Articles and News

An Update on Developments With DNS-over-HTTPS

This article covers the state of DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), its current implementations, why there are privacy concerns. The conclusion is that there is still more work needed.

https://blog.apnic.net/2020/10/30/an-update-on-developments-with-dns-over-https/

Complexity in Operating Systems

This blog post identifies three sources for operating system complexity. I’m interested in the follow-up posts the author announces.

https://x86.lol/generic/2020/10/30/complexity-in-operating-systems.html

10 Years of OpenStack at CERN - Part 1

This blog post is the first part of a series on OpenStack usage at CERN.

https://techblog.web.cern.ch/techblog/post/10-years-of-openstack-at-cern-part-1/

What’s in a Linux Executable?

This article is an in-depth dive into the anatomy of Linux binaries.

https://fasterthanli.me/series/making-our-own-executable-packer/part-1

Return to Plan 9

The author gives insight into the basic concepts of Plan 9.

https://boxbase.org/entries/2020/nov/1/return-to-plan9/

Releases and Projects

FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE

FreeBSD 12.2 comes with a lot of userland and Kernel improvements and updates. LLVM 10 is now the default compiler toolchain; the jail utility allows running Linux in a jailed environment.

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.2R/relnotes.html

Fedora 33

In Fedora 33, BTRFS is now the default file system in the desktop version, Fedora IoT now promoted to Edition status. All editions come with up-to-date software packages.

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-33/

RHEL 8.3

This Red Hat Enterprise Linux release comes with Podman 2.0, expanded System Roles, an updated tuned and Intel TSX disabled by default.

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/latest-version-red-hat-enterprise-linux-8-extends-linux-foundation-digital-transformation

OpenIndiana 2020.10

New and noteworthy in this release: bhyve, updated Mate desktop environment, and GCC 10 support.

https://www.openindiana.org/2020/11/01/openindiana-hipster-2020-10-is-here/

NixOS 20.09

This release adds 7349, updates 14442, and removes 8181 packages.

https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes.html#sec-release-20.09

Grafana Tempo

Grafana Tempo is an open-source distributed tracing backend, deeply integrated with Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki. It can be used with open-source tracing protocols like Jaeger, Zipkin, and OpenTelemetry.

https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/

Wireshark 3.4.0

A new version of the popular network protocol analyzer with support for new protocols was released.

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-3.4.0.html

youtube-dl v2020.11.01

A new minor release of the great video-downloading tool is available.

https://youtube-dl.org

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