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Let's Encrypt to reduce certificate lifetimes

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FreeBSD 15.0 released

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[$] Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs

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[$] Checked-size array parameters in C

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[$] Some 6.18 development statistics

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Three stable kernels for Monday

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The 6.18 kernel has been released

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NixOS 25.11 released

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Landlock-ing Linux (prizrak.me)

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Security updates for Thursday

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[$] APT Rust requirement raises questions

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Three stable kernel updates, two french hens, ...

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Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc7

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Racket 9.0 released

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[$] Unpacking for Python comprehensions

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[$] BPF and io_uring, two different ways

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 20, 2025

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[$] Debian debates amending architecture support stratagem

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Postmortem of the Xubuntu.org download site compromise

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[$] The current state of Linux architecture support

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[$] Pouring packages with Homebrew

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[$] Hot-page migration and specific-purpose NUMA nodes

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[$] A struct sockaddr sequel

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Two new stable kernels

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Thunderbird 145 released

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[$] Another Fedora Flatpak discussion

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[$] The intersection of unstable pages and direct I/O

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Firefox 145 released

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[$] Protecting privacy with Tails

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[$] Magic kernel functions for BPF

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Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc5

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About KeePassXC's code quality control (KeePassXC blog)

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A proposed kernel policy for LLM-generated contributions

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[$] Bootc for workstation use

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[$] Toward fast, containerized, user-space filesystems

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 6, 2025

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Removing XSLT from Chromium

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LXQt 2.3.0 released

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[$] A security model for systemd

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OCI Runtime Specification 1.3 adds FreeBSD

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Incus 6.18 released

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[$] Julia 1.12 brings progress on standalone binaries and more

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CHERIoT 1.0 released

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Defeating KASLR by Doing Nothing at All (Project Zero)

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Python steering council accepts lazy imports

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[$] An explicit thread-safety proposal for Python

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[$] Namespace reference counting and listns()

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A new kernel port to WebAssembly

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Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc4

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Three stable kernel updates

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Debian to require Rust as of May 2026

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[$] Mergiraf: syntax-aware merging for Git

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Ubuntu introduces architecture variants

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Rust 1.91.0 released

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[$] The long path toward optimizing short reads

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GNU/Linux man pages 6.16 released

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ICANN report: DNS runs on FOSS

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[$] Retrieving pixels from Android phones with Pixnapping

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Tor Browser 15.0 released

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[$] Debian splits ftpmaster team

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Seven stable kernels for Wednesday

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[$] Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation

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Fedora Linux 43 released (Fedora Magazine)

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[$] BPF signing LSM hook change rejected

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Python Software Foundation withdraws security-related grant proposal

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Rust Coreutils 0.3.0 released

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Valgrind 3.26.0 released

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Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc3

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[$] GoFundMe to delete unwanted open-source foundation pages

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Typst 0.14 released

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Date bug affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates

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Three new stable kernels for Thursday

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[$] Safer speculation-free user-space access

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Btrfs support coming to AlmaLinux 10.1

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 23, 2025

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Fedora Council approves AI-assisted contributions policy

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KDE Plasma 6.5 released

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OpenBSD 7.8 released

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[$] DebugFS on Rust

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[$] Git considers SHA-256, Rust, LLMs, and more

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[$] The RubyGems.org takeover

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[$] Explicit lazy imports for Python

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Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc2

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Sunday stable kernels

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Transition of RubyGems Repository Ownership

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[$] A brief history of RubyGems.org

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[$] Large language models for patch review

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Forgejo 13.0 released

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[$] A new API for interrupt-aware spinlocks

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Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 released

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Four new stable kernels released

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The FSF's Librephone project

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[$] The end of the 6.18 merge window

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Julia 1.12 released

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[$] The FSF considers large language models

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[$] Debian Technical Committee overrides systemd change

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Four new stable kernels

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Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc1

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[$] Enhancing FineIBT

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[$] Gccrs after libcore

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[$] Last-minute /boot boost for Fedora 43

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Ubuntu 25.10 released

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[$] Progress on defeating lifetime-end pointer zapping

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[$] 6.18 merge window, part 1

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[$] Next steps for BPF support in the GNU toolchain

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OpenSSH 10.1 released

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[$] A look at the Robot Operating System

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Garrett: Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't h

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[$] 6.17 Merge window, part 1

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 31, 2025

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[$] Extending run-time verification for the kernel

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We need a European Sovereign Tech Fund (GitHub blog)

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[$] On becoming a Python contributor

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HeliumOS 10 released

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[$] A proxy-execution baby step

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GNU C Library 2.42 released

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Help for OpenPrinting needed

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[$] Some 6.16 development statistics

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[$] Smaller Fedora quality team proposes cuts

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The 6.16 kernel is out

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[$] Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs

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Wayback 0.1 released

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[$] Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 24, 2025

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Discovering and recovering from PostgreSQL corruption on Matrix.org

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[$] Understanding Debian's security processes

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An update on Home Assistant's Android app

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[$] Deep immutability for Python

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Prokop: What to expect from Debian/trixie

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Firefox 141.0 released

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Catanzaro: Fedora must (carefully) embrace Flathub

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Google launches OSS Rebuild

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[$] QUIC for the kernel

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[$] When free-software communities unite for privacy

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Kernel prepatch 6.16-rc7

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Malicious packages uploaded to the Arch Linux AUR

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The end of Clear Linux

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[$] How to write Rust in the kernel: part 3

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A pile of stable kernel updates

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Forgejo 12.0 released

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[$] Scheduler medley: time-slice extension, sched_ext deadline servers

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 17, 2025

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Hyprland 0.50.0 released

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[$] Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

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[$] Fedora SIG changes Python packaging strategy

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The Software in the Public Interest 2024 annual report

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[$] Enforcement (or not) for module-specific exported symbols

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Parrot 6.4 released

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Four small stable kernel updates

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[$] Following up on the Python JIT

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Kernel prepatch 6.16-rc6

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[$] SFrame-based stack unwinding for the kernel

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[$] Anubis sends AI scraperbots to a well-deserved fate

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Five new stable kernels

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 10, 2025

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New upgrade paths for ELevate

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Amarok 3.3 released

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[$] Reinventing the Python wheel

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A set of Git security-fix releases

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Thunderbird 140 released

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[$] Toward the unification of kselftests and KUnit

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U-Boot v2025.07 released

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Bash-5.3-release available

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[$] A tour of the niri scrolling-tiling Wayland compositor

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Kernel prepatch 6.16-rc5

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[$] Python audio processing with pedalboard

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Richards: Introducing tmux-rs

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[$] Kernel API specification and validation

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 3, 2025

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Debian looking for testers with Apple M1/M2 machines

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The Netdev Foundation launches

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[$] Accessing new kernel features from Python

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Copyleft-next project relaunched

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GNU Health Hospital Information System 5.0 released

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[$] Yet another way to configure transparent huge pages

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[$] Improved load balancing with machine learning

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15 Years of OsmAnd

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[$] Fedora's i686 support gets a reprieve

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Kernel prepatch 6.16-rc4

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[$] How to write Rust in the kernel: part 2

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Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

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Seven more stable kernel updates

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Rust 1.88.0 released

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Oracle Linux 10 released

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Coccinelle for Rust progress report (Collabora blog)

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[$] Supporting kernel development with large language models

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 26, 2025

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NLnet announces funding for 62 projects

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[$] Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy

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[$] Getting extensions to work with free-threaded Python

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LSFMM+BPF 2025 reporting complete

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Firefox 140.0 released

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[$] Who are kernel defconfigs for?

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Linux RDP

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