Success story with Roon Server on OpenSuSE Leap 15.6

Roon Software Discussion Linux
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Hi all,
installed on very old Dell Latitude E5550 with the Easy Install shell script

all required dependencies are fulfilled inside the distribution

sbarello@music-server:~> rpm -q -a --last | grep “ffmpeg|libav-tool|libasound|cifs-utils|glibc|kernel-default”
kernel-default-optional-6.4.0-150600.23.25.1.x86_64 Fri 01 Nov 2024 07:03:04 PM CET
kernel-default-extra-6.4.0-150600.23.25.1.x86_64 Fri 01 Nov 2024 07:02:59 PM CET
kernel-default-6.4.0-150600.23.25.1.x86_64 Fri 01 Nov 2024 07:02:50 PM CET
cifs-utils-6.15-150400.3.9.1.x86_64 Fri 01 Nov 2024 07:00:36 PM CET
glibc-locale-2.38-150600.14.14.2.x86_64 Fri 01 Nov 2024 07:00:25 PM CET
glibc-locale-base-2.38-150600.14.14.2.x86_64 Fri 01 Nov 2024 07:00:13 PM CET
libav-tools-12.3-bp156.3.6.x86_64 Fri 01 Nov 2024 06:59:38 PM CET
ffmpeg-3.4.2-150200.11.57.1.x86_64 Fri 01 Nov 2024 06:59:35 PM CET
libasound2-1.2.10-150600.2.3.x86_64 Fri 01 Nov 2024 06:58:37 PM CET
glibc-lang-2.38-150600.14.14.2.noarch Fri 01 Nov 2024 06:58:20 PM CET
glibc-extra-2.38-150600.14.14.2.x86_64 Fri 01 Nov 2024 06:58:14 PM CET
glibc-2.38-150600.14.14.2.x86_64 Fri 01 Nov 2024 06:58:14 PM CET
sbarello@music-server:~>

so far - so good, Stefano

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Nice to hear. I wonder why you didn’t went for OpenSuSe Tumbleweed as it is a rolling distribution with no end date. Just keep it updated :smiley:

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Very interesting. Please continue with updates.

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Hi there,

my individual choice is mainly because i am the sysop of a couple of SLES12 and SLES15 virtual machines at work, Leap 15.6 is very close to SLES15 SP6 and for free

  • Stefano
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in addition to the former post here some background info about differences in SuSE Linux OS open distributions

openSUSE - Wikipedia

P.S.:

one useful tweak when you run this on a notebook to save power is what happen when you close the lid

at least on AC power you may want that the only thing is a black screen

i have found only a quite peculiar solution for this that you need to call every time after a reboot

automation with /etc/crontab entry like this

sbarello@music-server:~> sudo grep -n bash /etc/crontab
[sudo] password for root:
16:@reboot root /bin/bash -c ‘/usr/sbin/gdm dbus-launch gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-ac-action blank’ > /var/log/crontab-reboot.log 2>&1
sbarello@music-server:~>

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Final addition to the thread from the thread opener

after a couple of week of operation i am so much more satisfied with the underlying SuSE OS platform than before with Windows 10 / Windows 11 did not work because of the TPM 2.0 requirement

especially when i run my actual 4 zones all together / 3 RAAT protocol zones and 1 Chromecast streaming zone for the TV box, now there is no breakups anymore, this happened with windows a lot more frequently

with the Roon server running on Linux the old hardware is utilized with much more efficiency