January 6, 2022
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In 1992, the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) was introduced in Unix circles as a new, improved network packet filter. Nice, but not that big a deal. Then, in 2014, it was changed and brought into the Linux kernel as extended BPF (eBPF). Again, … Continue reading
January 3, 2022
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Last year, Linux’s source code came to a whopping 27.8 million lines of code. It’s only gotten bigger since then. Like any 30-year old software project, Linux has picked up its fair share of cruft over the years. Now, after months of … Continue reading
December 9, 2021
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The end of CentOS 8 Linux has been coming for awhile now, and the day is finally here. On December 31, 2021, Red Hat‘s CentOS Linux 8 will reach End Of Life (EOL). Since that falls right in the heart of the holiday season, … Continue reading
November 8, 2021
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Well, that took long enough! But, what’s this? The lawsuit still lingers on in one last case from the company that bought SCO’s Unix operating systems. While at the Linux Foundation Members Summit in Napa, California, I was bemused to find that … Continue reading
January 20, 2021
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When Red Hat announced it was switching up CentOS Linux from a stable Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone to a rolling Linux distribution, which would become the next minor RHEL update, many CentOS users were upset. Now, to appease some of those users, Red Hat is introducing no-cost … Continue reading
July 1, 2020
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Linux Mint recently released its latest long-term support (LTS) version of its popular desktop Linux desktop, Linux Mint 20, “Ulyana.” This edition, based on Canonical‘s Ubuntu 20.04, is, once more, an outstanding Linux desktop distribution. Linux Mint 20: Still the best Linux desktop despite one … Continue reading