The Linux Kamarada Project is proud to announce that it is moving to GitLab.During the early years of the project, the source code and the website were hosted on GitHub, for which I am grateful. However, after the acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft — which does not have a good past relationship with free software...

If you already play, or want to learn how to play, a musical instrument, especially if it is a guitar, you should take a look at TuxGuitar, a free and open source tablature and score editor and player. With TuxGuitar you can write guitar tabs or listen to the songs in existing tabs, study scales,...

Support for openSUSE Leap 15.1, released on May 22, 2019, ends today, January 31, 2021, as announced on an openSUSE mailing list. This means that openSUSE Leap 15.1 will no longer receive security updates nor bugs fixes.The openSUSE Project recommends that Leap 15.1 users upgrade to Leap 15.2, released on July 1, 2020 and expected...

A critical security vulnerability that affects a large number of Linux computers was disclosed this past Tuesday, 26 by security auditing firm Qualys. The vulnerability was found in the sudo command, included in most (if not all) Linux distros (including openSUSE and Linux Kamarada), which have already published fixes and advise users to update their...

On the previous post, we booted our Raspberry Pi 4 with an openSUSE image. Unlike Raspbian, openSUSE doesn’t show us a first-time configuration wizard. So, let’s see what are the first things we need to set up on our Raspberry Pi with openSUSE so that it’s really ready for everyday tasks.If you landed here without...

Did you know that it’s already possible to run openSUSE on a Raspberry Pi 4? The first time I wrote about this credit-card sized computer, a year ago, its fourth generation was not yet supported by the openSUSE Project. At that time, anyone wishing to use a Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop would have...

openSUSE Tumbleweed works well on the Raspberry Pi 4 (and also on the brand new Raspberry Pi 400), although hardware support for it is still being developed, so a few features such as Bluetooth and sound still don’t work. But recent Tumbleweed images for the Raspberry Pi 4 don’t boot. The system keeps repeatedly saying: Waiting...

Etcher is a versatile yet easy to use tool to create bootable SD cards and USB flash drives from operating system images. It provides a clean user interface that helps you selecting the right device to write to, protecting you from accidentally wiping your hard-drive, which could cause irreversible data loss. After writing, Etcher also...

When I started using [openSUSE], back to 2012, “openSUSE” was the name of both the [Linux] distribution and the project maintaining it. Today, the openSUSE Project offers two distributions, called [Leap] and [Tumbleweed]. In this text, you are going to see how they differ from each other and how they were born.

Electrum is the Bitcoin wallet recommended by the official Bitcoin website (bitcoin.org) for Linux users who are starting to pĺay with bitcoins, so they are looking for an easy-to-use wallet, but also for those who want some more advanced features, such as Lightning Network support and integration with hardware wallets. Electrum allows you to easily...