Posts
4417Following
315Followers
470OpenPGP: 3AB05486C7752FE1
repeated
Michael Piotrowski
mxp@mastodon.acm.org
Since there seems to be renewed interest in #CDE, I thought I'd have a look at the my CDE utilities from back then, which led me to my old Web page “Linux on a VAIO Z600LEK” http://dynalabs.de/mxp.old/vaio/index.html, because there's a screenshot of my work environment from back then. ⇢
1
2
1
Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko@litchipi So my guess is that this lagging a bit behind, i.e. it might be that even tho GCC is already at 14.2 (at least in my Fedora system), this shows 14.0:
~/work/github/gccrs master*
$ $(find . -name gccrs) --version
gccrs (GCC) 14.0.1 20240309 (experimental)
Copyright (C) 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkkoI'll give it a shot since 14.1 came out already at Spring if I recall correctly.
Update: I have now gccrs build ongoing, after that I'll just point it out to cargo with build.rustc-wrapper and see how it compiles user space code first. Very interesting and exciting ;-)
#linux #kernel #rust #gcc
1
1
2
Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkkoThen the MIDI note values are free for Note Grid and for plugins like Effectrix 2. Saves tons of time because then no separate MIDI track is needed for triggering the effect.
[1] https://randomrecords.bandcamp.com/ #bitwig
0
0
0
Ok, so here's something I WOULD get (assuming that it compiles with GCC because it is a hard constraint): re-write user space interaction points of ext4 driver in Rust and make it call the existing internals.
Then I'd have a patch at hand that is written in Rust and that makes a modest improvement for the sake of better security, i.e. something I can *measure*.
I really try to avoid thinking of liking or disliking patch. If I can measure an improvement that overrides the possible drawbacks, then I see no other choice than carry the patch forward.
1
0
0
I don't think making Linux clang only would ever receive a positive response. Why I see defconfig level adoption happening in a longer timeline is that in input validation and all kinds of syscall/uapi layer stuff Rust adoption would have undebatable benefits.
I believe I have fairly weighted argument. I've used professionally Rust in user space code since 2022 (and actual low-level stuff like memory manager for Intel SGX enclaves), which I believe gives some basis also for my guess.
Like AI, blockchains, pick-your-hype-tech it is IMHO both uneducated to say that they are a hoax, and also that they solve every possible problem.
1
0
0
Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
1
0
1
repeated
Fedi.Tips
FediTips@social.growyourown.servicesYou can use Mastodon on many retro computer systems:
Apple II - https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii
Apple Macintosh (pre-OS X) - https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon
Commodore 64 - https://github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon
Commodore Amiga - https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amidon
MS-DOS - https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon
MVS - https://github.com/mainframed/BREXXTODON
Palm OS - https://github.com/knickish/heffalump
Windows 95 - https://github.com/meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups
5
5
1
Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkkohttps://openhub.net/p/firefox/analyses/latest/languages_summary
Native ("non-XUL") code covers 49.1% so Rust's share is slightly better but I think I got it roughly correct ;-)
1
0
1