We are going to set up the Banana Pi R4 as a DHCP server that assigns IP addresses on multiple subnets. The Banana Pi R3 has four 1-gigabit Ethernet ports, which we will use to create four subnets. These four subnets will allow traffic to be routed between them. There are three Local Area Network (LAN) ports and one Wide Area Network (WAN) port. Which we will connect the WAN port to the local network that is connected to the Internet. The three remaining ports will allow for three networks... https://www.linux.org/threads/banana-pi-r4-bpi-r4-dhcp-for-multiple-subnets.61666/
Driven by AI/LLM bots like Shashiko uncovering new issues within the Linux kernel source tree, including various security vulnerabilities like Dirty Frag, the mailing list has been wild with bug reports and fixes. Today's networking fixes pull request for Linux 7.1 continues to highlight the ongoing craziness and fears that the worst may be yet to come...
openSUSE releases Agama 21 installer for Tumbleweed and Slowroll with systemd-boot support, better network management, as well as numerous new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new!
by George Whittaker Alpine Linux, one of the most recognizable non-systemd Linux distributions, is reportedly experimenting with an optional systemd compatibility layer, a move that has sparked intense discussion across the Linux community. For years, Alpine has stood apart from mainstream Linux distributions by avoiding both glibc and systemd, instead relying on: musl libc BusyBox OpenRC as its init system Now, growing software compatibility pressures, especially around desktop applications, containers, and enterprise tooling, appear to be pushing Alpine developers to explore new approaches. Why Alpine Linux Avoided Systemd for So Long Alpine Linux built its reputation around simplicity, security, and minimalism. Unlike many mainstream distributions, Alpine intentionally avoided systemd in favor of the lighter and more modular OpenRC init system. This design philosophy made Alpine extremely popular for: Containers and Docker images Embedded systems Lightweight virtual machines Securit
CHUWI this week announced their UniBook laptop as a ~$449 USD laptop that aims to compete with Apple's MacBook Neo. While shipping with Microsoft Windows 11, it should be Linux-friendly and we'll soon be putting it to the test at Phoronix...
A bold new look arrives in Vivaldi 8.0, the latest update to the Chromium-based web browser. Vivaldi 8.0 sees the browser’s main UI elements (the bits that make a browser looks like a browser, so tabs, toolbars, panels, and content) drop their boundaries to form a continuous look. Hence the named Unified. “Unified is not a visual refresh. It is a rethinking of how the Vivaldi interface works as a system” the company says in its press release (a suspiciously AI-sounding parallelism that falls apart when your brain moves past ‘that sounds impressive’ since er, it is actually a visual […]
Open-source Intel software engineers today sent out their latest round of Xe kernel graphics driver updates to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of next month's Linux 7.2 merge window...
José Marchesi and the GCC-BPF developers opened the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management, and BPF Summit with a 90-minute summary of what has changed for GCC's BPF support in the past year. This kind of session has become something of a tradition. There were similar updates in 2025 and 2024. This time around, GCC seems to be closing in on feature parity with the LLVM toolchain — as the slides detail.
The OpenBSD 7.9 release is out, right on schedule. There is the usual long list of new features, including improved architecture support, CPU scheduling on heterogeneous systems, the ability to hibernate a suspended system after a configurable delay, socket splicing, a __pledge_open() system call giving special access to the C library, and much more. See the announcement and the full changelog for details.
SUSE engineers continue working on their modern "Agama" operating system installer used by the latest SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Linux distributions. Out today is Agama 21 to incorporate their latest OS installer enhancements...
Gregory Price started his session in the memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that, in current kernels, if a NUMA node has memory, the assumption is that anybody can make use of it. He is trying to implement the opposite policy — to make some memory off-limits for all processes except those designed specifically to use it. The session was used to present his goals and to discuss how they might be implemented.
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