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[$] Guard pages for file-backed memory
One of the many new features packed into the 6.13 kernel release was guard pages, a...
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Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg, kernel, linux-6.1, mariadb-10.5, proftpd-dfsg, and xorg-server), Fedora (chromium,...
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Kernel prepatch 6.14-rc5 [LWN.net]
The 6.14-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "Nothing looks particularly big or worrisome".
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[$] Fedora discusses Flatpak priorities
Differences of opinion, as well as outright disputes, between upstream open-source projects and Linux distribution packagers...
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Terms of use and privacy changes for Firefox [LWN.net]
There is a fair amount of unhappiness on the Internet about the announcement from Mozilla about...
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Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (emacs, freerdp2, and gst-plugins-good1.0), Fedora (java-17-openjdk, python3.6, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland),...
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McKenney: Speaking at Kernel Recipes [LWN.net]
Paul McKenney has put together a series of articles on how to improve one's ability to...
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Fish shell 4.0 released [LWN.net]
Version 4.0 of the Fish shell has been released. Improvements include a better key-binding mechanism, the...
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[$] A look at the Zotero reference management tool
Zotero is an open-source reference management tool designed for collecting, organizing, and citing research materials. It...
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[$] A hole in FineIBT protection
Intel's indirect branch tracking (IBT) is a hardware-implemented control-flow-integrity mechanism that makes it harder for an...
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Three new stable kernels [LWN.net]
The 6.13.5, 6.12.17, and 6.6.80 stable kernels have been released. As usual, they contain important fixes...
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Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (emacs and openh264), Fedora (rpm-ostree), Mageia (dcmtk, libcap, openssh,...
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 27, 2025
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Tail calls in CPython; BPF cancellation; Slabs, sheaves, and...
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[$] Building an open-source battery
FOSDEM 2025 featured the usual talks about open-source software, but, as always, the conference also offered...
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Gentoo now offers qcow2 disk images [LWN.net]
The Gentoo Linux project has announced the availability of qcow2 images for amd64 (x86_64) and arm64...
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Two new site features: full-text RSS and automatic dark mode [LWN.net]
One of the often-requested LWN site features that has languished the longest on our to-do list...
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Armbian 25.2 released [LWN.net]
Version 25.2 of the Armbian Linux distribution for single-board computers (SBCs) has been released. Notable changes...
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[$] Python interpreter adds tail calls
The Faster CPython project has been working to speed up the Python interpreter for the past...
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Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (crun, gnutls, libtasn1, and openssl), Mageia (emacs, gnutls, iniparser,...
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A change in maintenance for the kernel's DMA-mapping layer [LWN.net]
The conversation around the merging of a set of Rust abstractions for the kernel's DMA-mapping layer...
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[$] A possible path for cancelable BPF programs
The Linux kernel supports attaching BPF programs to many operations. This is generally safe because the...
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Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (libpq, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, and postgresql:16), Debian (nodejs and php-nesbot-carbon),...
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Aqualung 2.0 released [LWN.net]
Version 2.0 of the Aqualung gapless music player has been released. Aqualung supports playback of a...
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[$] Slabs, sheaves, and barns
The kernel's slab allocator is responsible for the allocation of small (usually sub-page) chunks of memory....