[$] The guaranteed contiguous memory allocator

As a system runs and its memory becomes fragmented, allocating large, physically contiguous regions of memory becomes increasingly difficult. Much effort over the years has gone in [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1015000/ #LWN

Julien Malka proposes method for detecting XZ-like backdoors

https://lwn.net/Articles/1015095/ #LWN

[$] Multiple memory classes for address-space isolation

Brendan Jackman has been working to try to get ahead of the next hardware CPU vulnerability before it gets discovered. In January, he posted the second version of a patch set that [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1014440/ #LWN

Introducing rpi-image-gen for customized Raspberry Pi images

https://lwn.net/Articles/1015059/ #LWN

An Asahi Linux 6.14 progress report

https://lwn.net/Articles/1015058/ #LWN

Security updates for Friday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1015055/ #LWN

[$] MM medley: huge page allocation, page promotion, KSM, and BPF

As the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) approaches, the density of memory-management patches on the mailing lists has increased. Inclu [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1014220/ #LWN

Security updates for Thursday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1014938/ #LWN

My former co-worker @mxmehl gave a great talk that is covered on #LWN: "it's refreshing to see someone telling organizations they require more in-depth analysis to assess risk than can be had with one-size-fits-all frameworks and scorecards. It is even more encouraging that @mxmehl pushes organizations to be active in participating in #OpenSource rather than treating projects like another link in the supply chain that can be managed like any other commodity."

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 20, 2025

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 20, 2025 is available.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1013956/ #LWN

GNOME 48 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1014799/ #LWN

[$] Better CPU vulnerability mitigation configuration

Modern CPUs all have multiple hardware vulnerabilities that the kernel needs to mitigate; the 6.13 kernel has workarounds for 14 security-sensitive CPU bugs just on x86_64. Several [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1013640/ #LWN

PeerTube 7.1 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1014734/ #LWN

[$] A look at /e/OS on tablet hardware

/e⁠/⁠OS is a privacy-centric, open-source mobile operating system that has primarily been targeted at mobile phones, with only a few community supported images availabl [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1006557/ #LWN

Supply Chain Attacks on Linux distributions (Fenrisk)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1014741/ #LWN

Security updates for Wednesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1014722/ #LWN

[$] Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default

If all goes according to plan, the Ubuntu project will soon be replacing many of the traditional GNU utilities with implementations written in Rust, such as those created by the uu [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1014002/ #LWN

Security updates for Tuesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1014543/ #LWN

GIMP 3.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1014465/ #LWN

SystemRescue 12.00 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1014444/ #LWN