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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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Watch The Video About The State Of AMDGPU, Vulkan Linux Plans
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A Call To Stop Making FBDEV Linux Frame-Buffer Drivers
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Linux Kernel 4.3 RC3 Released by Linus Torvalds
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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."
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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."
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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.
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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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Review: The Murena One phone running /e/OS 1.0
Earlier this year the Murena team announced the release of version 1.0 their /e/OS mobile operating system. To accompany this new milestone, the project also announced two smartphones which will be sold with /e/OS pre-installed. These devices are the Murena Teracube 2e and the Murena One. These devices sell for about $330 USD and $370 USD, respectively. (These amounts were converted to USD from the Canadian prices at time of writing and may change over time.)
I currently own a Samsung S9 running /e/OS. I've had it for just over two years and it's been an unusually positive experience for a mobile device. The /e/OS platform is basically Android, but with the Google components, ads, and nag screens removed. The Google cloud services - storage, contact synchronization, and file sharing - have been swapped out in favour of Murena services. These services run on a custom, open source Nextcloud platform. It's a setup which I've found useful, convenient, and unusually trouble-free so far.
I asked the Murena team if I could test drive one of their new phones and they kindly sent me a Murena One. The package, a small black box, arrived containing the Murena One and some useful accessories. Along with the phone is a USB charge cable, a power adaptor which appears to work with both North American and (I believe) European outlets. There is a quick-start guide which explains how to insert a SIM card into the phone, go through the configuration screens and, optionally connect to the Murena cloud service. There is a small widget for opening the SIM bay, a couple of screen cleaning wipes, and a protective case for the phone. The phone, I was happy to note, had a full battery when it arrived.
| Black Box is a GTK4 Terminal App With Unique Look
Tired of the standard GNOME Terminal but cool on its successor Console? You’ll definitely want to check in with Black Box.
Black Box is a new GTK4 terminal emulator built in Vala and GTK4. The debutant release on Flathub has all of the core features you’d expect, plus a large dose of ones you might not. Yes, this app has a few innovative UI approaches that make it stand out from the (many) terminal apps already available for Linux desktops.
I do think of Black Box as the “eye candy terminal”. It may sound like contradiction given that CLIs are usually focused on raw function (and it may sound like a negative, but it’s not; things are allowed to look nice).
Thing is, Black Box isn’t afraid to be ‘beautiful’, as its immersive ‘headerbar-less’ mode proves. When enabled this gives every inch of the console’s canvas over to whatever command is running.
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