today's leftovers
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How we keep our Linux systems patched with automation | Enable Sysadmin
An automated patch-management system helps keep your server infrastructure patched and maintained in a timely manner.
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What is Linux Webhosting | Linux Webhosting blog
Second, Linux is highly customizable, which means that it can be easily tailored to meet the specific needs of your website or web application. This allows you to choose the right combination of features and capabilities to support the unique requirements of your project.
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Overall, Linux is a powerful and versatile platform for web hosting, and it offers many benefits over other operating systems. Whether you are a small business owner, a web developer, or a large enterprise, Linux can provide the stability, security, and flexibility that you need to host your website or web application successfully.
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Info drips out about various vendors' Arm-powered kit • The Register
Arm-powered laptops and desktops are appearing on the market, but external appearances are deceptive. These are very different from familiar x86-based PCs, as the accounts of those experimenting with them reveal.
Compared to x86 machines, which have the widest range of interchangeable, modular hardware in the history of computing, devices such as phones and tablets are almost polar opposites. A fondleslab is a relatively sealed unit, with a known combination of main processor, graphics processor, various networking interfaces and so on, designed and built to run a single OS that is customized for that hardware. If you're lucky, several versions of that single OS.
When it comes to the inexpensive highly integrated Arm device you are probably holding in mid air, the problems start with booting: there's usually no standardized firmware able to load multiple unknown OSes in the typical ad hoc PC way. There's no need if you're building it to run just one specific payload, meaning that, from the vendor's point of view, it's cheaper to do without.
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LinuxLinks - The Home of Linux - LinuxLinks
We’ve crafted an enormous range of articles showcasing the finest free and open source Linux software. We cover games, graphics, education, multimedia, security, and tons more. And there’s other computer related areas that we also regularly dive into such as programming, hardware, Android, and more.
Many of these articles are published in a series. It therefore makes sense to collate all of these articles to a central location. This helps you to quickly find what you are looking for, as well as introducing you to a profusion of interesting and informative material.
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EU Declaration of Digital Rights and Principles falls short of its ambitions
Member states, the European Parliament, and the Commission have reached a consensus on the Declaration of Digital Rights and Principles. Although it aims to serve as a reference point for the digital transformation of Europe, it instead descends into murky waters, causing ambiguity. Its wording is unclear and it overlooks existing good proposals.
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It is also not clear if the declaration is consistent with existing frameworks. According to its text, it is built upon previous initiatives such as the Berlin and Tallinn declarations. These aforementioned frameworks already refer to Free Software when it comes to digital sovereignty and interoperability, while they also require more use of Free Software, and strengthening the requirement for its use. However, when it comes to interoperability, Free Software is not explicitly mentioned in the Declaration of Digital Rights and Principles.
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Post-mortem: Downtime on December 5, 2022 - Open Build Service
After yesterday’s deployment, we faced a downtime on our reference server. In the lines below you will find a detailed explanation of what happened.