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RAID doesn’t work! | securitypitfalls edit / delete

Testing md RAID5 over dm-integrity (spoiler: it does actually work).

to dm linux raid storage ... on 09 December 2018

RISC_OS_Dev edit / delete

A port of RiscOS to run as a Linux userspace process. This is a horrible hack and also pretty neat.

to acorn linux os retrocomputing riscos ... on 02 November 2018

Willy Tarreau's stuff: Look back to an end-of-life LTS kernel : 3.10 edit / delete

"The end of the 3.10 branch is a good opportunity to have a look back at how that worked, and to remind some important rules regarding how to choose a kernel for your products, or the risks associated with buying products running unmaintained kernels."

to kernel linux lts security software-engineering support ... on 05 November 2017

Gemini PDA Android & Linux keyboard mobile device | Indiegogo edit / delete

Psion 5-style PDA with a real keyboard using a modern processor. Unfortunately I suspect this is going to suffer from poor kernel support, since they've chosen Mediatek...

to gemini keyboard linux mediatek pda ... on 14 September 2017

The Pyra | Official Pyra and Pandora Site edit / delete

Followup to the Pandora: an open-hardware PDA with game controls and a physical keyboard. Like all of these projects, it is Not Cheap.

to computer linux mobile open-hardware pandora pda pyra ... on 12 September 2017

homebrewserver.club edit / delete

"A monthly gathering for those who (wish to) host their own online services from home, rather than using commercial and privacy unfriendly alternatives." Quite XMPP-focussed.

to linux server software xmpp ... on 05 April 2017

gittup.org: [Wicked cool tagline.] edit / delete

"This is an entire(-ish) linux distribution in git. Everything is built with tup." tup being a make-backwards build tool.

to build-systems distribution linux ... on 24 December 2016

CRIU edit / delete

"Using this tool, you can freeze a running application (or part of it) and checkpoint it as a collection of files on disk. You can then use the files to restore the application and run it exactly as it was during the time of freeze."

to checkpoint linux software ... on 14 October 2016

iosnoop For Linux edit / delete

"How does this work? It's just a shell script!" Linux's ftrace facility turns out to be surprisingly capable... and there are a whole load of neat scripts that use it in perf-tools.

to debugging ftrace linux perf performance tracing ... on 14 October 2016

so hey, usb chipsets totally matter | Crime and the Blog of Evil edit / delete

Some comments on the choice of USB chipsets for USB audio: apparently you can get substantially better latency with an OHCI chipset.

to audio latency linux usb ... on 01 September 2016