[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2026
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2026, features discussions on AI and kernel development between Linus Torvalds and Dirk Hohndel. Key topics include BPF support in GCC, memory management, and the use of LLMs for reviewing kernel patches. The edition also covers various brief news items and announcements from the open-source community.
- ▪Linus Torvalds and Dirk Hohndel discussed AI and kernel development during a keynote session at the 2026 Open Source Summit North America.
- ▪The conversation touched on topics such as 3D printing, the recent 7.1-rc4 release of the kernel, and Torvalds's views on AI tooling.
- ▪Torvalds expressed his preference for programming in OpenSCAD for 3D modeling and highlighted the quality of open-source tools in that space.
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Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2026 This edition contains the following feature content: Dirk and Linus discuss AI and kernel development: an informal conversation with kernel creator Linus Torvalds. Ongoing coverage from the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit: BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond: an update on the state of BPF support in GCC. Support for private memory nodes: how to better manage special-purpose memory provided by devices. Custom page-cache policies with BPF: making it possible for user space to influence when pages are evicted from the page cache.
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