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The null block driver (null_blk) is a small driver that is mostly useful for benchmarking block-layer implementations. It accepts all requests and marks them complete as quickly as possible, doing as little work as possible. In June 2026, Andreas ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.2, 7.1.12, 6.18.48, 6.12.107, 6.6.155, [...]

Virtualization can increase CPU utilization by allowing a large number of virtual CPUs to share a smaller number of physical CPUs. The amount of CPU time that is actually available does not change, though, so heavy activity on too many virtual CPUs ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.1, 7.1.11, 6.18.47, 6.12.106, 6.6.154, [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: AGPL violations; OpenMDW license; quantum computing and encryption; 7.3 merge window; Remind; Quickshell. Briefs: arrayref; RIP Steve French; Armbian 26.8; Vanilla OS 3; Emacs 31.1; KDE Gear 26.08;

At FOSSY 2026, several people from the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), which organizes the conference, gave a presentation about an ongoing violation of the Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPLv3). Bradley Kühn, Karen Sandler, and ...

Version 26.8 of the Armbian distribution for Arm hardware has been released. Most releases ar [...]

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, gstreamer1-plugins-base, kernel, kernel-rt, and sqlite), Debian (freecad, kernel, libvncserver, and openssl), Fedora (apr-util, chromium, nnn, perl-DBI, python-tablib, python3.10, python3.11,

Version 26.8 of the LibreOffice suite has been released. LibreOffice 26.8 concentrates on thr [...]

For people who would like to experiment with the multi-kernel Linux concept, Cong Wang has anno [...]