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DebugFS is the kernel's anything-goes, no-rules interface: whenever a kernel developer needs quick access to internal details of the kernel to debug a problem, or to implement an experimental control interface, they can expose them via DebugFS. This ...

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (inih, mingw-exiv2, and mod_http2), SUSE (ffmpeg-4, kernel, libqt5-qtbase, protobuf, python-ldap, and python313), and Ubuntu (erlang, ffmpeg, linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-oem-6.14, linux-oracle, linux ...

Version 9.0.0 of the Valkey distributed key-value database has been released. Notable features [...]

The Git source-code management system is a foundational tool upon which much of the free-software community is based. For many people, Git simply works, though perhaps in quirky ways, so the activity of its development community may not often appear ...

Version 8.8.0 of the digiKam photo-management system has been released. 'This version delivers [...]

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, libssh, and perl-JSON-XS), Debian (ark and libphp-adodb), Fedora (chromium and gi-docgen), Mageia (quictls), Oracle (.NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, firefox, httpd, kernel,

In September, a group of long-time maintainers of Ruby packaging tools projects had their GitHub privileges for revoked by nonprofit corporation Ruby Central in what many people are calling a hostile takeover. Ruby Central and its board members have ...

Importing modules in Python is ubiquitous; most Python programs start with at least a few import statements. But the performance impact of those imports can be large--and may be entirely wasted effort if the symbols imported end up being unused.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (imagemagick, incus, lxd, pgagent, svgpp, and sysstat), Fedora (chromium, complyctl, fetchmail, firefox, mbedtls, mingw-binutils, mingw-python3, mingw-qt5-qtsvg, mingw-qt6-qtsvg, python3.10, python3.11,

The 6.18-rc2 kernel prepatch is out. End result: rc2 is on the bigger side, and we still hav [...]