is stable and feature-full. Now that we have it, we need to polish some remaining infrastructure issues and users can expect a release within the next few days. Ideally before oSC2024 next week.

NUREMBERG, Germany – The release of Leap 15.6 is official and paves the way for professionals and organizations to transition to SUSE's enterprise distribution with extended support or prepare for the next major release, which will be Leap 16.

Demands for robust, secure and stable operating systems in the digital infrastructure sector are more critical than ever. The combination of the community-driven Leap 15.6 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 6, which integrates new features and enhancements, offers an optimal solution for managing critical infrastructure. Notably, SUSE's general support and [extended support]](https://www.suse.com/products/long-term-service-pack-support/) versions; these Product Support Lifecycles last well beyond Leap 15's lifespan, ensuring longer and reliable service for users.

SLE 15 SP 6 is a feature release, so users can expect several more features in the Leap 15.6 release.

This alignment ensures businesses and professionals using Leap for operational needs can enjoy a clear, supported transition to an enterprise environment, which is crucial in a move for systems that require long-term stability and enhanced security. As organizations strategize their upgrade paths, adopting an enterprise-grade solution like SUSE becomes a strategic decision, especially for those managing extensive networks and critical data across various sectors.

Since being released on May 25, 2018, Leap has added several additions like container technologies, immutable systems, virtualization, embedded development, along with other high-tech advances. A rise in usage from each minor release shows that entrepreneurs, hobbyists, professionals and developers are consistently choosing Leap as a preferred Linux distribution.

Leap 15.6 is projected to receive maintenance and security updates until the end of 2025 to ensure sufficient overlap with the next release. This will provide users with plenty of time to upgrade to the release's successor, which is Leap 16, or switch to SUSE's extended service support version. Users interested in commercial support can use a migration tool to move to SUSE's commercial support version.

The inclusion of the Cockpit[1] package in openSUSE Leap 15.6 represents a significant enhancement in system and container management capabilities for users. This integration into Leap 15.6 improves usability and access as well as providing a link between advanced system administration and user-friendly operations from the web browser. The addition underscores openSUSE's commitment to providing powerful tools that cater to both professionals and hobbyists. Leap does not come with a SELinux policy, so SELinux capablities for Cockpit are not functioning.

Container technologies receive a boost with Podman 4.8, which includes tailored support for Nextcloud through quadlets, alongside the latest releases of Distrobox, Docker, python-podman, Skopeo, containerd, libcontainers-common, ensuring a robust container management system. Virtualization technologies are also enhanced, featuring updates to Xen 4.18, KVM 8.2.2, libvirt 10.0, and virt-manager 4.1.

The Leap 15.6 release incorporates several key software upgrades enhancing performance and security. It integrates Linux Kernel 6.4, which provides backports for some of latest hardware drivers, which offer performance enhancements. OpenSSL 3.1 becomes the new default and provides robust security features and updated cryptographic algorithms. Database management systems receive significant updates with MariaDB 10.11.6 and PostgreSQL 16. Redis 7.2 offers advanced data handling capabilities and the software stack is rounded out with PHP 8.2 and Node.js 20; both received updates for better performance and security in web development. Leap will also have OpenJDK 21 providing improvements for enhanced performance and security in Java-based applications.

Updates in telecommunications software are seen with DPDK 22.11 and Open vSwitch versions 3.1 and OVN 23.03.

The KDE environment advances with the introduction of KDE Plasma 5.27.11, which is the latest Long Term Support version, Qt 5.15.12+kde151, and KDE Frameworks 5.115.0, as well as Qt6 version 6.6.3, facilitating smooth application operations with updated Python bindings for PyQt5 and PyQt6 aligning with Python 3.11.

Many unmaintained Python packages were removed as part of a transition to Python 3.11; more details can be found in the release notes.

GNOME 45 brings enhancements to the desktop environment, adding features that elevate the user experience. Audio technologies see major upgrades with the release of PulseAudio 17.0 and PipeWire 1.0.4, which improve hardware compatibility and Bluetooth functionality, including device battery level indicators.

These updates collectively enhance the system’s stability and user experience and make Leap 15.6 a compelling choice for professionals, companies and organizations.

Leap can be downloaded at get.opensuse.org.

