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Operating Systems Leftovers
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Kernel Space
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LWN ☛ The future of 32-bit support in the kernel
The world is not all desktops — or servers — though; embedded Linux exists as well. About 90% of those systems are running on Arm processors. The kernel has accumulated a lot of devicetree files describing those systems over the years; only in this last year has the number of devicetrees for armv8 (64-bit) systems exceeded the number for armv7 (32-bit) systems.
For Arm processors with pre-armv7 architectures, there are only three for which it is still possible to buy hardware, but a number are still supported by the kernel community: [...]
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Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)
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GNOME Desktop/GTK
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GNOME ☛ Christian Hergert: Asynchronous IO with Libdex
Previously, previously, and previously.
The Gio.IOStream Hey Hi (AI) already provide robust support for asynchronous IO. The common API allows for different types of implementation based on the stream implementation.
Libdex provides wrappers for various APIs. Coverage is not complete but we do expect additional Hey Hi (AI) to be covered in future releases.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Dave DeGraw ☛ Use 86Box for Windows 98 Gaming
I really love 86Box! However, learning how to use it was quite daunting. I was just little kid using the family’s computer to play games. I don’t know anything about BIOS configuration or Windows setup/maintinence. I just want to play some games and use old software.
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Rodrigo Ghedin ☛ The family computer
We’re in the “post‑PC” era, a term that accurately describes how phones — the true universal computer — ran over the desktop.
The Cetic household ICT survey (TIC Domicílios) gives a clear picture of that shift: in 2023, 99% of Brazilians accessed the [Internet] via mobile phone, while only 41.5% did so via a computer.
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Fedora Family / IBM
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LinuxConfig ☛ Red Hat Launches RHEL 10 Featuring AI-Powered Administration and Quantum Security [Ed: so many buzzwords]
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