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Control-flow integrity (CFI) is a set of techniques that make it more difficult for attackers to hijack indirect jumps to exploit a system. The Linux kernel has supported forward-edge CFI (which protects indirect function calls) since 2020, with the ...

The Linux From Scratch (LFS) project provides step-by-step instructions on building a customize [...]

The first installment in this series introduced several data structures in the kernel's swap subsystem and described work to replace some of those with a new "swap table" structure. The work did not stop there, though; there is more modernization of ...

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Sigil; Eurydice; Sub-schedulers for sched_ext; Swap table; Futex robust lists; Tyr. Briefs: openSUSE governance; Git 2.53.0; LibreOffice 26.2; Open Source Award; Quotes;

The robust futex kernel API is a way for a user-space program to ensure that the locks it holds are properly cleaned up when it exits. But the API suffers from a number of different problems, as André Almeida described in a session in the "Gaming on ...

Creating an ebook in EPUB format is easy, for certain values of "easy". All one really needs is a text editor, a few command-line utilities; also needed is a working knowledge of XHTML, CSS, along with an understanding of the format's structure and ...

Version 26.2 of the LibreOffice office suite has been released. LibreOffice 26.2 is focused o [...]

The team behind Tyr started 2025 with little to show in our quest to produce a Rust GPU driver for Arm Mali hardware, and by the end of the year, we were able to play SuperTuxKart (a 3D open-source racing game) at the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC).

Version 2.53.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released. Changes include doc [...]

The kernel's swap subsystem is a complex and often unloved beast. It is also a critical component in the memory-management subsystem and has a significant impact on the performance of the system as a whole. At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,