Summary of the week of September 9, 2024

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It seems that the PR teams of the tech companies are still on vacation or maybe they don't even exist anymore, who knows. Be that as it may, only the typical rumors of new models, the calamitous state of Intel, the AI fever and suspiciously positive hardware reviews for which no one pays us to echo come out. So for now, Linux and niche hardware seem to be our refuge.

And now that I've put a little filler in this languid summary, here are the two news of the week:

The hibernation process in Linux

In this entry they review the hibernation process in Linux. The routine begins by checking if hibernation is enabled or possible. If so, it checks the availability of compression, prepares the threads to block them, leaves the console ready, synchronizes the file systems and to finish, begins the process of dumping to disk.

Analyzing Linux binaries from the console

Binsider is a tool for the Linux console that allows you to analyze binaries. From the program you can extract information such as the text strings contained in the file and the libraries linked. You can also do a dynamic analysis in which the execution flow of the file is shown.