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Category: Linux

1. AWS C libraries, the unknown heroes behind AWS tools and the adventure to package them

   It all started with an orphaned Fedora package called aws-php-sdk3. I was interested to adopt and update it. I learned quickly that I have to take a look in the ... [read more]

2. Becoming a Fedora Packager

   I recently decided to finally become an active package maintainer. Quickly I had to realize that there are different ways to become a Fedora Packager. All have in common that ... [read more]

3. My first approved Fedora Package, yippie! ec2-instance-connect

   A while ago I was asked if I want to package ec2-instance-connect for Fedora and eventually EPEL. More specific "with Packit", which did send me down a weird path as ... [read more]

4. Fedora dist-git Packit onboarding

   Packit, oh my god, that's a tool and service that gave me a pretty hard time to understand how it works. Not necessarily because it's a complicated tool. But it ... [read more]

5. Adopting orphaned Fedora packages or how one thing leads to another

   Recently I started to become an active Fedora packager, which is something I really enjoy. It happens, for various reasons, that a package gets orphaned by its maintainer. Lack of ... [read more]

6. SUSE forks RHEL, SUSE Liberty Linux reloaded?

   I will not go into details about the recent announcement from Red Hat to stop publishing RHEL sources on git.centos.org and the millions of reactions from all sides ... [read more]

7. Access to SUSE Live Lab Environment through SSH reverse Tunnel and RDP

   SUSE provides some great Training Courses with a lot of Exercises and Online Labs are also available for most of them. But, at least in the Environment available to SUSE ... [read more]

8. openSUSE Tumbleweed - Python 3.10 - No package metadata was found for vorta

   I'm using Vorta, a Desktop Client for BorgBackup, on my Notebook with openSUSE Tumbleweed, which stopped working after upgrading Tumbleweed to a Version that started using Python 3.10 as ... [read more]

9. Customized openSUSE Images, to run on Proxmox VE out of the box, build on OBS

   I'm using openSUSE whenever possible but had some trouble to use the official images on Proxmox. There is mostly a kvm-and-xen image available, but that doesn't contain cloud-init and / or ... [read more]

10. Import 'protective MBR' GPT disk images like SUSE or openSUSE to LVM-Thin with disabled zeroing cause corruption

    Any available SUSE and openSUSE KVM Image I tried, ended in a VM that stuck on boot with the message "a start job is running for /dev/disk/by-uuid" or ... [read more]

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