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Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.4, 6.18.50, and 6.12.109 stable kernels [...]

The restartable sequences feature is one of the stranger corners of the kernel's user-space interface; it provides a way for user space to carry out simple lockless operations and be informed if it is preempted over the course of an operation (and ...

Version 2026.08 of the Buildroot embedded Linux system builder has been released. Buildroot 202 [...]

The Asahi Linux project has announced that support for Apple's M3-series chips has been added t [...]

The 7.3-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: This didn't *feel* like a parti [...]

Python's support for multithreaded programs has improved considerably over the last few years with the advent of the "free-threaded" version of the language. But testing multithreaded programs is notoriously difficult, because the underlying host ...

Version 2026.09, code-named 'Hättiwaritätti', of the Debian-based Grml live Linux distribution [...]

Tiered-memory systems are built with multiple types of memory, each of which has different performance characteristics. In addition to the usual DRAM, a tiered system might also provide faster high-bandwidth memory or slower CXL memory. On these ...

Version 4.0 of the Audacity audio editor has been released. Notable changes in this release inc [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Python JIT; rnull block driver; steal time; GNOME governance; 7.3 merge window; LUKS. Briefs: Kernel infrastructure; Debian AI; Dolphin 26.08; Firefox 155; Incus 7.4; OpenShot 4.0; Quotes;