End of Life

Leap 15.5 will have its End of Life (EOL) six months from today’s release. Users should update to Leap 15.6 within six months of today to continue to receive security and maintenance updates.

Download Leap 15.6

To download the ISO image, visit https://get.opensuse.org/leap/

If you have a question about the release or found a bug, we would love to hear from you at:

https://t.me/openSUSE

https://chat.opensuse.org

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-support/

https://discordapp.com/invite/openSUSE

https://www.facebook.com/groups/opensuseproject

Get involved

The openSUSE Project is a worldwide community that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. It creates two of the world’s best Linux distributions, the Tumbleweed rolling-release, and Leap, the hybrid enterprise-community distribution. openSUSE is continuously working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. The project is controlled by its community and relies on the contributions of individuals, working as testers, writers, translators, usability experts, artists and ambassadors or developers. The project embraces a wide variety of technology, people with different levels of expertise, speaking different languages and having different cultural backgrounds. Learn more about it on opensuse.org

1 [Root login is disabled by default. Please read details in the Try Cockpit in Leap Release Candidate article.

***** Two bugs related to Chrome with Wayland on GNOME 45 may see a fix coming in an update. *****

Retrospective

Provide your feedback to our release team by visiting survey.opensuse.org/ and taking our retrospective survey.

More Information about openSUSE:

Official

• openSUSE News
• openSUSE Mailing List
• openSUSE Wiki

Fediverse

• https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/[email protected]

_{^{(Image made with DALL-E)}}

Members of openSUSE Project are excited about the launch of Leap 15.6 on June 12 and encourages people to host a Release Party.

If you don’t know how to do this, there is a list of steps below on how to have a successful release party.

If you’re interested in hosting your own Release Party, there’s a handy checklist to help you plan a successful event:

• Find a Date: A weekend date is usually best, but flexibility is key. Find a common date that works for most people.
• Find a Place: A café, bar, or Linux group meetup location works great. Whether you opt for a coffee and cake party or a beer and pizza gathering, the key is to have fun.
• Cake: While not essential, a cake adds to the celebration. You can also bake openSUSE cookies.
• Pictures: Capture the moment with photos or videos and share them on social media. Tag openSUSE on X, Facebook, Mastodon, BlueSky or more.

There is already a plan to have people to meet virtually in the openSUSE Bar for the launch June 12. The virtual release party will feature members of the release team and community members. Join sometime on June 12 as participants from various countries are encouraged to join and interact with the openSUSE community.

Some will celebration the event in Nuremberg. Certainly people at the openSUSE Conference will highlight the release during the BBQ/Release Party.

These launch parties provide a chance for the community to connect with the people behind the project and to show an appreciation for contributors who make the release of Leap 15.6 possible. It's an excellent opportunity for the community to gather, celebrate and discuss the new release after months of development.

Schedule your release party today on the wiki and have a lot of fun!

More Information about openSUSE:

Official

• openSUSE News
• openSUSE Mailing List
• openSUSE Wiki

Fediverse

• https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/[email protected]

(Image made with DALL-E)

What is openSUSE.Asia Summit?

The openSUSE Project is excited to announce that openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 will be held in Tokyo, Japan. The openSUSE.Asia Summit is an annual conference for users and contributors of openSUSE and FLOSS enthusiasts. The former summits received major participation from Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and India.

Since the first openSUSE.Asia Summit was held in Beijing in 2014, the summits have been great opportunities for the online community to gather in person, know each other, and share knowledge and experiences about openSUSE including applications running on it. However, COVID-19 made it difficult for 3 years. One of our goals of this year’s summit is to provide a place for communication. Please note that we will not accept talks by video call this year.

The summit dates

The summit will be held on Nov. 2 and 3. An excursion for speakers is expected on Nov. 4, which will be announced later.

You might be interested in Open Source Summit Japan and Open Compliance Summit, held by the Linux Foundation near the venue just before our summit.

Cross-Distro Track

We are going to co-host the Cross-Distro Track by the collaboration with Cross Distro Developers Camp (XDDC). XDDC is a wider developer community of FLOSS OS distribution including openSUSE, Debian and Ubuntu and works together to resolve common issues especially related to Japanese. This year, we are considering inviting speakers and participants from other distribution communities, which will undoubtedly contribute to making the event even more exciting. Furthermore, it will be a great chance to let them know how openSUSE and its community are.

