I ditched VMs for Linux containers, and my home server finally has room to breathe
… The guest system boots its own kernel on top of virtualized hardware, assigned to the instance. …
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Linux gamers didn't do anything wrong, but they might pay for Windows piracy anyway
… Your operating system kernel sits at Ring 0, a more privileged level that controls hardware access and enforces security policies. …
Windows still dominates these 3 major arenas, and Linux won't catch up anytime soon
… Since the kernel is open-source on Linux, it is freely modifiable, and therefore no way for anti-tampering software to verify that the kernel hasn't been compromised or altered. …
Almost every service I self-host runs in a Linux container, and the math just doesn't favor a VM anymore
… The exact numbers vary by workload and hardware, but the actual result hasn't changed. Personally, the idle cost is where I notice it most. An idle VM still has to run a full guest kernel, init system, and background services even when there's no ongoing workload. …
Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive
… It was faster than esync in most cases, but it required out-of-tree kernel patches that never made it into the mainline Linux kernel or to upstream Wine out of the box . …
Hardware support is still one of Linux's biggest problems, and it may never change
… Again, this can depend on the distro you're trying to work with because hardware support is usually tied to kernel versions. …
I almost bought a used Nvidia Tesla GPU for my home lab, then I read what owners actually deal with
… Related Cheap enterprise networking gear exposes the flaws in expensive consumer hardware Ex-enterprise networking hardware removes all artificial limits from your network The supported path is rough vGPU support was dropped, though you can get it to work The way NVIDIA intends you to use a Tesla c… …
The Orange Pi Zero 3W beats the Raspberry Pi 5 on paper, but it can't use half its own hardware
… One header file is missing from OPi's kernel-headers package bsp/include/sunxi-sid.h even though the kernel config asks for it, so I had to grab that from Radxa's image for the GPU rebuild. …
Wine has been translating Windows games to Linux since 1993, but Proton is what made it effortless
… NTSYNC and the kernel rewrite Let the Linux kernel handle it instead One of the big recent improvements around Wine 11 is NTSYNC , a new kernel driver that directly models Windows NT synchronization primitives at the kernel level. …
The Flipper One is finally official, but Flipper isn't selling it yet — they're asking for help to build it
… For anyone interested in the Linux side of consumer hardware, this is one of the few hardware announcements in years that's actually pushing vendor practice toward open kernels and away from binary blobs. …