Since the beginning of this year, I was much involved in Linux and opensource activities carried out under the umbrella of cyberstorm.mu and it was pretty fun. After the Hackathon – Operation SAD where members of Cyberstorm Mauritius have fixed SSL bugs in many distros including OpenSUSE, I have decided to reach more potential OpenSUSE […]
Rest assured, Kiwi is neither a bird nor a fruit in the OpenSUSE world! Kiwi is an open source project licensed under the the GPLv2 and it is written in Perl. The project is sponsored by SUSE to build OS image and Appliance. “The KIWI Image System provides a complete operating system image solution for […]
The alien command is used by almost all system administrators. You might come across situations where you may need to install a .deb package on an OpenSUSE machine. You will need to convert it to a .rpm prior to doing the installation. The alien command is simply a way to convert or install an alien […]
“openSUSE Leap is a brand new way of building openSUSE and is new type of hybrid Linux distribution. Leap uses source from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), which gives Leap a level of stability unmatched by other Linux distributions, and combines that with community developments to give users, developers and sysadmins the best Linux experience available. […]