VulcanSphere

I wrote about all the porting work done recently for Plasma in yesterday’s Plasma 6 update. That work consumed a lot of time due to a big push to get it all done, so this week there...

Plan to commercialize supercapacitors in the next few years

Plan to commercialize supercapacitors in the next few years

Here we go again. Some big hyperscalers and cloud builders and their ASIC and switch suppliers are unhappy about Ethernet, and rather than wait...

Several people have opined on the recent announcement of Red Hat to change their terms of sales for their software. Here are some thoughts from Jon "maddog" Hall on it.

Porting Linux to Apple Silicon

At a time when spending is tighter, data centers are finding ways to optimize the resources they have. Maybe that’s putting the liquid cooling era on hold...

Here we go again. Some big hyperscalers and cloud builders and their ASIC and switch suppliers are unhappy about Ethernet, and rather than wait...

Summary from LWN.net:

Systemd 254 has been released. As usual, there is a long list of changes, including a new list-paths command for systemctl, the ability to send POSIX signals to services, a "soft reboot" feature that restarts user space while leaving the kernel in place, improved support for "confidential virtual machines", and a lot more.

The announcement also notes the support for split-/usr systems will be removed in the next release, and support for version-one control groups and for System V service scripts will be deleted in the near future as well.

Excellent progress was made this week towards the goal of full sound theme support in Plasma 6, among other topics–including some important performance work for KWin!

Excellent progress was made this week towards the goal of full sound theme support in Plasma 6, among other topics–including some important performance work for KWin!

Analysis: DDN says storage for generative AI and other AI work needs a balance of read and write speed