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Registration is now open for the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference, to be held October 5 to 7 in P [...]

Fedora contributor Simon de Vlieger has published a blog post with a walkthrough of how the pro [...]

The Open Home Foundation, which governs the Home Assistant home-automation project, has announc [...]

Daniel Borkmann led a session at the 2026 Linux Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit about the progress that has been made with netkit, the subsystem that allows virtual machines (VMs) running on Linux to perform networking efficiently. When ...

I have just received the shocking news that Dan Williams, a longtime, high-profile kernel dev [...]

One of the ideas raised at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) was the creation of an operations structure for the swap subsystem. Like many parts of the kernel, the swap layer evolved over time, with ...

The Codeberg forge has adopted a pair of new policies, promising not to use hosted projects to [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: LLMs in the kernel; GNOME save and restore; Fedora changes; BPF and tracepoints; BPF and LSMs; famfs; sched_ext. Briefs: GNOME security; PyPI policy; Arch on aarch64; Firefox 153; Quotes;

One of the features that users often miss when moving from X11 to Wayland is the ability to save and restore the position of windows between sessions. At GUADEC 2026, held in A Coruña, Spain, Adrian Vovk provided an overview of work that has gone ...

Python Software Foundation security developer-in-residence Seth Larson has announced that the P [...]