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📰 AerynOS March 2026 Update Brings GNOME 50, KDE 6.6.3, and Linux 6.18 AerynOS March alpha ISO brings GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6.3, Linux kernel 6.18, and tooling improvements across moss and boulder. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/aerynos-march-2026-update-brings-gnome-50-kde-6-6-3-and-linux-6-18/ #kde#linux#kernel#plasma#gnome

📰 New Rust-Based BUS1 In-Kernel IPC In Development For The Linux Kernel After KDBUS failed to make it into the mainline Linux kernel more than one decade ago as an in-kernel version of D-Bus, BUS1 was proposed as a clean sheet design for in-kernel, capability-based inter-process communication (IPC). BUS1 didn't gain enough traction to make it to the mainline kernel and then many of the same developers devised Dbus-Broker as a more performant D-Bus user-space implementation. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/BUS1-Linux-2026 #linux#kernel

📰 The Integrated ROCm Story For Ubuntu 26.04 Still Playing Out Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is just three weeks out for release with many great features in tow from the GNOME 50 desktop to the very leading-edge Linux 7.0 kernel and many other package updates. One feature that many had been looking forward to is Canonical's plans to ship AMD ROCm directly in the Ubuntu archive for a much cleaner experience for those wanting to make use of AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04-ROCm-State #linux#amd#opensource#ubuntu#kernel#gnome

📰 AMD Revives Linux Kernel Patches For Hardware-Accelerated vIOMMU Back in 2023 AMD posted hardware-accelerated virtualized IOMMU patches for the Linux kernel as a request for comments (RFC). In 2024 they then posted a second iteration of the AMD vIOMMU patches but then seemingly fell off the radar. This morning is now the first set of updated AMD vIOMMU patches sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list with the RFC tag now removed... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-vIOMMU-2026-Linux #linux#amd#kernel

📰 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

📰 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 #linux#intel#kernel

📰 SystemRescue 13 Released With Linux Kernel 6.18 and GParted 1.8.1 SystemRescue 13, based on Arch, updates to Linux kernel 6.18, enhances HiDPI support, and upgrades core tools such as GParted and bcachefs. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/systemrescue-13-released-with-linux-kernel-6-18-and-gparted-1-8-1/ #linux#kernel#arch

📰 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

📰 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 #linux#intel#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