Few months ago I switched my home workstation and media center to Micro OS desktop and I cannot imagine switching back to normal distribution. After some consideration I realized it should work fine (even better) on the notebook I am using for work. I need a clean reinstall anyway as after almost 2 years, stuff is quite messy. So why not doing both things in one go?
Project Description
Do a general cleanup of my work notebook, replace current Tumbleweed with MicroOS. If it goes smoothly I will try looking for a solution how to maintain and update multiple toolboxes. Might try writing a script that uses podman API.
Goal for this Hackweek
- make a proper backup of everything
- make a list of applications I currently use
- check which can be covered with appimages, flatpaks and which are not covered by any solution.
- reinstall OS
- create toolboxes for applications not covered by flatpak/appimage
- if there is not other option, install apps inside root image
EDIT
I decided to document the project on my confluence page below: https://confluence.suse.com/display/~lpalovsky/MicroOS
Resources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZLckDUDYjw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F7iCntjWB8 https://dariofaggioli.wordpress.com/2020/10/16/opensuse-microos-as-your-desktop-install/ https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:MicroOS http://docs.podman.io/en/latest/
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about 3 years ago by rangelino | Reply
Stupid question? Is this SUSE MIcroOS or some other MicroOS?
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It's this one (I think
) https://microos.opensuse.org/
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about 3 years ago by dfaggioli | Reply
Hey @lpalovsky ! Nice to learn about this plan of yours
If you need anything (especially around toolbox), ping me on whatever media/chat and I'll be happy to try to help!-
about 3 years ago by lpalovsky | Reply
Thanks, sure. I cannot wait to have my work notebook OS clean and tidy :D I am really interested if I manage running things like SAPgui or Hana studio inside the toolbox.
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about 3 years ago by dfaggioli | Reply
Yep, I know the feeling! And kudos for doing so many things already with MicroOS / toolbox
For install, an approach that I followed in the past (but that I've failed documenting and keeping together properly, so it now bitrotted :-/) was to put together kind of per-machine or per-usecase combustion scripts.
Pre-MicroOS, I had started to do something similar with salt (but again, never really finished) which is indeed nice. But when on MicroOS combustion (or a combination of ignition and combustion) would be better, IMO
Reply to dfaggioli
Yep, I know the feeling! And kudos for doing so many things already with MicroOS / toolbox
For install, an approach that I followed in the past (but that I've failed documenting and keeping together properly, so it now bitrotted :-/) was to put together kind of per-machine or per-usecase combustion scripts.
Pre-MicroOS, I had started to do something similar with salt (but again, never really finished) which is indeed nice. But when on MicroOS combustion (or a combination of ignition and combustion) would be better, IMO
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about 3 years ago by NMoreyChaisemartin | Reply
Nice idea. Not ready to switch my desktop yet but definitely giving it a try for my NAS/Homeserver.
@dfaggioli MicroOS portals talks about a Leap version but couldn't find any more info on it. Is it still very experimental ? Also is ther any drawbacks to using cron ( I saw that it's not installed by default) as I have a whole bunch of stuff in cron.(daily|monthly) that I don't really want to migrate to systemd if I can avoid it.
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about 3 years ago by dfaggioli | Reply
Wow, so many questions, and I have so few answers :-( So, I don't know much about the MicroOS Leap project. It was announced as experimental, but I've personally never heard much from it. Maybe Richard and/or Thorsten know more... Asking on the opensuse-kubic mailing list is what I'd do.
About corn, I don't use it (and I don't have it installed either in my MicroOS workstation), so I can't be 100% sure. But I think it should work fine.
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about 3 years ago by RBrownSUSE | Reply
I'd like to help out, folding back any steps we need to improve in the other MicroOS Desktop Hackweek Project at https://hackweek.suse.com/20/projects/microos-desktop
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about 3 years ago by lpalovsky | Reply
Thanks. I decided to document my progress and created a confluence page. Thought it might be helpful to anyone trying this as well and include any obstacles I encountered. https://confluence.suse.com/display/~lpalovsky/MicroOS
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about 3 years ago by sydsb | Reply
Hi, that's great, I'm a MicroOS desktop user since several months and have worked on this setup manual on the openSUSE-docs-revamped site. If there is anything you notice that is wrong or that we are missing, please sent a PR with an update.
Thanks and good luck next week :)
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Reply to dfaggioli
Hey @lpalovsky ! Nice to learn about this plan of yours If you need anything (especially around toolbox), ping me on whatever media/chat and I'll be happy to try to help!
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