Operating systems

FreeBSD basics – 1 – The first steps

In case you follow the blogs here, you might have noticed that I got interested in FreeBSD over the last months (or even year(s)). The reasons for this are multiple: FreeBSD development is organized in(…)

My first day at SUSECON 2024

It is mid-June, and I have the opportunity with my colleague Arnaud Berbier to go to Berlin. Not for visiting the city, not for sightseeing, but for a business conference. This year, SUSECON set its location in(…)

A first look at openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0

Recently the openSUSE project announced the Alpha release of Leap Micro 6.0. This version of the openSUSE operating system is optimized for container workloads and edge computing. One of the cool(…)

Another file system for Linux: bcachefs (3) – Mirroring/Replicas

This is the third post in this little series about bcachefs. The first post was all about the basics while the second post introduced bcachefs over multiple(…)

Another file system for Linux: bcachefs (2) – multi device file systems

In the last post, we’ve looked at the very basics when it comes to bcachefs, a new file system which was added to the Linux kernel starting from version 6.7. While we’ve already seen how(…)

Another file system for Linux: bcachefs (1) – basics

When Linux 6.7 (already end of life) was released some time ago another file system made it into the kernel: bcachefs. This is another copy on write(…)

Linux offline package and repository management

Many of us have faced this scenario: setting up a brand-new Linux Server, only to discover it’s a minimal setup lacking essential tools like our favorite ‘VIM’ text editor. This leads to frustration while trying to make changes without(…)

Vdisk backup on ODA

Introduction Oracle Database Appliance now includes a powerful virtualisation layer based on KVM and fully integrated with odacli. For sure, an ODA is mostly dedicated to Oracle databases, but you can also benefit from unused cores to run application(…)

Comparison of support cycles RHEL and Clones

This blog is a comparison about the support periods of RHEL and the RHEL clones like AlmaLinux, Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux and Rocky Linux and a look back to CentOS. CentOS Stream is a pre release of(…)

Microsoft:Backup and restore your distribution on WSL

Introduction Hi team I hope you are doing well, in a previous post, we have seen how to enable Windows Subsystem to install Linux distribution. Create a folder to store your backups Connect to Powershell Create the directory(…)