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PenguinWrangler

@scotth said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I haven't really had time to check.
Can I easily move my VM's from XenServer to KVM?

Edit: If I use Veeam agent to create ISO's & backups, I should be ok. I'm guessing.

Veeam doesn't work on modern Linux OSs, last I checked. You need to use an old out-dated version of Linux to use Veeam agent.

At least with Fedora.

I used it with Ubuntu 16.04 server and it worked just fine. I backed up the machine and restored it to a new virtual machine.

Obsolesce

I don't use Ubuntu in any circumstances that would require being backed up.

It must be a Fedora thing.

Anyone try CentOS?

black3dynamite

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I don't use Ubuntu in any circumstances that would require being backed up.

It must be a Fedora thing.

Anyone try CentOS?

It does support CentOS 7.x
https://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-agent-linux-is-available.html

black3dynamite

Distro with slow releases seems to be the easiest for Veeam to support.

brianlittlejohn

They should open source the agent and let the community help keep it updated.

PenguinWrangler

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I don't use Ubuntu in any circumstances that would require being backed up.

It must be a Fedora thing.

Anyone try CentOS?

I understand. I don't necessarily like it either, but sometimes you don't have a choice.

mlnews

FreeNAS 11.1 releases. Whatever happen to the FreeNAS 10 family? Oh yeah, it was so bad that they skipped the numbers completely.

mlnews

Haiko OS getting closer.

Obsolesce

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Haiko OS getting closer.

Looks so mid-90s from the screenshots I see on google images.

scottalanmiller

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Haiko OS getting closer.

Looks so mid-90s from the screenshots I see on google images.

It's kind of supposed to look that way

Obsolesce

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Haiko OS getting closer.

Looks so mid-90s from the screenshots I see on google images.

It's kind of supposed to look that way

I think I'll stick with Linux.

mlnews

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chrome-64-Beta-Released

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/12/patent-pictures-show-microsoft-is-still-trying-to-build-a-dual-screen-device/

black3dynamite

Linux Mint 18.3 “Sylvia” is out now.

Cinnamon
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3457

Mate
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3458

KDE
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3481

XFCE
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3480

mlnews

Wow, whoops...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/microsoft-is-forcing-users-to-install-a-critically-flawed-password-manager/

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/12/alphabet-wants-to-deliver-internet-access-via-laser-beams/

mlnews

Fedora Had Another Innovating Year

Dashrender

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Wow, whoops...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/microsoft-is-forcing-users-to-install-a-critically-flawed-password-manager/

Has it been shown to be an issue if you aren't using it?

Obsolesce

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Fedora Had Another Innovating Year

Apparently wayland is for GUI and xorg is command-line...

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/995611-fedora-linux-had-another-innovative-year?p=995637#post995637

stacksofplates

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Fedora Had Another Innovating Year

Apparently wayland is for GUI and xorg is command-line...

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/995611-fedora-linux-had-another-innovative-year?p=995637#post995637

I can understand why they feel that way. Wayland has no network transparency so it’s going to be a full Remote Desktop session of some type (VNC, SPICE, etc.).

I think they possibly just worded it strange.