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The POSIX realtime model, which is implemented in the Linux kernel, can ensure that a realtime process obtains the CPU time it needs to get its job done. It can be less effective, though, when there are multiple realtime processes competing for the ...

The Lustre filesystem has a long history, some of which intersects with Linux. It was added to the staging tree in 2013, but was bounced out of staging in 2018, due to a lack of progress and a development model that was incompatible with the kernel's ...

The KDE Project has announced the Plasma 6.4 release. New features include more flexible tiling [...]

The fundamental concept of checkpoint/restore is elegant: capture a process's state and resurrect it later, perhaps elsewhere. Checkpointing meticulously records a process's memory, open files, CPU state, and more into a snapshot. Restoration then ...

Accessibility features and the work that goes into developing those features often tend to be overlooked and are poorly understood by all but the people who actually depend on such features. At Fedora's annual developer conference, Flock, Lukáš

The Kubernetes project has announced that it will be losing its 'special status' with the Slack [...]

Version 2.50.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released with a long list of n [...]

At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Anna Schumaker led a discussion about implementing the NFS v4.2 WRITE_SAME command in both the NFS client and server. WRITE_SAME is meant to write large amounts of ...

Linus Torvalds has released 6.16-rc2, which is 'admittedly even smaller than usual', though rc2 [...]

The open-source mobile app Organic Maps is used by millions of people on both the Android and iOS platforms. In addition to featuring offline maps (generated from OpenStreetMap cartography) and turn-by-turn navigation, it also promises its users ...