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The KDE project has announced that it has been awarded over 1 million from the Sovereign Tech [...]

The kernel's dma-buf subsystem provides a way for drivers to share memory buffers, usually in order to support efficient device-to-device I/O. At the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Pavel Begunkov, assisted by ...

As a general rule, when developers talk about huge pages, they are referring to PMD-level pages that are 1MB or 2MB in size, depending on the CPU architecture. Most CPUs can support other huge-page sizes, though. On x86 systems, PUD-level huge pages ...

Daniel Stenberg has published a lengthy article on his thoughts on Anthropic's Mythos, which th [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 7.0.6 and 6.18.29 stable kernels with Hyunwoo Kim's patch f [...]

Some CPU architectures are able to run with a number of different base-page sizes; using a larger size can often result in better performance at the cost of increased memory use. Other architectures are more limited. At the 2026 Linux Storage,

Paul Gevers has slipped an interesting bit of news into a 'bits from the release team' message: [...]

Linus has released 7.1-rc3 for testing. 'I think this answers the 'is 7.1 continuing the larger [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.1.171, 5.15.205, and 5.10.255 stable kernels, quickly fol [...]

An unusual, some might say hostile, approach to disclosing an alleged remote-code-execution (RCE) flaw in the Forgejo software-collaboration platform has sparked a multifaceted conversation. A so-called "carrot disclosure" in April has raised ...