Venue

The openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 is going to be held in SHIFT Inc., located in Azabudai Hills, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. SHIFT Inc. is a company that supports to create sellable products and services and to grow the business of its customers. It offers integrated IT solutions and consulting services, including development, testing, UI/UX, and security, with its outstanding knowledge in software quality assurance.

• SHIFT Inc.

Azabudai Hills is a large-scale urban redevelopment project completed in November 2023. This area, which combines offices, residential units, retail outlets, and cultural facilities, is also a newly prominent tourist attraction. It is, of course, easy to access from Tokyo/Haneda airport and anywhere in the capital area by public transportation.

Tokyo and Japan

Tokyo is the capital of Japan. Its infrastructure and global connectivity will help attendees travel to the summit. There are direct flights from major cities in Asia Pacific as well as Europe and North America to either Tokyo/Haneda or Tokyo/Narita.

Tokyo is also a popular place for sightseeing with its unique culture, food, etc. Especially, characters from video games, anime, and comics, which are now common globally, attract tourists to Japan. In Tokyo, you can easily find character shops and get items related to works you love.

• Tokyo Manga and Anime Guide — japan-guide.com
• Food & Drink in Tokyo ― GO TOKYO

The number of tourists from abroad has recovered last year to the same level as before COVID-19. Due to the currency exchange rate, it will be a great chance to enjoy your trip to Japan while saving your money.

However, if there is any possibility of attending the summit, you should book your hotel right away with a cancelable plan. Some of our recommended hotels start accepting reservations from 5 months ago, which is June 1. Because Nov. 4 is a public holiday in Japan, rooms in budget hotels become sold out soon, or you will need to pay for your hotel at an inappropriately expensive rate, which might not be covered by the Travel Support Program.

Please also check the following web sites for tourism information in Tokyo and Japan:

• GO TOKYO (Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau)
• Travel Japan (Japan National Tourism Organization)
• Japan Guide

Call for speakers

We will start to call for speakers in June. Please read another post for the call for speakers on news.opensuse.org, published in a couple of days.

Wrapping Up

The openSUSE.Asia Summit is a great opportunity for the openSUSE community to meet together. The attendees will be able to enjoy their stay in Tokyo during the summit.

We are looking forward to seeing you this November in Tokyo.

Have a lot of fun!

More Information about openSUSE:

Official

• openSUSE News
• openSUSE Mailing List
• openSUSE Wiki

Fediverse

• https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/[email protected]

Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for May 2024. This month has seen a significant number of updates, enhancements, and crucial security fixes. Whether you are a developer, a system administrator, or a casual user, these updates are designed to enhance your experience and ensure the highest level of security and performance.

Should readers desire a more frequent amount of information about snapshot updates, readers are encouraged to subscribe to the openSUSE Factory mailing list.

Let’s go!

