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Automated deployment of systems (www.ansible.com)

I’ve recently been investigating doing some automated zero touch deployment stuff in my lab....

The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for nearly 20 years (thehftguy.com)

I’m not smart enough to verify the accuracy of this claim, nor exactly what the implications are, but it seems like it might improve performance if fixed.

Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.7 Release Candidate (lkml.org)

“This is the biggest merge window we’ve ever had, with 15.4k non-merge commits" - Linus

30 Linux System Monitoring Tools Every SysAdmin Should Know (www.cyberciti.biz)

From nixCraft

GitHub - awesome-lists/awesome-bash: A curated list of delightful Bash scripts and resources. (github.com)

Help. My console output is (partially) unreadable (sh.itjust.works)

I’m using tty here, and not VT. I assume the problem is caused by my locale, more specifically - by inability of tty to render glyphs of my language....

Coordinated Disclosure: 1-Click RCE on GNOME (CVE-2023-43641) (github.blog)

Today, in coordination with Ilya Lipnitskiy (the maintainer of libcue) and the distros mailing list, the GitHub Security Lab is disclosing CVE-2023-43641, a memory corruption vulnerability in libcue. We have also sent a text-only version of this blog post to the oss-security list....

Non-intrusive PGP pinentry (ser1.net)

I got tired of pinentry popping up and interrupting whatever I was doing; I didn’t find a solution elsewhere, so I wrote a little bash script to address this. This is designed for (poly|i3|way|…)bar users. The blog entry (no ads, no tracking) linked has the script verbatim, plus some rambling about the why and wherefore....

LibreOffice 7.6.2 and 7.5.7 Released to Address Critical WebP Vulnerability (9to5linux.com)

Qtile 0.23.0 Released (github.com)

Qtile 0.23.0 has been released. Head over to their changelog for all the important changes and bug fixes.

fx – terminal JSON viewer (fx.wtf)

A great, fresh Reddit thread on users outgrowing Linux communities and Reddit itself, which applies to a lot of the internet. [archive.org Reddit thread] (web.archive.org)

I think many will love the summarisation of the Internet’s information value.

Fedora 39 Beta Released With Faster DNF, GNOME 45 Desktop - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)

HP Linux Imaging and Printing Drivers Now Support Fedora 38 and Ubuntu 23.04 (9to5linux.com)

I have the itch: Distrohopping - MakuluLinux – A Whole World of Possibilities (www.makululinux.com)

I have an itch to test out some deb-based distributions. I use OpenSUSE. Although I don’t want to switch distributions, I do want to experiment with some new feature-rich distros. I discovered this distribution MakuluLinux which appears to have numerous personalized desktops and a strong AI integration. Rhino Linux, which has...

Wine-Staging 8.16 Fixes A 16 Year Old Bug For Games Crashing (www.phoronix.com)

Wow, 16 years!

A minecraft client written in bash that you can control from the terminal (github.com)

AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Make For Compelling Budget Servers, Leading Performance & Value Over Xeon E Review (www.phoronix.com)

New responsibilities - Bastien Nocera (www.hadess.net)

One of RedHat’s packagers drops a lot of important packages’ maintainership due to management chain decisions. These include:...

Windows XP stuff for XFCE (github.com)

Rhino Linux 2023.1, how we made the distro (rhinolinux.org)

Rhino [a rolling release Ubuntu-based distribution with Pacstall & XFCE at its core] has now officially moved out of Beta! We have released Rhino Linux 2023.1 on x86_64, ARM, Pine64 and Raspberry Pi devices....

Microsoft starts to improve VS code for Unity good news for Unity 3D on Linux (devblogs.microsoft.com)

This has happened after leaving VS code almost unusable for some years since debugging wasn’t working on Unity 3D. I was able to use an old version of VS code omnisharp that would allow me to debug Unity on my Linux desktop. Do you think there is some EEE agenda in this decision? Or this is good news?

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