Kernel coverage at LWN.net

LWN.net's coverage of Linux kernel development is detailed, technical, and timely.

The article index

See the LWN Kernel Index for instant access to all LWN kernel articles, organized by topic.

Recent LWN.net kernel articles

LWN runs kernel-oriented content every week. Some of our more recent articles in this area include:

May 16, 2024	The first half of the 6.10 merge window
May 15, 2024	The state of the page in 2024
May 13, 2024	Some 6.9 development statistics
May 9, 2024	Another push for sched_ext
May 3, 2024	The file_operations structure gets smaller
May 2, 2024	Inheritable credentials for directory file descriptors
April 26, 2024	Giving Rust a chance for in-kernel codecs
April 26, 2024	Support for the TSO memory model on Arm CPUs
April 25, 2024	The state of realtime and embedded Linux
April 23, 2024	Rust for embedded Linux kernels
April 19, 2024	Weighted memory interleaving and new system calls
April 18, 2024	Warning about WARN_ON()
April 15, 2024	Cleaning up after BPF exceptions
April 12, 2024	A tale of two troublesome drivers
April 11, 2024	Completing the EEVDF scheduler
April 9, 2024	The first Linaro Forum for Arm Linux kernel topics
April 9, 2024	Diagnosing workqueues
April 3, 2024	A memory model for Rust code in the kernel
April 1, 2024	Improving performance with SCHED_EXT and IOCost
March 25, 2024	The rest of the 6.9 merge window

Recent kernel patches

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