Articles and News

CentOS Project Shifts Focus to CentOS Stream

»CentOS Linux 8, as a rebuild of RHEL 8, will end at the end of 2021. CentOS Stream continues after that date, serving as the upstream (development) branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.«

https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

marcan Is Creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs

Without a doubt, Apple’s M1 is the most interesting SoC of the last years. Hector Martin “marcan” runs a Patreon campaign to bring Linux to the Apple Silicon Macs.

https://www.patreon.com/marcan

Thread-Per-Core Buffer Management for a Modern Kafka-API Storage System

Redpanda is a Kafka-API compatible system that can distribute mission-critical workloads across many-core systems. This article gives a detailed look into the systems architecture.

https://vectorized.io/blog/tpc-buffers/

Bulk Loading Into PostgreSQL

The author compares the different options to bulk load data into PostgreSQL.

https://www.highgo.ca/2020/12/08/bulk-loading-into-postgresql-options-and-comparison/

Projects and Releases

Kubernetes 1.20

  • Volume Snapshot Operations Goes Stable
  • Kubectl Debug Graduates to Beta
  • Beta: API Priority and Fairness
  • Dockershim Deprecation
  • Exec Probe Timeout Handling

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/12/08/kubernetes-1-20-release-announcement/

Rocky Linux

»Rocky Linux is a community enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Enterprise Linux, now that CentOS has shifted direction.«

http://rockylinux.org/

Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL

With Babelfish for PostgreSQL, applications written for Microsoft SQL Server can talk to a Postgres backend without changing the database drivers.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/want-more-postgresql-you-just-might-like-babelfish/

Tectonic

»Tectonic is a modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.«

https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/

Qt 6

Qt 6.0 is the first release of the new major version. Areas of improvement:

  • Leveraging C++17
  • Next-generation QML
  • New graphics architecture
  • Unified 2D and 3D for Qt Quick
  • CMake build system

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.0-released

CentOS Linux 8 (2011)

CentOS Linux 8 (2011), derived from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.3 source code, was released. If you consider using CentOS 8 in production, keep in mind that maintenance support now ends in 2021.

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-December/035874.html

kalk

kalk is a command-line calculator.

https://kalk.dev/

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