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Do you have many flatpaks? From various remotes added over time? Several themes installed? Disk space is starting to run out? Read on for some tips! ...

As you may or may not know libzypp is what powers zypper and YaST, which are the packaging frontends on openSUSE. Chances are, you’ve used both. But have you ever tried a development version or enabled unstable features? ...

After dipping my toes into Rust and preparing the boilerplate I’m going to explain what my first project is and how to use it! ...

openQA is a test framework that works with many operating systems. openSUSE, Fedora, Debian and others are using it to ensure the quality of releases. Writing tests with it is easier than you might think. And you can use Python to do it! ...

Not long ago I wrote about dipping my toes into Rust where I discussed what Rust is and why I’m interested to learn it. Now I feel like I need to try my hands on a real project which scratches an itch of mine and at the same time allows me to exercise what I learned. ...

openQA allows for a few different workflows. The main entry point is the web UI if you’re wanting to look at builds, relevant jobs, test results and of course to investigate down to the level of the bare logs if all else fails. Eventually there’s a point where you run into limitations of what’s exposed through the browser. Let’s take a look at what openQA has to offer on the command line! ...

Download audio There is this Perl module on CPAN that looks really handy So, I want to use Devel::Cover::Report::Codecovbash which is a Perl module. To test out how it works of course I can simply install it off CPAN: cpanm -nq 'Devel::Cover::Report::Codecovbash' I can use it just fine like this. To be sure, installing modules as a user $PERL5LIB needs to be set accordingly. Say I spent some time trying this out and decided that I want to depend on this package....

Download audio The mess that is a development setup You might be running something like openSUSE Tumbleweed, Leap or MicroOS for your day to day development. Traditionally the workflow involves installing all sorts of tools you might need, enabling fun development repos like devel-perl or app-specific repos and tweaking the system configuration to your liking. Sooner or later you will learn about the existence of --allow-vendor-change and how priorities work....

Download audio I want to develop openQA openQA is a framework to run system-level tests that is used for openSUSE, Fedora and others in a way that uses a serial console or mouse and keyboard input to interact with tests. No support from the software toolkit used is required to make this work. For the purposes of this article I’m going to assume you have a basic idea about openQA....

Download audio Blogging the lazy way Note: This little guide is focussing on GitLab, you can also setup a blog with GitHub Pages if that’s your preference. Allow me to introduce you to GitLab Pages. In short, you get a free git repo here with support for Hugo which is a static website generator based on Markdown. And the end result will show up on username.gitlab.io without your having to worry about domains or hosting....