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[$] The first half of the 7.0 merge window

By LWN.net on Fri Feb 13 15:45:06 2026

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New delegation for Debian's data protection team

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[$] Open-source mapping for disaster response

By LWN.net on Fri Feb 13 15:30:07 2026

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Security updates for Friday

By LWN.net on Fri Nov 7 14:15:07 2025

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[$] Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine

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[$] The reverting of revocable

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Debian DFSG Team announces new dashboard and queue processes

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A single stable kernel for Thursday

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Security updates for Thursday

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 12, 2026

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Linux man pages 6.17 released

By LWN.net on Wed Feb 11 21:30:07 2026

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[$] Evolving Git for the next decade

By LWN.net on Wed Feb 11 16:00:07 2026

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postmarketOS FOSDEM 2026 and hackathon recap

By LWN.net on Wed Feb 11 16:00:07 2026

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Stable kernels for Wednesday

By LWN.net on Wed Feb 11 14:45:06 2026

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Security updates for Wednesday

By LWN.net on Wed Nov 5 14:15:08 2025

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Dave Farber RIP

By LWN.net on Tue Feb 10 16:45:06 2026

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GTK hackfest, 2026 edition (GTK Development Blog)

By LWN.net on Tue Feb 10 16:30:06 2026

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[$] FOSS in times of war, scarcity, and AI

By LWN.net on Tue Feb 10 15:00:08 2026

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Security updates for Tuesday

By LWN.net on Tue Nov 4 14:30:07 2025

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[$] Development statistics for 6.19

By LWN.net on Mon Feb 9 18:15:08 2026

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Offpunk 3.0 released

By LWN.net on Mon Feb 9 15:00:09 2026

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Debian's tag2upload considered stable

By LWN.net on Mon Feb 9 14:45:07 2026

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Security updates for Monday

By LWN.net on Mon Nov 3 13:30:08 2025

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The 6.19 kernel has been released

By LWN.net on Sun Feb 8 21:45:09 2026

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An in-kernel machine-learning library

By LWN.net on Fri Feb 6 23:15:07 2026

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Six stable kernels for Friday

By LWN.net on Fri Feb 6 16:45:07 2026

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[$] Kernel control-flow-integrity support comes to GCC

By LWN.net on Fri Feb 6 16:30:07 2026

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Linux from Scratch to drop System V versions

By LWN.net on Fri Feb 6 16:30:07 2026

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Ardour 9.0 released

By LWN.net on Fri Feb 6 16:30:07 2026

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[$] Modernizing swapping: the end of the swap map

By LWN.net on Thu Feb 5 15:30:08 2026

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 5, 2026

By LWN.net on Thu Feb 5 00:15:08 2026

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[$] API changes for the futex robust list

By LWN.net on Wed Feb 4 18:00:08 2026

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LibreOffice 26.2 released

By LWN.net on Wed Feb 4 15:15:08 2026

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[$] Sigil simplifies creating and editing EPUBs

By LWN.net on Wed Feb 4 15:15:07 2026

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[$] The future for Tyr

By LWN.net on Tue Feb 3 15:00:07 2026

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Git 2.53.0 released

By LWN.net on Mon Feb 2 20:45:07 2026

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[$] Modernizing swapping: introducing the swap table

By LWN.net on Mon Feb 2 15:30:06 2026

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Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc8

By LWN.net on Sun Feb 1 23:45:06 2026

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[$] Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice

By LWN.net on Fri Jan 30 16:15:07 2026

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The Award for Excellence in Open Source goes to Greg Kroah-Hartman

By LWN.net on Fri Jan 30 15:30:06 2026

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Three stable kernel updates

By LWN.net on Fri Jan 30 15:00:07 2026

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[$] Sub-schedulers for sched_ext

By LWN.net on Thu Jan 29 15:45:07 2026

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A proposed governance structure for openSUSE

By LWN.net on Thu Jan 29 15:45:07 2026

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 29, 2026

By LWN.net on Thu Jan 29 01:15:07 2026

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Mourning Didier Spaier

By LWN.net on Wed Jan 28 18:45:07 2026

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OSI pauses 2026 board election cycle

By LWN.net on Wed Jan 28 18:15:07 2026

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[$] Open source for phones: postmarketOS

By LWN.net on Wed Jan 28 18:00:07 2026

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PC Gamer on the scx_horoscope scheduler

By LWN.net on Wed Jan 28 16:15:08 2026

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[$] Who should vote in Fedora elections?

