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GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
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Audiocasts/Shows
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The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD Now 629: Host Naming Conventions
The Death of Industrial Design, Host naming Convensions, Symbian reflections, bash timeouts, nvme vs ssds, a system to organize your life, and more.
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Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)
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John Goerzen ☛ Running an Accurate 80×25 DOS-Style Console on Modern Linux Is Possible After All
This post is about the Linux text console – not X or Wayland. We’re going to get the console right without using those systems. These instructions are for Debian trixie, but should be broadly applicable elsewhere also. The end result can look like this: [...]
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Ruben Schade ☛ Silly booby traps in FreeBSD and NetBSD
I’ve had this installed in a few honeypot VMs, and it’s been… amusing seeing the commands people issue. I can see them attempting to install packages and run scripts. You’d think these tools would run a uname first to confirm the OS on its which it’s running, but apparently not! I guess its easier to assume you’re hearding penguins than to confirm whether you’re on a BSD, or illumos, or whichever.
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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Ubuntu ☛ Canonical achieves IEC 62443-4-1 compliance in Industrial Automation and Control Systems [Ed: Canonical is upselling Debian to make MS (Mark Shuttleworth) richer]
Learn about Ubuntu Pro for Devices
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