#lwn — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lwn, aggregated by home.social.
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[$] The "rnull" Rust block driver
The null block driver (null_blk) is a small driver that is mostly useful for benchmarking block-layer implementations. It accepts all requests and marks them complete as quickly as [...]
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Eight stable kernels with fix for a single vulnerability
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Sometimes you just have to do a massive, public experiment and see what happens.... I guess.
I'm not actually too worried about the results. I remain concerned with the systemic issues that always surround using proprietary tools and how those narrow our abilities as creators in the future.
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[$] Using steal time to moderate CPU demands
Virtualization can increase CPU utilization by allowing a large number of virtual CPUs to share a smaller number of physical CPUs. The amount of CPU time that is actually availabl [...]
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 27, 2026
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 27, 2026 is available.
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[$] An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation
At FOSSY 2026, several people from the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), which organizes the conference, gave a presentation about an ongoing violation of the Affero General Publ [...]
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[$] Old-school calendaring at the command line with Remind
Remind is a command-line calendar and alarm program, with an optional Tk-based graphical interface, for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. It has its own scripting language tha [...]
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[$] How to be safe from quantum computing
Practical quantum computers have been ten years away for the last several decades. Now, however, it's beginning to look as though they will be possible in just a few years. Recent [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1088305/
#LWN #Linux #security #Debian #RedHat #ArchLinux #Git #Firefox #OpenSSH
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[$] Considering the OpenMDW license
The open-source world has been struggling for a few years now to understand how to approach large language models (LLMs) and the licensing applied to them. What constitutes "freed [...]
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[$] A look at the Quickshell desktop-component toolkit
Quickshell is a toolkit for building desktop components, such as toolbars or menus. It uses QML, which is a declarative language for designing GUI applications. Quickshell helps de [...]
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