DeepSeek R1, the new entrant to the Large Language Model wars has created quite a splash over the last few weeks. Its entrance into a space dominated by the Big Corps, while pursuing asymmetric and novel strategies has been a refreshing eye-opener.
UNIX has a colorful history that goes back many decades and the stories of how certain aspects of the operating system evolved or came to be, usually at the hands of one luminary or the other over a weekend, is now well documented in the lore of this sub-culture.
DeepSeek R1, the new entrant to the Large Language Model wars has created quite a splash over the last few weeks. Its entrance into a space dominated by the Big Corps, while pursuing asymmetric and novel strategies has been a refreshing eye-opener.
Twenty years ago, it was easy to dislike Microsoft. It was the quintessential evil MegaCorp that was quick to squash competition, often ruthlessly, but in some cases slowly through a more insidious process of embracing, extending, and exterminating anything that got in the way.
I'm happy to announce, that after a long wait, patent US-11604662-B2 has been issued. I want to thank and recognize my co-inventors, Div Prakash and Subin George, who I'm privileged to be on paper with.
Parallelizing the compilation of a large codebase is a breeze with distcc, which allows you to spread the load across multiple nodes and speed up the compilation time.
If you've done anything in the Kubernetes space in recent years, you've most likely come across the words Service Mesh. It's backed by a set of mature technologies that provides cross-cutting networking, security, infrastructure capabilities to be used by workloads running in Kubernetes in a manner that is transparent to the actual workload.
UNIX has a colorful history that goes back many decades and the stories of how certain aspects of the operating system evolved or came to be, usually at the hands of one luminary or the other over a weekend, is now well documented in the lore of this sub-culture.
Today, Debian celebrates its 27th birthday. It is now one of the oldest and most widespread Linux distributions with many offshoots and derivatives while continuing to deliver rock solid stable releases in its own measured pace.
Today we will go over the process of building a tiny Linux kernel, and booting into a shell. To start with, fetch the Linux source tree that you'd like to try this out on.
I decided to give Clang a spin to compile the kernel, and given that I'm not exactly an early adopter in attempting this, it was pretty smooth and straightforward overall. All it took was make CC=clang HOSTCC=clang -j12.
In the last 24 hours, I have been experimenting with this interestingly named and absolutely gorgeous Linux distribution called Pop!_OS by System76. An Ubuntu derivative, it features an extremely polished user experience and I was taken aback by its aesthetic and charming simplicity, which led me to some comparisons, quite unfairly with Debian.
As we get ready for another Wimbledon finals between Federer and Djokovic in a few hours, I look back upon a past champion whose story I was lucky to read about this weekend. Here's the opening that clinched my interest.
In this post, I will walk you through the process of connecting to a Minnowboard over a serial console connection, so that you can use it without having to hook up a monitor or keyboard. For those of you that may be new to Minnowboards, they are single board computers that fall into the niche segment of SBCs that are based on Intel x86 processors.
