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The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The cons [...]

The Free Software Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2024 (even though 2025 is almo [...]

One of the things that has historically stood between Linux and the fabled "year of the Linux desktop" is its lack of support for video games. Many users who would have happily abandoned Windows have, reluctantly, stayed for the video games or had to ...

Version 146.0 of the Firefox web browser has been released. One feature of particular interest [...]

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the standards body responsible for the TLS encryption standard -- which your browser is using right now to allow you to read LWN.net. As part of its work to keep TLS secure, the IETF has been entertaining ...

Jon Seager, VP of engineering for Canonical, has announced a plan to develop a universal Public [...]

As has been recently announced, nominations are open for the 2025 Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) elections. I am one of the TAB members whose term is coming to an end, but I have decided that, after 18 years on the board, I will not ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.17.11, 6.12.61, 6.6.119, 6.1.159, 5.15.19 [...]

Emma Smith and Kirill Podoprigora, two of Python's core developers, have opened a discussion about including Rust code in CPython, the reference implementation of the Python programming language. Initially, Rust would only be used for optional ...

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