Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1
… Linus Torvalds took the initial removal bits today without any fuss today for beginning the phase out of M486 / M486SX / ELAN kernel support. …
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Intel Panther Lake & Linux AI/LLM Debates Dominated Q1 For Linux Users
… And the most popular news of Q1'2026 on Phoronix: Linus Torvalds' Latest Open-Source Project Is AudioNoise - Made With The Help Of Vibe Coding In addition to Linus Torvalds' recent comments around AI tooling documentation, it turns out in fact that Linus Torvalds has been using vibe coding himself. …
TLAC Aims To Be An Open-Source Alternative To Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Systems
… DXVK 3.0 Released With DXBC-SPIRV For Shader Compilation, Descriptor Heaps By Default Godot 4.7 Released With HDR Output Support Crown Engine 0.63 Restores Its OpenGL Renderer For Legacy Hardware Support O3DE 26.05 Released With New Open Particle System, Other Engine Improvements Open-Source "low l…
Linux 7.1-rc1 Released With New NTFS Driver, FRED By Default & Much More
… Linux 7.1-rc1 benchmarking getting underway at Phoronix. As of writing, Linus Torvalds' customary release messaging has yet to hit the LKML but will presumably be so soon, unless he is having mail snafu like on a few occasions. Update: Torvalds' release commentary is now available . …
Linux Dropping Old Drivers, AI Detected Vulnerabilities & Other Kernel Highlights Of Q2
… Linus Torvalds Rejects Performance Fix "Hack" & Kconfig "Terrible Things" For Linux 7.1 While a lot of interesting new features and changes have been merged already for the Linux 7.1 merge window, two pull requests stand out so far for being rejected by Linus Torvalds and complete with his to-the-p… …
Arch Linux AUR Malware, Linux 7.2 Developments & Other June Highlights
… Performance Optimizations, NVIDIA Vera, Arc Pro B70 & Other Linux Highlights From Q2 Today Marks 22 Years Of Phoronix For Linux Hardware Testing & Benchmarking Phoronix Marking 22 Years Of Linux Hardware Coverage This Week Linux 7.0 Release, Age Verification Laws, Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 & Other April Hap…
Linux 7.0 Release, Age Verification Laws, Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 & Other April Happenings
… Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L.O.C. Removal Linus Torvalds did it! …
Infinity Scheduler Aims To Be A Better Linux Scheduler
… Linux 7.2-rc1 Released: "Things Look Reasonably Normal" While Landing AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, AMD ISP4 & CAS Linux 7.3 To Introduce DRM "Color Format" Property With AMD GPU Driver Support Linux Dropping Old Drivers, AI Detected Vulnerabilities & Other Kernel Highlights Of Q2 Linux 7.2 Surpasses More T…
Linux 7.2 Drops Ancient PROFIBUS Driver: Ported From SCO Unix In 1998, Unused For Years
… Linux Cache Aware Scheduling Extended For Even Better Performance: Up To 360% In MySQL MGLRU Improvement Yielding Nice Gains On Linux 7.2: MongoDB 30~100% Higher Throughput Linux 7.2 Protects Against Crafted Perf Data From Going Rogue Linux 7.2 Ready With IMA and EVM Post-Quantum ML-DSA Signature S…
CachyOS June 2026 OS Released With More Performance Optimizations
… Mageia 10 Released For This Linux Distribution Carrying On The Mandrake Legacy QSOE v0.1 Released As A QNX-Inspired RISC-V OS KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Finally Comes To Slackware Haiku OS Now Enables AVX-512 Support, Other Hardware Improvements ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Bein…