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I am continually impressed by the tolerance that openSUSE Tumbleweed has to delays between updates. The recommendation is weekly, maybe bi-weekly to keep your system up to day. It is NOT a good idea to go much more than a month but I have been sloppy from time to time. The great thing about Tumbleweed … Continue reading openSUSE Tumbleweed Endures 18 Month Update Gap
Anytime someone wants to give me a piece of hardware, it's hard for me to say, "no." I received this Acer AspireOne D255 as payment for installing openSUSE Leap on an HP Laptop. This little netbook was a bit slower than my other Acer AspireOne and with only 1 GiB of RAM and a dead … Continue reading Acer AspireOne D255 with openSUSE Tumbleweed Xfce
I have been trying other Linux distributions as of late, not due to any dissatisfaction of openSUSE, quite the contrary, I haven't been more satisfied with openSUSE. The fun of Linux is the variety of expression in solving similar user problems. Solus is a distribution that does pretty much everything its own way. I don't … Continue reading Solus | Review from an openSUSE User
For fun... or maybe negligence... I hadn't updated one of my openSUSE Tumbleweed netbooks. As a rolling distribution of Linux, it is generally considered in bad form to not keep it updated as it will likely break the installation. Not so with Tumbleweed. The System Acer Aspire One D255E Netbook Intel Atom CPU N455 @ … Continue reading Upgrade Reliability of openSUSE Tumbleweed