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It’s part 2 of the £50 Linux machine challenge! This time: actually using them, what upgrades we did, what we’ll actually use them for, and more.
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A vulnerability in sudo brings up concerns about feature-creep, and makes us consider alternatives. Plus Broadcom starts auditing VMware customers, and how to decide which outbound ports to open on a large network’s firewall.
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Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide
News/discussion
Vulnerability Advisory: Sudo chroot Elevation of Privilege
VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom
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We were asked about how to decide which outbound ports to open on a large network’s firewall.
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Linux gaming goes from strength to strength but puts off the inevitable death of 32-bit x86, devs are sick of companies expecting free fixes, Creative Commons disappoints on AI, and more.
News
Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler
Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages – potentially bad news for Steam gamers
Fedora proposal to drop 32-bit
Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
Proposal to drop 32-bit in Fedora 44 withdrawn
Bcachefs Changes End Up Being Merged Into Linux 6.16, For 6.17: “We’ll Be Parting Ways”
Libxml2’s “no security embargoes” policy
A bug caused some major websites to break and this guy has quite a take on it
Accepting donations on OpenCollective – FlightGear
Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI
You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling
Plasma 6.4 is much juicier than I remembered
This Week in Plasma: inertial scrolling, RDP clipboard syncing, and more session restore
Porkbun.com
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When and how to use benchmarking in your project, why it’s hard, and why optimising your code can be even harder.
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How much observability and monitoring is really needed, the tooling people actually use (from Datadog and Grafana Cloud to open source options like Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo), and how to approach observability without overcomplicating things.
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Jim is concerned that we might not see another next-gen filesystem that can compete with ZFS, no matter how much we all want one. Plus whether you should switch to third-party firmware on your router.
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ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload
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Bcachefs Lands More Improvements For Linux 6.16 After Data Loss Bug Hit v6.15
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We were asked whether you should switch to third-party firmware on your router.
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Making music with code in real time, fancy rsync, an open source real time strategy engine, advanced print debugging, EU-based DNS resolvers, and European government departments moving away from Microsoft and they might stick with Linux and FOSS this time.
Discoveries
News/discussion
Two city governments in Denmark are moving away from Microsoft amid Trump and US Big Tech concerns
‘We’re done with Teams’: German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
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It’s the £50 Linux machine challenge! We all had a budget of 50 GBP (~65 USD) to buy the best computer we could find to run Linux.
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Nintendo cuts off Switches that dare to play backed up games, more Microsoft AI exploits, why you shouldn’t regularly spin down hard drives, and securing applications on a home server.
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Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware – A Cost-Efficient, Data-Sure Storage Solution
Klara co-hosted a webinar with TrueNAS about ZFS Fast Dedup
News
Switch 2 users report online console bans after running personal game “backups”
Intellectual Property & Piracy FAQ | Nintendo Support
I learned the hard way to never spin down your NAS hard drives
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We were asked about securing applications on a home server.