Install one package and you are done: linuxfabrik-release sets up repo.linuxfabrik.ch the way epel-release sets up EPEL. From then on, all our packages come through dnf, zypper or apt, for example the Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins, FirewallFabrik and many more. If you still get the Monitoring Plugins from repo.linuxfabrik.ch/monitoring-plugins/, switch by 2026-12-31.
ntp.linuxfabrik.ch is a public NTP server and part of the NTP Pool. Anyone may use it, directly or through ch.pool.ntp.org and europe.pool.ntp.org.
Better late than never: our package repository, the download server and the mirror servers for RHEL 8, 9 and 10 are reachable over IPv6. Hosts in IPv6-only networks get their packages directly, without NAT64 or a proxy.
Our monitoring plugin disk-io no longer measures iowait. What sounds like a step backwards is a step forward: iowait looks like a measure of overloaded storage, but it is relabelled idle time, and on any multi-core system it is, per the kernel developers themselves, simply useless. Triggered by a GitHub issue for disk-io on ZFS, we worked our way through the source of the kernel, sysstat, psutil, glances and OpenZFS - with a clear result.
Firewall Builder (fwbuilder) has no nftables support and has not been actively developed for years. FirewallFabrik is its modern successor: a complete rewrite in Python and Qt6 with native nftables support, seamless migration of existing .fwb files, and a GUI that feels just like the original.
