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== Summary ==
Journalistic articles written for LWN.net are generally considered reliable as a source of information on [[free and open source software]] and issues of interest to that community of users and developers. However, the website also hosts archives of some mailing lists for free software, which is [[WP:UGC|user-generated content]] and a [[WP:PRIMARY|primary source]].

== Excerpt ==
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== Discussions ==
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=== Links ===

==== RSN ====
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* [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 77#RCU page reliably sourced?]]

* [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 260#LWN.net for Draft:NumWorks]]

* [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 407#LWN.net]]

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=== Recency ===
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=== Rfcs ===
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==Notes==
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==References==
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|- class="s-gr" id="LWN.net"
| [[LWN.net]] <small>(Linux Weekly News)</small>
| {{WP:RSPSTATUS|gr}}
| [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 77#RCU page reliably sourced?|1]] [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 260#LWN.net for Draft:NumWorks|2]] [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 407#LWN.net|3]]
| {{WP:RSPLAST|2023|stale=n}}
| Journalistic articles written for LWN.net are generally considered reliable as a source of information on [[free and open source software]] and issues of interest to that community of users and developers. However, the website also hosts archives of some mailing lists for free software, which is [[WP:UGC|user-generated content]] and a [[WP:PRIMARY|primary source]].
| {{WP:RSPUSES|lwn.net}}
|}