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📰 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 #linux#kernel

📰 Linux Still Working To Clean Up The Realtek RTL8723BS 802.11b/g/n WiFi Driver In 2026 Introduced to the Linux 4.12 kernel's staging area back in 2017 was the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. The Realtek RTL8723BS is an 802.11 b/g/ SDIO WLAN adapter with Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity too. In the nearly decade since this driver was added to the staging area, it's continued to be cleaned up and with the Linux 7.0 merge window there is yet again a lot of work on cleaning up this WiFi driver for the old Realtek hardware... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Staging #linux#kernel

📰 Apple M3 With Asahi Linux Continues Making Progress, No ETA Yet For Shipping Asahi Linux developers have published a status report following the recent Linux 6.19 kernel release to outline recent progress and upcoming items around Apple Silicon support on Linux. This year will also mark five years that Asahi Linux has been around for bringing Linux to the Apple M-Series hardware... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M3-Asahi-Linux-2026 #linux#kernel

📰 AMD Preparing Linux Kernel For "RMPOPT" To Help Reduce Overhead On SEV-SNP Servers AMD sent out a set of Linux kernel patches today for enabling use of a new instruction dubbed RMPOPT. Given the timing of these patches, RMPOPT is presumably a feature coming with next-gen AMD EPYC Zen 6 "Venice" processors... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RMPOPT-Linux #linux#kernel#amd

📰Nova Lake S Support Added To Intel LPSS Driver In Linux 7.0 The latest Nova Lake enablement work for the Linux kernel to land is adding support for Nova Lake S platforms to the Intel LPSS driver in the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-MFD #linux#intel#kernel

📰 SparkyLinux 8.2 Released with Support for Linux Kernel 6.19, Updated Packages SparkyLinux 8.2 distribution is now available for download with support for Linux kernel 6.19, based on Debian 13 "Trixie". Here's what's new! 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/sparkylinux-8-2-released-with-support-for-linux-kernel-6-19-updated-packages #linux#debian#kernel

📰 Idea Raised For Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration On Fedora Linux DRM Panic is the Linux kernel infrastructure now supported by most of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display drivers for being able to render a QR code kernel error message or similar when a kernel panic occurs to provide a cleaner interface should your system run into serious problems. An idea has been raised now within the Fedora Linux camp to provide an improved experience around this feature akin to Windows' "Blue Screen... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Panic-Nicer-Fedora-Idea #linux#fedora#kernel

📰 Linux Kernel Improvement Can Make Hibernation Several Times Faster With Slow SSDs A patch series sent out for review this weekend can significantly improve the system hibernation performance under Linux. Particularly for those with slower SSDs, the patches can make Linux hibernate up to several times faster... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Faster-Hibernation-Slow #linux#kernel

📰 F2FS Delivers "Several Key Performance Optimizations" With Linux 7.0 The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) has multiple performance improvements to provide its users with on the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-F2FS #linux#kernel