Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 06 (February 8, 2021)

Uncovering a 24-Year-Old Bug in the Linux Kernel

The author analyzes an old issue in the Linux kernel TCP implementation.

Debian 10.8

»This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems.«

Donating Docker Distribution to the CNCF
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Docker donates the code of it’s container registry to the CNCF.

Threat Modeling Manifesto
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The Threat Modeling Manifesto provides guidelines with values and principles in threat modeling.

Book: Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

Operating Systems book centered around the concepts of virtualization, concurrency, and persistence.

The Dunant Subsea Cable, Connecting the Us and Mainland Europe, Is Ready for Service
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Crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the US and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast, the Dunant submarine cable system delivering a capacity of 250 terabits per second.

https://distrotest.net/

On https://distrotest.net/, over 300 different operating systems can be tested from within the browser or via a VNC client.

Ubuntu Core 20

Canonical released Ubuntu Core 20, it’s minimal, containerized version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

PostgreSQL: What is a checkpoint?
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This blog post explains what checkpoints in PostgreSQL are and how you can tune them.

Cargo Cult Software Engineering
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This article differentiates between process-oriented and commitment-oriented projects and their imposter equivalents.