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Debian bookworm live images now fully reproducible

https://lwn.net/Articles/1015402/ #LWN

Supply Chain Attacks on Linux distributions (Fenrisk)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1014741/ #LWN

[$] 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 [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1009298/ #LWN

Mozilla announces leadership updates and next chapter

https://lwn.net/Articles/1010922/ #LWN

[$] 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 [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1007907/ #LWN

[$] 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 [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1007921/ #LWN

[$] 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 [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1006378/ #LWN

GNU C Library 2.41 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1007024/ #LWN

Ubuntu developer discussion moving to Matrix

https://lwn.net/Articles/1006622/ #LWN

@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 [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1005000/ #LWN

The 6.13 kernel has been released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1005488/ #LWN

[$] 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 [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1004377/ #LWN

[$] 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 [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1004324/ #LWN

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Firefox 134.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1004368/ #LWN

SFC reports a successful (L)GPL suit in Germany

https://lwn.net/Articles/1004595/ #LWN

Mourning Steve Langasek

https://lwn.net/Articles/1004297/ #LWN

[$] Emacs in Scheme

During EmacsConf 2024, which was held online in early December 2024, Ramin Honary gave a talk about Project Gypsum, which is his effort to rewrite Emacs in Scheme. Unlike most oth [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1001929/ #LWN

A new set of stable kernels

https://lwn.net/Articles/1002917/ #LWN