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📰 VUMFAT File-System Driver Proposed For The Linux Kernel The newest Linux file-system driver proposed for the kernel is... VUMFAT... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-VUMFAT-2026 #kernel#linux

📰 Linux 2026 "Spring Cleaning" To Address Some Code Remnants As Far Back As Linux v0.1 A big kernel patch series was posted today by longtime Linux developer Thomas Gleixner. The set of 38 patches amount to some big time "spring cleaning" with addressing some code remnants still around that originated back in the very early Linux v0.1 kernel while some other code being cleaned up dates back to the Linux 1.3~2.1 kernel series from the 90's... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-0.1-LATCH-Cleanup-2026 #kernel#linux

📰 Is a Clanker Being Used to Carry Out AI Fuzzing in the Linux Kernel? Greg Kroah-Hartman appears to be running AI-assisted fuzzing on the kernel. Don't outrage yet, as this may not be a bad thing. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17316958/linux-kernel-ai-fuzzing #kernel#linux

📰 More SpacemiT K3 RVA23 SoC Functionality Expected For Linux 7.1 The SpacemiT K3 is exciting as one of the first RISC-V RVA23 designs coming to market. For the Linux 7.0 kernel there is initial K3 support in the mainline kernel while the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is expected to land more K3 enablement... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-SpacemiT-K3-For-Linux-7.1 #kernel#linux

📰Deepin 25.1 Arrives With Linux Kernel 6.18 and New AI Features Deepin 25.1 updates the desktop with Linux kernel 6.18, new UOS AI tools, file manager enhancements, and many fixes. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/deepin-25-1-arrives-with-linux-kernel-6-18-and-new-ai-features/ #kernel#linux

📰Linux 7.0 Adds Support For New Keys On Upcoming Laptops For Expanded AI Agent Interactions Since last year the Linux kernel already supported the Microsoft Copilot key appearing on recent laptops to trigger AI agent interactions. That keyboard key is becoming more common but now three additional new keys have been standardized for additional AI integration on future PCs. Merged today for Linux 7.0 is supporting those new standardized keycodes for AI use... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-New-AI-Agent-Keys #kernel#linux

📰 Little Snitch, the macOS network tool, is now available on Linux A Linux version of Little Snitch, the iconic network monitoring and firewall tool for macOS, has been released. Little Snitch for Linux is written in Rust and uses eBPF for kernel-level traffic interception (which lets sandboxed code run inside the Linux kernel without modifying it). The tool lists processes on your machine making network connections, with options to block them. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/little-snitch-linux #linux#kernel

📰 GParted Live 1.8.1-3 Released with Linux Kernel 6.19.10 and GParted 1.8.1 GParted Live 1.8.1-3 Debian-based live system for performing disk partitioning tasks using the GParted partition editor is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.19. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/gparted-live-1-8-1-3-released-with-linux-kernel-6-19-10-and-gparted-1-8-1 #linux#kernel#debian

📰 Linux kernel maintainers are following through on removing Intel 486 support Linux devs think even one second spent on 486 support is a second too many. 🔗 Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/linux-kernel-maintainers-are-following-through-on-removing-intel-486-support/ #linux#kernel#intel

📰 Intel QAT Driver With Linux 7.1 Adding Zstd Offload Support The Intel QuickAssist "QAT" driver for the mainline Linux 7.1 kernel is adding support for Zstd offloading across QuickAssist Gen 4 / Gen 5 / Gen 6 accelerators for Zstandard compression as well as Zstandard decompression (limited there to the latest Gen 6 hardware)... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-QAT-Linux-7.1-Zstd #linux#kernel#intel

📰 Linux's Second-In-Command Turns To New Fuzzing Tools For Uncovering Kernel Bugs Greg Kroah-Hartman, the main Linux stable kernel maintainer and typically viewed as the second-in-command to the Linux kernel development, has turned to new "gregkh_clanker_t1000" fuzzing tooling to help uncover new kernel bugs... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Greg-KH-Clanker-Linux-Bugs #linux#kernel

📰 AMD ISP4 Driver On Track To Be Merged For Linux 7.2 It looks like with the Linux 7.2 kernel later in the year the AMD ISP4 driver will finally be merged to mainline. This driver is needed for the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop and other future AMD Ryzen laptops... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ISP4-For-Linux-7.2 #linux#amd#kernel