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The kernel community is currently reviewing a proposed policy for contributors who are using la [...]

The bootc project allows users to create a bootable Linux system image using the container tooling that many developers are already familiar with. It is an evolution of OSTree (now called libostree), which is used to create Fedora Silverblue and ...

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind9.16, libsoup, mariadb:10.5, and sssd), Debian (chromium, keystone, and swift), Fedora (apptainer, buildah, chromium, fcitx5, fcitx5-anthy, fcitx5-chewing, fcitx5-chinese-addons, fcitx5 ...

Version 4.5 of the Mastodon decentralized social-media platform has been released. Notable feat [...]

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 [...]