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Some things to expect in 2025

ble scheduling class (sched-ext) will be a game changer. Already we have seen, in 2024, how the ability to load a CPU scheduler from user space as a set of BPF programs has unleashed a great deal of creativity; that was before sched-ext was part of a released kernel.

Already we have seen, in 2024, how the ability to load a CPU scheduler from user space as a set of BPF programs has unleashed a great deal of creativity; that was before sched-ext was part of a released kernel. Security incidents like the XZ backdoor attempt will be part of that, but a project with a single maintainer is also subject to all of the other problems associated with burnout and insufficient time to do the job properly. LWN will begin its 27th year of publication in January; we are one institution that is proud to have been a part of the Linux and free-software communities for so long, and we have no intention of stopping now.

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