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The open-source consulting firm Igalia has put out an announcement celebrating 25 years of work [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 7.2.7, 6.18.53, and 6.12.111 stable. As is usual these days [...]

NetBSD has long had support for running Linux binaries via its kernel-level compat_linux feature, but test coverage for it was less complete than some might hope. In order to provide better testing for compat_linux, Google Summer of Code (GSoC)

Linus Torvalds has released the 7.3-rc4 kernel prepatch. It is, unsurprisingly at this point, [...]

The Git source-code management system is at the core of development processes worldwide, so changes, especially incompatible changes, are of great interest to the developers involved. The Git 2.56 release, which can be expected around the end of ...

Version 5.6 of the Systemtap tracing tool has been released. BPF LSM hooks and XDP packet-pr [...]

The io_uring subsystem is all about asynchronous execution; applications count on it to not block -- unless explicitly requested to. Within io_uring, maintaining the "never blocks" guarantee has sometimes been a challenge, given that many paths in ...

Version 51 of the GNOME desktop environment has been released. The list of changes includes a [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Server-data encryption; PostgreSQL scary patches; Faster kernel builds; BPF for blk-iocost; Lessons learned as DPL. Briefs: Brief news items from throughout the community. Announcements: Newsletters,

The Register looks forward to the upcoming Fedora 45 release. The biggest surprise is that L [...]