Git 2.53.0 released
[$] Modernizing swapping: introducing the swap table
The kernel's swap subsystem is a complex and often unloved beast. It is also a critical component in the memory-management subsystem and has a significant impact on the performanc [...]
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc8
[$] Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice
A few years ago, the only way to compile Rust code was using the rustc compiler with LLVM as a backend. Since then, several projects, including Mutabah's Rust Compiler (mrustc), G [...]
The Award for Excellence in Open Source goes to Greg Kroah-Hartman
Three stable kernel updates
Security updates for Friday
A proposed governance structure for openSUSE
[$] Sub-schedulers for sched_ext
The extensible scheduler class (sched_ext) allows the installation of a custom CPU scheduler built as a set of BPF programs. Its merging for the 6.12 kernel release moved the kern [...]
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 29, 2026
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 29, 2026 is available.
kcxt @ 39c3
boosted
[$] Open source for phones: postmarketOS
Phones running Linux are ubiquitous these days and it has been that way since Android started working toward dominance in the smartphone market. Unfortunately, Android has slowly i [...]
Mourning Didier Spaier
OSI pauses 2026 board election cycle
[$] Open source for phones: postmarketOS
Phones running Linux are ubiquitous these days and it has been that way since Android started working toward dominance in the smartphone market. Unfortunately, Android has slowly i [...]
PC Gamer on the scx_horoscope scheduler
[$] Who should vote in Fedora elections?
Creating fair governance models for open-source projects is not easy; defining criteria for participants to receive membership and voting rights is a particularly thorny problem fo [...]
Security updates for Wednesday
A critical GnuPG security update