By LWN.net on Wed Jan 28 16:00:10 2026

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A critical GnuPG security update

By LWN.net on Tue Jan 27 17:45:09 2026

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The GNU C Library is moving from Sourceware

By LWN.net on Tue Jan 27 17:00:08 2026

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[$] Implicit arguments for BPF kfuncs

By LWN.net on Tue Jan 27 15:45:08 2026

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Xfwl4: the roadmap for a Xfce Wayland compositor

By LWN.net on Tue Jan 27 14:30:08 2026

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[$] Fedora and GPG 2.5

By LWN.net on Mon Jan 26 17:32:16 2026

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Stenberg: The end of the curl bug-bounty program

By LWN.net on Mon Jan 26 17:02:16 2026

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Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc7

By LWN.net on Sun Jan 25 23:17:16 2026

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GNU C Library 2.43 released

By LWN.net on Sat Jan 24 16:30:09 2026

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[$] Filesystem medley: EROFS, NTFS, and XFS

By LWN.net on Fri Jan 23 15:30:07 2026

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Windows users ABANDON Microsoft for Linux

By MeaTLoTioN on Fri Jan 23 13:13:26 2026

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Two new stable kernels for Friday

By LWN.net on Fri Jan 23 14:15:08 2026

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GNU Guix 1.5.0 released

By LWN.net on Fri Jan 23 14:15:08 2026

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[$] Linux Kernel Runtime Guard reaches its 1.0 release

By LWN.net on Thu Jan 22 17:45:08 2026

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30 years of ReactOS

By LWN.net on Thu Jan 22 14:30:08 2026

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Rust 1.93.0 released

By LWN.net on Thu Jan 22 14:30:08 2026

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 22, 2026

By LWN.net on Thu Jan 22 01:00:09 2026

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[$] Cleanup on aisle fsconfig()

By LWN.net on Wed Jan 21 18:45:07 2026

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Pandas 3.0 released

By LWN.net on Wed Jan 21 17:45:06 2026

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[$] Responses to gpg.fail

By LWN.net on Wed Jan 21 16:15:06 2026

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Ryabitsev: Tracking kernel development with korgalore

By LWN.net on Tue Jan 20 21:45:08 2026

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Remote authentication bypass in telnetd

By LWN.net on Tue Jan 20 21:00:11 2026

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Mozilla introduces Firefox Nightly RPM package repository

By LWN.net on Tue Jan 20 17:30:10 2026

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[$] An alternate path for immutable distributions

By LWN.net on Tue Jan 20 16:30:09 2026

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Four stable kernel updates

By LWN.net on Sun Jan 11 15:45:09 2026

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The end of OzLabs

By LWN.net on Mon Jan 19 21:45:08 2026

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Haas: Who contributed to PostgreSQL development in 2025?

By LWN.net on Mon Jan 19 16:32:17 2026

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[$] Task-level io_uring restrictions

By LWN.net on Mon Jan 19 16:17:15 2026

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Wine 11.0 released

By LWN.net on Mon Jan 19 14:45:08 2026

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Two new stable kernels for Monday

By LWN.net on Mon Jan 19 14:15:07 2026

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Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc6

By LWN.net on Mon Jan 19 01:00:08 2026

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Four stable kernels for the weekend

By LWN.net on Sat Jan 17 19:30:09 2026

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[$] A free and open-source rootkit for Linux

By LWN.net on Fri Jan 16 18:00:08 2026

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A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9 (Project Zero)

By LWN.net on Fri Jan 16 00:15:08 2026

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Running Debian on the OpenWrt One (Collabora Blog)

