In the deep waters of scalable environments, observability is more important than ever. Coroot enters the scene with eBPF to intercept traffic and collect data that is of interest for monitoring and attack detection.
Rescue systems play a particularly important role for desktops because they cannot simply be reinstalled on the fly. We look at venerable but outdated Knoppix and three still in development: Grml, SystemRescue, and Finnix.
File I/O is a limiting factor for many applications and can become a bottleneck for data-intensive computing. We analyze different file access functions and present a script that visualizes and optimizes inefficient file I/O.
