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Read on to learn how we used network packet captures and BPF to debug web server performance, ultimately uncovering a Linux kernel performance issue. This investigation was a collaboration between myself and my colleagues. Contents We’ve been upgrading the operating … Read more

What is coLinux … “If Linux runs on every architecture, why should another operating system be in its way? ” … Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. … Read more

i’m glad I read this.> >I was in the U.S. for a couple of weeks, so I haven’t commented muchon> >LINUX (not that I would have said much had I been around), but forwhat> >it is worth, I have a … Read more

Having worked “around the clock” to move from Google Cloud Platform after its open source credits there ran out, and now rushing to move off Equinix, Tissoires suggests a new plan: “[H]ave [freedesktop.org] pay for its own servers, and then … Read more

ELKS is a project providing a Linux-like OS for systems based on the Intel IA16 architecture (16-bit processors: 8086, 8088, 80188, 80186, 80286, NEC V20, V30 and compatibles). Such systems are ancient computers (IBM-PC XT / AT and clones) as … Read more

Linux TCP SO_REUSEPORT: Usage and Implementation Improve your server performance using a relatively new feature of the Linux networking stack: the SO_REUSEPORT socket option. By Krishna Kumar HAProxy and NGINX are some of the few applications that use the TCP … Read more

A while ago some Rust / Linux drama hit the news because of tension between people who are pushing for more Rust in the kernel, and those who seem to be opposed to the idea. Reading the opinions of those … Read more