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The future of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) has been under discussion for some time; [...]

Filesystems are complex and performance-sensitive beasts. They can also present security concerns. Microkernel-based systems have long pushed filesystems into separate processes in order to contain any vulnerabilities that may be found there. Linux ...

Security updates have been issued by Debian (unbound), Fedora (deepin-qt5integration, deepin-qt5platform-plugins, dtkcore, dtkgui, dtklog, dtkwidget, fcitx-qt5, fcitx5-qt, fontforge, gammaray, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, kddockwidgets,

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Python thread safety; Namespace reference counting; Merigraf; Speeding up short reads; Julia 1.12; systemd security. Briefs: CHERIoT 1.0; Chromium XSLT; Arm KASLR; Bazzite; Devuan 6.0; Incus 6.18;

Mason Freed and Dominik Röttsches have published a document with a timeline and plans for remov [...]

Version 2.3.0 of the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment (LXQt) has been released. The highlight [...]

Linux has many security features and tools that have evolved over the years to address threats as they emerge and security gaps as they are discovered. Linux security is all, as Lennart Poettering observed at the All Systems Go! conference held in ...

Version 1.3 of the Open Container Initiative (OCI) Runtime Specification has been released. The [...]

Version 6.18 of the Incus container and virtual-machine management system has been released. No [...]

Julia is a modern programming language that is of particular interest to scientists due to its high performance combined with language features such as Lisp-style macros, an advanced type system, and multiple dispatch. We last looked at Julia in ...