2.5 Admins 273: Reliability Tracking Allan tells us about the OpenZFS Summit, mixed disk sizes in ZFS with AnyRaid, an upcoming standard keeps partially dead drives usable, upcoming 50 and 100 TB drives, and NVMe rust drives. Plus using a separate mini PC for work. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-2...

2.5 Admins 272: NVMe Surprise Why you should seriously consider buying refurbished hard drives, why drives might be lasting longer than they once did, Jim’s M.2 NVMe drive died at an inopportune moment, using multiple partitions on disks with ZFS. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-2...

Fedora Linux 43 Now Available For Download - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Release-Day

Season 6 brings new ways to say Thanks! Folks that sign up to our Patreon under the free tier will see the episode drop 3 hours before the rest of the world AND our $1 patrons get access to new episodes even earlier than that in our Patron-only Discord! Link for more patreon.com/posts/140534...

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2.5 Admins 266: Jiggawatts of Hallucinations Intel and Nvidia are teaming up for multiple reasons, Open AI are planning to use a ludicrous amount of power, LLM hallucinations aren’t going away, and how long we keep servers and hard drives in production. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-2...

We're back, and it's done! The season 6 premiere is on tape! If you're looking for behind the scenes or early access there's the Patreon, and for everybody else, the new episode will drop on Monday. #LinuxUserSpace

@fedora.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 43 beta is available. Help test this ahead of its official release late October/ Early November. fedoramagazine.org/announcing-f...

Announcing Fedora Linux 43 Beta - Fedora Magazine

Announcing Fedora Linux 43 Beta and providing some details on change.

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📢 Update: I’m consolidating my online presence. LinkedIn is my main platform: linkedin.com/in/itguyeric My BlueSky account is now bridged! https://bsky.app/profile/itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Twitter/X is sunset. Thanks for following me where I’m most active! #opensource #linux […]

2.5 Admins 258: Artificial Dirtbag Jim is concerned that although over-anthropomorphising LLMs is a mistake, we should be cautious about some of their human-like behaviour. Plus how to maintain old ZFS pools, and accessibility in the BSDs. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-2...

Today in User Space 🔐We debate using #Ubuntu Pro for a server 🦊 #Firefox gets vertical tabs and tab groups 🦁 #Brave gets a cookie notice remover 🔮and #Google may lose #Chrome! #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux youtu.be/pTGaEsSA12Ice

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Fedora Linux 42 is now official!

The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is. - Fedora Magazine

Fedora Linux 42 is officially released. Thank you so much to everyone who works so hard on Fedora and in all of our upstream projects.

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@fedora.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 42 #Linux just dropped. Help test this ahead of its release late next month or early may. fedoramagazine.org/announcing-f...

Announcing Fedora Linux 42 Beta - Fedora Magazine

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Linux 42 Beta! We have lots of info to share about our upcoming release.

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You ever wonder when and how #Ubuntu 's Snaps got started? Here's your answer. #Linux youtu.be/ik5srDPTA3U

The History of Ubuntu's Snap Packages

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2.5 Admins 237: Kafkaesque HP was forcing people to wait on hold for 15 minutes to get support, the DOGE site was embarrassingly insecure, setting up encrypted offsite backups, and mixing SATA and NVMe in a server. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-2...

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2.5 Admins 233: 2.005 Admins We appreciate the elegance of subnets and the power of custom benchmarking, Xbox to support much larger external storage, why it’s not looking great for bcachefs, malware and remote desktops, and our thoughts on Fortigate network gear. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-2...

Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Updated With Propeller-Optimized Kernel - https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-February-2025-Released

2.5 Admins 232: S: An embarrassing typo suggests that MasterCard’s monitoring isn’t as good as it should be, tricky offsite backups, why two-factor authentication over SMS is a bad idea, and keeping two Mac laptops in sync. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-2...

Help the @fedora.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy team and contribute to the #linux 6.13 kernel test week: fedoramagazine.org/contribute-a...

Contribute at the Fedora Linux Test Week for Kernel 6.13 - Fedora Magazine

The kernel team is working on final integration for Linux kernel 6.13. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora Linux. As a result, the Fedora Linux kernel and QA teams ...

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2.5 Admins 226: Quantum Toddle Chinese researchers are making progress with quantum computing but haven’t broken modern RSA or AES, Russian attackers compromised a business via a neighbor’s WiFi, a failed startup bricks a robot for kids, and hardening Linux systems. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-2...

Fedora Asahi Remix 41 has some exciting changes for gamers! 🎮 🐧

Fedora Asahi Remix 41 Release Adds Support for AAA Gaming

Fedora Asahi Remix 41 makes your Apple hardware more useful with Linux onboard.

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Yep we've been quiet, and with reason. Remember we said we were prepping "the big one" for a release... ?

2.5 Admins 225: Kinetic Response The US government tells people to use encrypted messaging, mandated MFA in healthcare raises a scary geopolitical question, QNAP bungles a firmware update, and securing access to self hosted applications with mTLS. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-2...

So, if you _only_ followed me here because of my title... fedoramagazine.org/fedora-proje...

Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller: A change of hats! - Fedora Magazine

I’ve been the Fedora Project Leader for more than ten years. That’s half of Fedora’s existence as a distribution project. It is my dream job, and I love it, and honestly, I could do it forever.

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2.5 Admins 224: ZipLocked Intel’s CEO departs but replacing him won’t magically solve its serious problems, Zipcar wasn’t prepared for an outage and handled it really badly, moving to an email provider that supports DMARC, and picking a NAS distribution. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-2...

Help the @fedora.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy team and contribute to the #linux 6.12 kernel test week: fedoramagazine.org/contribute-a...

Contribute at the Fedora Linux Test Week for Kernel 6.12 - Fedora Magazine

Invitation to contribute at the Fedora Linux Test Week for Kernel 6.12

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