PostgreSQL contributor Tomas Vondra has published a blog post looking at development activity in the project, with data from the late 1990s to today. We're doing ~50 commits per week, give or take. In ...
PostgreSQL contributor Tomas Vondra has published a blog post looking at development activity in the project, with data from the late 1990s to today. We're doing ~50 commits per week, give or take. In ...
Version 51 of the GNOME desktop environment has been released. The list of changes includes a number of performance improvements, offline data and better transit information in the Maps application, a ...
The biggest surprise is that Linux's legacy in-kernel console – the text-mode interface normally hidden beneath the GUI – has been replaced with a software-controlled alternative. The replacement ...
PostgreSQL contributor Tomas Vondra has published a blog post looking at development activity in the project, with data from the late 1990s to today.
Pádraig Brady has announced GNU Core Utilities (coreutils) version 9.12. " There have been 288 commits by 16 people in the 21 weeks since 9.11 ". New features include an -A option for uname which ...
According to Kroah-Hartman, this batch may set a record for the number of patches with more than 9,000 in total between them. There are more than 1,800 patches in 7.2.6 alone. Users of these kernels ...
Sean Whitton has announced that the original fix for an arbitrary code execution flaw in Emacs ( CVE-2024-53920) was incomplete. Bas Alberts discovered that viewing or editing untrusted files in modes ...
Just a reminder that prices for LWN subscriptions will increase after September 15. Until then [...] ...
GNOME was founded in 1997; its non-profit foundation followed in 2001 to provide support for the project by managing funds, overseeing legal assets such as trademarks, maintaining development ...
The results of the Debian general-resolution vote on the use of large language models have been posted; the winner is choice 5: Responsible Use of Generative AI. Debian neither endorses nor prohibits ...
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 available does not change, ...