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Linux installers receive a disproportionate amount of attention compared to the amount of time that most users spend with them. Ideally, a user spends only a few minutes using the installer, versus years using the distribution after it is installed.

At PyCon 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Anthony Shaw looked at the various kinds of parallelism available to Python programs. There have been two major developments on the parallel-execution front over the last few years, with the effort to ...

Version 0.3.0 of the uv Python package and project manager has been released. Introduced in February, uv is written in Rust and aims to be "Cargo for Python". Notable changes in this release include the addition of interfaces for managing projects,

One tactic often used by attackers set on compromising a system is heap spraying; in short, the attacker fills as much of the heap as possible with crafted data in the hope of getting the target system to use that data in a bad way. If heap spraying ...

The FreeBSD Project is, for the second time this year, engaging in a long-running discussion about the possibility of including Rust in its base system. The sequel to the first discussion included some work by Alan Somers to show what it might look ...

The Rust code being added to the kernel is documented using the usual rustdoc conventions; that documentation is now available on kernel.org in formatted form. There is also the linux-next version of the documentation for Rust code that will land in ...

The fourth 6.11 kernel prepatch is out for testing. According to Linus: But it all looks fairly normal. rc4 is bigger than either rc2 or rc3 were, but not hugely so, and it's actually a normal pattern, where it takes a while before people find some ...

The Gentoo Linux project has announced that it is dropping support for Itanium: Following the removal of IA-64 (Itanium) support in the Linux kernel and glibc, and subsequent discussions on our mailing list, as well as a vote by the Gentoo Council,

Python has had formatted string literals (f-strings), a syntactic shorthand for building strings, since 2015. Recently, Jim Baker, Guido van Rossum, and Paul Everitt have proposed PEP 750 ("Tag Strings For Writing Domain-Specific Languages") which ...

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (389-ds-base, dotnet8.0, python3.13, roundcubemail, thunderbird, and tor), Mageia (roundcubemail), Oracle (.NET 8.0, bind and bind-dyndb-ldap, bind9.16, container-tools:ol8, edk2, firefox, gnome-shell,