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Saturday, January 26th, 2013
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3:41p |
Kernel prepatch 3.8-rc5 Linus has tagged and release the 3.8-rc5 prepatch; the only announcement appears to be this Google+ posting. Just over 250 fixes were merged since -rc4 came out; click below for the short-form changelog. | 11:11p |
Poettering: The Biggest Myths Lennart Poettering decided to refute a few systemd myths on his blog, where "a few" means "30". " There's certainly some truth in that. systemd's sources do not contain a single line of code originating from original UNIX. However, we drive inspiration from UNIX, and thus there's a ton of UNIX in systemd. For example, the UNIX idea of 'everything is a file' finds reflection in that in systemd all services are exposed at runtime in a kernel file system, the cgroupfs. Then, one of the original features of UNIX was multi-seat support, based on built-in terminal support. Text terminals are hardly the state of the art how you interface with your computer these days however. With systemd we brought native multi-seat support back, but this time with full support for today's hardware, covering graphics, mice, audio, webcams and more, and all that fully automatic, hotplug-capable and without configuration." |
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