📰Linus T tells The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session
Ts'o, Hohndel and the man himself spill beans on how checks in the mail and GPL made it all possible If you know anything about Linux's history, you'll remember it all started with Linus Torvalds posting to the Minix Usenet group on August 25, 1991, that he was working on "a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/linus_torvalds_and_friends/
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📰 Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1
As a follow-up to the news first-covered on Phoronix earlier this month about Linux 7.1 expected to begin removing i486 CPU support: it indeed happened. Linus Torvalds took the initial removal bits today without any fuss today for beginning the phase out of M486 / M486SX / ELAN kernel support...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Begins-Removing-i486
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📰 Linux kernel maintainers are following through on removing Intel 486 support
Linux devs think even one second spent on 486 support is a second too many.
🔗 Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/linux-kernel-maintainers-are-following-through-on-removing-intel-486-support/
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📰 Intel QAT Driver With Linux 7.1 Adding Zstd Offload Support
The Intel QuickAssist "QAT" driver for the mainline Linux 7.1 kernel is adding support for Zstd offloading across QuickAssist Gen 4 / Gen 5 / Gen 6 accelerators for Zstandard compression as well as Zstandard decompression (limited there to the latest Gen 6 hardware)...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-QAT-Linux-7.1-Zstd
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📰 Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.32 Adds Wildcat Lake Support
Intel today released their Linux NPU Driver 1.32 as the user-space driver components that interacts with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for supporting the NPU hardware with Core Ultra processors...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Linux-Driver-1.32
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📰 Intel Prepares Wireless Mode Support For QAT Gen6 Hardware
Last year Intel began preparing their QuickAsist Linux driver support for QAT Gen6 hardware with upcoming platforms. That initial Intel QAT Gen6 driver enablement landed back in Linux 6.16 while for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel they are preparing support for a new wireless mode with this next-gen QuickAssist hardware...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-QAT-Gen6-Wireless-Mode
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📰 Intel Xe Driver Improves Memory Pressure / Out-Of-Memory Behavior For vRAM With Linux 7.1
Following the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver pull request landing transparent hugepages for device pages as an SVM win, another round of Intel Xe driver updates were sent out this week ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window. This latest pull request lands a new user-space API for helping the Intel Xe driver better cope with situations of video memory pressure / out-of-memory behavior for vRAM...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-Purgeable-BO
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📰 Linux 7.1 To Prevent Intel NPUs From Being Exhausted By Single Programs
The Intel IVPU accelerator driver will be introducing limits on Intel NPU resource usage by non-root user-space programs beginning with the Linux 7.1 kernel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Restrictions-Linux-71
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📰 Intel Preps A Lot Of Xe3 Code For Linux 7.1 Kernel
Intel yesterday sent out their first "drm-xe-next" pull request to DRM-Next of new Xe kernel graphics driver improvements they have readied for their eventual upstreaming into the Linux 7.1 kernel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-DRM-Xe-Next-Linux-7.1
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📰Nova Lake S Support Added To Intel LPSS Driver In Linux 7.0
The latest Nova Lake enablement work for the Linux kernel to land is adding support for Nova Lake S platforms to the Intel LPSS driver in the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-MFD
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