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Android 12 is live in AOSP
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,947 posts.
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Plan 9 Desktop Guide
Briefly, Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a computer operating system developed by the original UNIX design team. After decades of work on Research UNIX in the late 80's, the team decided to write a new operating system from scratch, Plan 9 was finally released in 1992, and a few years later they released yet another…
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FoundationDB: A distributed unbundled transactional key value store
FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store Zhou, et al., 2021
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“Static Linking Considered Harmful” Considered Harmful
The maintainer of glibc, Ulrich Drepper, wrote an article called "Static Linking Considered Harmful". This is why his post is wrong.
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Why we spent the last month eliminating PostgreSQL subtransactions
How a mysterious stall in database queries uncovered a performance limitation with PostgreSQL.
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PipeWire and fixing the Linux Video Capture stack
PipeWire has already made great strides forward in terms of improving the audio handling situation on Linux, but one of the original goals was to also bring along the video side of the house. In fact in the first few releases of Fedora Workstation where we shipped PipeWire we solely enabled it as a tool...
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AWS launches ARM-powered Lambdas
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Achieve up to 34% better price/performance with AWS Lambda Functions powered by AWS Graviton2 processor
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Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer
Measuring the energy consumption of software is far from being a trivial task. This article provides essential details about energy consumption tools, their...
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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era
By Xiaomei Liu, Rosanna Lee, Cyril Concolato
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Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale
In 2019, to meet growth and availability challenges, we set a plan in motion to improve our tooling and ability to partition relational databases.
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Teaching a cheap ethernet switch new tricks (2019)
Ethernet rules everything around us, a large proportion of our systems communicate to each other with ethernet somewhere in the line. And the fast pace race to the bottom for embedded systems means that almost all network equipment is smart to some degree these days.
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Big problems at the timezone database
The last time I wrote about the timezone database on this blog, the database was under threat from a lawsuit. Fortunately that lawsuit w...
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Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux
Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering
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Inspecting coredumps like it's 2021
Consulting & Support for the Nix ecosystem by Mayflower GmbH
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So what is the deal with A/UX anyways?
The year is 1983, and several Apple employees visit Brown University, and get some idea of what Universities want in a computer for the coming future. The big buzz of the era was the so called 3M machine:
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Imaging mounted disk volumes under duress
Backups are critical. If you are lucky and organised you have a set of useful backup primitives, such as Point in Time snapshots on your Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS), your disk array controller, or volume manager. However there always seems to be some critical machine in my life that does not fall into these…
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Linux Networking: MAC VLANs and Virtual Ethernets
This website is for sale! pocketnix.org is your first and best source for information about pocketnix. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
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Reality Check for Cloudflare Wasm Workers and Rust
With native Rust support announced for Cloudflare Workers, one may be eager to jump in head first. I know I wanted to. However, I tested out a few use cases and found it too limiting. Either the desired APIs weren’t available, code size was too large, or the program couldn’t run within resource constraints. I remain…
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A Review of “Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems”
There are many books available that deal with modernising legacy codebases. These books generally focus on how to go about understanding the legacy system, improving test coverage, introducing build automation, as well as strategies for refactoring or rearchitecting the codebase. However, Marianne Bellotti’s Kill It…
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The Linux Distributions of 1992
The modern Linux distros owe their existence to those early releases, back in 1992.
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Using the FreeBSD Rack TCP Stack
Explore FreeBSD's RACK TCP Stack, a dynamic pluggable TCP stack introduced in version 12, offering advanced flexibility for handling TCP flows.
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How much faster is Java 17?
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