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December 5, 2019 11:06 am

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Yes We Do it Again: SUSE Doc Day at SUSECON 2020

After the huge success of our first-ever SUSE Doc Day during SUSECON 2019 in Nashville, we are happy to offer a similar in-person experience for our upcoming SUSECON 2020 in Dublin, Ireland. Doc Day will take place on the last day of SUSECON, on Friday, March 27 2020 (09:00-18:00), at the Convention Centre Dublin Spencer […]

Tags: Best Practices, community, conference, container technology, Doc Day, documentation, Dublin, enterprise server, event, guide, knowledge sharing, Linux, manual, OBS, Open Build Service, open source software, Storage, SUSE, SUSECON 2020, technical writing

Categories: Expert Views, SUSECON

By: chabowski

December 3, 2019 9:34 am

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Epic Performance with New Tuning Guide – SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on AMD EPYC* 7002 Series Processors

EPYC is AMD's flagship mainstream server microprocessors and supports 1-way and 2-way multiprocessing. The first generation was originally announced back in May 2017 and replaced the previous Opteron server family with the introduction of the Zen microarchitecture for the mainstream market. 2nd Generation AMD EPYC™ Processors With the second iteration of the EPYC […]

Tags: AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processors, AMD Infinity Architecture, AMD processors, benchmark, documentation, EPYC, kernel performance, microarchitecture, multiprocessing, NUMA, performance, performance world record, SLES15 SP1, SUSE Best Practices, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Tuning, tuning guide, Virtualization, Zen 2 architecture

Categories: Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions, Virtualization

By: chabowski

November 14, 2019 12:23 pm

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The Brains Behind the Books – Part VII: Alexandra Settle

The content of this article has been contributed by Alexandra Settle, Technical Writer at the SUSE Documentation Team. It is part of a series of articles focusing on SUSE Documentation and the great minds that create the manuals, guides, quick starts, and many more helpful documents. A Dream of […]

Tags: communication, creative writing, documentation, documentation team, OpenStack, software documentation, SUSE, SUSE Enterprise Storage, technical writer, technical writing

Categories: Expert Views

By: Carla Schroder

November 11, 2019 6:34 pm

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If You Think Producing Good Product Documentation is Expensive, try Calculating the Cost of Not Having It

When last we met (How to Keep Customers Happy and Liking Us a Lot, part 1), I discussed the importance of product documentation, and how merely flinging code out the door is not adequate for a fabulous enterprise open source company. Today I talk a bit about the cost of not having good product documentation. […]

Tags: documentation, Linux, Linux Administration, Open Source, SUSE

Categories: Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Technical Solutions

By: chabowski

August 6, 2019 12:55 pm

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Help Us Improve: SUSE Documentation Survey

Why Documentation? Documentation is an essential part of any product. For many years now, you hear me repeating this over and over again. There is no product which is so simple to use and maintain, that it doesn’t require any description, introduction or examples. This is especially true for enterprise software which covers many […]

Tags: CaaSP, documentation, documents, product documentation, software documentation, solution-based documentation, survey, SUSE, SUSE CAP, SUSE Container as a Service Platform, SUSE Enterprise Storage, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Manager, SUSE OpenStack Cloud, technical documentation, technical documents

Categories: Expert Views, Technical Solutions

By: Kent Wimmer

March 4, 2019 10:46 pm

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We’re Rolling Out The Green Carpet – Only 4 Weeks To Go!!

Show Your SUSE Style at SUSECON Anyone who's anyone will be seen at Open Source's premier event, and the best dressed will be wearing green. Only four weeks to go for you to secure your spot and rub shoulders with the best-of-the-best in Open Source technology. Which Sessions Will You Choose? Sessions abound about […]

Tags: documentation, SUSECON

Categories: Events, SUSECON

By: chabowski

March 4, 2019 5:16 pm

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First-Ever Public SUSE Doc Day – Join us at SUSECON!

Can't wait to attend SUSECON 2019 ? Do you think documentation is important ? Have you recently had a look at the Web site? Did you realize there is something new on the agenda ? We - the SUSE Documentation Team - are super excited ! In the spirit of this year's SUSECON theme "My Kind of Open", […]

Tags: CAP CaaS Platform, Container, Doc Day, documentation, editing, openSUSE, openSUSE Summit, publishing, SLES, solution-based documentation, solutions, SUSE Best Practices, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSECON, technical writing, writing

Categories: Events, Technical Solutions

By: Jeff Reser

February 25, 2019 9:28 pm

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My Kind of Open: SUSECON 2019 Gets Flexible

SUSECON 2019 is all about open done your way and why wouldn’t it be? We’re the “open” open source company after all! In today’s business environment, every company is a digital company. IT infrastructure needs to not only keep pace but also move fast enough to accommodate strategic business and […]

Tags: AI, documentation, HPC, machine learning, SUSECON

Categories: Events, SUSECON

By: chabowski

November 22, 2018 2:23 pm

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The Brains Behind the Books – Part VI : Markus Feilner

This article has been contributed by Markus Feilner, Team Lead of the SUSE Documentation Team. I really didnt' anticipate what would be the long-term result of this night. No one did, then. It was late 1994, and this nerdy guy I knew brought a plastic bag full […]

Tags: Ari Lemmke, documentation, editing, infrastructure, IT magazine, Journalism, Linus Torvalds, Linux, Linux journalist, Linux Magazine, Linux software, Open Source, OpenVPN, OSS, Phil Zimmermann, publishing, S.u.S.E Linux 1.0, Sparc, SUSE, Technical communication, technical writing, writing

Categories: Expert Views

By: chabowski

November 20, 2018 5:18 pm

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Yes We Can: Technical Documentation with DAPS for DocBook and AsciiDoc

This article has been contributed by Frank Sundermeyer, Project Manager of the SUSE Documentation Team. If you are working in technical communication, banking on DocBook for your documentation projects comes with many advantages. However, over the past few years, software documentation projects started to move from DocBook […]

Tags: AsciiDoc, community, content management system, contribution, DAPS, Developer, DocBook Authoring and Publishing Suite, DocBook XML, documentation, editor, engineer, engineering, enterprise solutions, Linux, openSUSE, Profiling, publication process, publishing, software, software architect, stylesheet, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Technical communication, technical writer, technical writing, toolchain, Validation, XML