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Ian Jackson (along with Sean Whitton) has posted a manifesto and status update to the effect th [...]

At Open Source Summit Japan 2025, Erin McKean talked about the challenges to producing good project documentation, along with some tooling that can help guide the process toward success. It is a problem that many projects struggle with and one that ...

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz has announced that loong64 is now an official architecture for Debian [...]

The 6.19-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'I obviously expect next week to be even quie [...]

The 2025 election for members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board has concluded; t [...]

The FreeBSD Foundation has a blog post about the progress it has made in 2025 on the Laptop Sup [...]

The BPF verifier is complicated. It needs to check every possible path that a BPF program's execution could take. The fact that its determination of whether a BPF program is safe is based on the whole lifetime of the program, instead of simple local ...

Stephen Rothwell, who has maintained the kernel's linux-next integration tree from its inceptio [...]

Linus Torvalds is famously averse to presenting prepared talks, but the wider community is always interested in what he has to say about the condition of the Linux kernel. So, for some time now, his appearances have been in the form of an informal ...

Systemd v259 has been released. Notable changes include a new '--empower' option for run0 that [...]