today's leftovers

• Coffee Lake based rugged PC offers flexible display support and extensive storage capacity

  Taiwan based Cincoze, released a compact and robust PC that is powered by 9/8th Gen Intel Core CPUs (i7, i5, i3) and up to 128GB of DDR4 memory. The company claims the DV-1000 PC has a footprint of half a sheet of an A4 paper but it packs several interfaces to meet demands in industrial, robotics, in-vehicle computing and many other applications. For storage options, the DV-1000 includes one SATA tray, two mSATA slots, one M.2 Key M 2280 slot for NVMe SSD. In addition to supporting legacy displays such as two VGA ports, the rugged PC provides one DisplayPort and one HDMI port.

• Save session at any time

  In that scenario, could only save the session at shutdown. Which I was not entirely happy with. If doing some important work that don't want to lose, having to reboot just to save the session, is not satisfactory.

• Linux Plumbers Conference Refereed-Track Deadlines

  The proposal deadline is June 12, which is right around the corner. We have excellent submissions, for which we gratefully thank our submitters! For the rest of you, we do have one problem, namely that we do not yet have your submission. So please point your browser at the call-for-proposals page and submit your proposal. After all, if you don’t submit it, we won’t accept it!

• Bitcoin Core

  There is a new application available for Sparkers: Bitcoin Core

• raku & rust: a romance? – Physics::Journey

  Rust is blazingly fast and memory-efficient: with no runtime or garbage collector, it can power performance-critical services, run on embedded devices, and easily integrate with other languages. Rust continues the spirit of C with emphasis on code safety and performance with a compiled approach. Raku is an open source, gradually typed, Unicode-ready, concurrency friendly programming language made for at least the next hundred years. Raku continues the spirit of Perl with interpreter-like code generation (actually on MoarVM), one-liners, shell-centric, lightweight objects and expressiveness to get code up and running fast.

Using GNU/Linux Like It's Windows

• Newest Version of Systemd Includes Experimental Feature for A/B-Style Updating

• SystemD Is Being "Forced" Upon Us (Myth Busted!) - Invidious

  I keep seeing the systemd haters spouting their nonsense on the Internet.

• Setup Windows EXE on Linux - Invidious

  Using Windows Setup EXEs can be difficult on Linux. This shows you how to do that with a variety of different Windows programs and how to interface with existing programs.

• New malware for Windows Subsystem for Linux steals browser auth cookies [Ed: This is a Windows issue, not a "Linux" issue, but Microsoft-connected sites spin it like this]

Builder GTK 4 Porting, Part V

Small changes here and there for template-glib to cover more cases for us in our keybindings effort. Improved type comparisons, fixed some embarrassing bugs, improved both GObject Introspection and GType method resolution. Had some interesting talks with Benjamin about expression language needs within GTK and what things I’ve learned from Template-GLib that could be extracted/rewritten with a particular focus on continuously-evaluating-expressions. Also: Aman Kumar: Beginning my GSoC'22 journey with GNOME