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By: Meike Chabowski

May 8, 2017 5:10 am

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Speeding up SSL – All You Need to Know About HAProxy

The following article has been contributed by Marcus "Darix" Rückert, Senior Software Engineer in the Operations & Services Team at SUSE. It first appeared on his personal homepage.   For quite a few years now I have been a HAProxy user, even using snapshots in production for a very long time. […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

May 3, 2017 3:30 am

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Documentation is Teaching, and Teaching is Everything

The following article has been contributed by Carla Schroder, Technical Writer at the SUSE Documentation Team.     Documentation is notorious for being in a persistent Schrödinger state. Everyone wants good documentation, but nobody reads it. Writing good documentation is "easy", but nobody wants to write it. Documentation is absolutely necessary, […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

April 24, 2017 6:49 am

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The Mainframe versus the Server Farm – A Comparison

The following article has been contributed by Carla Schroder, Technical Writer at the SUSE Documentation Team. The original article has been published in German at DataCenter Insider. A big "Thank You" to chief editor Ulrike Ostler for the permission to publish the article in English at the SUSE blog.     Google, […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

April 7, 2017 5:44 am

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Revolutionizing ARM Technology: x86_64 Option ROM on AArch64

The following article has been contributed by Alexander Graf, Principal Software Engineer at SUSE.       Every piece of hardware, every electronic device comes with so-called firmware–software that is deeply embedded in the piece of hardware, that provides the low-level control program for the device, and that is necessary to […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

April 5, 2017 8:04 am

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Linux Has Won: Lessons from Hosting a Panel with Industry Leaders

The following article has been contributed by Markus Feilner, Team Lead Documentation at SUSE.      Some days ago at CeBIT, I was once more allowed to host a panel discussion with industry leaders. And not surprisingly, the topic was: Enterprise Open Source. But something was different this year: There was no […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

February 28, 2017 3:04 am

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There and Back Again – Meeting the Beijing Team

This guest article has been contributed by Tanja Roth, Technical Writer at the SUSE Documentation Team.       At SUSE, we have a long tradition of bringing together people from different locations and cultural backgrounds - open source simply is in our genes! First Cross-cultural Challenge When I started to work […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

February 15, 2017 7:01 am

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openSUSE on Raspberry Pi 3: From Zero to Functional System in a Few Easy Steps

The following article has been contributed by Dmitri Popov, Technical Writer at the SUSE Documentation team.       Deploying openSUSE on Raspberry Pi 3 is not all that complicated, but there are a few tricks that smooth the process. First of all, you have several flavours to choose from. If you […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

December 19, 2016 9:20 am

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Geo Clustering: What, How, and Why?

The following article has been contributed by Greg Eckert who is responsible for Business Development at SUSE's valued partner LINBIT.   Disaster Recovery (DR) has been an industry buzzword for decades. But DR can have several meanings: mobile offices which act as work spaces after disasters, backups off-site, recovering data from destroyed disks, live […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

November 10, 2016 8:14 am

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Why Reinvent the Wheel – Share Your Expertise, Experience and Knowledge with the SUSE Best Practices!

You might have heard me emphasizing it several times: in my view, documentation is an essential part of a product, above all when it comes to software. Most software tools just and only become usable thanks to comprehensive documentation. If you work in an IT department and you are responsible for operative and productive environments […]

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