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GNU/Linux Leftovers
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Linux Magazine ☛ Happy Birthday, ADMIN Magazine!
ADMIN is celebrating its 15th anniversary with issue #90.
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Kernel Space
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University of Toronto ☛ We haven't seen ZFS checksum failures for a couple of years
We regularly scrub our pools through automation, currently once every few weeks. Back in 2022 I wrote about us seeing only a few errors since we moved to SSDs in 2018, and then I had the impression that everything had been quiet since then. Hand-checking our records tells me that I'm slightly wrong about this and we had some errors on our fileservers in 2023, but none since then.
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Mikael Hansson ☛ Creating VMs in separate ZFS filesystems - oxcrag.net
I’m running my VMs on a plain Ubuntu server with KVM/QEMU, with VMs stored on ZFS.
Up until now, I’ve created my VMs as QCOW2 files in a single ZFS filesystem; e.g. all VMs have lived in /ssdpool/vmimages. The vmimages directory wasn’t a child ZFS file system to ssdpool, but a plain directory created by VirtManager once upon a time.
There are a couple good reasons to deepen the structure, though: [...]
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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SUSE/OpenSUSE
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OpenSUSE ☛ Hack Week Project Aims to Implement SSH in Zig
The effort builds on an incomplete implementation that already covers primitives, keys, certificates and much of the agent protocol.
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Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications
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Android Police ☛ 'Cinnamon Bun' all but confirmed as Android 17 codename
Android 16 is codenamed 'Baklava,' which essentially resets the alphabetical naming pattern, all while retaining the desert theme. With that history out of the way, it now looks like Android might be hopping back on the alphabetical naming train. No, we're not going back to W. Instead, we're going from 'Baklava' to 'Cinnamon Bun.'
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Kevin Boone ☛ Kevin Boone: Is it worth rooting an Android phone in 2025?
These days, alternative Android firmwares are rarely pre-rooted (unless you’re using a debug version) and rooting them is no easier than rooting the vendor’s stock firmware. Most alternative firmwares do not actively encourage rooting; some, like Graphene OS, are actively hostile to the idea.
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