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📰 Linux 6.18 LTS / 6.12 LTS / 6.6 LTS Support Periods Extended Greg Kroah-Hartman today extended the planned maintenance periods of the latest Linux 6.18, Linux 6.12, and Linux 6.6 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel series... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-LTS-6.12-6.6-Extend #linux#kernel

📰 Kernel 6.19: GPU, SoC, and Rust improvements Collabora continues to be a key contributor to the Linux kernel, with 125 patches from 21 developers! Highlights include Arm Mali GPU improvements, expanded MediaTek and Rockchip SoC support, Rust integration progress, and new Rockchip video capture functionality. 🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/kernel-619-gpu-soc-rust-improvements.html #linux#kernel#arm

📰 OpenZFS 2.4.1 Released With Linux 6.19 Compatibility, Many Fixes Following the big OpenZFS 2.4 release back in December, OpenZFS 2.4.1 was released overnight to ship support for the latest Linux 6.19 stable kernel plus a variety of different bug fixes... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.4.1-Released #linux#kernel

📰 AMD Posts Linux Patches For SEV-SNP BTB Isolation It's quite a mouthful but today AMD posted Linux kernel patches for preparing SEV-SNP BTB isolation support for further enhancing the security of virtual machines (VMs) for confidential computing... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-SEV-SNP-BTB-Isolation #amd#linux#kernel

📰 Linus Torvalds Drops Old Linux Kconfig Option To Address Tiresome Kernel Log Spam Following yesterday's Linux 7.0-rc1 release, Linus Torvalds authored and merged a patch to get rid of the Linux kernel's WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM Kconfig option. While that option was added with good intentions, on some systems it can yield a lot of unnecessary kernel log spam... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-Unseeded-Random #linux#kernel

📰 Qualcomm Posts Patches For New DSP Accelerator Linux Driver The newest driver proposed for the Linux kernel's accelerator "accel" subsystem is named QDA and is a Qualcomm DSP Accelerator driver... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-DSP-Accel-Driver #linux#kernel

📰 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 #kernel

📰 AMD's Modern Graphics Driver Surpasses Six Million Lines Of Code In Linux 7.0 It was less than four years ago that the modern AMDGPU/AMDKFD open-source driver stack was at four million lines of C code and header files. Now with the Linux 7.0 kernel it has surpassed six million lines. Or put another way, by the same calculations Linux 7.0-rc1 is at 39.2 million with the modern AMD kernel graphics driver now making up 15% of the kernel's entire codebase as the single largest driver... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Six-Million-Lines-Linux-7.0 #opensource#linux#kernel#amd

📰 Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 7.0 Release Candidate Linus Torvalds announced the general availability of the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel series for public testing. Here’s what to expect! 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/linus-torvalds-announces-first-linux-kernel-7-0-release-candidate #linux#kernel

📰 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 #opensource#linux#kernel

📰 Linux Begins Seeing Early Preparations For PCIe 7.0 While we are on the horizon of seeing PCI Express 6.0 devices, there are already early Linux kernel patches beginning to surface for PCI Express 7.0... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Early-PCIe-Gen-7-Prep #linux#kernel

📰 Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS released with Linux 6.17 + Mesa 25.2 Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS is now available to download. This fourth point release brings the Linux 6.17 HWE kernel and Mesa 25.2 graphics stack for better hardware support.You're reading Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS released with Linux 6.17 + Mesa 25.2, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/ubuntu-24-04-4-lts-released #linux#kernel#ubuntu