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Version 8 of the Ubuntu-based elementary OS has been released. This release includes a rewritten Dock, new window-management features, improvements in the installation and initial setup procedures for visually impaired users, as well as a new Secure ...

For the most part, the 6.13 merge window has gone smoothly, with relatively few problems or disagreements -- other than this one, of course. There is one other exception, though, relating to the kernel's presentation of a process's command line to ...

Arch Linux is popular as a base for other Linux distributions; examples of Arch-derivatives include EndeavourOS, Manjaro, Parabola, and SteamOS. There's one small problem: the control files used to describe how to build packages for Arch Linux have ...

Mozilla has announced the release of Firefox 133.0. Notable in this release is the addition of a new anti-tracking feature, Bounce Tracking Protection, which detects trackers based on redirect behavior and automatically purges their cookies and site ...

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) has decided to "restrict Kent Overstreet's participation in the kernel development process during the Linux 6.13 kernel development cycle" based on a recommendation from the Code of Conduct ...

The Linux kernel community's discussions about including Rust have gotten a lot of attention, but the kernel is not the only project wrestling with the question of whether to allow Rust. The Git project discussed the prospect in January, and then ...

Version 8.4.1 of the PHP language has been released. See this page for details on the new features in this release. "PHP 8.4 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features, such as property hooks, asymmetric visibility, an ...

As of this writing, just over 1,800 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline kernel for the 6.13 release. That number may seem small, given that a typical merge window brings in at least 12,000 commits, but the early pulls this time ...

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 21, 2024 is available.

At the 2024 X.Org Developers Conference (XDC), Lyude Paul gave a talk on the work she has been doing as part of the Nova project, which is an effort build an NVIDIA GPU driver in Rust. She wanted to provide an introduction to RVKMS, which is being ...