Articles and News

Software Supply Chains for DevOps

Aysylu Greenberg on how to verify the integrity of a DevOps software supply chain.

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/devops-supply-chain/

#supply-chain-integrity #supply-chain-security

Fedora Workstation: Our Vision for Linux Desktop

Flatpak, Fedora Silverblue, Toolbox, Wayland, and Pipewire.

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2021/09/24/fedora-workstation-our-vision-for-linux-desktop/

#linux-desktop #fedora #red-hat

Imaging Mounted Disk Volumes Under Duress

The author explains his tool to create images of mounted volumes by using blktrace to track the dirty sectors.

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/imaging-mounted-disk-volumes-live

#file-systems #disk-image

We Need Software Updates Forever

https://spectrum.ieee.org/we-need-software-updates-forever

#sustainability #software-maintainance

Examining Btrfs, Linux’s Perpetually Half-Finished Filesystem

Issues with btrfs RAID arrays persist.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linuxs-perpetually-half-finished-filesystem/

#btrfs #file-system #zfs

Raspberry Pi KVMs compared: TinyPilot and Pi-KVM v3

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/raspberry-pi-kvms-compared-tinypilot-and-pi-kvm-v3

#kvm #raspberry-pi

NGINX Rate Limiting

https://www.nginx.com/blog/rate-limiting-nginx/

#nginx #http-rate-limiting

Expose Any Qt5 Program via VNC

https://raymii.org/s/articles/Expose_any_QT_program_via_VNC.html

#qt #qt5 #vnc

AVIF vs JPG

https://avif.io/blog/comparisons/avif-vs-jpg/

#image-format #avif #jpg

The Strange State of Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Generic Linux Distributions

http://0pointer.net/blog/authenticated-boot-and-disk-encryption-on-linux.html

Lennart Poettering on the state of disk encryption on Linux.

#linux #encryption #disk-encryption

Projects and Releases

GNU coreutils 9

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2021-09/msg00000.html

#type:release #gnu-coreutils

wget2 2.0.0

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-09/msg00011.html

#type:release #wget

AlmaLinux OS Cloud Images

https://github.com/AlmaLinux/cloud-images

#rhel #centos #almalinux

Submarine Cables visualized (with Globe.GL)

https://globe.gl/example/submarine-cables/

#data-visualization #submarine-cable

Linux Vendor Firmware Service

https://fwupd.org/

#fwupd #firmware

btop++

C++ version of bashtop/bpytop.

https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

#command-line #linux-top

Open Maps for Europe

https://www.mapsforeurope.org/

#open-data #maps

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