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Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization in Linux
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Ubuntu Handbook ☛ The PR adds Native Validity Fingerprint Sensors Support to Linux
For those who have computers or laptops with Synaptics / Validity fingerprint sensors, there’s a new pull request contains the driver for libfprint, the default fingerprint library in most GNU/Linux Distributions. As you might know, libfprint has a list of unsupported devices. It includes many Lenovo Thinkpad and HP laptops with 138a and 06cb sensors.
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It's FOSS ☛ The Xen Project is Serious About Safety, So It Formed a Committee
Founding members AMD, EPAM, and Renesas already put in the groundwork, and there's a new Premier Plus membership tier to go with it.
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Neowin ☛ Linux 7.3 drops support for two ancient file systems
Linux 7.3 is dropping support for ancient SGI and Veritas file systems. Discover why these drivers are being shown the exit.
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Andy Simpkins ☛ Andy Simpkins: My first go at tracking down a kernel bug…
A couple of weekends back, I upgraded my home sever. It failed to restart after running
apt dist-upgradeThe only update that was performed was to the kernel, it went from
6.12.88+deb13-amd64to6.12.100+deb13-amd64. I had previously performed anapt-get upgrade, and rebooted the machine, so I was pretty sure that this was to blame. This blog entry (is a late) attempt to document how I went about finding a fix for this issue so that next time I don’t need as much hand holding as I did this time around :-) -
Tara Stella ☛ SeaweedFS, FreeBSD and a rather deep rabbit hole
At this point, reading my blog, you could be forgiven for thinking that I have become entirely about IBM midrange systems, COBOL and offline-first computing. That is still true, in a way. I genuinely enjoy those things. But I am still very much attracted to large, complex architectures, distributed systems, and the sort of infrastructure where several apparently innocent design decisions eventually turn into a whiteboard covered in arrows.
This particular rabbit hole started somewhere else.
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Make Use Of ☛ I compressed my entire Linux drive and got 6GB back without deleting a thing
My setup was a dual-boot system: Linux on an SSD and several distros on a 1TB hard drive. The hard drive was filling up again, and I had to choose between deleting files or buying extra storage. I went with neither. Instead, I let Btrfs compress files already on the drive. When I was done, the same set of files on my hard drive took up 6GB less space than before, and I hadn't deleted or archived anything.
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Video Cardz ☛ ASUS ROG Astral RTX 50 power connector sensors now work under Linux
ASUS ROG Astral graphics cards can now expose their 12V-2×6 power connector monitoring data under Linux. Developer Krzysztof Sokołowski has released astral-hwmon, an open-source kernel driver that reads current and voltage from each of the six +12V power connections individually. The driver currently targets ASUS cards equipped with the required monitoring hardware.