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today's leftovers
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Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization
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Mathieu Aumont ☛ Proxmox is overkill for your home lab.
Open YouTube, type "home lab" and you'll find dozens of enthusiasts running Proxmox on their home server. Same thing on X (Twitter), Reddit, various forums... It's like the new religion for self-hosters. And just like any religion, questioning it gets you some interesting reactions.
Proxmox VE is an open-source virtualisation platform based on Debian that allows you to manage KVM virtual machines and LXC containers through a nice web interface. On paper that sounds great. In practice, for a home lab, I think it's massive overkill.
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Graphics Stack
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Tom's Hardware ☛ We go hands-on with Nvidia's DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation and its 5X and 6X multipliers — more generated frames, now tailor-made for your monitor's refresh rate
The second new piece of the software-defined performance puzzle, Dynamic Multi Frame Generation (MFG) with 5X and 6X modes, arrives today as part of a beta update for the Nvidia App, and it’s exclusively for RTX 50-series cards. We’ve been playing with the tech to determine whether even more generated frames can make for a better gaming experience, and at what cost, if any, it has for critical measures of responsiveness.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Fedora Family / IBM
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Fedora Project ☛ Fedora Community Blog: Fedora Code of Conduct Report 2023
The Fedora Project’s Code of Conduct and its reports are managed by the Fedora Code of Conduct Committee, the Fedora Community Architect, and the Fedora Project Leader. We publish this summary to demonstrate our commitment to community safety and our project’s social fabric.
This post covers the year of reports received in the 2023 calendar year. The 2023 and 2024 annual report posts are published with delays due to changes in membership in the Code of Conduct Committee and rebalancing existing work. The purpose of publishing the reports now is to provide transparency, insight, and awareness into the health signs of the community.
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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FunOS 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Beta Released
Release Date: 31 March 2026Base: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Development Branch We are excited to announce the release of FunOS 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Beta, available starting March 31, 2026. This Beta release provides an early preview of the next Long Term Support (LTS) version of FunOS, built on the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 base.
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University of Toronto ☛ Updating Ubuntu packages that you have local changes for with dgit
Suppose, not entirely hypothetically, that you've made local changes to an Ubuntu package using dgit and now Ubuntu has come out with an update to that package that you want to switch to, with your local changes still on top. Back when I wrote about moving local changes to a new Ubuntu release with dgit, I wrote an appendix with a theory of how to do this, based on a conversation. Now that I've actually done this, I've discovered that there is a minor variation and I'm going to write it down explicitly (with additional notes because I forgot some things between then and now).
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Devices/Embedded
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Wired ☛ Robotaxi Outage in China Leaves Passengers Stranded on Highways
An unknown technical problem caused a number of robotaxis owned by the Chinese tech giant Baidu to freeze on Tuesday in the middle of traffic, trapping some passengers in the vehicles for more than an hour.
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