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POSTS

• The BPF instruction set architecture is now RFC 9669

  by corbet on 11/5/2024, 2:57 PM with 10 comments

• Mourning Daniel Bristot de Oliveira

  by corbet on 6/27/2024, 9:44 PM with 0 comments

• How kernel CVE numbers are assigned

  by corbet on 6/19/2024, 1:55 PM with 4 comments

• P4TC Hits a Brick Wall

  by corbet on 6/11/2024, 8:17 PM with 0 comments

• The Linux kernel project becomes a CVE numbering authority

  by corbet on 2/13/2024, 7:14 PM with 24 comments

• Hyphens, minus, and dashes in Debian man pages

  by corbet on 11/2/2023, 2:28 PM with 0 comments

• Replacing OpenSUSE Leap

  by corbet on 9/9/2023, 7:25 PM with 17 comments

• PeerStreet Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection

  by corbet on 6/28/2023, 7:17 PM with 0 comments

• Processor MMIO stale-data vulnerabilities

  by corbet on 6/15/2022, 3:50 PM with 0 comments

• Today's Spectre variant: branch history injection

  by corbet on 3/9/2022, 4:28 PM with 0 comments

• GCC drops its copyright-assignment requirement

  by corbet on 6/1/2021, 2:51 PM with 242 comments

• The Linux Foundation Tab Report on the UMN Affair

  by corbet on 5/5/2021, 5:47 PM with 0 comments

• ACLU says it shares user data with Facebook

  by corbet on 4/6/2021, 1:58 PM with 0 comments

• The new rules for Perl governance

  by corbet on 11/25/2020, 4:33 PM with 0 comments

• BPF: What's good, what's coming, and what's needed

  by corbet on 5/10/2019, 1:15 PM with 0 comments

• PEP 572 and decision-making in Python

  by corbet on 7/12/2018, 6:38 PM with 12 comments

• Finding Spectre vulnerabilities with smatch

  by corbet on 5/2/2018, 1:56 PM with 0 comments

• Accelerating networking with AF_XDP

  by corbet on 4/13/2018, 8:30 PM with 0 comments

• How Meltdown and Spectre affected the open-source community

  by corbet on 2/2/2018, 10:11 PM with 0 comments

• 20 Years of LWN

  by corbet on 1/22/2018, 5:52 AM with 19 comments

• The trouble with text-only email

  by corbet on 10/15/2017, 6:48 PM with 152 comments

• Safety-critical realtime with Linux

  by corbet on 9/29/2017, 6:18 PM with 39 comments

• Ripples from Stack Clash

  by corbet on 7/5/2017, 2:08 PM with 0 comments

• Inside the OpenChain 1.1 specification

  by corbet on 5/16/2017, 9:12 PM with 0 comments

• The great leap backward

  by corbet on 4/28/2017, 3:48 PM with 0 comments

• New approaches to network fast paths

  by corbet on 4/25/2017, 6:21 PM with 0 comments

• The review gap

  by corbet on 4/4/2017, 3:55 PM with 0 comments

• 2038: Only 21 years away

  by corbet on 3/21/2017, 2:25 PM with 315 comments

• Why companies don't do GPL enforcement

  by corbet on 3/14/2017, 4:39 PM with 95 comments

• The case of the prematurely freed SKB

  by corbet on 3/9/2017, 8:47 AM with 0 comments

• Moving Git past SHA-1

  by corbet on 3/7/2017, 7:52 PM with 0 comments

• User-space networking with Snabb

  by corbet on 2/14/2017, 6:19 PM with 0 comments

• From free software to liberal software

  by corbet on 1/31/2017, 6:55 PM with 0 comments

• Designing for failure

  by corbet on 1/27/2017, 4:00 PM with 0 comments

• The long road to getrandom() in the GNU C Library

  by corbet on 1/19/2017, 4:24 AM with 0 comments

• Making WiFi fast

  by corbet on 11/11/2016, 4:29 PM with 0 comments

• The kernel community confronts GPL enforcement

  by corbet on 9/1/2016, 2:27 PM with 111 comments

• On the boundaries of GPL enforcement

  by corbet on 7/27/2016, 1:53 PM with 0 comments

• Transport-level protocols in user space – your own private TCP

  by corbet on 6/28/2016, 7:09 PM with 0 comments

• Results from the 2016 Python Language Summit

  by corbet on 6/23/2016, 10:38 PM with 0 comments

• Linux distributors ponder a systemd change

  by corbet on 6/14/2016, 1:13 PM with 1 comments

• Employment agreements for free-software developers

  by corbet on 6/1/2016, 3:00 PM with 0 comments

• The open-source generation gap

  by corbet on 5/24/2016, 4:14 PM with 0 comments

• Distribution-friendly tactics in the desktop wars

  by corbet on 4/11/2016, 9:58 PM with 8 comments

• OpenSSH and the dangers of unused code

  by corbet on 1/27/2016, 7:05 PM with 1 comments

• A referendum on GPL enforcement

  by corbet on 12/8/2015, 6:10 PM with 0 comments

• A new Mindcraft moment for Linux?

  by corbet on 11/10/2015, 2:55 PM with 0 comments

• Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft

  by corbet on 10/20/2015, 8:24 PM with 0 comments

• Estimating the costs of open-source development

  by corbet on 10/13/2015, 11:35 PM with 0 comments

• Estimating the costs of open-source development

  by corbet on 10/13/2015, 2:11 PM with 0 comments

• Virtualizing the locomotive

  by corbet on 9/22/2015, 2:54 PM with 0 comments

• Easier Python string formatting

  by corbet on 9/15/2015, 9:02 PM with 0 comments

• A Look at HP's “The Machine”

