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System XVI Is A New, Modular Service Manager

The newest open-source service/init manager trying to compete with systemd is System XVI.
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Thanks Google for Open Source TCP Fix!

The Google transport networking crew (QUIC, TCP, etc..) deserve a shout out for identifying and fixing a nearly decade old Linux kernel TCP bug that I think will have an outsized impact on performance and efficiency for the Internet.
Google Fixes A Longstanding, Important TCP Bug In The Linux Kernel

Google engineers managed to recently uncover a high profile TCP bug in the Linux kernel that has huge implications on network performance and efficiency.

Google landed this fix earlier this month into the Linux Git code. The issue and fix are well described via this blog post.
Systemd Notifications Support Being Worked On For Wayland's Weston

With Wayland 1.10 now open for development it's time to start looking out for interesting new patches providing new functionality for Wayland and Weston. One of the new patches so far is for making use of systemd notifications in the Wayland compositor.
A Call To Stop Making FBDEV Linux Frame-Buffer Drivers
Linux Kernel 4.3 RC3 Released by Linus Torvalds
Linux 4.3-rc3 Released This Morning, Bigger Than RC2

While Linus Torvalds commonly releases Linux kernel updates late into Sunday evenings, this week he's done a Sunday morning release for kernel testers living in the US.

Torvalds' 4.3-rc3 release message was short and to the point: "So as usual, rc3 is actually bigger than rc2 (fixes are starting to trickle in), but nothing particularly alarming stands out. Everything looks normal: the bulk is drivers (all over, but gpu and networking are the biggest parts) and architecture updates. There's also networking and filesystem updates, along with documentation."
Linux 4.3-rc2 Has Been Released & Is Fairly Normal

Linus Torvalds has tagged and released the Linux 4.3-rc2 kernel.

According to Torvalds, 4.3-rc2 is "looking fairly normal" and "there's some noise all over the tree due to the IRQ flow-handler cleanup.... But apart from that one-time thing, things are looking fairly calm and small."
More Atomic Mode-Setting Work Coming For Linux 4.4

More atomic mode-setting work is being queued up for eventual integration into what will become Linux 4.4 a few months down the road.
The Only Fallout I've Been Exposed To So Far On Linux 4.3

Two AMD systems (both older systems, one a dual socket AMD Opteron 2384 box and the other an Athlon II X3 system) won't boot up with the latest Linux 4.3 kernel code in the past few days due to what appears to be ehci-pci/ohci-pci problems. Early into the boot process are some "can't setup: -12" messages from the EHCI/OHCI PCI platform drivers followed by a failure in sata_nv and ultimately not being able to get to the root disk device.

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