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GNU/Linux Leftovers
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Why Nokia and Supermicro Have Forged Data Centre Alliance
Nokia and Supermicro partnership targets AI workloads with integrated networking solutions combining Service Router Linux and 800G Ethernet platforms
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Kernel Space
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The Register UK ☛ Linus has had enough of links that point to 'stupid useless garbage'
The latest release candidate for Linux is out, but before its release, Linus Torvalds had something he wanted to get off his chest in his usual style.
"Stop this garbage already. Stop adding pointless Link arguments that waste people's time," he wrote on the Linux kernel mailing list.
"Add the link if it has *ADDITIONAL* information. Dammit, I really hate those pointless links. I love seeing *useful* links, but 99 percent of the links I actually see just point to stupid useless garbage, and it *ONLY* wastes my time. AGAIN."
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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SUSE/OpenSUSE
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Unicorn Media ☛ Margaret Dawson Named CMO at SUSE, Bringing Cloud and GNU/Linux Expertise [Ed: And LLM slop?]
With stints at Red Hat, Apptio, and Chronosphere, Margaret Dawson brings plenty of tech cred to her new CMO post at SUSE.
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Debian Family
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Michael Ablassmeier: Vagrant images for trixie
It’s no news that the vagrant license has changed while ago, which resulted in less motivation to maintain it in Debian (understandably).
Unfortunately this means there are currently no official vagrant images for Debian trixie, for reasons
Of course there are various boxes floating around on hashicorp’s vagrant cloud, but either they do not fit my needs (too big) or i don’t consider them trustworthy enough…
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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The Register UK ☛ Ubuntu users left waiting after Canonical's servers take weekend off
When is an outage not an outage? According to Canonical's forum, it's when a 36-minute server disruption creates a multi-day backlog that leaves users unable to install or update Ubuntu systems.
Canonical's status page shows that both security.ubuntu.com and archive.ubuntu.com experienced brief issues on September 5 and 7. The incidents appeared short-lived, ending with the reassuring "All components are Operational" message. Case closed, right?
Not exactly. While Canonical's servers came back online quickly, the real problems were just beginning. Users flooded the company's forums throughout the weekend, reporting failed installations and frozen updates. The brief server outages had created a processing backlog that left Ubuntu's repositories effectively broken for days.
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