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Dimitri John Ledkov
Personal blog · blog.surgut.co.uksystemsprogramming
Dimitri John Ledkov writes Surgut, a personal blog at blog.surgut.co.uk about systems and programming. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-16, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked by HN readers for a post on Ubuntu making swap files the default from release 17.04 Zesty. One commenter cites it while noting the change only reached a release candidate in the 5.12-rc1 thread.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
a personal blog of Dimitri John Ledkov
What Hacker News says?
Ubuntu uses a swap file by default since 17.04 Zesty: https://blog.surgut.co.uk/2016/12/swapfiles-by-default-in-ub... But as otherwise discussed this only made it into a release candidate and not an actual release. So the impact is minimal.
Comment linking /2016/12/swapfiles-by-default-in-ubuntu.html
on “A warning about 5.12-rc1”Submitted Go enjoy Python3 as a story · 106 points
HN discussionSubmitted Boiling frog, or when did we lose it with /etc? as a story · 59 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swapfiles by default in Ubuntu as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Four gunmen outside as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An interesting bug – network-manager, glibc, dpkg-shlibdeps, systemd, and binutils as a story · 1 points
HN discussion