For most of the last twenty years, anyone who wanted two Linux installs sharing a server reached for a hypervisor. Containers came later for process-level isolation, but the kernel itself stayed single-tenant…
Linus Torvalds landed a Linux kernel patch with help from an AI coding assistant in August 2026, and the developer community spent the next week arguing about what it meant. The patch…
Greg Kroah-Hartman runs the part of the Linux kernel where new developers are supposed to learn the craft by submitting real work. This week he banned AI-generated patches from that specific subsystem.…
Most Linux weeklies are link dumps. The question I find more useful is whether this week’s news changes what you do at the keyboard, what you buy, or what boring infrastructure quietly…
A Debian 13 Trixie kernel update landed recently with sixty-eight CVEs in the changelog. I have been on the receiving end of those changelogs for about a decade, and my first instinct…
I have a confession. I almost skipped the AMD P-State patch thread when it first crossed my radar, because the title read like every other kernel mailing list post. Driver update. Frequency…
Picture a building with two staircases running between every floor, both fully maintained, both lit. Tearing one down looks like nothing from the street. It is actually a quiet admission that the…
The on-call rotation got paged at 11:47pm a few months ago because a critical kernel CVE dropped. We had three hours to either patch fifty Ampere Altra boxes (a 64-bit ARM server…
I have been thinking about how engineers update their opinions, and the role model I keep coming back to is not the one most people would pick. It is a software engineer…
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