Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 21, 2025
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie: touring the most recent Debian stable release.
- Python, tail calls, and performance: At EuroPython 2025 Ken Jin provided an update, and reality check, on his work to use tail calls to speed up the CPython interpreter.
- Simpler management of the huge zero folio: managing a page full of zeroes is harder than it seems.
- Kexec handover and the live update orchestrator: work continues on kernel features to preserve workloads across a reboot.
- Finding a successor to the FHS: Fedora looks for an up-to-date filesystem specification.
- The Koka programming language: a look at an experimental functional programming language.
This week's edition also includes these inner pages:
- Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
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