openSUSE Leap 15.2 has entered the Beta phase on the 25th February 2020. I have recently installed this on my laptop to check it out. Leap 15.2 will coincide with SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 15 Service Pack 2. Both Leap and SLED share a lot of underlying packages, so this will be (again) a rock solid release. openSUSE Leap 15.2 features many big updates. This includes a new version of the KDE desktop environment, a new version of the GNOME…
The Corona (Corvid-19) virus has forced a lot of us to work from home. My preferred way of working, is by using openSUSE. Because my company has decided a while ago that Office365 and Microsoft Teams would be the default applications for collaboration, I am able to do so. Installing Microsoft Teams Preview The first thing to do is to go to the Microsoft Teams website to download the Teams software package. Save the RPM file to your computer. Now…
I am preparing a new WordPress website (Architect2Succeed.com) which is aimed at my profession as an IT architect. When I setup Fossadventures.com, I didn’t make an installation instruction as I was not sure that everything would be as I liked. Which turned out to be true, as I have switched from Hack/HHVM to PHP7/PHP-FPM. In this tutorial I want to incorporate all the learnings from my previous experience. This tutorial is likely to be very beneficial for all Linux beginners,…
When you host your own website on a Virtual Private Server or on a DigitalOcean droplet, you want to know if your website is down (and receive a warning when that happens). Plus it’s fun to see the uptime graphs and the performance metrics. Did you know these services are available for free? I will compare 3 SaaS vendors who offer uptime performance monitoring tools. Of course, you don’t get the full functionality for free. There are always limitations as…
There are several ways to update openSUSE Leap. However, there is one way that has served me the best over the last 10 years using openSUSE. And this is via the YaST Software Management graphical (GUI) interface. Other ways to update openSUSE Leap are: Via the command line / Zypper YaST online update KDE Plasma Software Updates The command line / Zypper method works just as well as the method described in this article. However, not everybody is comfortable with…