15 posts

Engineering

The demise of Fedora as a Developer Distro

Eva Winterschön

The Q4-2024 through Q2-2025 cycle has been one of remarkable instability for Fedora kernels and systemd breaking-changes. F40 through F42 have offered more crashes, more kernel panics, and more core dumps than any triple-set of versions since its dawning into existence - and I've been running this distro for dev-only boxes since the first release. In the worst of circumstances, Fedora notified me of a firmware update, which

Industry Engineering Linux

🌐 Weekend Hardware Update 🌐

Eva Winterschön

Some additional reorganization time this weekend, all busy with the process of preparing the HomeLab for another interstate relocation. Having decided to repurpose some hardware to create a new router, this one formerly hosted infra VMs several years ago, but now it's going to run a pair of "BSD Router Project" VMs for on-host H/A, and a bit of packet shuffling between hosts for RDMA

Photography Engineering

🗑️ Import Your Failures! 🗑️

Eva Winterschön

While using Soundcloud the other day, prompted by a little helper fellow which states: > "Import your Spotify Playlists!" ok, sure. I'd like to use a single app for music if possible, and I prefer Soundcloud to Spotify in general. So, I click ok and authorize the apps' APIs to do their thing. It finishes importing. Great, back to work. Life goes on. Days later,

Photography Engineering

💾 Updates on Remote Access to POWER9 💾

Eva Winterschön

Some quick progress notes for a few FreeBSD and OpenZFS devs, which will be accessing one of my POWER9 systems. See photos for visual reference. * Separate L1 and L2 domain for all network access, zero-shared DMZ, unconnected to the rest of the RFC99 lab lack * Mikrotik router has been temporarily slapped into place on the side of my lab rack, directly in back of the Talos II system (dual socket,

Industry Photography Engineering

⚒️ Linux Kollektivs - Oh Please ⚒️

Eva Winterschön

I love a lot about the linux world, and there's a lot of positive aspects to the kernel itself, which has brought a lot of joy over the years, with kernel module development, debugging, tuning, analyzing... specifically for my career, but also on a personal level. For one quarter of a century I've been using Linux and BSDs in many different flavors, but there's

Industry Engineering