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Buildroot maintainer Peter Korsgaard gave a presentation about the long history of the build tool for embedded Linux systems at the 2026 Embedded Linux Conference Europe. In it, he covered more than just the past 25 years, looking at the current status of the project as well as what to expect in Buildroot's future. It was an interesting view inside this long-running project that has been a mainstay of the embedded-Linux world throughout almost all of this century.

Christoph Hellwig has announced the initial public release of XRAID—declustered parity RAID that is integrated into XFS.

The two primary aims of XRAID are to support parity RAID on zoned devices like SMR hard drives, and to provide a fast RAID implementation without inherent data integrity problems. XRAID, just like zoned XFS also works on conventional hard drives and SSDs. Optimizing for SSD performance has not been a focus, but even without that, writes are up to 20 times faster than mdrai…

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, firefox, gcc, grafana, grafana-pcp, gstreamer1, gstreamer1-plugins-base, java-1.8.0-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt, libimobiledevice, mingw-libpng, nginx:1.24, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, perl-CGI, perl-DBI, qt5-qtbase, tigervnc, vim, and xorg-x11-server), Debian (apache2, c-ares, linux-6.12, node-shell-quote, nova, parted, postgresql-17, python-django, sympa, and tomcat10), Fedora (cockpit, erlang-ssl_verify_fun, httpd, igniti…

Along with Intel posting initial GCC compiler patches for Coral Rapids and Razor Lake processors, the first Linux kernel patch for these future Intel server and desktop/laptop processors have also arrived...

Emdoor that is a leading manufacturer of rugged laptops and tablets used by various industries is beginning to see improved Linux support thanks to a new platform driver being developed...

This Week in Plasma is out with its latest issue following a week of exciting developments toward the KDE Plasma 6.9 desktop...

By Philipp Reisner, CEO LINBIT®

Sovereignty is a word borrowed from statecraft. A sovereign country is independent in its decisions. The term “digital sovereignty” is a more recent invention that applies to organizations and even individuals.

In this article, I discuss what the push for digital sovereignty implies for Linux-focused, open source developers and companies. The framework I use is a European one, because I am Vienna-based and familiar with it. As I discuss later, the implicatio…

Docker and the CNCF will partner on an open spec to make agent permissions portable 

Docker Sandbox Kits let you package an AI agent together with exactly what it is allowed to do, so anyone can pull the same agent with the same limits, review changes to those limits, and enforce them. Now, Docker has published the Docker Sandbox Kit Spec, the open specification behind Kits, under Apache 2.0 and is committing to contributing the spec to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation for neutral go…

By Gilles Chehade

You change one line in a large file. Your “incremental” backup re-uploads the whole thing anyway.

Nine times out of ten, it’s not the network, and it’s not your storage backend. It’s the algorithm deciding where to cut your data into pieces.

Every deduplication system works the same way: split data into pieces, hash each piece, keep one copy per distinct hash. A piece is named after its own content, so two identical pieces are, by definition, the same piece. Snapshot a…