Education repository

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Just wondering why the Education repository is not part of the default zypper configuration.

I explore various distros and like to add kids educational apps to each one, in case my granddaughter wants to play when I am using one of them. Suse seemed limited, until I found out there was a specific repo I needed to add.

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The list of repos a system has after an installation is default to that installation (e.g. Leap or Tumbleweed) and not a default for zypper.

And I assume that the Eductation repo is not added first because it does not belong to the official openSUSE software and further because the installation can not know that you have grandchildren. When all repos that might be interesting for people with specific interest would be added by default, then e.g. a zypper refresh would take longer and longer, special for those with slow internet access.

Same BTW when all those packages would be added to the OSS repo. More and more overhead. Giving system managers a change to add repos inside their areas of interest is probably more efficient.

As an aside, IMO this should have been posted in Open Chat rather then here as technical question/problem.

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You can read up why the project is discontinued.
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Education

Many packages are broken and had the last update a decade ago.

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OK.

Sorry about that. My ignorance is all encompassing.

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That is sad. I appreciate the work done behind the scenes, for sure.

Becoming a maintainer would be far outside my comfort zone. My coding is rather crude, my most sophisticated tool can be compared to a hammer or a crowbar.

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If at first you don’t succeed, use a bigger hammer… :nerd_face:

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When it was announced that no more work would be done on the Education project, I git cloned it to GitHub in case anyone wanted to take it up later. I have done nothing with it beyond cloning it.

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Are there games in the Education Repository? If the ‘Education Repository’ is installed on a Tumbleweed machine, you are saying that alot of the packages will not work at all anymore?

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Good line. How about, “With a large enough lever, I can move the world”

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I am using Leap, as my machine does not have the 2 gH processor needed on Tumbleweed.

Yes there are games. Tuxtype works, Tuxpaint works, Tuxmath not. Gcompris works, but it may have come from a different repository, as I installed it before adding the Education repo.

Don’t know why tuxpaint is considered a game, or educational. Then again, there is a lot I don’t know.

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This is the answer to my question. How do I flag it as a solution? I read the FAQ.and even went to the Discourse site, but didn’t find that out.

Now the bot is ragging me for bad forum practices. Bummer.

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Hi, out of curiosity what are the results for your machine when inxi -Fxz is passed?
-Seasons Best

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I have three devices I use regularly. It depends on where I am sitting in the house.

I was going to try Tumbleweed until I saw the minimum system requirements.

HP desktop

inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 6.4.0-150600.23.25-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 7.5.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.11 Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.6
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: HP product: HP EliteDesk 800 G3 TWR v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8298 v: KBC Version 06.21 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: HP v: P01 Ver. 02.29 date: 06/21/2019
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard
    charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-6500 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Skylake-S
    rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/3600 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800
    bogomips: 25599
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx

HP laptop

inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 6.4.0-150600.23.30-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 7.5.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.11 Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.6
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 17-by1xxx v: Type1ProductConfigId
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8530 v: 17.16 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
    v: F.37 date: 03/28/2019
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 38.6 Wh (100.0%) condition: 38.6/38.6 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 12.7 min: 11.3 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary status: full
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard K330
    charge: 100% (should be ignored) status: discharging
  Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M215 2nd Gen
    charge: 100% (should be ignored) status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-8265UC bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Comet/Whiskey Lake note: check rev: C cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
    L3: 6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 426 high: 609 min/max: 400/3900 cores: 1: 400 2: 400
    3: 609 4: 400 5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 bogomips: 28800
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx

Lenovo laptop

inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 6.4.0-150600.23.25-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 7.5.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.11 Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.6
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 81D3 v: Lenovo ideapad 330-15ARR Touch
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40700 WIN
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: 7VCN24WW date: 06/15/2018
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 25.5 Wh (93.1%) condition: 27.4/35.0 Wh (78.3%)
    volts: 7.9 min: 7.5 model: SMP L17M2PF0 status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: AMD Ryzen 5 2500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
    bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen rev: 0 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 2 MiB
    L3: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1541 high: 1600 min/max: 1600/2000 boost: enabled cores:
    1: 1600 2: 1600 3: 1600 4: 1367 5: 1600 6: 1368 7: 1600 8: 1600
    bogomips: 31941
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3
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Open Chat doesn’t include the “solved” flag, because it’s not typically a ‘support’ venue.

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Ok, well the three machines/devices you have should be able to operate openSUSE Tumbleweed. If you pass inxi -m, memory configuration will be displayed.
For more depth on graphics chips inxi -Gayz will display alot of information also.
It looks like they were ‘snipped’ right after cpu too so not seeing entire output.
-Thanks

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