Enlarge / Installing and using the Windows Subsystem for Linux is easier and more productive under Windows 11 than it was under Windows 10. (credit: Jim Salter) In our main Windows 11 review posted earlier this week, we covered the majority of new features and design decisions in Microsoft’s newest consumer OS—and it feels reasonable to […]
Enlarge / System76’s Pangolin is a lightweight and relatively slender 15″ design with a 1080p matte display and RGB-lit keyboard. (credit: System76 ) System76’s Pangolin is a lightweight and relatively slender 15″ design with a 1080p matte display and RGB-lit keyboard. [credit: System76 ] Specs at a glance: System76 Pangolin OS Pop! _OS 21. 04 […]
Enlarge / OpenZFS supports many complex disk topologies, but “spiral stack sitting on a desk” still isn’t one of them. (credit: Jim Salter) OpenZFS founding developer Matthew Ahrens merged one of the most sought-after features in ZFS history—RAIDz expansion—into master last week. The new feature allows a ZFS user to expand the size of a […]
Enlarge / Warning: Learning the care and feeding of MySQL instances does not grant knowledge of or safe interaction with actual marine mammals. (credit: Oracle) One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making […]
u/NateNate60 received this (heavily redacted) DMCA infringement warning. We don’t have email headers, so we can’t 100% verify it actually came from Comcast. [credit: u/NateNate60 ] This week, Redditor u/NateNate60 got a nasty surprise in his inbox—a DMCA infringement warning from his ISP, Comcast Xfinity. The notice warned him that Comcast had “received a notification […]
Assuming you’ve already got your system running Insider, Dev channel, and build 21364, all you need to do is wsl –install (or wsl –update, if you’ve already installed it). [credit: Jim Salter ] This week, Microsoft launched support for graphical and audio Linux apps under the Windows Subsystem for Linux—although the new feature is only available […]
Enlarge / You might draw a fairly similar schematic diagram to give someone a simplified idea of how a traditional Linux distribution is put together—but it wouldn’t be as close to literal accuracy as this Ubuntu Core diagram is. (credit: Canonical) Canonical released Ubuntu Core 20 today, and it is now available for download. If […]
The 2020, M1-equipped Mac mini. [credit: Samuel Axon ] For the first time, users of Apple Silicon Macs using Apple’s M1 chip—such as the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and MacBook Air—can now boot in to and natively run Linux. The vintage at play here is Ubuntu, and the port was developed by Corellium, […]
(charge: Pixabay) Ubuntu developers have already fixed a string of vulnerabilities which made it effortless for users to get deepest root privileges. “This blog article is all about an incredibly straightforward method to innovate thoughts on Ubuntu,” Kevin Backhouse, a research in GitHub, wrote at an article printed on Tuesday. “With a few straightforward commands […]
Entirely unboxed, we visit that exactly the Pi 400 itself, a 247 page full colour newcomer’s manual, power supply, USB mouse, plus a single micro-HDMI into HDMI cable. Late Friday afternoon, I got an intriguing SMS telling –my first review sample of this newest Raspberry Pi 400’d came. I heard of this new Pi version […]