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January 26, 2026 4:12 pm

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Declarative RPM: Cleaning Up Your Spec Files

This article was written by Marcus Rueckert, Build Service Engineer at SUSE. This article originally appeared on the 'Nordisch by Nature' blog under the same title and has been slightly updated for the suse.com blog. The End of Spec File Sprawl? Enter Declarative RPM For decades, the RPM spec file has been the "[…]

Categories: DevOps, Free Tools, Server, SUSE Documentation, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: phandigol@suse.com

January 23, 2026 11:24 am

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KIWI basics for openSUSE Tumbleweed Minimal OS images

KIWI is a tool that builds complete Linux images from a declarative description. It is used by openSUSE and SUSE to create ready-to-run disks for many platforms such as KVM, Xen, VMware, Hyper-V, cloud providers, and hardware devices. With KIWI, you keep your image recipe in version control and rebuild it any time. The recipe […]

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By: Steffen Winterfeldt

August 7, 2025 8:47 am

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Make your own SUSE DVD – Tooling for SUSE and Multi-Linux installation / Live media

When you are doing Linux installations regularly or have a large number of machines to deploy you might want to make changes to the official installation media to make work more efficient. This might range from having your network setup parameters integrated, to running your favorite autoyast or kickstart profile automatically, to integrating a driver […]

By: Aleksa Sarai

May 26, 2025 9:29 am

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Four Years On, Umoci Celebrates A Long-Awaited Release

After a nearly four-year hiatus, there is a new umoci release! umoci is the reference implementation of the Open Container Initiative (OCI) image specification, and provides users with the ability to create, manipulate, and otherwise interact with container images. It is designed to be as small and unopinionated as possible, so as to act as […]

Categories: Announcements, Containers, DevOps, Free Tools, Server and Application Virtualization, SUSE CaaS Platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise Base Container Images, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Micro, Virtualization

By: Sebastian Riedel

April 15, 2025 11:49 am

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LoRA Fine-Tuning LLMs for Text Classification

Background At SUSE, we build enterprise Linux distributions used around the world. Our success is deeply rooted in the Open Source community and we leverage thousands of Open Source projects to build our offerings. While this collaborative approach fosters innovation, it also presents significant legal and compliance challenges. Navigating the complex landscape of licenses, intellectual […]

Tags: AI, Legal, Linux, LoRA

By: Nuno Do Carmo

March 12, 2025 11:22 am

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Introducing DevX Validated Designs by SUSE –Simplifying Cloud-Native Software Development at Scale

Enterprises push the boundaries of cloud native innovation with hundreds of engineering teams deploying thousands of services across hybrid environments, making standardization, security, and operational efficiency complexities critical to overcome. To address these challenges, at SUSECON 2025 we’re excited to introduce DevX Validated Designs by SUSE—a structured approach to developer workflows, automation […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Automate IT Ops, Containers, Containers as a Service, Free Tools, Interoperability, Kubernetes, Partners, Rancher Kubernetes, Software-defined Infrastructure, SUSE Blog, Technical Solutions

By: Christian Hüller

December 19, 2024 6:20 pm

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Local AI and Confluence

Introduction This post is part of a series on locally using AI models. Previous posts are Running AI locally Generating images with LocalAI using a GPU Introduction to AI training with openSUSE Adding own Documents to your Local AI Using RAG In the last post I explained how to use RAG to add your own […]

By: Christian Hüller

November 13, 2024 5:14 pm

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Adding own Documents to your Local AI Using RAG

Introduction This is part 4 of a series on running AI locally on an openSUSE system. Previous parts can be found here: Running AI locally Generating images with LocalAI using a GPU Introduction to AI training with openSUSE Since we have LocalAI running, generated images, text and even trained own LoRAs, another big topic is […]

Categories: Containers, Free Tools, Products, SUSE AI

By: Thomas Schlosser

November 6, 2024 8:37 am

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Configure SAP services to log outsite of journald

Why should we do this - The story behind Journald is an integral part of systemd. It is the centralized location for all messages logged by different components in a modern linux system. On a SUSE system all the messages are forwarded in addition to rsysylog. This means all logs are stored in systemd-journal and […]

Category: Free Tools

Declarative RPM: Cleaning Up Your Spec Files

KIWI basics for openSUSE Tumbleweed Minimal OS images

Make your own SUSE DVD – Tooling for SUSE and Multi-Linux installation / Live media

Four Years On, Umoci Celebrates A Long-Awaited Release

LoRA Fine-Tuning LLMs for Text Classification

Introducing DevX Validated Designs by SUSE –Simplifying Cloud-Native Software Development at Scale

Local AI and Confluence

Adding own Documents to your Local AI Using RAG

Configure SAP services to log outsite of journald

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