today's leftovers
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Has mankind lost it’s ability to learn?
Let me be frank. Once upon the time, was a Windows user. Then was happy to have to use OSX for a transition to GNU Linux.
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[GSoC 2023] VPN Support Project Update #7
Where We Last Left Off
Last post, I left off on the problem where the select functionality was working but there are some problems as it works but not well as the average latency is above 2000ms and when using ping it drops more than 60% of packets on average. For two weeks I was working on this issue but I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with select and given that I was coming up on the deadline of my project, I decided to go with a condition variable approach when reading data from the driver for both the application and interface side. For the application side, it does have a timeout on it so that write can also take place since OpenVPN uses select/poll which will check if both read and write can happen at the same time, and since I am blocking one of them, it would just infinitely block both operations until read was fine. While select functionality is something that should be implemented with the driver, timing was not on my side with this issue so for those who want to take more of a crack at finding out what the problem is, here was how I tested it: [...]
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saptune 3.1 on the Horizon [Ed: SUSE is still promoting SAP and proprietary software, first and foremost]
In a few weeks saptune 3.1 will reach the public repositories of SLES for SAP Applications. Time to talk about the changes and new features.
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Red Hat and Google partnership targets streamlining transition from on-premises to cloud [Ed: So this publisher takes bribes from both Google and Red Hat to promote puff pieces like these; this harms journalism in general]
Red Hat Inc. and Google Cloud have been collaborating for more than 11 years in migrating customers to the cloud platform. At the heart of this partnership is Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or RHEL, which provides an operating system backbone to streamline operations from datacenter to cloud and out to the edge.