The first days of the 6.5 merge window have been a bit calmer than usual, with “only” 4,000 non-merge changesets having been pulled into the mainline repository.

LWN ☛ The first half of the 6.5 merge window.

Support for NFS v4.2, which is pretty rare in other implementations, is also present “those are things that we can be proud of and I hope I can extend that winning streak a little bit”. The Linux NFSD has some features that no other implementation in the industry has, including NFS over RDMA, with support for “just about any fabric you can imagine” the NFS client also works over RDMA.

Lever became the maintainer of NFSD for the kernel in January 2022 and Jeff Layton joined him as co-maintainer in July 2022. Bruce Fields, who had been the maintainer since 2007 or so, has taken a sabbatical from the IT world (“he is well, I am not trying to cover anything up there”). Lever began with the announcement that NFSD is “under new management”. Beyond that, he wanted to discuss using folios, which has been a frequent topic at recent LSFMM+BPF gatherings, including this year. He wanted to talk about converting the network filesystem to use iomap that kind of conversion was the topic of the previous session at the summit. LWN ☛ Converting NFSD to use iomap and foliosĬhuck Lever led a filesystem session at the 2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit on the Linux NFS server, which is also known as NFSD.And they’re subject to revision for up to 45 days after publication. Laptops are included in “desktop” because there is no easy way to separate them. Statcounter says it does not collate, weigh, or otherwise adjust its data aside from correcting for bots and Google Chrome’s prerendering. It’s either the year of the Linux desktop or a notable asterisk-your call.Īs Statcounter explains, its numbers come from tracking code installed on more than 1.5 million websites across the globe, capturing roughly 5 billion page views per month.

It’s a notable first for the more than 30-year-old operating system, though other numbers in Statcounter’s chart open it up to many more interpretations. What happened to Windows?Īccording to one measurement by one firm, Linux reached 3.07 percent market share of global desktop operating systems in June 2023.

Ars Technica ☛ Linux could be 3% of global desktops.

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