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Vulkan 1.3 and Steam support on Ubuntu Asahi

Recently on XDC 2024, Alyssa Rosenzweig announced support for Vulkan 1.3 in Mesa, as well as gaming in Steam, using muvm (ex krunvm) and FEX: https://asahilinux.org/2024/10/aaa-gaming-on-asahi-linux/ PPA The latest Mesa packages are not uploaded to the Ubuntu Asahi

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Upgrade Ubuntu Asahi 23.10 (Mantic) to 24.04 LTS (Noble)

Few notes on upgrading Ubuntu Asahi from 23.10 (Mantic) to 24.04 LTS (Noble): Upgrade all available packages: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade Kernel update to 6.8 for Mantic had broken dependencies, so I had to disable this PPA: sudo mv

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Ubuntu Asahi on MacBook Pro (14" M2 Pro, Model j414)

2024-04-28 Update: I upgraded to my existing 23.10 (Mantic) installation to 24.04 LTS (Noble). See upgrade notes here: https://kernelpanik.net/upgrade-ubuntu-asahi-23-10-mantic-to-24-04-lts-noble/ A quick personal summary on using Ubuntu Asahi on a MacBook Pro (14" M2 Pro, Model j414) with arm64 CPU.

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Fixing broken file upload after occ files:scan

In order to organize an ownCloud upload folder with lots of files, I created new folders for each year manually on the server and moved files over in the terminal. Of course ownCloud didn't know about those moved files and still expected them to

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OpenZFS 2.x on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

On 30 Nov 2020, OpenZFS version 2.0 has been released with plenty of new features and performance improvements: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.0.0 Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS normally comes with kernel 5.4, with built-in ZFS version

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Install OpenZFS on Amazon Linux 2

OpenZFS (aka ZFS on Linux) supports different Linux distributions, but Amazon Linux 2 isn't mentioned in the documentation. As the OS is quite close to CentOS / RHEL, you can just follow the steps here: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting Started/RHEL and CentOS.

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Dell OMSA 7.4 on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 is not officially support by Dell, but 14.04 is. So I tried to install the OMSA packages for 14.04, which almost works out of the box: Add APT repository at /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openmanage.list: deb http:

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Run Mac OS X Yosemite on KVM

Update 30.04.2015: I was able to run Yosemite after switching to QEMU 2.3 and Chimera 4.1. See below. In the last post we set up a VM running Mac OSX Yosemite the help of VirtualBox. Now what if we would

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BIOS on Supermicro X9SRA

The Supermicro X9SRA mainboard (see http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9SRA.cfm) has an AMI BIOS. There are at least two issues: You can't disable the 'Intel ME' feature. There are problems with the 'mei_me' driver in Linux which freeze

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Rename a Linux network interface without Udev / Reboot

If you want to rename a network interface on Linux in an interactive manner without Udev and/or rebooting the machine, you can just do the following: ifconfig peth0 down ip link set peth0 name eth0 ifconfig eth0 up Interface peth0 will be instantly

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Running Ceph on ZFS

Ceph is a distributed storage system which aims to provide performance, reliability and scalability. ZFS is an advanced filesystem and logical volume manager. ZFS can care for data redundancy, compression and caching on each storage host. It serves the storage hardware to Ceph's OSD