Tag: programming
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HacktoberFest 2025!
Hacktoberfest 2025: Contribute to Open Source! October means Hacktoberfest—the global celebration of open source. Organized by DigitalOcean and partners, this event encourages developers to contribute to projects they use and support. (VanLUG thanks our Event Sponsor, Z-Space Vancouver! Co-working spaces where Art and Technology meet. Follow them here.) Open source thrives on collaboration. In 2024,…
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Could Linux Lower Energy Use?
Two computer scientists at the University of Waterloo in Canada believe changing 30 lines of code in Linux “could cut energy use at some data centers by up to 30 percent,” according to the site Data Centre Dynamics. “… It’s the code that processes packets of network traffic, and Linux “is the most widely used…
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StackOverflow Traffic Slows
Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant?Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in 2009 – which was when StackOverflow was one years old. The volume of questions asked on StackOverflow started to fall quickly after ChatGPT was released in November 2022, and the drop continues…
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Linux Kernel Doubles in Size
Linux kernel source expands beyond 40 million lines – it has doubled in size in a decade. Milestone passed with the debut of Linux 6.14 rc1. It seemed inevitable that the Linux kernel sources would expand beyond 40 million lines early this year. Linux 6.13 was released early in January 2025, with 39,819,522 lines, and…
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Rust haters, unite! Fil-C aims to Make C Great Again
Developers looking to continue working in the C and C++ programming languages amid the global push to promote memory-safe programming now have another option that doesn’t involve learning Rust. Filip Pizlo, senior director of language engineering at Epic Games, has created his own memory-safe flavor of C and – because why not? – named it…
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Running Linux on Intel 4004!
There’s no lower spec linux machine than this one! It’s not uncommon for a new distro version to come out, and a grudging admission that maybe a faster laptop is on the cards. Perhaps after seeing this project though, you’ll never again complain about that two-generations-ago 64-bit multi-core behemoth, because [Dimitri Grinberg] — who else!…
