Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 20, 2025
This edition contains the following feature content:
- The current state of Linux architecture support: 21 flavors of hardware architecture that Linux can run on.
- Debian debates amending architecture support stratagem: should Debian have a blanket policy on retiring support for aging hardware architectures?
- Another Fedora Flatpak discussion: a fuss over Flatpak manifest attribution may lead to better Fedora Flatpak policies.
- A struct sockaddr sequel: Kees Cook continues trying to increase safety around the sockaddr structure.
- Hot-page migration and specific-purpose NUMA nodes: two patch sets are under review to address problems around the management of different types of memory.
- Pouring packages with Homebrew: an extra package repository and beer-themed way to manage software on Linux.
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.
Note that November 27 is the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. As is our tradition, there will be no LWN Weekly Edition that day; we will be too busy eating to put one together. However, we will keep the lights on over the break and post the occasional article. We will be back to normal service with the December 4 Edition.
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