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ONE Summit North America, Hosted by LF Networking, Invites Industry Experts Across Access, Edge, Cloud and Core to Collaborate In-Person, November 15-16, 2022  PR Newswire

• LF Networking Announces ONE Summit North America 2022 Call for Proposals  and Registration are Now Open! 
• ONE Summit is the one industry event focused on best practices, technical challenges, and business opportunities facing network decision makers across Networking, Access, Edge, and Cloud
• Reinvigorated for 2022, ONE Summit returns in-person November 15-16 in Seattle, Wash. with a more interactive and creative environment enabling attendees to transform, innovate and collaborate together

SAN FRANCISCO, July 7, 2022 — LF Networking,which facilitates collaboration and operational excellence across open source networking projects, announced Registration and the Call For Proposals (CFP) for ONE Summit North America 2022 are now open. Taking place in Seattle, Wash. November 15-16, ONE Summit is the one industry event focused on best practices, technical challenges, and business opportunities facing decision makers across 5G, Cloud, Telco, and Enterprise Networking, as well as Edge, Acces, IoT, and Core. 

For anyone using networking and automation to transform business, whether it’s deploying a 5G network, building government infrastructure, or innovating at their industry’s network edge, the ONE Summit collaborative environment enables peer interaction and learning focused on open source technologies that are redefining the ecosystem. As the network is key to new opportunities across Telecommunications, Industry 4.0, Public and Government Infrastructure, the new paradigm will be open. Come join this interactive and collaborative event, the ONE place to learn, innovate, and create the networks our organizations require. 

“We are pleased to host a rejuvenated ONE Summit, which brings the ecosystem together in-person once again,” said Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge, and IoT, the Linux Foundation. “With a shifting industry that must embrace traditional networking now integrated across verticals such as Access, Edge, Core, and Cloud, we are eager to gather to learn, share, and iterate on the future of open collaboration.”

The event will feature an extensive program of 80+ talks covering the most important and timely topics across Networking, Access, Edge, and Cloud, with diverse options for both business and technical sessions. Presentation tracks include Industry 4.0; Security; The New Networking Stack; Operational Deployments (case studies, success & challenges); Emerging Technologies and Business Models; and more. 

The CFP is now open through July 29, 2022.

To register, visit  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/one-summit-north-america/register/. Corporate attendees should register before August 20 for the best rates. 

Developer & Testing Forum

ONE Summit will be followed by a complimentary two day LF Networking Developer and Testing Forum (DTF), a grassroots hands-on event organized by the LF Networking projects. Attendees are encouraged to extend the experience, roll up sleeves, and join the incredible developer community to advance the open source networking and automation technologies of the future. Information on the Spring 2022 LFN Developer & Testing Forum, which took place June 13-16 in Porto, Portugal, is available here.

Sponsor

ONE Summit  is made possible thanks to generous sponsors. For information on becoming an event sponsor, click here or email for more information and to speak to the team.

Press
Members of the press who would like to request a press pass to attend should contact pr@lfnetworking.org. 

About the Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 2,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation’s projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, and more. Learn more at linuxfoundation.org.

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Systemd supremo Lennart Poettering leaves Red Hat for Microsoft  The Register

System76 upgrades its Lemur Pro Linux-based laptops with Intel Alder Lake-U processors  Notebookcheck.net

From the recent setup of the MSI Alder Lake motherboard flashed with Dasharo/Coreboot I had an extra LGA-1700 motherboard around. With some Phoronix readers in the past having inquired about more Alder Lake benchmarks on the low-end, I picked up a Core i3 12100 processor that features four performance cores / eight threads. For those curious about the CPU performance and that of the integrated UHD Graphics 730, here are some Ubuntu Linux performance benchmarks with the i3-12100 and other similar processors.

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More Linux Developers Joining Microsoft, Systemd Creator Adds to the List  It's FOSS News

More Linux Developers Joining Microsoft, Systemd Creator Adds to the List  It's FOSS News

Mesa 22.2 as the quarterly feature update to this collection of open-source predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan graphics drivers has been pushed back by two weeks. This delay is for allowing more last minute features to land, which will hopefully ensure that Intel Arc Graphics and RDNA3 support is in better shape for this release...

How open source is changing the world  IT-Online

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Check disk usage in Linux Don Watkins Thu, 07/07/2022 - 03:00 1 reader likes this 1 reader likes this

Knowing how much of your disk is being used by your files is an important consideration, no matter how much storage you have. My laptop has a relatively small 250GB NVME drive. That's okay most of the time, but I began to explore gaming on Linux a couple of years ago. Installing Steam and a few games can make storage management more critical.

The du command

The easiest way to examine what's left for storage on your disk drive is the du command. This command line utility estimates file space usage. Like all Linux tools, du is very powerful, but knowing how to use it for your particular needs is helpful. I always consult the man page for any utility. This specific tool has several switches to give you the best possible snapshot of file storage and how much space they consume on your system.

