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21 May

Veeam extends data platform to support Proxmox VE for SMBs – ChannelLife New Zealand

In a significant development for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and service providers, Veeam has announced the extension of its Veeam Data Platform to now support Proxmox VE. This new capability aims to enhance data protection and offer greater flexibility in data management and cyber resiliency. Veeam, a leading company in data protection and ransomware recovery, unveiled this support in response to popular demand from its existing customer base. The announcement underscores Veeam's commitment to providing data freedom and ensuring that organisations can choose business platforms that are best suited to their needs. The new support will be showcased at…

21 May

ReactOS “Open-Source Windows” Shown Running On Valve’s Steam Deck – Phoronix

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Show Your Support: This site is primarily supported by advertisements. Ads are what have allowed this site to be maintained on a daily basis for the past 19+ years. We do our best to ensure only clean, relevant ads are shown, when any nasty ads are detected, we work to remove them ASAP. If you would like to view the site without ads while still supporting our work, please consider our ad-free Phoronix Premium. As part of the effort for enabling UEFI support with ReactOS, an open-source operating system re-implementing binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows, a development build of ReactOS…

20 May

ReactOS shows off SMP support in open-source take on Windows – The Register

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ReactOS, the open-source project for creating a binary-compatible drop-in replacement for Windows, has crossed a crucial milestone with a first look at symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support. The developers are clear: this is a work in progress and not yet in the trunk, but persuading the operating system to run in SMP mode to the point where one can get to the familiar face of the Windows XP Task Manager is an impressive achievement. Wow!! #ReactOS running in SMP reaching Desktop!! As a Bonus: using Windows XP Task Manager to show the processors load! #opensource #kernel #smp pic.twitter.com/rkZzohTA6S — ReactOS (@reactos)…

20 May

TrueCommand Brings Single Pane of Glass Management to TrueNAS and FreeNAS Fleets – GlobeNewswire

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SAN JOSE, Calif., June 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- iXsystems® has released TrueCommand™ 1.0, a unified management system that allows organizations to monitor and control all of their TrueNAS® and FreeNAS® systems from a “single pane of glass” interface. TrueCommand simplifies 24x7 operations, improves security, automates tasks, and enables faster problem resolution for NAS systems. The TrueNAS Family of products, including TrueNAS and FreeNAS, stores, shares, and manages data for tens of thousands of organizations across the globe. Each TrueNAS system, whether All-Flash or Hybrid, uses ZFS to orchestrate datasets, snapshots, and replication, and has its own web interface, CLI,…

20 May

AlmaLinux 9.4 Released: Security and Legacy Hardware Support – Security Boulevard

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AlmaLinux 9.4, codenamed “Seafoam Ocelot,” arrived on May 6, 2024. This exciting new release from the AlmaLinux OS Foundation closely mirrors Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.4, offering a free and open-source alternative with full compatibility. In this article, we will explore the key features available in this edition. New Features and Improvements in AlmaLinux 9.4 Improved web-console functionality This release brings a plethora of enhancements aimed at bolstering machine security, optimizing data protection, and prioritizing system reliability. With a focus on empowering users with additional automation capabilities, AlmaLinux OS 9.4 introduces improvements to the Web Console and…

20 May

Fedora Miracle Spin Approved To Ship As Part Of Fedora Linux 41 – Phoronix

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Show Your Support: This site is primarily supported by advertisements. Ads are what have allowed this site to be maintained on a daily basis for the past 19+ years. We do our best to ensure only clean, relevant ads are shown, when any nasty ads are detected, we work to remove them ASAP. If you would like to view the site without ads while still supporting our work, please consider our ad-free Phoronix Premium. The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved of the newest Fedora desktop ISO spin: Fedora Miracle. Not to be confused with Fedora's Beefy Miracle…

20 May

MX Linux 23.3 Libretto: Why you should switch from Microsoft Windows 11 – BetaNews

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MX Linux has released version 23.3 "Libretto," a fresh update to its MX-23 series (download here). For those already running MX-23, there's no need for a complete reinstall, as all updates are available through the regular update channels. This third refresh brings a host of bug fixes, kernel updates, and application enhancements, making it a compelling choice for users considering a switch from Windows 11. MX-23.3 is based on Debian 12.5 "bookworm," ensuring a stable and reliable foundation. Among the notable updates, the inclusion of the "build-essential" packages stands out. This feature, previously available in MX-23.2, is crucial for users…

20 May

ReactOS Is Going Places, With More Stable AMD64, SMP, And Multi-Monitor Support – Hackaday

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In the crowd of GNU/Linux and BSD users that throng our community, it’s easy to forget that those two families are not the only games in the open-source operating system town. One we’ve casually kept an eye on for years is ReactOS, the long-running open-source Windows-compatible operating system that is doing its best to reach a stable Windows XP-like experience. Their most recent update has a few significant advances mentioned in it that hold the promise of it moving from curiosity to contender, so is definitely worth a second look. ReactOS has had 64-bit builds for a long time now,…

19 May

How to Quickly and Easily Prune Excess Proxmox VE Backups – ServeTheHome

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Proxmox VE Backup Listing Proxmox VE has a very useful backup feature. We recently showed how to Back up Proxmox VE VMs Quickly and Easily. For those who may have created backup jobs before they understood the retention feature, or if new retention requirements come about, then there is an easy way to prune backups and get more space. How to Prune Proxmox VE Backups Of course, we should mention that if you just want to delete a single backup, you can just click on the VM’s backup tab and pick the backup to delete. Proxmox VE Remove Individual Backup…

19 May

ReactOS 0.4.14 brings new features, more hardware support to the open source Windows clone – Liliputing

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ReactOS is an open source operating system designed to be compatible with Windows applications. It’s been in development for more than two decades and is still very much work-in-progress software, but the first major release in more than a year brings a handful of new features and support for additional hardware.ReactOS 0.4.14 is now available for download and, among other things, it adds new features to the right-click context menu, the ability to run on NEC PC-9800 computers, networking improvements, and bug fixes and improvements to the ReactOS kernel and bootloader.@reactosThe most noticeable user-facing changes in the latest build are…