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Linus Torvalds released the 7.3 kernel, at the end of the usual nine-week development cycle, on October 18. This cycle, abundantly fueled by LLM-assisted contributions, broke just about every record imaginable. As usual, we have compiled some ...

Rust has several ad-hoc mechanisms to allow user code to influence how the standard library executes. For example, custom panic handlers and custom allocators both involve registering functions that core standard library code needs to call. With more ...

Linus Torvalds has released the 7.3 kernel, as expected. It's Sunday afternoon, and this wee [...]

The GNOME Project has provided GNOME OS for some time; until now, the project only provided a ' [...]

Self-referential structures that can be used without unsafe code have posed a problem for Rust for years. There are many cases where a self-referential data structure is the elegant algorithmic choice, but implementing it in accordance with Rust's ...

The NFS network filesystem protocol has a long history on Unix-like operating systems (and beyond). NFS is still evolving, though, and implementations need to keep up. At the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference, NFS developer Jeff Layton gave an overview ...

The results from the 2026 election for members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board [...]

Since Android's inception, the kernels it has used have diverged significantly from the mainline. While many of those differences have been resolved over time, and the move to the generic kernel image has helped to bring Android closer, current ...

As part of KDE's 30th anniversary celebration, the project has released The KDE Documentary &md [...]

Canonical has announced the release of Ubuntu 26.10 ('Stonking Stingray'): Ubuntu 26.10 advan [...]