Although there are now fewer and fewer reasons to use Windows for classic application programs, the Redmond operating system is unfortunately still needed, especially for supposed "enterprise software". The installation of the operating system is quickly done thanks to virt-install or virt-manager. For screen …

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I've been using Fedora 37 (and more recently 38) on two ThinkPads (T14 G3, P14s G3) with AMD Ryzen SoC (6850U) for a few months now. Fedora 37 originally came with the Linux kernel in version 6.0.7. Later updates brought the versions 6.1 and 6.2. The latter unfortunately also introduced random freezes on my systems. …

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Vagrant is very popular, especially for development purposes. Unfortunately, SUSE has decided to no longer offer such boxes for SLES 15 SP4 - for the previous releases SP2 and SP3 there were still corresponding downloads. An inquiry with the support has confirmed this assumption - unfortunately a corresponding …

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The biggest highlight of the recently released FRITZ!OS version 7.50 is the added WireGuard support. Compared to the previous IPSec standard, which can still be used, VPN connections can be set up significantly easier on different platforms. It also offers stronger cryptographic algorithms and better performance …

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Vagrant is a popular tool when it comes to creating virtual machines on short notice and without further intervention. Vagrant should not be installed via the official Hashicorp- but via the Fedora repositories - otherwise plugins (like the libvirt integration) have to be compiled manually. I also had compatibility …

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Since 2018, there has been a very elegant and lean container runtime, Podman, as an alternative to Docker. Podman offers a smaller attack surface due to omitted background services and is also often pre-installed on Red Hat-like operating systems. With a few tricks, existing docker-compose configurations can still be …

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When using ESPHome or esptool.py under Pop!_OS 22.04 I recently encountered the problem that development boards (ESP8266, ESP32) could not be flashed: 1$ esphome upload hurrdurr.yml 2INFO Reading configuration hurrdurr.yml... 3esptool.py v3.3.1 4Serial port /dev/ttyUSB0 5Connecting.... 6Chip is ESP8266EX 7Features: …

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Last weekend on 20/21.08.2022 it was finally time - the 17th FrOSCon conference in presence took place. After two years of pandemic online events, lectures and workshops took place again at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences in Sankt Augustin. Exhibitor booths and the obligatory social event on Saturday …

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Gitea is a popular, lightweight Git frontend that can also be deployed quickly thanks to the Docker image . However, after the container is started, the initial configuration (network options, permissions, database) is done via web interface by default. This is unattractive if you want an unattended and automated …

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Node-RED is particularly popular in home automation. For example, the free framework can be used to playfully create processes ("turn on light") that react dynamically to events ("if it's evening") - and that with low-code. The logic clicked together via drag & drop can then be exported via JSON, for example, and saved …

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