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📰 Linux Ham Radio KISS Serial Driver Being Modernized In 2026 Here's something that wasn't on my bingo card for this year of the "MKISS" driver for ham radio being modernized in 2026 as opposed to just being dropped. The MKISS code hasn't seen much driver activity since the original Git import of the Linux kernel more than twenty years ago... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Ham-Radio-MKISS-2026 #linux#kernel

📰 Linux 7.0-rc6 Bringing A Lot Of Audio Quirks / Fixes The Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due for release tomorrow has a lot of audio fixes/quirks to correct a wide variety of different hardware issues, mostly different problematic laptops for their speakers and/or microphone behavior under Linux... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc6-Many-Audio-Fixes #linux#kernel

📰 DRBD Driver Working To Land ~15 Years Worth Of Changes Into The Linux Kernel Developers behind the Distributed Replicated Block Device "DRBD" for mirroring block devices between multiple host systems are working to resync the upstream Linux kernel DRBD support with the out-of-tree DRBD code they have been maintaining for the past ~15 years out-of-sync. It's a big undertaking but they have begun staging patches for review and testing to get this massive set of changes up to par for mainline... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRBD-15-Years-Code-Changes #linux#kernel

📰 BPF-Based I/O Scheduler For Linux Demonstrated With sched_ext there is support for BPF-based CPU scheduling policies for the Linux kernel while now a new initiative is working on BPF-based I/O schedulers... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/BPF-IO-Scheduler-Linux #linux#kernel

📰 AMDGPU Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Debug Improvements, New Hardware IP Another round of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver improvements were sent out this week as feature development for DRM-Next ahead of Linux 7.1 begins to wind down... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-More-AMDGPU #linux#kernel

📰 Linux Patches Posted To Fix ~2x Performance Drop For CPU Workloads On NVIDIA Vera Rubin An important set of Linux scheduler patches were posted for review on Thursday for improving the SMT-aware asymmetric CPU capacity handling. These patches to improve the Linux kernel scheduler around CPU Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) is needed after NVIDIA engineers discovered up to a ~2x performance drop for CPU-intensive workloads on their upcoming Vera Rubin platform... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Vera-Rubin-SMT-Sched-Fix #linux#kernel

📰 AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar Greg Kroah-Hartman can't explain the inflection point, but it's not slowing down or going away Interview I was at a press luncheon at KubeCon Europe this week when, to my surprise, who should sit down next to me but long-term Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman. Greg, who lives in the Netherlands these days, was there to briefly comment on AI, Linux, and security. 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/greg_kroahhartman_ai_kernel/ #linux#kernel

📰 Oracle Releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 - Still On Linux 6.12 LTS Base Days after Oracle celebrated their RHEL-based Oracle Linux distribution turning 20 years old, today they announced Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 "UEK 8.2" as their alternative to the RHEL-clone kernel with Oracle Linux... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Unbreakable-Enterprise-UEK-8.2 #linux#kernel

📰 Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive Wine 11 is the biggest jump for Linux gaming in years. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/wine-11-rewrites-linux-runs-windows-games-speed-gains/ #linux#kernel

📰 Linux 7.0-rc5 Released: Linux 7.0 "Starting To Calm Down" Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 7.0-rc5 as we inch toward the stable Linux 7.0 kernel release in April... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc5-Released #kernel#linux

📰Sashiko: AI code review system for the Linux kernel spots bugs humans miss Beats getting roasted on the mailing list AI is coming to the Linux kernel in the form of a code review system - not code submissions.… 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/20/sashiko_code_review_linux/ #kernel#linux

📰 Linux MGLRU Improvements Net A 30% Increase For MongoDB, More Than 100% On HDDs It's been a while since having any improvements to talk about for the MGLRU multi-gen LRU functionality for the Linux kernel to optimize page reclamation and help with system performance especially when enduring memory pressure. But this week a Tencent engineer posted some very promising patches for further enhancing this kernel feature... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-MGLRU-30p-MongoDB #linux#kernel