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Weekly recap of open source and sysadmin related stuff
Recap of week 50 of 2015, covering open source and sysadmin related stuff. Let's see if I can keep this up for a few weeks.
News and articles
- Mozilla stops Firefox OS development and smartphone sales
- Mozila removes ad's from new tab page
- Steam for Linux has over 1700 linux compatible games:
- Dutch phone providers have bad security policies and practices. Passwords in stores on notes on monitors and such
- A desktop computer from 1965
- Does the internet make thou stupid?
- Installing Solaris 10 on a Sunfire v210 SPARC server via the network from Ubuntu
- Microsoft fails with their XBOX live ssl certificate:
- The Netherlands are donating lots of cash to open source encryption projects
- Heresay about the identity of the creator of bitcoin
- Building platform native apps with a whole bunch of buzzword things like nodejs and react
- ZFS on Debian 8 is nice
- Dell to support firmware and UEFI updates via GNOME on Linux
- An intro to strace, including the flags you'll need most
- Choose design over architecture
- Google starts distrusting a Symantec CA which they will use for other things than public certs
- A EU cable modem software is open sourced to comply with the GPL
- The Libreboot Thinkpad T400 is certified by the FSF
Software and releases
- Linux Kernel 4.2.7 is out with ARM, x86, MIPS, and IPv6 improvements and driver updates
- Codeweavers releases CrossOver 15, a commercial Wine, with a new GUI and support for MS Office 2013
- Mozilla releases an iOS ad and tracking blocker, Focus
- NetHack 3.6 released after 10 years
- DragonFlyBSD 4.4 released
- Lot's of games for DragonFlyBSD
- Let's Encrypt is in public beta, yay!
- My tool reminds you when certificates expire, handy for Lets Encrypt
- A very simple and small PHP client for Lets Encrypt
- Let's Encrypt has already issued +100K certificates in their 10 days of public beta!
- KeepassX 2.0 released
- Wordpress 4.4 released
- Apple released iOS 9.2
- Apple released OS X 10.11.2
- Apple released watchOS 2.1
- Apple releases darwin source for El Capitan
- Microsoft releases source code for Live Writer
- Elementary OS released a new minor version. Link goes to screenshots, official release here
- OpenSSL 1.1.0 prerelease, including ChaCha20 and Poly1305 ciphers and SSLv2 removal
- Rust 1.5 released
Talks, slides and podcasts
- Michael W. Lucas on SSH
- Geek News Radio launched, with Fabian Scherschel from Linux Outlaws fame
- SystemAU, an aussie tech podcast, episode 22
Fun and nifty things
- KeeWeb, a self hosted Keepass 2 open source web version
- Qalculate, a linux/mac desktop scientific calculator
- What if RollerCoaster Tycoon was real?
- A very small OpenWRT expandable Dev board, the Onion Omega
- The carpet in the server room is wet, and other stuff you don't want to hear from your sysadmins
- What is linux missing, 2016 edition
- Rikomagic MK36S is a Ubuntu mini PC with a Cherry Trail CPU
- A good tip for read only friday
- The HP website is a shitty crapsite filled with bullcrap
Comments
Kernel 4? My god, OpenVZ is stuck at 2.6.32....
And it's almost 2 months old. That's ancient in internet time.
Kernel 2.6.32 in comparison was first released more than 6 years ago and 2.6 back in 2003...
Meanwhile we are still waiting for a 3.x kernel from OVZ...first released 4 years ago
Yeah, good thing they aren't using that or they'd be in trouble. Latest OpenVZ kernel release (stable) was October 26th of this year (less than 2 months ago).
Keep in mind that RHEL 6.x (which CentOS 6.x is based on) also uses 2.6.32 so OpenVZ has no control over their kernel version if they want to run on CentOS which has been their primary focus since the beginning because of it's widespread use in enterprises and such.
Proxmox stopped supporting OpenVZ in their newest release and replaced it with LXC, just because of this. It seems OpenVZ is dying...
LXC is not yet that good with privilege seperation to be on the same level for VPS providers as openvz...
@KuJoe CentOS 6 supports all the latest kernels (including 4.3), one of my dedi providers installs that by default.
@Raymii apparently VZ7 is progresssing quite well with daily activity on the mailing lists.
That's a horrible way to measure software. I really hope you're trolling and don't base the latest version of something on how long ago the first version was released.
btw iOS 9.2 is shit for enterprise clients who use MDM. Apple broke MDM again
Why? We haven;t had any problems here with the 30 pad's, but maas360 is shit with or without apple breaking it.
Yes, you can compile your own kernels but then you have to maintain them yourself which most people don't want to do.
EDIT: It looks like there are repos out there for CentOS 7 but all of the sites for CentOS 6 are just instructions on compiling your own.
Fresh installs won't work. Existing upgrades are fine
n1 thread, will you keep updating weekly herein?
Of course not.
2.x lacks lots however - no support for PCIe / NVMe SSDs on CentOS 6.7 for example. I got one of these for testing and the speed was capped to SATA speed.
That is a good idea actually
Yes, the one downside of using an older kernel base is not supporting newer technology but that doesn't mean it's a bad thing unless you don't know how to compile your own kernels or don't want to use another OS.
Really nice thread! Love if you could do this every week
I would hope OVZ can have a 3.x kernel, opens up much more options / possibilities. It's my preferred virtualisation unless I really need a custom kernel (which usually is 3.x).
Yes please
monthly or fortnightly?
Weekly is the plan
Indeed. The first version of Boolean algebra came out in 1847 and we're still using binary logic? My God! Come on guys, it's time to move on to something more modern.
Jesus... 3.x was 4 years already?
Something I actually want in my inbox and I can't find a box
Le wut
?
To signup to emails
What @Ishaq said. This would be a good weekly email to get if the selected articles/headlines/links are well thought out.
I just marked @raymii as a friend on reddit and all these are easy to see then
It may not be the best way to measure software, but the fact that OpenVZ hasn't been able to keep up with kernel development could very well mean its downfall as popular "virtualization" technology in the future.
I haven't got all the details, but development on vzctl on the mainline kernel seems to be progressing slowly. Meanwhile, Proxmox has dropped OpenVZ in favor of LXC. While it may in itself not be significant, it's a signal nonetheless.
I personally think that if OpenVZ don't get their act together in the next year or two, they may be doomed for a big downfall in usage (and popularity).
There's a link on every page to the RSS feed: https://raymii.org/s/ - that would be a better idea I guess
Nice list. Would like to read weekly.
Btw, the "ZFS on Debian 8 is nice"-link is broken.
I see. I can't edit my top post anymore, so here's the correct link: https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-install-and-configure-zfs-on-debian-8-jessie/
It's fixed on the source page: https://raymii.org/s/blog/Recap_of_week_50_2015.html