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[jabl]

TBH, I'd like to echo what others are saying that netplan is a bit of a solution to a self-inflicted problem. It's "necessary" for Ubuntu since...

[jabl]

On Ubuntu 22.04 with 5.15 kernel:

$ grep CONFIG_NR_CPUS= /boot/config-5.15.0-89-generic
CONFIG_NR_CPUS=8192

Of course,...

[jabl]

From TFA:


Eagerly awaiting the response from all these people who crawl out from under their rocks whenever Linux removes some obsolete...

[jabl]

I recall reading somewhere that it's recommended to leave DNT at whatever the default setting is, as it's yet another bit websites will use to fingerprint...

[jabl]

I'm not a web developer so I might be talking out of my ass, but it seems to me while there might be good usecases for this, it also seems to be yet another...

[jabl]

I found this thread where someone proposed changing the default from xz to zstd: https://lists.debian.org/debian-deve.../msg00200.html
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[jabl]

AFAIU it's all upstreamed already, it's just a change in the Ubuntu configuration how they create the packages. Based on some quick googling, zstd compressed...

[jabl]

Support was added to upstream dpkg 1.21.18 per https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...cgi?bug=892664 and the latest stable, Debian 12, ships with dpkg...

[jabl]

So AFAIU how it worked earlier: kernel module and firmware packages were compressed with whatever is nowadays the default .deb package compression method...

[jabl]

For some definition of "almost always". Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/RHEL, at least, use voluntary preemption in the out of the box configuration with...

[jabl]

For those interested in the topic, Thomas Gleixner earlier posted a message explaining what's wrong with the current voluntary preemption model: http...

[jabl]

Well, it's not like those architectures Itanium "killed" are doing well, commercially speaking. Seems the Linux support for them is mostly a...

[jabl]

BTW, what is the roadmap for HP-UX? I've seen some slides with marketing mumbo-jumbo "committment etc.", but I haven't read anything of a port...