today's leftovers
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Into The Fediverse!
This is more of a test post after enabling some new Fediverse features on the server.
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Ubuntu Fridge | Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 760
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 760 for the week of October 30 – November 5, 2022.
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The 86Box PC emulator
For someone who’s been using virtualisation tools since Virtual PC on a 1999 iMac DV, and who makes his living documenting and architecting systems on Linux Xen, I had no idea of the existence of PCem, and of the 86Box fork. ozzmosis sent me a screenshot on Mastodon, and I’ve been hooked on it ever since.
Compared to other virtualisation tools like QEMU and DOSBox, 86Box aims to faithfully reproduce original hardware going back to the first IBM PC. It does this using original ROMs, coupled with period accurate virtual drives, interfaces, sound cards, GPUs, and NICs.
This is an important distinction. It can run on non-PC hardware like Apple Silicon because it isn’t a hypervisor. It also means vintage operating systems receive hardware they expect, and for which they have driver support. If you ever wanted to see how Windows 3.0 or OS/2 looked with 256 colours on a Tseng VGA card, this is how you do it.
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Mirroring sources used in nixpkgs (software preservation)
This may appear like a very niche use case, in my quest of software conservancy for nixpkgs I didn't encounter many people understanding why I was doing this.
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Automate code build and deployment with ansible | Pablo Iranzo Gómez blog
Let’s say that we want to keep our system updated with some code which is not distributed as a regular package, but as a code in a repository (which unfortunately, it’s a pretty common situation).
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Second Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0
We are proud to announce the second beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0.
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The Most Used Operating Systems in the World [Ed: Android/Linux most widely used, not Windows]
If you have ever used a PC, Macbook smartphone, tablet or any smart device (which is likely the case since you are reading this tutorial) chances are you have interacted with an operating system.
An operating system is a program that handles all the aspects of a device such as a PC or a smartphone including managing all the software and hardware functions. It handles key aspects such as booting, device management, memory management, process management, loading and executing of programs, and many more.
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iTWire - Europe opens probe into Microsoft bid to buy Activision Blizzard
The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, has begun an in-depth investigation into Microsoft's proposed acquisition of the gaming company Activision Blizzard.
In a statement on Tuesday, the EC said it had concerns whether the deal would lessen competition in markets for distribution of console and personal computer video games and for PC operating systems.
Microsoft announced its acquisition in January, with the price paid being US$70 billion (A$107.8 billion) to become the globe's third-largest gaming firm.