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The early days of Linux (lwn.net)

1378 points by Paul-Craft over 2 years | 224 comments
A viable solution for Python concurrency (lwn.net)

841 points by zorgmonkey about 4 years | 358 comments
PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model (lwn.net)

825 points by todsacerdoti over 2 years | 372 comments
The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6 (lwn.net)

817 points by jrepinc over 1 year | 616 comments
The race to replace Redis (lwn.net)

759 points by chmaynard over 1 year | 496 comments
Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C (lwn.net)

683 points by chmaynard over 3 years | 345 comments
Pattern matching accepted for Python (lwn.net)

654 points by eplanit over 4 years | 518 comments
Upheaval at freenode (lwn.net)

648 points by daenney over 4 years | 1 comments
“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell” (lwn.net)

549 points by nnx almost 4 years | 273 comments
An Update on the UMN Affair (lwn.net)

462 points by chmaynard over 4 years | 294 comments
The real realtime preemption end game (lwn.net)

459 points by chmaynard almost 2 years | 269 comments
PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus (lwn.net)

457 points by darwi over 4 years | 200 comments
Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git? (lwn.net)

455 points by chmaynard over 3 years | 214 comments
Cranelift code generation comes to Rust (lwn.net)

444 points by ridruejo over 1 year | 110 comments
Syncthing: Syncing All the Things (lwn.net)

433 points by sohkamyung over 4 years | 172 comments
OpenWRT turns 20; wants to launch their "first upstream supported" design (lwn.net)

425 points by trelane almost 2 years | 179 comments
Ladybird browser spreads its wings (lwn.net)

421 points by signa11 over 1 year | 304 comments
Moving Google toward the mainline (lwn.net)

411 points by chmaynard about 4 years | 133 comments
Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default (lwn.net)

409 points by chr15p over 2 years | 614 comments
Introducing PyScript (summary of PyCon keynote) (lwn.net)

402 points by benhoyt over 3 years | 234 comments
The end of the accounting search (lwn.net)

384 points by belter over 2 years | 204 comments
Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules (lwn.net)

377 points by segfaultbuserr about 2 years | 354 comments
Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice (lwn.net)

376 points by 5e92cb50239222b over 2 years | 309 comments
Core scheduling lands in Linux 5.14 (lwn.net)

375 points by phab about 4 years | 72 comments
Progress on No-GIL CPython (lwn.net)

370 points by belter about 2 years | 262 comments
Debian's Which Hunt (lwn.net)

366 points by ajdecon about 4 years | 244 comments
Fredrik Lundh has died (lwn.net)

364 points by fghorow almost 4 years | 48 comments
Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability (lwn.net)

357 points by 0xdeafbeef over 2 years | 322 comments
No-GIL mode coming for Python (lwn.net)

353 points by mappu over 2 years | 1 comments
Linux Kernel 6.0 (lwn.net)

351 points by ecliptik about 3 years | 166 comments
Linux 5.19 (lwn.net)

351 points by anpep over 3 years | 230 comments
Progress toward a GCC-based Rust compiler (lwn.net)

350 points by askl almost 2 years | 237 comments
Some remotely exploitable Linux kernel WiFi vulnerabilities (lwn.net)

348 points by gundamdoubleO about 3 years | 146 comments
GIL removal and the Faster CPython project (lwn.net)

339 points by signa11 about 2 years | 156 comments
A Way Out for A.out (lwn.net)

335 points by bitcharmer over 3 years | 92 comments
The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later (lwn.net)

332 points by chmaynard over 2 years | 254 comments
Free software hijacked Philip Hazel's life (lwn.net)

323 points by fanf2 over 1 year | 78 comments
Modern Python Performance Considerations (lwn.net)

320 points by chmaynard over 3 years | 244 comments
A pair of Linux kernel modules using Rust (lwn.net)

307 points by chmaynard about 3 years | 189 comments
The road to Zettalinux (lwn.net)

301 points by rwmj about 3 years | 194 comments
Linux: Vulnerabilities in nf_tables cause privilege escalation, information leak (lwn.net)

294 points by pdenton over 3 years | 217 comments
The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell (lwn.net)

274 points by zorgmonkey almost 2 years | 94 comments
The container orchestrator landscape (lwn.net)

271 points by chmaynard about 3 years | 94 comments
Scanning “private” content (lwn.net)

267 points by lisptime about 4 years | 77 comments
Faster CPython at PyCon, part one (lwn.net)

265 points by jwilk over 2 years | 162 comments
The Bogus CVE Problem (lwn.net)

260 points by signa11 about 2 years | 121 comments
Rustaceans at the border (lwn.net)

260 points by bitcharmer over 3 years | 405 comments
Merging bcachefs (lwn.net)

257 points by rascul over 2 years | 83 comments
GCC drops its copyright-assignment requirement (lwn.net)

255 points by corbet over 4 years | 242 comments
Rust in the 6.2 kernel (lwn.net)

253 points by biorach almost 3 years | 275 comments
Adding a “duress” password with PAM Duress (2021) (lwn.net)

252 points by marcodiego over 3 years | 158 comments
A Farewell to LWN (lwn.net)

