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The extensible scheduler class (sched_ext) allows the installation of a custom CPU scheduler built as a set of BPF programs. Its merging for the 6.12 kernel release moved the kernel away from the "one scheduler fits all" approach that had been taken ...

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-25-openjdk, openssl, and python3.9), Debian (gimp, libmatio, pyasn1, and python-django), Fedora (perl-HarfBuzz-Shaper, python-tinycss2, and weasyprint), Mageia (glib2.0), Oracle (curl, fence-agents ...

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: PostmarketOS; LKRG 1.0; Fedora elections; EROFS, NTFS, and XFS; Fedora and GPG 2.5; BPF kfuncs. Briefs: curl bounties; GPG security; Guix 1.5.0; ReactOS turns 30; glibc 2.43; Rust 1.93; Xfwl4; Quotes;

We have received the sad news that Didier Spaier, maintainer of the blind-friendly Slackware-ba [...]

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has announced that it will not be holding the 2026 spring boar [...]

Phones running Linux are ubiquitous these days and it has been that way since Android started working toward dominance in the smartphone market. Unfortunately, Android has slowly increased its freedom-unfriendliness and has become something of a ...

PC Gamer has run an amusing review of the scx_horoscope scheduler for Linux, which uses astrolo [...]

Creating fair governance models for open-source projects is not easy; defining criteria for participants to receive membership and voting rights is a particularly thorny problem for projects that have elections for representative bodies. The Fedora ...

There is a new GnuPG update for a 'critical security bug' in recent GnuPG releases. A crafte [...]

GNU C Library maintainer Carlos O'Donell has announced that the project will be moving its core [...]