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Unix-like systems — and their users — tend to expect all filesystems to
behave in the same way. But those users are also often interested in fancy
new filesystems offering features that were never envisioned by the
developers of the Unix filesy…

Luis Villa writes
about increasing demands on open-source maintainers on opensource.com.

Second, these new and increasingly specialized requirements
primarily benefit a specific class of open source users—large
enterprises. That isn’t neces…

Unix-like systems abound with ways to confuse new users, many of which have
been present since long before Linux entered the scene. One consistent
source of befuddlement is the “text file is busy” (ETXTBSY) error
message that is delivered in re…

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 19, 2021 is available.

As part of the ramp-up to the 2021
Linux Plumbers Conference, LWN editor Jonathan Corbet will be
presenting a version of “The kernel report” at 9:00AM US/Mountain time
(15:00 UTC) on Thursday, August 26. Registration for LPC is not
require…

Version 2.33.0
of the Git source-code management system has been released.

As can be seen here, it turns out that this release does not have
many end-user facing changes and new features, but a lot of fixes
and internal improvements went in…

Even in the dog days of (northern-hemisphere) summer, the kernel community
is a busy place. There are many developments that show up on your editor’s
radar, but which, for whatever reason, do not find their way into a
full-length feature articl…

For those waiting to run Linux on Apple M1 hardware, the the
August Asahi Linux progress report is out.

Instead, a much safer approach that has been used by projects such
as Nouveau in the past is to record a log of the hardware accesses
th…

Following the Debian “Bullseye” release is a new Skolelinux distribution
for a school near you.

Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
configured sc…

The 5.14-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. “Nothing particular stands out to me. Go test, we should be
getting pretty close to done with this release…”