GNU/Linux and Free Software Leftovers
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GNU/Linux
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Server
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Kubernetes Blog ☛ The Cloud Controller Manager Chicken and Egg Problem
Kubernetes 1.31 completed the largest migration in Kubernetes history, removing the in-tree cloud provider. While the component migration is now done, this leaves some additional complexity for users and installer projects (for example, kOps or Cluster Hey Hi (AI) . We will go over those additional steps and failure points and make recommendations for cluster owners. This migration was complex and some logic had to be extracted from the core components, building four new subsystems.
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Audiocasts/Shows
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The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD Now 598: UFS1 up-to-date
Key Considerations for Benchmarking Network Storage Performance, OpenZFS 2.3.0 available, Updates on AsiaBSDcon, GhostBSD Desktop Conference, Recovering from external zroot, Create a new issue in a Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub repository with Ansible, Stories I refuse to believe, date limit in UFS1 filesystem extended, and more
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Hackaday ☛ Hackaday Podcast Episode 308: The Worst 1 Ever, Google’s Find My Opened, And SAR On A Drone
It’s Valentine’s Day today, and what better way to capture your beloved’s heart than by settling down together and listening to the Hackaday Podcast! Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for this week’s roundup of what’s cool in the world of hardware. We start by reminding listeners that Hackaday Europe is but a month away, and that a weekend immersed in both hardware hacking and the unique culture offered by the city of Berlin can be yours.
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Games
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Forbes ☛ Will ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Be Playable On Steam Deck?
For PC gamers, there’s a lot of positive news surrounding Assassin’s Creed Shadows. It's even playable on an 8-year-old GPU! So, what about the Steam Deck?
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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SUSE/OpenSUSE
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Dominique Leuenberger ☛ Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/07
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
From an engineering point of view, this week was exciting. Hopefully, you have seen on news.openssue.org that the default LSM has been switched from AppArmor to SELinux for new installations. This has been a long ongoing effort. It took quite some time as we did not just want to release it onto users (as default) before we trusted it to work, with policies that make sense out of the box. There might still be rough edges, and there are almost certainly some policy issues to be uncovered in the next weeks with more workloads running on it. Considering MicroOS and Aeon have been configured with SELinux as their LSM for quite some time, there is also high confidence in this. And bringing MicroOS, Aeon and Tumbleweed closer together makes for easier administrative switching for those distributions, as they all behave equally.
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Fedora Family / IBM
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Red Hat Official ☛ Virtualization in 2025 and beyond
Looking back, every decade has brought a new wave of innovation based on unmet customer needs and technology advancements. The 1990s brought about the information transition to digitization resulting in the popularity of the World Wide Web. 2000s began with applications gaining hardware independence by adopting server virtualization made possible due to advancements in hypervisor technologies. 2010s introduced on-demand infrastructure and shortening application lifecycles from years to hours through the adoption of DevOps and Kubernetes.
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Red Hat ☛ Image-based installation is easier and faster
Image-based installation is a process that allows you to provision a single node OpenShift cluster using a pre-generated container image and configure the details per cluster in the second step. This contrasts with traditional, dynamic installation processes where configuration happens in one step during installation.
Image-based installation complements existing tools like GitOps Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) and the Agent-based Installer (ABI) by significantly boosting speed and the reproducibility of single node OpenShift cluster provisioning.
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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Alan Pope ☛ Alan Pope: Spotlighting Community Stories
tl;dr I’m hosting a Community Spotlight Webinar today at Anchore featuring Nicolas Vuilamy from the MegaLinter project. Register here.
Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of working with organizations that create widely-used open source tools. The popularity of these tools is evident through their impressive download statistics, strong community presence, and engagement both online and at events.
During my time at Canonical, we saw the tremendous reach of Ubuntu, along with tools like LXD, cloud-init, and yes, even Snapcraft.
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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Unicorn Media ☛ The FOSS Force Almost Open Tech News Quiz (2/14/25)
We're revising our weekly news quiz, which we pretty much abandoned three or four years ago. This inaugural quiz for the reboot is only seven questions, so it's a quick in-and-out, win-or-lose for those who want to play.
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Events
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WordPress ☛ WordCamp Asia 2025: Manila Magic
The first major WordCamp of the year is here! WordCamp Asia 2025 lands in Manila, Philippines, from February 20-22, bringing together open source enthusiasts, developers, and WordPress professionals from across the region—and the world.
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