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Anton Protopopov kicked off the BPF track on the second day of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit with a discussion about permitting indirect calls in BPF. He also spoke about his continuing work on static keys, a ...

The Fedora Project's RISC-V special-interest group (SIG) has announced the availability of Fedora Linux 42 images for supported RISC-V boards, as well as QEMU and container images. The SIG is working toward making RISC-V a primary architecture for ...

The Python Steering Council accepted PEP 750 ("Template Strings") on April 10. LWN covered the discussion around the proposal, including the substantial revisions to the idea that were needed for it to be accepted. Template strings (t-strings) are a ...

Ask a Linux enthusiast who created the Linux kernel, and odds are they will have no trouble naming Linus Torvalds--but many would be stumped if asked what the first Linux distribution was, and who created it. Some might guess Slackware, or its ...

The 6.15-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "There's absolutely nothing of huge note here as far as I can tell. Just a fair number of small fixes all over the place".

The 6.14.3, 6.13.12, and 6.12.24 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of important fixes. Note that the 6.13.x series ends with 6.13.12.

The New Stack looks at EU OS, an attempt to create a desktop system for the European public sector. EU OS is not a brand-new Linux distribution in the traditional sense. Instead, it is a proof-of-concept built atop Fedora's immutable KDE Plasma spin ...

The final session in the memory-management track of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit was a brief, last-minute addition run by Kalesh Singh. The kernel's readahead mechanism is generally good for performance; it ...

Adding tracepoints to some kernel subsystems has been controversial--or disallowed--due to concerns about the user-space ABI that they might create. The virtual filesystem (VFS) layer has long been one of the subsystems that has not allowed any ...

Version 25.04 ("Plucky Puffin") of the Ubuntu Linux distribution has been released. This release includes Linux 6.14, GNOME 48, APT 3.0, and introduces a Arm64 desktop ISO to install Ubuntu Desktop on Arm64 systems. This is an interim release, with ...