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Ubuntu: FunOS System Requirements, Slop With Openwashing Slant, and Improving System Performance
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FunOS System Requirements
Before installing FunOS, it is a good idea to check whether your computer meets the necessary hardware requirements. The good news is that FunOS is designed to be lightweight and efficient, making it suitable for both older and modern computers.
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Ubuntu ☛ Securing AI agent workflows on Ubuntu with the new NVIDIA OpenShell snap [Ed: Canonical promotes slop to pretend to be cutting edge and join the pyramid schemes]
Canonical today announced a new collaboration with NVIDIA to integrate the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime for agents directly into the Ubuntu ecosystem. By packaging OpenShell as a snap, Canonical is enabling enterprises to confidently run next-generation agentic workflows across local devices, hybrid environments, and private clouds. Snap packaging provides rapid, reliable updates and confinement for this fast-moving software which is critical for new enterprise workflows.
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Ubuntu ☛ How Canonical Support solves hard Linux performance bugs – even in 12-year old code
Getent is a standard Linux command used to query the system’s name service for information such as users, groups, hosts, and services. In this case, it was being used to enumerate groups on Ubuntu, and a customer reported severe performance problems when using the `nssdb` backend. The `nssdb` backend is one way Linux can provide that information, by reading account and group data from Berkeley DB files instead of from LDAP, local flat files, or other identity sources.