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Ubuntu Blog Talks Up Rust Schedulers, Potential For Micro-Kernel Design Future

Phoronix - Tue, 02/27/2024 - 09:27
Ubuntu/Canonical has for a while now promoted the prospects of Rust programming within the Linux kernel and one of their kernel engineers, Andrea Righi, wrote a Rust-written Linux scheduler with promising results that leverages eBPF for dynamically loading it at run-time. While Ubuntu isn't yet committing to using it as part of their distribution, appearing on the Ubuntu blog today was more praise for the work and even talking about the potential for a "micro-kernel design" in the future via leveraging Rust and eBPF...

KiCad 8.0 Released For Leading Open-Source EDA Software

Phoronix - Tue, 02/27/2024 - 05:25
KiCad 8.0 has been released as the latest major feature release for this open-source Electronics Design Automation (EDA) software suite. KiCad supports designing PCB layouts, provides a 3D viewer for inspecting PCBs, and other functionality...

PVM Virtualization Framework Proposed For Linux - Built Atop The KVM Hypervisor

Phoronix - Tue, 02/27/2024 - 00:19
Ant Group and Alibaba have proposed PVM, the Pagetable Virtual Machine, as a new virtualization framework built upon the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. PVM does not require hardware-assisted virtualization while working with KVM-enabled software like Kata Containers...

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