Last weekend, the 19th FrOSCon conference took place as a hybrid event at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences in Sankt Augustin on 17/18 August 2024. The programme again consisted of many lectures and workshops, numerous stands and the obligatory Social Event on Saturday evening invited participants to …

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From 17.06 to 19.06 the SUSECON took place in Berlin. Compared to the previous iteration of the conference, the event took place exclusively in presence. Hinweis 🎙️ On the occasion of SUSECON 2024, a special was published in the FOCUS ON: Linux-Podcast. In addition to a wrap-up, there is also an interview with parts of …

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From 06.05 to 09.05 the Red Hat Summit took place in Denver. The conference once again focused on the latest developments and announcements from the company's own ranks. Approximately 6000 participants attended the event in Colorado. Note On the occasion of the Red Hat Summit 2024, a two-part special was published in …

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What is Ubuntu Pro? Ubuntu Pro is a not uncontroversial additional offer from Canonical for Ubuntu users. This extends - for a fee - the support time window of LTS releases from 5 to up to 10 years. For private use, the offer can be used free of charge for up to 5 computers - Ubuntu members can even refuel up to 50 …

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To prevent accidental overwriting of files during synchronization - especially between multiple users and clients - Nextcloud relies on File Locking. This function is implemented at application level and therefore has no special requirements for the file system used. However, with large amounts of data and network …

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Last weekend, the 19th Chemnitz Linux Days took place at Chemnitz University of Technology under the motto "Setting an example". The conference is one of the oldest and largest Linux and open source events in the German-speaking world. For me it was an absolute novelty, the distance had always put me off. There were …

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gnome-text-editor, the default editor of the GNOME desktop, usually remembers recently opened documents and reopens them on startup after a crash. This is particularly impractical if the crash is caused by opening a file that is too large (e.g. 20 MB JSON dump) or unsupported (e.g. binary file): Unfortunately, the …

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I have owned a foldable King Smith WalkingPad R1 Pro treadmill for the home office for some time now. This is controlled with a remote control via BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy). Unfortunately, this seems to consume quite a lot of power - at least the CR2032 battery in my treadmill always runs out after a short time. Since …

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Proxmox VE (Virtual Environment) is enjoying a great deal of interest, not least because of the Broadcom/VMware deal. For many, the hypervisor is a welcome alternative to vSphere ESXi - but differs in terms of storage. Here you usually have the choice between: NFS/CIFS iSCSI Btrfs (technical preview) LVM ZFS …

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When deploying a new AlmaLinux 9.3 VM under QEMU/KVM, I encountered the following error during the first boot: Unfortunately, the error message is not very informative. After I had ruled out a bug in the golden image I was using (manual deployments work), I came across a valuable hint in the Proxmox forum: EL9 requires …

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