Fixing High Bandwidth Serial in Wine

Introduction All I wanted to do was move my gaming rig from Windows to Linux, now I’ve contributed a fix to Wine. Obviously there is more to it than that, Valve (via the SteamDeck) have financed and made possible the running of a whole host of games and applications that are Windows native, on Linux. Through Proton and Wine, in turn, they made it possible for me to move my gaming PC (and my music production rig, to a lesser extent) from Windows and MacOS to Linux. ...

January 22, 2026 Myles Gray

Replicating SAN on openSUSE with VAAI

Preamble This article was written a few years back, but never published - it was some work I was doing in my lab to try and get to grips around the work involved in creating a SAN with synchronous replication built in from scratch. It in no way should be used for production, but rather as a learning exercise - as previously stated the instructions are a few years old and version specific, so openSUSE may well now support some of the modules I had to compile and create repos for manually, also DRBD9 has been released and should obviously be used in place of DRBD8 as I have below. ...

August 27, 2016 Myles Gray