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[$] The current state of Linux architecture support

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[$] Another Fedora Flatpak discussion

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[$] The intersection of unstable pages and direct I/O

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[$] Protecting privacy with Tails

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[$] Magic kernel functions for BPF

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A proposed kernel policy for LLM-generated contributions

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[$] A security model for systemd

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[$] Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation

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[$] DebugFS on Rust

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[$] The FSF considers large language models

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[$] Linting Rust code in the kernel

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[$] Revocable references for transient devices

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[$] Multiple kernels on a single system

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Linux From Scratch 12.4 released

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New ELF specification for public review

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Stable kernel 6.16.3

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LibreOffice 25.8 released

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Git v2.51 released

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Go 1.25 released

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