Vancouver Linux Users Group
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Making a Linux-managed Network Switch
Sometimes the custom 5-port gigabit switch_is_the solution. Network switches are simple devices, packets go in, packets go out. Luckily people have figured out how to make it complicated instead and invented managed switches. Usually this is done by adding a web-interface for configuring the settings and see things like port status. If you have more…
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Dev runs Linux… on Google Cloud?!
Purdue University computer science student, Sambhav S. has achieved an extraordinary technical feat: getting a full Linux distro to boot directly from Google Drive. It all started when a friend managed the already impressive feat of booting Linux from a Network File System. But being a self-proclaimed competitive soul, Sambhav decided to go bigger. In…
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RISC-V: Hot Plugging!
RISC-V chips will support replacing RAM sticks without powering off the system — hot plugging functionality arriving in newer flavors of Linux. RISC-V gets a feature that may prove integral to future server and enterprise implementations. According to a report from Phoronix, version 6.11 of the mainline Linux kernel, which seems set to launch soon,…
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CISA to Re-do C/C++ Projects with Rust
So, so many lines of memory-unsafe routines in crucial open source, and unsafe dependencies. The US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has analyzed 172 critical open source projects and found that more than half contain code written in languages like C and C++ that are not naturally memory safe. What’s more, projects written…
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30 Years of Open Source Lessons from FreeDOS
Jim Hall is an open source software developer and advocate since 1993. Jim has authored, contributed to, or maintained dozens of open source projects. He is probably best known for his work on the FreeDOS Project, and for usability testing in open source software. He shares his lessons from all these years of working with…
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Open Source Challenger to VS Code Appears
Open Source ‘Eclipse Theia IDE’ Exits Beta to Challenge Visual Studio Code. Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation’s Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft’s similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it shares much tech. The Eclipse Theia IDE, part of the Eclipse Cloud DevTools…
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