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The Fedora Project has published interviews with candidates running for the open seats on the F [...]

The 7.1-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: 'Well, I wouldn't call this 'small [...]

MeshCore is a relatively new project, started in January 2025, that aims to build a scalable mesh network using low-power long-distance radios. While many other projects of the same general nature have been tried before, MeshCore grew quickly because ...

Many organizations require US Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) certification of the crypto code they are running. The certification process is lengthy, but the bigger problem is that the way the crypto subsystem is built into the kernel ...

Andrew Nesbitt has written a blog post detailing a recent incident with the jqwik library for p [...]

Version 1.96.0 of the Rust programming language has been released. Changes include a new set o [...]

Gentoo developer Micha Górny has written a lengthy article explaining the philosophy and purpo [...]

In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Amir Goldstein wanted to discuss his proposed documentation on adding new filesystems to the kernel. There are a number of unmaintained and ...

IBM has sent out a press release touting a claimed $5 billion investment into an operation call [...]

The kernel's memory-management subsystem is currently partway through a multi-year project to replace the page structure (which represents a page of physical memory) with memory descriptors. At the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management,