After years of hard work, countless reviews, and tons of community testing, we're happy to share that dynamic buffering has landed in Mutter for GNOME 48!

This improves the smoothness of GNOME across a wide range of hardware and software setups.

Thanks to everyone involved in this collaboration! Special thanks to author Daniel van Vugt from Canonical and reviewers Jonas Ådahl and Michel Dänzer from Red Hat.

Read more in This Week in GNOME: https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/02/twig-187/

Well well, look what the cat dragged in
https://nostarch.com/linux-memory-manager

While I don't know if is the first time this has happened, it's good to acknowledge this given all the crazy, odd, and incorrect press about Rust in Linux these days.

A new in-kernel api just landed in linux-next from my tree and should hopefully show up in 6.14 to make some kinds of drivers easier to write, that has a rust binding added at the exact same time:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/2025021023-sandstorm-precise-9f5d@gregkh/

Many thanks to Lyude and Danilo and many other Rust kernel developers for the help in creating the binding and make the C side work well for both Rust and C code at the same time. The end result here for any C developer alone, is much better off for all of their help.

I'll be working at https://opinsys.com/contact/ starting from next month.

Opinsys creates a combined hardware and teaching platform based on open source, and provides this service for schools in Finland, Germany and Switzerland :-)

This also means that I'm full on back in kernel too for the first time in over two years, as the work will involve e.g. taking advantage of the modern security features of the Linux kernel.

I.e. my work time will also contain my LKML time ;-)

I'm quite excited as what could be a better job than help kids do better at school, or have better environment for enabling that!

Jee, virallinen Jyväskylän kaupungin sometili on aktivoitunut Fediversumissa! 👉 @jyvaskylankaupunki

#Jyväskylä #JyväskylänKaupunki

I think I've been now Fedora user for two years about :-) I had some shuffle when I switched from Ubuntu but converged eventually to Fedora.

#fedora #linux

#politics #humor #resistance #resist

If I was a journalist, here's the question that I'd like to ask from Meta's and Google's CEO:

"What company values mean to you?"

;-)

#meta #google

Codeberg is probably not answering given yesterdays massacre?

#codeberg

Found something really cool!

https://archive95.net/

This archive is a collection of old websites, around 1994-1995 (from CDs that were distributed then for offline browsing). The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine roughly starts at 1996, so this is a snapshot of an even earlier internet than the archive has stored.

new job done [x]

The Nerd Reich in 5 minutes.
https://jwz.org/b/ykh4

I can admit by now: doing this blockchain stuff was not my thing. I tried it for four months and learned my lesson.

Just wanted to put this out loud for the sake of therapy... Now I know a bit of that and in long run that gives me a better perspective of the tech industry.

#lessonslearned

a typical rust thread at lkml ;-) can't get over this screenshot:

"vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: .export_symbol+0x2e888: data relocation to !ENDBR: stpcpy+0x0"

hmm...

#linux #kernel

#ilovefs is almost here, and we wanted to kick off the celebrations with a little #Trivia 💗 When was the term "#FreeSoftware" created?

See if you can answer this correctly before your friends :D

Answer will be posted tomorrow morning.

#FSF

A non-rustianated opinion about DMA patches: it should be part of patch set that requires DMA.

I.e. I was eager to try it out but there is no payload to test. I did add lei filter to get everything from rust-for-linux matching DMA so looking forward to do this in future :-)

#rust #linux #kernel #dma

An Open Letter to All European Politicians and Leaders to Abandon X/Twitter:

"By abandoning X/Twitter, leaders can reduce its credibility, promote fairer alternatives, and take a stand against the spread of disinformation, ensuring democratic principles are upheld."

H/T to @everton137 for organizing this - already close to 1,000 signatures:

https://www.openpetition.eu/petition/online/an-open-letter-to-all-european-politicians-and-leaders-to-abandon-x-twitter

#Europe #EU

No-Libc Zig Now Outperforms Glibc Zig

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2025/#2025-02-07

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://ziglang.org/devlog/2025/%232025-02-07

#programming #ziglang

We meet again after three week break:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd.git/log/?h=v4l2-loopback

I collect below the top-most commits that are locked in as pretty much dead obvious changes and the top-most commit (whatever its name happens to be) is the dumpster.

I started this by unpurging the top-most just to recall where I was at. Commit ID's live as I might add a new commit in any position (as deep down in history as possible as it makes sense).