I'm just a kernel newbie looking at small issues in my free time, but seeing my name in the shortlog feels very rewarding.
I'm happy for you, keep doing what you love in your free time!
Linux 5.6
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Re: Linux 5.6
#112Linux overseer Linus Torvalds given the world version 5.6 of the Linux kernel, and been awarded the title "social distancing champ".
Re: Linux 5.6
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, I think you're right. In that case, it certainly wasn't the case back when Linux started. Intel and Redhat are the biggest contributors according to the Linux Kernel Development Report from 2017: Intel 10,833 13.1% none 6,819 8.2% Red Hat 5,965 7.2% So, "none", although it's the second biggest category, only accounts for 8.2% of contributions.
A lot of kernel developers hide who pays their bills.
Unless they also falsely declare the employers it should not be more than 8.2%
Re: Linux 5.6
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Glitches like this are very infrequent if you run well chosen hardware. 1 point sample here but I never manage to get reliable WiFi on a NUC6i7KYK. Hardware that should be included in the “well known” category.
Sometimes even this fails, what can I say. Ubuntu runs a certification program. I wish there was an independent party certifying hardware for Linux. And they looked into all the details, such as battery discharge triggering ACPI events, 802.11 functions supported by wireless card and things like that.
> Sometimes even this fails, what can I say.
Not blaming you :D
Re: Linux 5.6
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
One special thing about exfat is that when it gets corrupted you are screwed.
In difference to ... ?
Most file systems use journaling[1], which allows you to recover from corruption. Some use copy-on-write[2]--most prominently zfs, but also btrfs and, more recently, bcachefs--which almost entirely prevents corruption in the first place.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write#In_computer_stor...
Re: Linux 5.6
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Being worried about the current trajectory of macOS, I’ve been thinking more and more about Linux and imagining how far it must have come since I last used it in the early 2000s. Reading things like this really dampen my enthusiasm for trying Linux again.
I recently put Linux on a MacBook Air. It’s the same as it’s ever been - extremely finicky and time consuming to get all your stuff working smoothly. Requires scouring random bug reports, stack overflow etc to find all the little work arounds. This is for what I consider critical stuff: network drivers, suspend/sleep, power management, display brightness etc. My impression is that it is not any more or less of a mess…
What MacBook Air version?
Re: Linux 5.6
#117That’s nice.
Re: Linux 5.6
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I only did some small fixes for building the kernel with the clang compiler. Probably the most confusing thing when getting started is finding something to work on. There's no real centralized issue tracker/TODO list/ideas list - discussion happens mostly in mailing lists [0][1] for specific topics. If you follow the discussion on YOUR_FAVORITE_TOPIC long enough you should be able to find easy work items, people able…
Finding where to start was the precise issue I looked to solve by setting up that issue tracker. And by being patient, leaving low hanging fruit, taking the time to file issues (explain, demonstrate, guide, enable), we've been able to help many people including yourself make their first contributions to Linux and LLVM. I'm proud of you, Ilie!
Honestly, probably the hardest part of Open source ATM. Contributing to a project is, frankly, super intimidating. Doubly so when it is something as important as the Kernel.
Re: Linux 5.6
#119I'm just a kernel newbie looking at small issues in my free time, but seeing my name in the shortlog feels very rewarding.
Small issues are nonetheless important to many users all over the world, thank you for taking the time and using your knowledge.
Re: Linux 5.6
#120I hope wireguard improves it’s tooling. It feels a bit crude for me.
I think that people are looking for Wireguard to be something that it isn't. It's a fancy Ethernet cable, that's all. You can build a lot of neat things on top of Ethernet cables, like full networks. But it's not the cable that builds the network, it's just a low-level tool for facilitating that construction.
If you want to do something like make a point-to-point VPN, then wg-quick is that layer on top. If you want to build a mesh network from endpoints authenticated with a third-party identity provider, you want something like Tailscale. Wireguard is just a low-level building block that handles the crypto in those use cases; making something high-level is left as an exercise to the reader.