Intro The openSUSE MicroOS installer (YaST2) supports since snapshot 20250809 Full Disk Encryption (FDE) secured by a TPM2 chip and measured boot or a FIDO2 key. Since qu...
Default zypper backend Over the weekend we switched the default zypper backend from the classic_rpmtrans to the single_rpmtrans backend in openSUSE MicroOS. Anyone who ha...
Protecting against rogue devices in openSUSE with Full Disk Encryption openSUSE have now multiple ways to configure a Full Disk Encryption (FDE) installation. A very secu...
GRUB2 with BLS is now in MicroOS and Tumbleweed Recently the openSUSE project released for MicroOS and Tumbleweed a new version of the GRUB2 package, with a new subpackage...
Intro This is a quick start guide for Full Disk Encryption with TPM or FIDO2 and YaST2 on openSUSE MicroOS. It focuses on the few steps to install openSUSE MicroOS with Ya...
This blog post dates from December 2019 and was updated in August 2024. Intro As some may have already noticed, several configuration files are no longer in /etc but are ...
Intro systemd v254 introduced a new reboot method: systemctl soft-reboot. A soft-reboot is similar to a regular reboot, except it affects user-space only. This command do...
MicroOS and Tumbleweed gained a new feature: You can now easily enroll SSH keys for authentication through the firstboot wizard on the very first boot already! Motivation ...
Systemd-boot and Full Disk Encryption in Tumbleweed and MicroOS openSUSE Tumbleweed and MicroOS are now delivering an image that is using systemd-boot as boot loader and f...
Intro With the last updates openSUSE MicroOS and Tumbleweed don’t use /run/utmp, /var/log/wtmp and /var/log/lastlog anymore. This files will no longer be created. /run/utm...