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| KernelScript: A Programming Language For Kernel Customization & App Optimizations | Programming | 2026-05-24 |
| systemd 261-rc1 Released With OS Installer, IMDS Subsystem & New storagectl | systemd | 2026-05-22 |
| Axboe Hacking On New Linux Patches For 60% Increase To Per-Core I/O Performance | Linux Storage | 2026-05-10 |
| Linux's sched_ext Sees A Bunch Of Bug Fixes Following Increased AI Code Review | Linux Kernel | 2026-04-29 |
| LoongArch Improvements Land In Linux 7.1 | Hardware | 2026-04-25 |
| Linux 7.1 sched_ext Brings cgroup Sub-Scheduler Groundwork, Idle SMT Sibling Improvement | Linux Kernel | 2026-04-16 |
| user.* xattrs On Sockets Merged For Linux 7.1 As Sought By GNOME & systemd Developers | Linux Kernel | 2026-04-13 |
| BPF-Based I/O Scheduler For Linux Demonstrated | Linux Storage | 2026-03-27 |
| Linux's sched_ext Will Prioritize Idle SMT Siblings For Better Performance | Linux Kernel | 2026-03-23 |
| Linux 7.0-rc5 Released: Linux 7.0 "Starting To Calm Down" | Linux Kernel | 2026-03-22 |
| Linux MGLRU Improvements Net A 30% Increase For MongoDB, More Than 100% On HDDs | Linux Kernel | 2026-03-18 |
| Linux 7.1 sched_ext To Add "SCX_ENQ_IMMED" For Tighter Control When Tasks Land On A CPU | Linux Kernel | 2026-03-16 |
| Linux Patches Make The IPv6 Stack Less Modular To Lower Architectural Burden | Linux Networking | 2026-03-11 |
| Azure Linux 3.0 Enables Core Scheduling, More Tracing Capabilities | Microsoft | 2026-03-11 |
| Linux 7.0-rc2 Released: "So I'm Not Super-Happy With How Big This Is" | Linux Kernel | 2026-03-01 |
| Linux 7.1 Looks To Support Extended Attributes On Sockets For New GNOME & systemd Functionality | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-26 |
| Sub-Scheduler Support Could Be One Of The Most Exciting Features To Come For Linux 7.1 | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-25 |
| Systing 1.0 Released For Rust-Based eBPF-Based Tracing Tool Leveraging AI | AI | 2026-02-25 |
| LoongArch Ready With New Features In Linux 7.0 | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-18 |
| Linux 7.0 Block Changes Land, Bounce Buffer DIO For Stable Pages | Linux Storage | 2026-02-10 |
| Linux 7.0 Adds support For BPF Filtering To IO_uring | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-10 |
| Linux 6.19 Sees Last Minute Scheduler Regression Fixes | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-07 |
| Linux Dropping SMC TCP ULP Support For Being "Fundamentally Broken" | Linux Networking | 2026-02-03 |
| Updated Linux Patches For Managing Out-Of-Memory Behavior Via BPF | Linux Kernel | 2026-01-27 |
| Linux's sched_ext Has Plans For GPU Awareness, Energy-Aware Abstractions | Linux Kernel | 2025-12-23 |
| Google Taps More Performance Out Of AMD Zen CPUs With BPF-CCX Scheduling | Google | 2025-12-22 |
| Rex: Proposed Safe Rust Kernel Extensions For The Linux Kernel, In Place Of eBPF | Linux Kernel | 2025-12-22 |
| Oracles Releases Updated "bpftune" For BPF-Based Auto-Tuning Of Linux Systems | Oracle | 2025-12-13 |
| Microsoft Is Back To Working On "Hornet" Security For eBPF Programs On Linux | Microsoft | 2025-12-11 |
| Linux 6.19's Hung Task & System Lockup Detectors Can Provide Greater Insight | Linux Kernel | 2025-12-08 |
| An Intel Fellow & Prominent Linux Performance Engineer Resigns From Intel | Intel | 2025-12-05 |
| Sched_EXT With Linux 6.19 Improves Recovering For Misbehaving eBPF Schedulers | Linux Kernel | 2025-12-03 |
| Linux 6.18-rc6 Released With Fix For ARM64 "Catastrophic Performance Issue" | Linux Kernel | 2025-11-16 |
| Haptic Touchpad Support Makes It Into Linux 6.18 | Hardware | 2025-10-05 |
| Signed Programs & Other BPF Changes Merged For Linux 6.18 | Linux Kernel | 2025-10-02 |
| Linux 6.18 sched_ext Preps For Cgroup Sub-Scheduler Support | Linux Kernel | 2025-09-27 |
| Features Expected For Linux 6.18: File-System Improvements, Sheaves, New Drivers & More Perf | Linux Kernel | 2025-09-26 |
