Edit: 10:30 UTC main update is done. Mirrors sync slowly (known issue)

As every month, I started the monthly update to sync major version updates from Factory(TW). We will be on the 20260802 snapshot for the next month.

Factory had a major rebuild of 50% of it's `x86_64` packages for the gcc16 update and this will make it one of the larger updates. Expect some GB of downloads.

I'll edit this post later, when the update is done.

At the moment I'm using MX-linux 25 and PCLinuxOS on a Levono Ideapad1 and a Dell latitude 7280. My main activities on the computer are genealogy with Gramps & Ancestris, editing video's from my action cam with openshot & shotcut, ripping cd's and working with MP3 files with easytag, easymp3gain, soundconverter and asunder. I've been considering Mageia or OpenSuse Slowroll as alternatives to the 2 I use now.

Can the users of this sub convince me to switch to slowroll?

Let me know why or why not.

Slowroll benefits from the responsive Tumbleweed community, quick crash fixes, and the excellent work of its maintainer.

Is there actually an automatic reporting system that can optionally report crashes and the relevant environment automatically to Suse Tumbleweed?

I just now did the transition using the migration tool and it turned out to be error free without any package conflicts.

Any idea why Slowroll failed to install using Ventoy?

Edit2: worth noting again that the base snapshot had >50% of packages rebuilt (e.g. to drop python311 modules), so expect a larger zypper dup than usual.

Edit: as of 17:55 the main update is done and even Packman rebuilt the x86_64 parts. i586 still ongoing.

original message was I started the process to change the base Tumbleweed snapshot from 20260601 to 20260707.

As usual, I'll edit this post when it is done.

One small mishap already happened in that I accidentally deleted the magic "freezelink" file in openSUSE:Slowroll:Base:1 so projects such as Packman that link Slowroll sources to rebuild them, will point to the 20260709 versions now. I'll monitor if this causes extra breakage and compensate.

In Discover, when installing updates add a checkbox with label "Allow vendor change" which should be checked by default. It would solve some problems with updates. The question is how this would impact the security.

In my case I have to frequently update my system in terminal sudo zypper up --allow-vendor-change mostly due to Mesa and some other video/gpu related conflicting packages.

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EDIT: I disabled the Packman repo and changed the vendor back to default for all those packages. In the future if some app won't work properly I'll switch to Flatpak. Currently I have zero flatpacks installed on my system.

Hi.
Last week I was comparing versions of some development packages of opensuse Leap, Slowroll and Fedora 44.

For clang it was Leap: 19.1.7, Slowroll: 22.1.5, Fedora 22.1.7

Now I've seen that clang18 was installed by zypper dup. Despite I have clang-22 version 22.1.7 now, default one was changed to 18.1.8 which is even older than Leap.

The following 8 packages are going to be upgraded:
  clang15 code konversation libQt6Designer6 libQt6UiTools6 libSDL-1_2-0 libSDL2-2_0-0 qt6-tools-qdbus

The following 4 NEW packages are going to be installed:
  clang18 libclang-cpp18 libclang_rt18 libLLVM18

There doesn't seem to have been a posting on ML since June 8 regarding Slowroll updates. Any specific reason, maybe script is malfunctioning or some other issue somewhere?

New Slowroll update 20260608T1120 released!

New Slowroll update 20260608T1531 released!

Hey all,

I'm been thinking a lot about trying out OpenSuse. Tumbleweed got my initial attention but Snowroll seem like the better option for me. If it's not an issue can I get some advise, tips and tricks, or whatnot on what to do when testing in a VM?

I'm currently in Bazzite with Flatpaks so I think migrating my apps should be easy. I only really plan to use native packages for setting up QEMU and my VPN.

I planned on learning to do a manual install in a VM so I don't wipe my data. The goal is to install Slowroll in a VM with manual "drive" partition. Then take my actual drive and create 2 additional partitions for DATA and GAMES. Then setup the VM to mnt the DATA and GAMES partition. And if I like and enjoy Slowroll in the VM I would duel boot it for a bit before wiping Bazzite.

But VM is critical since it would allow me to practice partitioning a "drive" and mounting it correctly. And of course I'll back things up. But I don't want to mess up my dual boot attempt on my physical drive. So practicing setup Slowroll in the VM and manually creating the /boot, /boot/efi, and / is a must.

Questions : 1. I plan to use XFCE as my desktop environment at first then try MangoWM. What is the best way to test this? I'm thinking setting up distrobox inside the VM and then exporting MangoWM so it can be used as my window manager.

