Linux kernel Reviews and details

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• If Linux is so great why isn't everyone using it?

  Linux is a family of free and open source operating systems based on the Linux kernel. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• I Solve Problems (talk at EuroBSDCon 2024)

  You mean apart from 6.6 being the current latest longterm kernel? https://kernel.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• What Is PID 0?

  I don't like that, it's not good practice. One should give links to original sources, i.e. https://kernel.org as far as Linux is concerned. Even if git guarantees that the content is the same (if someone bothers to verify that the SHA-1 is the same and we exclude the possibility of a SHA-1 collision in git, which is yet to be demonstrated). kernel.org existed before github. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Thinking about building a operating system

  - Modern Operating Systems, 5th Edition by Andrew Tanenbaum (of MINIX fame) and Herbert Bos (https://www.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/modern-operating-systems/P200000003295/9780137618880) is the latest edition of a solid graduate-level textbook on operating system concepts. It may also be beneficial studying the source code of existing operating systems. I recommend starting with smaller, simpler... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• problem with connman

  Those other flashy distros like mint and ubuntus are designed with rich people with very fresh machines in mind, they don't care if you have an AMDx4 or core2duo or even 32bit older machine. Even Mint and ubuntu people will tell you, if you have an old machine with little ram, use antiX. It still works very well with machines not even released yet, buy one in May 2024 and I "guaranty you" antiX will run fine. ... Source: over 1 year ago

• Is there a way to naively replicate a VarHandle.getOpque with fences?

  The memory_order_relaxed explanation on the kernel.org documentation heavily implies (never explicitly) that the direct memory load is implicit in the barrier(so by preventing it's reordering we are also forcing a LOAD from main), and that THIS specific barrier (relaxed) is what we NEED for these type of scenarios, so I am not entirely sure if a loadLoadFence() would prevent the hoisting... Maybe it will prevent... Source: over 1 year ago

• Have some confusion around the Ubuntu Kernel

  Are all versions of the kernel from kernel.org called mainline kernels or only 6.6-rc4 as shown in the picture? Source: over 1 year ago

• Devuan Upgrade: 4 to 5 Daedalus

  Devuan is a fork of Debian GNU+Linux without systemd. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Flutter 3 on Devuan 4: Getting started

  I built the dev env on Devuan GNU+Linux, a fork of Debian without systemd. It resembles my past trial on Artix Linux. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Android Studio on Devuan 4: Install

  Devuan GNU+Linux is a fork of Debian without systemd and hence Snaps (Snapd). Even on it, it's easy to install Android Studio and start to develop Android mobile apps. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• Is there any oficial way to install 6.3 or 6.3 kernel in Debian 12

  One could also download the kernel source (from kernel.org), extract, copy the current configuration over the .config and then built+install it, but that's a rather more complicated route. Source: almost 2 years ago

• linux 6.4 and headers are released and can be found on joborun's jobcomm repository

  Last 3 upgraded pkgs on jobcore (linux-util, iproute2, mkinitcpio-busybox) mercurial on jobextra were built on a machine that booted linux6.4 the first stable release for this kernel released earlier today. Configuration is nearly the same with last few editions of 6.3 that run well, with the addition of a few more items 6.4 has included (see kernel.org for details). Source: almost 2 years ago

• Red Hat removing access to RHEL source code

  I can read the website yeah, but that doesn't really answer the question. Check out the sponsor page on the bottom of kernel.org. It also includes Red Hat. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Windows 10 End-of-Life for Organizations with No Budget.

  As a moderately extreme example, I happen to have a (recent) piece of hardware here in the lab with 128MiB memory and a single core, running a Linux kernel released last month. It's not a PC-compatible, but it demonstrates that supported releases aren't much dependent on hardware specs. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Trouble building kernel 6.3.8

  I've been trying to build kernel 6.3.8 on my debian system. I think I have everything installed that I need, but I could be missing a package. I've been following several guides like https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official. The only difference is that I'm using a kernel.org tarball. When I go to make the make bindeb-pkg seems to compile everything but fails... Source: almost 2 years ago

• The situation with Arch and util-linux

  Just in 12 hr util-linux has gone from pkgrel 4 to 8 and it doesn't seem over yet. Patch on top of patch and the source was changed from the regular release at kernel.org (linux main repository) to the developer's own git at github, in which special commits are drawn to build it. I suspect that since Arch is up ahead of everyone they are finding bugs first, the dev tries to patch the code to eliminate bugs, Arch... Source: almost 2 years ago

• Want to work on DeviceTree bindings that are missing

  I just got into kernel development and would I found a "warning" that I'd like to work on. It's a binding that is missing in the Documentation for the greybus driver. I saw that its a YAML file that needs to be made. I wanted to ask specific questions about this YAML file since I need to know very specific details about compatability with hardware. I would think the maintainer has some of the details that need to... Source: almost 2 years ago

• Longterm kernel .deb packages

  On kernel.org the latest longtem kernel is 6.1.32. On kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ there is a package with the .deb files to install v6.1.32, but the PPA is titled mainline and the packages are all named with the word test. Is this just in the context of Ubuntu, and it's still the right way to install the new longterm kernel without building from source? I have never done it and know there are fixes... Source: almost 2 years ago

• Gonna be buying a GPU for a new build in ~3 months, specific use case

  I for one welcome this move. The drivers for Arc prior to 6.2.x were a bit of a pain to setup. Since 6.2.x it's been very simple... Plug in and go. There are a lot of changing coming down the pipe, so keep your eyes on kernel.org as well as updates about these changes over at Phoronix. Source: almost 2 years ago

• How well-tested is nixos-unstable?

  Yes, but 6.2 is not LTS and 6.3 is already out. Non-LTS kernels aren't supported very long after the next version is released. See https://kernel.org/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Orange Pi 5 - Reliable?

  Kernel 6.3 is supposed to support RK3588. Armbian will eventually have a build that uses kernel 6.3 from kernel.org. Source: almost 2 years ago