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As an avid container user and occasional distro hopper Distrobox has my interest peaked. ...

Do you love to install the latest and greatest? Try out new and interesting things? Except it might break for some reason. If only you had a time machine… ...

Did you know? isotovideo is the tool at the heart of openQA. You can actually use it without the whole scheduler, and it’s easier than you think! ...

Presuming that one could very hypothetically use something like MicroOS for immutable servers, development machines and regular desktops for non-technical users, let’s see how that dream would look in practice. ...

Do you have many flatpaks? From various remotes added over time? Several themes installed? Disk space is starting to run out? Read on for some tips! ...

As you may or may not know libzypp is what powers zypper and YaST, which are the packaging frontends on openSUSE. Chances are, you’ve used both. But have you ever tried a development version or enabled unstable features? ...

openQA is a test framework that works with many operating systems. openSUSE, Fedora, Debian and others are using it to ensure the quality of releases. Writing tests with it is easier than you might think. And you can use Python to do it! ...

openQA allows for a few different workflows. The main entry point is the web UI if you’re wanting to look at builds, relevant jobs, test results and of course to investigate down to the level of the bare logs if all else fails. Eventually there’s a point where you run into limitations of what’s exposed through the browser. Let’s take a look at what openQA has to offer on the command line! ...

Download audio There is this Perl module on CPAN that looks really handy So, I want to use Devel::Cover::Report::Codecovbash which is a Perl module. To test out how it works of course I can simply install it off CPAN: cpanm -nq 'Devel::Cover::Report::Codecovbash' I can use it just fine like this. To be sure, installing modules as a user $PERL5LIB needs to be set accordingly. Say I spent some time trying this out and decided that I want to depend on this package....

Download audio The mess that is a development setup You might be running something like openSUSE Tumbleweed, Leap or MicroOS for your day to day development. Traditionally the workflow involves installing all sorts of tools you might need, enabling fun development repos like devel-perl or app-specific repos and tweaking the system configuration to your liking. Sooner or later you will learn about the existence of --allow-vendor-change and how priorities work....