| BPF With Linux 6.18 To Support Signed Programs & Deferred Task Execution | Linux Kernel | 2025-09-25 |
| Fedora 44 Considering Additional Kernel Hardening For Better Security | Fedora | 2025-09-09 |
| Linux Primed For Significant Performance Gains With Kernel Swap Code Overhaul | Linux Kernel | 2025-08-23 |
| New Linux Patches Allow Manipulating Out-Of-Memory Behavior Using BPF | Linux Kernel | 2025-08-18 |
| systemd 258-rc2 Released In Preparing For H2'2025 Linux Distributions | systemd | 2025-08-05 |
| Linux's Lockdown LSM Back To Being Maintained For Restricted Computing | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-31 |
| Linux 6.17 Looks To Address An Old & Obscure Kernel Limitation From 1993 | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-26 |
| Former Btrfs Lead Developer Chris Mason Announces New "rsched" Tool | Free Software | 2025-06-24 |
| Sched_Ext Boasts CPU Selection Improvements In Linux 6.16 | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-04 |
| libinput Preparing To Introduce A Lua-Based Plugin System For Modifying Devices/Events | Desktop | 2025-05-21 |
| Linux 6.14.7 & Other Stable Kernel Releases Bring ARM64 Security Fix | Linux Kernel | 2025-05-18 |
| Training Solo: New Set Of Serious Security Vulnerabilities Exposed For Intel & Arm CPUs | Linux Security | 2025-05-12 |
| GSoC 2025 Projects: AI-Powered Log Analyzer For Fedora, Better AMD ROCm On Debian | Google | 2025-05-11 |
| FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 2 Brings WiFi Fixes, Reproducible ARM64 Kernel Binary Build | BSD | 2025-05-10 |
| New Patches Aim To Modernize The Default Linux x86 Kernel Configuration | Linux Kernel | 2025-05-05 |
| Intel Makes "AI Flame Graphs" Open-Source | Intel | 2025-04-30 |
| New Linux Patches Aim To Customize Out-Of-Memory Behavior Using BPF | Linux Kernel | 2025-04-28 |
| A Fresh Take On Virtual Swap Space Being Pursued For The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2025-04-12 |
| LoongArch Enables A Few More Features With Linux 6.15 | Hardware | 2025-04-04 |
| Linux Kernel Developments, AMD RX 9070 GIMP 3.0 & Other March Highlights | Phoronix | 2025-04-01 |
| Linux 6.15 Networking Delivers Many Nice Performance Optimizations & New Hardware | Linux Networking | 2025-03-28 |
| Linux 6.15 Better Handles PS5 Controllers, AMD Human Presence Detection Off By Default | Hardware | 2025-03-28 |
| Sched_Ext Changes Submitted For Linux 6.15 | Linux Kernel | 2025-03-23 |
| Microsoft Proposes "Hornet" Security Module For The Linux Kernel | Microsoft | 2025-03-21 |
| Meta's eBPF-Powered Strobelight Software Reduced CPU Cycles By 20% | Free Software | 2025-03-06 |
| Linux 6.15 Preparing Support For The XP-Pen Artist Pro 19, A Big 4K Drawing Tablet | Hardware | 2025-03-05 |
| Perforator 0.0.5 Released - Switches To Apache 2.0 License, Drops CLA Requirement | Free Software | 2025-03-04 |
| Spectre Mitigations Being Worked On For BPF Programs | Linux Security | 2025-02-26 |
| Linus Torvalds Would Reportedly Merge Rust Kernel Code Over Maintainer Objections | Linux Kernel | 2025-02-18 |
| NVIDIA Engineer Talks Up sched_ext Linux Scheduler Possibilities At FOSDEM | NVIDIA | 2025-02-05 |
| Yandex Open-Sources Perforator: Find Code Inefficiencies & "Save Billions of Dollars" | Linux Kernel | 2025-01-30 |
| Bytedance Praises eBPF - Notes 10% Improvement In Network Throughput | Linux Networking | 2025-01-29 |
| Cloudflare Talks Up Multi-Path TCP But Dings Linux's Less Than Ideal Support | Linux Networking | 2025-01-03 |
| The Most Popular Linux & Open-Source News Of 2024 | Free Software | 2025-01-01 |
| Ubuntu's Great Year From 24.04 LTS To Focusing More On Performance Optimizations | Ubuntu | 2024-12-29 |
| Rust Drama, Russian Kernel Maintainers & Other Top Linux Kernel Happenings Of 2024 | Linux Kernel | 2024-12-24 |
| Linux 6.13-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes | Linux Kernel | 2024-12-08 |
