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The Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) subsystem provides a way to service filesystem requests from a user-space server, which moves the format-handling code out of the kernel. The FUSE server can use the io_uring facility for better performance, but ...

The JFrog blog examines some reported vulnerabilities in SQLite, some of which made their way i [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.1.6, 6.18.42, 6.12.101, and 6.6.148 stabl [...]

The release of NetBSD 11.0, the 19th major version of the operating system, has been announced. [...]

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, fence-agents, kernel, kernel-rt, openssh, osbuild-composer, perl-Archive-Tar, perl-DBI, perl:5.32, pipewire, python-pillow, qemu-kvm, unbound, and vim), Debian (chromium,

The 7.2-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Quoth Linus: 'Hmm. This rc is huge. Even by t [...]

The Servo web-browser engine project has published an update about all of the changes that land [...]

Song Liu believes that the way that programmers assemble complex BPF programs will be changing rapidly in the future. At a session of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, he shared his thoughts on what that change ...

The Arch Linux DevOps team has announced that adoption of orphaned packages in the Arch User Re [...]

Linux provides a system call (mkdir()) to create a directory, and a few variants of open() that can open a directory. There is, however, no system call in Linux that can create and open a directory in a single, race-free call. Jori Koolstra has been ...