today's leftovers
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Why Are Linux Login Screens Called Display Managers?? - Invidious
LightDM, SDDM, GDM, all of those provide Linux login screens but we call them Display Managers, why though? They don't manage our screen shouldn't they be called login or session managers instead. Like everything involving X those is a 30 year old reason.
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Kubernetes 1.25: Use Secrets for Node-Driven Expansion of CSI Volumes
Kubernetes v1.25, released earlier this month, introduced a new feature that lets your cluster expand storage volumes, even when access to those volumes requires a secret (for example: a credential for accessing a SAN fabric) to perform node expand operation. This new behavior is in alpha and you must enable a feature gate (CSINodeExpandSecret) to make use of it. You must also be using CSI storage; this change isn't relevant to storage drivers that are built in to Kubernetes.
To turn on this new, alpha feature, you enable the CSINodeExpandSecret feature gate for the kube-apiserver and kubelet, which turns on a mechanism to send secretRef configuration as part of NodeExpansion by the CSI drivers thus make use of the same to perform node side expansion operation with the underlying storage system.
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I believe SELinux needs active support from your distribution
We have a single machine that uses SELinux, because it has a need for an unusually thorough level of security. This machine runs CentOS 7, because at the time we built this machine (several years ago), CentOS 7 was the obvious long term support Linux to use to get a high security, SELinux based environment. Since CentOS has effectively imploded, we are going to need to replace that machine with some other distribution before the middle of 2024, and the default choice is Ubuntu.
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Kernel 5.15.69 compiled
Preparing for the next release of EasyOS, have bumped the kernel to 5.15.69.
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Void PPC Goes Chimera (and Bust)
Void PPC maintainer Daniel Kolesa has announced that instead of simply phasing out big-endian support in Void in 2022, he will instead cease maintaining the PowerPC/Power ISA fork of Void Linux entirely in favour of Chimera Linux, a fusion of a Linux kernel, musl libc and FreeBSD userland built with LLVM. There may even be a return of support for big-endian, at least for 64-bit Power (32-bit Power to be considered), as well as Chimera's core support for ppc64le, aarch64 and x86_64 (with 64-bit RISC-V coming).
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Felipe Borges: Google Summer of Code 2022: It’s a wrap!
Another program year is ending and we are extremely happy with the resulting work of our contributors!
This year GNOME had nine Google Summer of Code projects covering various areas, from improving apps in our ecosystem to standardizing our web presence. We hope our interns had a glimpse of our community that motivated them to continue engaged with their projects and involved with the broad GNOME ecosystem.
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Debian's firmware vote [LWN.net]
The Debian project has begun voting on changes to its approach to firmware needed to install a working distribution. The original ballot options described in this article are still there, but this is Debian so there are several others as well. Some of the additions include changes to the Debian Social Contract that explicitly allow the shipping of firmware needed to use Debian on hardware requiring that firmware.
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iTWire - India PC shipments fall below 5m for first time in four quarters [Ed: Terrible news for Windows, helps explains why many PCs there are converted to GNU/Linux]
India's PC shipments for the second quarter of 2022 dropped to 4.6 million units, a fall of 12%, the technology analyst firm Canalys says.
The company, which includes desktops, notebooks and tablets when counting PC shipments, said in a statement this was the first time shipments had fallen below five million units in the last four quarters.
Notebooks were the biggest contributor with 2.6 million units, though this was only 2% year-on-year growth. By contrast, desktops saw 70% year-on-year growth, though this amounted to only 900,000 units shipped.