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The Register looks forward to the upcoming Fedora 45 release. The biggest surprise is that L [...]

At the 2026 edition of FOSSY, Romeo Solano gave a fast-paced, humorous presentation on what could have been a rather boring topic: server encryption. There are a number of threats that we face in today's world, from criminals, government overreach,

The scheduling of block I/O requests has long been a challenge for operating-system kernels. For many years, the performance characteristics of rotating drives meant that putting considerable resources into request ordering was worthwhile. In a world ...

PostgreSQL contributor Tomas Vondra has published a blog post looking at development activity i [...]

Pádraig Brady has announced GNU Core Utilities (coreutils) version 9.12. 'There have been 288 c [...]

What is it like to be a Debian Project Leader (DPL), or a former one? According to Andreas Tille, who stepped down this year after two consecutive terms as DPL, you'd have to be one to know. At the recent MiniDebConf in Winterthur, Switzerland, Tille ...

Sean Whitton has announced that the original fix for an arbitrary code execution flaw in Emacs [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 7.2.6, 6.18.52, 6.12.110, 6.6.157, 6.1.188, 5.15.221, 5.10 [...]

The 7.3-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: 'Another fairly large rc release, [...]