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Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet

1 week ago | lwn.net | Jake Edge

The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank youfor visiting LWN.net!Cory Doctorow wears many hats:digital activist, science-fiction author, journalist, and more.
Lessons from open source in the Mexican government

2 months ago | lwn.net | Jake Edge

Benefits for LWN subscribersThe primary benefit from subscribing to LWN is helping to keep us publishing, but, beyond that, subscribers get immediate access to all site content and access to a number of extra site features. Please sign up today!The adoption of open-source software in governments has had its ups anddowns. While open source seems like a "no-brainer", it turns out thatgovernments can be surprisingly resistant to using FOSS for a variety ofreasons.
Kernel optimization with BOLT

Nov 5, 2024 | lwn.net | Jake Edge

The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank youfor visiting LWN.net!A pair of talks in the toolchainstrack at the 2024 LinuxPlumbers Conference covered different tools that can be used tooptimize the kernel.
An update on Apple M1/M2 GPU drivers

Oct 31, 2024 | lwn.net | Jake Edge

The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank youfor visiting LWN.net!The kernel graphics driver for the Apple M1 and M2 GPUs is, ratherfamously, written in Rust, but it has achieved conformance withvarious graphics standards, which is also noteworthy.
Debian's "secret" sauce

Oct 28, 2024 | lwn.net | Jake Edge

Did you know...? LWN.net is a subscriber-supported publication; we rely on subscribers to keep the entire operation going. Please help out by buying a subscription and keeping LWN on the net. While Debian's "sauce" is not actually all that secret, it is not particularlywell-known either, Samuel Henrique said at the start of his DebConf24 talk.
Attracting and retaining Debian contributors

Sep 24, 2024 | lwn.net | Jake Edge

Please consider subscribing to LWNSubscriptions are the lifeblood of LWN.net. If you appreciate thiscontent and would like to see more of it, your subscription willhelp to ensure that LWN continues to thrive. Please visitthis page to join up and keep LWN onthe net. Many projects struggle with attracting and retaining contributors; Debianis no different in that regard.
Large folios, swap, and FS-Cache

Jul 24, 2024 | lwn.net | Jake Edge

David Howells wanted to discuss swap handling in light of multi-page foliosin a combined storage, filesystem, and memory-management session atthe 2024 Linux Storage,Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. Swapping has always beendone with a one-to-one mapping of memory pages to swap slots, he said, butswapping multi-page folios breaks that assumption. He wondered if it wouldmake sense to use filesystem techniques to track swapped-out folios.
Filesystem testing for stable kernels

Jul 22, 2024 | lwn.net | Jake Edge

Please consider subscribing to LWNSubscriptions are the lifeblood of LWN.net. If you appreciate thiscontent and would like to see more of it, your subscription willhelp to ensure that LWN continues to thrive. Please visitthis page to join up and keep LWN onthe net. Leah Rumancik led a filesystem-track session atthe 2024 Linux Storage,Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit on the testing needed toqualify XFS patches for the stable kernels.
Rust for filesystems

Jul 14, 2024 | lwn.net | Jake Edge

Benefits for LWN subscribersThe primary benefit from subscribing to LWN is helping to keep us publishing, but, beyond that, subscribers get immediate access to all site content and access to a number of extra site features. Please sign up today! At the2024 Linux Storage,Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Wedson Almeida Filho andKent Overstreet led a combined storage and filesystem session on using Rustfor Linux filesystems.
A proposal to switch Fedora Workstation's desktop

May 15, 2024 | lwn.net | Jake Edge

LWN.net needs you!Without subscribers, LWN would simply not exist. Please consider signing up for a subscription and helping to keep LWN publishing By Jake EdgeMay 7, 2024 A proposal to switch the default desktop for Fedora Workstation from GNOMEto KDE Plasma largely went over like the proverbial lead balloon—unsurprisingly. But the conversation about the proposal did surface some areas where thedistribution could perhaps be more inclusive with regard to the other desktop choicesavailable.