The Spring Conference was well attended and a lot of fun. The venue was ideal for an event of this type, and there were some very good talks. The weather was excellent and it was good to walk around the city.

As usual, I operated (with others) a SUSE stand in the conference coffee area. Gerald Pfeifer of SUSE spoke.

I'll do a full write-up of the event in due course for the Newsletter.

Photos.

Since openSUSE 12.1 came out I have been running it on my work laptop (continual heavy use) with both / and /home on btrfs. I have had two filesystem crashes, one on / and one on /home. The crash on / left no trace. The one on /home was definitely a case of https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733843.

Hopefully this will be fixed soon. In neither case did I lose any data. In both cases free space was low on the filesystem at the time of the crash.

I think the snapper tool is absolutely great, particularly the way that it integrates with YaST and zypper.

Last weekend: photos.