681: Ain’t Nothing But a Syncthing
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Syncthing saves the day in an unexpected way, and we dig into what’s new in Linux 7.2.
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- Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Passes Away
- Linux 7.2 Kernel Newbies
- Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs
- Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions
- [REGRESSION] drm/sched: FAIR policy causes serious performance degradation at max GPU load on 9070XT
- reduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating outside the lock — While profiling Meta's caching code, I found pipe->mutex contention on the hot path. anon_pipe_write() currently calls alloc_page() once per page while holding pipe->mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any concurrent reader on the same mutex.
- Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches
- Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 Driver
- The beginning of the 7.3 merge window
- Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance
- Linux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & More
- Linux 7.3 x86/mm Lands Patches To Greatly Improve Latency-Sensitive Workloads
- Sched_ext's Sub-Scheduler Support Now "Feature Complete" With Linux 7.3
- Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x Wins
- Linux 7.3 binfmt_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Execution Environments
- Linux 7.3 drops support for two ancient file systems
- Linux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMs
- Two Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3
- Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes
- Syncthing GitHub
- Rclone — Feature-rich alternative to cloud storage vendors' web storage interfaces.
- LocalComet — A private, local-first Windows AI assistant built and validated with Codex.
- A look at the Quickshell desktop-component toolkit
- MCP-NixOS - Model Context Protocol for NixOS — Because your AI shouldn't hallucinate package names.
- dataiku/kiji-proxy — Privacy proxy for your OpenAI requests
- Rockbox - Free Music Player Firmware
- Pick: ssh-clipboard — copy/paste, everywhere — Peer-to-peer clipboard sync over SSH. Copy anything on one machine, paste on another. Open source, and Written in Rust ackchyually.