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.
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 proposal suggests open source projects could monetize by selling SBOM fragments containing accurate licensing information. The approach would eliminate redundant scanning efforts across companies and provide reliable data directly from project maintainers through sponsorship models.
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.
A critical analysis of NASA's 10 coding rules for embedded software programming discusses potential issues with their restrictions, especially around recursion, memory allocation, and function pointers. The analysis emphasizes how these rules, while potentially beneficial for spacecraft software, may lead to less maintainable code and argues against limitations that prevent common programming patterns.
A comprehensive history of SUSE Linux, tracing its evolution from a German student project in 1992 to a major enterprise Linux distribution. The journey encompasses its growth from localizing Slackware, developing YaST, pioneering enterprise Linux solutions for IBM mainframes, and multiple corporate transitions through Novell, Attachmate, Micro Focus, and EQT.
A key contributor to the Wii homebrew scene and founder of Asahi Linux announces their resignation, citing burnout from entitled users, upstream Linux kernel community challenges, and personal circumstances. Their groundbreaking work made Linux run on Apple M1 chips, but increasing pressure, decreasing donations, and toxic community dynamics led to this decision.
The /tmp/ directory, typically used for temporary system files, can be leveraged as a powerful self-cleaning workspace for downloads, research materials, and temporary documents. By redirecting ephemeral files to /tmp/, users can maintain a cleaner file system and make better decisions about long-term storage while benefiting from automatic cleanup during system reboots.