📰 AI Helped Uncover A "50-80x Improvement" For Linux's IO_uring
Linux block maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe recently was debugging some slowdowns in the AHCI/SCSI code with IO_uring usage. When turning to Claude AI to help in sorting through the issue, patches were devised that can deliver up to a "literally yield a 50-80x improvement on the io_uring side for idle systems." The code is on its way to the Linux kernel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-50-80x-IO-uring
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📰 NXP Neutron NPU Kernel Driver Blocked For Now By A Closed-Source User-Space Blob
Last month NXP posted open-source Linux kernel driver patches for their Neutron NPU accelerator. The NXP Neutron NPU aims to help with edge AI applications and this neural processing unit is found in their different SoCs. Unfortunately, their GitHub repository for the user-space software ends up containing a binary-only blob that will end up delaying plans on getting this driver into the mainline Linux kernel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NXP-Neutron-NPU-User-Blob
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📰 OpenWrt 25.12 Released with APK Package Manager Replacing opkg
OpenWrt 25.12 open-source router firmware arrives with a major shift to the APK package manager, replacing opkg, alongside Linux kernel 6.12.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/openwrt-25-12-released-with-apk-package-manager-replacing-opkg/
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📰 Drgn v0.1 Released For Very Versatile Programmable Debugger
Drgn is the programmable debugger developed by Meta engineer Omar Sandoval that has proven quite versatile and popular with Linux kernel developers and others. After nearly two dozen releases already, Drgn v0.1 was released this week as another big step forward for this open-source debugger...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Drgn-0.1-Released
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🤖Запустить Linux Desktop на Android вполне реально и понятно как. Проект Local Desktop позволит вам это сделать. Запуск происходит через виртуализацию, доступную на Android 16.
На скриншоте к посту Linux, запущенный на Pixel Tablet.
#Android#Linux
📰 FRANK OS 1.0 Launches With a Retro Windows 95-Like Desktop
FRANK OS 1.0 debuts with a windowed desktop inspired by Windows 95, running on RP2350 microcontrollers using the FreeRTOS kernel.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/frank-os-launches-with-a-retro-windows-95-like-desktop/
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📰 FreeBSD's Rust Kernel Support Could Be Stable Enough To Try This Year
The FreeBSD Project has published their Q4'2025 status report to outline progress made on their software, infrastructure, and other initiatives over the past quarter. Meanwhile among the work to look forward to this year in FreeBSD is getting their Rust kernel driver support up to scratch...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Q4-2025-Status-Report
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