Fedora's Adoption of Cgroups V2 and Fedora Infrastructure Detective Work

• Fedora 31 Planning To Use Cgroups V2 By Default

  While the Linux kernel has shipped Cgroups V2 as stable since early 2016, on Fedora and most other Linux distributions it hasn't been enabled by default over the original control groups "Cgroups" implementation. But come Fedora 31 later this year, they are now planning to make it the default. Enabling Cgroups V2 by default will allow systemd and the various Linux container technologies along with libvirt and friends to make use of the new features and improvements over the original Cgroups like offering a unified hierarchy. The new implementation also provides better consistency, purpose-driven flexibility, and other design improvements over the original control groups. It's taken a while for CGroups V2 to become the default due to interface changes compared to V1 and all of the important containers/tooling needing to be adapted to make use of it.

• Fedora Infrastructure Detective Work: Mirrorlist 503's

  The Fedora Project Mirrorlist system has evolved multiple times in the last 10 years. Originally written by Matt Domsch it underwent an update and rewrite by Adrian Reber, et al a couple of years ago. For many years Fedora used a server layout where the front end web servers would proxy the data over VPN to dedicated mirrorlist servers. While this made sense when systems were a bit slower compared to VPN latency, it had become more troublesome over the last couple of years.

GNU FreeDink 109.6

• GNU FreeDink 109.6

  This is the first official announcement for the new 109.x line with updated technologies (SDL2, OpenGL), WebAssembly support and many fixes and improvements.

• GNU's RPG/Adventure Game Updated For SDL2, Defaults To OpenGL Rendering

  Of the many free software projects under the GNU umbrella, there aren't many games. One of the only titles is GNU FreeDink, which is out this weekend with its newest update after several active weeks of development.

Microsoft Now Calls Windows "Linux" (Misleading People)

• Windows 10 Will Let You Access Linux Files Using File Explorer [Ed: Misleading from Bogdan Popa, Microsoft News Editor writing in the "Linux" section of Softpedia. This isn't "Linux", it's Windows.]

• Windows 10 Will Soon Let You Access WSL Linux Files From Explorer, Other Improvements [Ed: Those are not "Linux files" but Windows]

• Updated WSL in Windows 10 version 1903 lets you access Linux files from Windows

• Windows 10 April 2019 Update Brings Linux File Access With Enhanced WSL [Ed: People are now supposed to think Windows is Linux and vice versa. This deliberate confusion serves Microsoft. It serves EEE.]

• Windows 10's File Explorer Will Soon Let You Access Your Linux Subsystem Files [Ed: Longtime (decades-long) Microsoft boosters are boosting this perception too]