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Introduction:
We are doing virtualization related tasks, How can we still not know how

The USB controller (Via Labs 805 XHCI) on the RPi4 sits behind a PCIe bus which has no drivers at the moment in u-boot. After implementing it, we'll also have to make sure the USB HID is correctly connected with UEFI routines.

The goal of this project is two fold.

I'll continue the effort I started at last Hackweek to support Windows clients in Uyuni/SUSE Manager using Salt. When this is done, SUSE Manager would act as a WSUS server to Windows clients.

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• Create an automated L0-support-like analytics solution for supportconfig data that is tiered across a customer's environment and SUSE environment (similar to a very modular AIOps Edge-Core approach). A pictorial overview of the ecosystem

CaaSP is designed to be used with containers based on SUSE micro OS, using Salt as the management tool. CaaSP2 GMC is available at the moment. I want to spend the hackweek 0x10 to play with it, figure out how CasSP integrate and work with Salt.

Provisioning works with Autoyast/Cobbler for traditional clients, with profiles to enable major version upgrades. The goal is to offer that in a predictable way that can be scheduled and automated for salt minions.

Description

Starting from the position where I understand the principles behind AI/LLM/ML much better than their practical use, the goal is to learn about the current tools and where they can help me improve my daily job/life and help my team better. There is not preset roadmap. I will see where it all gets me.

Although availability of computer games on Linux has improved a lot there is way more potential for openSUSE to fire them up.

The idea is to create a bootable medium (eg. pendrive) that allows:

Phase 1: Melkor

To implement OTR function on IRC client, to make chatting private.

Description

The Kubic Project currently produces a "CaaSP-like" Tumbleweed OS, focused on Kubernetes clusters

Primarily to support Hackweek, but also to gain experience for a potential future corporate use, I like to run the open source Jitsi in a SUSE context and within a setup that is close to what SUSE IT is doing.

Problem statement

Project Description

Dochazka is a long-term project to replace the obsolete Attendance & Time Tracking system used by the Prague office since 2007. Dochazka is a complex system consisting of three major components:

Project Description

I plan to learn how to program for PREEMPT-RT (Real Time) patched Linux kernel on aarch64 architecture. I will use a digital oscilloscope and a raspberry pi to compare preempt vs preempt-rt kernels on aarch64 vs a micro-controller. I then plan to build a 4WD robot utilizing the Raspberry Pi, I2C sonar sensors, DC motor controller and camera.

DevOps teams face double sided challenges: development tasks should be planable and maintenance tasks should maintain their flow to provide maximum value through the queue. Build a prototype JIRA project to help them organize their workload with a Scrum board for their development tasks and a Kanban board for their maintenance work, all fed from a common backlog.

Have some knowledge on Dockers , but now taking the next step in understanding and expanding my skill set in containers and kubernetes.

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Intro

In openSUSE Asia summit 2015, there was a talk about the software defined networking, from the virtual switch, the controller, to the simulator. Just want to take a look at open vswitch and Ryu to learn more about SDN.

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zypper is magic

sumaform is a set of terraform modules to deploy SUSE Manager installations originated in Hackweek 14.

It is always nice to extend the translations for openSUSE packages/projects using Weblate.
Everyone is encouraged to improve on his native language.

Description

In this hack week we want to focus on improving the existing components used for http://docsearch.nue.suse.com. Creating separated repositories for each service and pushing them to github.com is also desired.

gdb-kdump (and libkdumpfile) needs a plenty of improvements and tasks to be done. For HackWeek 13, Vlastimil chose to work on SLAB memory support, Petr, amongst other things, reorganized the libkdumpfile code and alnovak begun with libkdumpfile's ppc64 support. Our status in 4/5 of HackWeek 13:

Description

Rewriting Distrobox in Go.

COREWAR is a programming game in which two or more programs (warriors or viruses) compete for the control of a virtual computer. The programs are written in Redcode, an abstract assembly language.

DAPS, the "DocBook Authoring and Publishing Suite" provides a tool set for easy creation and publication of DocBook sources on Linux. DAPS lets you create HTML (incl. webhelp), PDF, EPUB, man pages, and other formats with a single command. DAPS is used and developed by teh SUSE documentation team.

Description

This project undertakes to integrate SUSE terminology from TermWeb into commonly used writing and collaboration tools such as Google Docs, LibreOffice Writer, and AI assistants like Gemini. The goal is to streamline consistent terminology usage across documentation workflows and improve authoring efficiency by providing real-time term validation and suggestions.

I have cloned the classic Snake game in my spare time recently to learn about dynamic memory allocation and pointer stuff in C++.

Setup the video equipment and reinstall all devices

SUSE currently consumes a lot of electricity for keeping servers up an running as well as workstations at the office rooms, air-conditions and so on.

Geeko's Hack Week Gazette - Nürnberg Edition

This is more like a learning project for me as a new hire, so please do not expect too much, :-)

One of the winning factors of Docker is the Docker Hub. This the a place where the Docker community shares their images. Thanks to Docker's integrated build system it is possible to create new Docker images by just extending an existing one. That's why the Docker Hub is so useful.

