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[$] 25 years of Buildroot Buildroot maintainer Peter Korsgaard
gave a presentation about the long history of the build tool for embedded
Linux systems at the 2026 Embedded
Linux Conference Europe. In it, he covered more than just the past 25
years, looking at the current status of the project as well as what to
expect in Buildroot's future. It was an interesting view inside this long-running project that
has been a mainstay of the embedded-Linux world throughout almost all of
this century. |
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Announcing XRAID: declustered parity RAID for zoned XFS Christoph Hellwig has announced the
initial public release of XRAID—declustered parity RAID that is integrated
into XFS.
The two primary aims of XRAID are to support parity RAID on zoned devices
like SMR hard drives, and to provide a fast RAID implementation without
inherent data integrity problems. XRAID, just like zoned XFS also works
on conventional hard drives and SSDs. Optimizing for SSD performance has
not been a focus, but even without that, writes are up to 20 times faster
than mdrai… |
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Security updates for Friday Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, firefox, gcc, grafana, grafana-pcp, gstreamer1, gstreamer1-plugins-base, java-1.8.0-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt, libimobiledevice, mingw-libpng, nginx:1.24, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, perl-CGI, perl-DBI, qt5-qtbase, tigervnc, vim, and xorg-x11-server), Debian (apache2, c-ares, linux-6.12, node-shell-quote, nova, parted, postgresql-17, python-django, sympa, and tomcat10), Fedora (cockpit, erlang-ssl_verify_fun, httpd, igniti… |
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