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 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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One of the innovations of Fedora 18 is the new System Storage Manager as I mentioned yesterday. This tool enables the central administration of storage devices. Are the times of reading manpages finally over for newbies? I had a deeper look at the SSM - and was pleasantly suprised. The System Storage Manager can be …

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After the original release date and 6 other dates were canceled, Fedora 18 was released today. Time to have a look at the anticipated operating system. The latest version of the RedHat supported project introductes some new features which might be also included in the upcoming version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and …

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