openSUSE Leap 15.1 – FOSS adventures

Upgrading to openSUSE Leap 15.1, downgrading to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

10 September, 2019 Martin de Boer

In my latest article on upgrading to openSUSE Leap 15.1 I had experienced issues with my graphics card, an AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB card. The drivers were not working, which resulted in a black screen during the upgrade process. I could work around this by using nomodeset, but that essentially meant that I wasn’t using my midrange graphics card at all. I have bought this HP Pavilion Power 580-146nd especially to be able to run my Linux / Steam…

The openSUSE Leap 15.1 update experience

18 June, 2019 Martin de Boer

On the 22nd of May, openSUSE released (1) Leap 15.1. A couple of days later I took the plunge to update my laptop and desktop from openSUSE Leap 15.0. In this blog, I will detail my update experience. Updating my laptop My laptop is a ASUS VivoBook X402NA-FA112T. This is a laptop with an Intel Pentium N4200 processor, 4 GB of RAM and a 128 GB SSD. The upgrade to Leap 15.1 went flawless. I have used the SUSE studio…

Leap 15.1, the release that nobody talks about

4 May, 2019 Martin de Boer

openSUSE Leap 15.1 is almost ready for release! (1) This is always a high point of the year for me. I started researching what was new in this release. However, there is not much buzz around this release. I found only a few articles on Softpedia (2), Phoronix (3) and the announcement by Ludwig Nussel (4). When I tried to establish what was new (5) in Leap 15.1, I started to understand why. Leap 15.1 mostly features minor updates. Still…

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