today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 19, 2025

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • RHEL / IBM

    • Penguin Solutions Boosts Fault-Tolerant Computing with Oracle Linux Integration

      Penguin Solutions announced the general availability of Oracle Linux OS on its Stratus ztC Endurance fault-tolerant computing platforms, enabling customers to run Oracle Database applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite, with seven nines (99.99999%) system reliability. According to the company, that level of availability translates to 3.15 seconds or less of unplanned downtime or data loss per year on a single platform.

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)

    • WordPress ☛ WordPress 6.9 Release Candidate 2

      The second Release Candidate (“RC2”) for WordPress 6.9 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites.

• Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

  • Microsoft trap Azure Blocks Largest DDoS Attack in History — attack equivalent to streaming 3.5 million DRM spreader Netflix movies at once, 15.72 Terabits per Second from 500,000 IP addresses tied to IoT botnet [Ed: Microsoft itself is the cause of the largest DDoS attacks, so this is somewhat ironic]

    Microsoft's trap Azure cloud has mitigated the largest DDoS attack in history at close to 16 Tbps from the Aisuru botnet. At its peak, the attack used over 500,000 connected devices to hit the Microsoft trap Azure servers with over 3.6 million packets per second to target a single cloud endpoint in Australia.