Arnd Bergmann started his Open Source Summit Europe 2025 talk with a clear statement of positio [...]| LWN.net
Linus Torvalds has quietly changed the maintainer status of bcachefs to 'externally maintained' [...]| LWN.net
After more than two years of development, the Debian Project has released its new stable versio [...]| LWN.net
Statically typed programming languages can help catch mismatches between the kinds of values a [...]| LWN.net
Despite the fact that the Linux Kernel is mostly written in C, it makes broad use of some techn [...]| LWN.net
As has been widely reported elsewhere, an attempt was recently made to slip a back door into th [...]| LWN.net
There is an inherent limit to the privacy of the public cloud. While Linux can isolate virtual [...]| LWN.net
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By some appearances, at least, the kernel community has been relatively insulated from the onsl [...]| LWN.net
Linux offers two modes for file I/O: buffered and direct. Buffered I/O passes through the kern [...]| LWN.net
The Arch Linux project is especially well-known in the Linux community for two things: its roll [...]| LWN.net
StarDict is a GPLv3-licensed cross-platform dictionary application. It includes dictionaries f [...]| LWN.net
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If a file system discussion goes on long enough, someone will bring up soft updates eventually [...]| LWN.net
Antonio Cuni, who is a longtime Python performance engineer and PyPy developer, gave a presenta [...]| LWN.net
The Linux kernel already provides several ways to get random numbers, each with its own set of [...]| LWN.net
The QUIC transport-layer network protocol is not exactly new; it was first covered here in 2013 [...]| LWN.net
Performance of Python programs has been a major focus of development for the language over the [...]| LWN.net
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Finding ways to make it easier and faster to mitigate an ongoing attack against a Linux system [...]| LWN.net
The BPF virtual machine within the kernel has seen a great deal of work over the last few years [...]| LWN.net
Anybody working to harden a computing system is likely to look at sandboxing fairly early in th [...]| LWN.net
People tend to put a lot of trust into their phones. Those devices have access to no end of se [...]| LWN.net
Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a ke [...]| LWN.net
The interfaces between C and Rust in the kernel have grown over time; any non-trivial Rust dri [...]| LWN.net
Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a ke [...]| LWN.net
Fedora's NeuroFedora special-interest group (SIG) is considering a change of strategy when it c [...]| LWN.net
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At the 2024 X.Org Developers Conference (XDC), Lyude Paul gave a talk on the work she has been [...]| LWN.net
Andres Freund has posted a detailed investigation into a backdoor that was shipped with version [...]| LWN.net
Linus Torvalds was able to release 6.8-rc1 and close the 6.8 merge window on time despite losin [...]| LWN.net
The 6.8 merge window has gotten off to a relatively slow start; reasons for that include a sign [...]| LWN.net
The CPU scheduler's one job at any given time is to run the task that has the strongest claim t [...]| LWN.net
Containers and virtual machines on Linux communicate with the world via virtual network devices [...]| LWN.net
In 2023, Fujita Tomonori wrote a Rust version of the existing driver for the Asix AX88796B em [...]| LWN.net
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Libxml2, an XML parser and toolkit, is an almost perfect example of the successes and failures [...]| LWN.net
Born from research at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzen, C [...]| LWN.net
Nyxt is an unusual web browser that tries to answer the question, 'what if Emacs was a good web [...]| LWN.net
There are certain themes that recur regularly at the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Manageme [...]| LWN.net
The Lustre filesystem has a long history, some of which intersects with Linux. It was added to [...]| LWN.net
From: CERT Advisory To: cert-advisory@cer [...]| LWN.net
The term 'interrupt' brings to mind a signal that originates in the hardware and which is handl [...]| LWN.net
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At the Linux Application Summit (LAS) in April, Sebastian Wick said that, by many metrics, Flat [...]| LWN.net
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One of the first uses of the BPF virtual machine outside of networking was to implement access- [...]| LWN.net
An overview of fuzz testing and the go-fuzz tool, as well as a look at the recent draft design for including fuzz testing in the `go` tool (LWN.net).| Ben Hoyt's technical writing
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The focus of 2013's Google Test Automation Conference, held April 23 and 24 in New York City, was "Testing Media and Mobile". A major theme was WebDriver, which is an API for automating web browsers. Mozilla presented its work on WebDriver support in Gecko and extensions to WebDriver to allow automated testing of FirefoxOS beyond just the Gecko-powered content layer. Google talked about WebDriver support in Chrome/Chromium, including Chrome on Android. Others demonstrated FOSS software that r...| David Röthlisberger
Ninja is a build tool, similar in spirit to make, that was born from the Chrome browser project in 2011. It is unique among build systems in that it was explicitly designed to be used as an "assembly language" by higher-level build tools. Beyond that, Ninja is fast. It is used by several large open-source projects and it has changed the way I approach build systems.| David Röthlisberger
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