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At the recently concluded Maintainers Summit, Linus Torvalds said that he had been using a larg [...]

Version 6.8 of the KDE Plasma desktop has been released. The The KDE project has timed the rele [...]

After much deliberation, the GCC project recently came up with a policy on the use of large language models for development of the compiler suite. It is somewhat restrictive, but still leaves room for LLMs in the development process. At the 2026 GNU ...

KDE Linux, the KDE Project's second stab at creating its own distribution, was first introduced as "Project Banana" at the Akademy conference in 2024 by Harald Sitter. Nate Graham announced the first alpha-quality release during Akademy 2025. Graham ...

The Lix and Nix projects have jointly disclosed a set of vulnerabilities that can be used to es [...]

Rust's system of ownership and borrowed references is convenient when it can correctly model a program's needs. The Rust for Linux project has worked to provide adapters between Rust's semantics and the existing C code in the kernel. At Kangrejos ...

PostgreSQL core team member Peter Eisentraut has written a blog post reflecting on the 'unusual [...]

Asterinas is a project to build a new operating-system kernel in Rust; it was covered here in 2 [...]

The Maintainers Summit is a one-day, invitation-only gathering of about 30 kernel developers; it is held once each year to discuss policy-related issues that are not always amenable to resolution via email. The 2026 event was scheduled for October 8 ...

The LineageOS project, which produces an Android-based distribution for mobile devices, has ann [...]