New Features and Enhancements

• Linux Kernel 6.9.1: The month of May had a couple updates for the Kernel, but so far remains at version 6.9.1, which addresses various issues and enhancing overall stability. The mt76 driver for wifi saw improvements with the addition of missing chanctx operations for the mt7915 wifi card, enhancing functionality. A critical fix was made to the keys subsystem to prevent overwriting key expiration during instantiation, improving security. Support for system suspend/hibernation was enhanced for the Modem Host Interface subsystem with the addition of the mhi_power_down_keep_dev() Application Programming Interfaces, which is beneficial for maintaining device states during power management operations.
• LLVM 18.1.6: Subpackages that were updated were clang-tools, clang18, libLLVM18, libclang-cpp18, libclang13, llvm18-gold. Fixed issues with generating incorrect thunks for functions with aligned parameters or incorrect return value passing when StructRet was used. -Xclang -target-feature -Xclang +unaligned-scalar-mem for enabling unaligned scalar memory accesses on CPUs without unaligned vector access support were introduced. Build failures when compiling AVX512 code with -march=native on machines without AVX512 were addressed. Crashes in the AArch64 backend related to fcmp instruction operands being true or false at the IR level were fixed and there was a fix to compiler crashes.
• KDE Frameworks 5.116.0: Breeze Icons received new icons for audio/ogg and audio/x-vorbis+ogg file types, as well as the audio/vnd.wave MIME type, enhancing support for audio file formats. Extra CMake Modules had notable updates including the dropping of attempts to set IMPORTED on targets with installed configurations in ecm_add_qch. KFileMetaData saw a fix with the handling of attribute namespacing and improved metadata accuracy and processing. KService addressed a warning related to the "mimeType x-scheme-handler/file not found" issue.
• udisks2 2.10.1: This update features updated Ukrainian and German translations, improvements to testing for LVM2 RAID by wiping used devices, settling down before checking properties and rescanning vdevs after tests. Offline and online filesystem grow tests were added, and documentation for the Filesystem.Size property was clarified. A fix was implemented for Python class invocation in nvme tests, and a --no-partition-scan option was added for the loop-setup command in udisksctl. A --no-partition-scan option for the loop-setup command in udisksctl was added.
• firewalld 2.1.2: The update to 2.1.2 includes several fixes: the policy now allows forwarding ports with the to-addr for egress-zone=HOST, the range check for large rule limits in rich rules has been corrected, and skip detection in the fw-in-container environment has been fixed during testing.
• snapper 0.11.0: The update introduces asynchronous cleanup of stale btrfs qgroups and reverts some parts to fix the build in the Open Build Service. The cleanup service is now set to run every hour and qgroups are disabled if they do not exist to avoid failure when creating snapshots. Support for quarterly snapshots has been added, and a table-style selection is now based on codeset.
• GTK3 3.24.42: Printing is improved by avoiding access to freed printers. Wayland fixes include correct monitor sizes, a crash related to tablet removal, inferred resizable edges for tiled windows, and ensuring commits occur soon after acknowledging a configure.
  GTK4 4.14.4: A crash issue when there is no child was resolved and efficiency improvements were made in loading symbolic SVGs and handling color-free symbolics. Accessibility updates include making the gtk-demo sidebar search more accessible and stopping the emission of focus events. GDK introduced support for XDG_ACTIVATION_TOKEN and made defensive improvements for dmabuf. These improvements include handling unknown formats more carefully and using a narrower range for YUV formats.
• Mozilla Firefox 126.0. The browser brought had a major update and fixed 16 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures. There was arbitrary JavaScript execution in PDF.js fixed with CVE-2024-4367. A potential permissions request bypass via clickjacking was fixed for CVE-2024-4764. There were memory safety bug fixes addressing CVE-2024-4778 and CVE-2024-4777; the latter helps with those for Firefox ESR 115.11 and Thunderbird 115.11.
  sssd 2.9.5: The update introduces a new configuration option called failover_primary_timeout. This option allows users to configure how often SSSD tries to reconnect to a primary server after successfully connecting to a backup server. Previously, this interval was hardcoded to 31 seconds, which remains the default value.
• openldap2 2.6.7: The liblber library fixes a missing newline on long messages and libldap addresses exit handling issues with OpenSSL3, TLS usage with multiple LDAP URIs OpenSSL cipher suite handling and handling of Diffie-Hellman parameter files with OpenSSL 3.0. The slapd service now honors the disclose option in matchedDN handling, improves regex testing in ACLs, and fixes sync replication with glued databases.
• iproute2 6.9: The update introduces several new features and improvements: The m_mirred module now allows mirroring to block and the tc command adds NLM_F_ECHO support for actions and filters. The ip command has been enhanced with coupled_control support for bonding and a new monitor command for IOAM6.
• xwayland 24.1.0: The feature release addresses several regressions introduced in previous release candidate versions. The eglstreams support has been dropped.
• AppStream 1.0.3: Key features include enhanced validator checks to ensure description lists aren't translated, improved translation checks for descriptions and the ability to propagate selected custom entries to catalog output via the CLI compose command. Many other features were added.

Key Package Updates

• tpm2-0-tss 4.1.0: This updated provided a major security fix for CVE-2024-29040. Various bug fixes were implemented, including correcting the length check on FAPI auth callbacks, fixing the deviation from the CEL specification and resolving json syntax errors in FAPI profiles that were previously ignored by json-c. The update also adds support for new features and enables the usage of external keys for Fapi_Encrypt.
• postgresql16 16.3: A fix was made for CVE-2024-4317, which could allow for an unprivileged database user to read most common values and other statistics from CREATE STATISTICS commands of other users.
• Python 3.x versions had a fix for CVE-2023-6597 A vulnerability was discovered in the CPython. It affected versions 3.12.1, 3.11.7, 3.10.13, 3.9.18, 3.8.18, and earlier. This class would incorrectly follow symlinks during cleanup when there were permission errors. As a result, users with the ability to run privileged programs could potentially change the permissions of files pointed to by symlinks under certain conditions.