  by corbet on 9/2/2015, 6:34 AM with comments

• “Big data” features coming in PostgreSQL 9.5

  by corbet on 8/11/2015, 2:02 PM with 0 comments

• Python 3.5 is on its way

  by corbet on 7/24/2015, 1:02 PM with 0 comments

• Linux 2015 leap-second issues

  by corbet on 6/27/2015, 9:20 PM with 0 comments

• The programming talent myth

  by corbet on 5/4/2015, 2:40 PM with 341 comments

• Development activity in OpenOffice and LibreOffice

  by corbet on 3/31/2015, 11:06 AM with 0 comments

• A damp discussion of network queuing

  by corbet on 10/21/2014, 6:11 PM with 0 comments

• How implementation details become ABI: a case study

  by corbet on 10/7/2014, 12:36 PM with 0 comments

• Adding strlcpy() to glibc

  by corbet on 9/24/2014, 7:57 PM with 51 comments

• Forking instead of fighting

  by corbet on 9/3/2014, 1:03 PM with 0 comments

• The EFF launches a router project – and LWN reviews it

  by corbet on 8/5/2014, 3:42 PM with 1 comments

• 2038 is closer than it seems

  by corbet on 5/27/2014, 7:06 PM with 0 comments

• PostgreSQL pain points on Linux

  by corbet on 4/3/2014, 12:24 PM with 0 comments

• On Linux kernel mailing list behavior

  by corbet on 7/20/2013, 3:57 PM with 0 comments

• Vulnerability handling in the PostgreSQL project

  by corbet on 4/16/2013, 9:23 PM with 0 comments

• Multipath TCP: an overview

  by corbet on 4/2/2013, 3:15 PM with 0 comments

• Facebook contemplates ARM servers

  by corbet on 3/19/2013, 2:25 PM with 0 comments

• Trademarks for free software projects - and their limits

  by corbet on 2/12/2013, 3:12 PM with 0 comments

• LightZone reborn as free software

  by corbet on 1/29/2013, 3:11 PM with 0 comments

• Ubuntu Linux on the Nexus 7 tablet

  by corbet on 12/4/2012, 7:12 PM with 0 comments

• Relicensing the VLC media player

  by corbet on 11/27/2012, 7:37 PM with 0 comments

• Wikitravel and Wikimedia on a collision course

  by corbet on 10/25/2012, 9:31 PM with 0 comments

• Linux and automotive computing security

  by corbet on 10/16/2012, 4:55 PM with 0 comments

• Look and feel lawsuits, the second time around

  by corbet on 9/4/2012, 8:29 PM with 0 comments

• Accounting systems: a rant and a quest

  by corbet on 5/15/2012, 4:19 PM with 0 comments

• Fixing the unfixable autofs ABI

  by corbet on 5/8/2012, 10:01 PM with 0 comments

• A turning point for GNU libc

  by corbet on 4/3/2012, 3:01 PM with 86 comments

• Glibc steering committee dissolves; eglibc may be reintegrated

  by corbet on 3/27/2012, 1:47 PM with 0 comments

• Kernel competition in the enterprise space

  by corbet on 3/20/2012, 2:15 PM with 0 comments

• Betrayed by a bitfield

  by corbet on 2/9/2012, 9:39 PM with 0 comments

• Google's disappearing Android GPL compliance opportunity

  by corbet on 1/10/2012, 2:17 PM with 10 comments

• That newfangled journal thing: leaving the Unix tradition behind

  by corbet on 11/29/2011, 9:01 PM with 0 comments

• 2011 Linux kernel summit surprise: Android code may be merged after all

  by corbet on 11/1/2011, 6:51 PM with 0 comments

• Data Warehousing 101

  by corbet on 7/26/2011, 3:19 PM with 18 comments

• Semantic MediaWiki: Toward smarter wikis

  by corbet on 7/19/2011, 8:29 PM with 1 comments

