Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 7.0-rc5 as we inch toward the stable Linux 7.0 kernel release in April. With Linux 7.0-rc5 there are various bug and regression fixes that accumulated over the past week as we move toward the end of the cycle. Some of the Linux 7.0-rc5 changes that stand out include a workaround … Read more
The Loongson Direct Rendering Manager driver for handling the display controller on LS7A/LS2K SoCs is no longer orphaned with new Loongson engineers stepping up to maintain the code moving forward. The Loongson DRM driver is for handling the display controller on various SoCs from this Chinese company while Vivante graphics IP is used for the … Read more
A few days ago Google engineers went public with Sashiko with their agentic AI code review for the Linux kernel. The Google Gemini Pro powered AI code review service is automatically monitoring the Linux kernel mailing list for new patch submissions and has proven useful already. Interest continues to build by upstream Linux kernel stakeholders … Read more
Kent Overstreet today released Bcachefs 1.37 as the newest feature release to this out-of-tree file-system driver and user-space tooling for this next-gen, copy-on-write file-system. The Bcachefs erasure coding functionality, which has been in the works for several years and has seen a lot of refinements in new Bcachefs updates over the past two years, is … Read more
Merged to mainline yesterday for Linux 7.0 were yet more Rust changes in preparing for upcoming Rust releases as well as enhancing the kernel build reproducibility when engaging the Rust code. Miguel Ojeda sent in the latest Rust toolchain and infrastructure updates, which were already merged by Linus Torvalds. This includes preparations for the upcoming … Read more
In addition to GNOME OS seeing recent improvements, KDE Linux continues seeing more enhancements too for this leading reference platform for showcasing the KDE Plasma desktop. KDE developer Nate Graham published the latest issue of This Month In KDE Linux to outline some of the recent improvements to this general purpose OS for showcasing the … Read more
An open-source, independently developed Linux kernel module called GreenBoost aims to augment the dedicated video memory on NVIDIA discrete GPUs with system memory and NVMe storage. The intent here with GreenBoost is a CUDA caching layer to more easily run larger AI models for LLMs that otherwise won’t fit solely in your graphics card’s dedicated … Read more
Out today is Budgie 10.10.2 as the latest minor update to this open-source desktop environment that began as part of the Solus Linux project. Budgie 10.10 is big for introducing its Wayland support and with today’s v10.10.2 support there is enhanced Labwc compositor integration via its bridge layer. Budgie 10.10.2 with Labwc now allows setting … Read more
The Linux event poll “epoll” code for efficient I/O multiplexing and monitoring of file descriptors for seeing when I/O is possible has a new optimization merged today for Linux 7.0. Eric Dumazet of Google who has been involved in some great improvements to the Linux kernel has adapted the eventpoll’s epoll_put_uevent() code into a scoped … Read more
A set of patches recently posted to the Linux kernel mailing list have now been queued up to a tip/tip.git branch for planned introduction in Linux 7.1. These patches are for enhancing the Linux perf subsystem support for AMD Instruction-Based Sampling (IBS) improvements with next-gen Zen 6 processors. The AMD IBS improvements for the “future” … Read more