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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.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS Ask Me Anything – December 12th Applying the ARC Algorithm to the ARC   News Intel CEO takes his leave as ambition meets reality What happened to Intel? Zipcar Outage Strands Customers in Random Places   Free consulting We were asked about moving to an email provider that supports DMARC, and picking a NAS distribution.             ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/25a with code 25ADMINS             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

We are characteristically cynical about GitHub’s token effort to improve FOSS security, more positive about FreeCAD 1.0 and elementary OS 8, somewhat ambivalent about the new OpenWrt router, understanding about Linux sanctioning the Bcachefs dev, and surprised that Félim is slowly starting to warm up to the idea of atomic distros (because KDE, obvs). With guest host Amolith from Linux Dev Time and Linux Lads.   News Announcing GitHub Secure Open Source Fund: Help secure the open source ecosystem for everyone Snarky post about it FreeCAD Version 1.0 Released elementary OS 8 Available Now Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W on sale now at $7 First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released Linux CoC Announces Decision Following Recent Bcachefs Drama Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros             Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/latenightlinux         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

More of our development hot takes including excessive energy use, optimising your code, the importance of licences, Matrix and Jabber being on the same side, the myth of secure code, and why self-hosting is hard. watt-wiser         1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/linuxdevtime     Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

How worthwhile cloud certifications are, whether they really demonstrate much more than your ability to pass an exam, how they relate to real world experience, actually learning new technologies via certification, and why having too many certs can be a red flag. Plus Sean tells us about his trip to the recent Ubuntu Summit.     Sean’s post about the Ubuntu Summit Ultra-small Ubuntu-based distroless containers – chiselled Ubuntu Announcing .NET Chiseled Containers       Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com       Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Equinix is shutting down its bare metal service, D-Link advises people to dump old vulnerable routers, Google makes changes to how it ranks some affiliate-driven “reviews”, and data caps seem to be sticking around. Plus mixing different brands and types of disks, using other partitions on a ZFS drive, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Introducing OpenZFS Fast Dedup   News/discussion Equinix to shutter bare metal IaaS service in 2026 D-Link says replace vulnerable routers or risk pwnage Google cracks down on “Parasite SEO,” punishing established publishers Cable companies and Trump’s FCC chair agree: Data caps are good for you   Free consulting We were asked about mixing different brands and types of disks, using other partitions on a ZFS drive, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.   nomad-pot-driver Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD                 ServerMania Find this year’s Black Friday & Cyber Week deals at servermania.com/blackfriday   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/25a             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

OggCampIn this episode: Alan uses vhs to make a short video Mark uses MARP to build a presentation in MarkDown for a lightning talk at OggCamp Martin uses pueue to manage all his mainframe jobs     You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.   If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.           Tailscale Tailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices. Go to tailscale.com/linuxmatters and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.               RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Comparing laptop battery life with different desktop environments like Xfce, MATE, KDE Plasma, and GNOME. Plus processing scraped HTML, an easy to use web-based classic game IDE, reverse-engineered smart Rubik cubes, and more.   Discoveries pup 8bitworkshop 20 Year Anniversary of Halflife 2 BlinkenLights European Alternatives WisBlock Smart Cube Companion Graham’s cubes Joe’s battery test data           Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.   Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

We all compete to create the worst possible RAID array and network storage device. The mantra here was “what would Jim and Allan from 2.5 Admins NOT do”. Guess who won with this monstrosity.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/linuxafterdark       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Windows server unexpectedly upgrades major versions, Microsoft reinvents the idea of a thin client, restricting a friend’s access to just their backups, and the importance of warranties when buying hardware.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes DKMS vs kmod: The Essential Guide for ZFS on Linux   News Windows Server 2025 takes admins by surprise No word from Microsoft on shock Windows Server 2025 installs Windows Server 2025 known issues and notifications Windows 11 update bug falsely warns of end of support, confusing users Windows 365 Link—the first Cloud PC device   Free consulting We were asked about restricting a friend’s access to just their backups, and the importance of warranties when buying hardware. 2.5 Admins 218: TLS TTL                   See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Mozilla lays off another load of people and we offer to run the organisation for a fraction of what the current leadership earns, Fedora promotes KDE Plasma to the same status as GNOME, Félim’s Neon update goes wrong, Will has network issues with Ubuntu 24.04, and Joe still can’t get Apple devices to play nicely with his WiFi access points.   News Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division Mozilla’s Firefox browser turns 20. Does it still matter? Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation KDE does a whole lotta bug fixing & raising funds           Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/latenightlinux         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here