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by corbet 8y ago
The Galaxy S and Galaxy Nexus both got major version bumps. Old history at this point, but it does show that this can happen... ( https://lwn.net/Articles/738225/ )
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by corbet 8y ago
The Shockwave Rider, by John Brunner. Read it, compare it to the Internet we have today, and marvel at all he was able to foresee back in 1975.
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PEP 572 and decision-making in Python(lwn.net)
131 points by corbet 8y ago|12 comments
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by corbet 8y ago
I would dispute the claim that PostgreSQL has been so heavily criticized. Instead, the project was invited to send a representative to the Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit ( https://lwn.net/Articles&#x
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Finding Spectre vulnerabilities with smatch(lwn.net)
1 points by corbet 8y ago|0 comments
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Accelerating networking with AF_XDP(lwn.net)
4 points by corbet 9y ago|0 comments
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by corbet 9y ago
I came here to recommend 1491, it's a mind-blowing book in general. (Guns, Germs, and Steel is also good).
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How Meltdown and Spectre affected the open-source community(lwn.net)
1 points by corbet 9y ago|0 comments
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20 Years of LWN(lwn.net)
307 points by corbet 9y ago|19 comments
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The trouble with text-only email(lwn.net)
191 points by corbet 9y ago|152 comments
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by corbet 9y ago
A fascinating talk on this subject was given in the Long Now series a little while back: http://longnow.org/seminars/02013/jan/17/statues-walked-what... . Highly recommended.
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Safety-critical realtime with Linux(lwn.net)
118 points by corbet 9y ago|39 comments
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by corbet 9y ago
LWN's coverage of this patch: https://lwn.net/Articles/666509/
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Ripples from Stack Clash(lwn.net)
2 points by corbet 9y ago|0 comments
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by corbet 9y ago
If you want more information on how Linux namespaces work, there's an extensive series of articles on LWN at https://lwn.net/Articles/531114/
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by corbet 9y ago
He seems to have missed the health care portability act signed during the Clinton administration. That fixed the "health insurance ties you to a single job" problem. As I understand it, even the current crowd isn't trying t
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Inside the OpenChain 1.1 specification(lwn.net)
3 points by corbet 9y ago|0 comments
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by corbet 9y ago
I did a review of Maru OS last year: https://lwn.net/Articles/684010/
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The great leap backward(lwn.net)
2 points by corbet 9y ago|0 comments
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New approaches to network fast paths(lwn.net)
2 points by corbet 9y ago|0 comments
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The review gap(lwn.net)
1 points by corbet 10y ago|0 comments
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2038: Only 21 years away(lwn.net)
682 points by corbet 10y ago|315 comments
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by corbet 10y ago
This work actually began in 2014... https://lwn.net/Articles/715716/
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Why companies don't do GPL enforcement(lwn.net)
98 points by corbet 10y ago|95 comments
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The case of the prematurely freed SKB(lwn.net)
1 points by corbet 10y ago|0 comments
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Moving Git past SHA-1(lwn.net)
2 points by corbet 10y ago|0 comments
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User-space networking with Snabb(lwn.net)
1 points by corbet 10y ago|0 comments
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by corbet 10y ago
The purpose of the article was certainly not to try to change your mind. I saw a talk by a FreeBSD core team member that I thought was interesting, so I wrote about it. Are you saying LWN should not venture into *BSD space?
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by corbet 10y ago
LWN.net | https://lwn.net/ | Writer/editor | Remote | full-time or freelance LWN.net is (IMHO) the premier news site for the free and open-source development community. We are looking for a top-quality writer/edi
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From free software to liberal software(lwn.net)
2 points by corbet 10y ago|0 comments

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