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What HN saysHN commenters link it for openSUSE's work on systemd-boot, GRUB2 BLS, Btrfs snapshots, and secure boot with TPM disk encryption.
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- 1Transactional Updates in OpenSUSE Leap 153 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 2OpenSUSE Linux 12.3 has been released2 people · 71 points · first shared 2013 · 30 comments on HN
- 3OpenSUSE 13.2 released2 people · 13 points · first shared 2014 · 2 comments on HN
- 4OpenSUSE Leap 16.0 Released2 people · 10 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 5OpenSUSE Reaches First-Class Support for Nim Language2 people · 10 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 6openSUSE Leap 15.6 Released2 people · 6 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 7Systemd-Boot and Full Disk Encryption in Tumbleweed and MicroOS2 people · 6 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 8Uyuni Joins OpenSUSE Project Ahead of Annual Conference2 people · 3 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 9OpenSUSE Leap 16 enters beta2 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 10Introducing Kubic2 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 11Reproducible-OpenSUSE (RBOS) Project Hits Milestone2 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 12Manage dotfiles with Git2 people · first shared 2020
- 13OpenSUSE Leap 15.31 people · 80 points · first shared 2021 · 39 comments on HN
- 14OpenSUSE 13.1 Released1 people · 54 points · first shared 2013 · 40 comments on HN
- 15Hospital to Run GNU Health, OpenSUSE1 people · 41 points · first shared 2021 · 9 comments on HN
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sp1rit · 2020-12-29
I've been doing something similar.
Basically adding a alias to my zshrc, that runs: `git --git-dir=$HOME/dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME`.
And then set status.showUntrackedFiles to no.
See: https://github.com/sp1ritCS/dotfiles
I've got this idea from the following blogpost: https://news.opensuse.org/2020/03/27/Manage-dotfiles-with-Git/
tmtvl · 2026-02-03
OpenSUSE uses systemd-boot for its GRUB2 BLS implementation (<https://news.opensuse.org/2024/10/08/grub2-bls/>). It's really awesome because it lets me boot from Btrfs snapshots on a fully LUKS2 argon2id encrypted system.
s_ting765 · 2026-01-28
Opensuse have been working on making secure boot/TPM FDE unlock easy to use for a while now. https://news.opensuse.org/2025/11/13/tw-grub2-bls/
froh · 2025-04-11
nice to see they're in this too.
https://news.opensuse.org/2025/02/18/rbos-project-hits-milestone/
Arnavion · 2024-07-23
Some time ago they did add systemd-boot as a supported option and apparently it also generates one entry per snapshot.
https://news.opensuse.org/2024/03/05/systemd-boot-integration-in-os/
https://en.opensuse.org/Systemd-boot#Installation_with_full_BTRFS_snap…
https://github.com/openSUSE/sdbootutil
I haven't tried it though so I don't know for sure. (I have my own custom systemd-boot setup that predates theirs, and since my setup uses signed UKIs and theirs doesn't, I don't care to switch to theirs. I can still switch snapshots manually with `btrfs subvol` anyway; it just might require a live CD in case the default snapshot doesn't boot.)
doubled112 · 2024-06-28
Leap 15.6 was released on the 12th of this month.
https://news.opensuse.org/2024/06/12/leap-unveils-choices-for-users/
It might be the last OpenSUSE using the traditional release model, but it's not EOL.
tuananh · 2024-01-16
here's the official annoucement https://news.opensuse.org/2024/01/15/clear-course-is-set-for-os-leap/
diffeomorphism · 2022-05-26
A nice way to do that with git:
https://news.opensuse.org/2020/03/27/Manage-dotfiles-with-Git/
> then tediously spend a day or more re-configuring newly installed computers with the software and configurations I know I'm using
Config is just dotfiles pull and software is either a bash script, dpkg --set-selections or ansible (a bit overkill).
Another option is dropbox and lots of symlinks.
Kwpolska · 2021-11-11
KDE 4 also used this style of splash screen (with the icons fading into view): https://news.opensuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/kde4-splash1.jpg
Mister_Snuggles · 2020-09-14
I believe that's the same in FreeBSD as well. I also think it's a solved problem in the Linux world - OpenSuse Tumbleweed sometimes rebuilds every package because they've changed libc. Apart from watching 2000+ packages get updated, there's really no impact when this happens.
To solve this, the updater could create a new boot environment[0], install everything in that boot environment using as many passes as required, then reboot into that environment. OpenSuse already does a similar thing[1], though I don't know how well it works.
[0] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?beadm
[1] https://news.opensuse.org/2018/05/15/transactional-updates-in-opensuse…
kccqzy · 2019-06-11
The read-only system volume really seems like a neat idea. It reminds me of the Transactional Server role in openSUSE where they make system upgrades as atomic as possible: https://news.opensuse.org/2018/05/15/transactional-updates-in-opensuse…
That said, I don't understand the use case for firm links. Seems like the problem it's trying to solve can just be solved with simple mount points: mounting read-write /Users and /usr/local. Am I missing something?
sp332 · 2017-08-24
AppArmor is configured to run by default on any fresh installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles11/book_security/data/sec_aaint…
All the drama was back in 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20160410165126/http://www.cnet.com/news/no… Looks like it blew over by 2008 https://news.opensuse.org/2008/08/20/opensuse-to-add-selinux-basic-ena…
nidennet · 2012-01-19
From what I read they remain neutral.
Redhat though is against it: http://www.muktware.com/news/3230/sopa-pipa-are-threatening-innovation…
Mageia: http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/01/18/stop-sopa/
OpenSUSE: http://news.opensuse.org/2012/01/17/why-opensuse-org-goes-on-strike-to…
the_why_of_y · 2022-01-09
> Debian was the last major system to discard sysvinit
This is partially incorrect and partially misleading.
Incorrect in that openSUSE and Arch are major distros and migrated from sysvinit to systemd.
https://news.opensuse.org/2011/12/22/systemd-e2-80-93-boot-faster-and-…
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/4lzxs3/why_did_archlinux_e…
Misleading in that Ubuntu and Fedora did use Upstart but not in its native mode, they used it in its sysvinit compatibility mode. This is almost identical to sysvinit, so from the point of view of a user or a package maintainer it was functionally barely distinguishable from sysvinit.
OpenRC was considered by Debian, but 7 out of 8 members of the technical committee preferred both systemd and Upstart to OpenRC (Ian Jackson preferred sysvinit over OpenRC and "further discussion" over every other option).
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727708;msg=6729
cyphar · 2017-09-18
Big disclaimer, I work for SUSE on the team for this product (though I actually work on upstream projects more than the product itself).
SUSE's "Container as a Service Platform"[1] has a one-page install for each node with an admin panel that does auto-provisioning. It also has transactional updates and a few other nice features similar to CoreOS's "Container Linux". In addition, we're working on openSUSE Kubic[2] which will be the community-developed base for CaaSP in the future.
I believe most if not all of the code is available on GitHub[3] under a free software license (because that's how we do things). Not to mention that you could very easily fork openSUSE Kubic, once it's ready.
[1]: https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/introducing-suse-containers-serv…
[2]: https://news.opensuse.org/2017/05/29/introducing-kubic-project-a-new-o…
[3]: https://github.com/kubic-project