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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 640: Cleaning up Hammer
FreeBSD is an OCI runtime, ZFS Disaster Recovery, Cleaning up Hammer, and some historical information, and more...
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Hackaday ☛ FLOSS Weekly Episode 857: SOCification
This week Jonathan chats with Konstantinos Margaritis about SIMD programming. Why do these wide data instructions matter? What’s the state of Hyperscan, the project from Intel to power regex with SIMD? And what is Konstantinos’ connection to ARM’s SIMD approach? Watch to find out!
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Instructionals/Technical
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Linux Capable ☛ How to Install PHP 8.4 on Debian Linux
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Michael Ablassmeier: libvirt 11.10 VIR_DOMAIN_BACKUP_BEGIN_PRESERVE_SHUTDOWN_DOMAIN
As with libvirt 11.10 a new flag for backup operation has been inroduced: VIR_DOMAIN_BACKUP_BEGIN_PRESERVE_SHUTDOWN_DOMAIN.
According to the documentation “It instructs libvirt to avoid termination of the VM if the guest OS shuts down while the backup is still running. The VM is in that scenario reset and paused instead of terminated allowing the backup to finish. Once the backup finishes the VM process is terminated.”
Added support for this in virtnbdbackup 2.40.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Barry Kauler ☛ Combo-kernel-modules-firmware PET package
If you suspect that your installation of EasyOS might work better with a different kernel version, perhaps an older version, it is now easy to change.
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Fedora Family / IBM
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Red Hat ☛ Upgrade air-gapped OpenShift with self-signed certificates
Upgrading a disconnected Red Hat OpenShift cluster is more complex than a standard upgrade, forcing you to run a local OpenShift Update Service (OSUS) to replicate Red Hat's public services. However, the real challenge often lies in certificate management. This handy guide addresses a common scenario in secure environments that lack an internal Certificate Authority (CA).
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Debian Family
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Raspberry Pi ☛ PSA: Updated signing keys for future Raspberry Pi OS and Imager releases.
Until now, these were signed with an RSA2048 key, which is due to be deprecated in 2030. For future uploads, we are replacing it with an RSA4096 one with the following fingerprint: [...]
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Chiark ☛ Colin Watson: Free software activity in November 2025
My Debian contributions this month were all Freexian. I had a bit less time than usual, because Freexian collaborators gathered in Marseille this month for our yearly sprint, doing some planning for next year.
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