`mkosi-initrd` is a tool for building initrds using distribution packages that is gaining interest among systemd distributions, and can currently be used on openSUSE Tumbleweed.

We will analyze in detail how it works, its weaknesses and its benefits, in order to ultimately try to provoke a change of mindset in developers accustomed to thinking only about `dracut` when implementing functionalities that have to run in the initrd.

More information: [https://en.opensuse.org/Mkosi-initrd](https://en.opensuse.org/Mkosi-initrd)

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After _certain_ events caused massive upheaval in the virtualisation landscape, many companies using that technology have found themselves dropped into the deep end, with skyrocketing infrastructure costs and furious upper management. Promising a stark opposite to high costs, limited flexibility, and vendor lock-in, Harvester takes the stage.

Harvester is an open source hyperconverged infrastructure solution built by SUSE, and provides a complete package for everything compute, networking, and storage.

This presentation will take a peek under the hood of Harvester and how it leverages existing open source solutions to provide a scalable and resilient virtualisation platform - in particular Longhorn, which is the distributed block storage engine powering storage in Harvester and Kubernetes clusters around the world.

Attendees will leave this talk motivated to replace their existing production infrastructure with Harvester, powered by the flexibility and high availability of Longhorn. So, whether you are looking at bringing the cloud back to your server room, or reducing costs with existing infrastructure (while ensuring prod isn't at risk), then this talk will get you started!

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Framework Laptops are one of the most fascinating hardware projects of the last years for Open Source enthusiasts. They have first-class Linux support, although officially just for Fedora and Ubuntu. In this talk I want to highlight the work done in the openSUSE community to enable and support these Laptops on our own, from hardware enablement to packaging applications. All with the goal of becoming a community-supported distribution.

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In this session, I will show you how to use Agama, the new next-generation installer, to perform effortless advanced unattended installations on openSUSE Linux. Whether you are installing just a few desktops or a fleet of servers, Agama makes the process fast, smooth, and hassle-free. This modern installer is poised to transform not only openSUSE installations but also deployments across other Linux distributions.

While older tools like AutoYAST work well, they are not always easy or user-friendly for unattended advanced Linux installations. Agama solves this with a simple yet modern web interface that makes unattended installations easy and possible for everyone.

I will demonstrate how to use Agama’s latest features, including how to set up and initiate remote connections using IP addressing or Multicast DNS for a fully unattended OpenSUSE installation. You will also learn about Agama’s main key features such as its simple JSON-based configuration language to create auto installation profiles, an HTTP API for integrating with third-party application tools, and how to import your existing AutoYAST profiles.

Join this session to see how Agama can save you a lot of time and effort by making your OpenSUSE Linux deployments easier and more powerful than ever before.

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There are quite common issues in large scale deployments of **Salt**, but without monitoring it could be extremely hard to find out the root cause of the issue.

Using **Saline** could help to investigate performance issues in large scale **Salt** infrastructures.

**Saline** also helps to profile _state.apply_ process by exposing average duration of the calls.

**Saline** now included to Uyuni and provides capabilities for easy deployment.

More details about the project:

https://github.com/openSUSE/saline

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openSUSE uses RPM for its own packaging needs, with macros on their own

on top. However, the distributions using RPMs are just a couple

compared to the vast Linux ecosystem. How are other distributions

handling packaging? Are they using bash scripts, functions, or even

declarative languages?

This talk will give a rundown of the different approaches that have

been more successful in building a distribution on top, such as Gentoo

ebuilds, Void Linux packages, and even some more niche packaging spec

files.

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“lau diba oi„ (Motu für “Ich kenne Dich") dreht sich um das pazifische Konzept von Mana – den spirituellen Zweck, den alles hat. Sinn und Zugehörigkeit – tief in der Kultur und den Vorfahren verwurzelt, befreit von Vorstellungen, die wir von uns selbst haben, mit wiederentdecktem Selbstbewusstsein. Mit Spoken Word, Tanz, experimentellem Sound und Streichinstrumenten führt uns die BiPoC-FLINTA-Gruppe auf eine Reise zu uns selbst.

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“When I follow the river to its source, the place where I originally belong is myself. Who is she? Who was she? Who will she be?”

“lau diba oi” (Motu for “I know you”) revolves around the Pacific concept of mana —the spiritual purpose that everything has. Rediscovering meaning, belonging, and self-awareness — deeply rooted in culture and ancestors, freeing ourselves from the ideas we have about ourselves. Spoken word, dance, experimental sounds, string instruments. Collective, queer, BiPoc, FLINTA.

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„Haare ab, Haare hoch, steil, ein Gebirge aus Haar, Haare wie Messer, die aus dem Kopf stechen.“ Eine jugendliche Punkerin spricht am Ende der DDR über ihr Leben und ihre Erfahrungen. Ihr älteres erwachsenes Ich kommentiert und reflektiert aus der Zukunft. Es geht um Kunst und Liebe, um Anarchie, um das Rumhängen mit Freunden, um das Baden in der Kiesgrube und darum, dass sie nicht Frau sein will, sondern Punk, aber immer wieder Frau sein muss. Durch die Ich-Figur gehen diverse politische Diskurse hindurch und  kommen spielerisch zum Ausdruck. Noisiger Live-Sound unterstreicht die Wortspiele. 

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“Hair off, hair up, steep, a mountain of hair, hair like knives sticking out of the head. "A young punk talks about her life and experiences at the end of the GDR. Her older adult self recalls the past from the future. It's about art and love, anarchy, hanging out with friends, swimming in the gravel pit. It’s not wanting to be a woman but a punk, and always being put back into a woman-shaped box. Various political discourses are coursing through the first-person narrator in a playful way. Noisy live sound underscores the juicy words.

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The board will be available during this time to present and provide information for the project.

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With the integration of systemd-boot or grub2-bls bootloaders in the distribution, both (partially) following the boot loader specification (BLS), we have the chance to use the systemd tools to set a full disk encryption installation using TPM2 and FIDO2 keys.

The sdbootutil is managing both aspects, the BLS integration and the FDE configuration. In this talk we will present how this model works in openSUSE and how can be used and troubleshooted.

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