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The Linux kernel famously scales from the smallest of systems to massive servers with thousands of CPUs. It was not always that way, though; the initial version of the kernel could only manage a single processor. That limitation was lifted, obviously ...

The Open Invention Network (OIN) is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The central feature of [...]

The 6.15.2, 6.14.11, and 6.12.33 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains a rela [...]

The 6.16 merge window closed on June 8, as expected, containing 12,899 non-merge commits. This is slightly more than the 6.15 merge window, but well in line with expectations. 7,353 of those were merged after the summary of the first half of the ...

At Flock, Fedora's annual developer conference, held in Prague from June 5 to June 8, two members of the Fedora documentation team, Petr Boko and Peter Boy, led a session on the state of Fedora documentation. The pair covered a brief history of the ...

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced a report for work completed in April to improve FreeBSD su [...]

Linus has released 6.16-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release. I think we had a f [...]

Nyxt is an unusual web browser that tries to answer the question, "what if Emacs was a good web browser?". Nyxt is not an Emacs package, but a full web browser written in Common Lisp and available under the BSD three-clause license. Its target ...

The Netdev 0x19 conference was held in Zagreb, Croatia from March 10 through March 13. The orga [...]

The 6.16 kernel will include a number of changes to how the kernel handles the processing of core dumps for crashed processes. Christian Brauner explained his reasons for doing this work as: "Because I'm a clown and also I had it with all the CVEs ...