#lwn — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lwn, aggregated by home.social.
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[$] MOT: a tool to fight openwashing in AI
Many large language models (LLMs) are described as open source, but if one looks a bit deeper it turns out that is not actually so; the model may be free to download, it may be "op [...]
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[$] MOT: a tool to fight openwashing in AI
Many large language models (LLMs) are described as open source, but if one looks a bit deeper it turns out that is not actually so; the model may be free to download, it may be "op [...]
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Comprehensive Response to Bambu's AGPLv3 Violations (Software Freedom Conservancy)
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[$] Tier-aware memory-controller limits
Joshua Hahn began his session in the memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that the memory controller for contr [...]
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[$] Dirk and Linus discuss AI and kernel development
Linus Torvalds does not enjoy giving talks, but he does consent to the occasional on-stage conversation with Dirk Hohndel at Linux Foundation events. The pair held the 30th of thei [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1073761/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #OSS
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[$] Dirk and Linus discuss AI and kernel development
Linus Torvalds does not enjoy giving talks, but he does consent to the occasional on-stage conversation with Dirk Hohndel at Linux Foundation events. The pair held the 30th of thei [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1073761/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #OSS
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Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc5
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[$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond
José Marchesi and the GCC-BPF developers opened the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management, and BPF Summit with a 90-minute summary of what has changed [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1071973/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Gentoo #GCC #LLVM #Clang #systemd #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond
José Marchesi and the GCC-BPF developers opened the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management, and BPF Summit with a 90-minute summary of what has changed [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1071973/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Gentoo #GCC #LLVM #Clang #systemd #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond
José Marchesi and the GCC-BPF developers opened the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management, and BPF Summit with a 90-minute summary of what has changed [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1071973/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Gentoo #GCC #LLVM #Clang #systemd #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond
José Marchesi and the GCC-BPF developers opened the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management, and BPF Summit with a 90-minute summary of what has changed [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1071973/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Gentoo #GCC #LLVM #Clang #systemd #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond
José Marchesi and the GCC-BPF developers opened the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management, and BPF Summit with a 90-minute summary of what has changed [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1071973/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Gentoo #GCC #LLVM #Clang #systemd #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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Firefox 151.0 released
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[$] openSUSE "terms of site" raise complaints about age restrictions
Many people in the Linux community began using the operating system—and contributing to open source—at a tender age, often well before their 16th birthday. Thus, a rece [...]
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[$] In search of faster this_cpu operations
The kernel's this_cpu operations are meant to speed access to per-CPU variables. They are more optimal on some CPUs than others, though. During a memory-management-track session [...]
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[$] In search of faster this_cpu operations
The kernel's this_cpu operations are meant to speed access to per-CPU variables. They are more optimal on some CPUs than others, though. During a memory-management-track session [...]
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[$] What's brewing in CXL
Compute Express Link (CXL) is a technology intended to enable the provision of "memory nodes" in data centers that provide (possibly shared) memory to nearby CPUs. It has, Dan Wil [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1072858/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #ArchLinux #BPF
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[$] Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more
The kernel's swap subsystem is charged with managing anonymous pages in secondary storage when those pages are (hopefully) not being used and the memory they occupy is needed elsew [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1072657/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #RedHat #BPF
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Security updates for Monday
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[$] Controlling memory-management with BPF
Roman Gushchin began his session in the memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that the community has seen a lot [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1072538/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #systemd #BPF
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[$] Controlling memory-management with BPF
Roman Gushchin began his session in the memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that the community has seen a lot [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1072538/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #systemd #BPF
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[$] Controlling memory-management with BPF
Roman Gushchin began his session in the memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that the community has seen a lot [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1072538/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #systemd #BPF
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[$] Controlling memory-management with BPF
Roman Gushchin began his session in the memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that the community has seen a lot [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1072538/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #systemd #BPF
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[$] Controlling memory-management with BPF
Roman Gushchin began his session in the memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that the community has seen a lot [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1072538/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #systemd #BPF
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Seven new stable kernels with patches for CVE-2026-46333
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[$] HugeTLB preservation over live update
Recent times have seen a lot of effort put into the implementation of the kexec handover and live update orchestrator features in the Linux kernel. But that work is not yet comple [...]
