Hi,
Firstly I would like to give my thanks to Bernhard and others who are working on or contributing to openSUSE Slowroll. I think it is such great idea to have a rolling release with the quality(or better) of Tumbleweed with less frequent updates.
I have been using Tumbleweed for about 1.5 years and it has been very stable. There were two incidents where I had to resort to snapper to save my system. The first (I think) was related to an NVIDIA driver issue, and the other which I remember very well was when I had changed an X display configuration and rebooted - no X display!
Overall Tumbleweed has been great but the prolific frequency and size of updates is becoming to much for me. Yesterday I finally made the plunge and moved to Slowroll.
I am new to Slowroll and have a few questions.
Q. Is there a particular day of the month when a Slowroll realase occurs? Is there a schedule?
I read on a post either here or on Reddit that it was on the 9th of each month, but I can’t be certain whether this was talking about releases or something else.
Q. I noticed on the Reddit forum r/openSUSE_Slowroll that there are “version bump” posts by u/bmwiedemann.
I’m assuming this is referring to Slowroll releases? Is this something I should be reading to make sure it is safe to update?
Q. Below are my repos. I noticed “Tumbleweed” in a few of there.
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
---+--------------------------+-------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------
13 | packman | Pac-> | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 70 | rpm-md | http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Slowroll/Essentials/ |
12 | openSUSE:update-slowroll | upd-> | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 80 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/slowroll/repo/oss | openSUSE
2 | NVIDIA:repo-non-free | rep-> | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed | NVIDIA
7 | openSUSE:repo-non-oss | rep-> | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/slowroll/repo/non-oss | openSUSE
8 | openSUSE:repo-openh264 | rep-> | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Tumbleweed | openSUSE
9 | openSUSE:repo-oss | rep-> | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/slowroll/repo/oss | openSUSE
10 | openSUSE:repo-oss-debug | rep-> | No | ---- | ---- | 99 | N/A | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/slowroll/repo/oss | openSUSE
11 | openSUSE:repo-oss-source | rep-> | No | ---- | ---- | 99 | N/A | http://download.opensuse.org/source/slowroll/repo/oss | openSUSE
14 | security | sec-> | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ |
1 | Google-Chrome | Goo-> | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 199 | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 |
3 | brave-browser | Brave | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 199 | rpm-md | https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/x86_64/ |
4 | edge | Mic-> | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 199 | rpm-md | https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/edge/ |
5 | electronics | Ele-> | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 199 | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/electronics/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ |
6 | network_im_signal | Sig-> | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 199 | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/im:/signal/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ |
15 | vscode | Mic-> | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 199 | rpm-md | https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode |
NVIDIA repo - I researched and this is ok as Slowroll shares from Tumbleweed.
Apps repos - I’m assuming these third party repos are ok, I hope.
openSUSE:repo-openh264, security - Not sure about these two system repos using Tumbleweed?
Q. How to update?
I have been updating this way in Tumbleweed and assume it is still the same under Slowroll.
sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper dup -d
(when I’m ready to update and it is safe to do so)
sudo zypper dup
Q. Will the Tumbleweed startup background logo be updated to Slowroll?
This is the background we see while the operating system is loading before the login prompt. Not sure what this is called.
Cosmetic but simply wondering. Thanks.
Q. Here are what I’m following, anything else to follow for Slowroll?
https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE_Slowroll/
https://forums.opensuse.org/tag/slowroll
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/search?mlist=factory%40lists.opensuse.org&q=Slowroll
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?classification=openSUSE&product=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed&query_format=advanced&resolution=—&version=Slowroll
Thanks
Peter