Bug Fixes

• glib2 2.80.2:

  • CVE-2024-34397 - An issue in GNOME GLib allows spoofed D-Bus signals, affecting client behavior

• qt6-base:

  • CVE-2024-33861 - QStringConverter's invalid pointer callback can modify the stack, risking vulnerabilities in applications using QStringDecoder.

• libxml2 2.12.7

  • CVE-2024-34459 - Buffer over-read in xmllint --htmlout can cause vulnerabilities in libxml2 before 2.12.7.

• libarchive 3.7.4:

  • CVE-2024-26256 - Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.

• krb5 added some patches to fix memory leaks related to:

  • CVE-2024-26458
  • CVE-2024-26461
  • CVE-2024-26462

• ovmf

  • CVE-2022-36763 - EDK2 vulnerability in Tcg2MeasureGptTable() allows heap buffer overflow via local network

• python-Jinja2 3.1.4:

  • CVE-2024-34064 - Jinja's xmlattr filter vulnerability allows non-attribute characters in keys, risking XSS attacks.

• tpm2-0-tss 4.1.0:

  • CVE-2024-29040 is a flaw that allows an attacker to generate arbitrary quote data, which may not be detected by Fapi_VerifyQuote.

Conclusion

The month of May 2024 had a steady flow of crucial security fixes, important updates, and notable enhancements across various packages for openSUSE Tumbleweed. The updates to the Linux Kernel, LLVM, KDE Frameworks and numerous other components ensure that Tumbleweed systems remain feature-rich and keep rolling. Developers and users alike benefit from the improvements, enhancements and new features.

For those Tumbleweed users who want to contribute or want to engage with detailed technological discussions, subscribe to the openSUSE Factory mailing list . The openSUSE team encourages users to continue participating through bug reports, feature suggestions and discussions.

Contributing to openSUSE Tumbleweed

Your contributions and feedback make openSUSE Tumbleweed better with every update. Whether reporting bugs, suggesting features, or participating in community discussions, your involvement is highly valued.

More Information about openSUSE:

Official

• openSUSE News
• openSUSE Mailing List
• openSUSE Wiki

Fediverse

• https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/[email protected]

Looks like most of the improvements have nothing to do with GNOME, so they should also probably impact Kalpa (the KDE MicroOS distro).

I'm particularly interested in these developments because I'm going to upgrade the CPU on my NAS (old Phenom II -> Ryzen 1700), and I'm considering reinstalling w/ MicroOS. It's currently running on an old SATA SSD, but NVMe drives are getting so cheap that it's probably worth an upgrade.

The openSUSE Project has an official space on Hugging Face, which is a popular platform offering a range of open-source Artificial Intelligence models, tools and resources.

The new namespace can be found at huggingface.co/openSUSE.

Hugging Face is known for facilitating developers and researchers in working with advanced AI applications that include natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision.

Having the openSUSE namespace provides community-driven development toward creating, sharing and improving AI models and datasets.

One dataset has already been added. The first dataset is openSUSE Cavil, which is a tool designed for license compliance, identification and legal reviews. By leveraging the rich AI models and datasets available through the Hugging Face platform, openSUSE Cavil can offer a more advanced and accurate detection of license issues and compliance.

To get involved with the openSUSE Project on Hugging Face, individuals can sign up for an account. The registration process is straightforward and requires only basic information.

Once registered, users can explore the openSUSE and view a collection of AI models and datasets created and shared by the community.

Contributors are encouraged to share their AI models and datasets. Hugging Face offers tools and tutorials to assist with uploading and managing these contributions. Community members can work together on improving existing models or developing new ones.

High-quality documentation and tutorials are vital for the success of the project. Community members can contribute by writing guides, creating video tutorials, or translating existing resources to broaden their accessibility.

