Weekly Digest – Week 11, 2021
Articles and News
RHEL in Your Car?
Red Hat is currently building an automotive infotainment team.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RHEL-Car-Infotainment-Team
#automotive #red-hat
The Most Popular Databases ‒ 2006/2021
Based on the TOPDB Top Database index, this post gives an overview of the most widely used DBMS since 2006.
https://statisticsanddata.org/data/the-most-popular-databases-2006-2021/
#database #dbms
PDF: Porting OpenBSD to RISC-V ISA
Paper on the efforts of porting OpenBSD to the RISC-V ISA.
#risc-v #openbsd
Seagate’s Roadmap: The Path to 120 TB Hard Drives
This article summarizes Seagate’s long-term HDD technology roadmap.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16544/seagates-roadmap-120-tb-hdds
#hdd
PDF: Prototyping an Onboard Scheduler for the Mars 2020 Rover
This paper describes the prototype for the onboard scheduler of the Mars 2020 rover.
https://ai.jpl.nasa.gov/public/documents/papers/rabideau_iwpss2017_prototyping.pdf
#VxWorks #bsd #mars-rover
Video: What’s New in FreeBSD 13.0
»FreeBSD 13.0 comes out at the end of March. Take a look at what’s new in the upcoming release.«
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZDD-ENdJgg
#freebsd
New Old Bugs in the Linux Kernel
This post takes a deep dive into several bugs inside the iSCSI subsystem of the Linux kernel.
https://blog.grimm-co.com/2021/03/new-old-bugs-in-linux-kernel.html
#iscsi #kernel
Releases and Projects
Git 2.31
The git maintenance command is probably the most notable feature of this newest release of Git.
https://github.blog/2021-03-15-highlights-from-git-2-31/
#git #type:release
Awesome .NET Performance
A curated list of .NET Performance resources.
https://github.com/adamsitnik/awesome-dot-net-performance
#dot-net #dot-net-performance #learning
Buildroot
Buildroot is a simple, efficient, and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation.
#linux #embedded #cross-compilation
Toolbox
Toolbox is a tool for containerized command-line environments based on Podman.
https://github.com/containers/toolbox
#container #podman
Focalboard
Focalboard is an open-source, self-hosted project management software.
#project-management #task-management #self-hosted #kanban
Plausible Analytics
Plausible is a privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics, compliant with GDPR.
#web-analytics
Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme
ssss is a practical implementation of a secret sharing scheme, a method for distributing a secret amongst a group of participants.
http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/
#sharing-scheme #cryptography
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