You might know, that I dont like to trust cloud services and prefer to host my stuff at home. You might also know that I am a huge fan of open source technology and therefor want to press as much things into FOSS tools instead of buying a simple solution...
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Insights on Lenovo Linux support
Information on how Lenovo upstreams hardware support for Ubuntu and Linux kernel
Last week I reported about an interesting discussion with HP and today I can report on a interesting session with the Lenovo team which is in charge for managing hardware and driver support of the devices on Linux. As you might know Lenovo announced to propperly support all future ThinkPad...
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HP promises to do more for Linux support
HP continues improving Linux support and promises to keep pace.
Last week I had an interesting meeting with HP engineers and program managers who promised to have the ZBook Fury G8 supported with firmware and bios on fwupd / LVFS early in February.
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preserve color output on "non-terminal-output" and wifi analysis on Linux
How to easily preserve colors on cli when stdout is not on terminal and how to analyze wifi on cli
Today I was setting up a wifi network that is necessary for tomorrows Covid-19
vaccination event in the town Schönaich and then was wondering how to easily
analyze the wifi with its used channels and signal strength.
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GitOps on real metal - Ubuntu Desktops in Enterprises (OSAD2021)
I talked about how we at Mercedes do Gitops to maintain our Ubuntu Linux client systems.
I had the pleasure to talk at this years Open Source Automation Days
(OSAD2021) which took place from 4th to 6th October.
This talk has mainly the same message as my talk on CLT in March but is held
completely in German.
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