Debian Developers on Bullseye, exfat-fuse, Hyper Threading, and Git
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Louis-Philippe Véronneau: Goodbye Bullseye — report from the Montreal 2023 BSP
Hello World! I haven't really had time to blog here since the start of the semester, as I've been pretty busy at work1.
All this to say, this report for the Bug Squashing Party we held in Montreal last weekend is a little late, sorry :)
First of all, I'm pleased to announce our local community seems to be doing great and has recovered from the pandemic-induced lull. May COVID stay away from our bodies forever.
This time around, a total of 9 people made it to what has become somewhat of a biennial tradition2. We worked on a grand total of 14 bugs and even managed to close some!
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Sven Hoexter: exfat-fuse 1.4 in experimental
I know a few people hold on to the exFAT fuse implementation due the support for timezone offsets, so here is a small update for you. Andrew released 1.4.0, which includes the timezone offset support, which was so far only part of the git master branch.
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Russell Coker: Hyper Threading on the E5-2696v3
I just did some quick tests of hyper-threading on my new E5-2696v3 CPU. I compiled the Linux 6.0.10 kernel with and without hyper-threading enabled. Here’s the times for “make -j36 bzImage” and “make -j36 modules” with HT enabled:
real 2m26.540s user 55m25.121s sys 9m56.443s
real 10m57.374s user 309m21.531s sys 58m1.070s -
Ian Jackson: Never use git submodules
tl;dr
git submodules are always the wrong solution. Yes, even the to the problem they were specifically invented to solve.