{
  "id": 16883591,
  "title": "Retiring BSD-Compress Proposed For Linux PPP Network Code",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/retiring-bsd-compress-proposed-for-linux-ppp-network-code",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-28T09:50:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phoronix",
    "slug": "phoronix",
    "url": "https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-May-Retire-PPP-BSD-Comp"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A patch has been proposed to remove the BSD-Compress support from the Linux kernel for the Linux networking point-to-point protocol (PPP) due to being unmaintained and having fundamental issues with the code that can lead to a fatal error...",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}