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Over time, many open-source maintainers face the same problem: they lack the time to do all of the work that their project needs, and no one else is stepping up to provide adequate help. Maintainers, though, are often reluctant to throw in the towel.

Alexei Starovoitov gave "less of a presentation, more of a scream of realization" at the BPF track of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. He shared a set of ideas for how BPF could change to avoid being swept away ...

Andrew Tridgell has written a blog post responding to complaints that he has begun using LLM to [...]

Extended attributes (xattrs) provide a way to attach key/value metadata to inodes--files, directories, and the like--in a filesystem. As with many Linux filesystems, the FUSE filesystem supports xattrs. In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux ...

Package managers for operating systems and programming languages have been around for decades. Each package manager, and its accompanying packaging format, has been shaped by the needs of its respective ecosystem, but there is a growing need to make ...

Version 8.3 of Vim Classic has been released. This is the first release of the Vim fork since t [...]

Over on the AboutCode blog, lead maintainer Philippe Ombredanne writes about an agentic LLM sys [...]

Optimizing compilers can, under some circumstances, infer when a parameter to a function is not needed, and remove it. This is all well and good until the kernel's tracing or BPF subsystems need information on how to call the function or where its ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.0.11, 6.18.34, 6.12.92, 6.6.142, 6.1.175, [...]

The DistroWatch site is celebrating its 25th anniversary. 'All in all, it has been an incredib [...]