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Vates Blog
Company blog · vates.tech/blogsystemsprogramming
Vates Blog is the company blog at vates.tech, writing about systems and programming. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Vates blog posts about XCP-ng and Xen virtualization, including a virtualization management product announcement and Xen updates for RISC-V. Comments here discuss the project's direction, not the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Thanks. I looked at it briefly, but the project doesn't seem to be headed in a good direction. The main interface (Xenadmin) now has an EOL notice as their README: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin The other alternative now seems to be a paid solution: https://vates.tech/blog/introducing-vates-virtualization-man... That doesn't seem like a good match for my needs. :(
Comment linking /blog/introducing-vates-virtualization-management-stack/
on “VMware Kills Off 56 Products”Submitted The Open Source we use at Vates: 2025 edition as a story · 2 points
HN discussion(XCP-ng founder here) I'm more optimistic for RISC-V. For all the devs who worked on it here (at https://vates.tech ), they told me it's very easy to work with since it's close to many Arm design principles. That's why I believe it's important to prepare the platform today for those future machines. I think it's a great opportunity to not only get an alternative both x86 and Arm, but also really opening the choice o…
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on “New Xen updates on RISC-V”Submitted Building a business with almost only self-hosted and Open Source software as a story · 1 points
HN discussion