OpenSUSE

One of the reasons I got myself a home server is so that I can learn about containers. I’ve just got my first one set up, and as this was my first ‘rodeo’ it certainly took a while, but it turned out to be really quite easy in the end. So, here’s how I did it, and just as importantly - also what I learned. podman and quadlet I decided that I wanted to see if I could run a Minecraft server on my home server - because, why not? I’ve never had anything to do with containers before. However, I’m not an expert, but looking through the MicroOS docs I knew that I needed to use podman, which is like Docker, and that it came pre-installed on MicroOS. Later on, I realized that there was another app called quadlets - it’s now deprecated and merged into Podman since version 4.4 - that has really good functionality that I should use. ...

Setting Up a Token2 FIDO2 Hardware Token on openSUSE Tumbleweed I recently purchased a USB-C FIDO2 hardware token from Token2 to use with my openSUSE Tumbleweed installation. Unlike standard Yubikeys, this device doesn’t work with the default Linux Yubikey software, so you need to build the Token2 software yourself. We’ll be building libfido2, which will allow you to use your Token2 key. By the end of this guide, you’ll be able to view your hardware information through a basic GUI (gui.py) or via a more useful shell script that lets you actually interact with your Token2 key. ...

Recently, there was a discussion on omg.lol’ers about which good Linux distros are worth trying, and someone during the discussion mentioned Fedora Sway. So, I decided to overwrite my lovely Arch & Hyprland install on my Dell laptop, and install Fedora, which ultimately led me to installing openSUSE Tumbleweed. I started off with installing the Fedora Sway edition, and I have to say it mostly just works, and as a bonus it doesn’t have a garish colour scheme (here’s looking at you, Manjaro!). But after using it for 48 hours, I felt too constricted with the guardrails/distro decisions that they put in place—to be clear, all distros will, to a certain extent, put guardrails in place. For example, I wasn’t able to use systemd-boot, nor systemd-networkd. The power management out of the box really did not work well with my Dell laptop. I also wanted my regular dopamine hit with regular updates to Linux apps much like I had with Arch, so I realised quite soon that I really did want to continue using a rolling release distro. Fedora, I believe (happy to be corrected), updates their distro twice a year, and I think that Fedora 42 is coming out in a couple of months. ...