• One more hop for Kermit

  by corbet on 6/30/2011, 1:14 PM with 0 comments

• What's coming in PostgreSQL 9.1

  by corbet on 5/10/2011, 3:46 PM with 0 comments

• A report from the (not only) MySQL conference 2011

  by corbet on 4/28/2011, 9:31 PM with 0 comments

• Future storage technologies and Linux

  by corbet on 4/12/2011, 11:50 PM with 0 comments

• The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

  by corbet on 3/22/2011, 2:18 PM with 0 comments

• Debugging tech conference anti-harassment policies

  by corbet on 2/10/2011, 3:33 PM with 0 comments

• IPv4 address exhaustion and the end of the open net

  by corbet on 2/1/2011, 3:09 PM with 20 comments

• Michael Meeks talks about LibreOffice and copyright assignment policies

  by corbet on 11/18/2010, 1:37 AM with 0 comments

• Life after X

  by corbet on 11/16/2010, 3:14 PM with 0 comments

• Full report from the 2010 Linux kernel developer's summit

  by corbet on 11/11/2010, 2:26 PM with 0 comments

• The 2.6.36 kernel has been released

  by corbet on 10/20/2010, 10:44 PM with 0 comments

• Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition

  by corbet on 10/18/2010, 8:30 PM with 35 comments

• An interview with LibreOffice perpetrator Michael Meeks

  by corbet on 10/6/2010, 1:19 PM with 0 comments

• Consumers, experts, or admins?

  by corbet on 9/14/2010, 10:18 PM with 0 comments

• Realtime Linux: academia v. reality

  by corbet on 8/3/2010, 4:57 PM with 11 comments

• The end of the road for the Nexus One

  by corbet on 7/27/2010, 2:15 PM with 35 comments

• The state of Python's mercurial migration

  by corbet on 7/20/2010, 4:51 PM with 0 comments

• PyPy: the other new compiler project

  by corbet on 5/25/2010, 8:17 PM with 11 comments

• Binary Analysis: automatically check your gadgets for GPL violations

  by corbet on 5/11/2010, 9:31 PM with 0 comments

• IBM and the labors of TurboHercules

  by corbet on 4/9/2010, 12:20 AM with 0 comments

• Open source biotechnology - and the challenges to making it happen

  by corbet on 4/6/2010, 8:01 PM with 0 comments

• Resetting PHP6 (or: Unicode claims another victim)

  by corbet on 3/30/2010, 2:04 PM with 34 comments

• Ten million and one penguins: modeling emergent botnet behavior

  by corbet on 3/16/2010, 3:08 PM with 0 comments

• The Ubuntu One music store and free software for profit

  by corbet on 3/9/2010, 5:09 PM with 0 comments

• Scepticism's limits: on climate data manipulation claims

  by corbet on 12/12/2009, 8:33 PM with 1 comments

• Community contributions and copyright assignment

  by corbet on 11/3/2009, 5:21 PM with 0 comments

• LiMo Foundation: Mobile open source economic analysis [pdf]

  by corbet on 9/18/2009, 2:00 PM with 0 comments

• Netboot.me - boot any OS over the net

  by corbet on 9/16/2009, 3:44 PM with 0 comments

• Mozilla's "bespin" collaborative development system

  by corbet on 9/1/2009, 2:46 PM with 0 comments

• Translating software with Pootle

  by corbet on 8/25/2009, 4:31 PM with 0 comments

• Fun with NULL pointers (how the Linux 2.6.30 exploit works)

  by corbet on 7/23/2009, 4:41 PM with 0 comments

• VFAT patent avoidance and patent workarounds

  by corbet on 7/10/2009, 4:37 PM with 0 comments