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The Software Engineering Radio podcast has put up an interview with graphics maintainer Dave Ai [...]

The splice() and vmsplice() system calls are meant to improve performance for certain data-movement tasks by minimizing (or avoiding altogether) system calls and the copying of data. They also have a long history of security problems. The recent ...

The EFF has a blog post looking at a new bill in California that would exempt open-source opera [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: MeshCore; x32 ABI; Open-source security; Package-manager metadata; More LSFMM+BPF coverage; Loadable crypto module. Briefs: Lightwell; jqwik protestware; RedHat package compromise; DistroWatch; Fedora ...

Over time, many open-source maintainers face the same problem: they lack the time to do all of the work that their project needs, and no one else is stepping up to provide adequate help. Maintainers, though, are often reluctant to throw in the towel.

Alexei Starovoitov gave "less of a presentation, more of a scream of realization" at the BPF track of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. He shared a set of ideas for how BPF could change to avoid being swept away ...

Andrew Tridgell has written a blog post responding to complaints that he has begun using LLM to [...]

Security updates have been issued by Debian (php-twig), Fedora (hplip, python-wsgidav, roundcubemail, and xorg-x11-server), Oracle (compat-openssl10, httpd:2.4, and kernel), Red Hat (osbuild-composer), SUSE (busybox, cloudflared, cockpit, cups,

Extended attributes (xattrs) provide a way to attach key/value metadata to inodes--files, directories, and the like--in a filesystem. As with many Linux filesystems, the FUSE filesystem supports xattrs. In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux ...

Package managers for operating systems and programming languages have been around for decades. Each package manager, and its accompanying packaging format, has been shaped by the needs of its respective ecosystem, but there is a growing need to make ...