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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

When deploying a new AlmaLinux 9.3 VM under QEMU/KVM, I encountered the following error during the first boot:

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When it comes to managing larger system landscapes, SUSE Manager and the open source upstream project Uyuni are useful tools. They can be used to set up new systems, deploy patches and also support Infrastructure as Code via SaltStack.

In the context of customer projects, I have carried out numerous installations and …

IEEE 802.1X is a standard for authentication and authorisation of devices in networks. Thus, physical LAN ports, VLANs or WLANs can only connect to the network after successful authentication, for example via RADIUS. Communication can be encrypted via TLS or PPP-EAP-TLS, for example.

If this network configuration is to …