[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 15, 2026
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 15, 2026 is available.
The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography
[$] Format-specific compression with OpenZL
Lossless data compression is an important tool for reducing the storage requirements of the world's ever-growing data sets. Yann Collet developed the LZ4 algorithm and designed th [...]
[$] Debian discusses removing GTK 2 for forky
The Debian GNOME team would like to remove the GTK 2 graphics toolkit, which has been unmaintained upstream for more than five years, and ship Debian 14 ("forky") without it. As on [...]
Radicle 1.6.0 released
Security updates for Wednesday
[$] A high-level quality-of-service interface
Quality-of-service (QoS) mechanisms attempt to prioritize some processes (or network traffic, disk I/O, etc.) over others in order to meet a system's performance goals. This is a d [...]
Firefox 147 released
Security updates for Tuesday
[$] Asciinema: making movies at the command-line
In open-source circles there are many situations, such as bug reports, demos, and tutorials, when one might want to provide a play-by-play of a session in one's terminal. The ascii [...]
Security updates for Monday
The LSFMM+BPF 2026 call for proposals is out
Four stable kernel updates
Evans: A data model for Git (and other docs updates)
[$] READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), but not for Rust
The READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() macros are heavily used within the kernel; there are nearly 8,000 call sites for READ_ONCE(). They are key to the implementation of many lockless [...]
Security updates for Friday
Fedora Linux 43 election results
Gentoo looks back on 2025
[$] GPLv2 and installation requirements
On December 24 2025, Linus Torvalds posted a strongly worded message celebrating a ruling in the ongoing GPL-compliance lawsuit filed against VIZIO by the Software Freedom Conserva [...]
[$] SFC v. VIZIO: who can enforce the GPL?
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) is suing VIZIO over smart TVs that include software licensed under the GPL and LGPL (including the Linux kernel, FFmpeg, systemd, and othe [...]