I fell in love with SUSE back in the 1990’s , when I first installed it … logged on and was told … “Have a lot of fun …”. Had my little sister been hovering over my shoulder, she would have said something like … “that is SOOOO cheesy”. And she would have been on the money! Nonetheless, I have had a lot of fun!
Roughly a year ago, I was disappointed to learn that SUSE as I knew it was going away, that 15.5 would be the end of the line. BAD marketing from openSUSE to say the least! Instead of upgrading to 15.5, I installed bookworm, also known as Debian 12. Debian is fantastic! A real lesson is the meaning of the word “Stable”. And a real lesson in what I missed from openSUSE!
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zypper … can anyone really enjoy gnu/linuzx without “zypper ps -s”? I can NOT!
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A genuinely decent default user environment, including the ever present reminder to have a lot of fun! I am not and have never been completely satisfied with the default setup, but simply copying /home/ox/svn/env/trunk/env/bash.bashrc.local to /etc/bash.bashrc.local restored perfection. For the curious mice:
export EDITOR=vi
set -o vi
#HISTSIZE=2000
##
## tput Color Capabilities:
##
## tput setab [1-7] – Set a background color using ANSI escape
## tput setb [1-7] – Set a background color
## tput setaf [1-7] – Set a foreground color using ANSI escape
## tput setf [1-7] – Set a foreground color
## tput Text Mode Capabilities:
##
## tput bold – Set bold mode
## tput dim – turn on half-bright mode
## tput smul – begin underline mode
## tput rmul – exit underline mode
## tput rev – Turn on reverse mode
## tput smso – Enter standout mode (bold on rxvt)
## tput rmso – Exit standout mode
## tput sgr0 – Turn off all attributes
##
## Color Code for tput:
##
## 0 – Black
## 1 – Red
## 2 – Green
## 3 – Yellow
## 4 – Blue
## 5 – Magenta
## 6 – Cyan
## 7 – White
# set up vars for making appropreate prompts bold and w/ color
# The "-Txterm" option is needed so tput won't complain when invoked
# by rsync.
_norm=$(tput -Txterm sgr0)
_bold=$(tput -Txterm bold)
_color=""
_p=""
if test "$UID" -eq 0 ; then
_p="# "
_color=$(tput -Txterm setaf 1)
else
_p="$ "
#_color=$(tput setaf 4)
_color=$(tput -Txterm setaf 2) #for dark background
fi
PS1="\[${_color}\]\u@\h${_p}\[${_norm}\]"
unset _p _color _bold _norm
# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
PS1="\[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
;;
*)
;;
esac
- YaST! There are three distinct types of installers for gnu/linux. Genuinely good, SUCK, and unusable. Sadly, most installers fall into the third bucket. In spite of the fact that gnu/linux has been around and stable for decades, only one distribution has a genuinely good installer. I am a hardcore geek … I can make even the shiftiest software install … but should anyone work that hard just to get an os to boot? REALLY??? Decades of gnu/linux and still only one genuinely good installer. My my my …
Which brings me back to what I really want to say! Where is the “topic” or “category” or whatever for Leap 16? How can I contribute, test, etc. I have read a few articles about “ALPS” and still have no idea what it means. But the one thing I have learned over the last year or so … Leap won’t happen unless we make it happen … and we includes me … soooo …