Showing posts with label testing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label testing. Show all posts

(GNOME:Next LiveCD running Thessaloniki lighter, faster, and more complete)

When I was writing about GNOME 3.34 yesterday, I only tested it on Fedora Rawhide, and I forgot that there is openSUSE special rolling edition. It is called openSUSE GNOME:Next and the ISO Image is available to run it as LiveCD. To date GNOME:Next includes 3.34 already and when I test it now, I'm impressed, I like GNOME 3.34 on openSUSE rather than on Fedora Rawhide! It's already fast on Fedora but it's faster and lighter on openSUSE. More than that, this openSUSE special edition includes built-in more GNOME Apps than Fedora's, like, Boxes, Buider, Fractal, Fragment, and more. It's more GNOMEish than Fedora! Now let's see it.

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This feature is called 'Parallel Installs' by Snap developers: you can install multiple versions of a software. The result is you can run different versions simultaneously (e.g. for reviewing or comparing purpose). It is supported since snapd 2.36. For any GNU/Linux users you just need to update your snapd to 2.36 or later in order to enjoy this awesome feature. For that purpose, we will try to install two versions of Inkscape on Ubuntu on LiveCD. I will use 0.92.4 and 1.0alpha, the most recent ones today. This example can be used for other programs as well. Enjoy!

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Without root, you can install Extensions easily with Inkscape AppImage on any GNU/Linux operating system. This way you don't need anymore to install Inkscape in each distro in each time you need to test some Extensions as AppImage is portable and runnable --even on LiveCD session-- across different distros i.e. Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, etc. AppImages also do not require you to install something first, so it's more efficient than Snappy or Flatpak. I hope this can help you to quickly test Inkscape Extensions as many as possible regardless you being designer or developer. This is easier than many of you ever imagined. Enjoy!

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You may want to run 64bit ISO images of many GNU/Linux systems (i.e. GuixSD and Trisquel) using a virtual machine. You may have a 64bit laptop without virtualization support like mine. Then also you may have heard that virtualization systems like VirtualBox doesn't work if your laptop doesn't support virtualization (Intel VT or AMD-V). So, is there really no solution running ISO without virtualization support? The answer is there is a solution and that is QEMU, the full hardware emulator. Surprisingly, it's very easy to run any OS with QEMU command line once you know the examples. This article shows 2 examples in running GNU/Linux OSes with QEMU on an old laptop without KVM, without Intel VT support. Happy running!