The merge window for the 6.1 release brought in basic support for writing kernel code in Rust — with an emphasis on "basic".
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Even so, it appears that transparent relocation of network connections, in the form of Pavel Emelyanov's TCP connection repair patches, will be supported in the 3.5 kernel.
A TCP connection can be described as a four-tuple consisting of the source and destination IP addresses and the source and destination port numbers.
Each node in a WireGuard network has a cryptographic key that serves as the node's identity; nodes that do not know each other's keys cannot directly communicate.
So there have been efforts to rework for latency and lots of other reasons, but those have not made it into the mainline; a recent discussion at the 2022 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) seems to have paved the way for new solution to land in the mainline before too long.
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So, as is hopefully clear to everybody, the major version number change is more about me running out of fingers and toes than it is about any big fundamental changes.
At the 2022 Linux Plumbers Conference, Ofir Weisse sought to convince the development community to reconsider address-space isolation.
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With the correct configuration, though, it is even possible to run LXC containers nested within another LXC container, or to run the Docker daemon inside of an LXC container.
It is not too early to start planning for 128-bit Linux systems, which he termed "ZettaLinux", and we don't want to find ourselves wishing we'd started sooner.
It is, he said, easier to write a kernel driver in Rust than in C. Why write an NVMe driver when the kernel already has one that works well?
The Rust for Linux project, which is working to make it possible to write kernel code in the Rust programming language, has been underway for a few years, and there is a growing number of developers who feel that it is time to merge this work into the mainline.
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It is, he said, easier to write a kernel driver in Rust than in C. Why write an NVMe driver when the kernel already has one that works well?
A new user-space block driver mechanism entered the kernel during the 6.0 merge window.
This microwave oven was not a lost cause — it gave its life to the greater good and became the prototype for an idea that Tulloh hopes to turn into a crowd-funded project if he can find the right match between features and demand: a Linux-driven microwave oven.
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A container orchestrator is a tool that can manage a group of multiple containers as a single unit.
On August 8, the US government sanctioned the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer for money laundering.
Your editor has spent a fair amount of time beating his head against the source for the ublk driver, as well as the ubdsrv server that comprises the user-space component.
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In the 4.18 kernel, a new feature was merged to allow infrared (IR) decoding to be done using BPF.
At the Linux Plumbers Conference Thursday, Arjan van de Ven, Linux developer at Intel and author of PowerTOP, and Auke Kok, another Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center, demonstrated a Linux system booting in five seconds.
CC0 has been listed by Fedora as a 'good' license for code and content (corresponding to allowed and allowed-content under the new system).
The reason for the change: Over a long period of time a consensus has been building in FOSS that licenses that preclude any form of patent licensing or patent forbearance cannot be considered FOSS.
He started his talk with the problems that symbolic links ("symlinks") cause for application developers, then discussed how the solutions to the problems posed by symlinks led to substantial increases in the complexity of the APIs involved in working with pathnames.
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But that has changed—is changing—the role of the maintainers of all of that code; when "critical" infrastructure uses code from a FOSS project, suddenly, and perhaps without warning, that code itself becomes critical.
Some system administrators running Ubuntu 20.04 had a rough time on June 8, when Ubuntu published kernel packages containing a particularly nasty bug that was caused by an Ubuntu-specific patch to the kernel.
Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?
Wang announced PyScript as a new framework, built atop one of those earlier projects, to allow Python scripting directly within the browser; those programs have access to much of the existing Python ecosystem as well as being able to interact with the browser document object model (DOM) directly.
These early versions of NFS were developed within Sun Microsystems.
New photos from the set of Prime Video's upcoming series adaptation of Fallout bring even more recognizable elements from the post-apocalyptic video game franchise to live-action.
Here’s the full list of places you can watch it with us: What to Expect at the Ubisoft Forward (September 2022) As previously mentioned, Ubisoft has already confirmed that Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope and Skull and Bones will be featured in this month's Ubisoft Forward.
Pulsing electrical currents through the brain for 20 minutes can boost memory for older adults for at least a month, according to a new study.
Isometry is once again cutting edge with Nabla, the isometric color font!
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Valve has released a major update for its Steam mobile app that completely overhauls its design and adds new features including remote downloads.