2.5 Admins 228: Century-Scale Storage

SteamOS is coming to a new Lenovo handheld as well as getting a general beta release, the WordPress drama continues to roll on, the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 makes no sense to at least one of us (who now owns an N100 mini PC), the Linux Foundation seems to think Chromium-based browsers need a helping... Read More

We dig into SQLite – an interesting and unusual project that is widely used but has an uncommon licence, a proprietary test suite, and doesn’t take external contributions. Plus printf() vs “proper” debugging.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our... Read More

We reflect on what we have seen in the public and private cloud world in the last year, and look forward at what we expect to see in 2025.     Send your questions and feedback to [email protected]       Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes... Read More

Jim and Allan explain the benefits of a lithium iron phosphate “UPS”, whether it’s possible to delete every single copy of a file, and using Bluetooth in a Windows 11 VM.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   Discussion Anker SOLIX C300 Anker SOLIX F3800... Read More

It’s a Christmas special! Our favourite festive foods and ones we dislike, when we buy presents, and our unusual traditions. With popey, Mark and Martin from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark.         Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.

In this episode: Alan migrates accounts from the silly bird website to BlueSky for Syft, Grype, and Anchore, and has fun with Starter Packs Mark migrates his personal Linux ISO hosting from Plex to Jellyfin. Martin migrates his life to the Fediverse, contributing to Owncast along the way.     You can send your feedback... Read More

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2024 predictions, and make some new ones for 2025.         Sandfly Securitry Sandfly Security’s agentless threat detection identifies Linux threats without requiring software agents, ensuring no performance impact or system risk.   ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for... Read More

We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2024, and talk about what we want to happen in 2025.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to... Read More

What it would take to reliably store data for a hundred years including Institutional funding and organization, decade-proof redundancy, multiple hot and cold copies,hedging your bets against multiple media, and more. Plus backing up ZFS without normal snapshots.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes  ... Read More

It’s our 2024 review of Linux and open source news including the end of Linux on Mars, the xz backdoor, great stuff from GNOME and KDE, the WordPress fiasco, why the idea of decentralised social media started to catch on, Raspberry Pi’s IPO, and the inevitable Mozilla doom and gloom.   2024 Linux News in... Read More