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Shane has teething issues with his Kubernetes homelab, Sean ran a bootable containers workshop at Texas Linux Fest, and the case for enterprise rolling distros.
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Why you should keep your Baseboard Management Controller off the network, ZFS is hard to defeat with a zip bomb, how bad the Internet bot problem probably is, and building a small home server cluster.
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Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware
When a decompression ZIP bomb meets ZFS: 19 PB written on a 15 TB disk
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Intel is contributing less to open source and it could easily backfire, Qualcomm buys Arduino and we have concerns, KDE turns 29, Germans are doing excellent work moving towards Linux, and good news for those running Linux on an Amiga.
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Intel rethinking how it contributes to open source community
Intel’s Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source
Arduino’s got a new job: selling chips for its new owner
Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack
Linux Patches Enable PCI Support For The Amiga 4000
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We’ve done various challenges in the past where we’ve bought Linux machines on a seriously low budget, but what if we had an unlimited budget? What would we buy in this hypothetical situation? It turns out we all struggled to come up with anything and are pretty satisfied with the machines we already have.
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It looks like the storage companies aren’t betting on the AI bubble lasting much longer, the arguments against self-hosting, and setting up a server for virtualization and containers.
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ZFS Performance Tuning in the Real World: ARC, L2ARC, and SLOG
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An AWS outage takes down a lot more sites and services than it should have, the new Ubuntu release has some surprisingly bad bugs, the Xubuntu website is compromised, Discord proves that uploading IDs is a bad idea, and Framework disappoints by sponsoring the baddies.
News
Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet
Ubuntu 25.10 lands: Rustier and Wayland-ier, but Flatpak is broken
Xubuntu website got hacked and is serving malware (trojan)
Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
Framework flame war erupts over Linux controversy
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With constant news stories about security issues with developer-published software in package managers like npm, we weigh up the pros and cons of this approach to distributing open source software.
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Some examples of the technical debt we’ve seen in the cloud world, how to pay it back, avoiding it in the first place, and why a certain amount of tech debt is inevitable.
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Windows 10 is officially end of life but Microsoft extends free updates for Windows 10 in Europe, it gets even harder to use a local account in Windows 11, and whether repurposing old server hardware is worth it.
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What the Future Brings – ZFS Features, Roadmap, and Innovations
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Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account
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