On Tue, 2022-07-19 at 19:00 +0000, Gordon Leung wrote:
Hi,
Hi,
I saw the announcement about sending MicroOS reviews here so since I tried it out a month or two ago so I guess I will share my thoughts here.
Cool! :-)
I think MicroOS could benefit a lot from a toolbox tutorial in a new user welcome pop up, because when I tried out MicroOS I had only heard of the name "toolbox", but never knew what it could do at all. Toolbox makes doing "normal" Linux distro things such as installing devel packages or something else temporarily pretty painless, but because I had no idea it could do that, I was just restarting my computer every time I was trying to figure out what devel packages I needed to build a C program.
Right. So, this is going to be a bit of a shameless plug, but here we go. :-D A Google search for "MicroOS Desktop toolbox" (which of course makes only if you actually at least know toolbox exists) returned these results: https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:MicroOS/Desktop#Toolbox_-_GUI_applications_se... https://dariofaggioli.wordpress.com/2020/10/16/opensuse-microos-as-your-desk... https://dariofaggioli.wordpress.com/2021/06/18/microos-as-your-desktop-prime... (and Toolbox is mentioned in the actual talks, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2dKMfuqRnE) https://kolomansell.wordpress.com/2020/12/23/trying-out-opensuse-microos-des... From third link, the following articles are reachable: https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/containers_toolbox/ https://kolomansell.wordpress.com/2021/01/02/gui-inside-a-toolbox-lutris-edi... https://sysadmin-journal.com/debugging-on-microos-made-easier https://kubic.opensuse.org/blog/2019-10-22-toolbox/
Also, some other tutorials such as how to use Distrobox to simulate entire other Linux distributions could be a neat bonus.
Yeah, and about Distrobox, it was discussed, together with Toolbox, at the latest openSUSE Conference: https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSC22/program/proposals/3829 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2dKMfuqRnE But aside of that, Distrobox has a quite good press coverage, IMO. Just to link a few: https://www.tecmint.com/distrobox-run-any-linux-distribution/ https://fedoramagazine.org/run-distrobox-on-fedora-linux/ https://www.makeuseof.com/run-multiple-linux-distros-inside-terminal-distrob... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2dKMfuqRnE (at around min 16)
People unfamiliar with immutable distros such as myself don't know what we need, so by the time I looked up how those tools worked, I was already back to using plain vanilla Tumbleweed.
So, I guess that the material is actually there already... Maybe it's not visible/reachable enough, for the people that needs it? If yes, the first thing that comes to mind is to expand and improve (and add some of these links) the Wiki... Would that work? Any takers? Any other ideas? Thanks again and Regards -- Dario Faggioli, Ph.D http://about.me/dario.faggioli Virtualization Software Engineer SUSE Labs, SUSE https://www.suse.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- <<This happens because _I_ choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere)