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Outgoing Fedora Project Leader (FPL) Matthew Miller has announced his successor, Jef Spaleta. Some of you may remember Jef's passionate voice in the early Fedora community. He got involved all the way back in the days of fedora.us, before Red Hat got ...

Version 2.0 of PorteuX, a distribution based on Slackware Linux, has been released. This release adds the ability to test experimental Wayland sessions for the Cinnamon, LXQt, and Xfce desktops. PorteuX 2.0 updates the Linux kernel to 6.14 and ...

The CPU's translation lookaside buffer (TLB) caches the results of virtual-address translations, significantly speeding memory accesses. TLB misses are expensive, so a lot of thought goes into using the TLB as efficiently as possible. Reducing ...

For those of you who still have dedicated audio players: version 4.0 of Rockbox, a replacement firmware for many players, has been released. This release brings support for a number of new devices, updated codecs, a number of user-interface ...

The kernel's slab allocator is charged with providing small objects on demand; its performance and reliability are crucial for the functioning of the system as a whole. At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, two ...

From the LibreQoS site comes the sad news that Dave Täht has passed away. Among many other things, he bears a lot of credit for our networks functioning as well as they do. "We're incredibly grateful to have Dave as our friend, mentor, and as ...

As he has in some previous editions of the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Fred Knight gave an update on the status of various storage standards this year. In it, he looked at changes to the NVM Express (NVMe ...

The kernel's kexec mechanism allows one kernel to directly boot a new one; it can be thought of as a sort of kernel equivalent to the execve() system call. Kexec has a number of uses, including booting a special kernel to perform dumps after a crash.

Version 137.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include the rollout of tab groups, a number of search-bar changes, and the ability to add signatures to PDF files.

The virtual memory area (VMA), represented by struct vm_area_struct, is one of the core abstractions of the kernel's memory-management subsystem; a VMA represents a portion of a process's address space with the same characteristics. A memory-mapped ...