📰 Improved GPU Reset Coming For Raspberry Pi Boards With Linux 7.4

In addition to this week's DRM-Misc-Next pull request introducing some new HDMI 2.0 helpers for the DRM drivers, the pull request also introduced improved GPU reset support for the Broadcom V3D GPU with the VC4 kernel driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Better-RPI-GPU-Reset

#kernel #linux #raspberry

📰 Linux Kernel's LZ4 Compression Code Being Resynced For Better Performance & Cleanliness

In addition to the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is also seeing a separate set of enhancements...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-LZ4-Clean-Resync

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📰 Linux 7.3-rc5 Released: "Another Week, Another Large RC"

In working toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release hopefully on 18 October, out today is Linux 7.3-rc5 as the newest weekly test candidate...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc5-Released

#kernel #linux

📰 Large Folios Able To Deliver Big Performance Gains For FUSE With Linux 7.4

Following the FUSE improvements in Linux 7.3 for file-systems in user-space, it looks like the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel will be ready to enable the large folios feature...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUSE-Large-Folios

#kernel #linux

📰 BPF-Based Display Panel Drivers Being Explored For Linux

BPF-based HID drivers have helped to deliver quirks/fixes for different HID devices more quickly than being bound by the conventional kernel cycle. Loading these eBPF programs from user-space have shown a lot of potential for innovating and iterating more quickly with BPF drivers for different subsystems. The latest area now seeing the BPF treatment are display panel drivers...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-BPF-Panel-Drivers

#kernel #linux

📰 New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses

A group of academics from VUSec and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna have disclosed details of a new Spectre CPU vulnerability variant that affects Just-In-Time (JIT) engines present in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel, across multiple CPU vendors.The new Spectre-v2 variant has been codenamed Branch Target Reuse (BTR)."The key insight is that, while modern CPUs.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/new-spectre-v2-btr-attack-leaks-linux.html

#kernel #linux

📰 Tails 7.14 Anonymous OS Updates Tor Browser, Tor Client, and Linux Kernel

The privacy-focused Tails 7.14 release refreshes its core components with Tor Browser 15.0.24, Tor 0.4.9.13, and Linux 6.12.111.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/tails-7-14-anonymous-os-updates-tor-browser-tor-client-and-linux-kernel/

#kernel #linux

📰 Proposal To Set ARM64 Kernel Stack Size At Boot Time To Reduce Memory Consumption

A proposal was posted this week to the Linux kernel mailing list by a Google engineer to make it easier for ARM64 Linux to adjust the kernel stack size. The motivation for doing so to configure the kernel stack size during boot time is on reducing system memory consumption...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-Stack-Size-Boot

#kernel #linux

📰 New Linux Patches Trying To Mainline Renesas SH7305 CPU Support

The Renesas SH7305 isn't a new processor and is well known for powering various Casio graphing calculators over the past decde and a half. But finally the mainline Linux kernel may end up seeing support for this 32-bit SH-4a RISC core...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Renesas-SH7305-Linux-Patches

#kernel #linux

📰 Parrot OS 7.4 Released with AnonSurf 6.0, Updated Raspberry Pi Images

Parrot OS 7.4 security-oriented distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 7.1, updated tools, optimized builds, updated Raspberry Pi and ARM images, and other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/parrot-os-7-4-released-with-anonsurf-6-0-updated-raspberry-pi-images

#arm #kernel #linux #raspberry

📰 The Amazing Work By Valve's Timur Kristóf On Improving Old AMD GPUs On Linux

Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux gaming and other tasks. This week in Toronto, Kristóf presented on this AMDGPU work that he initially began as a kernel driver development exercise after initially spending years in...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU

#amd #kernel #linux

📰 Arm Working On "TLBID" For Linux To Increase Performance On High Core Count CPUs

Arm sent out an initial set of patches this week working on support in the Linux kernel for TLBI Domains. This "TLBID" feature is an upcoming Arm architecture capability designed to increase performance on high core count systems...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-TLBI-Domains

#arm #kernel #linux

📰 Linux Begins Seeing Workarounds For Fujitsu MONAKA CPU Bugs

Last month Fujitsu formally announced their MONAKA CPU as a 144 core Arm-based server processor geared for AI infrastructure. This comes after two years of seeing various Monaka patches to the GCC compiler and other open-source components. Now that MONAKA is announced, we are seeing more patches surface for the Linux kernel with this week seeing several workarounds for MONAKA CPU bugs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-MONAKA-CPU-Workarounds

#arm #kernel #linux #opensource

📰 Linux 7.3-rc6 Released: Normal For The New "AI Normal"

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.3-rc7 as we work toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release in two weeks...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc6-Released

#kernel #linux

📰 Debian's latest kernel security update has 1,313 reasons to patch

AI-assisted bug hunting adds to maintainers' workload, while broad CVE rules help explain the sprawling tally.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/05/debians-latest-kernel-security-update-has-1313-reasons-to-patch/5301124

#debian #kernel

📰 Raspberry Pi OS October 2026 Update Gets Better Dock Handling and Many Fixes

Raspberry Pi OS receives a broad desktop-focused update with Linux kernel 6.18.50 LTS, Control Centre improvements, refreshed icons, and numerous stability fixes.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/raspberry-pi-os-october-2026-update-gets-better-dock-handling-and-many-fixes/

#kernel #linux #raspberry

📰 aerynOS Adds Budgie 10.10.3 for Testing, Updates COSMIC to 1.9

The aerynOS October update brings Budgie 10.10.3, COSMIC 1.9.0, Linux kernel 7.2.8, Qt 6.12, OpenSSL 4.0.3, and new system tools.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/aerynos-adds-budgie-10-10-3-for-testing-updates-cosmic-to-1-9/

#budgie #kernel #linux

📰 Archinstall 4.5 Released with AArch64 Support, Real-Time Kernels, and Major Installer Fixes

by George WhittakerThe Arch Linux project has released Archinstall 4.5, the latest version of its guided text-based installer, bringing expanded AArch64 support, new real-time Linux kernel options, additional translations, security improvements, and numerous fixes for installation workflows.Archinstall 4.5 was released on September 29, 2026, roughly three months after Archinstall 4.4.

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/archinstall-45-released-aarch64-support-real-time-kernels-and-major-installer-fixes

#arch #kernel #linux

📰 Kage: Google Experimenting With Linux Driver Isolation Using In-Kernel LFI Sandboxes

Google engineers are experimenting with Linux kernel device driver isolation using in-kernel sandboxes leveraging LLVM's Lightweight Fault Isolation (LFI) functionality...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Kage-Linux-Driver-Isolation

#kernel #linux

📰 Vinix is Not a Linux Distro, But it Can Run Games, Docker, and QEMU

The project has been around since 2021, runs its own kernel, and is written in V.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17491352/vinix-overview

#distro #kernel #linux #qemu