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1 • OpenSUSE Leap 16 (by Peter on 2025-10-06 00:38:06 GMT from New Zealand)
Have been a Leap user for a few years and not too happy to see Yast disappear.
I do however think that after using /installing other distros I did find the Leap installer unnecessarily awkward to use especially when trying to set up previously created partitions.
2 • F-Droid and Google Play (by Wedge009 on 2025-10-06 00:54:49 GMT from Australia)
I suspect Google's proposed changes will go ahead regardless... but for those of us who live outside the influential spheres of the US and EU, is there any practical action we can take with regards to this disappointing loss of choice?
3 • Yast Removal (by BlueIV on 2025-10-06 01:08:58 GMT from United States)
I always thought Yast was a little clunky and a bit dated looking, but it works well. Apparently they are moving Leap to correspond more to Suse Enterprise Linux, which I'm sure it makes it easier to maintain.
4 • Agree with @1 on the new SUSE installer. (by thatguy on 2025-10-06 01:19:22 GMT from United States)
I hadn't tried Leap in years so decided to give it a shot, if only to try the new installer. I'm not impressed at all.
They've gone from an installer with the most fine-grained control imaginable to one that's less than intuitive and far too confusing. They've removed most of the control in the interest of simplicity I guess, but it's a mess. They'd be better off using calamares.
Idiocracy is not something you expect from SUSE...
5 • f-droid and proprietary control (by salparadise on 2025-10-06 04:24:34 GMT from United Kingdom)
Horrible decision, but not surprising.
There's plenty of old hardware around that can run older software and unless they backport this to all versions of Android it will take a while before there's no more smartphones available.
I've been expecting a similar move on pc's. I would not be surprised if, at some point, they try to ban Linux for "ordinary people", declaring it to be for developers only, or worse, as a tool of terrorists. Linux is already compromised in comparison to where it was 20 years ago. The god of convenience has been sacrificed to more than once.
Bad enough that they should be trying to mandate the use of technology. Intolerable that they demand to control how we use it.
At that point I shall disconnect, from everything, and be a monumental pain in their ass demanding paper versions and face to face meetings. As well as demanding compensation for having to abandon perfectly functional hardware, just to meet their interminable control freakery demands.
6 • openSUSE Leap drops YaST control centre (by user on 2025-10-06 05:29:13 GMT from Hungary)
openSUSE without YAST lost its distinctiveness that made it shine over other distributions. Now it is a mediocre common distro, only the name hints for its former greatness - for these who remember it.
7 • Redox (by Rustrat on 2025-10-06 05:34:52 GMT from United Kingdom)
Redox ppl now say that their OS will be desktop ready by 2027. This is good news because it shows that they are serious about wanting to compete on the desktop with other OSs.
This contrasts with most alternative OSs, that are often said to be "ready when its ready". This usually means that it will be in development for a long time - and may never reach adequate desktop functionality.
8 • Leap 16 (by Dave Postles on 2025-10-06 07:26:15 GMT from United Kingdom)
I had Leap 15.6 running as I wished. Instead of upgrading, I attempted a new installation of 16. Obviously I messed up the installation, because on reboot it just dropped down to local login prompt. I abandoned it at that stage.
9 • openSUSE Leap changes (by Josh Smith on 2025-10-06 09:39:20 GMT from Australia)
I installed openSUSE Leap 16.0 earlier today. I liked its new installer, Amaga, in some respects, namely it felt more graphically polished and simple than YaST. But I disliked that it didn't allow me the option to choose an ext4 root file system. Btrfs was compulsory. You could choose a logical volume manager for managing your Btrfs volumes, but you had to use Btrfs for the root file system. I looked and looked and there were no options to change the root file system to ext4. Why is this relevant? I have had plenty of issues with Btrfs in the past. Even when Btrfs' own tools showed my filesystem had space left, I've found my system can no longer boot and gave errors that sounded like my filesystem was out of space. This is even when I've been diligent in removing old snapshots. Hence why I generally favour ext4 for my root file system as that way I know exactly how much space is left on it.
