#lwn — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lwn, aggregated by home.social.
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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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[$] The beginning of the 7.3 merge window
As of this writing, 2,346 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 7.3 kernel release. That, clearly, is a mere down payment on the flood that is [...]
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 20, 2026
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 20, 2026 is available.
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[$] Debian weighs eight options in vote on LLM usage
The Debian Project is voting on the usage of large language models (LLMs) to make contributions to the project. The first proposal, sent in late July by Matthias Geiger, would expr [...]
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[$] Representing Python paths using pathlib
At the outset of his PyCon US 2026 talk, Trey Hunner said that his goal was for attendees to stop representing filesystem paths as strings and to use pathlib instead. That's kind [...]
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[$] Fedora prepares for the end of AF_ALG
The Linux kernel's user-space interface (AF_ALG) to the Crypto API has been linked to a number of recent high-profile security problems, including Copy Fail and successor vulnerabi [...]
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[$] Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel
Linus Torvalds released the 7.2 kernel on August 17, after noting that the number of fixes coming in was still "bigger than I would have wished for". In fact, 7.2 was one of the b [...]
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[$] Bootstrappable builds: how and why
This year's edition of the Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference, better known as "FOSSY", moved north to the beautiful (and enormous) campus of the University of British [...]
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Mark J. Wielaard receives Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom
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[$] BPF, continuous testing, and stable kernels
Ihor Solodrai and Shung-Hsi Yu wrapped up the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit with a pair of sessions related to testing. Solodr [...]
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Domas: Bypassing memory protection with AMD's memory controllers
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[$] 128-Bit page tables for Arm
The size of a processor's page-table entries directly limits how much physical memory that processor is able to access. Back in the 32-bit days, that limit was 4GB, an amount of m [...]