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nixCraft 🐧The sudo systemctl soft-reboot on Linux is used for performing a userspace only reboot operation. It will reboot the Linux distro without the BIOS, UEFI or the hardware having to perform a complete cold boot. As a result your system reboots in seconds but will not load a new Linux kernel. It is useful to reset userspace (e.g. VMs, docker, any other process).
nixCraft 🐧Poll: Why do you use mastodon social media?
nixCraft 🐧Debian isn't waiting for 2038 to blow up, switches to 64-bit time for everything: We say everything... just not the oldest hardware. Unix Epochalypse less than 13 years away https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/y2k38_bug_debian/
nixCraft 🐧Say you have a 26-year-old codebase of around 10,000 lines of C (a CLI app for Unix/Linux and no special hardware access or related to device drivers etc). It still works, but the code is messy because you were less experienced at that time. Now it's time to rewrite it from scratch. What language would you choose? Go? Rust? Python?
nixCraft 🐧This is brutal. Cisco Systems to Cut About 7% of Staff in Second Round of Layoffs. That is 6000 jobs. Cisco has raced to take advantage of an industrywide shift into artificial intelligence https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/technology/cisco-layoffs.html
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