today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 17, 2022

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 469

• Live streaming the release of Perl 5.37.6 | Max Maischein [blogs.perl.org]

  Just like last year, I'm doing a dev release of Perl, this time version 5.37.6.

• Moving past TCP in the data center, part�2 [LWN.net]

  At the end of our earlier article on John Ousterhout's talk at Netdev 0x16, he had concluded that TCP was unsuitable for data-center environments for a variety of reasons. He also argued that there was no way to repair TCP so that it could serve the needs of data-center networking. In order for software to be able to use the full potential of today's networking hardware, TCP needs to be replaced with a protocol that is different in almost every way, he said. The second half of the talk covered the Homa transport protocol that he and others at Stanford have been working on as a possible replacement for TCP in the data center.

  The Homa project set out to design a protocol from scratch that would be ideal for the needs of data-center networking today. It turned out to be different from TCP in each of the five aspects that he had covered in the first half of the talk; the choices made by Homa for those work well together to "produce a really really high-performance data-center protocol". But, he stressed, Homa is not suitable for wide-area networks (WANs); it is only for data centers.

• What is Drupal? - RoseHosting

  Looking back, Drupal was initially launched only as a small message board software for students.

  Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, and his friends gathered together back in 2001 and decided to start with small steps, but they ended up creating something much more significant: A content management system that powers influential sites such as Tesla, The White House, the Government of France, Warner Music, and Nokia!

• How to Install PostgreSQL on AlmaLinux 9

  PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system written in C and C++, also known as Postgres. It can store structured and unstructured data in a single product.

  This tutorial will guide you through the simple steps of installing PostgreSQL on AlmaLinux 9 OS.

• 10 Useful mysqladmin Commands for Database Administration - RoseHosting

  In this blog post, we will show you ten useful mysqladmin commands for database administration

• Seizing knowledge at Capitole du Libre

  Clear your schedules, this weekend's Capitole du Libre is calling your name for all things open source! Gathering in the "Pink City" of Toulouse, participants are welcome to attend with free admission from November 19 to 20 at the INP-ENSEEIHT.

  As sponsors, we are proud to support an event that truly desires to engage all levels of open source knowledge; there are even workshops for children to dabble in! There will be workshops, talks, food trucks, and a LAN Party for open source video game fans. The activities offered will be in French, including all of the talks.

• Representing KDE @ Ubuntu Summit in Prague - Scarlett Gately Moore

  First, I would like to send a big Thank you! to Canonical for sponsoring my trip to Prague for the Ubuntu Summit! It was a great success. I saw some great talks and valuable workshops. I now know how to snap our applications the have daemons and services thanks to the Snapping Daemons and Services workshop. Prague itself is an amazing city. Wow. Just wow. I got to see old friends and meet many new ones. I will take away some wonderful memories. Did I mention a river cruise? Yes! It was great fun.

• GNU Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) retro gaming – Super Nintendo – Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) – MSDOS via RetroArch