A very quiet week, most sites will not notice any changes other than the usual security updates. Here are the few notable details…

It has now been nearly 6 months since the end of support for SL7. The platform is no longer changing and we have a dwindling number of SL7 systems so we intend to drop the weekly testing of this platform. Early in the new year we expect to add weekly testing of the Ubuntu Noble […]

It’s that traditional time of the year when we announce the dates for the last release of 2024 and the first of 2025. This year we will be making a release on 18th December and then 8th January. 

Some Noble Progress Behind The Scenes A new script called fixversions was added to the pkglist-tools to help update manually maintained package lists for new platforms. The fstab component is started at boot time on Noble now. You can override this with the LCFG_OPTIONS_FSTAB_INACTIVE macro. Can also now enable it for Jammy using LCFG_OPTIONS_FSTAB_ACTIVE. Grub […]

Controlling User System Resources via Systemd The lcfg/options/systemd-user-slice.h header was donated by Nick Dandoulakis in GeoSciences. This header controls Systemd’s user.slice using the kernel’s cgroups v2 and is intended for machines running Jammy and later. You may define macros to restrict user slice resources, otherwise they get their default values as per systemd.resource-control(5). By default […]