System Administration

Linus Torvalds has fixed a bug in the Linux Xe graphics driver that could cause a machine with an Intel Battlemage G21 GPU with 16 GB of VRAM to end up with the graphical session repeatedly restarting. The most interesting part is not just that the final fix came down to a rounding change, but […]

Coding agents need to understand a repository before they can safely modify it, a process that can consume a significant portion of their context window as they search for symbols, open files and reconstruct relationships between functions. Ripwire, a new open-source project published under Red Hat’s redhat-et organization, proposes a different approach: analyze code locally […]

A Linux server can be responding normally, serving traffic, and running for months without any obvious errors while still carrying forgotten accounts, old SSH keys, unknown repositories, unnecessary services, or configurations nobody can explain. When a system administrator inherits a Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, Fedora, SUSE, or other Linux server, the first task […]

Lima, short for Linux Machines, has become one of the simplest ways to run Linux on macOS without relying on a traditional full-desktop virtual machine. The project creates lightweight Linux environments with automatic file sharing and port forwarding, focusing particularly on developers who work from the terminal and need containers, Kubernetes, or a Linux distribution […]

In 1999 Microsoft funded a benchmark comparing Windows NT Server 4.0 with Linux 2.2.2. The result hit the Linux community hard: Windows appeared to be 2.5 times faster at file serving and 3.7 times faster as a web server. The methodology and Mindcraft, the company that ran the tests, were immediately attacked. Two months later […]