GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 04, 2025

• Desktop/Laptop

  • Neowin ☛ ESET recommends installing GNU/Linux if your unsupported backdoored Windows 11 PC can't update from 10

    ESET has suggested that users who are unable to update to backdoored Windows 11 due to unsupported hardware can try switching to Linux.

• Kernel Space

  • Abhinav Upadhyay ☛ Linux Context Switching Internals: Process State and Memory

    Context switching is necessary for a high-throughput and responsive system where all processes make progress despite limited execution resources. But, as we discussed in the previous article, it also has performance costs which cascade through various indirect mechanisms, such as cache and TLB eviction.

    When building performance-critical systems or debugging performance issues due to context switching, it becomes important to understand the internal implementation details to be able to reason through the performance issues and possibly mitigate them. Not only that, it leads you to learn many low-level details about the hardware architecture, and makes you realize why the kernel is so special.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Bryan Lunduke ☛ Are There Any Non-Woke Operating Systems?

    Windows, macOS, Linux... they're all woke. What's left?

  • BSD

    • DragonFly BSD ☛ git: mail(1): Catch SIGWINCH to adapt to terminal size changes

      Turn setscreensize() into a signal handler for SIGWINCH. [...]

  • Lawsuits and IBM

    • Yahoo News ☛ Endicott issues statement on IBM lawsuit

    • GlobalFoundries and IBM resolve legal battles

      GlobalFoundries and IBM announced on January 2, 2025, that they had settled their ongoing legal battles, which included claims of breach of contract, trade secrets, and intellectual property disputes.

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ IBM and GlobalFoundries settle lawsuits over chipmaking tech given to defective chip maker Intel and Rapidus

      GlobalFoundries and I.C.B.M. settle all litigations, including those that covered IBM's work with defective chip maker Intel and Rapidus.

    • State-Owned AI Firm BEDI Appoints Former IBM Executive Xie Dong as CTO

      A state-owned AI company has appointed a former IBM China executive as its chief technology officer (CTO), reflecting a growing trend of Chinese firms attracting talent as multinational corporations scale back operations in the country.