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The scheduling of block I/O requests has long been a challenge for operating-system kernels. For many years, the performance characteristics of rotating drives meant that putting considerable resources into request ordering was worthwhile. In a world ...

PostgreSQL contributor Tomas Vondra has published a blog post looking at development activity i [...]

Pádraig Brady has announced GNU Core Utilities (coreutils) version 9.12. 'There have been 288 c [...]

What is it like to be a Debian Project Leader (DPL), or a former one? According to Andreas Tille, who stepped down this year after two consecutive terms as DPL, you'd have to be one to know. At the recent MiniDebConf in Winterthur, Switzerland, Tille ...

Sean Whitton has announced that the original fix for an arbitrary code execution flaw in Emacs [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 7.2.6, 6.18.52, 6.12.110, 6.6.157, 6.1.188, 5.15.221, 5.10 [...]

The 7.3-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: 'Another fairly large rc release, [...]

Just a reminder that prices for LWN subscriptions will increase after September 15. Until then [...]

All of the videos from the EuroPython 2026 conference, held in Kraków, Poland from July 13 thro [...]

Kernel developers do a lot of kernel builds. Since the kernel is not a small program, those builds can take a fair amount of time, even on a fast machine. The kernel also has a complex build system; it is probably fair to say that few developers ...