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anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Technology in Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor

In KVM based solutions wireless bridges are not as easily accomplished as in VMWare.
https://hacktivate.it/posts/kvm-bridge-wireless/

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Technology in You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI

In Win7 and Win10 I always had my own Toolbar added with a bunch of .rdp, .bat and .ps1 for quick and easy access.
In Win11 that feature is missing. :(

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Technology in Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor

Harvester is a modern, open, interoperable, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution built on Kubernetes.
It is an open-source alternative designed for operators seeking a cloud-native HCI solution.
https://github.com/harvester/harvester

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Technology in Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor

I'd say from a business perspective this is the major thing:
Real license of LXD

Per the commit message performing the re-licensing, all further contributions will be under the AGPLv3 license and all contributions from Canonical employees have been re-licensed to AGPLv3.

However, Canonical does not own the copyright on any contribution from non-employees, such as the many changes they have imported from Incus over the past few months. Those therefore remain under the Apache 2.0 license that they were contributed under.

As a result, LXD is now under a weird mix of Apache 2.0 and AGPLv3 with no clear metadata indicating what file or what part of each file is under one license or the other.

This is likely to make it very “fun” for anyone performing licensing reviews to evaluate LXD for adoption in their environment.

Grabbed from this blog
https://stgraber.org/2023/12/12/lxd-now-re-licensed-and-under-a-cla/

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Technology in Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor

I find mentions on their homepage that they love open source but I can't find any repository for the hypervisor itself.
Nutanix AHV is based upon CentOS KVM.
https://www.nutanixbible.com/5a-book-of-ahv-architecture.html

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Technology in Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor

https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Technology in Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/virtualization/#virtualization-host-bhyve
https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Technology in Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor

Some alternatives:

• Incus - After canonicals takeover of LXD a fork of it called Incus was created. Supporting both virtual machines and linux containers. Free open-source with paid support.
  https://github.com/lxc/incus

• virt-manager - For home usage without clusters and the like a simple Linux host with kvm/qemu/libvirt/virt-manager usually works just fine.
  https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager

• Cockpit Project - Cockpit can be used to manage both virtual machines and podman. Personally I use it in tandem with virt-manager.
  https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-machines https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-podman https://github.com/oVirt/cockpit-ovirt

• Proxmox - KVM/LXC Hypervisor based on Debian. Supports clustering and High-Availability. Free open-source with paid support.
  https://github.com/proxmox

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in virtualizing PFSense. What else works besides ESXi for virtual networking?

There's multiple guides on virtualizing pfsense in proxmox, but the easiest is to simply pci passthrough the nics you wanna use.
I do recommend you leave a physical nic for proxmox itself to maintain LAN access to it if your pfsense is down.

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Privacy in What PC is like the "thinkpad" of PCs?

The answer is that it depends on the model and that you can't trust the T anymore, the T14 Gen3 (note that it's T14, not T14s) is as easy as always:
https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/t14_gen3_p14s_gen3_hmm_en.pdf

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in virtualizing PFSense. What else works besides ESXi for virtual networking?

No problem using multiple physical and virtual ports for a pfsense in proxmox

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Self hosted Wetransfer?

Yeah, sftpgo.com seems to have a nice web frontend for users while also benefitting from all that sftp offers. Free open-source with paid support. https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Self hosted Wetransfer?

No personal experience with it but this project seem to be interesting for your use case and have a docker so it's easy to test:
https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Self hosted Wetransfer?

I guess nextcloud could do it, but you get a whole lot more in the same package.

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_files/file_sharing_configuration.html

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Privacy in What PC is like the "thinkpad" of PCs?

And with how easy it has traditionally been to do that same replacement on ThinkPad T-series I was shocked the first time I encountered it.