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low-memory-monitor: announcement of a new userspace handler for memory shortage

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Bastien Nocera announced a new memory shortage handler for the Gnome desktop. Written in C. Licensed under GPL3. The daemon requires kernel 5.2 or newer. It monitors memory pressure via /proc/pressure/memory, and when a threshold is exceeded, it sends notifications via dbus to processes to curb their appetite. Additionally, the daemon can attempt to maintain system responsiveness by writing to /proc/sysrq-trigger. […]

Linux kernel has turned 28 years old

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On August 25, 1991, after five months of development, 21-year-old student Linus Torvalds announced in the comp.os.minix newsgroup the creation of a working prototype of the new operating system Linux, marking the completion of the porting of bash 1.08 and gcc 1.40. The first public release of the Linux kernel was presented on September 17. Kernel 0.0.1 was 62 KB in compressed form and contained […]

The first solution to the memory shortage problem in Linux has been introduced

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Red Hat developer Bastien Nocera has announced a potential solution to the memory shortage problem in Linux. This application, called Low-Memory-Monitor, aims to address system responsiveness issues when RAM is limited. It is expected that this program will enhance the experience in the Linux user environment on systems with minimal memory. The operation is straightforward. The Low-Memory-Monitor daemon monitors memory usage and […]

Enlightenment v0.23

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Enlightenment is a window manager for X11. Improvements in the new release: An additional option for taking screenshots. The build system is now Meson Build. Music Control now supports the rage mpris dbus protocol. Support for Bluez5 has been added with an updated module and device. An option to enable and disable dpms has been introduced. When switching windows with Alt-Tab, they can now also be moved. […]

Linux 28 years

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28 years ago, Linus Torvalds announced in the comp.os.minix newsgroup the creation of a working prototype of a new operating system, Linux. The system included ported versions of bash 1.08 and gcc 1.40, making it self-sufficient. Linux was created in response to MINIX, whose license did not allow the community to conveniently share developments (at that time, MINIX was positioned as educational and […]

Introducing low-memory-monitor, a new memory shortage handler for GNOME

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Bastien Nocera has announced a new memory shortage handler for the GNOME desktop — low-memory-monitor. The daemon assesses memory availability via /proc/pressure/memory and, upon exceeding a threshold, suggests to processes via DBus the need to temper their resource usage. Additionally, the daemon may attempt to maintain system responsiveness by writing to /proc/sysrq-trigger. Combined with the work done in Fedora on implementing zram […]

‘Hacker’

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In this humorous tale, I wanted to imagine what a "hack" of a washing machine might look like in the near future using a voice interface, intelligent systems, and ubiquitous donations. I couldn't sleep. The smartphone showed 3:47, but it was already quite bright outside the summer window. Yarik kicked off the edge of the blanket and sat up. * "I won’t get enough sleep again; I'll be going […]

Release of the composite server Weston 7.0

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A stable release of the Weston 7.0 composite server has been published, advancing technologies that support full Wayland protocol integration in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, and other user environments. The development of Weston aims to provide a high-quality codebase and working examples for using Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, such as platforms for automotive infotainment systems, smartphones, televisions, and other consumer devices. […]

The yaxim XMPP client has turned 10 years old

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The developers of yaxim, the free XMPP client for Android, are celebrating the project's ten-year anniversary. Ten years ago, on August 23, 2009, the first commit of yaxim was made, meaning that today this XMPP client is officially half as old as the protocol it operates on. Since then, many changes have occurred both in XMPP itself and in the Android system. 2009: […]

Release of the Enlightenment 0.23 user environment

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After nearly two years of development, the Enlightenment 0.23 user environment has been released, built on the EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Library) and Elementary widget libraries. The release is available in source code, but packages for distributions are not yet prepared. The most notable innovations in Enlightenment 0.23 include: Significantly improved support for running under Wayland; Transition to the Meson build system; A new Bluetooth module has been added […]

Google has discontinued the use of dessert names for Android releases

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Google announced the discontinuation of assigning sweet and dessert names to Android platform releases in alphabetical order and is transitioning to a standard numeric numbering system. The previously used scheme was borrowed from the practice of naming internal branches used by Google engineers but caused a lot of confusion among users and third-party developers. Thus, the currently developed Android Q release is now officially […].

The Unix operating system has turned 50 years old

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In August 1969, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie from Bell Labs, dissatisfied with the size and complexity of the Multics operating system, after a month of intense work, introduced the first working prototype of the Unix operating system, created in assembly language for the PDP-7 minicomputer. Around the same time, a high-level programming language called B was developed, which evolved into the language […] several years later.

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