[$] Topics from the virtual filesystem layer
In the first filesystem-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), virtual filesystem (VFS) layer co-maintainer Christian B [...]
[$] Topics from the virtual filesystem layer
In the first filesystem-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), virtual filesystem (VFS) layer co-maintainer Christian B [...]
Debian Project Leader Election 2025 results
Debian bookworm live images now fully reproducible
Supply Chain Attacks on Linux distributions (Fenrisk)
[$] Support for atomic block writes in 6.13
Atomic block writes, which have been discussed here a few times in the past, are block operations that either complete fully or do not occur at all, ensuring data consistency and p [...]
Mozilla announces leadership updates and next chapter
[$] Rewriting essential Linux packages in Rust
Most Linux systems depend on a suite of core utilities that the GNU Project started development on decades ago and are, of course, written in C. At FOSDEM 2025, Sylvestre Ledru mad [...]
[$] Maintainer opinions on Rust-for-Linux
Miguel Ojeda gave a keynote at FOSDEM 2025 about the history of the Rust-for-Linux project, and the current attitude of people in the kernel community toward the experiment. Unl [...]
[$] The rest of the 6.14 merge window
By the time that Linus Torvalds released 6.14-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle, some 9,307 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline reposito [...]
GNU C Library 2.41 released
Ubuntu developer discussion moving to Matrix
@graywolf @khm By popular demand the "$" is back in the RSS feeds
[$] A revamped Python string-formatting proposal
The proposal to add a more general facility for string formatting to Python, which we looked at in August 2024, has changed a great deal since, so it merits another look. The chan [...]
The 6.13 kernel has been released
[$] Ghostty 1.0 has been summoned
The Ghostty terminal emulator project has generated a surprising amount of interest, even before code was released to the public. This is in part due to the high profile of its cre [...]
[$] Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop
Chimera Linux is a new distribution designed to be "simple, transparent, and easy to pick up". The distribution is built from scratch, and recently announced its first beta releas [...]
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Firefox 134.0 released
SFC reports a successful (L)GPL suit in Germany
Mourning Steve Langasek
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