SUSE/OpenSUSE: Badges, zypper, and more
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SUSE Receives 15 Badges in the Fall G2 Report Across its Product Portfolio
I’m pleased to share that once again this quarter G2, the world’s largest and most trusted tech marketplace, has recognized our solutions in its 2022 Fall Report. We received a total of 15 badges across our business units for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), SLE Desktop, SLE Real Time, and Rancher – including High Performer badges for almost each of our products – as well as a badge for the openSUSE community with Leap.
Last month, we celebrated 30 years of service to our customers, partners and the open source communities and it’s wonderful to keep the celebrations going with this recognition by our peers. Growing from 2 badges last quarter to 15 badges reinforces the depth and breadth of our strong product portfolio as well as the dedication that our team provides for our customers.
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FreeAptitude - Upgrading openSUSE Leap with zypper-upgradedistro
After using the procedure explained for years in the upgrade with zypper article, I decided to collect all these steps in a practical script, which take care of all the statuses and, when needed, asks for confirmations, or suggests how to proceed manually in particular situations.
Although I tried to cover all the errors and provide the right solutions for a wide range of possible mistakes, it’s strongly recommended to read the aforementioned article to have a clear idea of what is going on during an upgrade and to better understand the whole process.
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Run a Booth, Increase Awareness of openSUSE - openSUSE News
The openSUSE community is filled with tons of volunteers, professionals and hobbyists who contribute to the project and want to see it thrive.
One of the ways of doing this is to organize an openSUSE booth for an event.
Recently, security engineer Paolo Perego did this at an event in Rome called RomHack Camp. Perego learned quite a lot at the event that took place Sept 23 - 25 and shared his experience about the hacker camp on the openSUSE Project mailing list.
Perego wrote that people at the conference were surprised to see an operating system vendor having a booth and was able to let them know that openSUSE is also a project full of tools for open-source development.
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Fedora and openSUSE Are Dropping Support for Some Video Codecs
Fedora and openSUSE are removing H.264, H.265, and VC-1 VA-API video codecs support from Mesa to avoid potential patent issues.
Fedora’s decision to drop support for several essential video codecs sparked widespread outrage in the Linux community last week. Additionally, openSUSE quickly followed suit, further escalating the situation.
Because the case is highly complex, we will try to shed light on the nature of the problem, who is affected by it, and possible solutions.