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At FOSDEM 2026 Petya Kangalova, a senior tech partnership and engagement manager for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) spoke about how the project helps people map their surroundings to assist in disaster response and humanitarian aid. The ...

Web sites are being increasingly beset by AI scraperbots -- a problem that we have written about before, and which has slowly ramped up to an occasional de-facto DDoS attack. This has not gone uncontested, however: web site operators from around the ...

Transient devices pose a special challenge for an operating-system kernel. They can disappear at any time, leaving behind kernel data structures that no longer refer to an existing device, but which may still be in use by unknown kernel code.

Reinhard Tartler of Debian's new DFSG, Licensing & New Packages Team, or simply 'DFSG Team' [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.12.71 stable kernel. He writes, 'All users of the 6.12 ke [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Git; GCC and KCFI; modernizing swapping; 6.18 statistics; modern FOSS challenges. Briefs: Kernel ML; tag2upload; LFS sysvinit; postmarketOS FOSDEM; Ardour 9.0; Offpunk 3.0; Dave Farber RIP; Quotes;

Version 6.17 of the Linux manual-page collection has been released. Along with a long list of [...]

Git is ubiquitous; in the last two decades, the version-control system has truly achieved world domination. Almost every developer uses it and the vast majority of open-source projects are hosted in Git repositories. That does not mean, however, that ...

The postmarketOS project has published a recap from FOSDEM 2026, including the FOSS on Mobile d [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has unleashed six new stable kernels: 6.18.10, 6.6.124, 6.12.70, 6.1.163, 5. [...]