| Sched_Ext Changes Merged For Linux 6.13 With LLC & NUMA Awareness | Linux Kernel | 2024-11-22 |
| Corsair Void Headset & Kysona M600 Lightweight Gaming Mouse Support In Linux 6.13 | Hardware | 2024-11-20 |
| Linux 6.13 Quadrupling Workqueue Concurrency Limit | Linux Kernel | 2024-11-18 |
| Linux 6.12 Released With Real-Time Capabilities, Sched_Ext, More AMD RDNA4 & More | Linux Kernel | 2024-11-17 |
| Linux 6.12 Preps For Release With Real-Time, Sched_Ext, Stable Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5 | Linux Kernel | 2024-11-15 |
| Gentoo Linux Touts DTrace 2.0 Support | Operating Systems | 2024-10-23 |
| Fedora's Kernel Build Now Enabling Sched_Ext Support | Fedora | 2024-10-03 |
| Granite Rapids, AmpereOne & PREEMPT_RT Landing Made For An Exciting September | Phoronix | 2024-10-01 |
| Cpufreq_ext Being Worked On For BPF-Based CPU Frequency Scaling | Linux Kernel | 2024-09-30 |
| Intel TPEBS & LBR Event Logging Supported By Linux 6.12 With Perf Tools | Linux Kernel | 2024-09-22 |
| Sched_ext Merged For Linux 6.12 - Scheduling Policies As BPF Programs | Linux Kernel | 2024-09-21 |
| Initial AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" Support Merged For LLVM/Clang | AMD | 2024-09-17 |
| AMD Ryzen 9000 Series & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Exciting August | Phoronix | 2024-09-01 |
| It's Looking Like sched_ext Will Try Again To Land For Linux 6.12 | Linux Kernel | 2024-08-18 |
| Reimplementing A Linux Rust Scheduler In eBPF Shows Very Promising Results | Linux Kernel | 2024-08-10 |
| HID-BPF Improvements & Apple Keyboard Backlight Support For Some T2 Macs In Linux 6.11 | Hardware | 2024-07-25 |
| Linux 6.11 Sees New Wired & Wireless Networking Hardware Support | Linux Networking | 2024-07-17 |
| Linux 6.11 Features To Include A Lot For Intel & AMD Systems, Extensible Scheduler | Linux Kernel | 2024-07-14 |
| More HID BPF Functionality & New Drivers For Linux 6.11 | Hardware | 2024-07-07 |
| Linux 6.10-rc6 Arrives As A "Fairly Calm" Release | Linux Kernel | 2024-06-30 |
| Kernel Optimizations, XZ, AMD ZLUDA, NOVA, EPYC 4004 & Other H1'2024 Highlights | Phoronix | 2024-06-30 |
| Linus Torvalds Throws Down The Hammer: Extensible Scheduler "sched_ext" In Linux 6.11 | Linux Kernel | 2024-06-11 |
| Steam Deck IMU Support Submitted For Linux 6.10 Plus ASUS ROG Ally HID | Linux Gaming | 2024-05-14 |
| udev-hid-bpf To Help Enable HID-BPF Use Rather Than Kernel Drivers To Fix HID Hardware | Hardware | 2024-04-22 |
| Linux BHI Mitigation Being Tweaked Following 12% Database Performance Hit | Linux Security | 2024-04-20 |
| Rust-Written LAVD Kernel Scheduler Shows Promising Results For Linux Gaming | Linux Gaming | 2024-04-18 |
| Linux 6.8.5 & Other Stable Kernel Updates Due To Native BHI Vulnerability | Linux Kernel | 2024-04-10 |
| Linux Kernel Patched For Branch History Injection "BHI" Intel CPU Vulnerability | Linux Security | 2024-04-09 |
| Oracle Releases DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 For Linux Systems | Oracle | 2024-04-08 |
| Drop-In CUDA On AMD, Kernel Discussions, NGINX Fork & Other Q1 Highlights | Phoronix | 2024-04-01 |
| Linux 6.9-rc2 Released As An Easter Test Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2024-03-31 |
| Many Networking Improvements & New Wired/Wireless Devices For Linux 6.9 | Linux Networking | 2024-03-12 |
| AMD P-State Preferred Core Submitted For Linux 6.9 While Intel Meteor Lake Gets Tuned | AMD | 2024-03-11 |
| Canonical Looking At Including Performance Tools In Ubuntu 24.04 By Default | Ubuntu | 2024-03-07 |
| Ubuntu Blog Talks Up Rust Schedulers, Potential For Micro-Kernel Design Future | Ubuntu | 2024-02-26 |
| Fedora 40 Cleared To Ship AMD ROCm 6, Packages May Reintroduce KDE X11 Support | Fedora | 2024-02-13 |
| Framework 16, New AMD Launches & More Made For An Exciting January | Phoronix | 2024-02-01 |
