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Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has agreed to invest 688,800 to improve the security, stability, and functionality of Samba. The investment will take place over three years and will be managed by SerNet, a company that employs several Samba core ...

Read-copy-update (RCU) is a synchronization mechanism that was added to the Linux kernel in October 2002. RCU is most frequently used as a replacement for reader-writer locking, but is also used in a number of other ways. This article covers recent ...

Version 7.1.0 of the VirtualBox virtualization system has been released. Changes include a major GUI update, a new Network Address Translation (NAT) engine with IPv6 support, shared clipboard support on Wayland, and more.

Debian does not have an official way to configure networking. Instead, it has four recommended ways to configure networking, one of which is the venerable ifupdown, which has been part of Debian since the turn of the century and is showing its age. A ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of seven new stable kernels: 6.10.10, 6.6.51, 6.1.110, 5.15.167, 5.10.226 5.4.284, and 4.19.322. As usual, they all contain lots of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 12, 2024 is available.

The Python community has been roiled, to a certain extent, by an action taken by the steering council (SC): the three-month suspension of a unnamed--weirdly--Python core developer. Tim Peters is the developer in question, as he has acknowledged,

Version 3.4 of the Pandoc document-conversion tool has been released. Notable changes in this release include a new ANSI output format (for console output), a switch to WeasyPrint as the PDF engine for HTML to PDF conversion, the ability to position ...

CPU scheduling is a challenging job; since it inherently requires making guesses about what the demands on the system will be in the future, it remains reliant on heuristics, despite ongoing efforts to remove them. Some of those heuristics take ...

Version 1.0 of the Radicle development platform has been released. Radicle 1.0 represents the culmination of years of experimentation and hard work from our team and community, where we set out to ensure that free and open source software ecosystems ...