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The GNOME Foundation has announced that Steven Deobald will be leaving the position of Executiv [...]

Arnd Bergmann started his Open Source Summit Europe 2025 talk with a clear statement of position: 32-bit systems are obsolete when it comes to use in any sort of new products. The only reason to work with them at this point is when there is existing ...

Linus has released 6.17-rc4 for testing. 'So it all looks fairly good. Please do keep testing, [...]

Linus Torvalds has quietly changed the maintainer status of bcachefs to 'externally maintained' [...]

Keynote sessions at Open Source Summit events tend not to allow much time for detailed talks, and the 2025 Open Source Summit Europe did not diverge from that pattern. Even so, Daniel Stenberg, the maintainer of the curl project, managed to cram a ...

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;