Upgrade from Leap 15.3 over 15.4, 15.5 up to Leap 15.6 – problems with the named service

Sometimes one takes a challenge with Linux. During my stay in Norway I wanted to find out whether one could bring a really old server system (regarding HW) to the latest Leap version of Opensuse. Such an old system can still serve valuable purposes – as testing complex configurations of server components, using it as an extended IDS/Firewall-system, etc. In my case I was fortunate as the real problem occurred with SW and not HW.

Regarding HW my concerns related to an old Nvidia GT 710. The advantage of this card was/is that it is passively cooled and provides enough power for using both a present KDE or Gnome desktop – if necessary or useful. I was lucky to find that the present G05 Nvidia drivers support this card.

Somewhat unexpectedly, real problems occurred with an installed named-service at the upgrade from 15.3 to Leap 15.4 – and again when upgrading from 15.5 to 15.6. While you can find many complaints on the Internet, I did not find a solution that covered all my problem. Therefore, I want to give Linux users or administrators who experience similar problems some hints.

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Keras 3/TF vs. PyTorch – small model performance tests on a Nvidia 4060 TI

There are many PROs and CONs regarding the choice of a Machine Learning [ML] framework for private studies on a Linux Workstations. Two mainly used frameworks are PyTorch and a Keras/Tensorflow combination. One aspect for productive work with ML models certainly is performance. And as I personally do not have TPUs or other advanced chips available, but just a consumer Nvidia 4060 TI graphics card, performance and optimal GPU usage are of major interest – even for the training of relatively small models.

With this post I just want to point out that the question of performance advantages of some framework on a CUDA controlled graphics card can not be answered in a unique way. Even for small neural network [NN] models the performance may depend on a variety of relevant settings, on jit-/xla-compilation and the chosen precision level of your training or inference runs.

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Leap 15.6, Nvidia driver 570 – resume from suspend to RAM not working / workaround

Hint: After some experiments and further Internet digging, this post was rewritten and supplemented on the 5th of March, 2025. Sorry for any inconvenience.
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Recently, I have upgraded Opensuse Leap to version 15.6 on 5 PC-systems – all with (different) Nvidia graphic cards. I use KDE/Plasma on all these systems.

My daily working system is equipped with a 4060 TI Nvidia card. Nvidia drivers of version 570.124.06-1 on this particular system came from the Nvidia CUDA repository for Opensuse system at

https://developer.download.nvidia.com/ compute/ cuda/ repos/ opensuse15/ x86_64.

I sadly must say that the named particular driver, but also the present Nvidia drivers of version 570.86.16 on other systems, are at least in their corporation with the Linux kernel (6.4.0) and other components of the present Leap 15.6, unreliable or even buggy (for KDE/Plasma):

The resume process from “Suspend to RAM” does not work reliably on any of the systems.

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