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Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Kernel features from Python; i686 in Fedora; Kernel development with LLMs; Rust drivers; Load balancing with machine learning; Transparent huge pages. Briefs: Bcachefs removal; Coccinelle for Rust;

Debian's Bananas team has put out a call for people with Apple M1 or M2 systems to help test De [...]

The Netdev Foundation, which is 'a user-led effort under the supervision of the Linux Foundatio [...]

Every release of the Linux kernel has lots of new features, many of which are accessible from user space. Usually, though, the GNU C Library (glibc) and tools that access the Linux user-space API lag behind the kernel releases. Geoffrey Thomas showed ...

The copyleft-next project is an effort to develop a next-generation copyleft license; it was co [...]

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (apache-commons-beanutils, firefox, kea, kernel, kernel-rt, libblockdev, libvpx, pam, python-setuptools, python3, python3.11, python3.12, python3.9, and sudo), Debian (chromium), Gentoo (sudo), Oracle (

Version 5.0 of the GNU Health Hospital Information System has been released. This project, wor [...]

Transparent huge pages (THPs) are, theoretically, supposed to allow processes to benefit from larger page sizes without changes to their code. This does work, but the performance impacts from THPs are not always a benefit, so system administrators ...

The extensible scheduler class ("sched_ext") allows the loading of a custom CPU scheduler into the kernel as a set of BPF functions; it was merged for the 6.12 kernel release. Since then, sched_ext has enabled a wide range of experimentation with ...

The OsmAnd map and navigation app project recently celebrated its 15th anniversary. All thes [...]