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...
Intro With the last updates, many packages of openSUSE MicroOS, Tumbleweed and variants switched from utmp to systemd-logind. Y2038 Why do we need a replacement for utmp...
Intro With the last updates, openSUSE MicroOS, Tumbleweed and variants saw a new package: wtmpdb This is a replacement for wtmp. Y2038 Why do we need a replacement for ...
New Names! As seen in Richard Brown’s presentation at oSC23 Why you should be running the MicroOS Desktop We are pleased to announce a name change for both MicroOS Deskto...
Update/Clarification 2024-02-15 This post no longer reflects the state of the openSUSE Kalpa Project. More current updates on the state of Kalpa can be found at: Website M...