By LWN.net on Thu Jan 15 19:02:18 2026

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Forgejo 14.0 released

By LWN.net on Thu Jan 15 15:15:09 2026

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[$] Removing a pointer dereference from slab allocations

By LWN.net on Thu Jan 15 15:00:09 2026

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A note for MXroute users

By LWN.net on Thu Jan 15 14:30:08 2026

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 15, 2026

By LWN.net on Thu Jan 15 00:15:07 2026

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The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography

By LWN.net on Wed Jan 14 23:30:07 2026

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[$] Format-specific compression with OpenZL

By LWN.net on Wed Jan 14 18:00:09 2026

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[$] Debian discusses removing GTK 2 for forky

By LWN.net on Wed Jan 14 16:15:09 2026

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Radicle 1.6.0 released

By LWN.net on Wed Jan 14 14:15:08 2026

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[$] A high-level quality-of-service interface

By LWN.net on Tue Jan 13 19:15:09 2026

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Firefox 147 released

By LWN.net on Tue Jan 13 15:15:08 2026

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[$] Asciinema: making movies at the command-line

By LWN.net on Mon Jan 12 17:45:07 2026

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The LSFMM+BPF 2026 call for proposals is out

By LWN.net on Sun Jan 11 21:15:08 2026

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Evans: A data model for Git (and other docs updates)

By LWN.net on Sat Jan 10 01:15:07 2026

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[$] READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), but not for Rust

By LWN.net on Fri Jan 9 16:00:08 2026

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Fedora Linux 43 election results

By LWN.net on Thu Jan 8 18:00:07 2026

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Gentoo looks back on 2025

By LWN.net on Thu Jan 8 16:15:08 2026

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[$] SFC v. VIZIO: who can enforce the GPL?

By LWN.net on Thu Jan 8 15:45:08 2026

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[$] GPLv2 and installation requirements

By LWN.net on Thu Jan 8 15:45:08 2026

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Two new stable kernels

By LWN.net on Thu Nov 13 22:30:07 2025

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 8, 2026

By LWN.net on Thu Jan 8 15:00:08 2026

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European Commission issues call for evidence on open source

By LWN.net on Wed Jan 7 19:15:08 2026

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[$] Lessons from creating a gaming-oriented scheduler

By LWN.net on Wed Jan 7 17:30:07 2026

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[$] 2025 Linux and free software timeline

By LWN.net on Wed Jan 7 16:15:07 2026

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IPFire 2.29 Core Update 199 released

By LWN.net on Wed Jan 7 16:00:08 2026

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Google will now only release Android source code twice a year (Android

By LWN.net on Wed Jan 7 15:00:06 2026

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[$] Questions for the Technical Advisory Board

By LWN.net on Tue Jan 6 17:30:07 2026

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[$] The difficulty of safe path traversal

By LWN.net on Tue Jan 6 17:30:06 2026

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Manjaro 26.0 released

By LWN.net on Tue Jan 6 16:45:07 2026

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[$] Predictions for the new year

By LWN.net on Mon Jan 5 18:30:08 2026

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GNU ddrescue 1.30 released

By LWN.net on Mon Jan 5 14:30:08 2026

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Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc4

By LWN.net on Mon Jan 5 01:30:08 2026

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Kroah-Hartman: Linux kernel security work

By LWN.net on Fri Jan 2 15:45:09 2026

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6.18.3 stable kernel released

By LWN.net on Fri Jan 2 14:15:08 2026

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Shadow-utils 4.19.0 released

By LWN.net on Wed Dec 31 15:45:09 2025

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Stenberg: No strcpy either

By LWN.net on Tue Dec 30 22:15:08 2025

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Graham: [KDE] Highlights from 2025

By LWN.net on Mon Dec 29 16:00:07 2025

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Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc3

By LWN.net on Sun Dec 28 22:45:09 2025

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[$] An early look at the Graphite 2D graphics editor

By LWN.net on Fri Dec 26 16:00:10 2025

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A partial ruling in the Vizio GPL suit