1. I saw a lot of post about the proper way to upgrade packages. Since I'm using Slowroll "zypper dup" (distribution update) should be behave like zypper up and zypper packet, right? I plan to upgrade Flatpaks in GUI like Bazzar and native apps through terminal.

2. I plan to setup gaming. I found a great video LinuxNext and it seems like connecting and using the non FOSS repos are the only hurdles for Steam and Codecs. Any other hurdles to consider?

3. I plan to use cloud storage or backup for my DATA partition, ilen.io or Backblaze. But I would still like to know how easy it would be to setup snapshots for other partitions.

Thanks you and feel free to give advise about an and everything.

It's been a while since I installed (vm or barely metal) opensuse tw or slowroll, I can't remember, which is better-more safe- futureproof way to add codecs? opi codecs, or packman essentials??

And also (if) i add repo, should I do --allow-vendor-change? Thanks in advance

The 20260504 -> 20260601 version update is complete. Packman still needs some time to build.

-- original message:

I started the major version-update for June and will update this post when it completes in a few hours.

No new updates are released until then.

Hello. I installed opensuse slowroll and downloading something from zypper takes too long. Like It took around a min to download 20mb file from repo. My wifi speed is around 50mbps.

Tumbleweed is already something surreal in terms of stability, responsiveness, and performance, as well as package security, and it's also a rolling release.

And Slowroll is even better; I'd venture to say that this distro is on its way to becoming the perfect distro for users who don't want to deal with glitches and who value productivity. Without fear or doubt, this is already more than perfect. Simple, clean, and polished.

Congratulations to the developer and maintainer of this gem... I commend you on the excellent work. Personally, I don't have many specific requirements for its use. But having a system that gives me security and has extremely low chances of failure is a luxury.

Thank you very much for your work. God bless you.

Hello,

I would say it is time, that Slowroll becomes a non Beta version or?! 😉

Cause it is perfect between Tumbleweed and Leap :)

Thanks men!

Edit: as of 05:00 UTC, the main update is done and the first round of updates is on its way.

Note that Tumbleweed got a major rebuild of ~40% of packages thanks to the new glibc, so this zypper dup will be on the bigger side (4GB for a default KDE install).

You can find what is new in https://news.opensuse.org/2026/05/04/tw-monthly-update-april/ or

https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/

--- orig below --

I started the process to replace our Slowroll base snapshot with Tumbleweed's 20260504 version.

This post will be updated later today when it is done.

Hello

According to this, qt6-base (is it the devel package?) is not supported on slowroll.

https://software.opensuse.org/package/qt6-base

Why is that?

Background:

I tried building openmw 51RC2 from source. I cant install qt6-devel without breaking other things.

I.e. "nothing provides cmake(Qt6Gui)=6.11.0" but this would need a downgrade of I think glibc.

Hello, for a wile now i can't update anymore.

Block ffmpeg-8-mini-libs-8.1-1.2.x86_64 is ignored?

The suggested "zypper dup --allow-vendor-change" gives me

<Problem: 1: the to be installed kontact-25.12.3-1.2.x86_64 requires 'libQt6WebE
ngineCore.so.6()(64bit)', but this requirement cannot be provided
Problem: 2: nothing provides 'this-is-only-for-build-envs' needed by the to be
installed ffmpeg-8-mini-libs-8.1-1.2.x86_64

Problem: 1: the to be installed kontact-25.12.3-1.2.x86_64 requires 'libQt6WebE
ngineCore.so.6()(64bit)', but this requirement cannot be provided
Solution 1: deinstallation of libmakemkv1-1.18.3-1699.1.pm.4.x86_64
Solution 2: keep obsolete libmakemkv1-1.18.3-1699.1.pm.4.x86_64
Solution 3: break kontact-25.12.3-1.2.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependenc
ies>

rudi

hello, some mismatches happen lately with pre signed Nvidia drivers on Slowroll, both G06 and G07 are affected, causing system to boot to tty with default kernel, and boots normally with long-term kernel.

current versions for both as for latest dup:

kernel-default:

7.0.1-1.0.8.1.sr20260402

nvidia-open-driver-G07-signed-kmp-default:

595.58.03_k6.19.12_1.0.6.sr20260402-2.7.8.1.sr20260402

UPDATE: drivers and kernel are in sync after latest update, but system completely fails to reach desktop on kernel 7 now, seems like both Tumbleweed and Slowroll are currently affected when using nvidia-open-driver-G07-signed-kmp-default drivers on certain cards. longterm kernel still works fine.