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Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: SFC v. VIZIO; GPLv2 requirements; Debian and GTK 2; OpenZL; kernel scheduler QoS; Rust concurrent data access; Asciinema. Briefs: OpenSSL and Python; LSFMM+BPF 2026; Fedora elections; Gentoo ...

Paul Kehrer and Alex Gaynor, maintainers of the Python cryptography module, have put out some s [...]

Lossless data compression is an important tool for reducing the storage requirements of the world's ever-growing data sets. Yann Collet developed the LZ4 algorithm and designed the Zstandard (or Zstd) algorithm; he came to the 2025 Open Source Summit ...

The Debian GNOME team would like to remove the GTK 2 graphics toolkit, which has been unmaintained upstream for more than five years, and ship Debian 14 ("forky") without it. As one might expect, however, there are those who would like to find a way ...

Version 1.6.0 of the Radicle peer-to-peer, local-first code collaboration stack has been releas [...]

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (sssd), Debian (linux-6.1 and python-parsl), Fedora (chezmoi, complyctl, composer, and firefox), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (buildah, libpq, podman, postgresql, postgresql16, postgresql:13, postgresql:15,

Quality-of-service (QoS) mechanisms attempt to prioritize some processes (or network traffic, disk I/O, etc.) over others in order to meet a system's performance goals. This is a difficult topic to handle in the world of Linux, where workloads,

Version 147.0 of the Firefox web browser has been released. Notable changes in this release inc [...]

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (mariadb10.11, mariadb:10.11, mariadb:10.3, mariadb:10.5, and tar), Debian (net-snmp), Fedora (coturn, NetworkManager-l2tp, openssh, and tuxanci), Mageia (libtasn1), Oracle (buildah, cups, httpd, kernel,