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By zikalify · Posted
Linux 6.16-rc1 is out: What's new and what does it mean for your system? by Paul Hill Linus Torvalds, head and founder of the Linux kernel, has announced the closure of the merge window where major new features are added to the kernel, and the beginning of the Linux 6.16 release candidates, beginning with release candidate 1 (Linux 6.16-rc1). Linux 6.15 was released two weeks ago and in the time since, developers have had the opportunity to try and get their new kernel features into the Linux 6.16 kernel. Over the next two months, we will get seven or eight release candidates where developers will stabilize new and existing features. This means that the stable version of Linux 6.16 will arrive around the end of July. Torvalds said that the merge window seemed pretty normal this time, but did say he had a feeling that there were more “late straggler” pull requests than is typical. Despite this, everything seems to be fine and the schedule will be going forward as planned. Key areas of development Torvalds explained that around half of the changes in the first release candidate were driver updates, with the bulk of those being made up with by GPU and networking drivers. For end users these are the most important changes because when your favorite distribution of Linux ships a new release with this kernel, it will support more graphics cards and networking equipment like Wi-Fi cards. The non-driver updates in this version are split between architecture-specific updates, documentation and tooling (perf tool and selftests), and core changes to filesystems, core kernel, memory management, and networking. Torvalds said the core changes include some of the “most important” changes, though they’re not necessarily major changes. Fixes to the core ensure a more stable Linux kernel for end users, plus better performance. The merge window saw developers submit thousands of non-merge commits and merges. The non-merge commits were around 13,000 while the merge commits nearly reached 1,000. There were 1,783 unique authors submitting code during this window. Next steps Over the coming weeks, Linux developers, including individuals or representatives of companies, will submit bug fixes for new and existing features. This release candidate cycle will run until around the end of July and then the final version will become available. End users shouldn’t go out and download Linux 6.16 when it’s released, instead just wait for your Linux distribution to update to it, as distribution-specific changes get made. Neowin will be following these releases and reporting on any interested changes that are noted. Source: LKML -
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Dear neowinians,
I wonder if you have any advice - suggestions if any of you went through something similar.
A bit of context : here at work we're developing and maintaining an old VB.Net winforms custom application for our client - I say old because it already had about 10 years before I joined here, and although we're not a big company, many many people have worked on it; you can imagine the kind of app, it's big, it's complicated, it does many things, and many of those things are done in many different ways, and nobody never had the time to update/upgrade our coding standards on an application-wide scope. By that I mean, e.g. if you think in terms of MVC architecture, in some places, some of our M's and V's are mixed together and that is bad for a number of reasons that we won't get into right now but may be important for the rest of my tale...
Anyway so one of our big problems right now is that everyone at our clients' use this software, and by everyone I mean that they have people in a few different countries, and they all have to connect to a central database with all their common data, and obviously there's so much I/O between the database and the app that this is starting to become a problem. Long story short, on of the possible solutions my boss is considering is making a web app. This would force us to put all the logic in our controllers, as it should be, and all the communication with the database would be server-side.
I assume we would have to rewrite all (or most) of our UI (because, duh). My boss, however, hopes we would be able, if we used Microsoft tools (I'm guessing that means ASP.Net), to keep some of our objects and code intact. As I said, there's a number of places where that's not the case, but some places where it is, it's hard to pinpoint them without analysing the entire code, which we'll get to eventually. He also hopes that, maybe, we would be able to have both the desktop and the web client, side by side, sharing some of their objects - I believe this would require considerably more work than the already big task we'd have ahead of us, but whatever.
Soooooo, my question : if any of you have faced a similar situation or have a familiarity with these technologies, would you have any advice, things to avoid, things to watch out for, what dangers we would face, what could go wrong (plenty of things, but, you know)... I'd be glad to hear your stories. If not, well... thanks for reading anyway ! Have a nice day and whatever !
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