Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 26, 2024
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Linus and Dirk on succession, Rust, and more: the Open Source Summit tradition continues in Vienna.
- KDE sets its goals through 2026: where the KDE desktop project would like to go.
- Kangrejos 2024: the next set of
articles from the annual Rust-for-Linux conference:
- Best practices for error handling in kernel Rust: Dirk Behme asked whether there were ways that the kernel could improve error handling in Rust components.
- Resources for learning Rust for kernel development: the Rust-for-Linux project discusses collecting learning materials.
- What the Nova driver needs: Danilo Krummrich explains what is needed for his new work on the Nova driver.
- The 2024 Maintainers Summit:
reporting from the annual gathering of top kernel subsystem maintainers:
- Regression tracking: the kernel's regression tracker is unfunded and unsure about continuing; is this work valuable and how can the task be supported?
- Considering kernel pass-through interfaces: what position should the kernel community take toward device drivers that simply pass commands through, unmediated, to a device?
- Tools for kernel developers: the current status and future direction for kernel-development tools.
- Committing to Rust in the kernel: has the Rust experiment succeeded, and where does it go from here?
- The 6.12 merge window begins: the first set of changes pulled into the mainline for the next major kernel release.
- RPM 4.20 is coming: what to expect from the last RPM 4.x release.
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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