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By: Meike Chabowski

February 20, 2024 11:42 am

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The Year of Agama – an outlook to the 2024 roadmap

The following article has been contributed by Ancor González Sosa and the YaST team at SUSE.       At the end of 2023, we announced Agama 7, a new service-based installer for Linux. That version was the first prototype we could consider to be 'functional enough' for our purposes, as […]

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By: German M. Yebenes

December 20, 2022 7:44 am

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ALP is moving to its next peak: Punta Baretti

December is here and it is time to deliver the next version of the ALP  project, which we call “Punta Baretti”. For those wondering, ALP stands for ‘Adaptable Linux Platform’. Back in September, we unveiled the ALP. Before jumping into Punta Baretti, let’s recap what ALP is.   What is […]

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By: Helen Tang

July 10, 2019 4:51 pm

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Hooray for HA!

Are you an SAP architect? Want to save 80 minutes and ensure more than six 9s of availability on your SAP HANA system? Then wait no more, watch this 5-minute video and walk away happy, :) For the rest of you that needs more convincing, let me do a little rewind. In 2010, SAP raised […]

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By: Vincent Moutoussamy

March 12, 2019 12:59 pm

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Combine the performance of solid-state drive with the capacity of a hard drive with Bcache and YaST

  [The following article has been contributed by Ancor González Sosa and the YaST team at SUSE.] Usual readers of the YaST Team development sprint reports on this blog already know we have been working steadily on adding support for the Bcache technology to the YaST Partitioner. We have already reached a […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

November 22, 2017 11:01 am

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Backing up Your Data on Your Linux System

The following article is part of a series of articles that provide tips and tricks for Linux newbies – or Desktop users that are not yet experienced with regard to certain topics. This series intends to complement the special edition #30 “Getting Started with Linux” based on openSUSE Leap, recently published by the Linux […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

September 30, 2016 3:53 pm

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It Can Be Love: Developers and Documentation!

After working 22+ years in the IT industry, and more than 16 years at SUSE, it's amazing to see that – still - you live and learn. In spring, when I was just fresh and new in the documentation team, I wrote a blog about my first weeks in engineering. One comment I made […]

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By: Dobrin

June 3, 2013 1:03 am

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Package and System Management Tools for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and openSUSE

By Dobrin Dobrev The purpose of this page is to point out some tools for package and system management specific to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and openSUSE. This page is linked from the images which run SUSE in a cloud provider environment so some prior Linux experience is assumed. Install Additional Software SUSE Linux Enterprise […]

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By: ataschner

December 8, 2010 4:18 pm

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Creating add-on products with YaST

SUSE Linux Enterprise ships with an "Add-On Creator" YaST module, which allows you to create and maintain custom defined products to be installed on SLE. To ensure system integrity, the product and packages must be signed with a GPG key. In case this key does not already exist a the target machine, it needs […]

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By: ataschner

September 9, 2009 3:15 pm

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How to integrate custom scripts into the YaST installation workflow and dialogs

AutoYaST is an automated process to install SUSE operating systems onto diverse hardware. It enables unattended installations on diverse hardware defined in an XML-based control file that contains all settings and data required by the installer. Although AutoYaST is very flexible and allows for custom scripts to be executed during the installation, it is a […]

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