Users gain access to cutting-edge AI models and a collaborative environment where they can learn and expand their skills. Contributions to the project support the advancement of AI research and development within the open-source ecosystem.

For more information and to participate, visit huggingface.co/openSUSE.

More Information about openSUSE:

Official

• openSUSE News
• openSUSE Mailing List
• openSUSE Wiki

Fediverse

• https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/[email protected]
• https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/[email protected]

From the website:

OpenVINO is an open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying deep learning models from cloud to edge. It accelerates deep learning inference across various use cases, such as generative AI, video, audio, and language with models from popular frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, and more. Convert and optimize models, and deploy across a mix of Intel® hardware and environments, on-premises and on-device, in the browser or in the cloud.

Important dates:

• expected summit date is Nov. 2 and 3 soon after Open Source Summit Japan
• call for speakers is going to end around the end of July

There will be another announcement in a couple weeks.

Looks like Leap 15.6 will ship with Cockpit, which looks pretty cool.

I just set up a new VPS w/ Leap 15.5, so I'm thinking about giving this a try. I'm not a fan of YaST on the CLI, and I'm not going to install a GUI on my VPS, so being able to just SSH tunnel to the admin panel sounds really nice.

Has anyone tried Cockpit (project link for the lazy)? It seems like it can manage most popular distros, so that's a pretty big value prop over YaST, which is pretty much only for SUSE. It looks like it's a RedHat project, but it's cool that openSUSE is pulling it in for 15.6.

Slowroll just bumped its Tumbleweed snapshot version a few hours ago.
This update contains everything since the previous snapshot 2024-02-13, including the Plasma and Gnome updates.

by Douglas DeMaio

So, I updated Tumbleweed, and the updates to KDE caused my Plasma/Wayland session to restart, breaking the updates part way through. I wasn't watching at the time so took some while to debug!

Spent some time learning how to use nm-cli, because new half-upgraded KDE wouldn't load the network widget. It looks like something else may have changed and mucked up in the half-update (and of course I rebooted like a wise-man/dummy/i-dont-know-but-at-least-it-didnt-make-it-work) but iterations of trying things in nmcli eventually worked!

Finally tried zypper dup again and saw the session restart, so finished the job from the virtual terminal! At last, I seem to have a working computer again, and I might just brave updating my main laptop. (I cancelled the update while it was still downloading packages, after seeing the breakage on the other laptop!)

Any idea when this will hit tumbleweed? I'm really looking forward to this release!

Hey, I've gone ahead and decided to try out TW as my first foray into the Linux world, and I started by getting it set up on my laptop. Everything seems to be working pretty well for me (other than wifi passwords not saving by default, but I seem to have found a workaround that's not too inconvenient).

I later tried to get it set up on my desktop and the experience was very sluggish and I was curious if there would be an obvious reason as to why. I understand that I'm giving few details here, but the sluggishness was not felt at all on my laptop and was felt immediately on my desktop. I have since installed fedora on my desktop and it's been very solid and noticeably not sluggish.

I thought I should perhaps try to understand what potential issues occurred so I can get a better understanding of the system I'm using. Thanks in advance for any input.

From what i have read, the winning logos are not guaranteed to be chosen, so we will have to wait for an official announcement. I think there is a meeting today, so I would keep an eye on the official wiki and news pages. On the meeting on tuesday (12.12), the competition results have been discussed but I don't know what's been said.

Notes for the meeting on 12.12

Notes for the meeting on 14.12

The deadline has passed, but I'm not sure if all entries have been added to the wiki yet.

Slowroll repos have been moved to a new location.
Upcoming version bump, to catch up with Tumbleweed, announced.

I'm coming for a *deb/*buntu world and I would find useful if I have a cheat sheet for Tumbleweed with the most basic commands and especially if there is something that correlates them with commands I'm already familiar.

For example that # zypper up replaces # apt upgrade

I have already found a cheat sheet for zypper here https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Zypper_usage#Cheat_sheet so I'm looking for something that includes more stuff than just zypper. Or is zypper the main difference? I mean (I'm completely new on opensuse) other stuff, like restarting services, or default location of config files, or how to do other basic low level actions, I'm not sure if they are different, but if yes, looking for such relation-map.

Hope it makes sense what I'm asking, thanks in advance