#kernel

[kernelbroken]

[notidee]

WAIT DON’T LEAVE YET !

If you liked this comic, there’s more where that came from ! I’m currently in very difficult place financially and hand crafted a comic compilation with love and tenderness. It’s called “The way home” and it has five comics with commentary, including two unreleased drafts. It’s only three bucks, which for me is a LOT these days !

You can get it on Kofi

Or join my Patreon where it’s free for both Vallhunds and Huskies

It’s 71 pages long, so grab a a cup of your favorite hot beverage and enjoy !

[debian-official]

What are your thoughts on completely reimplementing the Linux kernel in c++

I mean if you're gonna rewrite it, why not in @rust-official? (and im not just saying this because the person behind the tumblr account is so cool)

[nixcraft]

SLS ad from Byte Magazine Sep 1993.

[adafruit]

🎄💾🗓️ Day 10: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar - BeOS 🎄💾🗓️

BeOS, developed by Be Inc. in the mid-1990s, was an operating system for multimedia applications, multitasking, and multithreading. Initially designed for the BeBox—a proprietary hardware platform featuring dual PowerPC processors—BeOS was later ported to the Macintosh and x86 architectures. Its kernel was monolithic, and the system was primarily written in C++. It featured a 64-bit journaling Be File System (BFS), which supported metadata and allowed rapid file queries and fast performance for multimedia tasks. Despite its technical strengths, including support for symmetric multiprocessing and a responsive graphical user interface, BeOS struggled to gain market traction. Development ceased in 2001 after Palm Inc. acquired Be Inc.'s assets. BeOS continues through Haiku, an open-source project aiming for binary compatibility with BeOS R5.

A bunch of resources and links for this one!

🖥️💾🎨📀

Have first computer memories? Post’em up in the comments, or post yours on socialz’ and tag them #firstcomputer #retrocomputing – See you back here tomorrow!

[nonenosome2]

Linux Code of Conduct Board Blocks File System Changes

Imagine basing code contributions on a Code of Conduct.

I would fucking love for someone to be banned, who then releases code to fix a 0-day exploit, and have whatever FOSS project not be able to implement it because it would mean their CoC is worthless.

Like, Jesus Christ. These people do it for free and you want to tell them, "Do to this violation you no longer have the Privilege of working for us for free. Come back later and we might let you."

I think I've found a new channel to subscribe to.

[avagarde]

KERNEL: A Tiny Mech Story

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You are tiny, your rig is slightly less tiny. PICK UP YOUR WEAPON AND HUNT THE GREAT BEETLE.

[cmdrjanus-2]

"Suspicious activity detected. Initiate quarantine protocol."

[random-xpressions]

Don't fall for this identity that you see. Perceive me as a wandering spirit, soaring somewhere in another world, bound by nothing, confined into nothing. What matters is not this matter, but the essence - confounding, mysterious, unknown, mostly hidden, ever escaping from any limelight, the very source of sources, life energy, the center, the ultimate nucleus, that ancient timeless nameless, sprouting & springing forth from the very divine. Catch me there, in that parallel universe, don't fall for this fleeting shadow that you see...

Random Xpressions

[andmaybegayer]

fun Linux kernel programming fact: if your function returns a pointer you can still return a negative integer value to indicate that an error has occurred because virtual memory addresses don't use the high bits of a pointer.

This is explicitly supported by the macros in include/linux/err.h

[borrowedtimeandspace]

Meet the OCs - Borrowed Time and Space

A summary of original characters featured in my Doctor Who/Borrowers crossover multiverse, as well as visual artwork commissioned to bring them to life! I'll do what I can to keep it updated as relevant characters are introduced.

Doctor Who belongs to the BBC, The Borrowers to Mary Norton, and these OCs belong to me!

General warning for story spoilers

Zepheera - The OG, My Beloved

art by the lovely @quackghost

Zepheera is a borrower, a diminutive humanoid race native to Earth. Shortly after she was born in 1927, an abstract creature from the stars latched onto her consciousness and granted her unique abilities. These diminished and faded as Zepheera and the creature by extension were put through incredible distress in her early life, causing it to pass away sometime after she turned 18. The only lasting impact from the creature remaining was an inability to age. Now, there seems to be no end to how long her lifespan has been extended so long as she survives. Which she's very good at as a borrower, raised with the skills needed to get by in a world much larger than her. In addition, she carries a mutated gene from her father's side that allows her to heal from injuries and wounds much more quickly than usual. The entirety of the Borrowed Time and Space multiverse centers on her as the Doctor's companion, no matter which Doctor.

She's been around for over a decade in my real life, and has grown so much from the daydream self-insert tiny companion of my youth. I have so enjoyed fleshing out her life story, expanding her universe and finding out how she responds to the different Situations™️ I keep putting her in.

