Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 29, 2026
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Open source for phones: postmarketOS: an overview of an alternative Linux operating system for mobile devices.
- Linux Kernel Runtime Guard reaches its 1.0 release: runtime integrity checking for the Linux kernel.
- Who should vote in Fedora elections?: the project takes up the sticky question of what makes a contributor eligible to vote in FESCo elections.
- Filesystem medley: EROFS, NTFS, and XFS: status updates on three filesystems used with Linux.
- Fedora and GPG 2.5: as GNU Privacy Guard's 2.4 series approaches its end of life, Fedora discusses possible alternatives.
- Implicit arguments for BPF kfuncs: Ihor Solodrai attempts to solve the problem of passing arguments to kfuncs from BPF programs.
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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