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Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. The vulnerability affects virtually all Linux distributions and allows attackers to bypass the secure boot protections and insert a low-level bootkit. Operating Systems/Applications Here’s one person’s take on sudo for Windows.

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Servers/Hardware Alex Ellis provides some details on his workflow for booting Raspberry Pi 5 from NVMe. Tom Hummel finds himself veering back into a hardware-based home lab (instead of a cloud-based lab). A set of vulnerabilities in the open source reference implementation of the UEFI specification has been uncovered.

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Critical Xen hypervisor flaw endangers virtualized environments

Network World

A critical vulnerability in the widely used Xen hypervisor allows attackers to break out of a guest operating system running inside a virtual machine and access the host system's entire memory. The new vulnerability affects Xen 4.8.x, x, and 4.4.x x and has existed in the Xen code base for over four years.

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

After all, entry-level pricing for mainframes in the z15 family running IBM Z operating systems is $250,000. IBM LinuxONE III systems run only Linux at prices starting at $135,000. The program enables customers to pay only for what they use of Z system hardware and software. Z upgrades and open source.

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Technology Short Take 161

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Servers/Hardware. The open source ko project has applied to become a CNCF Sandbox project. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Mike McQuaid talks about entitlement in open source. I believe that IT folks in all disciplines, including networking, need to embrace automation.

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Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Filippo Valsorda speculates on how open source maintainers need to evolve into professional maintainers. Virtualization. Thomas Leonard has an interesting blog on using virtualization to isolate Xwayland. Well worth reading! is available.

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Technology Short Take 143

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture.