https://lwn.net/Articles/548216/
Dynamic linking and derivative works [LWN.net]
Armijn Hemel is an engineer in the Netherlands who was for several years actively involved wit [...]
derivative worksdynamiclinkinglwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/547400/
Surveying open source licenses [LWN.net]
In adjacent slots at the 2013 Free Software Legal and Licensing Workshop, Daniel German and an [...]
open source licensessurveyinglwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/604686/
Filesystem notification, part 1: An overview of dnotify and inotify [LWN.net]
Filesystem notification APIs provide a mechanism by which applications can be informed [...]
part 1an overviewfilesystemnotificationinotify
https://lwn.net/Articles/548339/
Fedora 19 alpha [LWN.net]
The alpha test release of Fedora 19, 'Schrödinger's Cat', was released on April 23, with the u [...]
fedoraalphalwn
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Glibc feature test macros [LWN.net]
As evidenced by the frequency of misreported bugs to the Linux man-pages project, feature test [...]
glibcfeaturetestmacroslwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1068409/
Subscription required [LWN.net]
subscriptionrequiredlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/585415/
Flags as a system call API design pattern [LWN.net]
The renameat2() system call recently proposed by Miklos Szeredi is a fresh reminder of a categ [...]
api designflagssystemcallpattern
https://lwn.net/Articles/1068928/
Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports [LWN.net]
There are a number of ongoing efforts to remove kernel code, mostly from the networking subsyst [...]
security reportskernelcoderemovalsdriven
https://lwn.net/Articles/722660/
Linux 4.12-rc1 [LWN.net]
linuxrc1lwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/528078/
User namespaces progress [LWN.net]
The results of the user namespaces work on Linux have been a long time in coming, probably bec [...]
user namespacesprogresslwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1070010/
pip 26.1 released [LWN.net]
Version 26.1 of the pip package installer for Python has been released. Richard Si has publishe [...]
pipreleasedlwn
https://lwn.net/
Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
welcome tolwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1067279/
The 7.0 kernel has been released [LWN.net]
Linus has released the 7.0 kernel after a busy nine-week development cycle. The last week of [...]
kernelreleasedlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/546411/
Legal issues from a radical community angle [LWN.net]
The sixth Free Software Legal and Licensing Workshop, which took place on 4-5 April 2013 in Am [...]
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Developments in the FOSS response to Copilot and related technologies [LWN.net]
Back in July, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) put out a call for white papers to explore the [...]
in thedevelopmentsfossresponsecopilot
https://lwn.net/Articles/547379/
Current challenges in the free software ecosystem [LWN.net]
Given Eben Moglen's long association with the Free Software Foundation, his work on drafting th [...]
current challengesin thefree softwareecosystemlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1064706/
Objections to systemd age-attestation changes go overboard [LWN.net]
In early March, Dylan M. Taylor submitted a pull request to add a field to store a user's birth [...]
objectionssystemdageattestationchanges
https://lwn.net/Articles/1059772/
Linux 7.0-rc1 [LWN.net]
linuxrc1lwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069965/
Four new stable kernels for Monday [LWN.net]
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.0.2, 6.18.25, 6.12.84, and 6.6.136 stable [...]
fournewstablekernelsmonday
https://lwn.net/Articles/605128/
Filesystem notification, part 2: A deeper investigation of inotify [LWN.net]
In the first article in this series, we briefly looked at the original Linux filesystem notific [...]
part 2filesystemnotificationdeeperinvestigation
https://lwn.net/Articles/1067785/
Subscription required [LWN.net]
subscriptionrequiredlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/861951/
arch: Add basic LoongArch support [LWN.net]
archaddbasicsupportlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/919210/
x86: enable FRED for x86-64 [LWN.net]
x86enablefredlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069951/
pgBackRest is no longer maintained [LWN.net]
David Steele, maintainer of the popular pgBackRest backup and restore project for PostgreSQL, h [...]
no longerpgbackrestmaintainedlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/588444/
Proper handling of unknown flags in system calls [LWN.net]
As noted by various commenters on our earlier article, 'Flags as a system call API design patt [...]
system callsproperhandlingunknownflags
https://lwn.net/Articles/994855/
Core work still going on 33 years later [LWN.net]
coreworkstillgoingyears
https://lwn.net/Articles/994849/
Core work still going on 33 years later [LWN.net]
coreworkstillgoingyears
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069487/
Fedora alert FEDORA-2026-7f8c20f800 (dnf5) [LWN.net]
fedoraalertlwn
https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260421-v7-0-0-net-next-driver-removal-v1-v1-11-69517c689d1f@lunn.ch/
[PATCH net 11/18] drivers: net: cirrus: cs89x0: Remove this driver [LWN.net]
patchdriverscirrusremovelwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/531419/
Namespaces in operation, part 3: PID namespaces [LWN.net]
Following on from our two earlier namespaces articles (Part 1: namespaces overview and Part 2: [...]
part 3namespacesoperationpidlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1054220/
Responses to gpg.fail [LWN.net]
At the 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) in December, researchers Lexi Groves ('49016') [...]