The Cockpit change is somewhat less important to me. But YaST is getting outdated, so I get why it needs to be replaced. I just wish they had replaced it with something that gave users more choice. For instance, Calamares would be a perfectly acceptable installer to me, at least.
10 • Leap 16 installation (by René on 2025-10-06 09:40:11 GMT from South Korea)
I aborted the installation as there was no obvious way to select specific root partition, installer asked for the whole disk. Staying on Leap 15.6 till EOL April 30, 2026. If upgrade to Leap 16 will remove YaST then that will be it with Leap.
11 • Correction (by Josh Smith on 2025-10-06 09:40:51 GMT from Australia)
Agama not Amaga, sorry.
12 • Another great "weekly" (by firstclassint on 2025-10-06 10:36:29 GMT from United Kingdom)
Nice job on the Tips and Tricks section this week, Jesse.
Really like the concept of working with a zip file as though it were a database.
Safe to say that I'll be having a play around with this one!
13 • iOS-ification of Android by Google (by Saif on 2025-10-06 05:54:54 GMT from Tunisia)
What is depressing about the situation, is outside the open-source community and the privacy aware users, no one of the concerning sides will take the threat seriously:
- The US government will never side with its citizens against the Big Tech.
- Its serious alternative, China, is far worse in mandating the use of technology.
- The EU will at most condemn the move a slap a fine of about 1% of Google's annual revenue.
- And most importantly: Your average Android user cares only about their Facebook/Instagram/TikTok, and their Candy Crush/Fortnite/etc, and doesn't even know what's an APK.
Adding to that, there is no mobile OS, other than Apple iOS, that can compete seriously with Android and its ecosystem.
Personally, I'm at the stage where I use my phone for receiving calls, consulting my e-mail and some RSS feeds, and playing on retro emulators, basically an outdated smartphone, or even a feature phone, is fine by me, until Google inevitably collapses and Android goes back to the community.
14 • YaST (by MattE on 2025-10-06 12:58:14 GMT from United States)
I agree. YaST is clunky due to chronic featuritis. I use Gnome tools 90% of the time or text edit the config files 10%. Good bye and good riddance.
15 • @13 - a lifetime of corruption (by Linux Revolution on 2025-10-06 12:58:56 GMT from United States)
Good points. Unless governments do right by their citizens (AT&T comes to mind), we will collapse of old age before Google & Big Tech collapse.
16 • Google preventing Android sideloading (by Kazlu on 2025-10-06 13:31:35 GMT from France)
I suppose Android derivatives like LineageOS or /e/ OS will have the possibility to lift the sideloading restriction, but that still means only people with access to those OSes will benefit from sideloading, F-Droid or otherwise. I'm afraid it will lead to a drop in the use of F-Droid and libre apps in general, which is detrimental to their remaining users as well... Less testing, probably less incentive to develop apps like these...
17 • Leap 16 Partitioning (by Chum Illion on 2025-10-06 14:32:02 GMT from United Kingdom)
Agama is not very clear, but you click on enough buttons you will get a setting for Custom Partitioning. Unfortunately when you return to Overview it simply tells you that you are using a custom setup, not what your actual partitions are, which Yast does.
The first I installed Leap 16 I just ended up with a console install, because I did not realise that you could alter the software choice (I was expecting a further screen to let me choose KDE, Gnome, etc.).
18 • F-Droid and Android developer verification. (by Walker005 on 2025-10-06 14:42:23 GMT from Sweden)
The linked web page "Android Developers blog" writes: "Starting next year, Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers in order to be installed by users on certified Android devices." and "To be clear, developers will have the same freedom to distribute their apps directly to users through sideloading or to use any app store they prefer."
However, it's still bad news for F-Droid.
19 • Developer verification (by Jesse on 2025-10-06 15:36:04 GMT from Canada)
@18: " 'To be clear, developers will have the same freedom to distribute their apps directly to users through sideloading or to use any app store they prefer."
