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mauchter··on AMD proposes an FPGA subsystem user-space interface for Linux
Yes. See https://lore.kernel.org/all/1414528565-10907-1-git-send-emai...

(I believe the Xilinx-forked kernel uses a derivative of these patches)

mauchter··on Teaching my MIT classes with only free/libre software
You cite "a professor", and this article is also about a singular professor. That implies that this is the exception, not the rule. Students have ample opportunities elsewhere for exposure to "enterprise commercial software".

The delta between Jitsi Meet and Zoom or Teams for video-conferencing is minimal from a user experience perspective. The idea that a CS graduate from MIT would struggle to figure out Zoom or Teams at their first job is laughable.

mauchter··on Random Number Bug in Debian Linux (2008)
This article is five years old; it'd be nice to note that in the title.
mauchter··on The 5-minute Guide to C Pointers
> On lines 15-16 we assign our void pointer back to our castptr int pointer. Notice the explicit cast needed.

The explicit cast is not needed in C.

mauchter··on Wunderground.com sold to The Weather Channel Companies
You might be interested in http://lug.rose-hulman.edu/proj/aweather
mauchter··on This is what 864GB of RAM looks like now
Or glibc, which dropped support a few weeks ago: http://repo.or.cz/w/glibc.git/commit/d75a0a62b12c35ee85f786d...