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ASG! 2019 CfP Re-Opened!

The All Systems Go! 2019 Call for Participation Re-Opened for ONE DAY! Due to popular request we have re-opened the Call for Participation (CFP) for All Systems Go! 2019

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File Descriptor Limits

TL;DR: don't use select() + bump the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit to the hard limit in your modern programs. The primary way to reference, allocate and pin runtime OS resources on Linux today are file

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Running a Container off the Host /usr/

Apparently, in some parts of this world (https://lwn.net/Articles/890219/), the /usr/-merge transition is still ongoing. Let's take the opportunity to have a look at one specific way to take benefit

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Fitting Everything Together

TLDR: Hermetic /usr/ is awesome; let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset,

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Brave New Trusted Boot World

🔐 Brave New Trusted Boot World 🚀 This document looks at the boot process of general purpose Linux distributions. It covers the status quo and how we envision Linux boot to work in the future

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Linux Boot Partitions

💽 Linux Boot Partitions and How to Set Them Up 🚀 Let’s have a look how traditional Linux distributions set up /boot/ and the ESP, and how this could be improved. How Linux distributions

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ASG! 2023 CfP Closes Soon

The All Systems Go! 2023 Call for Participation Closes in Three Days! The Call for Participation (CFP) for All Systems Go! 2023 (https://all-systems-go.io/) will close in three days, on 7th of July!

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Announcing systemd v256

Yesterday evening we released systemd v256 into the wild. While other projects, such as Firefox (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/127.0/releasenotes/) are just about to leave the 7bit world and

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Announcing systemd v257

Last week we released systemd v257 into the wild (https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2024-December/050995.html). In the weeks leading up to this release (and the week after) I have

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ASG! 2025 CfP Closes Tomorrow!

The All Systems Go! 2025 Call for Participation Closes Tomorrow! The Call for Participation (CFP) for All Systems Go! 2025 (https://all-systems-go.io/) will close tomorrow, on 13th of June! We’d

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Mastodon Stories for systemd v258

Already on Sep 17 we released systemd v258 into the wild (https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2025-September/051670.html). In the weeks leading up to that release I have posted a

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Mastodon Stories for systemd v259

On Dec 17 we released systemd v259 into the wild (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v259). In the weeks leading up to that release (and since then) I have posted a series of serieses

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Introducing Amutable

Today, we announce Amutable, our ✨ new ✨ company. We – @blixtra@hachyderm.io (https://mastodon.social/@blixtra@hachyderm.io), @brauner@mastodon.social (https://mastodon.social/@brauner),

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Playing with Cairo

Play around with Cairo (http://cairographics.org/): Check! One thing that has been sitting on my TODO list for a very long time was playing around with Cairo. No longer! Yesterday I spent a little

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One fring to rule them all...

A while ago (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/fring.html) I played around with Cairo and created a Python tool fring, similar to KDE's Filelight (http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/), however not

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