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Libxml2, an XML parser and toolkit, is an almost perfect example of the successes and failures of the open-source movement. In the 25 years since its first release, it has been widely adopted by open-source projects, for use in commercial software,

One of the biggest changes to come to the Python world is the addition of the free-threading interpreter, which eliminates the global interpreter lock (GIL) that kept the interpreter thread-safe, but also serialized multi-threaded Python code. Over ...

It took time and the writing of over 60 articles, but LWN's coverage from the 2025 Linux Storag [...]

Version 140.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include more control over vert [...]

Working on the kernel can be a challenging task but, for many, configuring a kernel build can be the largest obstacle to getting started. The kernel has thousands of configuration options; many of those, if set incorrectly, will result in a kernel ...

KDE contributor Nate Graham recently wrote about the KDE Project's plans for Plasma's X11 sessi [...]

The postmarketOS project, which creates a Linux distribution for mobile devices, announced it w [...]

Adrian Vovk, a GNOME contributor and member of its release team, recently announced in a blog post that GNOME would be adding new dependencies on systemd, and soon. The idea is to shed GNOME's homegrown service manager in favor of using systemd, and ...

The Collabora blog has a summary, written by Nicolas Dufresne, about the Linux Media Summit hel [...]

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (libblockdev and open-vm-tools), Debian (debian-security-support, gdk-pixbuf, konsole, and node-send), Fedora (apache-commons-beanutils, chromium, clamav, dotnet9.0, libblockdev, mediawiki, mingw-python ...