GNU/Linux Leftovers
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Linuxiac ☛ Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 8 (Feb 17 – 23, 2025)
Catch up on the latest GNU/Linux news: Ubuntu 24.04.2, Plasma 6.3.1, COSMIC Alpha 6, Pi-hole 6, NVIDIA vs AMD, Docker Hub drops pull consumption fees, and more.
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Kernel Space
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Jeff Geerling ☛ Benchmarking multiple network interfaces at once in Linux with iperf3
Recently, I've been working on a Pi router build with multiple 2.5 Gbps Ethernet ports using Radxa's Dual 2.5G Router HAT.
I wanted a simple way to check on total network TCP throughput using both interfaces (or really, as many interfaces as possible) to multiple computers on my network, and I noticed iperf3's --bind option (like --bind [ip address of interface]) was not splitting the traffic on both interfaces—it would just route all traffic through one!
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Desktop Environments/WMs
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Linuxiac ☛ IceWM 3.7 Window Manager Brings Enhanced Customization
Eight months after its previous 3.6 release, IceWM, the lightweight window manager for the X Window System, favored for its minimal resource usage and high configurability, has released its latest version, 3.7.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Fedora Family / IBM
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Simon Ser ☛ Simon Ser: Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit
For my day job, I need to build and run a Docker Compose project. However, because Docker doesn’t play well with nftables and I prefer a rootless + daemonless approach, I’m using Podman.
Podman supports Docker Compose projects with two possible solutions: either by connecting the official Docker Compose CLI to a Podman socket, either by using their own drop-in replacement. They ship a small wrapper to select one of these options. (The wrapper has the same name as the replacement, which makes things confusing.)
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