responsesgpgfaillwn
https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260407082018.GC3738010@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/
Re: [PATCH 0/1] sched: Restore PREEMPT_NONE as default [LWN.net]
0 1patchschedrestorenone
https://lwn.net/ml/all/57045171-b306-4277-8f9e-77a96ce31423@infradead.org/
Re: [PATCH net-deletions] net: remove ISDN subsystem and Bluetooth CMTP [LWN.net]
patchremoveisdnbluetoothlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1060941/
HTTPS certificates in the age of quantum computing [LWN.net]
There has been ongoing discussion in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) about how to [...]
https certificatesin thequantum computingagelwn
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Fedora alert FEDORA-2026-a7ec361237 (xorg-x11-server) [LWN.net]
fedoraalertxorgx11server
https://lwn.net/Articles/532748/
Namespaces in operation, part 4: more on PID namespaces [LWN.net]
In this article, we continue last week's discussion of PID namespaces (and extend our ongoing s [...]
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Which @#$& side of the car is it [Fuel Socket] on. [LWN.net]
sidecarfuelsocketlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1065889/
An API for handling arithmetic overflow [LWN.net]
On March 31, Kees Cook shared a patch set that represents the culmination of more than a year [...]
an apihandlingarithmeticoverflowlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069437/
mm/memcontrol: Make memory cgroup limits tier-aware [LWN.net]
mmmakememorylimitstier
https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260421-v7-0-0-net-next-driver-removal-v1-v1-3-69517c689d1f@lunn.ch/
[PATCH net 03/18] drivers: net: 3com: 3c574: Remove this driver [LWN.net]
patchdrivers3comremovelwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069095/
SUSE alert openSUSE-SU-2026:20544-1 (xorg-x11-server) [LWN.net]
susealertxorgx11server
https://lwn.net/Alerts/Red_Hat/
Red Hat security alerts [LWN.net]
red hatsecurity alertslwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069064/
SUSE alert SUSE-SU-2026:21153-1 (pgvector) [LWN.net]
susealertpgvectorlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069438/
dyndbg: enable 0-off-cost for all of __drm_debug [LWN.net]
for allenablecostdrmdebug
https://lwn.net/Archives/ConferenceIndex/
Conference index [LWN.net]
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SUSE alert openSUSE-SU-2026:20554-1 (dovecot24) [LWN.net]
susealertlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069356/
Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
security updatesthursdaylwn
https://lwn.net/ml/all/aedkZ5bizasuBPI8@gondor.apana.org.au/
Re: [PATCH net-deletions] net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers [LWN.net]
device driverspatchremoveunusedatm
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069065/
SUSE alert openSUSE-SU-2026:20535-1 (plexus-utils) [LWN.net]
susealertplexusutilslwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1067089/
IMO, it's appropriate [LWN.net]
imoappropriatelwn
https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260405144425.36044-1-kondo.mitsumasa@gmail.com/
Re: [PATCH 0/1] sched: Restore PREEMPT_NONE as default [LWN.net]
0 1patchschedrestorenone
https://lwn.net/ml/all/3jwluwrqj6rwsxdsksfvdeo5uccgmnkh7rgefaeyxf2gu75344@ybhwncywkftx/
Re: [RFC PATCH 00/20] Introduce the famfs shared-memory file system [LWN.net]
file systemrfcpatchintroduceshared
https://lwn.net/ml/all/65d92f49ee454_1711029468@dwillia2-mobl3.amr.corp.intel.com.notmuch/
Re: [RFC PATCH 16/20] famfs: Add fault counters [LWN.net]
rfcpatchaddfaultcounters
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069105/
Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
security updateswednesdaylwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1057769/
The first half of the 7.0 merge window [LWN.net]
The merge window for Linux 7.0 has opened, and with it comes a number of interesting improveme [...]
the firsthalfmergewindowlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1067989/bigpage
Subscription required [LWN.net]
subscriptionrequiredlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069034/
SUSE alert openSUSE-SU-2026:20501-1 (glibc) [LWN.net]
susealertglibclwn
https://lwn.net/ml/all/20240226125136.00002e64@Huawei.com/
Re: [RFC PATCH 09/20] famfs: Add super_operations [LWN.net]
rfcpatchaddsuperoperations
https://lwn.net/Articles/1059218/
No hardware memory isolation for BPF programs [LWN.net]
On February 12, Yeoreum Yun posted a suggestion for an improvement to the security of the kern [...]
