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Axboe Hacking On New Linux Patches For 60% Increase To Per-Core I/O Performance

10 May 2026

Following a presentation at last week's Linux storage, file-system, memory management and BPF summit (LSFMM) in Croatia where Linux I/O overhead compared to the Storage Performance Development Kit

Axboe Hacking On New Linux Patches For 60% Increase To Per-Core I/O Performance

10 May 2026

Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages

10 May 2026

With half-way through the Debian 14 "Forky" development cycle, the Debian release team is out with an update this weekend and some big news...

Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages

10 May 2026

OpenAI's Coding Agent Helped Create A New AMD Temperature Driver For Linux

10 May 2026

The newest open-source AMD Linux driver on the Linux kernel mailing list that has recently been undergoing review is prom21-xhci that exposes the temperature sensors found on the AMD Promontory 21

OpenAI's Coding Agent Helped Create A New AMD Temperature Driver For Linux

10 May 2026

Kconfirm Is On A Quest To Clean Up The Linux Kernel's Configuration System

10 May 2026

New tooling being worked on for possible mainline Linux kernel inclusion is Kconfirm as a new tool for detecting misusage and efforts stemming from Kconfig, the configuration system for kernel

Kconfirm Is On A Quest To Clean Up The Linux Kernel's Configuration System

10 May 2026

Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 With Many Security Fixes

9 May 2026

Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 on Saturday in order to ship the latest security fixes affecting a wide variety of open-source software projects...

Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 With Many Security Fixes

9 May 2026

Nocturne Is The Latest Music Player For GNOME To Hit v1.0

9 May 2026

While since GNOME 48 Decibels is the new audio player of the GNOME desktop, there is no shortage of other GNOME/GTK-aligned music players. Last month was the big Amerbol music player update and there

Nocturne Is The Latest Music Player For GNOME To Hit v1.0

9 May 2026

Hyprland 0.55 Released With Lua-Based Configuration, User-Defined Layouts

9 May 2026

Hyprland 0.55 is out today as a big feature update for this Wayland-based compositor...

Hyprland 0.55 Released With Lua-Based Configuration, User-Defined Layouts

9 May 2026

FEX 2605 Brings Performance Improvements, Initial Snapdragon X2 Elite Fixes

9 May 2026

FEX 2605 is out this weekend as the newest monthly feature release to this emulator for running Linux x86\_64 binaries on ARM64 (AArch64) devices. This is the open-source project sponsored by Valve

FEX 2605 Brings Performance Improvements, Initial Snapdragon X2 Elite Fixes

9 May 2026

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 Improves Handling Of Desktop Apps, Other Fixes

9 May 2026

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 is out this week as the latest maintenance release for this tablet/smartphone-focused Ubuntu distribution...

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 Improves Handling Of Desktop Apps, Other Fixes

9 May 2026

NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.17 Fixes Support For GB10 Powered Systems

9 May 2026

The open-source, community-developed NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver that provides a Video Acceleration API (VA-API) implementation built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC video decode interface is out with a new release.

NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.17 Fixes Support For GB10 Powered Systems

9 May 2026

Linux Enables Auto Counter Reload "ACR" For Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids

9 May 2026

Merged as part of the perf subsystem fixes overnight is enabling Auto Counter Reload (ACR) functionality for upcoming Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids processors. This ACR enabling for Diamond Rapids "DMR"

Linux Enables Auto Counter Reload "ACR" For Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids

9 May 2026

KDE Plasma 6.7 To Support ICC Profiles In HDR Mode, Direct Scan-Out Improvement

9 May 2026

KDE developers continue to be quite busy in preparing additional Plasma 6.7 desktop features ahead of the stable release due out in mid-June...

KDE Plasma 6.7 To Support ICC Profiles In HDR Mode, Direct Scan-Out Improvement

9 May 2026

FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 2 Brings Updated Zstd, Bug Fixes

9 May 2026

FreeBSD 15.1 continues working its way toward a stable release in June. Out today is FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 2...

FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 2 Brings Updated Zstd, Bug Fixes

9 May 2026

HP Z6 G5 A Continues Working Out Well For Linux-Friendly, High-End Workstation

8 May 2026

In late 2023 I reviewed the HP Z6 G5 A workstation that at the time was built around the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 series and NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation graphics. More recently, HP has revised

HP Z6 G5 A Continues Working Out Well For Linux-Friendly, High-End Workstation

8 May 2026

NVIDIA Releases CUDA-Oxide 0.1 For Experimental Rust-To-CUDA Compiler

8 May 2026

A new NVIDIA Labs project is greatly improving the capabilities of using the Rust programming language for developing CUDA kernels for NVIDIA GPUs...

NVIDIA Releases CUDA-Oxide 0.1 For Experimental Rust-To-CUDA Compiler

8 May 2026

DM-INLINECRYPT Expected For Linux 7.2 To Leverage Inline Encryption

8 May 2026

Queued for merging as part of the DeviceMapper changes for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle is the new dm-inlinecrypt target for leveraging inline block device encryption...

DM-INLINECRYPT Expected For Linux 7.2 To Leverage Inline Encryption

8 May 2026

Qt Creator 20 Beta Expands AI Integration

8 May 2026

The Qt Group released the Qt Creator 20 Beta today for this Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment (IDE). In building off the trends of recent releases of Qt Creator and development tools

Qt Creator 20 Beta Expands AI Integration

8 May 2026

OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta's Content-Aware Compression Software

8 May 2026

Last October engineers at Meta announced OpenZL as a format-aware compression framework. OpenZL aims to be speedy yet capable of delivering high compression ratios depending upon what is being

OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta's Content-Aware Compression Software

8 May 2026

AMD's Local, Open-Source AI Can Now Easily Interact With Your Gmail

8 May 2026

AMD software engineers continue rapidly advancing their open-source software efforts around local AI/LLM use on consumer-class Radeon and Ryzen hardware. AMD GAIA 0.17.6 was released on Thursday with

AMD's Local, Open-Source AI Can Now Easily Interact With Your Gmail

8 May 2026

Linux Erroneously Thinks Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs Run At 7GHz

8 May 2026

With Intel's recently-launched Bartlett Lake P-core-only processors intended for the embedded market, there is a rather surprising oversight under Linux: the Intel P-State driver reporting a 7.0+ GHz

Linux Erroneously Thinks Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs Run At 7GHz

8 May 2026

Dirty Frag Vulnerability Made Public Early: Root Privilege On All Distributions

8 May 2026

One week after the Copy Fail vulnerability, a new Linux local privilege escalation bug has been made public. This time around there are no patches or CVEs yet for this "Dirty Frag" vulnerability as

Dirty Frag Vulnerability Made Public Early: Root Privilege On All Distributions

8 May 2026

AMD K5 CPUs The Latest To Be Retired With Linux's Aging & Stagnate Hardware Support

7 May 2026

Following Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out i486 CPU support and in turn drivers like those for the old AMD Elan SoCs now being removed, for Linux 7.2 the processor support removal is going further to

AMD K5 CPUs The Latest To Be Retired With Linux's Aging & Stagnate Hardware Support

7 May 2026

Linux 7.2 To Support Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet

7 May 2026

The Realtek RTL8159 has been appearing in some 10G-rated USB network adapters at online retailers, some for less than $100 USD. But currently the RTL8159 is only supported by Realtek's out-of-tree

Linux 7.2 To Support Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet

7 May 2026

AMD RadeonSI Code Reorganized To Support Multimedia-Only Driver Builds

7 May 2026

Merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel was a reorganization of the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code to better separate the graphics and multimedia acceleration code from the rest of the driver...

AMD RadeonSI Code Reorganized To Support Multimedia-Only Driver Builds

7 May 2026

Flattened Image Tree 1.0 Specification For Embedded Linux Systems

7 May 2026

The Flattened Image Tree "FIT" 1.0 specification was recently finalized for this container format used by U-Boot on embedded systems for providing various boot components like DTBs, the Linux kernel

Flattened Image Tree 1.0 Specification For Embedded Linux Systems

7 May 2026