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Category Archives: Improvements

Repl.it

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Repl.it

Repl.it is a web based development environment.  This gives you an instant IDE to develop your code and projects.   It has recently been updated so that it is multiplayer by default so you can collaborate in real time with fellow developers / hackers, which should help increase productivity and or learning / teaching potential of this platform.   Great work to the Development team.

Please see https://repl.it/ for more information and to sign up.

Screen Shot by Paul Sutton – zleap

F2FS and Kernel 4.16 file system improvements

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F2FS Sees An Assortment Of File-System Improvements With Linux 4.16

This was posted to Diaspora earlier.   Anything that improves the filesystem is welcome, it does however look like the improvements are mainly for flash based devices such as SSDs.

http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/108636

Recent discussion on IRC suggests that F2FS also works on the Pi,  but is early days yet,.

Any file system hackers out there.