Richard Brown

Building a openSUSE MicroOS RPi Network Monitor

How to use combustion to reproducibly configure MicroOS

Posted on December 9, 2020

openSUSE MicroOS is one of openSUSE’s most exciting projects, and for me has replaced openSUSE Leap as my go-to server operating system of choice. I currently have 3 MicroOS installations, all running as podman with openSUSE containers. The machines are as follows: A nice fanless... [Read More]

Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong

Why I No Longer Use openSUSE Leap

Posted on February 10, 2020

For those who don’t already know, openSUSE is a Linux Distribution Project with two Linux distributions, Tumbleweed and Leap. Tumbleweed is what is known as a Rolling Release, in that the distribution is constantly updating. Unlike Operating Systems with specific versions (e.g.. Windows 7, Windows 10, iOS 13,... [Read More]

Changing of the Guard

Posted on August 19, 2019

Dear Community, After six years on the openSUSE Board and five as its Chairperson, I have decided to step down as Chair of the openSUSE Board effective today, August 19. This has been a very difficult decision for me to make, with reasons that are diverse, interlinked, and personal. Some... [Read More]

Creating openSUSE-style btrfs root partition & subvolumes

Posted on January 19, 2018

openSUSE’s YaST installer creates a detailed btrfs root filesystem configuration that has been designed to be flexible and secure while still efficient when used with tools like Snapper. One of the overriding requirements is to provide a clearly defined ‘root filesystem’ containing everything we care about for ‘full... [Read More]

Hackweek 0x10 Conclusion

The Birth of the Kubic Desktop

Posted on November 16, 2017

Well it’s over, SUSE’s 16th hackweek. Here’s a quick post to sum up how my Hackweek went compared to my plans. Small Bits and Pieces I had a few small things on my list to look at. I didn’t get around to look at WeKan, but... [Read More]