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📰 KMSCON Continues Improving For VT Terminal Emulator In User-Space KMSCON 9.3.4 is out today for this virtual terminal (VT) emulator in user-space that runs atop the Linux DRM/KMS APIs for those wanting to enjoy a CONFIG_VT=n Linux kernel experience... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KMSCON-9.3.4-Released #kernel#linux

📰 Linux Kernel 6.19 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 7.0 Linux kernel 6.19 reached end of life and all users are now recommended to upgrade their systems to the latest Linux 7.0 kernel series as soon as possible. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-19-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-7-0 #kernel#linux

📰 Many Great Networking Improvements Arrive In Linux 7.1 Merged recently to Linux Git were the big set of networking changes for the Linux 7.1 kernel... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Networking #kernel#linux

📰 Linux May Drop Old Network Drivers Now That AI-Driven Bug Reports Are Causing A Burden Old network maintenance drivers are becoming a maintenance burden in the era of fuzzing and predominantly AI-driven bug detection causing an uptick in possible bug/security reports to upstream Linux kernel developers but with these drivers potentially having no actual users... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Old-Network-AI #kernel#linux

📰 While New NTFS Driver Merged, NTFS3 Driver Sees Fixes & Minor Changes For Linux 7.1 Last week saw the "NTFS resurrection" as Linux Torvalds put it with the new/overhauled NTFS driver having been merged for Linux 7.1. Even still, the NTFS3 driver that was contributed a few years ago by Paragon Software remains in the mainline kernel and today were some fixes/improvements merged for that existing driver... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS3-Linux-7.1 #kernel#linux

📰 A Lot Of Memory Management "MM" Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1 Andrew Morton recently sent out his various "MM" related pull requests for the ongoing Linux 7.1 kernel. There are a number of memory management optimizations in this next kernel version, which is always nice to see but all the more so these days with the inflated RAM pricing and other computer component prices... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-MM #kernel#linux

📰 CachyOS just shipped Linux 7.0, and it has some extra performance tweaks added to the mix After a few worrying release candidates, Linus released the Linux 7.0 kernel a few days ago. While there seemed to be more bug fixes than usual during the preview builds, Linus felt that the changes were small enough not to warrant a delay. He also believes the increase in fixes was due to AI assistants getting better at finding problems in the code, which is valid. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/cachyos-just-shipped-linux-70-and-it-has-some-extra-performance-tweaks-added-to-the-mix/ #kernel#linux

📰 The "NTFS Resurrection" Has Occurred For Linux 7.1 As a very exciting follow-up to the recent article around the new NTFS driver being submitted for Linux 7.1 to address the shortcomings of the current Paragon NTFS3 driver and the prior read-only NTFS kernel driver, that work has been merged!... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-New-NTFS-Driver #kernel#linux

📰 New Lenovo Fan Driver, More ASUS Motherboards With Sensor Monitoring For Linux 7.1 All of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-HWMON #kernel#linux

📰 Russian Baikal CPUs Are Losing Their Place in the Linux Kernel After sanctions, bankruptcy and removal of kernel maintainers, Baikal's unfinished kernel code is being removed. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17320657/linux-kernel-baikal-cpu-support-removal #kernel#linux

📰 WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD Merged For Linux 7.1: Significant Win For CPUs With Many Cores Per LLC The workqueue changes merged today for the Linux 7.1 kernel are significant for today's modern high-end processors where there can be many CPU cores per last level cache (LLC / L3 cache). The new WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope can reduce some contention on such systems and help achieve greater performance... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-WQ #kernel#linux

📰 LLM-Assisted Patches For Linux 7.1 May Have Negative Impact On 32-bit Systems Code now merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel may provide some negative performance implications for those still running modern Linux kernels on 32-bit hardware. A fundamental change can present cache line alignment and slab sizing implications for 32-bit Linux OS users but will provide for cleaner code with modern 64-bit computing... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-VFS-Kino-32-bit #kernel#linux