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Andres Freund has a few claims to fame, but chief among them is his many years of work to improve the performance of the PostgreSQL relational database management system. That work requires working with -- or around -- many Linux kernel features and ...

Version 2.56 of the Git distributed version-control system has been released. It has 748 non-m [...]

As a professor of biomedical engineering, Martin Uecker perhaps does not fit the profile of a typical presenter at Kernel Recipes. He is, however, a longtime Linux user, and works on free software for controlling magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, ipa, kernel, libxml2, perl-DBI, python-cryptography, thunderbird, and unbound), Debian (chromium, evolution-data-server, exim4, ghostscript, incus, lemonldap-ng, libheif, nodejs, php8.4, ruby ...

The 7.3-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: 'I don't think there's any real pa [...]

Version 18.1 of the GDB interactive debugger has been released. Changes include new commands t [...]

The Sovereign Tech Agency (STA) is investing nearly 1.3 million in KDE through 2027. At Akademy 2026 in Graz, Austria, Nate Graham and Kevin Ottens, two of the contributors who helped bring in the investment, explained how the funding was secured,

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.8 and 6.18.54 stable kernels. Each cont [...]

Johannes Schindelin has posted a detailed summary of the discussions held at the 2026 Git Contr [...]

The F-Droid project has announced the release of F-Droid 2.0, which is a complete redesign of t [...]