However, it's still bad news for F-Droid.'
The piece missing from that statement is "Developers will have the same freedom to distribution their apps we approve to users through sideloading."
Only apps and app developers Google approves will be able to offer software through side-loading, which mean it isn't really side-loading. It's just allowing apps already approved to be in the Play Store to also be offered through other channels.
20 • Developer verification (by Ken Harbit on 2025-10-06 16:02:11 GMT from United States)
What effect would this have on things like the Murena project and /e/OS operating system and the phones that run various linux distros? ... I STILL don't have any smartphone, I have been thinking of finding one that runs an open source OS.
21 • OpenHarmony (by Norman on 2025-10-06 16:29:23 GMT from United States)
Its not Linux but its the stage in the evolution of an operating system that is based on entirely new framework. You could consider it the successior to Haiku,
22 • Configuring Opensuse, Yast (by Robert on 2025-10-06 17:04:49 GMT from United States)
Generally I preferred to use Yast, though sometimes that wasn't/isn't practical. Then I'd go to editing config files manually.
As an installer Yast is hands down the most flexible and powerful tool out there. It could handle almost any sort of disk setup you wanted from bog-standard ext4 to btrfs with sensible defaults and snapshotting to md+lvm+luks in whatever raid setup you want to throw at it. Plus it you could add whatever software you wanted at install time, select services you wanted to run. It does everything and isn't even that hard to use.
As a post-install configuration tool it does lose some of its luster especially in the modern day. Its network setup tool assumes you still want to use wickd and doesn't interface with NetworkManager. Its firewall tool was incomprehensible. I never had cause to use its OpenLDAP tool. But other parts worked well, like adding/deleting users or configuring SSH. It also has a bad habit of asking for your password half a dozen times for each change you make, and that is very annoying.
I was interested in trying Cockpit, but when I installed my server Cockpit didn't work on Leap. Never went back to set it up after updates.
23 • OpenSuse, F-Droid (by Dan on 2025-10-06 17:30:14 GMT from United States)
I started off with SuSE back in the late 90's, and it was my go-to system for several years. Then after the split, it got really buggy and clunky. A few months ago, and a couple of times recently, I gave it another whirl, and it was awful every time. The new installer is awful and locked down, the system is buggy, and now that they are getting rid of YAST, it's going to leave this really weird bunch of ways to install software that are non-intuitive. And the system doesn't run smoothly enough to warrant learning them. I don't plan on wasting my time with OpenSuse again, unless something major changes.
On the F-droid thing, we saw that coming. A few months ago, Google announced pulling in devs and closing the doors on AOSP and new device maps, and now they are getting control of the app devs and locking the system down. Google.....has turned into an ad-driven Apple. At this point, I'm just waiting for Andy to start wearing a black cape and helmet, and the default startup sound be Darth Vader's breathing. The only hope I see will be if they somehow fork AOSP into some new project and go from there (if they even CAN do that), or several of the linux projects start really working on getting actual linux os's onto a wide phone market. Otherwise, for me, going back to Apple is actually starting to look better. At least THEY aren't collecting every thing I do for ad revenue, in addition to spying.
24 • Open Harmony from HarmonyOS NEXT (by Norman on 2025-10-06 17:32:31 GMT from United States)
A consideration should be given to the post-Linux world. Already the Huawei Harmony kernel is completely decoupled from Android and Linux.
It has its own developer code ARK TS and a ARK UI interface, laying the basis for a completely new operating system.
Still proprietary within the Huawei eco system but the core may well become open source.
In that case, will we have distros based upon it? Will they be welcomed and reviewed here.
We already have the precedent set by BSD and Haiku.
Can't wait to see what the future holds.
25 • Leap 16 installation (cont.) (by René on 2025-10-06 18:43:33 GMT from South Korea)
Continuing from my comment @10: Finally understood installer logic and toggled default (!) action to erase 10 existing partitions - installation was successful after that. Thanks to Chum Illion @17: for the tip-off.
