If this desktop doesn’t look hauntingly familiar to you, you either didn’t live through the 1990s—or perhaps just didn’t live through them right. [credit: Jim Salter ] Today, I test-drove an in-development operating system project that seems almost disturbingly tailored to me specifically: SerenityOS. I cannot possibly introduce SerenityOS more accurately than its own website […]
Enlarge / OpenZFS supports many complex disk topologies, but “spiral stack sitting on a desk” still isn’t one of them. (credit: Jim Salter) OpenZFS founding developer Matthew Ahrens merged one of the most sought-after features in ZFS history—RAIDz expansion—into master last week. The new feature allows a ZFS user to expand the size of a […]
Enlarge / FreeBSD’s core development team, for the most part, does not appear to see the need to update their review and approval procedures. (credit: Aurich Lawson (after KC Green)) At first glance, Matthew Macy seemed like a perfectly reasonable choice to port WireGuard into the FreeBSD kernel. WireGuard is an encrypted point-to-point tunneling protocol, […]
Enlarge / ♫ Pop goes the tunnel! ♫ (credit: Aurich Lawson) Earlier this week, we covered progress integrating an implementation of the WireGuard VPN protocol into the FreeBSD kernel. Two days later, there’s an update—kernel-mode WireGuard has been moved out of FreeBSD 13 development entirely for the time being. The change only affects kernel-mode WireGuard. User-mode […]
Enlarge / Who doesn’t like cyan comments in their text editor? Lee Hutchinson, that’s who. (credit: Jim Salter) One fine Monday morning, Ars Technica Senior Technology Editor Lee Hutchinson came to me with a problem: the colors in his text editor, in his humble opinion, had Begun To Suck. In Lee’s 20 years or so […]