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Probably the biggest change of the Linux 7.1 kernel series is a new NTFS file system implementation, which has been in the works for the last 4 years, featuring full write support with delayed allocation, iomap, and folio integration to improve write performance, better stability, and a new suite of userspace utilities called ntfsprogs-plus.
Linux kernel 7.1 also introduces a new Landlock access right for pathname UNIX domain sockets, thanks to a new LSM hook, improvements to the amd-pstate and intel_idle drivers for better power management, and support for the exFAT file system to preallocate clusters without zeroing to reduce file fragmentation.
Among other changes, Linux kernel 7.1 enables Intel’s Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED) feature by default, introduces CPU Memory (CMEM) Latency PMU support for NVIDIA Tegra410 SoCs, adds BPF fsession support for the IBM System/390 architecture, and adds seccomp() support to the Alpha architecture.
Also worth mentioning is that the ublk user-space block driver received a UBLK_F_SHMEM_ZC feature flag for zero-copy I/O, the CIFS client file system received support for the O_TMPFILE option to create temporary files, and the Ceph file system now has a complete infrastructure for per-subvolume I/O metrics collection and reporting to the MDS.
On top of that, Linux kernel 7.1 adds support for generating and verifying T10 protection information at the file system level, extends support for TCG Storage Opal SSC Single User Mode (SUM) in the sed-opal kernel interface, implements BPF support into the io_uring subsystem, and adds support for multiple tuning algorithms to the DAMON subsystem
I don’t understand what any of this means, but this is good I guess
I’m asking this because I’m convinced this is actually happening.
18·1 month agoMicrosoft has an entire team whose only goal is to prevent European governments from switching to Open Source. They distribute gifts to politicians.
Remember, this is exactly how Microsoft operates in the United States:
Twenty months ago, Representative Billy Tauzin walked into the office of William H. Gates 3rd, chairman of Microsoft, bearing a 10 inch by 10 inch white box and a warning.
Mr. Tauzin, Republican of Louisiana and the chairman of a subcommittee that oversees the telecommunications industry, placed the box on Mr. Gates’s desk. Inside was a lemon meringue pie, a reminder of another pie that had been thrown in Mr. Gates’s face several weeks earlier by a Microsoft critic. The message to Mr. Gates, the richest man on earth and the leader of the digital world, was blunt: You need to make friends in Washington.
Mr. Gates apparently took Mr. Tauzin’s message to heart – with a vengeance. While Microsoft and its executives contributed a relatively modest $60,000 to Republican Party committees in 1997, those contributions shot up to $470,000 as part of the company’s overall political contribution of $1.3 million in 1998. The 1998 figure included donations to political candidates, with the bulk of the money going to Republicans. This year, the company’s contributions of nearly $600,000 have been more evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, according to Federal Election Commission records.
Mr. Gates and his top lieutenants have made dozens of trips to Washington, cultivating powerful figures in both parties and hiring some of the city’s priciest lobbyists. Microsoft has retained Haley Barbour, former chairman of the Republican National Committee; Vic Fazio, a former Democratic congressman from California; Vin Weber, a former Republican congressman from Minnesota; Tom Downey, a former Democratic congressman from New York and a close friend of Vice President Al Gore; Mark Fabiani, former special counsel to the Clinton White House; and Kerry Knott, former chief of staff to Representative Dick Armey of Texas, the House majority leader.
The company also poured millions of dollars into an aggressive public relations and political offensive, hiring an armada of well-connected lobbyists and underwriting the work of research groups, academics and consultants who have made arguments sympathetic to Microsoft’s defense in the antitrust case.
Microsoft has hired as consultant-spokesmen two former heads of the Justice Department’s antitrust division and a dozen or more prominent academics and writers, who publish articles and give interviews advocating Microsoft’s position.
Remember, Trump no longer prosecutes U.S. firms involved in bribery:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c391ml9x878o
Microsoft earns nearly $30 billion annually from Office.
$30 billion dollars are at stake. You think their marketing department doesn’t bribe reviewers to harshly criticize LibreOffice?
The switch to Open Source isn’t going to happen magically.
It’s going to be a long and bitter battle.
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Name 3 Indian people right now?
Narendra Modi. Raoul Gandhi. Gina Gopinath.
Name 3 Russian people right now?
Vladimir Putin. Dimitry Medvedev. Oleg Deripaska.
Name 3 Argentinian people right now?
Lionel Messi. Mauricio Macri. Cristina Kirhsner.
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8·1 month agoThey are social-liberals. They believe a competitive market economy is required to have a sustainable healthcare and welfare system. They believe in climate change but they don’t want extreme measures. They prefer slow measures such as banning plastic or encouraging electric cars. They support Ukraine. They sent aid to Palestine and imposed sanctions on Israeli settlers but don’t believe the problems of the Middle East can ever be fixed by outsiders. They support nuclear technology. They support legal abortion. They oppose death penalty.
Leftists see Renaissance as right-wing / extreme-right.
The extreme-right sees them as leftists.
1411·1 month agoHere she is next to Zuck.
Now he is trying to destroy her.
If you want to know what it’s like to run a social media empire, I highly recommend reading her book. It’s terrific and entertaining.
In fact, everyone should buy her book
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Most polisaring figure on the French left.
There are two kind of people in France. Those who really like him. And those who don’t.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Mélenchon#Controversies
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The kind of people who vote for her don’t do that kind of deep research.
On the 3th of october 2023, the newspaper Le Monde published an extremely well-writen investigation about her behavior. Because she is the girlfriend of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, her party boss, she doesn’t hesitate to humiliate people:
On the 6th of october, 3 days later, Jean-Luc Mélenchon was visiting Morocco. Believing he was far from any french journalists, he made this confession to Moroccan students:
I don’t care about what’s in the press. Who reads newspapers? People prefer to watch our viral videos. We are in the amazing age of social media
Chikirou is not left. She is a tankie nutjob.
🔴 She is know for screaming on her assistants
🔴 In parliament, she voted against aid to Ukraine, arguing “This would be bad for peace”
🔴 She said China isn’t a dictatorship
🔴 She paid tribute to the leader of Hamas
🔴 She compared socialists to insects that must be crushed
Last but not the least, she is criminally indicted for financial fraud:
This is a woman so toxic that nobody wants to associate with her.
When she joined the race, she said her main goal is to make sure the socialist loses:
Because they are also getting lavishly paid.
I have been on 20 public company corporate boards, not counting any Berkshire subsidiaries. So, I’ve seen a lot of corporate boards operate. And the independent directors, in many cases, are the least independent
I mean, if the income you receive as a corporate director â which typically may be around $250,000 a year now, if that’s an important part of your income, and you hope that some other corporation calls the CEO and says, “How’s so-and-so as a director?” and the current CEO â your CEO says, “Oh, he’s fine and never raises any problems,” and then you get on another board at 250,000 and that’s an important part, how in the world is that independent? I mean, I really, just an observation
They’re just not going to upset the apple cart, because what they’re â and I’d probably behave the same way in the same position. I mean, if $250,000 a year is important to you, why in the hell would you behave in a way that’s going to cause your CEO to say to the next CEO, “This guy acts up a little bit too much. You really better get somebody else.” It’s the way it works
- Warren Buffet
(As of 2026, Buffet’s estimated net worth stood at $145.9 billion)