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Recent LWN.net kernel articles
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recent articles in this area include:
| January 7, 2026 | Lessons from creating a gaming-oriented scheduler |
| January 6, 2026 | Questions for the Technical Advisory Board |
| December 23, 2025 | A high-memory elimination timeline for the kernel |
| December 23, 2025 | Verifier-state pruning in BPF |
| December 19, 2025 | A visualizer for BPF program state |
| December 18, 2025 | Episode 29 of the Dirk and Linus show |
| December 17, 2025 | The Civil Infrastructure Platform after (nearly) ten years |
| December 16, 2025 | 2025 Maintainers Summit development process discussions |
| December 15, 2025 | Better development tools for the kernel |
| December 14, 2025 | The rest of the 6.19 merge window |
| December 13, 2025 | The state of the kernel Rust experiment |
| December 12, 2025 | Best practices for linux-next |
| December 11, 2025 | Toward a policy for machine-learning tools in kernel development |
| December 4, 2025 | The beginning of the 6.19 merge window |
| December 1, 2025 | Checked-size array parameters in C |
| December 1, 2025 | Some 6.18 development statistics |
| November 20, 2025 | BPF and io_uring, two different ways |
| November 17, 2025 | Hot-page migration and specific-purpose NUMA nodes |
| November 14, 2025 | A struct sockaddr sequel |
| November 12, 2025 | The intersection of unstable pages and direct I/O |
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