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The Gentoo Linux project has announced that it is dropping support for Itanium: Following the removal of IA-64 (Itanium) support in the Linux kernel and glibc, and subsequent discussions on our mailing list, as well as a vote by the Gentoo Council,

Python has had formatted string literals (f-strings), a syntactic shorthand for building strings, since 2015. Recently, Jim Baker, Guido van Rossum, and Paul Everitt have proposed PEP 750 ("Tag Strings For Writing Domain-Specific Languages") which ...

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (389-ds-base, dotnet8.0, python3.13, roundcubemail, thunderbird, and tor), Mageia (roundcubemail), Oracle (.NET 8.0, bind and bind-dyndb-ldap, bind9.16, container-tools:ol8, edk2, firefox, gnome-shell,

The kernel's memory-management developers have been busy in recent times; it can be hard to keep up with all that has been happening in this core area. In an attempt to catch up, here is a look at recent work affecting tiered-memory systems,

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 15, 2024 is available.

Three new stable kernels have been released: 6.10.5, 6.6.46, and 6.1.105. As usual, they contain important fixes all over the kernel tree.

Rust is intended to let programmers write safer code. But compilers are not omniscient, and writing Rust code that interfaces with hardware (or that works with memory outside of Rust's lifetime paradigm) requires, at some point, the programmer's ...

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base), Debian (ffmpeg), Fedora (chromium), Red Hat (.NET 8.0, container-tools:rhel8, edk2, firefox, gnome-shell, grafana, jose, kernel, kernel-rt, krb5, open-vm-tools, orc, pcs, poppler, python ...

Markdown editors are a dime a dozen. Cheaper than that, actually, since many of them are opensource software. Despite the sheer number of options, finding an editor that has all of the features that one might want can be tricky. For some users,

Lix, the fork of Nix that LWN covered in July, has made its second release since forking. This one includes substantial changes to the backend code, including removing a dependency on Bison, and getting a change to the Nix language back upstream. The ...