Earlier today I gave a presentation at the Technical University Berlin about things you need to know, things you should expect and things you shouldn't expect when your are aspiring to become a
Here's a mail we just sent to LKML (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1200272), for your consideration. Enjoy: Subject: A Plumber’s Wish List for Linux We’d like to share our current
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Google announced today that they'll be shutting down Google Code Search in January (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-sweep.html). I am quite sure that this would be a massive loss for the
#nocomments yes I am currently collecting (https://plus.google.com/115547683951727699051/posts/SuTUvbcJ6p9) questions for the kernel developer panel at LinuxCon in Prague
Nice one, Google suspended my Google+ account because I created it under, well, my name, which is "Lennart Poettering", and Google+ thinks that wasn't my name, even though it says so in my passport,
Two weeks ago we published a Plumber's Wishlist for Linux (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/plumbers-wishlist.html). So far, this has already created lively discussions in the community (as reported
If you make it to Prague the coming week for the LinuxCon/ELCE/GStreamer/Kernel Summit/... superconference, make sure not to miss: • The Linux Audio BoF with numerous Linux audio hackers, 5pm, on
At the Kernel Summit in Prague last week Kay Sievers and I lead a session on developing shared userspace libraries, for kernel hackers. More and more userspace interfaces of the kernel (for example
At LinuxCon Europe/ELCE I had the chance to moderate the kernel hackers panel with Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Paul McKenney and Thomas Gleixner on stage
In the past weeks we have been working on a major new addition to systemd that will hopefully positively change the Linux ecosystem in a number of ways. But see for yourself, check out the full
Arun put an awesome article up (http://arunraghavan.net/2012/01/pulseaudio-vs-audioflinger-fight/), detailing how PulseAudio compares to Android's AudioFlinger in terms of power consumption and
Here's the (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/inetd.html) twelfth (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/instances.html) installment (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/on-etc-sysinit.html) of
Last October we published a wishlist for plumbing related features (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/plumbers-wishlist-2.html) we'd like to see added to the Linux kernel. Three months later it's time
One of the features of Fedora 17 is the /usr merge (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove), put forward by Harald Hoyer and Kay Sievers[1]. In the time since this feature has been proposed
One of the new configuration files systemd introduced is /etc/os-release. It replaces the multitude of per-distribution release files[1] with a single one. Yesterday we decided to drop
A number of Linux distributions have recently switched (or started switching) to /tmp on tmpfs by default (ArchLinux, Debian among others). Other distributions have plans/are discussing doing the
In case you haven't submitted your talk proposal for GUADEC 2012 in A Coruña, Spain yet, hurry: the deadline is on April 14th, i.e. this saturday! Read der Call for Participation!
TL;DR: systemd (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/) does not require the performance-sensitive bits of Linux control groups enabled in the kernel. However, it does require some
There's one feature In the upcoming Fedora 17 release that is immensly useful but very little known, since its feature page 'ckremoval' (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ckremoval) does not