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The ability to write kernel code in Rust was explicitly added as an experiment — if things did not go well, Rust would be removed again. At the 2025 Maintainers Summit, a session was held to evaluate the state of that experiment, and to dec...
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2025-12-17
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2025-11-26
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There have been several recent announcements about Linux distributions changing the list of architectures they support, or adjusting how they build binaries for some versions of those architectures. Ubuntu introduced architecture variants,...
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2025-11-19
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2025-10-22
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2025-10-22
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2025-10-15
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2025-10-15
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2025-10-08
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2025-10-08
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2025-10-08
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2025-10-01
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2025-09-24
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2025-09-24
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2025-09-24
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2025-09-03
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2025-07-23
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LWN.net needs you! Without subscribers, LWN would simply not exist. Please consider signing up for a subscription and helping to keep LWN publishing. In 2023, Fujita Tomonori wrote a Rust version of the existing driver for the Asix AX88796B...
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2025-07-02
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2025-07-02
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