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07 Sep 2026 edition

11 articles · 4 sources ·

Top topics: Open Source · General · Web

Open Source

[$] CERN's migration path from CentOS Linux to Debian

The European Laboratory for Particle Physics, usually just called CERN, is not only the birthplace of the World Wide Web, it is home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

Three stable kernels for Monday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.4, 6.18.50, and 6.12.109 stable kernels. Each contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

[$] Fixing the TCMalloc regression with RSEQ operations

The restartable sequences feature is one of the stranger corners of the kernel's user-space interface; it provides a way for user space to carry out simple lockless operations and be informed if it is preempted over the…

Source: LWN.net corbet
Open Source

Buildroot 2026.08 released

Version 2026.08 of the Buildroot embedded Linux system builder has been released. Buildroot 2026.08 includes nearly 1,000 changes from 100 contributors; some of the notable changes include support for Linux 7.1.x,…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, freerdp, gegl04, go-fdo-client, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, and pipewire), Debian (aom, chromium, libde265, libssh2, thunderbird, and tryton-server), Fedora…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

Asahi Linux now supports M3-series Macs

The Asahi Linux project has announced that support for Apple's M3-series chips has been added to the Asahi installer. Linux support for M3 series SoCs and the machines powered by them is now in a state where almost…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc2

The 7.3-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: This didn't *feel* like a particularly busy rc2, but it clearly was. rc2 is usually the quietest time when people take a breather after the merge window and it…

Source: LWN.net corbet