Release announcements and digests from the Xen Orchestra and Vates team covering XO 6.7 through 6.9, with product changes, XCP-ng security batches, backup features and ecosystem news. Readers get a monthly overview of what changed in the Xen Orchestra platform and related Vates projects.
Website: https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/
Snow Native publishes detailed, first-person technical write-ups of real IT incidents, currently a three-part series on a Hyper-V cluster failure caused by a corrupted NDIS driver stack. Readers get step-by-step diagnostics, failed attempts, and the eventual fix with environment specifics.
Stephane Thirion writes practical infrastructure notes for IT administrators, covering Citrix Native Entra SSO migration requirements, NetScaler security patching and options, and a redesigned homelab architecture built on Proxmox, Talos Kubernetes and HAProxy. Each issue focuses on concrete decisions, version baselines and the trade-offs behind them.
Nikita Tokarchuk writes detailed, hands-on technical posts about niche engineering problems: packaging the official Claude desktop app as a Flatpak on Linux, booting Alpine Linux via direct kernel boot on an old macOS Monterey machine, and limiting charge current for a small LiPo battery in an old phone. Readers get concrete commands, file layouts, manifests and circuit reasoning they can reproduce.
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