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The use of LLM assistants for kernel development

On the use of LLM assistants for kernel development This article brought to you by LWN subscribers Subscribers to LWN.net made this article — and everything that surrounds it — possible. If you appreciate our content, please buy a subscription and make the next set of articles possible. By some appearances, at least, the kernel community has been relatively insulated from the onslaught of AI-driven software-development tools. There has not been a flood of vibe-coded memory-management patches —

Modifying other people's software

Every once in a while, we all feel the need to modify something that someone else built. Sometimes those patches make sense to upstream, but not always. Sometimes they need a bit more time to bake, before they're ready to share with the world. Sometimes they're too specific to your environment. Sometimes it's just some personal preference, that the upstream wouldn't want to force upon everyone. And sometimes, just sometimes, you just want to run it yourself now, before it has had the time t

Classic Common Desktop Environment coming to OpenBSD

Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2025-07-30 from the classic come-on dept. CDE Much longed for by some, remembered as a quaint memory by other greybeards, the classic Common Desktop Environment ) is being added to the ports collection. The initial commit message reads, List: openbsd-ports-cvs Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: ports From: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot () cvs ! openbsd ! org> Date: 2025-07-28 12:35:38 CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: ports Changes by: [email protected] 2025

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Dwm Commented

Do not use. Do not patch. This fork of dwm adds extra comments and is intended for educational uses only. If you try to patch this version of dwm then that will most likely fail, more so the relative comments will no longer apply or be misleading as the underlying code will have changed. If you are interested in dwm then get a fresh clone from the https://dwm.suckless.org/ site and use this as a reference rather than the basis for your build. This fork has 0 patches and also does not cover pa

Some VMware perpetual license owners are unable to download security patches

Some VMware perpetual license holders are currently unable to download security patches, The Register reported today. The virtualization company has only said that these users will receive the patches at “a later date,” meaning users are uncertain how long their virtualization environments will be at risk. Since Broadcom bought VMware and ended perpetual license sales in favor of bundled subscription-based SKUs, some organizations have opted against signing up for a subscription and are running

How Do Pimple Patches Work? Here’s Everything You Need to Know

How do pimple patches work? Back in the day, getting a zit meant caking on disguising layers of foundation, concealer, powder …or maybe just a strategically angled hairstyle. But now, the game has changed: Why hide a pimple when you can dress it up? No frantic blending or pore-clogging products are required. Today, we’re embracing a radically different (and refreshingly low-key) approach to clogged pores: slapping a bright yellow star-shaped sticker on it and calling it a day. Welcome to the er

Subsecond: A runtime hotpatching engine for Rust hot-reloading

§Subsecond: Hot-patching for Rust Subsecond is a library that enables hot-patching for Rust applications. This allows you to change the code of a running application without restarting it. This is useful for game engines, servers, and other long-running applications where the typical edit-compile-run cycle is too slow. Subsecond also implements a technique we call “ThinLinking” which makes compiling Rust code significantly faster in development mode, which can be used outside of hot-patching.