Category Archives: Linux

Linux Foundation and Meta expand open-source connectivity projects for network service providers

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The Linux Foundation is expanding its LF Connectivity project with the addition of two new subprojects: Magma and ISP Toolbox. Launched in May, LF Connectivity got its start with three networking projects contributed by Meta. The overall goal of LF Connectivity is to create a sustainable ecosystem of technologies to enable communication service providers to meet emerging connectivity requirements.

Source: LXer – Linux Foundation and Meta expand open-source connectivity projects for network service providers

Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On The Intel Core Ultra 7 Meteor Lake

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Following my Linux benchmarks of the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor performance where it ended up being rather disappointing but then with finding great success with the integrated Arc Graphics on Meteor Lake, like I you may be left wondering how much of a role Linux is playing with these results compared to Windows… Well, this article will shed some light on that aspect with looking at the Microsoft Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux performance on the Acer Swift Go 14 Meteor Lake laptop.

Source: Phoronix – Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On The Intel Core Ultra 7 Meteor Lake

GUADEC 2024 Conference Will Be Held in Denver for the GNOME 46 Desktop

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Every year, GUADEC gathers GNOME users and developers from all over the world to share knowledge and discuss the new features and changes of the next major release of the GNOME desktop environment. GUADEC 2024 will take place in Denver, Colorado, from July 19th until July 24th, and it’s for the upcoming GNOME 46 series, which is slated for release on March 20th, 2024.

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Source: Linux Today – GUADEC 2024 Conference Will Be Held in Denver for the GNOME 46 Desktop

The 6.7 kernel will be released on January 7

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Unsurprisingly, Linus Torvalds has let
it be known that he will do a 6.7-rc8 release (rather than 6.7 final)
on December 31, thus avoiding opening the 6.8 merge window on New
Year’s Day.

Just FYI – my current plan is that -rc7 will happen this Saturday
(because I still follow the Finnish customs of Christmas _Eve_
being the important day, so Sunday I’ll be off), and then if
anything comes in that week – which it will do, even if networking
might be offline – I’ll do an rc8 the week after.

Then, unless anything odd happens, the final 6.7 release will be Jan
7th, and so the merge window for 6.8 will open Jan 8th.



Source: LWN.net – The 6.7 kernel will be released on January 7

Monitoring Linux Systems With InfluxDB

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InfluxDB offers very complete query capabilities, and it is also pretty good at storing time series data. In this article I will demonstrate how you can use existing performance collection tools with InfluxDB as the storage for the captured metrics. What you will require for this tutorial Running an InfluxDB server from a container This is maybe the […]

Source: LXer – Monitoring Linux Systems With InfluxDB

[$] Data-type profiling for perf

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Tooling for profiling the effects of memory usage and layout has always
lagged behind that for profiling processor activity, so Namhyung Kim’s patch set for data-type profiling
in perf is a welcome addition. It provides aggregated breakdowns of
memory accesses by data type that can inform structure layout and access
pattern changes. Existing tools have either, like heaptrack, focused on
profiling allocations, or, like perf mem, on accounting memory
accesses only at the address level. This new work builds on the latter,
using DWARF debugging information to correlate memory operations with their
source-level types.

Source: LWN.net – [$] Data-type profiling for perf

Announcing `async fn` and return-position `impl Trait` in traits (Rust Blog)

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The Rust Blog announces
the stabilization of a couple of trait features aimed at improving support
for async code:

Ever since the stabilization of RFC #1522 in Rust 1.26, Rust has
allowed users to write impl Trait as the return type of
functions (often called “RPIT”). This means that the function
returns “some type that implements Trait“. This is
commonly used to return closures, iterators, and other types that
are complex or impossible to write explicitly. […]

Starting in Rust 1.75, you can use return-position impl
Trait in trait (RPITIT) definitions and in trait impls. For
example, you could use this to write a trait method that returns an
iterator: […]

So what does all of this have to do with async functions? Well,
async functions are “just sugar” for functions that return
-> impl Future. Since these are now permitted in
traits, we also permit you to write traits that use async fn.



Source: LWN.net – Announcing `async fn` and return-position `impl Trait` in traits (Rust Blog)