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The Asahi Linux project, which brings Linux support to Apple Arm-based Macs, has warned its use [...]

The BPF verifier has, in the course of wrestling with the difficult problem of statically analyzing loops, grown special support for many kinds of loops over its history, but its fundamental approach to simple for loops has not changed. When it ...

Heise is carrying a report from the Linux App Summit, held in Berlin in May. The slightly mo [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.0.12, 6.18.35, and 6.12.93 stable kernels [...]

In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Amir Goldstein updated attendees on the fanotify filesystem-event monitoring subsystem. He wanted to describe changes that had come in the last ...

Andrew Tridgell has announced the release of rsync 3.4.4 with fixes for the regressions introdu [...]

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind9.16, frr, kernel, kernel-rt, libexif, mysql, php, and unbound), Debian (apache2, chromium, glibc, gsasl, jackson-core, libxml2, nginx, request-tracker4, request-tracker5, tomcat10, tomcat11,

The 7.1-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: 'Anyway, as things look now this i [...]

Since the earliest days of Unix, two of the core process-oriented system calls have been fork(), which creates a child process as a copy of the parent, and exec(), which runs a new program in the place of the current one. In Linux kernels, those ...

Version 4.0.13 of Ruby's Bundler package-manager has added dependency cooldowns in order to hel [...]