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New comment by blixtra in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

blixtra — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:24:59 +0000

1. We are confident we have a very robust path to revenue.

2. Given the team, it should be quite obvious there will be a Linux-based OS involved.

Our aims are global but we certainly look forward to playing an important role in the European tech landscape.

New comment by blixtra in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

blixtra — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:16:34 +0000

As per the announcement, we’ll be building this over the next months and sharing more information as this rolls out. Much of the fundamentals can be extracted from Lennart’s posts and the talks from All Systems Go! over the last years.

New comment by blixtra in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

blixtra — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:06:53 +0000

Hi, Chris here, CEO @ Amutable. We are very excited about this. Happy to answer questions.

Systemd Portable Services Are Pretty Good

blixtra — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:57:29 +0000

Article URL: https://rukulkarni.com/blog/systemd-portable-services/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458514

Points: 5

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New comment by blixtra in "Vali, a C library for Varlink"

blixtra — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:00:44 +0000

If you want to know more about Varlink, Lennart Poettering gave a talk about it at All Systems Go! last year. https://media.ccc.de/v/all-systems-go-2024-276-varlink-now-/...

New comment by blixtra in "Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity patch in baffling move"

blixtra — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 08:00:31 +0000

I’ve now had 2 IONIQ 5s stolen in Berlin, the last a couple months ago. Each seemingly using a keyless access hacking device. That’s enough for me to not see a Hyundai or Kia in my future anytime soon. And I very much liked the IONIQ 5. But if I can’t keep one more than 2 years, what’s the point? I’ve lost all trust in those companies, upgrade or not.

eBPF Data Collection for Everyone with Inspektor Gadget [video]

blixtra — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:29:51 +0000

Article URL: https://media.ccc.de/v/all-systems-go-2024-287-ebpf-data-collection-for-everyone-empowering-the-community-to-obtain-linux-insights-using-inspektor-gadget

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41697516

Points: 5

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New comment by blixtra in "Kubernetes Cost Management with the New OpenCost Plugin for Headlamp"

blixtra — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 16:03:08 +0000

We, the Headlamp project, don't make any claims about being state-of-the-art as that's hard to define. But we do think Headlamp ranks high among having the best user experience and believe the fact that we're a 100% open-source project is a huge plus compared to some other projects in the space.

I think one area that we are rather different than other projects is that Headlamp is not only focused on end-users but also for teams looking to build their own Kubernetes UX by leveraging the Headlamp plugin system. Our thinking is that this will foster broader community participation and make Headlamp the most viable project in the space.

If you find that there is anything missing please file an issue and we'll consider it: https://github.com/headlamp-k8s/headlamp/issues/new

Inspektor Gadget: comprehensive tools and framework for eBPF data collection

blixtra — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:53:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.inspektor-gadget.io/blog/2024/08/empowering-observability_the_advent_of_image_based_gadgets

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41173345

Points: 2

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New comment by blixtra in "Flatcar Container Linux"

blixtra — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:18:02 +0000

Flatcar is a host OS to run containers. It is not a base OS to build containers.

New comment by blixtra in "Flatcar Container Linux"

blixtra — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:15:45 +0000

The update server supports the Omaha protocol, is called Nebraska and is available here under an Apache license: https://github.com/kinvolk/nebraska

Our team hosts the public server, but any Flatcar user can run Nebraska themselves and point their nodes to that.

New comment by blixtra in "Flatcar Container Linux"

blixtra — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:05:35 +0000

Thanks for dropping the mic, I'll kindly pick it up.

I'm the initiator of the Flatcar Container Linux project and former CEO of Kinvolk. Thus, I'm rather knowledgeable about the project and was involved in most decisions.

The controversy you speak of is very new to me. If you could point to any references, I'd love to be aware of them.

Firstly, there was nothing "hacked" out of CoreOS. Flatcar is literally the CoreOS Container Linux repos forked and carried on as is. Once the CoreOS EOL was reached we started updating the stale packages. That's it. Any further updates are what any distro would do in the course of maintenance to remain modern and relevant.

Secondly, anything that was previously termed the "Pro" version is now just available in the standard version. So there is no difference. To my knowledge, the project doesn't even produce any Pro versions any longer and I don't think there are even any references to it in our docs. But even when we did have a Pro version, all the work we did was done in the open and was in our source repositories. We just didn't release public builds of those.

Unlike CoreOS, we also developed* and open sourced the update server. It's called Nebraska and available here under an Apache license. https://github.com/kinvolk/nebraska

With regard to a license matrix, you can find all licenses for each release in the respective release directory. For example this one: https://stable.release.flatcar-linux.net/amd64-usr/current/f...

If you do find anything that is not 100% open source, let me know and I'll follow up to make sure that's corrected.

I'm happy your excited about your project. But I think you'll fine it's better in the open source space to compete on merit and form relationships rather than tear down other projects and the work of the people behind the projects.

* based on the Core Roller project: https://github.com/coreroller/coreroller

New comment by blixtra in "Flatcar Container Linux"

blixtra — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 17:08:58 +0000

This is incorrect. It’s an immutable OS. But containers can be started and stopped as much as you want. It’s the sole purpose of Flatcar.

New comment by blixtra in "Flatcar Container Linux"

blixtra — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 16:54:52 +0000

This might help you: https://github.com/flatcar-linux/Flatcar/issues/502

New comment by blixtra in "Hydra – the fastest Postgres for analytics [benchmarks]"

blixtra — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 14:00:15 +0000

I'll answer my own question after doing some more digging. It seems that as the columnar code is a self-contained PostgreSQL extension, you're only using the API which would be fine as there is no linking involved.

New comment by blixtra in "Hydra – the fastest Postgres for analytics [benchmarks]"

blixtra — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 13:01:42 +0000

The project looks very interesting. But I had a look at the license of the Citus source code and it appears to be under an AGPL license and I didn't see an exception for the part of the code that you're including in Hydra. FWIU, AGPL code is not compatible with including in Apache code, although the opposite is compatible. So, I'd be interested to know if I'm understanding this wrong or if there is some license exception I'm not seeing.