Research Unix Sixth Edition (WASM)(research.swtch.com)

142 points by simjue 3 years ago | 33 comments

Debian must ship reproducible packages(lists.debian.org)

292 points by robalni 5 months ago | 115 comments

Linux 6.11 Released(lwn.net)

246 points by jrepinc 2 years ago | 91 comments

Zen5's AVX512 Teardown and More(numberworld.org)

97 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 48 comments

Timeline to remove DSA support in OpenSSH(lists.mindrot.org)

239 points by throw0101d 2 years ago | 143 comments

Linux 7.3(lwn.net)

559 points by cjd8 7 days ago | 252 comments

LWN.net news item announcing the release of Linux kernel 7.3, quoting Linus Torvalds and listing record commit counts and notable new features.

Unix v4 Tape Found(discuss.systems)

476 points by greatquux 11 months ago | 77 comments

Mastodon post by Rob Ricci reporting that staff found a tape containing UNIX v4 from Bell Labs (c. 1973), to be delivered to the Computer History Museum.

OpenBSD 8.0: released Oct 20, 2026(marc.info)

27 points by erikschoster 6 days ago | 2 comments

A post on the openbsd-misc mailing list archive at marc.info about the release of OpenBSD 8.0 on October 20, 2026.

Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux(loss32.org)

322 points by akka47 10 months ago | 411 comments

Project page for loss32, a proposed Linux desktop distribution built around running Win32 software and a Windows-like userland via Wine/ReactOS components.

The early days of Linux (2023)(lwn.net)

422 points by stmw 1 year ago | 125 comments

LWN article by Lars Wirzenius recalling his memories of the earliest days of Linux, its creation by Linus Torvalds at the University of Helsinki, and its early growth.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel(lwn.net)

529 points by luispa 24 days ago | 380 comments

LWN.net repost of Debian Security Advisory DSA-6528-1, a Linux kernel security update fixing numerous CVEs, dated September 29, 2026.

What was a Token Ring network?(dfarq.homeip.net)

103 points by ibobev 10 days ago | 79 comments

Blog post from The Silicon Underground explaining the history of IBM's Token Ring networking technology and its competition with Ethernet in the 1980s and 1990s.