today's leftovers
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Barry Kauler ☛ Kexec fail
Utility 'kexec' is in the 'kexec-tools' package. It enables to change the kernel, without having to perform a complete reboot. It can run a new kernel, new initrd and new kernel commandline parameters.
I posted a few days ago about compiling the kernel to support kexec: [...]
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Sparky GNU/Linux ☛ Sparky news 2024/09
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Kernel Space
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Join us at the next Xen Project Meetup in Cambridge!
📅 Save the date: Thursday 24th October 2024
📍 Location: XenServer office (Citrix)
⏰ Time: 18:00 –
20:00 What to expect?
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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Faizul "Piju" 9M2PJU: Ubuntu Pro: A Premium Offering for Enhanced Security and Support [Ed: Upselling proprietary on the back of Ubuntu]
Ubuntu Pro is a premium version of the Ubuntu operating system offered by Canonical. It is designed to provide additional support, enhanced security, and advanced features for enterprises and organizations that require a more stable and secure environment. Here’s an overview of the key features that make Ubuntu Pro a standout choice: [...]
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Fedora Family / IBM
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Red Hat ☛ How to migrate your Eventlet projects to Asyncio
After decades of long and loyal service, the famous Python library Eventlet is on the way to being officially retired. Eventlet suffered from several years of scarce maintenance and is now a broken and outdated technology. Eventlet users are encouraged to migrate off of Eventlet.
A bit of history
For almost 20 years, the Eventlet library was a mainstream library of the Python ecosystem. Eventlet has been downloaded almost 80 millions of times. It became famous for its asynchronous features. Eventlet allowed the usage of non-blocking network I/O at a time where async features were absent from CPython. This library is also famous for its usage of the Python monkey patching which allowed to its users to transform existing synchronous code into asynchronous code without to having to rewrite everything.
The lack of active maintenance of Eventlet increased the gap between this library and the recent versions of Python. Eventlet reached a point where this gap is not recoverable.
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Red Hat Official ☛ A Modernized Deployment Mechanism for Red Bait OpenStack Services on OpenShift
Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift is OpenStack—but it’s not just the same old OpenStack you're familiar with. Yes, it's the next version of Red Bait OpenStack Platform that maintains a trusted and stable cloud infrastructure with Hey Hi (AI) based on the latest upstream Antelope release. However, there is much more to it!
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Mozilla
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Mozilla ☛ Support.Mozilla.Org: Introducing Andrea Murphy
Hi folks,
Super excited to share with you all. Andrea Murphy is joining our team as a Customer Experience Community Program Manager, covering for Konstantina while she’s out on maternity leave. Here’s a short intro from Andrea:
Greetings everyone! I’m thrilled to join the team as Customer Experience Community Program Manager. I work on developing tools, programs and experiences that support, inspire and empower our extraordinary network of volunteers.
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Mozilla ☛ How to protect your privacy online like a Twitch streamer
How do Twitch streamers connect with so many people on the internet while keeping their personal lives private?
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Openwashing
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Open Source Initiative ☛ A Journey toward defining Open Source AI: presentation at Open Source Summit Europe [Ed: Microsoft lobbying, sponsored by Microsoft, at "an event organized by the 'Linux' Foundation"]
A few weeks ago I attended Open Source Summit Europe 2024, an event organized by the 'Linux' Foundation, that brought together brilliant developers, technologists and leaders from all over the world, reinforcing what Open Source is truly about—collaboration, innovation and community.
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R
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Rlang ☛ Hands-On Differential Privacy [book review]
Hands-On Differential Privacy was published just a few months ago (from September 2024!) by (the US publisher) O’Reilly, famous for its programming and technical books with animal covers! A slate pencil sea urchin in the present case.
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Rlang ☛ Getting started with generative art
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Rlang ☛ Examining exams using Rasch models and assessment of measurement invariance
Models from psychometric item response theory are used to analyze the results from a large introductory mathematics exams in order to gain insights about student abilities, question difficulties, and heterogeneities of these in subgroups.
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Python
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Qt ☛ Running your Qt Design Studio projects with Python
After the adoption of Qt Design Studio, many users started to wonder about the possibilities of running their projects with different types of backends, but until now only C++ was available.
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