By LWN.net on Thu Dec 25 17:15:08 2025

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Ruby 4.0 released

By LWN.net on Thu Dec 25 14:15:08 2025

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 25, 2025

By LWN.net on Thu Dec 25 01:00:08 2025

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[$] A 2025 retrospective

By LWN.net on Wed Dec 24 16:15:08 2025

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[$] What's new in systemd v259

By LWN.net on Wed Dec 24 15:00:08 2025

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[$] A high-memory elimination timeline for the kernel

By LWN.net on Tue Dec 23 15:45:07 2025

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Elementary OS 8.1 released

By LWN.net on Tue Dec 23 15:45:07 2025

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[$] Verifier-state pruning in BPF

By LWN.net on Tue Dec 23 14:30:07 2025

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Incus 6.20 released

By LWN.net on Mon Dec 22 18:15:09 2025

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Qubes OS 4.3.0 released

By LWN.net on Mon Dec 22 16:45:08 2025

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GDB 17.1 released

By LWN.net on Mon Dec 22 16:45:08 2025

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Jackson: Debians git transition

By LWN.net on Mon Dec 22 15:45:07 2025

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[$] Tools for successful documentation projects

By LWN.net on Mon Dec 22 15:15:07 2025

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Loong64 is now an official Debian architecture

By LWN.net on Mon Dec 22 14:15:07 2025

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Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc2

By LWN.net on Mon Dec 22 05:15:05 2025

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Results from the 2025 TAB election

By LWN.net on Sun Dec 21 15:45:09 2025

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FreeBSD laptop progress

By LWN.net on Fri Dec 19 18:45:08 2025

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[$] A visualizer for BPF program state

By LWN.net on Fri Dec 19 15:15:08 2025

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A change of maintainership for linux-next

By LWN.net on Thu Dec 18 16:45:08 2025

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[$] Episode 29 of the Dirk and Linus show

By LWN.net on Thu Dec 18 15:30:08 2025

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Systemd v259 released

By LWN.net on Thu Dec 18 15:00:08 2025

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Three stable kernels for Thursday

By LWN.net on Thu Dec 18 14:30:08 2025

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 18, 2025

By LWN.net on Thu Dec 18 00:30:07 2025

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[$] Going boldly into the COSMIC desktop environment

By LWN.net on Wed Dec 17 19:45:07 2025

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Asahi Linux 6.18 progress report

By LWN.net on Wed Dec 17 16:15:06 2025

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[$] The Civil Infrastructure Platform after (nearly) ten years

By LWN.net on Wed Dec 17 15:00:07 2025

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Mozilla gets a new CEO: Anthony Enzor-DeMeo

By LWN.net on Tue Dec 16 20:15:07 2025

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[$] 2025 Maintainers Summit development process discussions

By LWN.net on Tue Dec 16 15:15:08 2025

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[$] Calibre adds AI "discussion" feature

By LWN.net on Mon Dec 15 18:00:07 2025

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Announcing Vojtux: a Fedora-based accessible Linux distribution

By LWN.net on Mon Dec 15 16:45:06 2025

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[$] Better development tools for the kernel

By LWN.net on Mon Dec 15 15:15:07 2025

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[$] The rest of the 6.19 merge window

By LWN.net on Sun Dec 14 22:30:08 2025

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Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc1

By LWN.net on Sun Dec 14 08:30:08 2025

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Conill: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities

By LWN.net on Sun Dec 14 01:15:07 2025

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[$] The state of the kernel Rust experiment

By LWN.net on Sat Dec 13 01:30:07 2025

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Three new stable kernels

By LWN.net on Fri Dec 12 20:00:09 2025

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[$] Best practices for linux-next

By LWN.net on Fri Dec 12 16:30:08 2025

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KDE Gear 25.12 released

By LWN.net on Fri Dec 12 16:30:08 2025

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Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS released

By LWN.net on Thu Dec 11 19:45:07 2025

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Rust 1.92.0 released

By LWN.net on Thu Dec 11 18:45:07 2025

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[$] Toward a policy for machine-learning tools in kernel development

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