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Gentoo Linux has published a 2025 project retrospective that looks at how the community has evo [...]

On December 24 2025, Linus Torvalds posted a strongly worded message celebrating a ruling in the ongoing GPL-compliance lawsuit filed against VIZIO by the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). This case and Torvalds's response have put a spotlight on ...

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) is suing VIZIO over smart TVs that include software licensed under the GPL and LGPL (including the Linux kernel, FFmpeg, systemd, and others). VIZIO didn't provide the source code along with the device, and on ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.18.4 and 6.12.64 stable kernels. As always, each contains [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: What to expect in 2026; LAVD scheduler; libpathrs; Questions for the TAB; Graphite; 2024 timeline. Briefs: shadow-utils 4.19.0; Android releases; IPFire 2.29-199; Manjaro 26.0; curl strcpy(); GNU ...

The European Commission has opened a 'call for evidence' to help shape its European Open Digita [...]

At the 2025 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), held in Tokyo in mid-December, Changwoo Min led a session on what he has learned while developing the "latency-criticality aware virtual deadline" (LAVD) scheduler, which is aimed at gaming workloads. The ...

Last year we revived the tradition of publishing a timeline of notable events from the previous year. Since that seemed to go over well, we decided we should continue the practice and look back on some of the most noteworthy events and releases of ...

The IPFire project, an open-source firewall Linux distribution, has released version 2.29 - Cor [...]

Android Authority reports that Google will be reducing the frequency of releases of code to the [...]