Because Zepheera's Origins and the overall basis of her character stay the same throughout AU, the characters under the cut will have more in-depth summaries. Last warning for story spoilers, and TW for mentions of child abuse

Zepheera's Family

Most of the relevant OCs from this point on are more borrowers (shocker, I know) and relatives of Zepheera, a list that can and will only grow because I am insane. Most of them are featured in Zepheera's Origins, and some also appear or are mentioned in various BTaS stories.

Tack - Father; In life, he was kind and forward-thinking for his time. A man full of so much love in his heart for his wife and especially his infant daughter that it ultimately killed him. Though he carried the healing factor that he passed down to his daughter, he was fatally injured in an inadvertently devastating release of energy from the entity symbiotically linked to Zepheera.

Klerida - Mother; Devastated by the loss of her husband and without the tools to cope with any of it, she turned all that hurt onto her daughter. Blamed her for being the epicenter of the catastrophe that caused Tack's death. She spent Zepheera's childhood swinging between being cold and detached from her, and lashing out aggressively, leaving her child to feel at fault for Klerida's and her own hurt.

Author's Note: While I don't regret taking this angle with Zepheera's mother, I acknowledge that at the time of writing Episode 2: Memories, I didn't have the tools to write an abuser in a way that wasn't extreme and over the top. In what I now consider to be the proper canon, Klerida did put her hands on her child in anger, but never went so far as to break Zepheera in the way described in the Episode.

Boston - Uncle; Though he did not witness and wasn't aware of what Zepheera went through at home, Boston took it upon himself to take the girl under his wing since his brother couldn't. He taught Zepheera about borrowing, despite it being a traditionally a man's skill at the time, and kept her company when she needed a friendly presence. He loved her like his own, even if Klerida kept him at arm's length.

Baycliff - Stepfather; He and his family lived in an entirely different part of the house Zepheera's family occupied. Baycliff met Klerida in passing once or twice before Tack's death, and then properly go to know her years afterward. After their marriage, Klerida's more physically abusive tendencies toward Zepheera died down in favor of the cold detachment; Baycliff fussed more over his wife and...

Kernel - Half-Brother

art by the wonderful @mythical-cupcake (left) and @creatorofuniverses (right)

Kernel was born when Zepheera was 7 years old, and she fell in love instantly. He was a curious, high-spirited boy who looked up to his big sister, a bright light in the family that was snuffed out all too soon. While out borrowing with Zepheera, he met with a terrible fate outside of both of their control.

Klerida was none too happy about Zepheera once again being seemingly responsible for the loss of someone else she loved with all her heart, to put it kindly.

Orrick - Husband

art by quackghost

Orrick is a kind soul, a sweetheart through and through. He found Zepheera outside of his home after she ran away from hers. He and his family took her in, and their relationship blossomed over time. They made a life and a home for themselves and were happily committed to one another for over twenty years. Then Zepheera discovered she wasn't aging and, in a moment of panic, fled from the wonderful life they had. He was given no explanation, and could do nothing but despair in the wake of the disappearance of his wife.

His story is tied to Zepheera's Origins, mentioned in a few others in which Zepheera opens up about her past, and he has recently resurfaced in the Donna Trilogy story, If I Could Turn Back Time.

Day - Daughter; Shortly after Zepheera left Orrick, she discovered she was pregnant. By then, it was too late for her to be able to find her way back to him, and the notion of outliving her child was twice as painful as it was for her spouse. So she found a lovely couple to raise her daughter: Ceillo and Toffer. The two men couldn't have children of their own, and she grew up with incredibly loving parents.

Marcue - Grandson

Art by quackghost

When Day was still quite young, she met and married Brine, and the two of them had a son. He was a quiet, thoughtful boy growing up, especially with his parents' relationship growing more and more contentious over the years. He met a young girl named Laitina who lived in another part of the house, the same age as him, and the two of them hit it off. First as friends, then as something more than that. But one day, after a particularly bad fight, Brine took his son and left for another house. There he remarried and had another child, a daughter. Marcue quickly became protective of the girl, and though he longed to reunite with his mother and Laitina, he stayed to make sure his half sister would be okay.

Marcue first appeared in Episode 3: Lost Things Being Found, which is now non-canon but Marcue's side of the story remains canon.

[kernelbroken]

[notidee]

[aliciadoodleshow]

CHARACTERS:

Mr. & Mrs. Potato Heads 🥔🥔

Eggbert🥚🏳️‍🌈

Chee & Ree 🍒♀️

Sweetie 🍬♂️

Kernel 🌽🕶

[nixcraft]

Patch submitted to the kernel by a four-year-old girl 🤠