Good evening everyone. I would like to ask for some advice on slowroll. I noticed that the repositories are also on the official site and are no longer limited to cdn.opensuse.org. My installations use the cdn.opensuse.org site. Should I correct them? Also, I would like (I use the conditional) to know if there is news of the exit from the “experimental” state. For me it is an excellent solution and in recent days I have installed it on several PCs.
Why do you think you need to “correct” something? cdn.opensuse.org/ and download.opensuse.org/ serve the same purpose and are both valid.
There will be for sure an information when Slowroll leaves experimental status. But as it is a one-man-show atm you meight need to ask the responsible dev…
Hi @hui
I am inexperienced and TW was starting to be too demanding with daily updates. I chose to fall back on a product more suited to my needs. I’m sorry to waste other people’s time. I hope I’m not annoying by asking you who have more experience than me.
Keyran17, I have used TW for over a year on three different PC’s. One I udpate approx. daily, one approx. weekly and the third approx. monthly. Never had a problem releated to updates on any of them. Just because updates are released daily, you do not have to update every day. At least for private use, for instance once a week, should be fine.
Also remember, opening a terminal window and typing sudo zypper dup now and then is a simple and easy way of having an updated system all the way, instead of installing complete new versions. I think TW is the best OS I have ever used.
Have a nice day 
/rogerf
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Hi @rogerf, thanks for your reply.
I currently have an Intel NUC 12 PRO with Windows 11 PRO that I still need for some work programs. I have installed several openSUSE TW (2) VMs on the NUC that I would like to use for work. I also have an old notebook from 2009/2010 that works very well because it has a modern SATA3 SSD. It has the maximum installable RAM, which is 4GB. With the new kernel 6.7, RAM consumption has increased by 35/40% in both the NUC and laptop VMs. In the NUC, it is enough to increase the RAM available for the VM. This is not possible on the laptop, and with the new kernel, the CPU was already under pressure in idle. The system now runs with Slowroll KDE and is well balanced, so I have returned to the previous levels of usability. I do not consider Leap because the software is too outdated. I need updated software. I just hope that Slowroll comes out of the experimental state and becomes suitable for everyday work use.
I also have a similar laptop (not for daily use), but I did it the opposite way, I installed TW KDE and run windows in VirtualBox for the few windows programs I still need, but that is another discussion of course :).
@rogerf
For now, it is impossible to virtualize Windows 10 or 11 in the NUC. Using Windows 11 PRO as host with 16GB of RAM, VMware Player didn’t even install the guests. Virtulbox has lags with Linux guests but Windows 10 or 11 VMs are unusable. I was hoping that the new virtualbox 7.0.14 version would fix it but it was no use. NUC 12 and later are not yet very supported… My laptop is a 12" Acer with Intel Core2Duo P8400 at 2.27GHz with the maximum installable RAM 4GB. But with Linux slowroll KDE is still very good:)
@Keyran17 The current Slowroll repositories you should be using, are shown on the Slowroll wiki page, which @hui has since kindly posted below. They work perfectly for me.
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Better link to the Slowroll wiki page, which gets updated, instead to an old thread:
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Slowroll
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Good evening everyone.
@epp and @hui
thanks so much for the advice. After 3/4 days of testing with Fedora 39 spins KDE my Acer laptop went back to Slowroll. Fedora, even in the latest test, just can’t support it.
I did my usual routine with KDE. openSUSE has a fantastic installer!!! I exclude KDE-pim and kalendarac from the installer and insert gnome-software. At this point
I’m tempted by the longterm kernel.
I’m out of installation days and my old Acer is, for now, the only laptop I have for my work.
I followed @hui’s page and I take this opportunity to thank him for the guide.
Thanks everyone for the help.
@Keyran17 You’re very welcome.
I don’t know what openSUSE is using for an installer, but, whatever it is, I hope they never change it. openSUSE is the only Linux distribution that successfully installed to all three of my external USB solid state drives (two running Slowroll, one running Tumbleweed), connected to a 13-year old BIOS desktop. All of the others I tried to install, failed.
@epp, thanks.
I have often read critical reviews regarding the openSUSE installer but I have always found it very good. My hardware is 15 years old but I have a recent sata ssd. The latest bios is from 14 years ago.
I read about your positive experience with the longterm kernel and I’m following it carefully :)
I’m upgrading Slowroll to the 20240213 upgrade and zypper is reporting a Digest Verification Failed on the liblcms2 package, incorrect checksum. Chose to discard, since it doesn’t have the expected checksum.
Also getting the same error with the libjpeg8 and libgpg-error0 packages as well as one other. I’ve aborted the upgrade, as there are obvious issues with it.
I checked the Factory list and they are aware of it. Will try upgrading again later on today.
hi @epp. I upgraded to the long term kernel. In the 2 vm one gave me the same error and the other didn’t. In the old laptop where slowroll is unique os went fine without errors.
Tried to upgrade again, the same and now additional packages are displaying the same Digest Verification Failed message. I again aborted the upgrade.
@Keyran17 Interesting that you had the same error in one VM but not the other. But glad to read it’s fine on the laptop.
I’ll have to try upgrading Slowroll again tomorrow. Hopefully by then, all of the mirrors internationally will have the fixed packages.
@epp In the laptop I have slowroll with KDE desktop. In the VMs I have a KDE and an XFCE.
With the 2/15/24 zypper dup - virtualbox 7.0.14 was finally added to slowroll. It finally finished the zypper dup late last night. The early attempts had checksum mismatches due to a defect in the rollout that got corrected but took a while to propagate to the repos.
Virtualbox on slowroll appears to work as expected - the same as Oracle’s 7.0.14 does in my testing.
@larryr Thanks, this is great news!!! My vms with openSUSE slowroll, after the “debacle” with TW, were and still are the only ones without lag. My Intel NUC 12 PRO hardware is not yet supported by Virtualbox and only a few OSes run well.
Thanks you very much