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Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.12.76, 6.6.129, and 6.1.166 stable kernels. Thes [...]

The multi-generational LRU (MGLRU) is an alternative memory-management algorithm that was merged for the 6.1 kernel in late 2022. It brought a promise of much-improved performance and simplified code. Since then, though, progress on MGLRU has stalled ...

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Python's bitwise-inversion operator; atomic buffered I/O; keeping open source open; Magit and Majutsu; IIIF; free software and free tools. Briefs: Ad tracking; firmware updates; TCP zero-copy;

Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.19.6, 6.18.16, 6.12.75, 6.6.128, 6.1.165, 5.15.2 [...]

Jujutsu is an increasingly popular Git-compatible version-control system. It has a focus on simplifying Git's conceptual model to produce a smoother, clearer command-line experience. Some people already have a preferred replacement for Git's usual ...

This 404 Media article looks at how the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) is using [...]

One of the contradictions of the modern open-source movement is that projects which respect user freedoms often rely on proprietary tools that do not: communities often turn to non-free software for code hosting, communication, and more. At ...

Matthew Garrett examines the factors that go into the decision about whether to install a firmw [...]

There are many applications that need to be able to write multi-block chunks of data to disk with the assurance that the operation will either complete successfully or fail altogether -- that the write will not be partially completed (or "torn"), in ...

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen has posted an overview of how zero-copy networking works in the Linux ke [...]