Linux 7.2 To Support Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet
…The firmware can be extracted from the out-of-tree r8152 driver-code where it is stored in the ram17 u8-array. Code is added to use the existing firmware upload mechanism…
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New GCC Back-End Proposed For WebAssembly
…Improvements: Up To 15x Faster cat VideoLAN Publishes Dav2d For Open-Source AV2 Decoder AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL Patches For Their AMDGPU Linux Driver Rust-Written Zed 1.0 Code…
GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator
…code completions), app developers should be able to justify and explain the code they submit, within reason. Submissions with large amounts of unnecessary code, inconsistent code style, imaginary API usage, comments serving…
Linux To Drop ARCnet Support For Old ISA & PCMCIA Hardware
…AI/LLM Noise Many Great Networking Improvements Arrive In Linux 7.1 Many MediaTek MT76 WiFi Driver Improvements Coming For Linux 7.1 Claude Code Did The Heavy Lifting To Get Adobe…
Redis 8.8 Released With New Array Data Structure, More Performance Optimizations
…Redis 8.8 also brings new performance improvements like now enabling link-time optimizations (LTO) by default for x86_64 release builds, improving thread utilization, reducing FFI overhead by porting some code…
KDE's KWin Compositor Lands First Step Toward Vulkan Support
…exciting start to see Vulkan code finally beginning to land in the mainline KWin codebase. Hopefully more of it will follow soon. Plasma 6.7 Improves Its Built-In Remote Desktop Server…
GNOME Commander 2.0 Released Following Rewrite In Rust & GTK4
…Other App Improvements Linux's Latest Vulnerability Allows Reading Root-Owned Files By Unprivileged Users SDL Library Adds Support For The New Steam Controller Without Depending On Steam Claude Code Did The…
Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1
Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1 Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 14 April 2026 at 08:14 PM EDT. 24…
Linux 7.1 Features: New NTFS Driver, New Intel + AMD Hardware, Performance Optimizations & Modernization
…improvements for the extensible scheduler "sched_ext" code. - Intel LASS is now deemed in good shape for this Linear Address Space Separation security feature. - WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD as a workqueue improvement…
Linux 7.1 Revamps T10 PI Data Integrity Handling For Better Read Performance
…The new code is also more efficient particularly for read workloads. Read performance has improved by around 15% for 4K I/O and also enjoying lower QD1 latency for small I/O…