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 […]

This week there is an important fix for the kerberos component on Jammy, there’s also a couple of installer-related chanages, here are all the notable details…

This week sees the continuing developments in adding support for Ubuntu Noble, a new snmptrap component written in Perl for Ubuntu, and minor updates to the network component. Here are the details of all the notable changes…

This week sees the first small steps in adding support for Ubuntu Noble, there is also a preview of an option for replacing Apache cosign authentication. Here are the details of all the notable changes…

Various improvements to network monitoring software, removal of the Atom Ubuntu package repository and a fix to the CUPS component on Ubuntu. Here are the details of the notable changes…

All fairly minor changes this week, here are the details of the few notable changes…

This week sees some noteworthy changes, here are all the details…

Not much change this week, mainly just preparatory work for upgrading to a new kernel on Ubuntu. Here are the details of all the notable changes…

This week saw some work on the ED layer support for a simple personal desktop build using GDM rather than LightDM. Here are the details of all the notable changes…