GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 14, 2025

• Nokia inks contract with cloud provider 23M for Linux-powered switches - Telecompaper

• Server

  • Kubernetes Blog ☛ Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know

    To prioritize the safety and security of the ecosystem, Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee are announcing the upcoming retirement of Ingress NGINX. Best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026. Afterward, there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to resolve any security vulnerabilities that may be discovered. Existing deployments of Ingress NGINX will continue to function and installation artifacts will remain available.

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Going Linux ☛ Going GNU/Linux #473 · Listener Feedback

    Bill and Larry both break things. Questions for the listener: In addition to MP3, should we have a second feed? If so, should it be OGG, FLAC, OPUS, or something else? Suggestions for Solitaire, website upgrades, community comments, episode topics, printers, running GNU/Linux Mint, and computers for running Linux.
    00:00 Going GNU/Linux #473 · Listener Feedback
    01:30 Bill broke Manjaro
    02:30 Larry breaks audio
    03:18 Request to provide a FLAC feed
    04:18 Questions for the listener: In addition to MP3, should we have a second feed? If so, should it be OGG, FLAC, OPUS, or something else?
    09:18 Jblough: Ideas for an online Solitaire game
    10:40 Frank: Free, open source Solitaire
    12:50 Jack: Confusion over the feed
    21:10 David: A link suggesting CachyOS is more popular than Ubuntu or Mint
    23:57 Tolga: Unable to leave comments. Distro suggestions.
    29:27 Kenneth: A suggestion for our website
    32:60 Frank: Think Penguin
    34:35 Paul: Asus laptop and Mint
    35:53 Jim: GNU/Linux printers
    42:30 Frank: Weird RSS stuff
    45:14 Torontal7: About the picture in our ogg file
    48:31 David: An interesting episode idea
    54:46 Paul: Problems with GNU/Linux Mint
    59:28 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe
    60:32 End
    

• Kernel Space

  • Hackaday ☛ There’s No Rust On This Ironclad Kernel

    Rust is the new hotness in programming languages because of how solid its memory protections are. Race conditions and memory leaks are hardly new issues however, and as greybeards are wont to point out, they were kind of a solved problem already: we have Ada. So if you want a memory-protected kernel but aren’t interested in the new kids’ rusty code, you might be interested in the Ironclad OS kernel, written entirely in Ada.

• Applications

  • Unicorn Media ☛ Make SSH as Easy as FTP with SSH Pilot

    FTP's simplicity came with security risks; SSH Pilot offers a familiar workflow for secure shell management and encrypted file transfers -- without sacrificing security.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • SUSE/OpenSUSE

    • OpenSUSE ☛ openSUSE Tumbleweed

      openSUSE Tumbleweed recently changed the default boot loader from GRUB2 to GRUB2-BLS when installed via YaST.

      This follows the trending started by MicroOS of adopting boot loaders that are compatible with the boot loader specification. MicroOS is using systemd-boot, a very small and fast boot loader from the systemd project.