Doing Fedora Snapshots/Rollbacks With Btrfs & Snapper

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Doing Fedora Snapshots/Rollbacks With Btrfs & Snapper

All the way back to Fedora 13 has been work on supporting Btrfs system snapshots / rollbacks using this Linux next-generation file-system's CoW snapshot abilities. Those abilities were tied into a Yum plug-in for making a Btrfs snapshot whenever a Yum transaction would take place. Another alternative for Btrfs system snapshots on Fedora is by using Snapper...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Btrfs-Rollbacks-Snapper

[Awesomeness]

Snapper, one of the few good things to come out of SUSE in recent times?

[niner]

This and libzypp which is also used by Fedora as base for the dnf package manager.
And continual performance testing of mainline kernels: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/blog/index...e-kernels.html
And the Open Build Service which can be used by all distributions and even individuals.

[tomtomme]

Snapper, one of the few good things to come out of SUSE in recent times?

few?
what about?
- suse studio
- obs - used by many distros
- zypper - the underlying libsolv was adopted by fedora recently for their new yum == dnf
- openQA - also adopted by fedora recently
- yast - should be adopted by others...

[Awesomeness]

few?
what about?
- suse studio
- obs - used by many distros
- zypper - the underlying libsolv was adopted by fedora recently for their new yum == dnf
- openQA - also adopted by fedora recently
- yast - should be adopted by others...

Please look up the meaning of "recent".

[tomtomme]

Please look up the meaning of "recent".

very helpful comment.

for me recent means in the last 2 or so years.
- yast was recently completely rewritten in ruby so that others can start using it and thus got many new modules
- openQA is about 1 year old since it started with tumbleweed and was very recently adopted by others
- marvin, the continual performance testing of mainline kernels: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/blog/index...e-kernels.html is from 2015 (thanks niner - that was new to me)
- OBS is in steady developement since 2006 - do you count new features? the last major release was march 2014
- libsolv and studio are also a bit older, ok, 2011 and 2009 - but still - they are in steady developement these days and are used by others - don?t you count that?

now tell me what "your" distro has got out recently for the community?

[Awesomeness]

- yast was recently completely rewritten in ruby so that others can start using it and thus got many new modules

No, not completely rewritten. The major work was done by a script that translated the old code base into Ruby.

- openQA is about 1 year old since it started with tumbleweed and was very recently adopted by others

- marvin, the continual performance testing of mainline kernels: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/blog/index...e-kernels.html is from 2015 (thanks niner - that was new to me)

I wrote "few good things", not "only good thing": I never claimed that Snapper is the only good recent thing by SUSE.
However it's undeniable that SUSE fired a huge chunk (if not the majority) of its FOSS developers ? esp. in the desktop space ? and decreased its FOSS contributions in general.

- OBS is in steady developement since 2006 - do you count new features? the last major release was march 2014

OBS is great, I use it for all my packaging. It's not new, though.

- libsolv and studio are also a bit older, ok, 2011 and 2009 - but still - they are in steady developement these days and are used by others - don?t you count that?

No, I don't count maintaining older software. libsolv is great but also already 8 years old. SUSE Studio is proprietary, so fuck it.

now tell me what "your" distro has got out recently for the community?

http://cockpit-project.org/

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/New-KDE-screen-management-tool-ready-for-widespread-use-1895373.html

http://www.ovirt.org/oVirt_Wiki:General_disclaimer#Trademarks

http://www.projectatomic.io/

https://grulja.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/2-years-with-network-management-in-kde/

Pretty much every newer Gnome project these days (e.g. https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-boxes...ster/copyright , https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-logs/...c/gl-journal.c , https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-maps/...application.js ,?)
and so on and so forth?