The Linux Writing Contest, Linux Kernel, and Drivers
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The Linux Writing Contest 2022: Final Results Announced! | HackerNoon
The Linux Writing Contest by Linode and HackerNoon has come to an end. It’s time to celebrate the final round winners. This contest slowly took momentum, and we received a good amount of high-quality stories in the third (and final) round of the contest.
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Linux 0.0.1 compiling on Ubuntu 64
You might need some packages first
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Avoid Linux locking up in low memory situations using earlyoom
Within operating system kernels, at least for Linux and the BSDs, there is a mechanism called "out of memory killer" which is triggered when the system is running out of memory and some room must be made to make the system responsive again.
However, in practice this OOM mechanism doesn't work well. If the system is running out of memory, it will become totally unresponsive, and sometimes the OOM killer will help, but it may take like 30 minutes, but sometimes it may be stuck forever.
Today, I stumbled upon a nice project called "earlyoom", which is an OOM manager working in the user land instead of inside the kernel, which gives it a lot more flexibility about its actions and the consequences.
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NVIDIA put out new Vulkan Beta Driver with Vulkan Video updates
NVIDIA has released a new version of their Vulkan Beta Driver, with new extensions supported and updates to their support of the newer Vulkan Video. What is Vulkan Video? It's the attempt to add in hardware accelerated video compression and decompression into the Vulkan API.