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Security updates for Friday
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[$] Buffered atomic writes, writethrough, and more
In back-to-back sessions at the start of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (which spilled over into a third slot), the atomic-buffered-writes fe [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1072019/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #PostgreSQL #BPF #io_uring
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[$] Buffered atomic writes, writethrough, and more
In back-to-back sessions at the start of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (which spilled over into a third slot), the atomic-buffered-writes fe [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1072019/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #PostgreSQL #BPF #io_uring
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[$] Buffered atomic writes, writethrough, and more
In back-to-back sessions at the start of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (which spilled over into a third slot), the atomic-buffered-writes fe [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1072019/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #PostgreSQL #BPF #io_uring
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[$] Buffered atomic writes, writethrough, and more
In back-to-back sessions at the start of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (which spilled over into a third slot), the atomic-buffered-writes fe [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1072019/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #PostgreSQL #BPF #io_uring
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[$] Buffered atomic writes, writethrough, and more
In back-to-back sessions at the start of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (which spilled over into a third slot), the atomic-buffered-writes fe [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1072019/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #PostgreSQL #BPF #io_uring
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Three stable kernels for Thursday
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[$] Keeping COWs in context (a.k.a. anonymous reverse mapping)
The kernel's reverse-mapping machinery is charged with locating the page-table entries that refer to a given page in memory. The reverse mapping of anonymous pages is handled diff [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1072378/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #BPF
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[$] Keeping COWs in context (a.k.a. anonymous reverse mapping)
The kernel's reverse-mapping machinery is charged with locating the page-table entries that refer to a given page in memory. The reverse mapping of anonymous pages is handled diff [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1072378/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #BPF
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[$] Keeping COWs in context (a.k.a. anonymous reverse mapping)
The kernel's reverse-mapping machinery is charged with locating the page-table entries that refer to a given page in memory. The reverse mapping of anonymous pages is handled diff [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1072378/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #BPF
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[$] Keeping COWs in context (a.k.a. anonymous reverse mapping)
The kernel's reverse-mapping machinery is charged with locating the page-table entries that refer to a given page in memory. The reverse mapping of anonymous pages is handled diff [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1072378/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #BPF
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Security updates for Thursday
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 14, 2026
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 14, 2026 is available.
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[$] Friction in Fedora over AI developer desktop initiative
A push by Red Hat employees to create a Fedora "AI Developer Desktop" with support for out-of-tree kernel drivers and AI toolkits has been met with objections from some long-time m [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1071949/ #LWN #Linux #RedHat #Bazzite #Git
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[$] Friction in Fedora over AI developer desktop initiative
A push by Red Hat employees to create a Fedora "AI Developer Desktop" with support for out-of-tree kernel drivers and AI toolkits has been met with objections from some long-time m [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1071949/ #LWN #Linux #RedHat #Bazzite #Git
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[$] Friction in Fedora over AI developer desktop initiative
A push by Red Hat employees to create a Fedora "AI Developer Desktop" with support for out-of-tree kernel drivers and AI toolkits has been met with objections from some long-time m [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1071949/ #LWN #Linux #RedHat #Bazzite #Git
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[$] Friction in Fedora over AI developer desktop initiative
A push by Red Hat employees to create a Fedora "AI Developer Desktop" with support for out-of-tree kernel drivers and AI toolkits has been met with objections from some long-time m [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1071949/ #LWN #Linux #RedHat #Bazzite #Git
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[$] Friction in Fedora over AI developer desktop initiative
A push by Red Hat employees to create a Fedora "AI Developer Desktop" with support for out-of-tree kernel drivers and AI toolkits has been met with objections from some long-time m [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1071949/ #LWN #Linux #RedHat #Bazzite #Git
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[$] Managing pages outside of the direct map
When Brendan Jackman proposed a session for the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, his topic was "a pagetable library for the kernel". During the a [...]