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- maallooc 7y agoI hope wireguard improves it’s tooling. It feels a bit crude for me.
- Jonnax 7y agoI guess so. But at the same time. After setting it up to connect into my home network, I'm just surprised at how well it works.
- jamescun 7y agoThe tooling right now is pretty much directly exposing the underlying netlink api, so can seem a little clunky. wg-quick does go someway to making it more userfriendly. WireGuard has been very pro-active at adopting useful abstractions, personally I've used https://github.com/WireGuard/wgctrl-go https://github.com/WireGuard/wgctrl-go to build https://github.com/jamescun/wg-api https://github.com/jamescun/wg-api a JSONRPC server for WireGuard, so expect tooling to improve over time.
- naggie 7y agoI felt the same so I made https://github.com/naggie/dsnet https://github.com/naggie/dsnet -- just a simple CLI tool to add/remove peers, generating config.
- Improvotter 7y agoYou can use networkd to make it easier, if you like using systemd that is.
- jeltz 7y agoDepends on what you are doing. For my use cases I strongly preferred the wireguard tooling to the OpenVPN tooling, but the Wireguard ecosystem is still missing many features.
- jrockway 7y agoI think that people are looking for Wireguard to be something that it isn't. It's a fancy Ethernet cable, that's all. You can build a lot of neat things on top of Ethernet cables, like full networks. But it's not the cable that builds the network, it's just a low-level tool for facilitating that construction. If you want to do something like make a point-to-point VPN, then wg-quick is that layer on top. If you want to build a mesh network from endpoints authenticated with a third-party identity provider, you want something like Tailscale. Wireguard is just a low-level building block that handles the crypto in those use cases; making something high-level is left as an exercise to the reader.
- ihalip 7y agoI'm just a kernel newbie looking at small issues in my free time, but seeing my name in the shortlog feels very rewarding.
- cerberusss 7y agoWell done!
- aytac1 7y agoCongrats!
- elliotpage 7y agoThank you for your hard work!
- zerr 7y ago> in my free time Thank you! To make it even more rewarding for you :) - I remember there was a report mentioning that most of the work on Linux kernel nowadays is done by salaried employees.
- redis_mlc 7y ago> most of the work on Linux kernel nowadays is done by salaried employees. That's been the case for decades, probably since just after Linus released it.
- einpoklum 7y agoWhile announcing Linux 5.6 is relevant to HN, the particular mailing list message regards differences from a previous release candidate. Can someone please explain, in layperson's terms, what has changed from Linux 5.5 (or 5.4) to 5.6?
- catwell 7y agohttps://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.6-The-Best-Features https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5....
- cpach 7y agoOne big thing is that from now on, Wireguard is included in the official Linux kernel. https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2020-March/005206.html https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2020-March/00520...
- the8472 7y agohttps://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges this wiki page currently covers 5.5 but should be updated to 5.6 in the coming days.
- viraptor 7y agoThe version-specific pages are available in draft form before the main one gets updated: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.6 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.6
- einpoklum 7y agoOK, this is the 2-page feature overview: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-56-features&num=1 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-56... Enjoy.
- cesarb 7y agoThe LWN.net announcement post (https://lwn.net/Articles/816213/ https://lwn.net/Articles/816213/) has an overview and links to a few more detailed summaries.
- tracker1 7y agoUpgraded to a system with an X570 motherboard and an RX 5700 XT graphics card... for the most part, since Kernel 5.3, every release has been more stable and mostly better performing... though having to manually download drivers a couple times from the kernel git repo has been a pain, I really appreciate the effort. ----- Rant ahead... If only the front end could button up more... Gnome's blank screen + password seems to have a bug that I didn't have the time/ability to overcome and switched to kde/plasma, which imho is really disjointed as an experience in so many ways. I spent about 4 months mostly in Linux, until a few weeks ago, I had to switch back to windows. As to why the switch back, I couldn't use a VM, as most of the stuff didn't yet support the ahead of LTS kernel I was using, and I needed that for hardware stability. I will say the efforts of the Kernel team consistently impress me, and is a big part of why I target Linux and/or Docker for most of the work that I do. Docker+WSL2 has been nearly the best of both worlds to me. I still have Linux on another drive, so will probably give Elementary's UI a try next.