| Fedora 40 Looks To bpfman For Managing eBPF Programs | Fedora | 2024-01-22 |
| Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results For Gaming Performance | Linux Kernel | 2024-01-16 |
| Linux 6.7-rc3 Released Following A Light Holiday Week | Linux Kernel | 2023-11-27 |
| Linux 6.7 Networking Adds New Hardware Support, A ~20% Perf Boost For Single TCP Flow | Linux Networking | 2023-11-03 |
| Linux 6.6 Enables Tracking Per-CPU Cgroup CPU Usage Stats | Linux Kernel | 2023-09-11 |
| RISC-V With Linux 6.6 Offers Better Kernel Security With KASLR | RISC-V | 2023-09-10 |
| AmpereOne Core PMU Perf Events Added For Linux 6.6 | Linux Kernel | 2023-09-10 |
| systemd's All Systems Go Conference Returns Next Week | systemd | 2023-09-06 |
| Intel Gale Peak, New BPF Features & Other Networking Changes For Linux 6.6 | Linux Networking | 2023-08-29 |
| Linux 6.5 Continues Making Preparations For WiFi 7, Enabling New Hardware | Linux Networking | 2023-06-30 |
| Oracle Developing "bpftune" For BPF-Based, Automatic Tuning Of Linux Systems | Oracle | 2023-06-28 |
| Google Limiting IO_uring Use Due To Security Vulnerabilities | Google | 2023-06-16 |
| Linux 6.4-rc4 Released As A "Fairly Normal" Release | Linux Kernel | 2023-05-28 |
| Google's Working Set Reporting Feature Aims To Better Deal With Over-Committed VMs | Google | 2023-05-22 |
| Linux 6.4 Has Many Networking Changes From A New Performance Tunable To More WiFi 7 | Linux Networking | 2023-05-01 |
| GNU Linux-libre 6.3-gnu Cleans Up New ath12k WiFi Driver, Other New Additions | Linux Kernel | 2023-04-23 |
| AMD-Xilinx Publishes Open-Source "Nanotube" Compiler | AMD | 2023-03-28 |
| Linux 6.3-rc1 Brings File-System Optimizations, HID-BPF, More Intel & AMD Features | Linux Kernel | 2023-03-05 |
| HID-BPF Ready For Linux 6.3 Along With Steam Deck Controller Interface | Linux Kernel | 2023-02-22 |
| Linux 6.3 Introduces IPv4 "BIG TCP" To Improve High Speed Network Performance | Linux Networking | 2023-02-21 |
| Patches Updated For Hooking eBPF Programs Into The Linux Kernel Scheduler | Linux Kernel | 2023-01-28 |
| Linux 6.2 Working More On WiFi 7, 800 Gbps Networking, Protective Load Balancing | Linux Networking | 2022-12-14 |
| The Many New Features On The Horizon For Linux 6.2 | Linux Kernel | 2022-12-09 |
| Experimental Patches Allow eBPF To Extend The Linux Kernel's Scheduler | Linux Kernel | 2022-11-30 |
| Innovative HID-BPF Expected To Land In Linux 6.2 | Hardware | 2022-11-15 |
| LoongArch Picks Up New CPU Capabilities With Linux 6.1 | Hardware | 2022-10-13 |
| Linux 6.1 Lands Code To Warn About W+X Mappings By Default | Linux Security | 2022-10-11 |
| Linux 6.1 To Better Handle "Cheap Clone" Nintendo Controller Knockoffs | Hardware | 2022-10-08 |
| Linux 6.1 Networking Brings WiFi EHT & MLO Preparations, New ASICs Enabled | Linux Networking | 2022-10-06 |
| Experimental Patches Adapt Linux For A Unikernel Design | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-04 |
| MGLRU Looks Like One Of The Best Linux Kernel Innovations Of The Year | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-13 |
| Google's Ghost Look Very Appealing For Kernel Scheduling From User-Space & eBPF Programs | Google | 2022-09-12 |
| Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 Livestream | Linux Events | 2022-09-12 |
| IBM Power Improvements For Linux 6.0 Support The PowerVM Platform KeyStore | Linux Kernel | 2022-08-08 |
| Linux 6.0 Networking Brings Performance Optimizations, Early Preparations For WiFi 7 | Linux Networking | 2022-08-03 |
| IO_uring Continues Advancing In 2022 With New Features For Pushing Linux I/O | Linux Storage | 2022-06-01 |
| Linux 5.19 Networking Brings Big Improvements With Big TCP, PureLiFi, More Hardware | Linux Networking | 2022-05-25 |
| System76 Scheduler 1.2 Released - Now Has Defaults For SteamVR, Flatpak Process Support | Free Software | 2022-05-19 |
| Intel Hires Linux/BSD Performance Expert Brendan Gregg | Intel | 2022-05-02 |