There are many options for the du command. Here are some of the common ones:

• -a - write counts for all files and not just directories
• --apparent-size - prints apparent sizes rather than disk usage
• -h - human-readable format
• -b - bytes
• -c -grand total
• -k - block size
• -m - size in megabytes

Be sure to check the du man page for a complete listing.

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The first option you could choose is du -a. It provides a readout of all files on your system and the directories they are stored in. This command lets me know I've got 11555168 bytes stored in my home directory. Using du -a provides a quick recursive look at my storage system. What if I want a more meaningful number, and I want to drill down into the directories to see where the big files are on my system?

I think there are some big files in my Downloads directory, so I enter du -a /home/don/Downloads to get a good look at that Downloads directory.

$ du -a ~/Downloads
4923    ./UNIX_Driver_5-0/UNIX Driver 50
4923    ./UNIX_Driver_5-0
20     ./epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
12    ./rpmfusion-free-release-9.noarch.rpm
2256    ./PZO9297 000 Cover.pdf
8    ./pc.md
2644    ./geckodriver-v0.31.0-linux64.tar.gz
466468  

The numbers on the far left are the file sizes in bytes. I want something more helpful to me so I add the switch for the human-readable format to my du -h /home/don/Downloads command. The result is 4.8 G(igabytes) which is a more useful number format for me.

$ du -ah ~/Downloads
4.9M    ./UNIX_Driver_5-0/UNIX Driver 50
4.9M    ./UNIX_Driver_5-0
20K    ./epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
12K    ./rpmfusion-free-release-9.noarch.rpm
2.2M    ./PZO9297 000 Cover.pdf
8.0K    ./pc.md
2.6M    ./geckodriver-v0.31.0-linux64.tar.gz
456M    .

As with most Linux commands, you can combine options. To look at your Downloads directory in a human-readable format, use the du -ah ~/Downloads command.

[ Read also: 5 Linux commands to check free disk space ]

Grand total

The -c option provides a grand total for disk usage at the last line. I can use du -ch /home/don to display every file and directory in my home directory. There is a lot of information, and I really just want what is at the end, so I will pipe the disk usage command to tail. The command is du -ch /home/don | tail.

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The ncdu command

Another option for Linux users interested in what is stored on their drive is the ncdu command. The command stands for NCurses Disk Usage. Depending on your Linux distribution, you may need to download and install it.

On Linux Mint, Elementary, Pop_OS!, and other Debian-based distributions:

$ sudo apt install ncdu

On Fedora, Mageia, and CentOS:

$ sudo dnf install ncdu

On Arch, Manjaro, and similar:

$ sudo pacman -S ncdu

Once installed, you can use ncdu to analyze your filesystem. Here is a sample output after issuing ncdu inside my home directory. The man page for ncdu states that "ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a curses-based version of the well-known du, and provides a fast way to see what directories are using your disk space."

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I can use the arrow keys to navigate up and down and press the Enter key to enter a directory. An interesting note is that du reported total disk usage in my home directory as 12GB, and ncdu reports that I have total disk usage of 11GB. You can find more information in the ncdu man page.

You can explore a particular directory by pointing ncdu to that directory. For example, ncdu /home/don/Downloads.

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Press the ? key to display the Help menu

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Wrap up

The du and ncdu commands provide two different views of the same information, making it easy to keep track of what's stored on your computer.

If you're not comfortable in the terminal or just looking for yet another view of this kind of information, check out the GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer. You can easily install and use it if it's not already on your system. Check your distribution for baobab and install it if you'd like to experiment.

The du and ncdu commands provide two different views of the same information, making it easy to keep track of what's stored on your computer.

Linux Command line What to read next Replace du with dust on Linux Check used disk space on Linux with du Check free disk space in Linux with ncdu 5 Linux commands to check free disk space This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License. 3 Comments Register or Login to post a comment. Greg Pittman | July 7, 2022

Your second example doesn't show the right command. It should have been:

du -ah ~/Downloads

I never use du without the -h option. Otherwise, the results are too cryptic to understand.

Don Watkins | July 7, 2022

Good catch Greg! I'll mention that to the editors.

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Robert Harker | July 12, 2022

The -h flag is new to me. I like it. Try adding this alias to your .bashrc file:
alias du='du -h'

I learned the -s flag for summary rather than the -c flag. Easier to remember.

Some du commands I use:

du -sh *
Summarize disk usage for directories and files in the current directory.

du -sh * | sort -n
Sort the size of the directories or files in the current directory.
-n sorts based on numerical value not alphanumeric. -rn reverse the sort order.

du -sh * | sort -n | tail -5
Show the 5 largest directories or files in the current directory.
This is just a summary of the top level files and directories in the current directory.

find . -type f | xargs -d '\n' du -sh * | sort -n | tail -5
Find the 5 largest files in the current directory.
Useful for finding unexpected huge files you were not aware of.
The -d '\n' argument to xargs tells xargs to break arguments on newlines. It avoids problems with filenames with spaces in them.

du was one of the first UNIX commands I learned 45 years ago. An oldie but goodie.