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[Bernhard] Wiedemann took on this 4-month-long project to create a fork of openSUSE that has 100% bit-reproducible packages. So far ring0 (aka bootstrap) and ring1 with 3,300 software packages have all successfully been patched and tested.

This build is not yet recommended for production use, though.

Kernel developers have been working to convert various internal interfaces to use folios; while this process has been progressing, there is still the occasional regression introduced by the change. In December 2024, it was discovered that installing a Flatpak application could trigger a filesystem bug in the kernel that would cause the software to read incorrect data from the disk. The problem was quickly fixed — only for an another problem caused by the folio rewrite to pop up in the same kernel subsystem. This was discovered by an Arch Linux user, who noticed that selecting files in a Flatpak application was causing kernel crashes. Now both bugs are fixed, but there may be more bugs to find.

It is a standard practice to use milestones to reflect on the achievements of a project, such as the anniversary of its first release or first commit. Usually, these are observed at five and ten‑year increments; the tenth anniversary of the 1.0 release, or 25 years since from the first public announcement, etc. Lennart Poettering, however, took a different approach at FOSDEM 2025 with a keynote commemorating 14 years of systemd, and a brief look ahead at his goals and systemd's challenges for the future.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released three more stable kernels: 6.13.3, 6.12.14, and 6.6.78. There was a bit of confusion that resulted in the patch for CVE 2025-21687 getting applied twice — but that doesn't result in any problems for users of the kernel, just a bit of extra noise in the CVE database, so Kroah-Hartman has decided to leave the releases as-is instead of rushing another point release.

So the first few weeks of the 6.14 release development were smaller-than-usual, but rc3 is actually right in line with normal releases at this point. Probably just timing of pull requests, and we'll see how next week goes. But nothing looks worrisome.

Along with the usual stream of fixes, this release includes the "faux bus", designed for simple drivers that just need some sort of virtual bus to be associated with; this bus come with Rust bindings from the outset.

Memcached is a memory-based data-caching daemon that has a long history. More than twenty years after its first public release, Memcached strives to remain relevant in a vastly changed computing landscape, balancing new features with a commitment to the original principles that separate it from newer alternatives like Redis and Hazelcast.

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Most Linux systems depend on a suite of core utilities that the GNU Project started development on decades ago and are, of course, written in C. At FOSDEM 2025, Sylvestre Ledru made the case in his main stage talk that modern systems require safer, more maintainable tools. Over the past few years, Ledru has led the charge of rewriting the GNU Core Utilities (coreutils) in Rust, as the MIT-licensed uutils project. The goal is to offer what he said are more secure, and more performant drop-in replacements for the tools Linux users depend on. At FOSDEM, Ledru announced that the uutils project is setting its sights even higher.