26 • F-droid and proprietary control (by Nugget on 2025-10-06 19:08:06 GMT from Czechia)
It's a bad decision. The control will make people more aware that their phone isn't really their property.
In today's age a printer can be disabled remotely and companies can brick your phone if you flash it wrongly.
Now there will be a list of approved developers, even if isn't public, they can just refuse service without explaining the reason clearly. They will also have the power to allow or deny the installation of a app on your own device.
27 • Leap 16 (by tomas on 2025-10-06 21:42:11 GMT from Czechia)
I cannot comment on the new installer.
Having read the system requirements I had to conclude that I do not have any PC to try it on.
On the rest I run Tumbleweed, so no point in trying Leap.
28 • I'm really bummed out by SUSE (by Alter Furz on 2025-10-07 14:27:59 GMT from Germany)
I wanted to leave Aeon (great distro, but its disk policy is not for me right now), so in the last few days I tried to install openSUSE Slowroll. Bad experience, did not even allow for setting locales and keyboard layout during installation. Muddled through. Wayland broken. Then I tried the new LEAP 16, also a terrible experience. Install fails if you leave the happy path, ie. adding my ext4 home-FS to the mount options. If you stick to defaults, it boots into CLI and refuses to launch GDM. After some tinkering boots to GDM, Gnome session breaks. Sigh. I installed openSUSE Tumbleweed. Netinstall wants to pull in 5 GB of stuff. Fine, but install fails on writing grub. Forget it.
The PC is a run-of-the-mill AMD-only setup, Aeon was running fine on it, as does Debian Trixie (it was, however, a chore to set up btrfs with snapper) now. What's going on? SUSE used to be top-notch since, I don't know, forever.
29 • Open Suse and YAST (by DaveT on 2025-10-07 22:47:37 GMT from United Kingdom)
I'm so old I can remember when YAST was created by Yellow Dog linux on macppc.
I used Open Suse for awhile back in the day but in the end all rpm based distros vexed me and I stayed with Debian and now Devuan.
30 • @29 I think you mean yum, not YAST (by Alter Furz on 2025-10-08 08:53:35 GMT from Germany)
Hi DaveT, @29, I think you mean yum, the Yellow Dog Update Manager. YaST, Yet another Setup Tool, is an original S.u.S.E creation, reaching back to their frist release in 1994. It started out as a proprietary tool of S.u.S.E and became open source somewhere on the 2000s, around the time they rebranded to SUSE.
31 • yast and btrfs (by Dave on 2025-10-09 01:17:25 GMT from Australia)
I've never used it in an enterprise context, but playing with it on desktop I found it broke whatever you were trying to configure. I always would uninstall yast, so kind of happy to see it go.
Side point, I agree with others regarding btrfs. The impression I'm always given is that btrfs is beta garbage that destroys data and will never be ready for use. But is this actually true? I really don't know. I would love to see a deep dive or long term review on the subject to see whether this file system should actually be used or not, or be the default for any distro.
32 • btrfs on SUSE and system requirements (by tomas on 2025-10-09 10:27:35 GMT from Czechia)
In my experience btrfs works quite well, supposed it is the only system/distro installed on the disk/PC.
If you want to have another system installed be prepared to have problems when trying to boot from that.
This reminds me a bit of Microsoft.
The recent system requirements for Leap 16 go the same way - I have not tried to install it on a PC running Windows 10 (it does not meet the requirements).
I know, the development cannot be stopped, but feel sorry that more and more Linux distros are dropping support for older hardware.
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Genuen is a spin of Devuan GNU+Linux consisting exclusively of Free Software (as defined by the Free Software Foundation) and a choice of several alternative init systems, such as OpenRC, Runit, s6 and SysV. The distribution ships with the GNU Linux-libre kernel. The project provides installation images for desktop and server deployments, as well as pre-configured live images with JWM, KDE Plasma, Openbox and Xfce desktops available for the i686 and x86_64 architectures.
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