This is the disk I replaced not long ago…actually April 20, 2021 (almost 3 months ago). Because on April 14,2021, I suspected upcoming problems.
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Scanner on Tumbleweed
My scanner wasn’t setup or detected when I tried to use my scanner software. Had to use YaST Scanner tool. My scanner is part of my HP Envy printer. So I first installed the printer by first installing HPLIP (HP Device Manager). Then for the scanner I selected the hpaio driver. After that scanner was …
Hercules/MVS (tk4-) on Tumbleweed
TK4- runs fine on OpenSuse. The 3270 emulator (upper right) works as expected, menu items in English as opposed to the last time it even worked in Manjaro. With OpenSuse’s connection with mainframes I think 3270 emulation will be available for a while. Not to mention that OpenSuse itself actually offers Hercules.
Tumbleweed applying 198 updates!
I’m not going to document every update. But after so many Manjaro update problems, trying to get an idea of how OpenSuse handles it. Success!
Privacy 53 years ago
Seems like Computer privacy was on the mind of some even in 1968. Almost exactly 53 years ago. Found this Look magazine cover (Too big for my scanner) going through my beloved recently departed mothers things.
Tumbleweed applying 144 updates!
Success! Means applied and restart/logon.
Manjaro updates fail…Again!!!
I don’t think I ever wanted to like a distro as much as I wanted to with Manjaro. Perhaps if I tried more distros I’d find something better, but I don’t distro hop as much these days as I use too. This last year, Manjaro’s been trying so hard to be a professional distro. However …
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and Thunderbird
This is a huge minus. At first it appeared that a big plus for me was that it Tumbleweed uses the same version of Thunderbird as my default Linux Mint. This was a sore point for me concerning Manjaro. I couldn’t drop back to my reliable Mint if needed with the Thunderbird files, because Manjaro …
Update OpenSuse
First successful update 54 packages of Tumbleweed. Tried sudo zypper update but it said “openSUSE Tumbleweed’ requires to be updated by calling ‘zypper dup”. So I used the duplication method (that’s what comes to my mind) to update Tumbleweed.
OpenSuse and Python
Why is the default still version 2? Version 2 hasn’t been supported since Jan. 1st 2020!