Btrfs Change Coming For Linux 7.2 Yields Very Healthy Performance Gain
…Intel's Kernel Test Robot is also reporting around a 12% improvement for Btrfs with this change in their own test and hardware. With the patch now in the "-next" code, look…
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Linux Ham Radio KISS Serial Driver Being Modernized In 2026
…The series starts by moving variable assignments out of 'if' conditions to improve code safety and readability. The second patch removes redundant static initializations to 0. The third patch fixes missing spaces…
Linux 7.1-rc2 Bringing Some More Improvements/Fixes For Older AMD GPUs
Linux 7.1-rc2 Bringing Some More Improvements/Fixes For Older AMD GPUs Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 2 May 2026 at 02:16 PM EDT. 1 Comment Merged…
Turtle Beach WaveFront ISA Sound Cards Seeing Suspend/Resume Support On Linux In 2026
…7.1 Released With Improved Software ISP Linux 7.1 Brings Audio Support For The Line6 POD HD PRO & NexiGo N930W Webcam Linux 7.1 Sound Code Adds Bus Keepers: Aiming For…
A Lot Of Rust Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.1, NVIDIA Nova Driver Additions
…log buffers, and other improvements. The NVIDIA Nova driver continues advancing bit by bit but not yet ready for end-user use. The Tyr driver brings code changes per the kernel Rust…
OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta's Content-Aware Compression Software
…OpenZL 0.2 also has API improvements, build and packaging improvements for different platforms, and other enhancements with Meta continuing to invest a lot into this compression framework. Those wishing to learn…
Mir 2.26 Begins Working On Rust-Based Input Platform
…The Mir 2.26 release announcement can be read on the Ubuntu Discourse while the Mir code can be downloaded from GitHub . Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 Improves Handling Of Desktop…
NVIDIA Releases CUDA-Oxide 0.1 For Experimental Rust-To-CUDA Compiler
…2 Comments A new NVIDIA Labs project is greatly improving the capabilities of using the Rust programming language for developing CUDA kernels for NVIDIA GPUs. CUDA-Oxide 0.1 released on Thursday…
RISC-V Optimized strnlen Implementation For Linux 7.1 Yields Big Speed-Up
…as a result of the hand-optimized RISC-V Assembly code. Benchmarks are showing as much as a +427.5% improvement with the RISC-V optimized strnlen function appearing at long last…
COSMIC Desktop's Frosted Glass Is Giving Windows Aero Vibes
…FreeRDP 3.25 Adds Experimental AV1 Support LXQt 2.4 Released With More Wayland Fixes/Improvements XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.20.4 Released To Protect Against Apps Trashing Arbitrary Host Files Libinput…