An in-depth guide demonstrates how to netboot Windows 11 using iSCSI and iPXE, enabling Windows to run from a NAS instead of local storage. The solution allows gaming on Windows while maintaining Linux as the primary OS, providing a practical workaround for AAA games that restrict virtual machine usage.
A detailed analysis of a bug in HyperQueue where tasks were unexpectedly terminated after 10 seconds due to an interaction between tokio thread management, PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, and process spawning optimization. The bug emerged from moving process spawning to a worker thread, causing processes to receive SIGTERM when tokio cleaned up idle threads.
A comprehensive chronicle of OpenBSD's software innovations and security features, detailing the project's significant contributions to operating system security, including privilege separation, ASLR, stack protection, and numerous system hardening measures.
A developer explores building a modern disk image for Rock Pi 4 using Yocto, incorporating CUPS and Docker while leveraging Yocto's advanced SBOM generation capabilities. The process demonstrates how to create custom Linux distributions for embedded systems, with detailed instructions for setup and configuration. The guide addresses common challenges in maintaining up-to-date software for Chinese SBCs while highlighting Yocto's sophisticated approach to dependency tracking and SBOM generation.
A researcher successfully resurrected a 1972 UNIX V2 'Beta' version from DMR tapes, featuring both V1 and V2 compatibility and increased core size to 16 KiB. The system demonstrates functionality with basic commands and C compilation, though it requires specific emulation conditions to operate.
Lennart Poettering's FOSDEM keynote discusses systemd's 14-year evolution from an init system to a comprehensive suite of Linux OS building blocks, highlighting its growth to 150 binaries, adoption by major distributions, and future focus on boot integrity, IPC improvements, and image-based deployments.
An IBM PC emulator for NES that runs the Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset (ELKS) and supports x86 software with basic serial terminal functionality. The project features compatibility with select NES emulators like Mesen2, FCEUX, and Rustico, while providing detailed build instructions for custom deployments.
A detailed explanation of why Windows 95 setup program utilized Windows 3.1 runtime instead of building a custom MS-DOS graphical interface. The complexity of developing necessary components like graphics libraries, window managers, and input methods would essentially mean creating a new operating system from scratch, making Windows 3.1 the logical choice.
Schemesh is a Unix login shell that combines traditional shell functionality with a full Lisp REPL powered by Chez Scheme. Users can seamlessly switch between shell and Lisp syntax, offering both interactive command execution and powerful Scheme programming capabilities with native code optimization.
A Linux notebook user discovered white noise and battery drain issues caused by unsuspended AudioContext in Firefox, particularly from websites like Outlook, X.com, and Google Translate. The problem stems from websites creating AudioContext without properly suspending it when not in use, leading to unnecessary power consumption and speaker noise.