hardwarememoryisolationbpfprograms
https://lwn.net/ml/all/20241009100133.2569e2a7@gandalf.local.home/
Re: [PATCH 0/5] sched: Lazy preemption muck [LWN.net]
patchschedlazypreemptionmuck
https://lwn.net/Login/
Log into LWN [LWN.net]
log intolwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1067076/
IMO, it's appropriate [LWN.net]
imoappropriatelwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1056407/
Minimum time [LWN.net]
minimumtimelwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1067989/
Subscription required [LWN.net]
subscriptionrequiredlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069309/
Oracle alert ELSA-2026-8842 (delve) [LWN.net]
oraclealertelsadelvelwn
https://lwn.net/ml/all/CAFr9PXk=3md2oVDqFbmQLNiVMkRr32pHMPNSeskdTpM-1huB=A@mail.gmail.com/
Re: [PATCH net 06/18] drivers: net: amd: Remove hplance and mvme147 [LWN.net]
patchdriversamdremovelwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1056019/
... [LWN.net]
lwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069544/
Ubuntu alert USN-8205-1 (gst-plugins-bad1.0) [LWN.net]
ubuntualertgstpluginslwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1061467/
Brief items [LWN.net]
briefitemslwn
https://lwn.net/ml/all/69ed4a3064bd9b48fd0593941038dd111fcfb8f3.1708709155.git.john@groves.net/
[RFC PATCH 02/20] dev_dax_iomap: Add fs_dax_get() func to prepare dax for fs-dax usage [LWN.net]
rfcpatchdevdaxadd
https://lwn.net/ml/all/ba9302dd-105c-09e4-90ed-fe56addb6ca1@winds.org/
Re: [PATCH net 00/18] Remove a number of ISA and PCMCIA Ethernet drivers [LWN.net]
ethernet driverspatchremovenumberisa
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069090/
SUSE alert SUSE-SU-2026:21158-1 (util-linux) [LWN.net]
susealertutillinuxlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/945422/
Revisiting the kernel's preemption model, part 2 [LWN.net]
In last week's episode, a need to preempt kernel code that is executing long-running instructio [...]
part 2kernelpreemptionmodellwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1067656/
Plateauing capabilities won't help [LWN.net]
capabilitieshelplwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069244/
Brave! [LWN.net]
bravelwn
https://lwn.net/ml/all/CAOQ4uxiY-qHSssaX82_LmFdjp5=mqgAhGgbkjAPSXcZ+yRecKw@mail.gmail.com/
Re: [RFC PATCH 00/20] Introduce the famfs shared-memory file system [LWN.net]
file systemrfcpatchintroduceshared
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069534/
SUSE alert SUSE-SU-2026:1571-1 (ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs) [LWN.net]
susealertntfs3glwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1056399/
a tempest in a teapot [LWN.net]
tempestteapotlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1067756/
Plateauing capabilities won't help [LWN.net]
capabilitieshelplwn
https://lwn.net/ml/all/20241009165411.3426937-1-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com/
[PATCH 0/7] Lazy preemption bits [LWN.net]
patchlazypreemptionbitslwn
https://lwn.net/ml/all/0856a42d87b62d3ab7890c348b1fe9c83e630784.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/
Re: [PATCH net 00/18] Remove a number of ISA and PCMCIA Ethernet drivers [LWN.net]
ethernet driverspatchremovenumberisa
https://lwn.net/Articles/523113/
LCE: Systemd two years on [LWN.net]
It has now been a little more than two years since the systemd project began, and in that time [...]
two yearslcesystemdlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/983870/
CircuitPython: Python for microcontrollers, simplified [LWN.net]
CircuitPython is an open-source implementation of the Python programming language for microcont [...]
circuitpythonmicrocontrollerssimplifiedlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069059/
SUSE alert openSUSE-SU-2026:20499-1 (ovmf) [LWN.net]
susealertlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/994322/
The long road to lazy preemption [LWN.net]
The kernel's CPU scheduler currently offers several preemption modes that implement a range of [...]
longroadlazypreemptionlwn
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LWN account creation [LWN.net]
account creationlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1062571/epub
Subscription required [LWN.net]
subscriptionrequiredlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069319/
SUSE alert openSUSE-SU-2026:20601-1 (giflib) [LWN.net]
susealertlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1063663/
Announcements [LWN.net]
announcementslwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069514/
SUSE alert openSUSE-SU-2026:10600-1 (csync2) [LWN.net]
susealertlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1001997/
A good tradeoff [LWN.net]
goodlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/540087/
Namespaces in operation, part 6: more on user namespaces [LWN.net]
In this article, we continue last week's discussion of user namespaces. In particular, we look [...]
part 6namespacesoperationuserlwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069294/
Debian alert DLA-4547-1 (gimp) [LWN.net]
debianalertdlagimplwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069080/
SUSE alert SUSE-SU-2026:21235-1 (qemu) [LWN.net]
susealertqemulwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069045/
SUSE alert SUSE-SU-2026:21237-1 (kernel) [LWN.net]
susealertkernellwn
https://lwn.net/ml/all/1pgulz0k.ritesh.list@gmail.com/
Re: [PATCH 0/1] sched: Restore PREEMPT_NONE as default [LWN.net]
0 1patchschedrestorenone
https://lwn.net/Articles/662813/
Debating OpenType 2.0 [LWN.net]
2 0debatingopentypelwn
https://lwn.net/ml/all/yr3inlzesdb45n6i6lpbimwr7b25kqkn37qzlvvzgad5hfd7ut@xv4cihno76wu/
Re: [PATCH 0/1] sched: Restore PREEMPT_NONE as default [LWN.net]
0 1patchschedrestorenone
https://lwn.net/Articles/1067331/
Plateauing capabilities won't help [LWN.net]
capabilitieshelplwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/995213/
Core work still going on 33 years later [LWN.net]
coreworkstillgoingyears