- Erlich_Bachman 7y agoYou should perhaps try other desktop environments/windows managers. The linux desktop world definitely does not simply end beyond Gnome and KDE. And very few people seem to be enjoying Gnome much at all, it just seems like a poorly designed environment. Nowadays I feel like throwing up at the thought of having to switch back to Windows, even in terms of desktop environment and interface. There are just so many more things one can do with Linux, ways to set up everything the way I want and weird Windows quirks to have to deal with. Especially the amount of extensibility and combinations are amazing. If I like a certain program or widget from one desktop environment, the chances are that I can just run that program while running the other desktop environment, thus combining the total experience into the one that I want. Not every single program can be freely combined of course, but many of them.
- _-___________-_ 7y agoI always disliked Linux on the desktop until I discovered i3 (and now sway). Simple, productive, easy to understand and thus easy to extend. Gnome and KDE feel like bad attempts to recreate macOS or Windows.
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- est31 7y agoLinux 5.6 is getting Wireguard, Linux 5.7 will be getting exfat. It's a great year for the kernel.
- stingraycharles 7y agoWhat is special about exfat? I see it’s a variant of FAT32 that allows for more than 4GB, and is mainly for creating USBs? Does this mean it will improve interop with Windows?
- cosarara 7y agoOne special thing about exfat is that when it gets corrupted you are screwed.
- bipson 7y agoIn difference to ... ?
- guerrilla 7y agofilesystems with redundant superblocks and journals? that is most modern ones I think
- cosarara 7y agoAnd adding to what guerrilla said, it seems to end up bad more easily than fat32, at least in my experience. I only have anecdata for this, but old files appearing as 0 bytes, filesystems that decide they won't mount again, things that I've only had and seen on other people's systems with exfat.
- moonchild 7y agoMost file systems use journaling[1], which allows you to recover from corruption. Some use copy-on-write[2]--most prominently zfs, but also btrfs and, more recently, bcachefs--which almost entirely prevents corruption in the first place. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write#In_computer_storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write#In_computer_stor...
- jasoneckert 7y agoI definitely appreciate how Linus mentioned his daughter identified him as a "social distancing champ" - many of us developers have been practising social distancing long before anyone heard of COVID-19 ;-)
- wffurr 7y agoReminds me of this Penny Arcade comic with a similar sentiment about video game players: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/03/25/bells https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/03/25/bells
- amarshall 7y agohttps://xkcd.com/2276/ https://xkcd.com/2276/
- enjoy-your-stay 7y ago>many of us developers have been practising social distancing long before anyone heard of COVID-19 ;-) I would even argue that we invented the internet to solve exactly that problem, keeping our distance from other meatbags :-)
- hd4 7y agoDoes anyone have any idea/info about the status of upcoming copy-on-write Linux filesystems like bcachefs or btrfs?
- hannob 7y agoIf anyone else - like me - has tried updating the kernel this morning and figured out wifi with an intel card was broken: It seems they broke the iwlwifi driver [1] and here [2] is the patch to fix it. [1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.6-Broken-Intel-IWLWIFI https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.... [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=be8c827f50a0bcd56361b31ada11dc0a3c2fd240 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.g...
- simcop2387 7y agoGood to know. I've been using the rc releases for a bit without issue but will likely run into that immediately when upgrading.
- jimktrains2 7y agoI just got a thinkpad x1 carbon and have similar issues with the intel chipset for wifi and audio with newer kernels as well. Only thinkpad over ever had issues with .
- ktpsns 7y agoI have the same notebook (2019 edition) with Arch linux; everything is fine except audio, which won't work (basically the mic). Since I run every week or second into trouble after upgrading, I already thought about changing the distribution to something more stable, like Ubuntu/Debian. But I doubt my mic will work there :-(
- GTP 7y agoProbably is just a config issue: for some reason this morning the wrong mic was selected as default and the update may have played a role since I don't remember changing it myself, but a quick look at pavucontrol solved the problem. PS: I'm using Arch Linux on a Lenovo too, but not a thinkpad.
- ktpsns 7y ago
- jklinger410 7y agoFeeling a noticeable speed improvement on my Thinkpad running Focal Fossa. Hearing variable fan sounds that I am not used to running on Linux as well. I feel like the fan has been much more active when running Ubuntu as opposed to Windows. Hopefully these new fan sounds hint at less fan usage long-term. Once Fossa gets out of beta and some of the weird GNOME bugs clear up for that release, this will probably be the best Linux/Ubuntu performance in years.
- steelbird 7y ago"So we'll play it by ear and see what happens. It's not like the merge window is more important than your health, or the health of people around you." Very nice.
- Astropop 7y agoLinux overseer Linus Torvalds given the world version 5.6 of the Linux kernel, and been awarded the title "social distancing champ".
- pyuser583 7y agoThat’s nice.