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FreeBSD's Rust Kernel Support Could Be Stable Enough To Try This Year

• 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, in

Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc1

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Linux 7.0 Showing Some Early Performance Regressions On Intel Panther Lake

• Linux 7.0 kernel introduces regressions on Intel Panther Lake, reducing CPU and iGPU performance. • Benchmarks on MSI Prestige 14 with Core Ultra X7 358H show slower results than

Linux 7.0 Retires The IBM Mwave ACP Modem Driver Used By Some 1990s ThinkPads

• Linux 7.0 kernel removes obsolete Mwave driver for 3780i ACP Modem in 1990s IBM ThinkPads. • Driver removal cuts over 2,600 lines of legacy code, freeing kernel space. • Modems w

Topping the GPU MODE Kernel Leaderboard with NVIDIA cuda.compute

• Topping the GPU MODE Kernel Leaderboard with NVIDIA cuda.compute The leaderboard scores how fast users’ custom GPU kernels solve a set of standard problems like vector addition,

next-20260218: linux-next

• Linux kernel next release archive offers latest source code and patches. • Developers can access Git trees, documentation, and mailing lists. • Bugzilla and Patchwork tools help

Primary specs/docs from the early days of Windows NT

• Early Windows NT kernel design insights captured in 1980s‑90s Microsoft docs. • Core documents cover memory, I/O, process, and virtual‑memory management. • Key authors include Cu

NTFS3 Driver Sees Improvements In Linux 7.0 While 'NTFS Remake' Driver Bakes

• NTFS3 driver merged into Linux 7.0 mainline kernel, enhancing NTFS support. • New readahead optimizes bitmap initialization efficiently for large directory scans. • fsync now syn

AMD Preparing Linux Kernel For 'RMPOPT' To Help Reduce Overhead On SEV-SNP Servers

• 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 R

Security updates for Tuesday

• Multiple distributions released critical security patches for popular packages like gimp, golang, and gnupg2. • Kernel updates appeared across Oracle, SUSE, and Debian, addressin

Linux 7.0 Driver Core Changes Bring More Enhancements For Rust Kernel Drivers

• Linux 7.0 Driver Core Changes Bring More Enhancements For Rust Kernel Drivers Merged a few days ago for the Linux 7.0 kernel were all of the driver core enhancements. • As has be

Four stable kernels for Monday

• Four stable kernel releases announced for the Linux community today. • New versions include 6.19.1, 6.18.11, 6.12.72, and 6.6.125 for all. • Each kernel contains critical bug fix

Linux Kernel Improvement Can Make Hibernation Several Times Faster With Slow SSDs

• 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

FOSS Weekly #26.07: Kernel 6.19, AI for Real Sysadmin Works, Arch Apps on Ubuntu and More Linux Stuff

• FOSS Weekly #26.07: Kernel 6.19, AI for Real Sysadmin Works, Arch Apps on Ubuntu and More Linux Stuff Ubuntu 26.04 developmentis progressing rapidly. • While there are welcome ch

A single stable kernel for Thursday

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Scaling real-time file monitoring with eBPF: How we filtered billions of kernel events per minute

• Yoann Ghigoff Jonathan Ribas Sylvain Afchain Sylvain Baubeau Guillaume Fournier File integrity monitoring (FIM) helps teams detect unauthorized changes to sensitive files and is