Kernel dumps, provided by our customers, are uploaded by Customer Support to ziu.suse.de and shared via NFS to L3 servers at which they're analyzed. This procedure works, but likely has room for improvement.

There are couple of projects I work on, which need my attention and putting them to shape:

Build a base image and template (both kiwi and Dockerfile) for openSUSE Leap 42.3 using the native OBS container building feature.

I have bought a Raspberry Pi 400 and would like to experiment how it integrates into SUSE ecosystem.

Create packages for SLES 12 s390x in obs.

Problem statement

Once a kernel is built, a developer/janitor may want to boot the kernel for various reasons, such as performing simple boot test or running tests and workloads from user space or simply playing around in a shell. However, an easy to use and a descriptive tool to perform those tasks doesn't exist to our knowledge.

Non-Android Linux can already be booted on several devices that are based on CPUs from Allwinner, such as the A10 and A13, but support for the newer A23 is still incomplete.

openvswitch is used by cloud infrastructure (e.g. OpenStack) and software defined networking stacks, often in conjunction with KVM and Xen compute resources. When creating workloads on KVM compute resources, orchestration services can specify the openvswitch interfaceid and port-profile of the workload's virtual interface(s). E.g. orchestration can create workload configuration containing

Description

Currently, the usual way to communicate with VM instances in the cloud from outside is ssh. This is okay for most uses, but a) does not work when you mess up with the guest's ability to network and b) requires a free floating IP.

Project Description

In this project I would like to extend the capabilities of the SLE Release Management Container. This container is used by some colleagues in the SLE Release Management team to have access to osc and other Release Management critical commands inside a container environment. This includes the beta-emails project to send our beta announcements.

The Agama project is a multi-language Linux installer that leverages the distinct strengths of several key technologies:

In Beijing HA server room, we have a Huawei switch with a 10GB bandwith uplink FC port, a iSCSI HBA, a desktop computer, and some SFPs, I will build a 10GB bandwith iscsi server.

What is HRV ?

Description

ABI compatibility checks could be further automated by using the OBS API to download built RPMs and using existing tools to analyze ABI compatibility between the libraries contained in those packages. This project aims to explore these possibilities and figure out a way to make ABI checks as painless and fast as possible for package maintainers.

Let's do what we can to get https://github.com/openSUSE/fuel-ignition running as ignite.opensuse.org respectively ignite-stage.opensuse.org

Description

The goal is to create a Longhorn UI extension within Rancher using existing resources.

Our QEMU/KVM testing needs to be improved.

Take some online classes for penetration testing tools and then practice using them. The goal is to learn enough to provide some value for pen testing of real products. Originally I was hoping to have a real cloud to pen test, but that appears unlikely so I plan to set up an Apache web server instead as the system under test. It won't matter much as the goal is to learn to use the tools.

Look at this beauty: https://github.com/crowbar/crowbar-core/blob/master/crowbarframework/app/models/serviceobject.rb#L941

After nearly ten years of work my minimal widget C library is nearly ready for a use.

Blog about ScummVM Freeware games of our openSUSE Build Service games project

Description

I`d like to create new set of tools for mirroring ISOs and repositories from "master" server to slaves/mirrors.

The DriConf-Project inside of MESA has seen its latest update in 2006 and is implemented with GTK+ 2. https://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriConf/

Project Description

Before Cavium switched to ARM64 CPUs they developed quite powerful MIPS based SOCs. The current upstream Linux kernel already supports some Octeon SOCs, but not the latest versions. Goal of this Hack Week project is to use the latest Cavium SDK to update the Linux kernel code to let it running on CN23XX network cards.

Redmine.suse.de (as an inhouse tool) is very close to be a jump in replacement for Trello.com (the outhouse tool). Investigate into setting up a redmine-board so that it has exactly (and only) the features a Trello board has,

[Description]: # A simple web package can find openQA jobs/jobgroups which use specific test module [Status]: # In plan

It's clear that in Kubernetes world, SUSE and openSUSE chose Cilium as the main network provider, which also means choosing BPF and XDP as underlying technologies for implementing datapath and packet filtering.

Description

The proposed project consists of a comprehensive security analysis concerning the use of metal keys as physical access control mechanisms in high-security environments. Its primary objective is to enhance awareness of the security risks inherent in the reliance on such a widely deployed tool. To support broad dissemination, the final results will be made publicly available in a document designed for easy download and printing, thereby facilitating its distribution and practical adoption.

See http://nette.org

Extend Teuthology to meet our needs. This includes (but is not limited too):

As in near future, there will be python2python3 in Factory but no /usr/bin/python and in SLE-15 base no python2 it is necessary to start checking/switching dependencies.

Description

The idea is to delve into understanding Nutanix AHV internals on how it stores and runs VMs, and how to extract them in an automated way for importing into a KVM-compatible hypervisor, like SUSE Virtualization/Harvester. The final product will be not only be documentation, but a working prototype that can be used to automate the process.