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📰 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

📰 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Is Out Now with Linux Kernel 7.0 and GNOME 50 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS operating system is now available for public beta testing with the Linux 7.0 kernel, Mesa 26.0 graphics stack, and GNOME 50 desktop environment. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-26-04-lts-beta-is-out-now-with-linux-kernel-7-0-and-gnome-50 #gnome#ubuntu#linux#kernel

📰 Open-Source Nouveau Performance With Linux 7.0 + NVK Mesa 26.1-dev vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver As a few months have passed since our prior round of testing the fully open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver and Mesa NVK Vulkan driver plus Zink, here is a fresh round of benchmarks using Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.1-dev compared to the open-source stack shipped by Ubuntu 25.10 (Linux 6.17 + Mesa 25.2) for showing how far the open-source NVIDIA driver has progressed the past few months. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-70-nouveau #opensource#ubuntu#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

📰 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 #opensource#linux#kernel

📰 VitruvianOS 0.3 Debuts as Haiku-Inspired Linux OS Without X11 or Wayland VitruvianOS 0.3 is the first public release, featuring a Haiku-inspired design and a custom graphics stack built on the Linux kernel, without X11 or Wayland. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/vitruvianos-0-3-debuts-as-haiku-inspired-linux-os/ #wayland#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

📰 AMD Posts Latest "pghot" Code For Overhauling Linux Hot Page Tracking & Promotion One of the core Linux infrastructure improvements that AMD engineers have been working on recently is pghot as a hot-page tracking and promotion subsystem. This proposed addition to the Linux kernel could be quite beneficial especially for those using modern AMD EPYC servers with CXL and multiple memory tiers... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-pghot-RFC-Latest-Linux #kernel#linux#amd

📰 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

📰 Linux 7.0 Lands Fix For Years Old Bug Affecting AMD Hainan GPUs Merged overnight for Linux 7.0 and set to be back-ported to existing Linux stable kernel versions is a fix for aging AMD GCN 1.0 "Hainan" GPU models. This closes a 2021 bug report that was long neglected and ended up being just a small tweak to fix the issue reported of GPU hangs... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Hainan-Fix-Linux-7.0 #kernel#amd#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