Month: June 2019
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Blathering | Raspberry Pi to Monitor Air Quality with an Arduino based Thermostat
I’d like to call myself a tinkerer, but I don’t tinker enough hold that badge. I do like to look at other projects and see what is out there for things to make my life more efficient. My target is to make my home, work for me, to automate every aspect that is feasible that…
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Puppy Linux | Review from an openSUSE User
A distribution of Linux that I have heard about for many, many years, considered trying but have not ever given a spin has been Puppy Linux. It is known for being small and low resource intensive distribution. I have played with some other low resource distributions but this one might be the smallest resource usage of…
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Snapshot Control | More openSUSE Tumbleweed Awesomeness
If you haven’t tried openSUSE Tumbleweed in a while, I highly recommend you take it for a spin. I am not using Tumbleweed on the majority of my computers. I have openSUSE Leap on a few but since my experience with Tumbleweed has been so positive it has taken over most of my machines. I…
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KDE Plasma 5.16 on openSUSE Tumbleweed | Pretty Great
Recently, the fine folks of the KDE Plasma team have released version 5.16. You can check out the announcement here and see all the work that has gone into it. This update rolled down to openSUSE Tumbleweed in the last few days and it was fantastic enough of an update, I had to blather about…
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openSUSE Leap 15.1 | Upgrade and Fresh Install Successes
Every review I do is from a biased lens as an openSUSE user and this will be no different. I will be taking a biased look openSUSE Leap 15.1. I’d like to say this will be completely objective… but it won’t. openSUSE is the operating system of choice for nearly every aspect of my life…
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Virtual Machine Manager with QEMU/KVM on openSUSE Tumbleweed
The author discusses transitioning from VirtualBox to Libvirt with QEMU/KVM after VirtualBox failed due to a kernel update. They detail installation steps, user permissions, and their experience configuring a virtual machine. While appreciating the performance and reliability of Libvirt, they note some challenges, particularly with terminology and disk management.
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Feren OS | Review from an openSUSE User
I haven’t been able to do one of these in a while but it is always fun to try out other distributions and experience another example of how to answer that user experience question. As part of the BigDaddyLinux community. I have given Feren OS a spin to see how it goes for me, the…