252 points by guiambros almost 4 years | 28 comments
An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions (lwn.net)

247 points by vyskocilm over 2 years | 100 comments
Zero-copy network transmission with io_uring (2021) (lwn.net)

244 points by pabs3 almost 4 years | 51 comments
Next steps for Rust in the kernel (lwn.net)

243 points by TheGuyWhoCodes about 3 years | 255 comments
Debian decides to allow secret votes (lwn.net)

239 points by em-bee over 3 years | 263 comments
Malware in open-source web extensions (lwn.net)

235 points by chmaynard over 4 years | 90 comments
The 6.1 kernel is out (lwn.net)

233 points by mfiguiere almost 3 years | 55 comments
OpenSSH 9.5 released with keystroke timing obfuscation (lwn.net)

232 points by surteen about 2 years | 58 comments
Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random (lwn.net)

232 points by bitcharmer over 3 years | 195 comments
An Ubuntu kernel bug causes container crashes (lwn.net)

232 points by kennethko over 3 years | 129 comments
Debian still having trouble with merged /usr (lwn.net)

232 points by bitcharmer over 3 years | 288 comments
The trouble with symbolic links (lwn.net)

227 points by jwilk over 3 years | 122 comments
A GPIO Driver in Rust (lwn.net)

226 points by brundolf over 4 years | 109 comments
An Introduction to Lockless Algorithms (lwn.net)

226 points by signa11 over 4 years | 39 comments
The uninvited Internet of things (lwn.net)

220 points by pabs3 over 4 years | 190 comments
Making Emacs Popular Again (2020) (lwn.net)

220 points by draven almost 4 years | 413 comments
A note for LWN subscribers (lwn.net)

219 points by stevekemp almost 4 years | 51 comments
A call to reconsider memory address-space isolation in Linux (lwn.net)

218 points by chmaynard about 3 years | 105 comments
A warning about 5.12-rc1 (lwn.net)

217 points by eplanit over 4 years | 112 comments
An introduction to lockless algorithms (2021) (lwn.net)

216 points by signa11 over 2 years | 69 comments
splice() and the ghost of set_fs() (lwn.net)

210 points by chmaynard over 3 years | 81 comments
Brian Kernighan on the Origins of Unix (lwn.net)

210 points by signa11 almost 4 years | 44 comments
The endless browser wars (lwn.net)

207 points by signa11 over 4 years | 229 comments
LXC and LXD: a different container story (lwn.net)

206 points by zekrioca about 3 years | 99 comments
Debian's /tmpest in a teapot (lwn.net)

204 points by jwilk over 1 year | 258 comments
Committing to Rust for Kernel Code (lwn.net)

203 points by wofo almost 2 years | 138 comments
Bringing Bcachefs to Linux Mainline (lwn.net)

203 points by pabs3 over 3 years | 101 comments
A Linux kernel without struct buffer_head (lwn.net)

202 points by rwmj over 2 years | 22 comments
How the XZ Backdoor Works (lwn.net)

200 points by chmaynard over 1 year | 79 comments
A new release for GNU Octave (lwn.net)

198 points by signa11 almost 5 years | 97 comments
NVIDIA and nouveau (lwn.net)

196 points by pabs3 about 3 years | 35 comments
Help Wanted at LWN (lwn.net)

195 points by rascul about 2 years | 25 comments
So you think you understand IP fragmentation? (lwn.net)

195 points by kevincox over 1 year | 119 comments
Debian discusses vendoring again (lwn.net)

195 points by Tomte almost 5 years | 159 comments
Why RISC-V doesn't yet support KVM (lwn.net)

195 points by lukastyrychtr over 4 years | 33 comments
The growing image-processor unpleasantness (lwn.net)

191 points by pabs3 about 3 years | 96 comments
Losing the magic (lwn.net)

185 points by voxadam almost 3 years | 38 comments
Identity management for WireGuard (lwn.net)

183 points by chmaynard about 3 years | 105 comments
Debian Statement on the Cyber Resilience Act (lwn.net)

183 points by diyftw almost 2 years | 146 comments
Concurrency in Julia (lwn.net)

181 points by leephillips almost 4 years | 42 comments
Handling argc==0 in the Linux kernel (lwn.net)

178 points by rwmj almost 4 years | 134 comments
Julia 1.6 addresses latency issues (lwn.net)

177 points by leephillips over 4 years | 157 comments
Toward a better list iterator for the Linux kernel (lwn.net)

177 points by chmaynard over 3 years | 101 comments
Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git (lwn.net)

176 points by simonpure almost 3 years | 106 comments
Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS (lwn.net)

176 points by bitcharmer over 3 years | 222 comments
NFS: The Early Years (lwn.net)

176 points by chmaynard over 3 years | 112 comments
Pyodide: Python for the Browser (lwn.net)

173 points by lukastyrychtr over 4 years | 81 comments
Linux Kernel: The multi-generational LRU (lwn.net)

170 points by signa11 over 4 years | 38 comments
Rust heads into the kernel? (lwn.net)

170 points by h1x over 4 years | 179 comments