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GNU GRUB 2, mostly just referred to as GRUB these days, is the most widely used boot loader for x86_64 Linux systems. It supports reading from a vast selection of filesystems, handles booting modern systems with UEFI or legacy systems with a BIOS,

On April 1, the Gentoo Linux project published a blog post announcing that it was switching to [...]

Denver Gingerich of the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has published an article on the impa [...]

The kernel provides a number of ways for processes to communicate with each other, but they never quite seem to fit the bill for many users. There are currently a few proposals for interprocess communication (IPC) enhancements circulating on the ...

Brian 'bex' Exelbierd has published a blog post exploring follow-up questions raised by the re [...]

OpenSSH 10.3 has been released. Among the many changes in this release are a security fix to ad [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.19.11, 6.18.21, 6.12.80, and 6.6.131 stable kernels, foll [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: LiteLLM compromise; systemd controversy; LLM kernel review; OpenBSD and vibe-coding; Rust trait-solver; Pandoc. Briefs: Rspamd 4.0.0; telnyx vulnerability; Fedora forge; SystemRescue 13.00; Servo 0.0 ...

Michael Meeks has posted an angry missive about changes at The Document Foundation. What has r [...]

Pandoc is a document-conversion program that can translate among a myriad of formats, including LaTeX, HTML, Office Open XML (docx), plain text, and Markdown. It is also extensible by writing Lua filters that can manipulate the document structure and ...