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The next release of systemd has been percolating for an unusually long time. Systemd releases are usually about six months apart, but v257 came out in December 2024, and v258 just now seems to be nearing the finish line; the third release candidate ...

Attendees at EuroPython had the chance to preview part of Python: The Documentary during a keyn [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.16.4, 6.12.44, 6.6.103, 6.1.149, 5.15.190 [...]

The GNOME project, which recently celebrated its 28th birthday, has never had a formal technical governance; progress has been driven by individuals and groups that advocated for--and worked toward--a particular goal in an ad hoc fashion. Longtime ...

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Groklaw takeover; CRL cache sharing; browsers and XSLT; Microdot; restartable sequences; shadow-stack control Briefs: Android restrictions; Arch services; GhostBSD 25.02; FFmpeg 8.0; PyCon videos;

Alyssa Rosenzweig has written a blog post about her work to help ship a 'great driver' for the [...]

The Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) language is used by web browsers to style XML content to make it easily readable; XSLT is part of the HTML living standard that is maintained by the Web Hypertext Application Technology ...

The GhostBSD project has released version 25.02 of the FreeBSD-based desktop operating system. [...]

Security updates have been issued by Debian (node-cipher-base), Fedora (keylime-agent-rust and libtiff), Oracle (aide, kernel, mod_http2, pam, pki-deps:10.6, python-cryptography, python3, python3.12, and thunderbird), SUSE (cheat, ffmpeg, firebird,

The Internet is a wonderful thing; it allows anybody to look up information of interest. Included in all of that is the history of the free-software development community; how we got to where we are says a lot about why things are the way they are ...