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GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
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Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization
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Bootlin ☛ audio-iio-aux: when IIO meets audio
Some time ago, one of our customers came to us with a hardware design featuring the Renesas X9250 digital potentiometer in an audio path, as shown in the following diagram. Naturally, our goal was to find the proper way to support this hardware design in the upstream GNU/Linux kernel.
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MJ Fransen ☛ Destroy a range of ZFS snapshots with a single command
When you have a number of old ZFS snapshots to destroy, it can be useful to see if you can delete a complete range.
A range of snapshots can be destroyed with a single command.
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Applications
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LWN ☛ Jellyfin 12.0 released
Version 12 of the Jellyfin media-management system has been released. Notable changes include database performance improvements, an upgrade to FFmpeg 8.1 for media transcoding, as well as better handling of book and comic media. See the release notes for the web client and server for a full list of changes.
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WINE or Emulation
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It's FOSS ☛ Bottles Brings Hope for Windows-only Software on ARM Devices
While still a test release, the cpak package brings in native ARM64 support and Soda 11.0-10.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Miod Vallat ☛ Adventures in MS-DOS
Even though MS-DOS is a thing of the past, I have a few stories which I believe are worth sharing.
I have started to write them down, and will extend this page as time permits (writer's block notwithstanding). This currently amounts to a new story every other wednesday (around 8am CEST).
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Miod Vallat ☛ The cheapest antivirus protection
The first version of that program, was a TSR program in COM format, lacking a multiple installation check, and able to block (at least according to Ralph Brown's information) 83 virus.
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Arch Family
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Medium ☛ I Have SERIOUS Concerns About Omarchy Linux
Privacy issues. Security holes. And more of the same garbage that made me hate Windows.
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