today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 16, 2023

• How to Setup OpenLDAP Server on Ubuntu 22.04

• How to Install ISPConfig 3 on Ubuntu 22.04

  ISPConfig 3 is an open-source web hosting control panel for Linux machines. It is a free alternative to popular control panels like cPanel, DirectAdmin, or Plesk.

• Linux Empowering Financial Data Processing in Trading: A Multitasking Marvel [Ed: This is this site's linkspam disguised as 'article' about "Linux"]

• IBM Signals That Fedora Is Basically Finished, as Work on Desktop Spins Collapses in a Matter of Days.

  I’ve been blogging about my recent switch to openSUSE Leap and the collapse of Fedora due to “de-prioritization” by Red Hat, and Fedora basically falling into a gradual state of abandonment and bitrot.

  Here’s what an IBM Red Hat employee says will happen now that Red Hat has divested itself from LibreOffice. As you can see, desktop Bluetooth and a lot of other things are now effectively abandoned and nobody cares what they do on your Fedora desktop anymore.

• Red Hat's Mexican standoff: Job cuts? Yes, but we still need someone to boot Linux

  Although it's not long after job cuts at Red Hat, the company's team in Mexico is looking for a developer to work on the Linux bootloader stack.

  The role has been open for a couple of weeks, but if you fancy your chances, it's worth a go. Red Hat software engineer director Christan Schaller tweeted the role last week.

  As we reported over a year ago, there was a proposal to drop legacy BIOS boot support from Fedora. It proved to be wildly controversial, and it did not in fact happen. Amid the many, many comments in various places, it emerged that many hypervisors still default to BIOS booting, with UEFI boot support a non-default option, including Reg FOSS desk favorite VirtualBox. Even in VirtualBox 7.0, the manual calls its EFI support "experimental": [...]

• ADLINK COM-HPC Client module supports up to 24 cores

  ADLINK recently announced the availability of the COM-HPC-cRLS  Computer-on-Module built around the latest 13th Gen Intel Core CPUs. Some of the key features include its DDR5 memory support, PCIe Gen5, dual 2.5GbE with TSN and quad-displays.

• Meet Canonical at Andicom 2023

  Date: 6-8 September 2023

  Location: Cartagena, Colombia

• Docker on Mac - a lightweight option with Multipass

  For those looking for a streamlined, lightweight command line interface for Docker on Mac, look no further. Multipass is a flexible tool that makes it easy to create and run Ubuntu VMs on any platform, and it comes with built-in tools that make running applications like Docker feel native on platforms such as macOS.