As part of a team reverse-engineering the binary blob driver for the ESP32’s WiFi feature at Ghent University, [Jasper Devreker] saw himself faced with the need to better isolate the network packets ...

The developers behind the Debian Linux distribution are preparing for the upcoming release of Debian 5, which is codenamed Lenny. The decision to move forward with the release follows a contentious ...

OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt has written an open letter to the open source software community requesting that users assist in pressuring Intel to provide documentation and change the distribution ...

Unlike some distributions, Fedora makes a point of squeaky-clean licensing. Is the hassle of avoiding tainted drivers worth it in the long run? LWN recently pointed at a software review claiming that ...

Open-source software has gone a long way into making modern technology the way it is today. The Linux kernel alone is almost single-handedly holding up the entire Internet, and various other ...

Librephone is an effort to reverse engineer proprietary code needed for your phone to run. While projects like LineageOS prioritize open-source code, some binary “blobs” have so far been necessary.